Courses
MAT 102: Web Design Basics
(.5) F, S, Summer
Students learn the use of tools for web page design and construction. Includes how to inser images, make links, create tables, use html and manage websites by creating actual web pages.
MAT 103: Introduction To Multimedia(3) F, S - CSU, UC
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Introduction to multimedia, including production processes, tools, techniques, trends and design principles and production requirements of interactive multimedia: development for CD-ROM, the World Wide Web, kiosks, portable disks and videotape. Provides a comprehensive look at the concepts and principles of digital media, visual literacy and the influence on business, education, art, science and culture.
MAT 104: Digital Imaging Basics(.5) F, S, Summer
Introduction to Adobe PhotoShop digital imaging processes used to create and edit images for various media.
MAT 105: Survey Of Multimedia Tools(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Course Advisories: MAT 103.
Overview of tools and applications used to produce interactive multimedia, including software applications, peripherals and hardware. Major applications for design, photo processing, web design, authoring and video. Evaluation and description of the strengths of each program and potential for integration of production applications.
MAT 109: Informational Graphics for the Web(.5) F, S, Summer
Overview of how to create and publish on the web; informational graphics, with typical office applications (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Filemaker, etc.).
MAT 112: Digital Drawing(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Introduction to the powerful computer art tool of Illustrator. Use of Illustrator to create new works of art for various media: print, the web and CD-ROMs. How to use this tool's type, layout features, filters and other applications.
MAT 113: Dreamweaver(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Students learn how to use a popular tool for web page design and construction called Dreamweaver. Includes how to inset images, create frames, make links, use forms, and manage websites by creating actual web pages.
MAT 116: Flash I(3) F, S - CSU
Course Advisories: MAT 108 and MAT 111
Flash is a powerful animation tool for the web. Students create interactive applications that result in rich media websites. A foundation in streaming media, interactive principles and action scripting are developed.
MAT 121: Computer Interface Design(3) F, S - CSU
Prerequisites: MAT 131.
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Advanced Photoshop techniques (filters, masks, postscripts and more) while simultaneously learning principles of human-computer interaction: use of colors, icon, typography and navigation influence on the designing of interfaces. How to design visually pleasing and highly functional screens for multiple uses, including stand-alone kiosks, the web, or CD-ROMs. Students should have solid skills in Photoshop.
MAT 122: Web Design I(3) F, S - CSU
Prerequisites: MAT 107 and MAT 108.
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Course Advisories: ART 140.
Covers the process of designing, publishing and publicizing websites. Students learn how to communicate with clients, create detailed storyboards, negotiate a contract, set production schedules, design interfaces, develop content, and understand the job market in web design. Significant emphasis on designing attractive yet highly functional sites. Course is project-driven where students learn by redesigning a pre-existing website, or creating a new one.
MAT 123: Web Design II(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Course Advisories: MAT 122.
Integration of multimedia elements in website design. Topics include graphics preparation, video, sound and animations on the web, communicating online, and designing for interactivity. Students should be familiar with creating a basic web page, formatting and downloading images, FTP, and understanding website structure. Students develop websites using SoundEdit, Flash, Director's Shockwave, Image Ready and Premiere.
MAT 128: Digital Video in Flash(1.5)
Flash, a powerful multimedia tool for the Web, can be used to incorporate compressed digital video into web pages without the need of a video player. Students create custom and dynamic interfaces for their flash video content, and incorporate traditional flash content, such as animation, bitmap graphics and sound.
MAT 129: Intro to Digital Arts Center(0.5) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for English 100.
Introduction to the college's Digital Arts Center and basic skills and rules required for its use. A series of workshops are provided to open applications, manage files, find help, and be aware of lab rules. Topics are dynamic and change to reflect Digital Arts Center hardware, software and policy.
MAT 130: Fundamentals Of Digital Animation(3) - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Course Advisories: Art 124A
Introduction to digital animation, including production processes, tools, techniques, trends and opportunities. Examines the issues and limitations of various digital image and animation formats as to resolution, color and motion. Provides an overview of various industries utilizing digital animation, including terminology and methodology.
MAT 132: Digital Darkroom(3) F,S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for English 100 and 103
Course Advisories: MAT 131 and 112
Advanced Photoshop course which builds on skills learned in MAT 131. Students work on projects which challenge their creativity and technical ability. Working with this image manipulation software, students develop complex complex commercial and surreal projects.
MAT 136: Computer Animation I(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: MATH 1 and Eligibility for ENG 103.
Course Advisories: ART 124A and ART 140 and ART 141 and DRAFT 131/ENGR 131.
Fundamentals of computer animation, including modeling, animation and rendering. Focus on computer animation tools and techniques. Builds a solid foundation for developing character animation and special-effect sequences.
MAT 137: 3-D Effects Animation(3) F, S - CSU
Prerequisites: DRFT 136/MAT 136
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103
Advanced 3-D computer animation course on dynamic effects, utilizing particles, rigid-bodies and soft-bodies. Techniques for creating natural phenomena, such as waterfalls and blowing leaves, are explored along with methods for simulating physical interactions, such as a chair falling down a staircase or a cube of gelatin dropping onto a plate.
MAT 138: 3-D Character Animation(3) F, S - CSU
Prerequisites: DRFT 136/MAT 136
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103
Advanced 3-D computer animation course on character animation, including character design, modeling techniques for bodies, heads, hands and feet, skeletal and muscle systems, facial animation and lip-synching to dialogue.
MAT 139: 3-D Lighting And Rendering(3) F, S - CSU
Prerequisites: MAT 136/DRFT 136
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103
Advanced 3-D computer animation course on the art and science of lighting and rendering. Techniques for creating photo-realistic computer-generated imagery explored, including lighting, shadowing, texture mapping and shader manipulation.
MAT 140: Designing Online Educational Materials(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103;
Course Advisories: MAT 103.
There are many ways to structure learning experiences: from information-giving to discovery learning. Increasingly, educators, including multimedia designers, are creating learning experiences that are student-centered, inquiry-oriented, and where interactivity and entertainment are maximized. Students learn instructional design strategies. Role-playing, simulations or problem-based learning achieved by creating a website that simultaneously educates and entertains. Students select the topic and the audience: corporations, schools or the home-schooled.
MAT 141: 3-D Modeling(3) F,S - CSU
Prerequisites: MAT 136/DRFT 136
Fundamentals of 3-D modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering. Focus on 3-D modeling tools and techniques. Builds a solid foundation for designing and modeling products, characters, sets and props for animation, product advertisements, movies and video games.
MAT 145: Video Game Design(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103;
Course Advisories: MAT 103.
Introduces students to the field of computer gaming. A broad historical perspective of the computer gaming industry to understand and identify market trends that determine successful gaming software. Includes how to develop creative script writing, navigational schemes and interface designs for games. Students learn skills by reviewing stellar artifacts and designing and developing a game.
MAT 146: Writing For Multimedia(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 110 or ENG 110H or ENG 110GB
Introduction to the role of creative directors and interactive writers in multimedia projects for commercial, educational or entertainment projects. Includes how to develop storyboards, structure information, develop navigational schemes, and specify interface designs; develop brainstorming and storytelling skills, write for non-linearity, understand target audiences, and captivate attention. Students review stellar artifacts and develop storyboards, interface designs and scripts.
MAT 149: Social Networking and Social Media(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisory: Eligibility for ENG 110 or 110H or 110GB
The use and creation of media content in developing, integrating and leveraging social networks and applications. Through integration of a variety of social networking applications, students learn about how the creation of media content helps to establish network and communities of shared professional and personal interests. Includes online applications Wikis, Youtube, Vimeo, Flickr, Myspace, Facebook, Digg, etc., and their use as media-oriented platforms.
MAT 152: Compositing and Visual Effects for Animation(3) F, S, Summer - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Introduction to compositing and visual effects for computer animation. Working with Maya image sequences and alpha channel information. Color manipulation, filtering, keying (blue/green screen processing), camera tracking, rotoscoping and layering are used to create photo-realistic visual effects sequences.
MAT 153: Web Design I(3) F, S - CSU
Course Advisories: Art 140
Covers the process of designing, publishing and publicizing web sites. Students communicate with clients, create detailed storyboards, negotiate a contract, set production schedules, design interfaces, develop content, and gain understanding of the web design job market. Significant emphasis on designing attractive, yet highly functional sites. Course is project driven; students learn by redesigning a pre-existing web site or creating a new one.
MAT 154: Web Design II: Integration(3) F, S - CSU
Prerequisites: MAT 153
Students learn how to use popular Web design tools (Image Ready, Dreamweaver and Flash) for optimizing images and creating websites. Covers a range of tasks and functions of each software. Students learn the software by designing and creating a website.
MAT 155: Web Design III: Advanced(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for English 100, 103
Course Advisories: MAT 153
The integration of multimedia elements in website design. Topics include graphics preparation, video, sound and animations on the web, communicating online, and designing for interactivity. Students should be familiar with creating a basic web page, formatting and downloading images, FTP, and understanding website structure. Students develop websites using SoundEdit, Flash, Director's Shockwave, Image Ready and Premiere.
MAT 164: Online and Mobile Marketing(3) F
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Introduction to those components needed to develop effective online and search engine marketing (SEM) strategies. Emerging digital media and mobile advertising campaigns are emphasized. Includes search engine optimization (SEO), paid placement ads, keyword identification, placement strategies, SEM research and management tools, and WAP advertising apllications in mobile marketing and video advertising.
MAT 167: 3D Environments Design(3) F, S, Summer
The modeling of man-made scenes, including photorealism applications, environmental lighting effects, advanced textures, project workflow and management, and optimizing environments for design visualization and games. Students complete a photorealistic model and a design visualization or game project for portfolio preparation.
MAT 168: Serious Game Prototyping(3) F, S, Summer
Prototyping games for virtual reality, simulations, education and marketing. Topics include the game industry, game play, game-based learning, game concept development and game prototyping. Students explore game prototyping throught hands-on projects, using rapid prototyping software. Includes student development of an original game prototype that can be distributed in a web browser.
MAT 169: Serious Game Production(3) F, S, Summer
Serious game design project planning and production through hands-on experience. Students work in teams to design and complete a game project, providing each student with portfolio preparation.
MAT 176: Wireless and Media(1.5)
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for English 100 and English 103.
Introduction to existing wireless technologies; telcoms, companies, platforms, operating systems and infractructures in today's wireless space. Includes technologies and applications being employed in these rapidly changing wireless markets. Covers the latest market developments and trends.
MAT 177: Case Studies in Mobile Media(1.5) F
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and 103
Introduction to case studies in mobile development and distribution. Covers real world models of mobile media content, entertainment creation and their distribution methods, using existing companies and organizations as examples.
MAT 178: Web Design for Mobile Devices(1.5) S - CSU
Course Advisories: MAT 153 and 154.
Introduction to graphic content production for mobile devices. Emphasizes principles of interface design for a small screen and information design for interactivity on a limited area; graphic compression for cell phones; and how to minimize size of graphic-interface elements while keeping the desired appearance.
MAT 179: Media for Mobile Devices(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and 103.
Course Advisories: FP 114 and FP 170 and FP 175.
Introduction to media production for mobile devices, including the practicalities of producing content for mobile phones, portable gaming consoles, and video i-pods. Includes specific format, content and technologies for mobile deployment; distribution of media for both video and audio podcasting; and broadcast protocols to PDAs, phones and other devices.
MAT 180: Introduction To Audio And Video For Multimedia(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103.
Introduction to the concepts and procedures of multimedia audio and video production, emphasizing the creation, editing and retooling of audio and video files for multimedia projects; fundamentals of camera operation, lighting, nonlinear audio and video editing software and storyboarding for interactive media. Students utilize hard disk recording software, samplers, computers, video recorders and digital editing equipment.
MAT 183: Radio Production I(3) F, S, Summer - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for English 100 and 103.
Introduction to fundamentals of radio production, including studio and field work. Covers producting, managing, scheduling and broadcasting/multicasting for a modern radio station. Through basic studio exercises and productions, including commercials, public service announcements, interview programs and general programming, students learn the tools of the medium, radio station formats and the creation of radio programming.
MAT 194: SOMA Training(0.5)
Variable-unit course for students who want to gain tutoring skills, including how to organize tutorial sessions, refer students to campus services, help students develop problem-solving strategies, and offer application assistance. Overview of tools and applications used to produce interactive multimedia, including software applications, peripherals and hardware. Major applications for design, photo processing, web design, authoring and video.
MAT 196: Flash Basics(0.5)
Basic introduction to Flash, a powerful animation tool for the web which allows the creation of fully interactive, fully animated websites that are extremely compact.
MAT 199: Topics In Multimedia(0.5-3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100.
Introduction to basic multimedia skills and applications. A series of .5 to 3-unit workshops featuring multimedia hardware and software, tools and techniques in preparation for the use of multimedia to combine text, sound, video and graphics for a given application. Workshop topics are dynamic and change to reflect industry trends.
MAT 201: Multimedia Arts Practicum(3) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100.
In this capstone course, Media Arts students are assigned to project teams according to their skills and goals. Collaborating with other students, each team works toward producing a website, video, interactive kiosk, etc., for campus-based or community clients. Course is for the person who has taken several Media Arts courses (web design, audio, video, animation, digital-design) and is nearing completion of the program.
MAT 205: Portfolio Development And Professional Practices(3) F, S - CSU
Prerequisite: MAT 153 or GDP 212 of PHOT 180
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100 and ENG 103
In this final course, students learn how to prepare for media arts careers (web design, digital design, audio, animation and video). Communicating with employers through cover letters and interviews, developing resumes and portfolios/reels, and using online resources for job hunting are covered. For the person who has taken several media arts courses and is nearing completion of the program.
MAT 216: Flash II(3) F, S - CSU
Prerequisites: MAT 116
Students use Flash software for creating web sites, interactive art pieces and animations. Covers a range of tasks and functions of the software: tool palettes, customization of settings, masking techniques, vector graphics, filters and plug-ins, outputting and inputting file formats, and action scripting.
MAT 290: Work Experience In Multimedia(1-4) F, S - CSU
Skills Advisories: Eligibility for ENG 100.
Course Advisories: MAT 103.
Consists of 75-300 hours of work (1-4 units) in employment, plus 2 hours of individual student/faculty conferencing. Supervised employment of students with the intent of creating student awareness of work opportunities, assisting them to acquire desirable work habits, and providing them with experiences in multimedia and related industries. Students perform assigned responsibilities as an employee, follow employer's policies, write individual learning objectives, keep a record of time worked, fill out a student data sheet, and secure an employee evaluation.
