Accomodation
Students will be provided with a base room, but seminar rooms and a lecture theatre equipped with slide and video projection will also be used for teaching and learning. The course will be housed at Bournville Centre for Visual Arts which has recently been extended and refurbished. The campus is already home to the BA in Art and Design by Negotiated Study, the Foundation course in Art and Design and several City and Guilds courses. It has a canteen, supported by local shops. Bournville is a twelve minute train journey from the city centre and is served by the 11, 35a and 87 bus routes. (See maps)
Equipment
Seminar and Lecture rooms:
Carousel slide projectors and screen
Overhead projector
Television and video recording/play-back equipment
Facilities for binding written projects
Portable dictaphone recording units
1 sound recording equipment (with microphone) for interviewing
Electronic media:
The computing facility consists of a pentium PC IV network linked to a
range of input devices – Scanners, Video cameras, TV, Digital camera
and CD Rom drives. The finished work being output via Lazer printers,
Colour printers, Plotter, Video or Portable drives to a Bureau or facilities
at Gosta Green. Software: Microsoft Office, Filemaker, Adobe Pagemaker
6.5, QuarkXPress, Photoshop 6.0, Painter 4, Freehand, Premier 5, Macromedia
Director Studio, 3D Studio Max, Corel Draw, After Effect 5.5
This room also houses the Video Editing – Panasonic Suite VHS, Sony
Suite SVHS, Digital editing using Matrox RT 2500 digital editing suites.
Online Postgraduate Research:
The faculty has developed an extensive on-line data-base giving
detailed practical advice on research methodologies. Web address available
from Dr Darren Newbury or Jenny Hewings (Research Secretary) on enrolment.
Dr Newbury will give an introduction to the site.