ART 395 Space 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 background). Hitting the Home button at the left of every page will bring you back to the main page of the final version.
Art and Design Majors: completion of Foundations.
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.
Space Studio increases the curriculum’s capacity to represent established practices in contemporary art exploring considerations of space, site, installation, public art, presenational practices and the theoretical discourse specific to such practices within a studio context. The course addresses the understanding and creation of art work typically call “installation”. Installations take a space as a given context within which a particular experiential encounter is organized. By working both in and out of traditional presentation contexts the studio engages a consideration of how art is “instituted”. These understandings transfer back to standardized art contexts by articulating the process of encounter and engagement with audience in distinct ways.
- 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 organization of space.
Most studio courses are organized by discipline (medium). Space studio is organized around an experiential form (space) which has it’s own considerations and may also incorporate products and considerations rooted in various other media. This approach complements the existing curriculum by focussing on important considerations of art practice not primary in other studios.
The course also establishes a structure through which students and faculty can engage in interdisciplinary discourse and understanding across disciplines.
- 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 Space 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 the course.
Space Studio comes closest in content and structure to courses in Sculpture and might best be cross-listed as a sculpture course. An installation course was recently offered as a 380. It was a sucessful course. Current sculpture curriculum does not explicitly address issues of space in a fixed course.
- 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.
Space Studio does not overlap any other course in any program or unit. It touches on some similar issues addressed in Stage Design in Theater and some content addressed in Marketing.
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Syllabus of Record: ART 395 Space Studio -attached
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Curriculum Resource Statement: ART 395 Space Studio -attached
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