Faculty List

Dr. Raymond Riley

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Recent Courses Taught

Introduction to Digital Media.  NMS 101.

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“New” media, a term often substituted for digital media (and likewise packed with ambiguity and fuzzy boundaries), essentially describes methods and social practices of communication, representation, and creative expression that leverages the power of computers, mobile devices, global networks, and sophisticated GUIs in an increasingly interactive and “connected” world. The course will explore both the uses of these technologies and the critical viewpoints expressed by historians, artists, cultural observers, technologists, scientists and futurists.

 

Alma College trustees have adopted a master plan that provides a direction and set of priorities for the development of the physical campus. Key components include an emphasis on advanced and interactive learning, prioritized building renovations, housing initiatives that accommodate enrollment growth, a reconfiguration of parking lots and green spaces, and campus growth plans linked to the Alma downtown business environment.

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Graduate Profile

Kristin Bender-Polizzi

Kristin Bender-Polizzi
Graduation: 1995
Major: Dance

Since graduating from Alma College, Kristin Bender-Polizzi ’95 has co-founded the Surfscape Contemporary Dance Theatre in Florida. The dance company, which she manages, features about a dozen professionally trained dancers, including Bender-Polizzi herself.

“As a shy young girl, dance was a means of expressing myself,” she says. “I was always more comfortable speaking through movement than with my voice. I love that dance is a universal language open to so many interpretations.”

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