Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The module will introduce the students to key elements of Information Architecture, including categorization and concepts, experiential, rhetorical and persuasive design principles. During the course module, the students will engage in lectures and discussions on information architecture, knowledge organisation, rhetoric, persuasive and experience design. 

Learning objectives

Knowledge

In the module the students will acquire knowledge of:

• Information Architecture

• Rhetoric

• Persuasive design

• Experience design

• Knowledge organisation

• Categorization and concepts

• Knowledge of how information architectures participate in an interplay with usability, experiences and learning.

Skills

In the module the students will acquire skills in:

• observing, analysing and interpreting information architectures irrespective of medial and organisational boundaries,

• evaluating the use of rhetoric in ICT systems

• detecting the needs for concept formation and categorisation as part of the information architecture design process

• analysing the conceptual control and consistency in information architectures, their communicative effects and potential for further development

Competences

In the module the students will acquire competences in: 

• taking an analytical, reflective and critical approach to the use of information architecture, rhetoric, persuasive and experience design

• engaging in an interdisciplinary collaboration on information architectures, rhetoric, persuasive and experience design in a specific context

• identifying own learning needs and structuring own learning in relation to the use of information architecture, rhetoric, persuasive and experience design in a specific context.

Exam

Exams