The Faculty of Applied Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Commmittee met in ASB 9898 at 3:30 pm on Friday, February 27, 2004. Members attending: R. Cameron (chair), S. Brown, T. Donaldson, J. Fee, B. Gruver, Q. Gu, B. Richards. FAS advisor: M. Black. Guests: T. Calvert, S. DiPaola, T. Schiphorst, J. Slattery, R. Woodbury 1. TechOne Revisions Proposed revisions to TechOne were approved for consideration by Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies. FAS UCC Paper 2004-5C http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-5/2004-5C.html 2. School of Interactive Arts Streams: PMA, ID, ADT The following proposed calendar descriptions of the pre-approved streams in performance and media arts, interaction design and arts and design technology were approved for consideration by SCUS. Descriptions from FAS UCC Paper 2004-6A http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-6/2004-6A.html Performance and Media Arts is based on an artistic emphasis within the field of Interactive Arts and Technology. In the PMA stream, the interpretation and expression of human experience is explored through interactive technological environments. This stream combines critical theory with artistic practice to produce artworks in the form of installation, performance and exhibition. Its graduates will create new forms of cultural and artistic expression in our technologically mediated society. Interaction Design examines the relationship between people and technology with the intent to enhance or improve our environment through a reent and reason about the objects and environments that people use. Its graduates will be able to make systems that people find useful and engaging. Note: a proposal to rename the Arts and Design Technology stream as "Interactive Technologies" was introduced at the meeting. The proposal was tabled for future consideration. 3. School of Interactive Arts Stream: DME The newly proposed stream of "Digital Media Environments" was considered along with its proposed description, as follows. The Digital Media Environments stream is concerned with the creation, analysis and understanding of digital media. Digital media environments are both computational artifacts and cultural experiences. They are therefore highly emergent phenomena that are deeply rooted in historical, social, aesthetic, and economic processes. Graduates of this stream will be skilled in the making and in the critical analysis of new media forms such as electronic games, digital video, computer animation, and interactive multimedia. http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-6/2004-6A.html There was some discussion of the nature of this stream in contrast to the planned joint multimedia IT program between CMPT and IAT. Approval of the stream and its description was referred to a joint meeting of the undergraduate curriculum committees of Computing Science and Interactive Arts and Technology to be held 2:30 pm, Thursday, March 4, 2004. 4. Credentials There was some discussion of the BA and the BSc as proposed credentials for IAT major and honors programs, coupled with the need to define arts and design technology as a qualifying DTO program under provincial guidelines. R. Cameron reported on developments with respect to objective criteria for DTO programs. 5. Replacement Courses The courses that are proposed in replacement of 2xx level 1-credit modules (see FAS UCC Paper 2004-26) were considered. http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-26/2004-26.html The IAT 210-3 course proposal was withdrawn with a note that it is intended to be reintroduced as an upper division course. Three course proposals were identified as ones which should be addressed by the joint CMPT-IAT UCC meeting of Thursday, March 4, 2004: IAT 202-3 Programming Multimedia, IAT 241-3 Animation and IAT 251-3 Spatial Computing. The following course proposals were approved and recommended to SCUS. IAT 203-3 Cultural Icons and Popular Arts http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-12/2004-12.html IAT 208-3 Drawing as Inquiry http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-15/2004-15.html IAT 209-3 Critical and Creative Thinking http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-16/2004-16.html IAT 230-3 Design for Digital Environments http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-18/2004-18.html IAT 242-3 Moving Images http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-22/2004-22.html IAT 243-3 Sound Interaction http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-23/2004-23.html It was noted that course conflict/overlap concerns may still be raised at SCUS, possibly in reference to IAT 209, in particular. 6. New Course Proposals Moving beyond the replacement courses, course conflict/overlap concerns were then reviewed with respect to the seven proposed new 200-level courses: IAT 200-3, 201-3, 204-3, 206-3, 231-3, 232-3, 244-3. IAT 200-3 Cognition for Design Science Concerns were raised by both Psychology and Kinesiology with respect to this course. The Psychology department suggests cross-listing. IAT 201-3 Usability in Interactive Environments IAT 232-3 Prototyping and Human Factors Overlap concerns with both Computing Science and Kinesiology were mentioned. To be reviewed at the joint IAT-CMPT meeting on Thursday. IAT 204-3 and 231-3 were also identified as courses to be discussed with Computing Science. No overlap concerns were reported with respect to IAT 206-3 or 244-3. There was insufficient time to further consider these courses and their resource requirements. The meeting adjourned at 5:30 p.m. Next meeting: Friday, March 5, 2004 at 3:30pm in ASB 9898.