CLASS 05 | MARCH 6 | YOU AS AN EDUCATOR

 

 

There will be no class meeting this week as I'll be doing as Program Assessment at Chapman College in Orange. While I'm gone, you'll be working independently on the following 2 assignments.

 

1. Assess who you are as an educator. Answer the questions on the supplied "I Believe..." questionaire. The goal of this assignment is begin to shape a portrait of who you are as an educator: Your values and your interests/expertise as a designer.

 

2. Group project to better understand the lay of the land of design education. Each of you will be assigned 3 different Graphic Design Programs to research and assess based comparative qualitative and quantitative questions.

 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK:

MARCH 13: DESIGN RESEARCH COMPLETED

 

 

ASSIGNMENT 1

Following are some questions to consider in order assess who you are as an educator. The goal of this assignment is begin to shape a portrait of who you are as an educator: Your values and your interests/expertise as a designer.

Consider each question and your response carefully. Include the question with each response.

 

1. Why are you interested in becoming an educator?

2. Consider an educator from your past — either in your K-12 or higher ed experience. What qualities made them particularly successful?

3. What qualities and “expertise” makes you suitable and qualified as an educator?

4. What qualities make you distinctive as an educator?

5. How do you define Graphic Design as a discipline?

6. How do you see the value of design education today?

 

ASSIGNMENT 2

Each of you has either chosen, or been assigned, 3 programs to investigate. I have set up a Google spreadsheet that will serve as a database for the research each of you are doing so that we are able to compare programs. We will concentrate on those programs that identify themselves as offering “Graphic Design” or “Visual Communication Design.”

The following model is based on “Sample Survey Prototype” for proposed Design Education database developed by Christopher Vice (CalArts alumna) and Dori Tunstall.

 

INSTITUTIONAL INFO

Name of Institution (University of Minnesota)

Location (Twin Cities)

College or School (College of Design)

Department (Dept. of Design, Housing + Apparel

URL

Nature of Institution (public, private, profit, non-profit)

Other “design “programs on the campus? If so, in which College or School? In what Department? (Interaction Design, School of Engineering, Computer Science Department

 

UNDERGRAD PROGRAMS

Year program founded

Degrees Granted (BA, BFA)

Majors (graphic design)

Required courses: (information design, coordinated placement, advertising design planning and strategy, experience design)

Number of students enrolled

Foundation year?

Number of years to complete?

 

GRAD PROGRAMS

Type of Degrees Granted (MA, MFA)

Majors

Program Character (Specialized Practice; Invention of Visual Form)

Number of students enrolled

Time to Complete

 

FACULTY

Tenure?

Academic Year (structures by semesters or quarters?)

Number of full-time faculty teaching in the Program?

Part-time or Adjunct?

Number of full-time faculty within tenure system (Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor)