Modern information technology offers the possibility of information products being designed and created comprising various types of media over and above the traditional text medium. Information technology therefore results in the convergence of various previously separate traditional media. There is not a single discipline that handles the combination of information products.
Type: Undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer Literacy
- Information Literacy
- Academic Literacy
- Multimedia: Mark-up languages
- Multimedia: Multimedia for the web
- Information Science: Introduction to Information Science
- Information Science: Organisation and representation of information
- Information Science: Information and communication technology
- Program Design: Introduction
- Introduction to Computer Science
- Netcentric Computer Systems
- Visual Design
Second year subjects:
- Community-based Project
- Multimedia: Advanced mark-up languages
- Multimedia: Multimedia and hypermedia theory
- Publishing: Copy-editing
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Design Patterns
- Operating Systems
- Concurrent Systems
- Visual design
Third year subjects:
- Multimedia: Project
- Multimedia: Human-computer interaction
- Multimedia: Trends
- Software Engineering
Careers: Information technologist, multimedia specialist.
Source: www.up.ac.za