Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:16:06 -0500 To: kriz@wave.esm.vt.edu From: msanders@vt.edu (Mark Sanders) Subject: Undergraduate Minor in Computer Graphics Cc: fox@fox.cs.vt.edu (Edward A. Fox), Mmoore@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU, tom.head@vt.edu Ron: You've made an excellent start on the "Recommendations on Computing Across the Curriculum: Undergraduate Minor in Computer Graphics" report that you circulated at today's UCCRC meeting. I'm not sure where the university might be headed with such an "undergraduate minor," but it's good to see some thinking along these lines. In response to your request for feedback, I offer the following: The list of "Undergraduate Courses in Computer Graphics" that you generated listed only two of the three undergraduate courses that I teach. A third is also appropriate for the list: EDVT 4444: Communication Technology (It is approved for graduate credit as well, if that is relevant information). I have attached a handout that provides a very brief description of the content taught in each of these three classes as well as of the "Communication Technology Lab" in which they are taught. Our Technology Education program also teaches two undergraduate CAD classes that aren't on your list: EDVT 1405 (Focuses primarily on CADKey) EDVT 1406 (Focuses primarily on AutoCAD) In addition to these undergraduate classes, I teach several graduate classes that fall into this categrory. They are usually taught under the EDVT 5774: Problems in Education course number (e.g. EDVT 5774: Probs in Ed-Multimedia Development and EDVT 5774: Probs in Ed-Communication Systems and Technologies, EDCI 5774: Prob. in Ed: Electronic Publishing). For more than a decade, many Art and Communication Studies majors have taken my classes (EDVT 3475, EDVT 3476, and EDVT 4444) along with their classes to create a "computer graphics minor," though it has never been formally recognized anywhere in the university as such. Finally, I suggest you contact Mike Moore for a list of graduate "multimedia" courses taught by the Instructional Technology faculty in the College of Education. They teach at least a half dozen courses that I believe are appropriate for the list you have included in your report. Please let me know if you have questions regarding any of this. Thanks. --mark Mark Sanders Technology Education 144 Smyth Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0432 (540) 231-8173 (phone) (540) 231-4188 (fax) msanders@vt.edu