Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Communication Systems: Digital and Physical processes

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
ARCH1433	City Campus	Undergraduate	320H Architecture & Urban Design	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2015, Sem 1 2016, Sem 1 2017, Sem 1 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 1 2025

Course Coordinator: Leslie Eastman

Course Coordinator Phone: Contact via email

Course Coordinator Email: leslie.eastman@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 100.08.02

Course Coordinator Availability: Contact via email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

You should have satisfactorily completed the prerequisite course Material and Spatial Communication ARCH1432 before you commence this course.

You may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course. Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning. For further information go to Recognition of prior learning (RPL) in Higher Education.

Course Description

This course will enable you to extend your skills and capabilities through various communication strategies and techniques relevant to contemporary interior design practice.

You will explore, experiment and incorporate a variety of digital, material and physical processes. Each semester you are presented with a suite of different offerings and, through a preferencing system, ballot for your preferred choice.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:

• Conceptualize and engage in research through design as part of the creative process to open the potential for new understandings, experimentation and innovation.
• Communicate your ideas and designs verbally, visually and textually through a range of media to your peers as well as professional, academic and public audiences.
• Use technology as an intrinsic part of the design process and have the ability to identify relevant techniques, skills, materials and technologies for specific designs.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Communicate complex ideas and concepts using drawing, image making, 3 dimensional models and verbal presentation.
2. Assemble a range of approaches to effectively communicate the design, production and conceptualisation of interiors.
3. Propose and appraise a range of communication techniques and strategies for creative design processes.

Overview of Learning Activities

You will participate in a range of learning activities. In-class activities will include lectures, presentations, group and individual tutorials, group discussions, peer-to-peer critiques, student presentations and studio workshops. Other activities may include excursions to exhibitions and site visits.

The range of learning activities will contribute to the building of a diversity of approaches to design practice in a number of different scenarios.

Overview of Learning Resources

You will identify the learning resources specific to your own interests in conjunction with your tutors. These may include readings, critical study of precedents, and further refinement of the communication, workshop, and other skills that you have acquired in the previous levels of the course. RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.

It is advisable that you have a personal computer of an appropriate specification.

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

Detailed references and ongoing updated information will be made available to students in the myRMIT Canvas site

References

Detailed references and ongoing updated information will be made available to students in the myRMIT Canvas site

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and your development against the program’s capabilities. 

Assessment Tasks: 

Assessment 1 - Explorations - 30% 
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: CLO2, CLO3 

Assessment 2 - Design Proposition - 50% 
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: CLO1, CLO2, CLO3 

Assessment 3 - Portfolio - 20% 
Linked Course Learning Outcomes: CLO1, CLO2, CLO3 

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.  

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability, it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equity Learning Services if you would like to find out more.  

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.