301486 (v.3) Internet Studies 551 - Internet Design - Introduction I


Area: Department of Design
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: The Internet is an unparalleled opportunity for people across the world to make available information resources, principally using the World Wide Web. Begins the process of becoming a web designer, ensures a basic understanding and ability to produce useable and effective Internet resources as part of a team with other design professionals. Preparation for additional units which will extend Internet design skills. Like most Internet Design units, work will be practical and oriented towards actual production of websites. Key issues covered include - history of the Internet, how the internet works, introduction to screen design, bitmapped and vector graphics, colour theory, storyboarding and interface design, designing for navigation, online typography issues.
 
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Field of Education: 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 07 - Foreign Languages, Visual and Performing Arts
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y   Y    
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y   Y    
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External