ABOUT
The MMAS curriculum
Multimedia is a broad term that includes graphics, interactive design, animation, game development, and video; along with creative applications such as internet art, electronic audio, performance art, and installations. Multimedia even encompasses science visualization, robotics, nanotechnology, and augmented architecture. It is a computer-based technology that is informed and inspired by traditional art and design practices.
Multimedia offers a full range of methods, from ways of communicating information to expressing personal inquiry. Alongside industry software, its tools include text, audio, color, motion and the internet. Multimedia professionals work to create compelling presentations, drive traffic to websites, design maps, put catalogs on CDs, develop branding for business, animate films, and create artistic works. A person in this field can find jobs in advertising, computer art, design, education, software development, etc.
Multimedia is very popular in education, and degrees range from an Associate's to a PhD, including courses in media literacy, information design, technology and creative practice, as well as the fine arts. New Media, Digital Art, Interactive Art, Web Design, 2D/3D Animation, Game Design, Hypermedia, Software Art, Motion Graphics, Information Architecture, Experimental Film – all come under the heading of Multimedia.
Multimedia Arts and Sciences students at UNC Asheville create work in the following media:
- 2D Animation
- 3D Animation
- Stop Motion Animation
- Digital Imaging and Prints
- Interactive and Web
- Video and Audio