Summer Courses

Whether you are a current Michigan State University student, a guest student from another college or university, an educator looking for courses to energize your teaching, or a professional looking to enhance your skills, we welcome your interest in MSU Summer Study!
We also have several online options available, making it easy for you to take a course off-campus while working, interning, or spending the summer somewhere else.
We have several offerings available for Summer 2013:
(CAS classes are part of the Media Sandbox - Media & Information students can take these classes!)
- CAS 110: Creative Processes (offered online)
- CAS 111: Digital Image (offered online)
- CAS 112: Story, Sound, and Motion (offered on-campus)
- CAS 201: Audio and Video in Media Settings I (offered on-campus)
- CAS 202: Audio and Video in Media Settings II (offered on-campus)
- CAS 203: Design in Media Settings (offered online)
- CAS 204: Web Design (offered online)
- CAS 205: Media Photography (offered online)
- CAS 206: Graphics and Illustration (offered online)
- CAS 208: Media Interactivity - Flash (offered online)
- TC 101: Understanding Media (offered both on-campus and online)
- TC 201: Intro to Media and Communication Technology (offered on-campus)
- TC 233: Documentary Technologies (offered on-campus)
- TC 247: 3D Modeling and Design (offered on-campus)
- TC 300: Media Policy & Economics (offered on-campus)
- TC 331: Intro to Interactive Media (offered online)
- TC 355: Film Directing (offered on-campus)
- TC 337: Compositing and Special Effects (offered on-campus)
- TC 341: Film Style Production (offered on-campus)
- TC 342: Multi-Camera Production (offered on-campus)
- TC 343: Basic Audio Production (offered on-campus)
- TC 346: Web and Mobile Game Design (offered on-campus)
- TC 348: Advanced Lighting and Camera (offered on-campus)
- TC 349: Client-Side Web Development (offered online)
- TC 361: ICT Management (offered on-campus)
- TC 435A: Creating the Fiction Film I (offered on-campus)
- TC 442: Cinema and TV Projects (offered on-campus)
- TC 443: Audio Industry Design & Mgt (W) (offered on-campus)
- TC 445: Game Design & Deveopment I (offered on-campus)
- TC 447: Advanced Three-Dimensional Animation Workshop (W) (offered on-campus)
- TC 450: HCI and Experience Design (offered on-campus)
- TC 452: Media Strategy (W) (offered on-campus)
- TC 462: Social Computing (offered on-campus)
- TC 480: Information and Communication Technologies for Development (offered on-campus)
- TC 491 multiple sections (offered on-campus)
- TC 497: Game Design Studio (offered on-campus)
Current students can also earn internship credit while interning off-campus!
Undergraduate students interning can earn credit in TC 493: Telecommunication Internship. You must apply and get approved before you are given an override into TC 493. Get more information and download the TISM For Credit Internship Application.
Useful Resources:
- Find out when courses are offered on the MSU Schedule of Courses
- You don't have to be a current student to take MSU courses! If you aren't a current MSU student, you can sign up for classes through MSU's lifelong student program.
- Visit MSU's summer study website.
- When selecting a course, it may be helpful to understand MSU's course and section numbering system.
Think Summer! Think MSU!
