Required Courses

Mobile Applications Development Courses

The mobile applications curriculum is designed to provide students high quality content training in programming, interface design and human interaction design. In this mobile applications development program, students learn how to build mobile apps for Android and iOS, two of today's most popular platforms, as well as how to position them in Android Market and the App Store.

FALL QUARTER
Title	Course Number	Units
Basics of Programming: Android	ART40544	4.0
This class provides theoretical and practical knowledge to design and build Android based solutions. It will teach the students various techniques in Android development using the Java programming language.
Art Technologies for Mobile Applications I	ART40546	4.0
This class is designed to give students strong foundation in digital arts as they relate to mobile application development. Students will explore the fundamentals of creating raster and vector visual assets for mobile applications using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Flash.

WINTER QUARTER
Title	Course Number	Units
Basics of Programming: iOS	ART40545	4.0
This class provides theoretical and practical knowledge to design and build iOS based solutions for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It will teach the students various techniques in iOS development using the Objective-C programming language.
Art Technologies for Mobile Applications II	ART40547	4.0
This class is designed to give students advanced digital art creation, content optimization and design skills for mobile application development. Students will create high quality assets for mobile application development on iOS.

SPRING QUARTER
Title	Course Number	Units
Creative Studio: Mobile Application Prototyping I	ART40548	4.0
This course is designed to help students organize their production environment and begin the development of their unique mobile application for iOS and/or Android platforms. Under the supervision of their course instructor student will start building art assets and coding framework for their application.
Business of Mobile Application Development	ART40550	4.0
In this course students further their understanding of the marketing and business sides of mobile application development for both iDevices and Android Devices. Topics such as setting strategic goals for the company and specific mobile application product, defining mobile application demographic and platform delivery, advertising strategies, publishing opportunities, and other non-production related issues of mobile application development are covered.

SUMMER QUARTER
Title	Course Number	Units
Creative Studio: Mobile Application Prototyping II	ART40549	4.0
This final Creative Studio course is designed to help students finish their application or application prototype, test it and get it ready for publishing to the iOS or/and Android Market Place
Portfolio Production for Mobile Application Development	ART40551	4.0
This comprehensive studio class allows students time to produce and polish their portfolio content to highlight their design, art and programming efforts at the UCSD Extension DAC Mobile Application Developer program. Several in-class progress milestones, qualitative portfolio reviews by the industry professional guest speakers, and peer critiques will enhance students' experience and provide maximum guidance to improving the overall quality of students' artwork.

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