What are the MIMM courses aiming for?
The Institute for Interactive Media and Learning assists UTS, its faculties, academic units and staff in achieving their academic aims in learning and teaching, including the appropriate use of new information technologies. Through its activities and services, IML promotes UTS as a centre of best practice and innovation, and contributes to scholarship in interactive media, learning and teaching.
The core subjects of the MIMM program are designed in such a way as to align learning objectives with teaching/learning activities and criterion-referenced assessment tasks, which encourage students to achieve these objectives.
The MIMM program is designed to provide opportunities for students to develop the following attributes, at a level appropriate to their degree level, by the time they graduate:
- Ability to critically and theoretically analyse digital media processes and products.
- Capability in applying research and reflection in the process of innovation.
- Ability to develop effective communication using a variety of communicative forms and literacies.
- Competencies in working collaboratively and creatively in project management and problem solving.
- Effective membership within professional environments, through the application of group and management processes:
- Time management
- Values the knowledge and experiences of self and others as potential sources of knowledge.
- Development of an ongoing critical awareness of learning needs and the application of appropriate technologies.
So that successful graduates can be:
- Socially responsible professionals who apply ethical, legal and political considerations to technological issues.
- Reflective and proactive learners in relation to knowledge, skills, experience and career direction.
