⚡︎ LEARNING OUTCOMES & COURSE OBJECTIVES
⚡︎ RUBRIC
| THE A ASSIGNMENT The A assignment is outstanding and excels in meeting all criteria. The piece demonstrates exceptional initiative in working well beyond the basic requirements of the assignment. |
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| Aim: | The A assignment shows a fully-developed engagement with the focal subject matter and expresses a clear and compelling concept in an aesthetic language. The concept is explored in significant depth, and the work takes on a high degree of intellectual and artistic challenge. |
| Organization and Development: | The A assignment explores a concept with outstanding aesthetic organization, based in the formal constraints of the chosen medium. The A assignment’s aesthetic structure demonstrates a stong and meaningful variation and complexity in space &/or time. |
| Method: | The A assignment clearly adopts an aesthetic approach to working with the chosen materials with outstanding conceptual integration of form and content. |
| Communication: | The A assignment expresses its concept clearly with a good sense of audience appropriate to the work’s concept. |
| Technique: | The A assignment demonstrates notably good technique with the chosen medium in the service of the concept. |
| THE B ASSIGNMENT The B assignment is highly competent, exhibiting no serious or recurring deficiencies. The piece(s) demonstrate some initiative in working beyond the basic requirements of the assignment. |
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| Aim: | The B assignment establishes and shows engagement with the focal subject matter and expresses a discernible concept in an aesthetic language. The concept is explored in some depth, and the work takes on some intellectual and artistic challenge. |
| Organization and Development: | The B assignment expresses and explores a concept with good aesthetic organization, based in the formal constraints of the chosen medium. The B assignment presents clear and coherent aesthetic structure with meaningful variation and complexity in space &/or time. |
| Method: | The B assignment clearly adopts an aesthetic approach to working with the chosen materials with effective conceptual integration of form and content. |
| Communication: | The B assignment expresses its concept clearly with a good sense of audience appropriate to the work’s concept. |
| Technique: | The B assignment demonstrates notably good technique with the chosen medium in the service of the concept. |
| THE C ASSIGNMENT The C assignment is competent, however, the piece(s) demonstrates little or no initiative in working beyond the basic requirements of the assignment, as described below. |
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| Aim: | The C assignment establishes a focal subject matter and expresses a discernible concept in an aesthetic language. The concept, however, may not go beyond an apparent or summary presentation of the subject and may not take on a significant intellectual and artistic challenge. |
| Organization and Development: | The C assignment expresses a concept; however, this expression may not develop the concept with a strong aesthetic organization, based in the formal constraints of the chosen medium. The C assignment presents aesthetic structure; however, it may do so formulaically or mechanically and without meaningful variation and complexity in space &/or time. |
| Method: | The C assignment clearly adopts an aesthetic approach to working with the chosen materials but with minimally effective integration of form and content conceptually. |
| Communication: | The C assignment expresses its concept clearly; however the expression may not develop a fully effective sense of audience appropriate to the concept. |
| Technique: | The C assignment demonstrates satisfactory technique with the chosen medium in the service of the concept. |
| THE D ASSIGNMENT The D assignment is deficient in one of the five criteria described below. | |
| Aim: | The D assignment lacks a clear subject matter and/or does not express a discernible concept in an aesthetic language. |
| Organization and Development: | The D assignment does not develop a concept with adequate aesthetic organization, based in the formal constraints of the chosen medium, lacking meaningful variation and complexity in space &/or time. |
| Method: | The D assignment does not adopt a clear aesthetic approach to working with the chosen materials and shows no integration of form and content conceptually. |
| Communication: | The D assignment does not express its concept with clarity or with adequate sense of audience appropriate to the concept. |
| Technique: | The D assignment demonstrates overall ineffective technique with the chosen medium. |
| The F Assignment The F assignment is deficient in two or more of the five criteria noted above, and therefore fails. |
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