To Graduate Students With Artistic, Academic, Intellectual, And Scientific Skills.
To graduate students from a Bachelor of Science program in Photography with demonstrated artistic, basic academic, intellectual and scientific skills.
Objective
Develop And Enhance Students' Problem Solving Abilities.
To develop and enhance students' skills and judgment in problem solving in photography.
Indicator
Critique Of Students' Chosen Problem Solving Strategies.
Assignments involving visual problems and verbal feedback from both instructors and peers. This group activity incorporates peer review and enhances constructive, defensive strategies needed to justify selected problem solving strategies.
Criterion
Evaluation of Student Strategies
In-class evaluation of student's choices in solving photogarphic problems. This occurs in class critiques of student assignments and a discussion of chosen approaches as a response to the challenges of given assignments.
Finding
Problem-Solving Abilities Being Developed
The majority of photographic courses develop and encourage student's strategies for solving phtographic problems as they are presented in assignments. Critiques provide an explicite evaluation of problem-solving choices and often suggest alternatives.
Action
Make Problem Solving Explicite
Make problem solving strategies a central skill in our curriculum.
Objective
Encourage Knowledgeable And Critical Analysis Of Photographic Work.
To encourage in students the knowledgeable and critical analysis of photographic work.
Indicator
Student's Work Evaluated In Instructor Led Critiques.
Students photographic work evaluated in critiques in which student projects are examined and analyzed. Critiques encourage verbal descriptions of photographic work and analysis of design principles.
Criterion
Instructor Critiques
Instructor leads discussion that provides feedback to students on their work for the purpose of improvement.
Finding
Critiques Being Conducted
All courses in which students produce photographic work involve providing feedback through instructor led critiques. Discussions allow all students to see other points of view and help to improve knowledge and awareness of how others react to their work.
Action
Make Critiques Inclusive
Make in-class critiques a colaborative effort between students and their instructors.
Objective
Provide Students With Basic Technical And Aesthetic Skills.
To provide students with basic technical and aesthetic skills in order to support their personal photographic expression.
Indicator
Evaluate Student Work Both Technically And Aesthetically. Also Testing.
The technical and aesthetic sophistication of student work and their achievement of stated personal photographic objectives. Also through traditional testing methodologies that assess both technical and aesthetic knowledge.
Criterion
Positive Evaluation of Student Work
Through critiques and written tests, students are given feedback in order to improve their skills and their photographic work.
Finding
Basic Skills Provided
Basic photography courses are providing adequate foundations in aesthetic and technical skills necessary for the development and expression of their personal vision.
Action
Insure Basic Skills are Being Provided
Review all courses to insure that basic skills are being provided and reinforced.
Goal
Develop Students' Individual Creative, Conceptual, And Technical Abilities.
To educate about and develop in our students the individual creative, conceptual, and technical abilities necessary to meet the challenges of a career in photography.
Objective
Develop And Enhance Students' Problem Solving Abilities.
To develop and enhance students' skills and judgment in problem solving in photography.
Indicator
Critique Of Students' Chosen Problem Solving Strategies.
Assignments involving visual problems and verbal feedback from both instructors and peers. This group activity incorporates peer review and enhances constructive, defensive strategies needed to justify selected problem solving strategies.
Criterion
Evaluation of Student Strategies
In-class evaluation of student's choices in solving photogarphic problems. This occurs in class critiques of student assignments and a discussion of chosen approaches as a response to the challenges of given assignments.
Finding
Problem-Solving Abilities Being Developed
The majority of photographic courses develop and encourage student's strategies for solving phtographic problems as they are presented in assignments. Critiques provide an explicite evaluation of problem-solving choices and often suggest alternatives.
Action
Make Problem Solving Explicite
Make problem solving strategies a central skill in our curriculum.
Objective
Encourage Knowledgeable And Critical Analysis Of Photographic Work.
To encourage in students the knowledgeable and critical analysis of photographic work.
Indicator
Student's Work Evaluated In Instructor Led Critiques.
Students photographic work evaluated in critiques in which student projects are examined and analyzed. Critiques encourage verbal descriptions of photographic work and analysis of design principles.
Criterion
Instructor Critiques
Instructor leads discussion that provides feedback to students on their work for the purpose of improvement.
Finding
Critiques Being Conducted
All courses in which students produce photographic work involve providing feedback through instructor led critiques. Discussions allow all students to see other points of view and help to improve knowledge and awareness of how others react to their work.
Action
Make Critiques Inclusive
Make in-class critiques a colaborative effort between students and their instructors.
Objective
Provide Students With Basic Technical And Aesthetic Skills.
To provide students with basic technical and aesthetic skills in order to support their personal photographic expression.
Indicator
Evaluate Student Work Both Technically And Aesthetically. Also Testing.
The technical and aesthetic sophistication of student work and their achievement of stated personal photographic objectives. Also through traditional testing methodologies that assess both technical and aesthetic knowledge.
Criterion
Positive Evaluation of Student Work
Through critiques and written tests, students are given feedback in order to improve their skills and their photographic work.
Finding
Basic Skills Provided
Basic photography courses are providing adequate foundations in aesthetic and technical skills necessary for the development and expression of their personal vision.
Action
Insure Basic Skills are Being Provided
Review all courses to insure that basic skills are being provided and reinforced.