Projects

There will be three projects assigned throughout the course of the quarter. Collectively, projects account for 80% of the grade for the course. Projects are due at the beginning of the class period for which the critique is assigned. Late or incomplete work will not be accepted. Attendance at critiques is mandatory.

Project 1: 25%

Project 2: 25%

Project 3: 30%

Participation

Teamwork and communication are key to successful artistic collaboration, and to produce work in this class. Plan to meet with your partner at an absolute minimum of once per week outside of class. Exchange email addresses, cell phone numbers, and whatever other methods of communication are necessary to make your projects successful. Professionalism, attitude, teamwork, leadership, and will count for 10% of your course grade.

Peer Evaluations

Peer evaluations will be completed for each project. The quality of your written analysis of other students work will count for 10% of your final grade.

Process & Critiques

Students are required to keep ongoing process work including notes, diagrams, drawings, layouts, photographs, and reference materials. The notebook will reflect the progress of student work and knowledge of the course content. It will contain all handouts, quizzes/exams, thumbnail sketches, comps, and finished projects. Conceptual thumbnail sketches and/or rough mockups are required for each project.

Critiques also play a crucial role in Fine Arts practice. Group and individual meetings take place every week. Students encounter numerous situations where it becomes necessary to evaluate, work and rework projects in order to achieve the highest possible standards. Verbal and written skills are important, students are required to explain and write about their aesthetic and conceptual decisions in front of the instructor and peers.

Technical Problems

Students are expected to keep multiple backups of all projects and exercises while the projects are in production. Students will be responsible to turn in completed projects despite lab accessibility issues, machine or media failures, or other technical problems. Plan your work schedule appropriately to account for the frailties of technology.

Attendance

Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class period. Those who are not physically in the room at this time are considered absent. If a student misses more than 18 contact hours for any reason, a failure for the class will result. Absence from a scheduled critique will result in a failing grade for that project. Absence from the final critique will result in a failing grade for the course. Mitigating factors for attendance are a death in the immediate family, severe life-threatening illness (not to include migranes, bronchitis, colds, strepe, general malaise or other minor ailments) or attendance at major religious holidays or festivals. If you are planning on attending a religious holiday or festival, you must notify me at the beginning of the term to qualify for an excused absence. All absences not arranged in advance will be unexcused.

Students should come to every class with all resources necessary to work on in-process projects. Students not present and actively participating or working for the full class session will be considered absent.

Academic Integrity

University of Colorado is committed to academic integrity. Academic dishonesty includes:

• Cheating
• Plagiarism
• Theft
• Alteration or falsification of academic records
• Violation of any college, state, or federal laws or policies

To commit or assist someone in committing academic dishonesty is grounds for disciplinary action and possible suspension or expulsion from the college. Students who observe or become aware of apparent academic dishonesty should report the matter to faculty or administration.

Plagiarism is a form of cheating. To plagiarize is “to steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one’s own, use a created production without crediting the source, commit literary theft, or present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Tenth Edition. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1993. Plagiarism is intellectual theft, a serious academic offense with serious consequences to be determined by the instructor and Department Chair:

• Unintentional plagiarism can occur if you mistakenly forget to identify the author and source of another’s words or ideas, and may result in an F for that particular assignment.
• Intentional plagiarism or academic dishonesty of any sort may result in an F for the course.
• The second instance of intentional academic dishonesty may result in expulsion from the College.

As pertains to this class, the following additional policies will be enforced:

• Work created in one class may not be used to satisfy an assignment in another without specific permission from both professors.
• Work created prior to a course may not be used to fulfill assignments in that course.
• All papers that use sources of information other than that deemed "common knowledge" must be properly footnoted. Use Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations for style.

Under no circumstances will academic credit be awarded for plagiarized work.

Grading

This is a breakdown of the grading process. The use of plus or minus is at the discretion of the instructor.