Focused on areas within programs. Students learn the specific application of these techniques to the production and presentation of slides and photographs. The student proposes and carries out an independent project under the direction and supervision of an appropriate member of the faculty. Students learn basic audio history and physics and become familiar with the newest recording technologies. Master's students are required to do a research paper.
Students apply visual perception principles to materials design.
Students design and program a tutorial using a selected authoring language or system. An exploration of the uses of museums as a source for teaching, learning, and research from an educational point of view. An experiential approach is used to study the purposes and functions of museums and ways they may contribute to instructional processes. This course provides students with the search and access strategies necessary to locate curriculum materials of a non-print nature. Students develop skills in the selection, utilization, and evaluation of such materials and in establishing processes to effectively accomplish these functions.