Program Overview

Program Overview

The Online Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts and Sciences – Education is a first-of-a-kind program that bridges the arts, technology, and education. This program prepares students to use media technologies to enhance learning in various settings, including community education spaces, classrooms, companies, nonprofit organizations, and more.

Program Details

• The program consists of 40 classes, each lasting 7.5 weeks, and requires a total of 120 credit hours.
• The program focuses on cultivating students' creative and technical skills, equipping them to make an impact in today's digital world.
• Students will learn how to drive innovation in settings ranging from libraries and science museums to after-school programs and adult education settings.
• The program explores how humans learn and the role arts technology plays in shaping the future of education.

Skills and Knowledge

• Aesthetic literacy, including form and composition
• Computational tools and methodologies
• Improvisation and rapid prototyping
• Media processing and editing for video, audio, and graphics
• Modeling and inference
• Physical computing
• Visualization and sonification
• User experience

Career Opportunities

• Animator
• Art Director
• Art Professor
• Computer Support Specialist
• Instructional Specialist
• Museum Educator
• Production Assistant
• Technical Writer
• Technology Education Teacher, High School

Faculty and Research

• The program is part of ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, which is home to world-class scholars, artists, and designers.
• Faculty research areas include:
  • Arts and design for social justice
  • Arts, education, and arts-integrated education
  • Arts, entrepreneurship, and cultural policy
  • Community engagement and public policy
  • Creative health collaborations
  • Design, arts, science, and engineering
  • The study of creative work

Admission Requirements

• To be admitted to ASU, students must hold a high school diploma or equivalent and have completed at least 14 of the required courses.
• Competency requirements include:
  • Four years of math
  • Four years of English (non-ESL/ELL courses)
  • Three years of lab sciences
  • Two years of social sciences
  • Two years of the same second language
  • One year of fine arts or career and technical education
• Additional admission requirements include:
  • Top 25% in high school graduating class
  • 3.00 GPA in competency courses
  • ACT score of 22 for Arizona residents (24 nonresidents) or SAT Reasoning score of 1120 for Arizona residents (1180 nonresidents)

Tuition and Fees

• The tuition calculator can be used to estimate full-time or part-time tuition fees for this program prior to any financial aid.
• Most students receive financial aid, which can reduce out-of-pocket costs.

Courses

• AME 111: Introduction to Digital Culture
• AME 130: Prototyping Dreams
• AME 230: Programming for the Media Arts
• AME 445: The Art of Teaching Media Arts
• AME 485: Media Arts and Sciences Capstone I
• AME 486: Media Arts and Sciences Capstone II
• EDU 396: Exploring Ideas and Planning for an Internship

Program Accreditation

• The program is part of ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, which is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).