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| Title change | Number/Prefix change | Description change | |||
| Change credit hours | Undergraduate |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| A 223 | Web Essentials | 3 - |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| A 222 | Digital Images | 4 - |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) DIGITAL IMAGES |
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Current Course Description: Introduction to issues of idea development, audience, and message, multi-page voice, continuity, and rhythm. Use design development processes and aesthetic awareness in digital communication projects for web and interactive media. May include software instruction connected to the project goals. Prerequisite: A 115, A 130, A 119 |
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New Course Description: Emphasizes formal, aesthetic, and conceptual practices of image making using digital media. Includes experience with a range of processes and software functions. Provides essential foundations for coursework in upper-division design and digital art. Explores new media theory and its application to image construction and expression. Prerequisite: A 115, A 130, A 119 |
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Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course change proposal is part of a larger reorganization process to shift all studio art courses from 3 credits to 4 credits. This change will enable students to complete the program efficiently in a four-year degree plan. As a result, the reduced course load will allow students to invest more time per course and increase the potential for greater progress in each subject. This change will also ease the department¿s scheduling grid, and permit increased student access to studio equipment and workspace as students prepare artwork between class sessions. This change in credits will align our program with art programs in both the 4-year universities and 2-year community colleges in Oregon. Students transferring from quarter and/or semester academic programs will typically experience more accurate credit equivalencies with WOU art courses under this proposed system. Content from A 223 will be shifted to A 222 and A 323. A 222 will serve as a well-rounded foundations course in digital image creation for all students who wish to continue to upper-division courses in visual communication design. This change consolidates introductory coursework for upper division sequences in time-based media and interactive design, streamlining the student¿s course of study for fulfilling degree requirements. A 222 also absorbs some content from the discontinued A 117, covering applications of color theory in digital processes. |
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Students/Program affected: This change will affect any student enrolling in studio art courses offered by the Art Department. It will particularly affect any student seeking a BA, BS, or BFA degree or minor offered by the Art Department, with the exception of art history. |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Jodie Garrison | Approved | February 19 2012 |
| 2 - Division | Scott Grim | Approved | February 22 2012 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Jodie Garrison | Approved | March 06 2012 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Thaddeus Shannon | Approved | April 18 2012 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Gavin Keulks | Approved | May 08 2012 |
| 7 - Dean | Stephen Scheck | Approved | May 09 2012 |
| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Approved | May 10 2012 |
| A223_CC_Change.pdf | Download |
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