B.S. in Arts and Entertainment Technologies
About the Degree
We offer a professional Bachelor of Science degree that provides flexibility to create your own path of study based on your interests, career goals, and emerging opportunities in creative technology fields. Students progress through structured foundations, upper division courses, electives, and senior projects. A typical AET course plan builds over 8 semesters alongside The University of Texas at Austin’s core curriculum.
AET students engage with the latest technologies in interactive design, immersive media, and themed entertainment to creatively re-imagine the future.
Program Focus

Concentrations
Create course groupings within the major to align with your career goals and deepen your knowledge in 5 core areas: Game Design, Experience Design, Live Event Technologies, Music & Sound or Visualization.

Industry-Oriented Approach
Curriculum is designed alongside industry partners like Gensler Digital Experience Design, Dell Experience Innovation Group, Wonderspaces and ILMxLAB who work with us as advisors, instructors, and guest speakers to keep you on the leading edge.

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Real-world learning experiences centered on collaboration across creative disciplines so that you are prepared to co-create in a dynamic industry environment.

Flexible Degree Plan
Build fluency across the creative tech spectrum with room in your schedule to explore the diversity of courses that UT offers from business to world languages, media, art, and design.
Degree Plan
Recommended 4-year course schedule
Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | |
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Fall | Foundations of AET Lower Division Elective UT Core UT Core |
Lower Division Lower Division Elective UT Core UT Core |
Upper Division Upper Division Upper Division Elective UT Core |
Advanced or Topics Senior Project Elective UT Core UT Core |
Spring | Creative Coding Lower Division Elective UT Core UT Core |
AET Studio Upper Division Upper Division Elective UT Core |
AET Studio Advanced or Topics Advanced or Topics Elective UT Core |
Advanced or Topics Senior Project Elective UT Core UT Core |
Degree Requirements
B.S. Arts and Entertainment Technologies: View the 4-year sample plan and degree guidelines