Absences

Tardies

Experience

You're here to see what design is, but you're not sure about it yet. Maybe this class is required, or you're taking it as an elective. Either way you just want to chill and have fun.

• Requirements: dark blue
• Highest grade earnable: B

Design

You want to know what it really means to be a designer, regardless of major, because you want to be really good at it. You want to have fun, but you also want to make amazing work.

• Requirements: dark blue
• Requirements: light blue
• Expanded feedback in class and on projects
• Highest grade earnable: A

Requirements

• Required for all options
• One great visual inspiration per class
• Present at the beginning of each class
• Conceptually connected to project
• Work by professionals (not you or your friends)

Requirements

• Required for designers only
• Visuals + notes on process
• Sketches, tests, mock-ups, and screenshots
• 20+ sketches per week (unless otherwise noted)
• 5+ screenshots of process per week (on-going)
• 1 sentence explanation typed into each screenshot

That New New

Each project has a simple list of pass-or-fail requirements, i.e. they are not subjective. Requirements are used to give you an environment within which you can demonstrate understanding of the project and concepts while still experimenting creatively.

...

...

Details

• Each project has requirements
• Requirements can only be done if you have a basic understanding of that project's concepts
• Fulfilling all requirements is worth 50% of a project's grade
• Each missed requirement will subtract 10% from a project's grade

The New Map

Step 1

Requirements

Pass or fail and worth:

Step 2

Rubrick

Compare project to rubrick to generate score:

Step 3

Combine

Combine scores using a simple equation:

Honest and Open

Plagiarism, cheating, and other forms of academic dishonesty are counterproductive to the objectives of higher education. I support the imposition of penalties on students who engage in academic dishonesty, as defined in the University Student Handbook.

Students are responsible for learning the content of any course of study in which they are enrolled. Under Board of Regents and University policy, student academic performance shall be evaluated solely on an academic basis and students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study. Students who believe that an academic evaluation is unrelated to academic standards but is related instead to judgment of their personal opinion or conduct should contact the dean of the college which offers the class to initiate a review of the evaluation.

Consequences

At my discretion, a student caught engaging in any form of academic dishonesty may be:

• Given no credit for that assignment.
• Allowed to rewrite and resubmit the assignment for credit.
• Assigned a reduced grade for the course.
• Dropped from the course.
• Failed in the course.

Equal Opportunity

Disability Services provide support to ensure that students are able to access and participate in all of the activities, programs and services.

Extent

Disability Services will provide reasonable and appropriate accommodations to allow equal access. However, this does not include making substantial modifications to academic requirements or to make modifications that would fundamentally alter the nature of the service, program or activity.