This blog is documenting the development of a new, relatively large, honours program within the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University (that’d be in Melbourne, Australia).
The documentation is not the formal stuff that needs to be completed for the various approval processes and requirements for a new program within the university, but is for the reflective documenting, and thinking out, of the ideas, problems, and possibilities that are informing the design of the program. These include approaches to pedagogy, honours research, media, communication and design practice and theory relevant to these domains this century. As my colleague Jeremy Yuille noted, and which I’m taking the liberty to embellish. If the Twentieth Century opened as a century of engineering and science and these were the world defining disciplines undergoing enormous change, then this century has opened with media and design as world defining, and as the place of the most significant change in forms and practices in relation to other domains. Given this, what should honours do, and be?
At various times the Honours Working Group has consisted of:
- Adrian Miles (chief motivator and stirrer)
- Barry Hill
- Jeremy Parker
- Jeremy Yuille
- Fiona Peterson
- Yoko Akama
- Cathy Greenfield
- Rachel Wilson
- Russell Kerr
- Phred Peterson
- Francesca Rendle-Short
- Karen Trist
- Adrian Dyer
Disclaimer
This is a reflective document. The views expressed here are not (very not) those of RMIT University, or the School of Media and Communication. They are of some academics thinking out loud, and in public, about some questions. Because that is one of the important roles of the university.