The AIM OF THE COURSE is to equip you with a good basic knowledge of today's computing, with an introduction to hypertext, hypermedia and the Internet, as well as to different kinds of machines, and to common procedures such as text-processing, graphics and database. Each laboratory re-inforces what has been learned in the lectures, and there is a considerable amount of hands-on learning and experimentation in graphics and audio, desk-top publishing, and networking applications. All LECTURES will be one hour in length, and all LABORATORY SESSIONS two hours in length. The lectures will be held on Tuesdays from 2.00pm to 3.00pm in Manning Clark theatrette 5. Laboratories will be held some weeks in Copland G25 Macintosh Laboratory, and some weeks in the Art History Laboratory (AD Hope 123) which is equipped with a variety of imaging equipment, supporting Macintoshes and X-terminals.
Because of the startling growth in importance of the Internet, full information is constantly available to you on the Internet itself, accessible via the Art History Home Page (ArtSurf) at http://www/ArtHistory/ including essay and project topics, a lecture & tutorial schedule, tips on writinga essays, and various links to interesting Web sites around the world. If you are so inclined, you will be able to design some of your own Web pages during the second half of the unit.