Sample MAS Tracks

Sample MAS Major Tracks

Flexibility has been built into the major to allow students to adapt their course of study to their interests. Students can choose a balanced track or can concentrate in either Media Arts, by adding two more art/music core courses, or in Media Sciences by adding two more computer science core courses.

MAS: Balanced Program of Arts & Sciences

First Year

ARTH 100 Global Perspectives on Art and Architecture: Ancient to Medieval
ARTS 108 Photography I
CS/MAS 115 Computing for the Socio-Techno Web

Second Year

CS 111 Intro to Programming
ARTS 221 Digital Imaging
ARTS 255 Dynamic Interface Design
CS 204 Front End Development

Third Year

CS 220 Human-Computer Interaction
CS 230 Data Structures
ARTS 260 Moving Image Studio

Fourth Year

CS 320 Tangible User Interfaces
ARTS 321 Advanced New Media
MUS 275 Computer Music: Synthesis Techniques and Compositional Practice

MAS: Emphasis in Media Sciences

First Year

ARTH 100 Global Perspectives on Art and Architecture: Ancient to Medieval 
CS/MAS 115 Computing for Socio-Techno Web
CS 111 Intro to Programming

Second Year

MAS 225 Making and Fabrication: Methods, Culture, and Heuristic Approach to Technology
CS 204 Front End Development

CS 220 Human-Computer Interaction

ARTS 109 Basic 2D Design

Third Year

CS 230 Data Structures
CS 320 Tangible User Interfaces
ARTS 221 Digital Imaging
ARTS 255 Dynamic Interface Design

Fourth Year

CS 304 Databases with Web Interfaces

CS 307 Computer Graphics

ARTS 313 Virtual Form

 
MAS: Emphasis in Media Arts

First Year

ARTH 100 Global Perspectives on Art and Architecture
ARTS 108 Photography I
CS/MAS 115 Computing for the Socio-Techno Web

Second Year

CS 111 Intro to Programming
ARTH 226 History of Photography: From Invention to Advertising Age
ARTS 221 Digital Imaging
ARTS 255 Dynamic Interface Design

Third Year

MUS 275 Computer Music: Synthesis Techniques and Compositional Practice
CS 204 Front End Development
ARTS 220 Introductory Print Methods

Fourth Year

ARTS 260 Moving Image Studio

ARTS 317 Seminar: Topics

ARTS 320 Architectonics and Installation
CS 220 Human-Computer Interaction

Double Major: MAS & Art History

First Year
MAS
ARTS 108 Photography I
CS/MAS 115 Computing for the Socio-Techno Web
CAMS 101 Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies

ARTH
ARTH 100 Global Perspectives on Art and Architecture
ARTH 224 Modern Art Since 1945
ARTH 240 Asian Art and Architecture

Second Year
MAS
CS 111 Introduction to Programming
CS 204 Introduction to Front-End Web Development
ARTS 221 Digital Imaging

ARTH
ARTH 230 Frank Lloyd Wright and the American Home
ARTH 236 The Arts of the Ancient Americas
ARTH 241 Egyptian Art and Archaeology

 

Third Year
MAS
CS 220 Human-Computer Interaction
ARTS 260 Moving Image Studio
MUS 275 Computer Music: Synthesis Techniques and Compositional Practice

ARTH
ARTH 313 Seminar: Eurasia
ARTH 339 Seminar: Who was Frida Kahlo?

 

Fourth Year
MAS
ARTS 322 Seminar: The Bauhaus
CS 307 Computer Graphics
CS 320 Tangible User Interfaces

ARTH
ARTH 373 Antiquities Today: The Politics of Replication

Note: Double majors may skip the one required arts course in the ARTH major. The required arts course is fulfilled through the MAS major requirements. Thus, double-majors graduate with a nine unit ARTH major (instead of ten units) and a twelve unit MAS major. Double majors must still fulfill all the Art History department's other major distribution requirements, such as taking classes from the different geographical and temporal categories.