FAS UCC Actions
Rob Cameron (cameron@cs.sfu.ca)
Mon, 1 Mar 2004 05:59:27 -0800 (PST)
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.