To: Arthur Q. Tyler, Chancellor, Douglas Eugene Bish, Dean, Lorraine Louise Leber, Department Chair, and Beth Cataldo, coordinator of the Multimedia Studies

CCSF needs a VMD curriculum update!

We are asking for City College of San Francisco (CCSF) & the Visual Media Design (VMD) department to upgrade the curriculum for the Multimedia Program.

Why is this important?

We are asking for City College of San Francisco (CCSF) & the Visual Media Design (VMD) department to upgrade the curriculum for the Multimedia Program - specifically Front End Web Design, User Experience (UX)/Interaction Design and Mobile Design programs so graduates can be job-ready in the current, competitive job market.

I am a student at CCSF and I am attempting to change careers into the local tech industry. After taking many classes at CCSF in the VMD department and then talking to industry professionals, I realized I am not able to meet their standards for hire yet. I want to have the curriculum updated to meet the demands of the changing job market. We need classes such as;
• Analytics/Quantitative Research (and Advanced),
• UX 2/Advanced UX,
• UX Tools/Software,
• Advanced Social Media,
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI),
• User Interface (UI),
• Swift,
• Coding for Design,
• Qualitative Research,
• Rapid Prototyping (Analog and Digital),
• Storytelling Using Animation for Interfaces,
• Ethnographic Studies for UX,
• Designing for Accessibility,
• Designing for Internationalization and Localization.