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| Description change | Prerequisite change | Change credit hours | |||
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| A320 | Graphic Design: Process & Theory | 3 - 0 |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| A320 | Graphic Design: Process & Theory | 4 - 0 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Graph Design Process |
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Current Course Description: Exploration of visual communication methods and approaches to help students bring together message, meaning, and form. Apply concepts and employ design processes studied in A221 to visual/verbal communications. Prerequisites: A 116, A117, A 131, A 135, A 221, A 260 |
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New Course Description: Exploration of visual communication methods and approaches to help students bring together message, meaning, and form. Employ type and layout principles, image-making concepts, and design processes in visual/verbal communications with mul- tiple media outcomes. Prerequisites: A116, A 119, A220, A 222, A260 |
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Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): Added content in this course reflects at least one project with increased expectations of 3-dimensional form and materiality, applying concepts learned in A116 Beginning Design 3-D in a communications context. Demonstration of more advanced skill level and professional craft will be expected. In addition, instruction on and expectations for photographically document- ing one¿s 3-D work for archive and portfolio purposes will be increased, leading to higher expectations for professional level images. Instruction on typographic structures will be expanded greatly for at least one existing project, accounting for the removal of A221 Typographic Structures; therefore, layout solutions will be held to a higher standard with regard to organiza- tion and unity. Changes to course prerequisites reflect the cancellation/consolidation of some foundations courses, changes in requirements due to the program-wide shift from 3 to 4 credits, and the addition of new course A222. 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 work- space 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. |
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Students/Program affected: BA/BS and BFA major and minor studio art program courses offered in the Art Department |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Jodie Garrison | Approved | February 23 2012 |
| 2 - Division | Scott Grim | Approved | February 27 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 |
| A320_4cr_form_&_syllabus.pdf | Download |
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