Bachelor of Fine Arts [B.F.A] [Creative Media - Interaction Design Specialization] From Champlain College

While learning about creative ways to approach technology, you'll be introduced to the sensory side of interfaces—sounds, images, how pages move—with a focus on interactivity as a design element.

• Examine our interactions with computer systems; study the design of easy-to-learn interfaces; and conceptualize and build websites, responsive media installations, audio-processing applications and other projects.
• Expand your viewpoint with an interdisciplinary approach through courses that draw from a range of fields: human-computer interaction, graphic design, new-media art, architecture, media studies and interactive design.
• Learn to skillfully manipulate our experience of the digital world.
• Position yourself to be successful in a future that promises to be more and more driven by digital technology.

You will gain skills in multiple media forms while tackling big-picture ideas. You'll understand how rapidly evolving social media platforms are affecting the way art is produced and experienced and learn how digital and traditional approaches can be combined. You'll explore the artistic process by evaluating, deconstructing and revising your work in innovative production classes and seminars. And you will be supported in developing your own distinctive voice as a creative artist.

Through collaborations with other students, classroom teaching and hands-on experience, you'll become conscious of branding, entrepreneurship and curatorial practices, grounding you in the business of interdisciplinary artistic endeavor. You will gain proficiencies in multiple areas to increase your marketability in a variety of dynamic creative industries. You'll graduate with a broad portfolio, and you will have built a highly marketable résumé that will help you stand out in this extremely competitive field.