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Nature of course request C02021 :

Description change

Change credit hours

Undergraduate

From:
Course Prefix & Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
A322	Graphic Design: Contemporary Issues	3 - 0
To:
Course Prefix & Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
A322	Graphic Design: Contemporary Issues	4 - 0

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Gr Des Cont Issues

Current Course Description: Exploration of issues related to typography, image and audience. Continue work with print production processes and electronic media for communication. Prerequisite: A 321

New Course Description: Exploration of professional design issues, including creating visual and verbal systems for a project with multiple presentation outcomes, executing projects professionally as a team, designing appropriately for audience and client, awareness and presentation of your role in the design process and your contribution to the design solution. Prerequisite: A 321

Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course has been completely redesigned and developed as a 4-credit course. The new direction and theme is collaborative problem solving. All advanced graphic design projects will be executed in teams. Instruction and exercises leading to projects now include, in addition to pre-existing graphic design material, understanding the function of groups in professional practice. This entails some business, psychology, self-assessment, acuity, accountability, negotiation, etc. The increase to 4 credits reflects additional time outside the classroom required of students working on collaborative projects as well as increased instruction and preparation required of the instructor to address collaborative learning methods in addition to design material. 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.

Students/Program affected: BA/BS and BFA major and minor studio art program courses offered in the Art Department.

Approval Queue C02021

Attached Files:

A322_4cr_form_&_syllabus.pdf

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