Foundations Seminar

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Students comprehend how professional artists operate in practical and productive ways. Gaining knowledge of creative and professional possibilities through discussions with artists, critics, curators, administrators, and graduate students is a key component of this class.
• Students will define the difference between BA and BFA degrees offered through the School of Art by meeting studio faculty, registration advisors, and by discussing the BFA Portfolio Application process.
• Students get acquainted with on-campus support and strategies to bolster their educational, health and professional goals as part of the School of Art. (Academic Achievement Center, Counseling Services, Peer Guides, Dean of Students, etc.)
• Students improve critical abilities through reflective writing and image-based comparisons in discussions and assignments, a practice geared especially toward studio artists who are developing strategies toward personal artistic growth.
• Students develop visual documentation skills, professional organization and creative practice strategies:
  • Public Exhibition to be held at Greensboro Project Space (10/28-11/1)
  • Foundations Sketchbook
  • Final Portfolio/Slideshow

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Class Attendance	50 points
Foundations Sketchbook	20 points
Yearbook Project @ GPS	10 points
Final e-Portfolio	20 points

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
100% to 94%	A
< 94% to 90%	A-
< 90% to 87%	B+
< 87% to 84%	B
< 84% to 80%	B-
< 80% to 77%	C+
< 77% to 74%	C
< 74% to 70%	C-
< 70% to 67%	D+
< 67% to 64%	D
< 64% to 61%	D-
< 61% to 0%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Students are responsible for signing in at each class meeting to be counted.  Another way that attendance is monitored is by the dated sketchbook pages you use for note-taking/drawing each Friday.

Because of the low number of in-person meetings, each one counts a lot:

14-12 in-person class meetings = 100%

11 in-person class meetings = 90%

10 in-person class meetings = 80%

9 in-person class meetings = 70%

8 in-person class meetings = 60%

7 or fewer in-person class meetings is grounds for failure.

Students will be notified by the instructor if attendance becomes an issue, but it is the student's job to make up any missed work and attend weekly meetings on time and ready to focus.  Students may email the instructor if they are having issues with attendance.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• Physical sketchbook or digital tablet for writing, drawing, note-taking.
• If going analog with the sketchbook, choose whatever drawing materials you wish.
• UNCG Spartan Card allows free bus rides to downtown Greensboro Project Space