Creative Computing

Professor Ira Greenberg, Program Director

Professor: Ira Greenberg
Associate Professor of Practice: Jeff Cavitt
Assistant Professor: Courtney Brown
Visiting Lecturer: Jessie Zarazaga
Adjunct Instructors: Kenneth R. Howard, David G. Smith, Brittni Watkins

General Information

SMU’s master of arts in creative technology is an online graduate program, enabling students to participate in the program from anywhere in the world. Each of the 10 courses includes a balance of asynchronous content and synchronous live sessions. The program combines creative and design disciplines with core and emerging digital technologies to generate innovative solutions that are growing in demand across industries. Throughout the 30 credit-hour program, students are taught topics that will help prepare both creative and technical-oriented individuals to combine skill-sets across interactive mediums, design, programming, blockchain and generative AI applications. Upon graduation, students gain the skills and knowledge to advance careers in creative technology leadership, AI, design, UI/UX, animation, AR/VR, coding/software development, and more.

Student learning and program outcomes include:

• Generate AI solutions
• Create custom software
• Design user interfaces and experiences grounded in aesthetic and usability theories
• Develop full-stack web-based applications, including integration with blockchains
• Create augmented and virtual reality solutions
• Develop software applications for the Metaverse
• Design, code and mint generative NFT’s
• Create mobile software and applications
• Express themselves creatively through computation and related technologies

Admission and Graduation Requirements

The Master of Arts in Creative Technology requires a baccalaureate degree for admission.

To graduate, a student must complete 30 credits, have a minimum overall GPA of 3.000, and successfully complete a capstone project and paper.

International students will be required to demonstrate English language proficiency.

The Academic Calendar for the Creative Technology, M.A. can be found here.

Programs

• Creative Technology, M.A.

Courses

• CRCP 6291 - Special Topics
• CRCP 6310 - Introduction to Creative Coding
• CRCP 6320 - Principles of Digital Design
• CRCP 6330 - Creative Coding for the Web
• CRCP 6340 - Creative Coding for Application Development
• CRCP 6350 - 3D Modeling and Animation
• CRCP 6360 - Interactive and Experiential Design
• CRCP 6370 - Artificial Intelligence in the Metaverse
• CRCP 6380 - Mobile Computing and Augmented Reality
• CRCP 6390 - Data Expression
• CRCP 6391 - Special Topics
• CRCP 6399 - Creative Technology Capstone