Your responses to the readings are due by midnight on the dates given. I will offer my own insights on your writings at the end of each assignment. When you post, tell me what you really think...not what you think I want to hear. If you are referring to a certain line or story give the page number. When you respond to others be respectful. Each voice is important.
I have allowed for time between postings. I want the stories / the words to simply be with you for reflection and maybe allow the space for you to consider how the stories inform or influence your own story.
The final project is a work of art or a written essay (500-700 word) on your identity, on your story.
Summer I 2017
Art 5360 Seminar in Art Education: “Identities”
Future Akins-Tillett, Associate Professor of Art
Last day to
drop a class without a penalty
Last day to
declare intent to graduate summer 2017
June 9, 2017
Catalog
Description
Topics very per course from faculty research to
publication processes, ecology, technology, interpretation, and issues of
power, privilege, and ideology. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing and permission of instructor.
Overview of
Class
This class will look at and question how four artists
create their identities. Who are they, what is their story, who tells their
story, how do their story translated over time and how do their stories inform
our own stories. I encourage to use this opportunity to develop meaningful
dialogs with your colleagues. I will read and comment on each of your main
entries and at times will add comments to the dialogs.
I ask you to listen to and learn from each other. This
is not a place to dominate or to be judgmental. We will be looking at four lives that through a traditional approach
(questions and answers), journaling, a combination of questions and personal
essays and poetry.
If you are late posting, post in the current date. Do
not attempt to go back and post. Simply identify the reading you are responding
to, such as “Based on Watkins…”.
Required
Readings/ Review Material
A Meditation
of Fire: the Art of James C. Watkins, Kippra
Hopper,Texas Tech University Press,1999, ISBN 0-89672-419-0
Durban
Diaries, Liza Lou, White Cube, 2012
Scrape the
Willow Until It Sings: The words and art of Basket Maker Julia Parker, Deborah Valoma,
Heyday, 2013, ISBN
978-1-59714-226-7
Healing
Earthquakes, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Grove Press,
2001
ISBN 0-8021-3814-4
Final Project/Essay Due
For a final exam you are to create
a work of art (your choice of medium) inspired /influenced by the readings and
your own identity. Or you many choose to write a 500-750 word response using
the same guidelines.
If at anytime an issue develops and you feel a
need to contact me directly or privately do not hesitate to write me at future.akins@ttu.edu.
Outcomes
1. Students will examine four
approaches to creating identity.
2. Students will compare the
information gained with the previous knowledge from previous creative classes.
3. Students will apply the gained knowledge
to their own creative practice.
Assessments
1.Students will be able to reflect,
analyze and discuss contemporary/ traditional approaches to storytelling as a
form of identity making.
2.Students will review various ways
of presenting an identity.
2.Students will create a work of
art or a written response to the
readings bases on their own sense of identity/their own story.
Attendance Policy
Your attendance is necessary in
order to make this class a successful learning experience. If you know you will
be unable to respond on the blog during the set time it is your responsibility
to notify me in advance and make arrangements to make up work. Continued
absences will have a direct impact on your grade. You are expected to respond
to the postings within the week in order to have a continuous dialog.
Responding late, in bulk messages, is unfair and puts the other students at a
disadvantage. Your grade will reflect this practice.
Absence due to officially approved trips.
The Texas Tech University Catalog
states that the person for a student missing class due to a trip should notify
the instructor of the department in advance of the trip. The may not be
penalized and is responsible for the material missed.
Religious Holy Days (O.P. 34.19)
“Religious holy days” means a holy
day observed by a religion whose place of worship are exempt from property
taxation under Tax Code 11.20. A student who intends to observe a religious
holy day should make that intention know in writing to the instructor prior to
the absence. A student who is absent from classes for the observance of a
religious holy day shall be allowed to take an examination or complete an
assignment scheduled for that within a reasonable time after the absence. A
student who is excused may not be penalized for the absence; however, the instructor
may respond appropriately if the student fails to complete the assignment
satisfactory.
American with Disabilities Act
Any student, who because of a
disabling condition may require some special arrangements in order to meet
course requirements, should contact the instructor as soon as possible to make
any necessary accommodations. Students should present appropriate verification
form Student Disability Services to the instructor. Please note instructors are
to provide classroom accommodations to a student until appropriate verification
from Student Disability Services office at 335 West Hall or 806.742.2405 (American
with Disabilities Act, July 26,1990).
Health and Safety Policy
Every effort will be made to comply
with the intent of state laws or act sand the University Health and Safety
Program in an effort to maintain a safe academic and working environment.
Information and awareness of safety factor will be included in course content.
Civility in the Classroom
Students are expected to assist in
maintaining an online classroom environment that is conductive to learning. In
order to assure that all students have an opportunity to gain from time spent
in class, inappropriate behavior such as vulgarity, personal attacks, or
attempts to intimidate another student within the online posts and responses
shall result in minimally a request to leave the class.
Conflict Resolution The Student Resolution Center is available to assist
students with any conflict or problem that has to do with being a student at
Texas Tech University. You may visit the Student Resolution Center in the
Student Union Building or call 742-4791
Academic
Integrity “It is the aim of the faculty of
Texas Tech University to foster a spirit of complete honesty and high standard
of integrity. The attempt of students to present as their own any work not
honestly performed is regarded by the faculty and administration as a most
serious offense and renders the offenders liable to serious consequences,
possibly suspension” (2011-12 Texas Tech Student Handbook, page 8). “Academic
dishonesty” includes, but it not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, collusion,
falsifying academic records, misrepresenting facts, and any act designed to
give unfair academic advantage to the student.” (For the specific definitions
of Academic Misconduct, see 2011-2012 Texas Tech Student Handbook, page 28).
This includes, but is not limited to, submission of essentially the same
written assignment for two courses without the prior permission of the
instructor or the attempt to commit such an act.
Semester Mapping
All posts are due by midnight on
dates due.
June
7 Introductions. Share a
little something about who you are: what level are you, do you teach (where,
what), and what kind of art do you create? What do you hope to get out of this
class?
June
9 A Meditation of Fire
June12 Durban Diaries
June
14 Scrape the Willow, Prologue
and part One
June
16 Scrape the Willow, part
Two
June
19 Scape the Willow, part
Three
June
21 Scape the Willow, part
four
June
23 Healing Earthquakes,
Book 1
June
26 Healing Earthquakes, Book
2
June
28 Healing Earthquakes,
Book 3
June
30 Healing Earthquakes, Book
4
4th of July Holiday
July
5 Healing Earthquakes,
Book 5
July
8 Final creative project
or response
Grade Rubric
Postings and responses (12 x 6.5
points) 78
Final project/writing 22
90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79 C
60-69 D
Below 60 F
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