Courses

Linear systems of equations; stability of linear systems, orbits, phase portraits, periodic solutions, stability; boundary value problems; applications.

Students will use industry-standard software to create, publish, and promote artwork in emerging genres. Course work reflects a range of project possibilities illustrators and designers will encounter in the contemporary marketplace.

Digital image representation, intensity transformation, filtering in the spatial domain, filtering in the frequency domain, geometric transformation, image registration, morphological processing, segmentation, feature extraction, Image pattern recognition. Programming projects.

An introduction to digital journalism, focusing on the production and presentation of stories based on data – text, photographs, sound, and video – captured by digital devices such as smartphones, edited with digital tools, and posted online. Use of social media will also be discussed.

This course prepares students to develop and teach digital and computational literacies in early childhood and childhood grades. Computational literacies encompass computational thinking practices and skillful utilization of digital tools to support children’s learning. Students are prepared to create equitable and inclusive learning environments that support all children to develop computational literacies.

A study of the theory and practice of digital humanities methods for literary studies. Topics may include the history and theory of the digital humanities (DH), DH disruptions of traditional scholarship, the nature of reading, as well as specific skills such as n-gram analysis, topic modeling, text mining, LDA, and data visualization.

Introduction to the making of short movies. Emphasis is on the creative aspects of moviemaking such as storytelling, character development, abstract visual imagery, documentation, etc., using simple software and inexpensive equipment.

A continuation of DESN 157. Additional experience in non-linear video-editing techniques (DESN 207 or equivalent) is recommended. Special equipment, if any, will be announced before preregistration.

Introduction to digital photography. Emphasis is on the creative aspects of using a digital still camera such as subject matter, point of view, natural and artificial light, etc., using a DSLR or other digital equipment and basic image processing software.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

Exploration of the skills and creative aspects of imaging through the design and production of a lens less camera using a laser cutter, design and fabrication software for capturing, preparing and printing of digital negatives. Students willlearn to use those negatives in the analog process of contact printing Cyanotypes and/or Gum Bichromate prints. Images will be scanned and processed through a large format print workflow.