2000
– hypertext
Hypertext Production
subject guide
school - School of Applied Communications
course area - Media Studies
subject code - HM344
subject title - Hypertext Production
year offered - 2000
semester offered - second semester
duration - one semester
mode - internal
credit points - 12
discipline code - HM344
contact hours - 1 x 1 hour lecture, and 1 x 2 hour laboratory per week (for 12 weeks)
non-contact hours - 9 hours per week (for 12 weeks)
prerequisites - NA
co-requisites - NA
post requisites - NA
materials - All students are required to have an email account.
An account on the department web server shall be provided.
staff - Adrian Miles, adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au
description - HM344 provides an introduction to HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the vernacular of the World Wide Web. The subject will give students a basic understanding of how to produce and manage content for the Web, with attention paid to the specific genres that Web authoring is inventing, and makes possible.
The subject complements the advanced production options that Media Studies students may undertake in their third year, and provides an avenue for students who have completed HM331 Hypertext Theory and Practice to explore a less theoretical approach.
learning objectives - Students will develop confidence and competencies in Web design and authoring. This will be facilitated by intensive lab based teaching combined with an introduction to the use of email for collaborative teaching and learning.
In successfully completing HM344 students will be able to write Web pages which include images, sounds, and moving image. A basic understanding of the limitations of Web design will complement these skills.
Students will not only have written basic Web pages but also have designed and constructed a collaborative Web based hypermedia project.
This will provide students with basic confidence and competencies in computer and communications technology, and some familiarity with the relations between communications theory and practice.
A significant component of the subject will require students to undertake self assessment exercises. While a production subject successful completion of the subject will equip students with skills that will be relevant across all disciplines, and will assist students in being able to work in a digital environment.
Such skills have clear relevance for graduates, and offer some forms of flexible learning for department students.
learning experiences - Students will publish a homepage on the department's Web site, and then design and construct a Web project. This project will consist of multiple pages and involve text and image, and may incorporate various advanced features of HTML authoring (forms, use of CGIs). This project will also be published on the Web.
Lectures will cover technical material and design issues, while the computer labs will provide technical instruction. As HM344 is a production subject laboratory attendance is assessable.
All learning will occur in class or lecture contexts and the pace of learning will be largely student driven.
A lecture and laboratory syllabus will be provided in the first lecture.
assessment - Assessment is to be divided between two streams. The first consists of a series of technical tasks that students must be able to do to complete the work required. Submitted work will consist of Web pages, combining text, image, sound, and moving image.
Technical tasks are to be self assessed, and shall provide 20% of the final mark. The second stream will be the major tasks of the subject - a homepage and Web project. The homepage is valued at 30% and the web project 50%. Students will not be able to complete the work to a satisfactory standard without attending laboratories.
grades - Fail (less than 50%), Pass (50 - 59%), Credit (60 - 69%), Distinction (70-79%) and High Distinction (80 - 100%).
required reading - A reading list shall be provided for students. This will include a list of relevant web sites.
reading - A reading list will be provided to all students. This will include technical and associated material. Students are also expected to undertake individual research. Participation in a subject email list is compulsory.
plagiarism - Students are reminded that cheating, whether by fabrication, falsification of data, or plagiarism, is an offence subject to University disciplinary procedures. Plagiarism in oral or written presentations is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person, without appropriate referencing, as though it is one's own. Plagiarism is not acceptable. The use of another person's work or ideas must be acknowledged. Failure to do so may result in charges of academic misconduct which carry a range of penalties including cancellation of results and exclusion from your course. Students are responsible for ensuring that their work is kept in a secure place. It is also a disciplinary offence for students to allow their work to be plagiarised by another student. Students should be aware of their rights and responsibilities regarding the use of copyright material.
late work - Material that is not handed in on time will automatically be penalised at the rate of 1% per day.
extensions - Extensions can only be given prior to an assessment task's hand in date. Extensions are only given on merit.