All Digital Arts and Media students are required to participate in at least one Connecting Experience as part of their BDP work. All students must take one individual creative project course, under the supervision of two faculty mentors from different departments. In addition, students have the option of participating in one other Connecting Experience that may be an internship or research experience. Take a look at what some Digital Arts and Media students have done recently for their BDP Connecting Experiences, then read on for additional information and resources.
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Past Connecting Experiences
Major: Radio-Television-Film
Type of Experience: Independent Creative Project
Mentor: Geoff Marslett, Radio-Television-Film
For his fall 2009 Connecting Experience, Alexander will be conducting research on the fundamental principles of animation, then showcasing these in a professional demo reel. The basic principles of animation that he will explore include composition and staging, secondary action, and timing. To produce the demo reel, Alexander will create examples of fifteen different animation techniques by combining traditional methods and digital technologies.
Major: Electrical Engineering
Type of Experience: Independent Creative Project
Mentor: Bruce Pennycook, Music and Radio-Television-Film
Andrew Pish participated in the team-based Game Development course with Professor Bruce Pennycook. In this course, Andrew worked on designing games from concept ideas to execution. This process included building characters, developing stories, and creating a three-dimensional game world.
See also past Connecting Experiences spotlights for Digital Arts & Media.
Katrina Kosted, the Connecting Experiences advisor for Digital Arts and Media, can help you find research and internship experiences that connect to your major and your career plans. Call 232-7564 to make an appointment with Katrina. Remember to plan ahead—if you want to be in a connecting experience next semester, you should be planning for it now!
All students participating in a Connecting Experience will be required to attend two meetings during the semester, where you will have the opportunity to talk with advisors and other students about how your experience is going, and where you’ll learn about how to talk about and build on your experience in the future. Please see the Connecting Experiences Resources page under Current Students for details.
For Connecting Experiences guidelines, contract forms, scholarship applications, reflection essay guidelines, internship sponsor forms, and important deadlines, please see the Connecting Experiences Resources page under Current Students.
The EUREKA Web site provides a variety of resources, including scholarship information and a database of faculty research interests.
Important: There is no “list” of possible Connecting Experiences to choose from — because Connecting Experiences are designed to fit your own personal interests and goals, the “list” is as long as your imagination and creativity allow. With that in mind, here are some of the internship and research experiences Digital Arts and Media students have had in the past. They might help you get started brainstorming what you might want to do for your Connecting Experiences.
“I found the BDP to provide a starting point for me to narrow down my wide range of interests. I wasn’t completely sure what major I wanted, but I did know the general direction I wanted to follow. The Digital Arts and Media BDP had classes that covered all my potential options.”