Nicole Roberts MFA Thesis Visual Component Artwork - Savannah ...
Nicole Roberts MFA Thesis Visual Component Artwork - Savannah ...
Nicole Roberts MFA Thesis Visual Component Artwork - Savannah ...
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70<br />
% of educators<br />
believe courses<br />
should focus<br />
less on polished<br />
portfolios and<br />
more on the<br />
development of<br />
core skill sets.<br />
Existing curricular concepts can be examined in various forms, but most reek of<br />
industry jargon and provide no connection by description of their pedagogical objectives<br />
to the expectations of today’s practice. Elaborate booklets and promotional brochures<br />
about each school are distributed to entice and inform potential students, yet are often<br />
presented as a glamorized hyper-reality of the college experience. The award-winning<br />
catalog Proof, a School of <strong>Visual</strong> Arts’ publication for prospective students, is an ideal<br />
example. While the school is indisputably amongst the most successful, the majority of<br />
this oversized catalog serves to excite the creative spirit and showcase individual student<br />
work. Very few of the visuals are dedicated to deciphering core curricular concepts in<br />
respect to professional expectations. Upon visiting numerous web sites of collegiate design<br />
programs, it is the norm to see a lengthy list of course numbers provided within a cryptic<br />
matrix of credit hours required. Rarely do they discuss how their educational tenets align<br />
with what leading industry professionals expect from new graduates of the future. With<br />
industry expectations left undefined in information issued to prospective students, how<br />
exactly are they expected to conclusively visualize what they will need upon graduation?<br />
How are they expected to differentiate among design schools under review, when<br />
professional expectations of the twenty-first century workplace are not published?<br />
visualizing curricular concepts<br />
Proof, a SVA publication<br />
to prospective students<br />
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