Course Coordinator:Graham Beaumont (gbeaumont@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus, unless your program has specified a mandatory onsite requirement. |
Please go to unisc.edu.au for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
In this course, you will develop new skills in visualisation and sonification. You will learn about the latest tools and technologies and will create original artefacts from immersive visualisation to surround sound and augmented reality. Your visualisation skills will be applied across screen media, live performance, game design or virtual reality in a collaborative project.
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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| Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Scheduled face to face workshops | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
| Seminar – Scheduled face to face seminar | 2hrs | Week 5 | 2 times |
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| Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Asynchronous online workshops | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
| Seminar – Scheduled online seminar (Recorded) | 2hrs | Week 5 | 2 times |
Data visualisation
Data sonification
Animation techniques
Immersive visualisation
Augmented reality
Virtual reality
Sound design
Spatial Sound
Workflow
Postproduction
200 Level (Developing)
12 units
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
| 1 | Critically evaluate and use problem-solving strategies and creativity to address a design challenge | Creative and critical thinker |
| 2 | Interpret and reflect on design ethics and inclusive design practices to produce socially engaged, relevant and impactful design outcomes |
Empowered Ethical |
| 3 | Apply a range of techniques to create compelling animated visualisations and sonifications |
Creative and critical thinker Empowered |
| 4 | Research visualisation and sonification strategies and apply them to create audiovisualisations |
Knowledgeable Engaged |
| 5 | Communicate your ideas, thoughts and development processes in an e-portfolio using visual and non-visual artefacts. |
Knowledgeable Empowered |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
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Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
By the week 4 workshop students will have made substantial progress on a technical task, and received constructive feedback via regular individual consultation during workshops.
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Artefact - Creative | Individual | 20% | 15 second audiovisual piece |
Week 4 | Online Submission |
| All | 2 | Artefact - Creative, and Written Piece | Individual | 40% | 1-2 minutes, short reflection, supporting documentation. |
Week 8 | Online Submission |
| All | 3 | Portfolio | Individual | 40% | 4 creative artefacts and video documentation. |
Exam Period | Online Submission |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Fundamentals of Time-based Media | ||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | To demonstrate your knowledge of the fundamental principles of audiovisual works that change through time |
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| Product: | Artefact - Creative | |||||||||||||||
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| Format: | A short rendered audiovisual work. Please see Task 1 in Canvas for the full details. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Applying technologies |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Visualisation/Sonification Project | |||||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | To create an original visualisation/sonification project. |
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| Format: | Rendered video and audio suitable for large screens, spatial sound systems, immersive environments (Cave2) or VR/AR. The format of your visualisation/sonification project will be negotiated with your tutor during the workshops. Please see Task 2 in Canvas for full details |
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| Generic Skills: | Problem solving, Organisation, Applying technologies |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Visualisation/Sonification Portfolio | |||||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | You will investigate visualisation and sonification strategies to create a visualisation/sonification portfolio. |
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| Format: | Digital portfolio of audiovisual materials, and video process journal that demonstrates investigation of visualisation and sonification strategies in the development of the portfolio. Please see Task 3 in Canvas for full details. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation, Applying technologies, Information literacy |
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A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
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Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.
The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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