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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Digital Arts

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Program Advisor: Stephanie Dinkins
Email: stephanie.dinkins@stonybrook.edu

Office: 2225 Staller Center for the Arts
Phone: (631) 632-7250

Website: http://art.stonybrook.edu/

Digital technologies are reshaping all aspects of our culture; the arts and its related commercial and entertainment industries are no exception. The Digital Arts Minor enables students to explore digital production tools in print, Web, video, animation, game, CD, DVD, performance, installation, interactive experience, information visualization, and public space. In addition to production skills, the Digital Arts Minor builds critical literacy in reading and understanding images, sound, and information as well as in interacting in mediated social networks. It encourages creative thinking and problem solving, often cited as necessary skills for the 21st century and the pace of change in technology. The minor provides the education and fosters skills now crucial to being a citizen, consumer, cultural producer, and innovator in today’s global visual and information culture.

This minor is particularly well suited for, but not limited to, students in Studio Art (ARS), Computer Science (CSE), Engineering, Multidisciplinary Studies (MTD), Music (MUS), Journalism (JRN), and Business (BUS).

Minor Requirements

All letter-graded courses for the minor in Digital Arts must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher. Completion of the minor requires 21 credits. Nine or more credits for the minor must be upper division.

To earn a Digital Arts Minor students must take:

  • 1 Core “A”
  • 1 Foundations Course “B”
  • 1 Intermediate Course “C”
  • 1 Additional Production Courses “C or D”
  • 2 Additionnal Elective Courses “C,D or E”
  • 1 Theory & Culture Course “E”

Core Courses:

Foundations:

Intermediate Production Courses:

Other Production Courses:

Theory and Culture Courses:

Notes:

  1. No more than six credits from any internship (488) may be applied to the minor.
  2. No more than three credits from ARS 487  may be applied to the minor.
  3. Pre-approval for appropriate 487 projects and 488 internships is required.
  4. Pre-approval for topics courses is required (ARS 390 , ARS 491 , ARS 492, ARH 308 , ARH 400 , ARH 490).

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