Fall 2018 Course Syllabi

Disabilities and Special Needs: If you have a disability for which you are, or may be, requesting an accommodation, you are encouraged to contact your instructor and Kayla O'Toole in the Learning Center (228-5479) as early as possible during the beginning of the semester. GRADES: Grading Philosophy: Please understand that I do not care about your grades, I care about your education. My job is to teach you, your job is to learn what I teach you, and hopefully more. If we both do our jobs, grades shouldn’t be necessary. The best way to succeed in my class is to NOT focus on - “what’s my grade,” or “what do I need to get an A?” - but instead focus on - “how much can I learn.” If you embrace this, you won’t be doing assignments for grades, you’ll be doing them in order to learn, and the grade will become secondary and take care of itself. Daily Assignments: ALL assignments must be created for this class. You MUST create new work every day. Work created for other classes, or created in the past will NOT be accepted. A minimum of 5 new images will be posted to the online course shell for this class at the end of every day. All assignments will be graded on the following categories. Each of the following five categories are worth 50 points each for a total of 250 points on each assignment. Aesthetics - We are learning to create professional images that would sell to a magazine, stock photography house, or hang in a client’s living room or art gallery. EVERY assignment should be done with this in mind. While aesthetics can be purely subjective, there is still a professional standard that we are striving for. Principles of art and design – Composition and design are basic visual rules that apply to all 2 dimensional art. This part is not subjective. A strong composition is a strong composition.