NM1104 - Creative Technologies

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

Available to all students

Students are exposed to an investigation of the history and development of creative arts technologies across the fields of image, text, graphic, light and sound. Analogue and digital innovations will be explored in order to contextualise contemporary and emerging digital age practices.

Learning Outcomes

• understanding of the historical drivers relevant to creative arts technologies;
• insights into the implications of technological innovation across the creative arts;
• awareness of emerging practices and their relevance to contemporary digital creative arts outputs.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 28-Aug-2009
Coordinator:	Dr David Salisbury
Lecturers:	Ms Kirsten Heritage, Dr David Salisbury, Ms Katja Fleischmann.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures - 2 hour lecture/week 13 hours tutorials - 1 hour tutorial/week 13 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); timeline (30%); e-portfolio (20%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.