IAT 313-3 Narrative and New Media
Monique Silverman
January 13, 2005
Course Number: IAT 313-3
Course Title: Narrative and New Media
Credit Hours: 3
Vector: 3-0-0
Course Description:
This course explores the role of narrative in various media and New Media environments: both traditional linear environments and multi-linear and networked media environments. The course examines the relationship of narrative elements in the light of the practice and the aesthetics of New Media. It will include an overview of New Media theorists such as Janet Murray or Lev Manovich.
Prerequisite: IAT 100 or equivalent, IAT 101 or equivalent, TECH 114 or equivalent.
Recommended: None.
Corequisite: None.
Special Instructions: None.
Course(s) to be dropped if this course is approved: None
The course build foundational concepts in narrative stuctures and New Media aesthetics. These concepts will be used in the analysis of mediated experience in the context of this course and in subsequent NME courses.
Will this be a required or elective course in the curriculum; probable enrolment when offered?
This will be a required course for Upper Division NME and PMA, and an elective for ID and other university programs; enrolment estimated at 90 per year.
Indicate Semester and Year this course would be first offered and planned frequency of offering thereafter.
2005-1 and annually thereafter.
Which of your present CFL faculty have the expertise to offer this course? Will the course be taught by sessional or limited term faculty?
Jim Bizzocchi, Laura Trippi, Monique Silverman
Are there any proposed student fees associated with this course other than tuition fees?
No.
Is this course considered a `duplicate' of any current or prior course under the University's duplicate course policy? Specify, as appropriate.
No.
Note: Senate has approved (S.93-11) that no new course should be approved by Senate until funding has been committed for necessary library materials. Each new course proposal must be accompanied by a library report and, if appropriate, confirmation that funding arrangements have been addressed.
Provide details on how existing instructional resources will be redistributed to accommodate this new course. For instance, will another course be eliminated or will the frequency of offering of other courses be reduced; are there changes in pedagogical style or class sizes that allow for this additional course offering.
This course is presently offered at SFU Surrey.
Does the course require specialized space or equipment not readily available in the department or university, and if so, how will these resources be provided?
This course does not require additional space or equipment - it is presently offered at SFU Surrey.
Does this course require computing resources (e.g. hardware, software, network wiring, use of computer laboratory space) and if so, describe how they will be provided.
This course utilizes computers, software and lab space already available at SIAT.
2005/2006 Academic Year
Courses Objectives:
In this course students will:
* Analyze traditional linear narrative multi-media construction (primarily film and animation)
* Analyze multi-linear multi-media narrative aesthetics and construction (graphic novels, comic strip, video-game, hypertext, website, interactive video, interactive installation)
* Plan and produce linear and multi-linear narrative projects.
* Develop a sound understanding of the principles of linear and multi-linear narrative
* Develop a sound understanding of the emergent aesthetics of new media environmetns
Course Description:
The Narrative and New Media course begins with a review of traditional Narrative poetics. Students will apply these concepts in the analysis of existing narrative works, and in the planning of original projects. The course will also review the emergent poetics of New Media, including concepts of immediacy, hypermediation, agency, interactivity, immersion, database narrative, simulation, and networked narrative environments. The students will apply these concepts in the analysis of existing works, and in the production of orignal exercises and projects.
Delivery Method: Lecture
Activities:
Required readings 12 hours
Lecture/Discussion/Critiques 3 hours
Exercises/Assignments 2 hours
Total 7 hours
Evaluation:
In-class exercises 20%
Papers (2) 40%
Projects (2) 40%
Course Pack/CMS (from Structure and Narrative course)
Hamlet on the Holodeck (Janet Murray, MIT Press, 1998)
The Language of New Media (Lev Manovich, MIT Press, 2001)
Platform Requirements: None
NOTE: these outlines are drafts and are subject to change. Official textbook list should be consulted.