1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

LCS606 Computing in the Human Context
12.5 credit points 3 hours per week Lilydale
Prerequisite: nil Assessmat: essay and examination
A stage three core subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Computing) which may also be taken in the Bachelor of Social
Science and Bachelor of Business.
0 b jectives
To provide students with a framework for the development
of personal and corporate ethics appropriate for the
information technology professional, and to allow students
to explore the uses in and implications for society of
contemporary developments in computing.
Content
Ethical and legal issues in computing, and their relationship
to the computing profession; a selection of other topics,
exemplified by: philosophy and artificial intelligence;
computers and the arts; futures.
LCS613 Computer Science Team
3 hours per week Lilydale Prerequisite: nil 0 Assessment:
assignments
A stage 3 core subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Computing) which may also be taken in the Bachelor of Social
Science and Bachelor of Business.
Objectives
In this subject, students will apply the software engineering
skills acquired throughout the degree, to a substantial group
software development project. Student groups will choose
from a range of projects and they will then have to analyse
the projects requirements, design and then develop the
system to the best of their ability in the time available.
Subject to the approval of the lecturer, students may
generate their own project.
LCTl00 Science, Technology and Society
4 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: nil Assessment:
continuow
A stage 1 core subject in the Bachelor of Business, Bachelor
of Social Science and Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 b jectives
To introduce students to fundamental concepts about
science, scientific and technological change in the context of
our emerging electronic society. Applications of
communications technology by students will complement
the conceptual framework of the subject.
Content
Science, and scientific method;
science and technology in contemporary economies;
technological innovation and transfer;
historical modes of communication;
changing modes of communication: electronic society?
power bases: whose information revolution?
functional and institutional convergence: media,
information technology and telecommunications;
forces for globalisation;
superhighways or superhypeways?
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cultural impact of new communications technologies;
changing communication process: VIPs- visual,
intelligent, personal;
construction of society and new modes of
communication: eg. - Internet,virtual reality.
threats: misuse of information, privacy, inequality.
Recommended reading
Dunbar, R., 7be Trouble with Science, Faber and Faber, 1995
Green, L. and Guiney, R. (eds) Framing Technology, Allen &
Unwin, 1994
Haywood, P. and Woollen, T. 'Future Visions: New Technologies
of the Screen', 21C (Periodical) BFI Publishing 1993
Thwaites, T., Davis, L., and Mules, W., Tools For Cultural Studies,
Macmillan, 1994
Wolport, L., The Unnatural Nature of Science,I Faber anf Faber,
1992
LSM100 An Introduction to Media, Literature
and Film
3 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: nil Assessment:
continuous
A stage 1 subject in the Bachelor of Social Science which
also may be taken in the Bachelor of Business and the
Bachelor of Applied Science.
Obiedives and Content
This subject introduces an analytical approach to media
texts. Though it will refer to print and radio forms, it will
primarily concern itself with film and/or television. Our
interest in studying these texts is not so much to establish
their worth. or otherwise. as to draw attention to the
mechanics of our work as readers, to the ways in which we
produce meanings from (or are confused by) the texts, to the
methods they use in order to produce meanings, and to the
values they embody in their representations.The texts for
study will be selected from fiction and documentary films,
television series, news and current affairs programs, music
videos, advertisements, variety and sports shows, and
children's programs. They will be examined within the
context of textual theory, with particular attention being
given to their visual aspects.
Recommended reading
Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art An Introduction, 4th
edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1993
Sobchack, T. and Sobchack, V.C., An Introduction to Film, 2nd
edn, Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1987
Fiske, J., Telm'sion Culture, London, Methuen, 1987
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