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FIT1046

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 27 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Clayton

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides Creative Computing students with foundation skills relevant to all other Creative Computing (Multimedia Development) major units. This unit covers the basics of information graphic, digital graphic and motion graphic editing and introduces the fundamentals of web production with CSS and HTML 5. The unit content will introduce students to some of the key conceptual, technical and craft issues related to digital media production, and give them the opportunity to create media products based on their own practice based research.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. research and evaluate established and emerging digital media technologies;
  2. apply digital media production techniques for a range of formats (i.e. information graphic motion graphic, digital graphic, web and mobile);
  3. analyse and assess digital media processes and technologies;
  4. design and develop digital media content.

Assessment

In-semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • One hour lecture/seminar
  • Three hours tutorial/laboratories

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 2-3 hours of personal study per one hour of lecture time in order to satisfy the reading, tute, prac and assignment expectations.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Thomas Chandler

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Creative computing
Multimedia development
Web development

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/