2003-2005 - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

maintain a dynamic data-driven Web site.
Each student will develop a complete Web
site using a simple text editor to create and
manipulate relational data, learn a middleware
markup language to store and retrieve
data and control the rules of interaction,
and write HTML to format data and control
display. Prerequisite: PBDS 660 or a
passing score on the Hypermedia Proficiency
Exam. Lab fee required.
lOlA 619 Multimedia for the Internet
(3) A practical and theoretical introduction
to genres, strategies, and techniques for
producing multimedia content for the
Internet. Students examine existing multimedia
content while developing creative
skills in one or more standard authoring
systems. Background readings provide theoretical
context for development of individual
projects. Prerequisite: PBDS 660 or a
passing score on the Hypermedia Proficiency
Exam. Lab fee required.
lOlA 620 Information Culture (3)*
Surveys important developments, implications,
and problems in the development of
modern information technologies, emphasizing
their relevance to the Internet and
other current contexts. Students are
expected to become conversant with the
technical and intellectual roots of technological
development and at the same time
to understand important social issues in
which that development is implicated.
Beginning with the transition from orality
to literacy and moving through the emergence
of print, the course situates innovation
in larger narratives of cultural change
and historical process, continuing into the'
post-Cold-War expansion. Instructors will
focus on various relevant themes that may
include electronic democracy, the digital
divide, globalization and post-nationalism,
identity and security issues, and the social
implications of "mass" versus "hyper"
media. Prerequisite: PBDS 660 or a passing
score on the Hypermedia Proficiency Exam.
Lab fee required.
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lOlA 624 Virtual Worlds: Simulation
and Invention (3) Explores dynamic 2.5
dimensional representations as virtual
worlds or surfaces for exploration and
adventure. The course teaches students
practical, hands-on skills with a range of
applications for creating virtual worlds
while at the same time it explores these
spaces conceptually and culturally. Prerequisite:
PBDS 660 or a passing score on the
Hypermedia Proficiency Exam. Lab fee
required.
lOlA 630 Information Architecture (3)
Teaches students to gather requirements
data, model information structures, develop
a variety of documents to communicate
the information architecture to other participants,
including technical expertS,
usability experts, clients, and users. Students
learn to determine a target audience,
develop personas or user profiles, refine and
validate requirements, create site maps and
other "specs" and wire frames. Prerequisite:
PBDS 660 or a passing score on the
Hypermedia Proficiency Exam. Lab fee
required.
lOlA 640 Humans, Computers, and
Cognition (3)* Introduces students to
concepts, theories, and methods that su pport
the study of human-computer interaction
and user-centered system design.
Major approaches to machine-mediated
learning and understanding are surveyed,
with an emphasis on problem solving,
knowledge representation, structure of
knowledge systems, and problems of interface
design. This course prepares students
to understand and analyze research based
on empirical study of human behavior and
on models oflearning and understanding.
Prerequisite: PBDS 660 or a passing score on
the Hypermedia Proficiency Exam. Lab fee
required.