Prerequisite: ARTM3120 or ARTM3350
Following a personal tutorial and evaluation of strengths and weaknesses with a Media Arts professor, students then select an area of further study from their concentration. Students prepare a self-initiated design assignment and enter into a “learning contract” with the professor. All design/communication objectives will be stated and the constraints outlined before work begins. The goal will be to produce at least three pieces of work during the semester. International competition projects as well as “real world” assignments may form part of this class if appropriate. This course will be taught in the computer design lab. 3 credits
Objectives
- Through research and proposal development, students will gain experience taking a leadership role in identifying, planning, executing, distributing and documenting a major self-directed Media Arts Project.
- Through guided study and peer-to-peer critiques students will begin to connect their academic capstone coursework to the longer arc of career development by goal-setting that includes discipline-specific community building and a plan for post-baccalaureate professional development. Students will emerge from the class with a better understanding of the role of trade shows, conferences, and professional organizations in their career development.
- Students will gain experience “telling the story” of their project development and planning skills and will have a signature creative project to backup their claims.
Student Outcomes
- Students will propose, plan, research, fully develop, publicly present, document and assess a senior media arts project for a specific audience and purpose.
- Students will prepare several types of short-form writing relevant to their profession, which may include biographical and artistic statements, project proposals, design briefs, documentary descriptions and/or abstracts.
- Students will receive professional level group critiques and one-on-one peer review in order to gain experience giving and receiving constructive feedback.
- Students will gain experience preparing artwork and instructions for fabricators.
- Students will gain experience with simple paper binding techniques.
- Students will gain experience cultivating professional relationships with the local, national, and international design communities.
Grading
- Project Ideas – 1pt per idea upto 20pts
- Project Proposals
- first – 5pts
- second – 10pts
- third – 15pts
- Project Presentations
- Present Ideas – 5pts
- Pecha Kucha – 10pts
- Process – 1pt for each week progress is shown, upto 15pts
- Meeting benchmark deadlines – 1pt per deadline
- Final Project – 20pts
- Participation and Critique – 15pts
Points needed 100, points possible 115