⚡︎ DETAILED GRADING INFORMATION
⚡︎ RUBRIC
Learning Goals:
In the core curriculum, students will analyze, interpret and critique works of art, considering the role of formal methods and techniques, and historical contexts. In addition to intellectual engagement with the arts, students will also creatively engage with the arts through practice. In addition, students will gain:
- A thorough understanding of the creative process of preparation in printmaking ;
- Learn the processes of printing, and show technical progress;
- An understanding of of the relevance of specifically chosen materials and imagery as applied to a political print;
- Develop a method of creative research;
- Engage effectively with others in group critiques that allow discussion, debate, constructive advice, and extend critical thinking within the course;
- Acquire discipline-specific vocabulary;
- Gain the ability to conduct self-motivated creative research about a subject that is self-selected.
Course Outcomes:
- Decode the meanings of both resourced politically based prints, along with peer’s prints, in order to offer opinions about the ways that issues and contexts (e.g., historical, cultural, aesthetic) are used;
- Participate actively in a creative process using practices and materials specific to printmaking in order to produce a series of prints appropriate to the praxis of the course;
- Knowledge of and sensitivity to the properties of different media used, such as papers, inks, tools;
- The production of a set of prints based upon original research using a self-selected issue.