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Dec 11, 2024
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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
Digital Production Arts, MS
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Program Description
The Master of Science in Digital Production Arts is a non-terminal professional degree program aimed at producing graduates who intend to seek employment in the technology-based, electronic arts industry, in particular working with the technical components of visual effects production for the film, electronic games and commercial video industries. Graduates from the MS DPA program are well suited for a myriad of employment opportunities, including such junior level positions as technical directors, tools and development engineers, effects programmers, system programmers, and technical animators.
Core courses provide the broad underlying technical and studio methods foundations for advanced study and lead to original studio and research work. Technical electives provide opportunity for students to develop an expertise or broaden their background to support studio and thesis work. Non-Technical electives allow students to develop specialized knowledge or broaden their background to support digital art production.
For more information, please visit https://www.cs.clemson.edu/dpa/msindpa.html.
Summary of Degree Requirements
Students taking the MS thesis option are required to take 12 hours of core courses, 12 hours of technical electives, and six hours of thesis research.
MS non-thesis students are required to take 12 hours of core courses, 12 hours of technical electives, and an additional six hours of either technical or non-technical electives.
At least 15 of the 30 credit hours must be at the 8000-level for both thesis and non-thesis students. For thesis students, the 15-hour 8000-level requirement relates to coursework and is in addition to thesis research (DPA 8920).
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