4. Examines the principal characteristics and processes of design disciplines including industrial design, graphic design and architecture as well as the evolution of craft and design (Criterion 3).
These criteria are met through in class assignments, class lectures, individual projects, required readings, gallery/exhibition visits, written papers, and Online interactive discussions and exams.
GER Assessment
Goal: Interpret works of art and design using an aesthetic philosophical stance, including description using art terminology, analysis of medium, elements and principles of design, and cultural/historical relevance.
Course Policies and Procedures
Deadlines: Meeting online deadlines is crucial to your success in this course. Participation and meeting deadlines in online personal and group activities is critical.
Assignment Deadlines: Each assignment has a due datę announced in the course calendar. On this designated datę all projects are due. Late assignments are downgraded one fuli letter grade for each day late. It compounds the problem if you miss class because your project is incomplete. Daily in class assignments cannot be madę up at all.
Missing Projects: No student will pass this course unless all outside class assignments are completed.
Incomplete Grade: An "Incomplete" grade will be given only for a major reason that occurs at the end of the semester and only if the bulk of the course work is complete. The student must make arrangements with me to complete the course work by a designated time.
UWM Policies
Student Information:
http://www4.uwm.edu/secu/SvllabusLinks.pdf
Policies and Procedures for Academic Misconduct: http://www4.uwm.edu/acad aff/policy/ academicmisconduct.cfm
Plagiarism and Cheating (Student Handbook - pgs. 154-155)
Dishonesty, including but not limited to cheating, plagiarism, or knowingly supplying false Information or deceiving the school and its officials is a violation of the student conduct policy. Any student who is found to have violated this policy is subject to disciplinary sanctions up to and including suspension or permanent dismissal. Please be aware that plagiarism is presenting another’s ideas as one’s own and includes paraphrasing as well as copying without proper citations or quotation marks.