COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name Code Semester T+A+L (hour/week) Type (C / O) Local Credit ECTS
Animation Project VCD 436 Spring 02+04+00 Elective 4 7
Academic Unit: Faculty of Communication
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Prerequisites: None
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Course Unit: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: - -
Course Objectives: The students are expected to:
• Develop and present a design-based practical project of animation design
• Implement research skills for academic or market/industry research
• Enhance and apply skills gained in project management
• Apply skills gained in text and multimedia production
• Participate in teamwork
• Prepare a research report or a multi-media project portfolio
• Advance presentation skills
• Apply skills and knowledge gained in their studies to real-world cases in collaboration with mentors from industry/academia
Course Contents: In this course, students will explore the design aspects of building fluent animation designs. Course aims to provide students, with knowledge and skills of the stages of designing and implementing an animation design project for designers in collaboration with their supervisors or mentors from relevant advertisement or campaigning sector or event management industry.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO):
  • 1- Develop an independent collaborative project,
  • 2- Produce a deliverable for graduation portfolios,
  • 3- Manage projects,
  • 4- Work in teams,
  • 5- Develop skills for professional presentation of projects in English
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: The course consists of a combination of readings, seminar, case study analysis, strategy building and production workshops. Readings and seminars: The supervisor/mentor for each project will deliver seminars and provide students relevant reading material for developing a research project idea. The student and the supervisor/mentor will discuss ideas and the readings assigned for each week during seminars. The students are expected to come to class having read the texts. Case Studies: The student and the mentor will consider certain case studies when developing the research strategy or the strategy for multi-media production, social media or market research strategy. Workshops: Students are encouraged to participate in workshops that will be conducted in collaboration with industry experts who will act as mentors for analyzing co-creating real-world case studies of animation design.


WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS

WeekSubjectsRelated Preperation
1 Introduction to the course
2 (Phase I: Preparation) Workshop – Project management Workshop readings
3 (Phase I: Preparation) Meeting with supervisors Development of a project idea
4 (Phase I: Preparation) Conceptualizing Research: Meaningful and Creative Idea. Development of a project idea
5 (Phase I: Preparation) Project idea preparation Class discussions/ presentations.
6 (Phase II: Design) Project preparation Class discussions/ presentations.
7 (Phase II: Design) Project preparation Class discussions/ presentations.
8 (Phase III: Pilot Practice) Project design
9 (Phase III: Pilot Practice) Approval of project designs
10 (Phase IV: Implementation) Project implementation
11 (Phase IV: Implementation) Project implementation Class discussions/ presentations.
12 (Phase IV: Implementation) Project implementation Class discussions/ presentations.
13 Final Project Research Presentations Class discussions/ presentations.
14 Presentations


REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING

All the required/recommended readings will be provided in the form of digital/reserve course reader (available at KHASLearn and/or KHAS Information Center.)


OTHER COURSE RESOURCES



ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Semester RequirementsNumberPercentage of Grade (%)
Attendance / Participation 14 10
Practice / Exercise 6 10
Project 4 50
Presentation / Jury 4 25
Other Practices (seminar, studio critics, workshop etc.) 1 5
Total: 29 100


WORKLOAD

EventsCountDuration (Hours)Total Workload (hour)
Course Hours14342
Practice / Exercise6212
Project41872
Preparation for Presentation / Jury41040
Other Practices (seminar,studio critics,workshop, etc.)199
Total Workload (hour):175


THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)

# PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12
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