LSU students will be able to minor in digital media beginning with the fall semester of 2010, the result of a two-year effort by the university to prepare students for careers in emerging fields such as animation, video games, electronic music and digital art.
LSU approved the Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research Initiative in spring of 2008 as one of its multidisciplinary hiring initiatives, bringing together faculty, researchers and professionals to create a concentrated academic research program in digital media.
“Students regularly express to us an interest in working as a video game developer, animator, or other profession involving interactive digital media,” said Stephen David Beck, a professor in the LSU School of Music and leader of the AVATAR Initiative. “We crafted the AVATAR minor to address the needs of these students as well as the needs of the digital media industry.”
Information about the program and a list of required courses are at http://avatar.lsu.edu. Students who are interested in obtaining the digital media minor should contact AVATAR Initiative Coordinator Lea Anne Couvillion at (225) 578-5433 or leaanne@cct.lsu.edu to arrange a meeting.
To officially kick off the minor, AVATAR Initiative will host a series of lectures in the spring and fall semesters, the first taking place March 25, featuring Daryl Holt, the chief operating officer of EA Sports Tiburon Studios in Orlando, Fla.
Holt will discuss his own career path in the video game industry, and will advise students on what they need to learn if they want to pursue jobs as game developers or designers.
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