Informationsdesign (biämne)
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About the minor
Description of the minor
Information Design Minor introduces students with wide variety of information design genres through theoretical and practical hands‐on learning. Students will develop critical point of view of data and design with an understanding of contextual information design. Students will learn to build information design and interactive data visualisation using variety of tools.
This minor is designed for students from other disciplines than Visual Communication Design (VCD) MA and BA as this minor is made up of existing courses offered as part of MA in VCD Major. Hence, VCD MA and BA students take these courses to strengthen their focus area on Information Design within Visual Communication Desing major studies.
Intended learning outcomes
- to build knowledge combining theory and practice of information design and data visualization
- to design visualization for journalism, information graphics and scientific discoveries
- to design information for legal, ethical and location‐based context
- to learn hands‐on tools and methods for information design and interactive data visualization
Content
This minor is made up of existing courses of Visual Communication Design Major and some of the New Media courses are suggestive courses for your learning in the field of Information design.
| Code | Course name | ECTS credits | Teaching |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXM-E2004 | Introduction to Information Design | 3 | I / EN |
| AXM-E2006 | Design and Data | 6 | III / EN |
| AXM-E0301 | Art & Media Studio | 9 | IV-V / EN |
Optional Suggestive courses and not part of Minor studies:
1) Creative computation for Visual Communication (6 cr), period 2
2) Internet Technologies and Web Development (6 cr), period 3