FAS UCC Actions: March 5, 2004
Rob Cameron (cameron@cs.sfu.ca)
Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:10:31 -0800 (PST)
The Faculty of Applied Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Commmittee
met in ASB 9898 at 3:30 pm on Friday, March 5, 2004.
Members attending: R. Cameron (chair), S. Brown, T. Donaldson, J. Fee,
B. Gruver, Q. Gu, B. Richards, R. Taylor.
Guests: T. Calvert, T. Schiphorst, J. Slattery, R. Wakkary, R. Woodbury
1. School of Interactive Arts Stream: Technology in Arts and Design
It was agreed to replace the placeholder name "Arts and Design
Technology" by the name "Technology in Arts and Design."
2. School of Interactive Arts Stream: New Media Environments
"New Media Environments" was accepted as the current draft name
for the proposed stream previously identified as "Digital Media
Environments. It was reported that the Joint IAT-CMPT UCC meeting
discussed this stream in depth, in particular in view of its
relationship to the proposed joint program in multimedia arts
and technology. The IAT-CMPT meeting reached agreement in principle
on support for this stream with an appropriate name change and
revisions to the clearly identify the arts-oriented nature of the
stream. Agreement to proceed with development of the joint
multimedia program was also reported.
Final approval of this proposed stream and its description will
be considered at the March 11 meeting of FAS UCC.
3. BA and BSc Degree Designations
There was further discussion of curriclum design and admission
requirements in support of providing both BA and BSc options to
IAT students. The interaction with provincial requirements
for DTO programs was also discussed, with a view to ensuring
that the BSc program meets the provicial requirements for DTO
purposes.
Parallel admission models for BA and BSc were discussed based
on TechOne, with TECH 114, MACM 101, MATH 151 and a physical
science course (e.g., PHYS 120 or KIN 142) proposed for BSc
admission. BA admission could require the TechOne core
plus TECH 114, one MATH course and two Faculty of Arts or
School of Communication courses.
There was also discussion of proposed BA and BSc graduation
requirements. This is an area for further work. IAT members
expressed willingness to work towards a viable solution that has
the support of both Science and Applied Sciences.
4. Replacement Courses: IAT 202-3, 204-3, 261-3 (was 251-3)
These had been referred to the joint CMPT-IAT UCC meeting. It was
reported that agreement in principle had been reached to proceed,
with revisions and cross-listing arrangments to be be considered
for all three courses.
IAT 202-3 Programming Multimedia (replacing IART 206/207/208)
This course requires a thorough revision of the course description.
Cross-listing arrangements still to be considered.
IAT 241-3 Animation (replacing IART 219/220/221)
This course was approved with the change in title from Computer
Animation to Animation as documented in FAS UCC Paper 2004-21A.
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-21/2004-21A.html
Cross-listing arrangements still to be considered.
CMPT/IAT 261-3 Spatial Computing (replacing ITEC 271/272/273)
This course was approved with a change in numbering from
IAT 251 to IAT 261 to allow cross-listing as CMPT 261.
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-25/2004-25A.html
5. New Course Proposals.
There was some concern about the total number of second
year courses being proposed as well as the number of
IAT courses used in the lower division requirements of the
various streams. Whereas typical SFU majors may require
18 to 24 credits of lower division courses in the major
department, the IAT streams have up to 39 credits of
lower division courses under the School.
However, the following points were made in response.
1. 9 of the IAT-administered credits are in TECH 100, 101, 114;
these should be considered non-disciplinary courses that
will evolve with TechOne.
2. Comparisons with other design schools will also
highlight strong lower division requirements.
3. The intent is to allow non-IAT courses under the
lower division List 1 (media electives) and List 2
(cultural theory electives) requirements.
The individual courses were then considered with reports
on the resolution of course overlap concerns.
There was considerable discussion around design, usability
and interaction that were of strong interest to several
Schools. It was agreed that a Faculty-wide initiative
should explore synergies in this area, while recognizing
that these are fundamental areas for IAT. Courses
of interest were identified as IAT 200-3, IAT 201-3,
IAT 231-3 and IAT 232-3.
The following course proposals were approved for
recommendation to SCUS.
IAT 200-3 Cognition for Design Science
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-9/2004-9.html
This course was approved with a note that IAT is willing
to have it cross-listed with Psychology, as requested.
IAT 201-3 Usability in Interactive Environments
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-10/2004-10.html
IAT 204-3 Encoding Media Practice - Revision A
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-13/2004-13A.html
Revision A documents a change in course description
prepared as a consequence of the joint CMPT-UCC meeting.
CMPT-IAT cross-listing to be considered.
IAT 206-3 Media Across Cultures
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-14/2004-14.html
IAT 231-3 Visualizing Interaction
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-19/2004-19.html
IAT 232-3 Prototyping and Human Factors
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-20/2004-20.html
IAT 244-3 Digital Photography I: Post Photography
http://fas.sfu.ca/ucc/Papers/2004/2004-24/2004-24.html
The meeting adjourned at 5:20 p.m.
Next meeting: Friday, March 12, 2004 at 3:30pm in ASB 9898.