New Media Interactive Development

Overview

The field of new media explores new and evolving digital technologies—the internet, social software, hand-held and wearable devices, touch and gestural interfaces, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, augmented reality, and more—to create interactive and engaging digital experiences.

In the New Media Interactive Development program of Rochester Institute of Technology, you’ll learn the programming and computing skills for multiple interfaces, as well as the interactive design skills needed to create outstanding user interaction. You can focus your studies on a specific area of new media to truly explore your interests and adapt your skills to a range of emerging technologies.

In the new media interactive development degree, your course work is concentrated on programming and interactive development with in depth classes on topics such as mobile development and alternative interfaces, website design and implementation, physical/wearable computing, game design, game development, design and media production, interactive audio, and more. You’ll build professional-quality web sites, apps for mobile devices and tablets, and create social networking applications that connect people with technology and each other. You’ll learn to program using current and emerging technologies for interactive web design, touchscreens, wearables, and interactive objects in a digital environment. In addition, course work in design principles will make the interactive experiences you build look polished and captivating. Two blocks of cooperative education experience gives you full-time, paid experience working in industry.

Typical Job Titles

• Interactive Developer

• Front-end Web Developer

• Full-stack Engineer

• Product Engineer

• User Experience (UX) Developer

• Mobile Developer

• Creative Coder

• Interactive Media Producer