Fundamentals of Digital Media

SYLLABUS

Instructor: Dr. Wu, Tung-Xiung 吳統雄

Master Program of Multimedia Technical Communication, SVSU

Class Meets: 3 hrs. /week

Office Hours: Mon., Tue. by appointment

Spring, 1998

Course Objectives

This course is to engage students to explore the fundamentals of digital media that is a generic term for multimedia; to develop the capability of learning and participation of the field for further oversea study; and to initiate the potential of leading a multimedia project as a graduate students who are expected to be.

Issues covered of the course include technical features and organizational perspectives as well. The course is designated to provide a compact profile of elements, equipment and tools for multimedia. We will also discuss the current impact and future trend.

This course will satisfy the international and cross-cultural depth study requirement under the Saginaw Valley State University. In order to meet this goal, the instructor will devote extra instruction on increasing effective communication by real and live American English.

Students will be assigned into one of three virtue projects during the course. The projects consist of four procedures that are product planning, analysis and design, presentation of the ideas, comment and discussion. Each one will work on one of these procedures.

Prerequisites

Introduction of Computer

Practice of Computer

Requirements and Grading

Mid Term Exam: 30%

Class Project: 30%

Final Exam: 30%

Class Participation: 10%

Required Reading and CAI Materials

Vaughan, Tay; Multimedia: Making It Work (3rd ed.); Berkeley: McGraw-Hill; 1996

Wu, Tung-Xiung; TXFast3: Info Tips for Multimedia Internet Applications; Taipei: Shih Hsin Univ. 1998

Wu, Tung-Xiung; TXFast2: Info Tips for Windows Applications; Taipei: Shih Hsin Univ. 1996

Wu, Tung-Xiung; TXFast1: Info Tips for DOS Applications; Taipei: Shih Hsin Univ. 1995

Course Outline

Subject

Reading and/or Activity

1.       Introduction, Prerequisite tests

TxFast2, TxFast1

Teaching in Chinese

2.       Brief Review of Preliminary Basics

TxFast2

3.       What is Multimedia

Ch. 1, 2

4.       Making Multimedia

Ch. 3, Organizing 3 project units

5.       Hardware and Software

Ch. 4-8, TxFast2

6.       Text and Audio

Ch. 9, 10, TxFast2, TxFast3

7.       Mid Term Exam

Written Test

8.       Images etc.

Ch. 11, 12, 13, , TxFast3

Teaching in English

9.       Internet and Web

Ch. 19-21, TxFast3

10.    Project Planning (1)

Ch. 14, 15

11.    Project Planning (2)

Ch. 16-18

12.    Class Project (1)

Rehearsal

13.    Class Project (2)

Presentation

14.    Final Exam

TxFast3: CAI Test