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Department of Digital Technology and Culture
tricities.wsu.edu/cas/
Campus Registrars Office - Floyd 269
509-372-7351
Associate Professor: A. Plemons; Assistant Professor, Career Track: A. Canales, P. Mudd
Students in Digital Technology and Culture (DTC) develop critical and creative thinking skills, cultural competencies, and digital expertise. The program offers courses in web design, animation, 3D modeling, multimedia and graphic design, social media, video production, game creation, augmented and virtual reality, and other emerging fields of study. Along with technical skills, students gain critical perspectives from diverse sources that prepare them for the complex needs of contemporary society on both a local and global level.
There is a strong focus on praxis – whereby students explore technological, cultural, and media theories and histories alongside multimedia creation. In addition, there is a focus on community-based learning – where students develop digital media projects in a collaborative environment for community-based organizations.
DTC students emerge from the program with diverse technical and media production expertise as well as essential skills like written and oral communication, teamwork, project management, and social ethics.
At the Tri-Cities campus, the Digital Design option allows students to focus on visual communication and adaptive methodologies in design for diverse communities. Students learn about methods and approaches in graphic design, multimedia design, content creation, and information visualization. This option integrates static, moving, and interactive media theories, histories, and production to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the contemporary design field.
Digital Technology and Culture Programmatic Outcomes
A graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Technology and Culture will be able to:
- Demonstrate culturally responsive competencies in working with digital media and technology for ethical and effective human interactions.
- Employ design principles in the creation of various forms of digital media and technology.
- Explore, analyze, and critique the ways digital media and technology function in multiple cultural contexts using diverse methodologies and perspectives.
- Demonstrate understanding of the histories of technological development, from local to global perspectives, and their implications for a variety of mediums.
- Utilize an interdisciplinary perspective to understand contemporary and future cultural impacts of digital media and technology.
- Communicate effectively, to diverse audiences, how and why digital media make meaning.
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Courses
- Digital Technology And Culture
Schedules of Studies
- Digital Design (Pullman and Tri-Cities only)