CA.SFU.FAS.UCC/Papers:2004-26

Phase-out of IART/INTD/ITEC/MTEC 2xx-1 Modules

R. D. Cameron, Associate Dean of Applied Sciences

February 15, 2004

1. Introduction

At the July 8, 2002 meeting of the SFU Senate, the BSc (Information Technology, TechBC) and BSc (Interactive Arts, TechBC) degree programs were approved for students admitted to Tech BC prior to 2002. The intention was to allow existing students to complete the programs which they had begun at Tech BC, while successor programs were developed. In April 2003, these degree programs were subsequently extended for those students admitted to SFU Surrey in 2002.

In May 2003, the SFU Senate approved the creation of a School of Interactive Arts and Technology with the mandate to develop and evolve curriculum associated with the Interactive Arts curriculum acquired from TechBC as well as an information technology concentration in arts and design technology. Major, honors and minor programs of the new School are proposed with FAS UCC Paper 2004-6.

Whereas students admitted to SFU Surrey in 2002 will be entering the third year of the BSc (Information Technology, TechBC) and BSc (Interactive Arts, TechBC) programs in Fall 2004, students admitted in 2003 will have a different set of second year options in Fall 2004: the new programs of the School of Interactive Arts and Technology as well as Surrey program offerings by the School of Computing Science and the Faculty of Busines Administration. Courses used in the curriculum of the BSc (Information Technology, TechBC) and BSc (Interactive Arts, TechBC) degrees are not required for these students.

The last regular offerings of IART, INTD, ITEC and MTEC 200-level courses are scheduled for 2003/4. These courses will be deleted from the 2004/5 calendar. However, a number of them are proposed to be replaced by new semester-based courses of the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Others will simply be deleted, relying on existing BUS, CMPT and ENSC courses to cover these areas.

The table below lists all IART, INTD, ITEC and MTEC 200-level courses and their proposed replacements.

Deletion Replacement
IART 206-1 Programming Multimedia: Encoded Interactivity
IART 207-1 Scripting in the Network Environment
IART 208-1 Authoring Multi-user Environments
IAT 202-3 Programming Multimedia
IART 210-1 Cultural Icons: Historical Perspectives
IART 211-1 The Evolution of Low-Brow: Modern Popular Arts
IART 212-1 All Mixed Up: Culture in the Age of Electronics
IAT 203-3 Cultural Icons and Popular Arts
IART 213-1 Digital Design Process, Language & Vocabulary
IART 214-1 Digital Graphics & Visual Communication
IART 215-1 Digital Environmental & Event Design
IAT 230-3 Design for Digital Environments
IART 216-1 Drawing: Forms and Languages
IART 217-1 Drawing: Anatomy and Gesture
IART 218-1 Drawing: Picturing Time
IAT 208-3 Drawing as Inquiry
IART 219-1 Animation: Modeling Identities & Forms
IART 220-1 Animating & Structuring Narrative
IART 221-1 Animation: Rendering Fictive Spaces
IAT 241-3 Animation
IART 222-1 The Movement Image
IART 223-1 Moving Images: The Camera & the Eye
IART 224-1 Moving Images: Interaction, Interface, Installation
IAT 242-3 Moving Images
IART 243-1 Sound Interaction: Significant Sound
IART 244-1 Composing Audible-Visual Images
IART 245-1 The Audible Open Work
IAT 243-3 Sound Interaction
INTD 210-1 Visualizing Project Management
INTD 211-1 Planning and Directing Projects
INTD 212-1 Managing and Implementing Projects
IAT 210-3 Project Management
INTD 213-1 Critical awareness and analysis
INTD 214-1 Creative and critical thinking: Being creative
INTD 215-1 Creative and critical thinking: Being critical
IAT 209-3 Critical and Creative Thinking
ITEC 216-1 Electronic Circuits: Circuit Principles
ITEC 217-1 Electronic Circuits: Electronics
ITEC 218-1 Electronic Circuits: Circuits
ITEC 220-1 Introduction to Digital Systems/VHDL
ITEC 221-1 Design of COMB/SEQ Circuits
ITEC 223-1 Introduction to Information Theory
ITEC 224-1 Integrated Data Services and Networks
ITEC 237-1 Signal Analysis in Time Domain
ITEC 238-1 System Analysis in Frequency Domain
ITEC 239-1 Filter Design and Analog Communications
ITEC 240-1 Data Structures: Linear Data Structures
ITEC 241-1 Tables, Trees and Recursion
ITEC 242-1 Applied Algorithms and Data Structures
ITEC 251-1 Managing the Personal Software Process
ITEC 252-1 Software Engineering: Product Engineering
ITEC 260-1 Principles of User Interface Design
ITEC 261-1 Designing User Interfaces
ITEC 277-1 Applied Math for IT: Stochastic Methods
Existing CMPT, ENSC courses
ITEC 271-1 Introduction to Computer Graphics
ITEC 272-1 Computer Graphics: 2D and 3D Transformations and Curves
ITEC 273-1 Computer Graphics: Rendering Techniques
IAT 251-3 Spatial Computing
ITEC 274-1 Differential Equations
ITEC 275-1 Linear Algebra
ITEC 276-1 Laplace and Fourier Transforms
MATH 210-3 Calculus for Design Science
MTEC 223-1 Strategic Management in the New Economy
MTEC 224-1 Strategic Management: Value Chain and Core Competencies
MTEC 225-1 Strategic Management: Strategy Simulation
MTEC 251-1 Organizational Behavior
MTEC 252-1 Leadership and Team Building
MTEC 253-1 Negotiations and Decision-Making
Existing BUS courses

Although all IART, INTD, ITEC and MTEC 2xx-1 courses are to be deleted from the 2004/5 calendar, it is anticipated that exceptional circumstances may require additional offerings in some cases during 2004/5. It is therefore proposed that such offerings be permitted in 2004/5 subject to the approval of the Dean of Applied Sciences.