New and Expanded Media

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Articulate the questions, values, emotions, and intentions shaping an evolving graduate studio practice.
• Use reflective documentation to recognize recurring themes, materials, processes, tensions, and moments of curiosity.
• Analyze how material, scale, space, the viewer's body, participation, and interactivity influence an artwork's experience.
• Research artists and practices across textiles, installation, digital fabrication, projection, interactive media, and other expanded forms.
• Test at least one small expanded-media translation, experiment, or proposal connected to an existing studio question.
• Evaluate when technology deepens the work and when it distracts from its material or conceptual purpose.
• Identify artistic communities, resources, collaborators, and next questions that can support thesis and studio development.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Pass/Fail Evaluation based on sustained participation, reflection checkpoints, mentorship meetings, research, experimentation, documentation, and final archive	Pass/Fail

Attendance/Participation:

The four scheduled mentorship meetings are required because the course depends on sustained conversation and reflection.

If illness, a university obligation, or an emergency affects a meeting, contact the instructor as soon as reasonably possible so the meeting can be rescheduled.

A missed meeting without communication may place the Pass grade at risk because there are only four formal mentorship conversations.

Additional short check-ins may be scheduled by appointment when a studio question would benefit from earlier feedback.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.