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5000 Level Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
Course Descriptions
PBACC 5002
Post-Baccalaureate Seminar
Studio Seminar: Designed to unify the experience of
the post-baccalaureate studio program, this class explores how an artist
develops a body of work. This includes discussions of working processes
and issues in art, critiques, and explorations of resources of the School,
museum, and city.
Writing Seminar: Designed to unify the experience of
the post-baccalaureate in writing program, this course will engage students
in both the theory and practice of literary art. Aspects of the craft
will be examined in students’ work and in published work, with
an emphasis on discovery of both material and forms of expression that
matter. The student takes this seminar during the first semester. Open
to Post-Baccalaureate students only.
Topic: Exercising Literary Craft
In this course of study, suitable for writers working in any genre and
for artists working in other forms, students will isolate and discuss
elements of literary craft, and then attempt to use those elements as
doorways to their own work. Each week the class will examine in each
student’s individual work and in the work of others the nature
of such aspects as the objective correlative, metaphor, literary time,
setting, characterization, and dramatic structure, and from there move
their pens across the page. After that, students will share and listen,
paying close attention both to how and what material emerges, and to
how that material arranges itself over the semester. In short, this
seminar is meant to be generative, to lure future work into the light,
with an emphasis on discovering both material and forms of expression
that matter. Visiting artists will join us in these discussions. Students
should be aware that they will be asked to make presentations and lead
discussions on much of the course work.
PBACC 5009
Post-Baccalaureate Independent Projects
Studio Projects: Independent studio work under the guidance of a faculty
advisor. Post-Baccalaureate studio students receive a list of scheduled
advisors.
Writing Projects: Independent tutorial work with the guidance and encouragement
of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureate writing students receive a
list of scheduled advisors. The student registers for 6 credit hours
of Post-Baccalaureate Projects during each semester of study. Open to
Post-Baccalaureate students only.
PBACC 5310
Post-Baccalaureate Visual Communication Seminar:
Method and Meaning
This course is an investigation into how meaning is discovered and determined
through the relationship between a specific content, its possible forms,
and potential functions. Students will examine both the individual and
public dimensions of producing design within specific social, political,
and economic contexts. The course will establish an understanding of
basic design principles, extrapolating toward new technologies in visual
communication, in an effort to transfer acquired print skills into the
digital realm and vice versa. Students will work toward developing an
understanding of their own creative process, utilizing personal methodologies
and strategies. Through the evolution of a variety of design projects,
students will learn to communicate precisely and critique constructively.
Open to Post-Baccalaureate students only.
PBACC 5320
Post-Baccalaureate Visual Communication Seminar:
Theory and Practice
This seminar will introduce students to contemporary visual communication
theories and realities by presenting diverse models of design practice
and counter-practice. A series of visiting designers and artists will
represent their own working relationships within the realms of commerce/culture/community,
to expose students to the evolving range of theoretical, aesthetic,
and professional options open to them. Students will engage with contextual
readings and conduct self-directed research in order to inform the development
of a series of brief conceptual design exercises and/or analytical writings.
Open to Post-Baccalaureate students only.
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