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