309242 (v.1) Multimedia Design 176 - History and Context

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.
Workshop:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Studio:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This unit presents a historical overview of technological developments that have enabled computer-mediated audio-visual communication - multimedia to be identified as a broad discipline within which design plays a significant role. The unit places particular emphasis on the relationship between technology and society. The series of lectures in this unit avoids the presentation of a linear chronology of technological progress. Instead it projects an encompassing view of technology that correlates to aspects of society.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	100500 Graphic and Design Studios (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Fully Online *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
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	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