Culture and Technology of Visualization

Course unit code

Specialization  – 47.04.01 Philosophy, 09.04.03 Applied Informatics

Course unit title

Culture and technology of visualization

Name(s), surname(s) and title of lecturer(s)

Vsevolod A. Serbin

Level of course

Master

Semester

1

ECTS credits

2

Working hours

Contact hours

24

lectures

8

seminars

practical classes

16

laboratory classes

consultations

Self-study

48

Total

72

Work placement

Practical classes

Language of instruction

English

Objectives of the course

 Learning outcomes

 A student’s assessments methods

Main goals of learning by program “Culture and technology of visualization” are  development of professional competence in interdisciplinary methodology of studying cultural and technological features of visual communications.

As a result of mastering the discipline student should:

• know about major socio-cultural, methodological and technological features of visual culture;
• know how to apply interdisciplinary approaches for studying visual culture objects and concepts, related to visual culture;
• acquire skills of presentation of theoretical and practical results of visual culture research;
• know how to apply technologies of data visualization according to the specific type of professional tasks and objectives.

Project presentation and test, completing of practical tasks

Teaching methods

Lectures, group work, delivery of individual presentations, independent study of literature, case studies.

Course unit content

Gained knowledge and skills

List of Topics

Topic title

Contact (hours)

Assignments and independent study (hours)

Section 1. Theoretical and methodological aspects of visual culture.

Introduction. Semiotic approach to visual culture.

2

6

Psychoanalysis as a method of studies of visual.

2

6

Media theory. Views of F. Kittler on visual culture and visual media.

2

4

Section 2. Montage and video-editing practice.

Main principles of montage

2

6

Montage as narration.

2

4

Technologies of encoding video data

2

4

Video editing in Adobe Premiere.

4

6

Section 3. Online data visualization services

Google My Maps and geodata

2

2

Augment and LayAR services

2

2

Project presentation

2

8

Assessment requirements

Student’s skills in this subject will be evaluated by means of project presentation and results of completing practical tasks

Assessment criteria

The assessment of the presented works is carried out by the following criteria:

– compliance of the contents to a subject;

– existence of logical communication of stated information;

– compliance of registration to requirements;

– accuracy and literacy of a statement;

– work is handed over in time.

The composition of final accumulative mark

Final accumulative mark consists of:  completing of practical tasks – 50%, final presentation – 30%, lecture discussion – 20%

Author of the course

Vsevolod A. Serbin