About the Course

In this course students will be introduced to multimedia principles and technologies. Topics will include effectively representing, processing, and retrieving multimedia data such as text, graphics, sound, music, images, and video. Students will use the Internet, design and edit an Internet home page, and create a multimedia presentation. Various multimedia tools and techniques will be explored.

Prerequisite: COM 141 or equivalent.
3 hours a week, 1 semester, 3 credits.

Core Outcome:

In addition to developing basic technological skills (e.g., using email, word processing and presentation tools, researching, etc.), students will be able to demonstrate critical and technological thinking to locate, organize, create, evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and ethically utilize information from a multiplicity of sources and media.

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to enable students to:

• Understand & manipulate the basic elements of multimedia (text, graphics, images, video, & sound).
• Comprehend how the hardware translates commands and responses into computer activity.
• Improve their organizational skills, through the use of storyboards, logic flowcharts, and scripts.
• Become familiar with basic animation techniques and software.
• Develop interactive materials for use on the Internet.
• Use authoring software to organize, design, and implement a multimedia project.

AI Policy:

The use of generative AI tools (ex: ChatGPT, Bing Creative Mode, Adobe Firefly) is permitted in this course ONLY for the following activities:

• Creating website imagery for your Semester Project
• Creating website copy for your Semester Project
•  Where the use of generative AI is required to complete a given assignment

The use of generative AI tools is NOT permitted in this course for the following activities:

• Writing HTML/CSS code for any homework/exercise assignments
• Writing HTML/CSS code for your Semester Project
• Writing the Project Proposal for your Semester Project
• Creating the Mockup designs for your Semester Project

Beware the limits of generative AI technology.  You, the student, are responsible for all the information you submit in this course.  All AI material should be checked for accuracy.  AI is a tool, but one that you need to acknowledge using.  Please include a paragraph at the end of any assignment that uses AI explaining what you used it for and what prompts you used to get the results   Failure to do so is in violation of university policy on academic dishonesty.