MIT 280 - Digital Portfolio

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Design a web-based digital portfolio to be used as an interactive resume, an archive of work, and a demonstration of aptitude, skill and proficiency. The digital portfolio will serve as a marketing tool that showcases ability and preparation for a career in graphic design, photography, web design, and/or video game design.

Prerequisite: This is the capstone course within the MIT program. For students pursuing a certificate or degree in MIT, it is highly recommended that this course be taken during the student’s final quarter.
Strongly Recommended: Computer literacy and file management skills as well as experience with Web-based multimedia applications and tools is essential.
General Education Requirements:

Fulfills Integrate General Education Requirement
Fulfills Think General Education Requirement

Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Identify the need for a digital portfolio.
Identify the target audience of a digital portfolio.
Demonstrate the ability to organize, collect and prepare material for a digital portfolio.
Demonstrate the ability to design a user interface for a digital portfolio.
Demonstrate the use of media and web authoring tools to design and develop a professional digital portfolio.
Demonstrate the ability to design an aesthetically appealing and accessible digital portfolio.
PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL: Design and produce a professional web-based digital media portfolio.
PROGRAM OUTCOME: Design and produce a professional web-based digital media portfolio featuring an archive of work that demonstrates student knowledge, proficiency, skill and talent.
PROGRAM OUTCOME: Revise and improve work through self-analysis, peer critique and instructor evaluation based on standard design guidelines.
PROGRAM OUTCOME: Use contemporary and industry-standard design tools, applications, technologies, processes and techniques to edit and create digital media products and solutions.

Course Contents

Need for a digital portfolio.
Target audience of a digital portfolio.
Organize, collect, and prepare materials.
Design a user interface for a digital portfolio.
Use of multimedia and Web application to develop a digital portfolio.

Instructional Units: 5