Meeting 2 August 2006

Student Pathways Page

DGr: This page contains individual faculty member's suggested courses of study for speicifc student outcomes.

We decided to dispense with streams in the meeting of July 20, therefore allowing us opportunity for more synergistic undergrad classes. Thus, the charge was to bring 4-5 ideas for courses that could bridge streams -- that is, to be synergistic. One idea, for instance, is an Interface Design class or an HCI class that would serve all the students of (formerly) TAD and ID. To repeat, students in both streams would now be in ONE class instead of two separate classes.

Perhaps I was not clear, as the results are the same classes that we've long been discussing, each arising from a stream.

Upper Division Classes

[note: I took the liberty of numbering the courses. This makes it easier to represent paths (see below). I also renamed the courses to "Upper Division" rather than "Year Three" - Ron]

Media:

• 1. narrative
• 2. video
• 3. advanced video
• 4. animation
• 5. game design

Interaction Design

• 6. interface design

Advanced interface design beginning with the advent of visual communications and moving type to interfaces for desktop, mobile, and large-scale applications. (RWakkary). Cultural scales of audience and production of use-value + Joy-of-use factors in designed experiences. Application of diverse theoretical and research areas to form new syntheses. Thinking in big picture mode for design of new products (i.e. Sustainability). (R.Taylor)

• 7. interaction design(2) methods

Examines concepts of design practice and design methods for interaction designers. Students will study a range of design methods for idea generation, requirements gathering, conceptualization, prototyping, and evaluation in a project setting. (RWakkary)

• 8. interactive prototypes

Develops programming, scripting, physical computing, and form-making skills for developing combined software, and hardware prototype versions of interactive products and systems. (RWakkary)

• 9. design evaluation

Examines evaluation concepts and methods for interaction designers. Analyzes the range of evaluation approaches including informal evaluation, usability, field studies, heuristics, critique and discursive evaluation. (RWakkary)

• 10. participatory design

Students learn participatory design as a method for analysis and gathering requirements for design situations that provides an in-depth contextual understanding of the design and enables end-users as designers. Examines the conceptual frameworks for understanding human action and context in organizational design situations. This course assigns small teams to design with industry, non-profit, and government organizations. (RWakkary)

PMA

• 11. body interface
• 12. installation + performance
• 13. kinesthetic space

TAD

• 14. info viz/graphics for viz
• 15. knowledge + info architectures
• 16. HCI 2
• 17. software engineering
• 18. computational media
• 19. authoring environments
• 20. videogame design & programming
• 21. cognitive systems (human/tech)

Understanding humans

• 22. culture
• 23. perception
• 24. cognition
• 25. enaction (perception/cognition/action loops, e.g. sensemaking, gameplay "cognitive ludology")

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Student Outcomes: Possible Pathways

Required: name of course, name of courses, name of courses

Suggested electives: name of courses, name of courses

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Game designer - JBizzocchi

• Required: 1, 5, 6, 20, 25 --- Suggested electives: 7, 8, 9, 21, 22, 23

Performance artist - TSchiphorst

Video post-production person - JBizzocchi

• Required: 1, 2, 3, 4, 18?, 23 --- Suggested electives: 22

Video & film production - JBizzocchi

• Required: 1, 2, 3, 18?, 23 --- Suggested electives: 22

Computer Animator - TCalvert

• Required: 1, 2, 4, 23, advanced animation. Suggested electives ??

future architects - RWoodbury

Information Designer and Architect - DGr

• Required: 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; Suggested electives: 5, 8, 12, 19, 21 (RWakkary)

UI designer - AAntle

• Required: 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 17, 19; Suggested electives: 1, 2, 5, 10, 13, 15, 21 (RWakkary)

Web design and architecture - MHatala

• Required: 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21; Suggested electives: 1, 4, 5, 8, 13, 19, 20 (RWakkary)

Web 2.0 architect - DGr

Communications officer - RWoodbury

interactive product designer - RWakkary

• Required: 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 21; Suggested Electives: 1, 3, 12, 13, 15, 17 (RWakkary)

Interface Designer - DGr

Interaction designer - RWakkary

• Required: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 21; Suggested electives: 1, 2, 5, 12, 13, 17, 19 (RWakkary)

User experience Designer - AAntle

• Required: 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 21; Suggested Electives: 2, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15 (RWakkary)

Usability professional - LBartram

• Required: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 17; Suggested Electives: 1, 2, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21 (RWakkary)

Grad school - RWoodbury

Theory wonk - NRajah

Flash Animator - JBowes

Curator - NRajah

BioMedia Artist - DGr

Graphic design - DGr

Game design - CDShaw

VR - CDShaw

Installation designer (museums, etc) - SKozel

Planner (city planner, etc) - RWoodbury

Exhibition designer - SKozel

• Required: 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 21 Suggested electives: 2, 5, 11, 12, 16 (RWakkary)

Info viz - JDill

Corporate branding - DGr

Network architect - MHatala

Pre MBA - RWoodbury

Software engineer - MHatala

BioInformatics - CDShaw

Interactive Artist - DGr

Toy design - AAntle

Interactive Clothing Designer - TSchiphorst

Project manager - LBartram

Informatics of: media, design, etc - CDShaw

Entrepreneur - BFisher

Analyst - BFisher

Scientist - BFisher

Program Director - BFisher

Research Associate - BFisher

Knowledge Engineer - BFisher