STEM at Woodbury
Woodbury is committed to offering Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs that help to prepare our students for the professions of today and tomorrow.
Take a closer look at our STEM and digitally-focused programs.
In recent years, Woodbury has made a shift toward providing more STEM-based programs for students. The university is in the process of executing a $3 million Title V grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will help us develop additional STEM-based baccalaureate programs across disciplines over the next few years.
STEM and International Students:
International students with F-1 visas who receive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees can apply for a 24-month extension of their post-completion optional practical training (OPT) which is 12 months. This means a STEM international student can work in the USA for 36 months or three years.
Learn more about our Title V Grant
City of STEM Festival & LA Maker Faire
Last Spring, Woodbury University joined LA’s largest celebration of science, creativity, invention, and fun!
The City of STEM and Los Angeles Maker Faire is free and open to the public with hands-on activities, amazing experiences, and an appearance by Bill Nye the Science Guy.
City of STEM, LA‘s biggest festival of science, technology, engineering, and math, and the Los Angeles Maker Faire, the region’s largest gathering of creative thinkers and doers, both took place at the same time and in the same place, for one huge all-day extravaganza.
WOODBURY UNIVERSITY’S BOOTH:
We hosted the following workshops and provided participants with Woodbury University Swag!
- Stop Motion Animation Workshop
- Digital Compositing
- 3D Printing Demo
STEM programs
Woodbury currently offers several STEM-designated programs in the School of Architecture and the School of Media : Culture : Design. Take a closer look at these STEM offerings.
Animation is the art of visual storytelling using time-based media and a combination of 2D, 3D, and stop-motion. Animation students develop characters and worlds and produce their own films. The goal of Woodbury’s Animation program is to help students develop their creative voices and prepare them for a successful career in professional animation production.
Animation is the art of telling stories using the techniques of hand-drawn animation, stop motion and computer graphics. Animation students develop characters and worlds and produce their own films. The goal of Woodbury’s Animation program is to help students discover their creative voice and prepare them for a successful career as a professional animator.
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The Applied Computer Science – Media Arts program helps students become designers, thinkers and leaders of the new digital age. It is an art and technology hybrid degree focusing on emerging digital practices by working with interactive environments, experiential design and human interaction. The program uses computer science as a tool to innovate within the fields of design, entertainment, and media arts. This STEM degree enables students to develop into creators and innovators, preparing them for some of the most exciting and cutting-edge careers of today and tomorrow.
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The Bachelor of Architecture, or BArch program, offers a five-year course of study leading to a NAAB-accredited professional architecture degree. Woodbury’s program provides students the knowledge and skills required for a career as a professional architect, as well as personalized attention, small class sizes, and a general understanding of the profound social and cultural power of design at local and global scales.
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The mission of the Construction Management program is to transform the built environment by building sustainably. Students integrate design, technology, business analytics, and executive skills with sustainability and the liberal arts, using experiential, hands-on learning to advance as agile, future-ready leaders and entrepreneurs in the developer, construction, and design-related industries.
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Experience Design (formerly Graphic Design) is a combination of Communication/Graphic Design, Product Design, and Service Design (UX/UI).
- Communication Design is an encompassing title for graphic, interaction/UX and UI, and motion design.
- Product Design is the combination of product manufacturing and business knowledge to convert ideas into physical and usable objects.
- Service Design is the coordination and combination of people, communication, and material components to create quality service.
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Interior Design is the art of creating a memorable experience of the space that surrounds us. Woodbury’s School of Architecture offers a four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design at its Los Angeles campus. Through small class sizes and individual attention, we foster close mentoring relationships between faculty, staff and students.
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Woodbury’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Filmmaking is a professional degree that prepares graduates for production careers in film, television, and media. Students learn narrative filmmaking through a comprehensive curriculum including film production, screenwriting, cinematography, directing, producing, and film marketing and distribution. The working industry today values students with a variety of skills. Woodbury’s location, within just a few miles of many major entertainment studios, provides students with a host of industry resources and connections.
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The Game Art & Design program teaches students how to conceptualize and develop video games from scratch. The program is ranked among the top 25 nationally among schools offering a BFA by Animation Career Review. The Game Art & Design program combines art, animation, computer technology, sound design, story development and game design.
The Game Art & Design program offers specialized tracks for both artists and designers. All Game Art & Design students take game courses together while they simultaneously develop their own art or design specialties. Game art focuses on two-dimensional and three-dimensional character, environmental design and animation. Game design focuses on elements such as game conceptualization, play mechanics, game rules, story, program flow, scoring systems and prototyping.
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The Master of Architecture (M. Arch) program locates the work of architecture at the intersection of disciplinary principles and professional competency. Ideas become impactful when translated into material conditions. The messy process of translation often results in imperfect but meaningful design proposals that address challenges of contemporary life. Embracing the compromise between ideal and real underscores our commitment to the here and now.
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The Master of Science in Architecture (MSArch) is a one-year/three-semester STEM-designated program that invites architects and non-architects to explore this expanded zone of interdisciplinary practice. Each student chooses an area of concentration that allows them to build expertise in a specific system of thought and technique. In so doing, students are prepared to productively contribute to today’s conversation about contemporary problems and practices in architecture.
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The Master of Interior Design (MID) program provides an education in interior environments that elevates and reinvents the discipline of interior architecture by mining and re-imagining the range of our human experiences. In doing so, this graduate program cultivates scholars, academics and critics, while generating emergent and alternative approaches to the profession, specifically in the Southern California region.
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Digital innovation doesn't stop at STEM.
Woodbury University offers programs across a range of other disciplines with a strong digital focus.
The Fashion Marketing program is a leader in embracing cutting-edge technology to meet the needs of today’s digital landscape. By combining core business courses for the real world with creative awareness, Woodbury helps to develop future leaders who practice business with a conscience.
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Woodbury’s Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Filmmaking is a professional liberal arts degree that places emphasis on the study of film through a focus on the entertainment industry. Our students engage with film from multiple angles: as an artform for communicating ideas, as a business for selling cultural products, and as a technology for creating memorable moving images. It is the ideal degree for students who know they want to be in the business of making films, but don’t necessarily want to work behind the camera.
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The Marketing curriculum strengthens and guides students’ ability to competitively enter the world of marketing as well as integrate their own unique contributions. By combining business for the real world with creative awareness, we help to develop future leaders who practice business with a conscience.