MMS 171

COURSE CODE: MMS 171

COURSE TITLE: Text in Multimedia

UNITS: 3 units

PREREQUISITES: MMS 170

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Principles and techniques in incorporating text for multimedia

COURSE GOALS:

At the end of the course the student should

• incorporate digital text in multimedia knowledge products.
• understand basic multimedia language
• apply multimedia text applications

COURSE OUTLINE:

• Unit 1: Introduction
  • Module 1: What is text in multimedia?
  • Module 2: Content, structure, meaning, and style
• Unit 2: Structure
  • Module 3: HTML
  • Module 4: XHTML and HTML5
  • Module 5: Metalanguages, SGML, & XML
• Unit 3: Style
  • Module 6: CSS
  • Module 7: Digital typography
• Unit 4: Putting it all together
  • Module 8: A rough conclusion