Digital Materials and Making in Arts Learning

Catalog description

This course is open to students with varied levels of comfort and experience with digital creative materials, who are curious about ways to include them meaningfully in making and teaching. This course explores the creative, critical, and expressive potentials of digital materials and digital environments in arts learning. In this course, students will experiment with free and open-source creative tools suitable for use in diverse learning settings, and explore mixed-media intersections of traditional and digital art materials for the classroom. Students will also gain experience creating web-based learning environments, including websites and immersive 3D spaces. Students will also engage critically with contemporary issues involving creativity and technology. Learning experiences include: weekly readings and discussion, creative projects, and leading activities in an after-school digital arts program. IC. PA-4A, SI-03.