The Computer Aided Art program offered at Northern State State University (Aberdeen, South Dakota), is coordinated with the traditional art major. The program is designed to familiarize students with a wide range of art-related computer hardware and software and their applications and to prepare students for problem-solving with unfamiliar equipment and materials likely to be encountered in professional careers. It is intended to train students for careers in the fine arts, desktop publishing, and television in particular. Courses include instruction with animation; paint systems; three-dimensional rotation; desktop publishing; computer aided design, drafting, and machining; digitizing; genlock; slidemaking; scanning; and videotape editing. Indicators of success of the program include placement rate of graduates, interns, and students seeking summer employment; program expansion to summer sessions; and purchase of advanced equipment. (MSE)