Syllabus Design for Multimedia Art and Engineering Education -- Problem Oriented Approach

The worldwide expansion of creative industry entails high demand for specialists qualified in the field of multimedia art and engineering. In response to this need, we have developed a syllabus of The International Master Degree for Multimedia (IMDM). We have found that the problem oriented approach for syllabus definition appears to be an efficient tool to ensure the expected by the industry requirements for multimedia art and engineering curriculum. The idea of multidisciplinary team training run by the three institutions, namely, the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (FCUM) and Academy of Fine Arts (AFA) is to ensure cross field education at the technologically and artistically competitive level and to form up the teams ready to function at the commercial market. The software tools used by designing the syllabus (Word - mRST - LaTex - PDF) made the transition from the project descriptions (in Word) to the final syllabus document (in PDF), semiautomatic. Based on the themes extracted form the projects by a Python application the electronic textbooks have been written for TiddlyWiki5 web platform. The multidisciplinary approach covering technology, artistic and management aspects has been applied.