ART 391 Civic Studio Course Proposal
This is the first version of this course proposal. See the Complete Final proposal at http://look.gvsu.edu:8000/emphasis/55 (including a link to the final version of this course proposal). The final documents all have a tan backgroud. Hitting the Home button at the left of every page will bring you back to the main page of the final version.
Prerequisites:
Art and Design Majors: completion of Foundations and permission of instructor.
Non-Art and Design Majors: Junior Standing and permission of instructor.
10. Rationale for adding this course to the curriculum:
- 10 a. Explain how this course will strengthen and improve the curriculum.
Civic Studio increases the curriculum’s capacity to represent established practices in contemporary art exploring situated projects, community engagement, public art, presentational practices and the theoretical discourse specific to such practices within a studio context.
Civic studio adds important new capabilities of art practice to the existing curriculum. These include the creation, organization, and presentation of art in specific situated contexts. This opens new options for art practice, transfers to enhance understanding of institutional presentation of art, and develops project, organization, and leadership skills that transfer to many other enterprises. These understandings transfer back to traditional art practice by illuminating the process of encounter and engagement with audience/community.
The course also establishes a structure through which art and design students and faculty can engage in interdisciplinary discourse and practice with students and faculty from non-art disciplines.
See
http://civicstudio.org for documentation of past projects.
- 10 b. Which student population(s) is this course designed to serve? Explain how and where this course fits into the unit’s existing curriculum.
1. Art and Design students
2. Students from other majors. In particular students whose course of study involves the consideration of the cultural aspects of various fields, public space and planning, public administration, social sciences and humanities.
Most studio courses are organized by discipline (medium) and focus primarily on the production of art as an individual act done in isolation and then presented in standard presenational formats. Civic studio is organized around a consideration of site and context of presentation and includes a significant amount of collaborative work. This approach complements the existing curriculum by focussing on important considerations of art practice not primary in other studios.
- 10 c. Explain the reasons the proposed prerequisites are necessary. If the proposed course duplicates material covered in existing courses in the unit, specify the nature and degree of the overlap, and explain why it is necessary to add this course rather than to reconfigure existing program offerings.
Prerequisites assure that students enroll in Civic Studio at an appropriate point in their studies. The art and design department requires completion of foundations prior to enrolling in any 200 or higher level studio course. Permission of instructor is granted after completion of an interview with instructor in which the student is informed of the unique expectations and challenges of this off-campus project.
- 10 d. Will this course increase the total number of credits required for students in any major or minor? If so, explain why that is both necessary. Could existing required courses be dropped or modified to accommodate the addition of this material?
The course will not increase total credits required. It is however part of a new emphasis proposed in Art and Design. No existing course could be dropped or modified to accommodate this additional material.
11. Course / content overlap with other units:
- Identify any overlap between this course and courses offered by any programs or units. Indicate the degree of overlap and explain why your students should not take the existing course(s) instead. Submit a copy of this proposal to those units with a request that comments be sent promptly to you and to your C/SCC for consideration and attachment to this proposal. Copies of inter-departmental communication regarding this course must be attached to the proposal.
Civic studio does not overlap any other course in any program or unit. It comes closest in content and structure to the Working Classics course in Philosophy, but is significantly different.
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Syllabus of Record: ART 391 Civic Studio -attached
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Curriculum Resource Statement: ART 391 Civic Studio -attached
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