School - Bergische Universität Wuppertal
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INDESIGN<br />
ILLUS-<br />
TRATOR<br />
VECTOR-<br />
WORKS<br />
ARCHICAD<br />
PHOTO-<br />
SHOP<br />
PRINT WEB<br />
3D/<br />
CAD<br />
CINEMA4D<br />
DREAM-<br />
WEAVER&<br />
FIREWORKS<br />
A/V<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Figure 1: Areas of media design and corresponding<br />
technical programs<br />
The success of the program<br />
can be measured by the intense<br />
student interest and<br />
demand it has awakened. A<br />
feature of the program is the<br />
tutorials given by specially<br />
qualified and trained students,<br />
which provide individual or<br />
small group tuition and form a<br />
TYPO3<br />
FLASH<br />
AFTER<br />
EFFECTS<br />
FINAL CUT<br />
PRO<br />
highly effective instrument of<br />
social integration between the<br />
student and teaching body.<br />
Apple Authorized Training<br />
Center for Education<br />
The UW media design workshop<br />
is one of three such<br />
units at German universities<br />
officially certified as Apple<br />
Authorized Training Centers<br />
for Education (AATCe). These<br />
enable students, after appropriate<br />
training and an examination<br />
(in English), to qualify as<br />
‘Apple Certified Pro’ or ‚Final<br />
Cut Pro’. The first UW students<br />
to gain this decisive career<br />
advantage qualified at the<br />
end of winter semester 2009-<br />
2010.<br />
Since 2009 Apple’s Munich<br />
office has been using the UW<br />
workshop for its nationwide<br />
qualification sessions – e.g.<br />
Apple Tech Series courses<br />
on operating systems. The<br />
cooperation with Apple – the<br />
established international leader<br />
in design technology –<br />
provides the university itself,<br />
as well as its media design<br />
program and students, with a<br />
unique boost in quality and<br />
standing.<br />
Teaching and<br />
research<br />
The media design<br />
workshop is used<br />
for computerbased<br />
seminars as<br />
well as individual<br />
student work. Synergies<br />
between<br />
the various areas of<br />
media design will be<br />
enhanced in the near<br />
future by the addition<br />
of new professorships<br />
for interactive and audiovisual<br />
media.<br />
Workshop equipment has recently<br />
been upgraded with the<br />
addition of new Apple MacPro<br />
computers and network structures<br />
financed within the<br />
framework of the German<br />
Research Foundation’s Integrative<br />
Cross-Media Communication<br />
project at UW. It is<br />
now possible to run PC and<br />
Apple computer systems on<br />
the same hardware, and thus<br />
to use integrated visual and<br />
presentation technologies in<br />
both teaching and research.<br />
The aim is to develop, analyze<br />
and apply methodical design<br />
processes and parallel didactic<br />
and communicative concepts.<br />
Not only for research and<br />
teaching, but also for the future<br />
career prospects of UW<br />
graduates, the media design<br />
workshop forms the basis of<br />
an excellent all-round qualification<br />
and a reflective aproach to<br />
media design and design technology.<br />
Prof. Dr. Johannes Busmann<br />
Björn Blankenheim<br />
Department of Media Design<br />
and Design Technology<br />
T: +49(0)202-439-5157<br />
E: busmann@uni-wuppertal.de<br />
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