Had potential to be interesting and worthwhile, end product left much to be desired, instead. We were given two assessments, one with 40% weighting and ran from weeks 2 to 5, and the other with a heavy 60% weighting that had us re-render an existing data visualisation to improve on its perceived limitations during our initial analysis, and then a 500-word reflection for our chosen mode of re-rendering. OK workload, if a little unbalanced, and scarcely discussed during our tutorials. Teaching staff came off as haughty, dismissive, and passive-aggressive. I sent them multiple emails throughout the term and less than a handful earned responses, half of which were a variation of "it was unnecessary for you to send this email, and i'm not sure why you thought you could send me this when i've made it clear in the FAQ section on moodle that idgaf and i have a life and career to attend to" and "yes actually i did receive your previous email or two, or three, or four, and i confess myself unsure as to why you did not think i did, when i clearly did not respond to a single one of them, which should've been a hint, obviously". Feedback was meagre and you had to practically beg for scraps. We had to set aside time during or after or before class, competing with the other students also begging for a little more than two to three short sentences about the general, very vague quality of your work. Preparation for the work experience, I'm sure. I can't imagine it might be anything to do with laziness, oh no, not at all. MDIA1092 under Zoe Horn's tutelage is a ghost of its previous splendor under Dr Andrew Brooks' management and direction. It is little more than a review of what Dr Brooks had crafted, with its course, lecture, and class materials showing few deviations from his materials, and Horn consistently reading off of our set reading articles during the snoozefest of a lecture itself -- whenever she wasn't reading off of the lecture slides she got from Brooks, that is. If you asked her for advise after lectures, she will wave you off and bestow upon you the barest minimum knowledge and expertise, and instead, direct you to moodle, whereby with enough perseverance, you may find all you need to know, because you're an idiot and she doesn't handle idiots, let alone idiots whose emails she cannot be bothered to respond to, even if they comprise certain critical things like mental or physical health. Overall, I badly wanted to like this course, because six of my friends -- two of which took this last AY when Dr Brooks was still convenor -- had suggested it. Alas, is it mere coincidence that everyone I know since he last taught the course hands-on has hated it?

Pretty good course overall - if you have a good tutor then it's really helpful. Weekly posts/responses and big final assignment - you don't get any results for these until the end of the term which makes it hard to track how you're going in the course.