Media Graphics Option

Major Area Requirements
36 semester hours of courses in computer science (CUS)

• Presentation Graphics
• Structured Programming Techniques
• Mainframe Assembler Language or Microcomputer Assembler Language
• Introduction to Data Structures
• HTML and JAVA Script

3 credits from each of the following:

• Advanced Business Programming; Commercial Systems; Systems Resource Management; Object-Oriented Programming; Unix Operating System; PERL Programming language
• Advanced Data Structures; Survey of Languages; Event-Driven Programming; Java and World Wide Web Applications; Advanced Java Programming
• Logical Design; Computer Architecture; Operating Systems; Compilers and Program Translation; Database Management Systems; Software Engineering; Systems Analysis; Theory of Programming Languages; Advanced Database Management Systems
• Operations Research I and II; Simulation; Data Communications; Data Security and Cryptography; Theory of Computation; Finite Automata and Formal Languages; Analysis of Algorithms

9 additional credits in computer science, 6 of these must be selected from CUS 1144 or higher numbered courses.  CUS 1101-1103; 1105-1108 may not be used toward the fulfillment of the major area requirements.

Specialized Area Requirements
18 semester hours of courses in communication arts (CAS)

• Fundamentals of Media Graphics

15 additional credits from the following:

• Special Effects: Stop Motion Model Animation
• Introduction to Animation
• Special Effects: Visual Effects Cinematography (Advanced)
• Video Graphics I
• Publication Graphics
• Advanced Graphics

Free electives
9 semester hours selected from the courses offered through any of the undergraduate units of St. John's University.   

Students completing this program will have a minor in media graphics as well as a major in computer science.

A second language (6 credits) may be substituted for these courses.