1Make use of essential tools and techniques for generating, sketching and realizing ideas in the field of new media art using DIY strategies, commercial as well as open source software and hardware solutions for creative production, collaborative and interdisciplinary team work.

2Use shared knowledge from online communities that is relevant to their projects.

3Consider contributing their own findings and knowledge gained in this class to relevant online communities (e.g. arduino.cc, processing.org, instructables.com, makezine.com, etc).

4Know how to research and find relevant exhibition venues, festivals and competitions.

5Find the most effective medium for their ideas and concepts.

6Know how to adjust to a field of artistic expression in which the tools (i.e. digital software and hardware technologies) are changing rapidly.

7Have developed effective research strategies pertinent to the history of Electronic and Time-Based Art.

8Able to analyze key works and artists in the merging field of Electronic and Time-Based Art. Be able to place their artistic practice in a rich historical context of related earlier art forms such as: Kinetic Art, Film, Dada, Fluxus and Performance Art.

9Understand that "A technology is not merely a system of machines with certain functions; rather, it is an expression of a social world. Electricity, the telephone, radio, television, the computer, and the Internet are not implacable forces moving through history, but social processes that vary from one time period to another and from one culture to another. " (Nye 2006, 47).

10Improve their writing skills toward successful project and exhibition proposals, artist statements and research papers according to CAA's latest Guidelines for Faculty Teaching in New-Media Arts (2007): "In this emergent field, contributions to theory should be seen as having equal significance as aesthetic productions. " (see: http://www.collegeart.org/guidelines/newmedia

11html).