Saginaw Valley State University

Special Topics in Communication and Multimedia/

Project Management on Web-Based Media

CM 590/490

Course Syllabus

Sean Tung-Xiung Wu

Office: Curtiss 187

Phone: 989-9644912

Email: txwu@svsu.edu   txwu@ntu.edu.tw

https://seantxwu.pages.dev/~wu-tx

http://155.138.17.229/Sean TX Wu/

Course Objectives

This course intends to train and certificate students who want to become Project Leaders, Product Planning Managers and Producers for web-based media. Project Management includes planning, production and managerial tasks.

The goal of this course takes account of the inter-discipline of media researches and information technology. The learning method focuses on problem-solving oriented approach. The learning activity designates a hands-on assignment and requires a complete output in the form of publishable presentation.

The assignment will be a special issue of the experimental web-based magazine.

It will include both web pages and video programs.

The special issue is: ABC & ABC

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Students will experience the roles of both vertical and horizontal integration of the project. They will touch the holistic sprit and process of a real project and raise the confidence to organize and guide a team.

This project will be the first step for accessing the ?irtual integrated campus??and the ?irtual international interactive classrooms?? It will also be the leading experiment on developing 'remote group-work model' of project management.

This course is engaging students who can take care of the whole thing and can look out the future.

Enjoy the course!

Meeting Time and Place

Friday 9-11:50 AM

SE 135 (PC Lab)

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Fundamentals of Digital Media.

Experiences of web pages design.

Experiences of graphic processing.

Experiences of digital video editing.

*A compact training of above skills will be delivered in class for those students who are not familiar with that.

*Extra-hour counseling to compensate the prerequisites is available, if it is required.

Requirements and Grading

Project Process Review: 30%

Project Accomplishment: 60%

Class Participation: 10%

Extra Contribution (for team management): extra 10%

Required Readings and Learning Materials

[1]       Nelson, Roy Paul; Publication Design; Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown; 1991

[2]       Vaughan, Tay; Multimedia: Making It Work (3rd ed.); Berkeley: McGraw-Hill; 2002

[3]       Wu, Tung-Xiung, On Line Research Papers and Teaching Handouts; ../../../RwdColorStone/resource.htm#docs

[4]       Wu, Tung-Xiung, On Line Learning Materials; ../../../RwdColorStone/resource.htm#tools

[5]       Wu, Tung-Xiung, On Line Application Tools; https://seantxwu.pages.dev/Tools

[6]       Wu, Tung-Xiung, On Line Media files; https://seantxwu.pages.dev/Mediafiles

[7]       Wu, Tung-Xiung, On Line Design Demos; https://seantxwu.pages.dev/DesignDemo

Course Outline

*Prepared by the representative of class every time unless further notice.

@There are two major stages in project management. Since the consideration of students??background, this course will put more focus on the implementation stage.