Meeting 2 August 2006

Ideas for large enrollment classes (Taught at Surrey or Burnaby or Harbor Centre)

• Goals: attract students
• Increase SIAT visibility
• strengthen Ecology of FTEs

Current Curriculum Plan

Year 1:

• Fall:
  • Analytical & Critical Reasoning (Q)
  • Tech History & Social Implications (B)

• Spring
  • Deswign: Theory & Practice (B)
  • Communication Collaboration & Research (W)

• Plus 4 of
  • IAT 100
  • IAT 101
  • Math 1
  • Math 2
  • CS 1
  • CS 2
  • CMNS 1
  • CMNS 2

Year 2:

• Art

• Drawing & Prototyping
• Design

• Media

• Programming
• Technology of Systems (Basics)

• Critical & Creative Thinking (W)

• Cognition

• Culture

Year 3: Principles

• How to build things on your own
• How to get help/skills from others
• Build projects larger in scale and of greater furation
• Setting goals for professional practice
• Bridge theory & Practice
• Project management
• Ready for coop

Year 4

• INTD 1
• INTD 2

Options -- escape clause

Leap out of nest

Ideas

Ideas (1st or 2nd Year classes)

• Figure Drawing
• Games Studies
• Interactive Art
• Introduction to Design (as in Tech One future perfect)
• (Really) New Media
• Extreme Media (!)
• Emerging Technologies/media

List of Nexus areas:

• Visual: John D, Brian, Chris, Dian, Rob, Lyn, Tom
• Ubicomp
• Embodiment
• Games
• Design
• Media Art
• Performance Art
• Interactive Space
• Computational Science
• Interaction Science
• Wearables
• Knowledge Media
• Digital Media
• Design Methods
• Computational Design
• History of Technology & Theory
• Digital Culture
• CSCW

Ideas for New Classes that will appeal to everyone

• Space Design
• Design Eval
• Narrative
• Perceptual Cognition Augmentation

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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. culture

Suggested Paths:

• Game design - Names to appear
• Performance art
• video post production
• video & film production
• future architects
• info designer
• UI designer
• web designer
• web 2.0 architect
• communications officer
• user experience designer
• usability professional
• grad school
• theory wonk
• interaction designer
• graphic design
• game design
• computer animator
• VR
• installation designer (museums, etc)
• planner (city planner, etc)
• exhibit desighner
• info viz
• corporate branding
• network architect
• pre MBA
• software engineer
• toy design
• project manager
• informatics of : media, design, etc