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Nature of course request C02023 :

Description change

Change credit hours

Undergraduate

From:
Course Prefix & Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
A421	Print Design: Expressive & Structural Design	3 - 0
To:
Course Prefix & Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
A421	Print Design: Expressive & Structural Design	4 - 0

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Print Des Exp Struct

Current Course Description: With the increased understanding of professional practices in design, students explore more demanding issues related to typography, image, and audience. Prerequisite: A 420

New Course Description: With the increased understanding of professional practices in design, students explore more demanding issues related to typography, image, and audience. Emphasis on investigation and interpretation in the expressive possibilities of typography, focusing on processes, personal responses, and emotive results. Prerequisite: A 420

Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): The value/content added in this course comes in the form of an added project exploring new concepts related to type in motion, both in response to industry expectations and to dovetail with the new interactive and time-based media concentrations. Also added is a project involving identity/type in the built environment, to further explore 3-dimensional applications and to expose students to the field of Environmental Graphic Design. The total number of projects is now 5 as opposed to 3 or 4 previously. Increased expectations of students also take the form of many readings assignments on current issues from sources beyond the textbook. 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 studio art program courses offered in the Art Department.

Approval Queue C02023

Attached Files:

A421_4cr_form_&_syllabus.pdf

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