Paying for college:
| New course | Undergraduate |
| First term offered : Fall 2012 | ||
| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| A 328 | Digital Motion: Contemporary Issues | 3 - 0 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Digt Motion: Contemp |
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Catalog Description: Continue applying skills and computer applications to projects reflecting contemporary practice in the field. Continue to work with issues of idea development, audience, message, continuity, and narrative. Use design development processes and aesthetic awareness in digital motion projects. Will include software instruction connected to project goals. May be repeated twice for credit. Prerequisite: A327. |
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Course Goal and Objectives: This is the third course of a three-term upper-division sequence. Continue learning and applying skills to visual communication through time based (video, animation) delivery methods. Prepare portfolio presentations with the awareness of how portfolios communicate their current understanding of aesthetics and competency as designers. Specific term-by-term course goals and objectives will rely on expertise of incoming faculty. |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): Necessary course for proposed expansion of visual communication design major to include animation and time-based media, as requested by WOU administration. This is the first course of a three term upper-division sequence. |
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Faculty and facilities needed: 2011-2012: hire NTT faculty with motion, narrative, video, animation specialization to teach these courses during the launch of the new program. |
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Brief Course outline: 3 credit hours/6 contact hours. Specific term-by-term course outline course goals and objectives will rely on expertise of incoming faculty. Students will study methods of making digital motion/time based visuals. Topics may include: - use of video - digital cell animation - text and image in motion - stop-motion - and/or 3-dimensional modeling Students will work with ideas of development, audience, message, continuity, and narrative. Course will include software instruction connected to specific project goals. |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Jodie Garrison | Approved | November 05 2010 |
| 2 - Division | Diane Tarter | Approved | November 05 2010 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | David Janoviak | Approved | November 06 2010 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Robert Monge | Approved | December 08 2010 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Gavin Keulks | Approved | February 08 2011 |
| 7 - Dean | Stephen Scheck | Approved | February 14 2011 |
| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Approved | February 14 2011 |
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