ARTS4180/4181 Senior Studio

Credit Hours: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Senior status within the major and instructor permission

Course Description:

Students will examine, in detail, a selected topic within the area of the student’s specialty. A formal proposal and instructor approval is required. A major project reflecting substantial documented effort must be completed. 

Independent senior studio will be evaluated on an individual student basis. Work should be relevant to student’s proposed specific field and is an in depth study of that subject/topic.  

Grading and Evaluations

Student grades will be reflective of thorough research, technical execution, and aesthetic considerations. Students will receive ongoing feedback on their work as a result of critiques and discussion throughout the term(s). Students will be expected to respond accordingly to critique with appropriate adoption of feedback.

Grades will be assigned on the following criteria:

10%          Project Proposal

20%          Documentation and faculty meetings

60%          Project at its time of final presentation per semester

10%          Project debriefing

Project proposal(s)

You must provide an initial submission for consideration and should contain artifacts that include:

• A clearly defined, written project proposal(s) that both quantifies your work and qualifies the project goals

• How the goals and project will serve to prepare you for what will come after SSU

• The final form the project will take

• Planned resources for research and inspiration

• Workload breakdowns and timelines of all relevant content and its development

• Student proposal(s) and project must be self-contained and may not be reliant on the activity of other people.

The project proposal must be approved by the advising faculty to receive course credit.

Students may be advised to enroll in the course but are not necessarily cleared for enrollment until the above criteria, and those individually determined relevant to the project, have been met. 

Meetings

You are required to meet with the project advisor a minimum of 10 times during the semester. During each meeting, you should bring work in progress in a format that is most conducive to viewing and discussion.

Final presentation

The final project presentation should represent the furthest, reasonably-possible conclusion. The final form of the project should be discussed and negotiated with the professor.

Accompanying materials may include, but are not limited to:

• Digital or physical portfolio ready to be delivered to prospective employers

• Active, outward facing, online media or social media presence during the course of development

• Formal application materials (cv, business cards, etc)

Debriefing

The project debriefing is a 1 to 2-page document that defines:

• The goals of the project

• Challenges the project presented

• How the project changed and evolved over the semester

• How the final project meets the goals stated in the proposal

• What you learned from the project