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| Description change | Change credit hours | Undergraduate |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| A420 | Print Design: Systems & Techniques | 3 - 0 |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| A420 | Print Design: Systems & Techniques | 4 - 0 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Print Des Sys Tech |
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Current Course Description: Work with professional design issues, such as: creating visual and verbal systems for a project with multiple presentation outcomes, executing projects professionally, preparing projects to go to press, designing appropriately for audience and client, and the designer¿s role in these relationships. Prerequisite: A 322 |
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New Course Description: Work with professional design issues, such as: creating visual and verbal systems for a project with multiple presentation outcomes, executing projects professionally, preparing projects to go to press, designing appropriately for audience and client, and the designer¿s role in these relationships. Prerequisite: A 322 |
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Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): The value/content added in this course reflects dramatic changes in industry and increased effort to prepare students for careers. Newly added core objectives include: ¿Investigate current issues and changes within the design industry, including technology, sustainability, copyright laws, the role of the designer in society, etc.¿ and ¿Develop an understanding of professional practice, including forms/contracts, self-promotion, and ethics.¿ Added coursework to address these objectives includes a group research and oral presentation assignment and increased writing in the form of a professional design proposal to accompany the identity campaign. Added rigor and value also includes the addition of a 3-D/packaging requirement to the pre-existing self-promotional design, which has been realized as a deficiency in former seniors experience/portfolios. 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. |
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Students/Program affected: BA/BS and BFA major 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 |
| A420_4cr_form_&_syllabus.pdf | Download |
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