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Credit Hours: 3
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Semester: Fall 2002
Course Description:
IART 310 Context for Cultural Production
Students analyze the contexts within which communication, interaction and reception occur and view all production as cultural. Models of authorship are considered in response to reception theory, among other modes. An applied prototype project expands approaches to making.
IART 311 Practices of Interactivity
Students consider the implications of “practice” as more than activity and consider the various social practices that are implied by networked interactivity and other contexts. Applied projects consider negotiated and oppositional meanings, and fragmentation and heterogeneity in user profiling.
IART 312 Reception, Experience and Use
Students consider significant shifts in communication models that affect the relationship with and experience of users and audiences. Meaning is considered through the lens of ethno-linguistics for the purposes of user-centered and participatory approaches.
Course Objectives:
IART 310
- Differentiate among the operations of various production strategies, cultures and methodologies and the use value people utilize to make meanings
- Contrast aesthetic and theoretical approaches and frameworks in order to explain cultural practices in mindset and environment
- Choose appropriate resources and models to formulate a written brief or proposal to enable an applied proof of concept based on course resources
- Balance time and resources in an institutive yet methodological contextual framework
- Using course content, analyze, classify and describe an independent body of work with similar judgment criteria learned in the course, most likely a complex and ill-defined urban situation, through filed study and charette techniques
IART 311
- Formulate personal responses to cultural structures and events
- Adapt theories of the popular as structural center in a discourse of connectivity and shared language usages
- Integrate relevant case studies as method and conceptual models as context into a well-researched proof of concept or prototype proposal
- Organize data as information and communicate and test conclusions and strategic process in a public assessment forum
- Illustrate sound understanding of audience-driven and user-centered design strategies through an applied interactive arts project
IART 312
- Perceive and discriminate between structures and patterns of ethnographic method in cultural reception studies
- Draw conclusions as to user’s roles in interactive production and communicate positions
- Plan and prepare a complex prototype, fully realized, which applies the amalgam processes, knowledge and methods of course 1-3 of Interaction and Reception
- Summarize the scope of a complex prototype project and communicate its meta-level objectives
- Recommend further development directions based on a successfully realized proof of concept or prototype thesis
Delivery Method:
Mixed Collaborative (MC)
In this course delivery model collaborative students engage in face-to-face (F2F) class one week and asynchronous conferencing the next week. In a typical week students work through content within a web presentation, then depending on the cycle, either participate in structured face-to-face or online collaborative learning activities facilitated by learning staff. Cooperative learning activities may be designed for completion within the class session, or they may extend for a week or longer using online team conferences. Asynchronous conferencing may be employed for team conferences, section conferences and the Q&A board. Optional resources may include a textbook, web links, or CD-ROMs. Some courses, using this model, offer an optional Open Lab where students can receive additional learning support. Assessment is based on assignments, individual and group projects, and participation in online discussions.
Learning Activities + Evaluation:
*Please note these are the minimum expectations for each course on a weekly basis.
IART 310
Online Presentation: 0.5 hour every week
Online Conferencing: 2.5 hrs in week 1 (OL) and 1 hr in wk 2 (F2F) (alternating with MC model)
Offline Reading: 1 hour per week
Face-to-Face: every second week
Req'd Class 1.5 hours
Assignments:
Projects: 2 hours/week Week 1 and 3 hours/week in Week 2
IART 311:
Online Presentation: 0.5 hour every week
Online Conferencing: 2.5 hrs in week 1 (OL) and 1 hr in wk 2 (F2F) (alternating with MC model)
Offline Reading: 1 hour per week
Face-to-Face: every second week
Req'd Class 1.5 hours
Assignments:
Projects: 2 hours/week
Week 1 and 3 hours/week in Week 2
IART 312:
Online Presentation: 0.5 hour every week
Online Conferencing: 2.5 hrs in week 1 (OL) and 1 hr in wk 2 (F2F) (alternating with MC model)
Offline Reading: 1 hour per week
Face-to-Face: every second week
Req'd Class 1.5 hours
Assignments:
Projects: 2 hours/week
Week 1 and 3 hours/week in Week 2
Methods of Evaluation
IART 310
2-times/course: on-line discussions; projects with critiques and written reflections (2x30%)
Participation: 10%
Final reflective presentation and critique: 30%
IART 311
2-times/course: on-line discussions; projects with critiques and written reflections (2x30%)
Participation: 10%
Final reflective presentation and critique: 30%
IART 312
2-times/course: on-line discussions; projects with critiques and written reflections (2x30%)
Participation: 10%
Final reflective presentation and critique: 30%
Texts, Resources + Materials:
Required Textbook: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture by John Storey, ed.
Required Textbook: Image, Music, Text by Roland Barthes
Recommended book(s): None
Software: Access to software used in concurrent IA courses
Other: Access to IA equipment that is used in concurrent IA courses
Platform Requirements: PCPrerequisites:
IART 310: None
IART 311: IART 310
IART 213: IART 310 and IART 311Last Updated: May 13, 2008
These course outlines are drafts and are subject to change.
