SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Develop And Enhance Students' Problem Solving Abilities. | |
| To develop and enhance students' skills and judgment in problem solving in photography. Associated Goals: Develop Students' Individual Creative, Conceptual, And Technical Abilities., To Graduate Students With Artistic, Academic, Intellectual, And Scientific Skills. |
| Indicator | Critique Of Students' Chosen Problem Solving Strategies. Assignments involving visual problems and verbal feedback from both instructors and peers. This group activity incorporates peer review and enhances constructive, defensive strategies needed to justify selected problem solving strategies. |
| Criteria | Evaluation of Student Strategies In-class evaluation of student''s choices in solving photogarphic problems. This occurs in class critiques of student assignments and a discussion of chosen approaches as a response to the challenges of given assignments. |
| Finding | Problem-Solving Abilities Being Developed The majority of photographic courses develop and encourage student''s strategies for solving phtographic problems as they are presented in assignments. Critiques provide an explicite evaluation of problem-solving choices and often suggest alternatives. |
| Action | Make Problem Solving Explicite Make problem solving strategies a central skill in our curriculum. |
| Objective | Encourage Knowledgeable And Critical Analysis Of Photographic Work. | |
| To encourage in students the knowledgeable and critical analysis of photographic work. Associated Goals: Develop Students' Individual Creative, Conceptual, And Technical Abilities., To Graduate Students With Artistic, Academic, Intellectual, And Scientific Skills. |
| Indicator | Student's Work Evaluated In Instructor Led Critiques. Students photographic work evaluated in critiques in which student projects are examined and analyzed. Critiques encourage verbal descriptions of photographic work and analysis of design principles. |
| Criteria | Instructor Critiques Instructor leads discussion that provides feedback to students on their work for the purpose of improvement. |
| Finding | Critiques Being Conducted All courses in which students produce photographic work involve providing feedback through instructor led critiques. Discussions allow all students to see other points of view and help to improve knowledge and awareness of how others react to their work. |
| Action | Make Critiques Inclusive Make in-class critiques a colaborative effort between students and their instructors. |
| Objective | Provide Students With Basic Technical And Aesthetic Skills. | |
| To provide students with basic technical and aesthetic skills in order to support their personal photographic expression. Associated Goals: Develop Students' Individual Creative, Conceptual, And Technical Abilities., To Graduate Students With Artistic, Academic, Intellectual, And Scientific Skills. |
| Indicator | Evaluate Student Work Both Technically And Aesthetically. Also Testing. The technical and aesthetic sophistication of student work and their achievement of stated personal photographic objectives. Also through traditional testing methodologies that assess both technical and aesthetic knowledge. |
| Criteria | Positive Evaluation of Student Work Through critiques and written tests, students are given feedback in order to improve their skills and their photographic work. |
| Finding | Basic Skills Provided Basic photography courses are providing adequate foundations in aesthetic and technical skills necessary for the development and expression of their personal vision. |
| Action | Insure Basic Skills are Being Provided Review all courses to insure that basic skills are being provided and reinforced. |
| Objective | Develop And Enhance Students' Problem Solving Abilities. | |
| To develop and enhance students' skills and judgment in problem solving in photography. Associated Goals: Develop Students' Individual Creative, Conceptual, And Technical Abilities., To Graduate Students With Artistic, Academic, Intellectual, And Scientific Skills. |
| Indicator | Critique Of Students' Chosen Problem Solving Strategies. Assignments involving visual problems and verbal feedback from both instructors and peers. This group activity incorporates peer review and enhances constructive, defensive strategies needed to justify selected problem solving strategies. |
| Criteria | Evaluation of Student Strategies In-class evaluation of student''s choices in solving photogarphic problems. This occurs in class critiques of student assignments and a discussion of chosen approaches as a response to the challenges of given assignments. |
| Finding | Problem-Solving Abilities Being Developed The majority of photographic courses develop and encourage student''s strategies for solving phtographic problems as they are presented in assignments. Critiques provide an explicite evaluation of problem-solving choices and often suggest alternatives. |
| Action | Make Problem Solving Explicite Make problem solving strategies a central skill in our curriculum. |
| Objective | Encourage Knowledgeable And Critical Analysis Of Photographic Work. | |
| To encourage in students the knowledgeable and critical analysis of photographic work. Associated Goals: Develop Students' Individual Creative, Conceptual, And Technical Abilities., To Graduate Students With Artistic, Academic, Intellectual, And Scientific Skills. |
| Indicator | Student's Work Evaluated In Instructor Led Critiques. Students photographic work evaluated in critiques in which student projects are examined and analyzed. Critiques encourage verbal descriptions of photographic work and analysis of design principles. |
| Criteria | Instructor Critiques Instructor leads discussion that provides feedback to students on their work for the purpose of improvement. |
| Finding | Critiques Being Conducted All courses in which students produce photographic work involve providing feedback through instructor led critiques. Discussions allow all students to see other points of view and help to improve knowledge and awareness of how others react to their work. |
| Action | Make Critiques Inclusive Make in-class critiques a colaborative effort between students and their instructors. |
| Objective | Provide Students With Basic Technical And Aesthetic Skills. | |
| To provide students with basic technical and aesthetic skills in order to support their personal photographic expression. Associated Goals: Develop Students' Individual Creative, Conceptual, And Technical Abilities., To Graduate Students With Artistic, Academic, Intellectual, And Scientific Skills. |
| Indicator | Evaluate Student Work Both Technically And Aesthetically. Also Testing. The technical and aesthetic sophistication of student work and their achievement of stated personal photographic objectives. Also through traditional testing methodologies that assess both technical and aesthetic knowledge. |
| Criteria | Positive Evaluation of Student Work Through critiques and written tests, students are given feedback in order to improve their skills and their photographic work. |
| Finding | Basic Skills Provided Basic photography courses are providing adequate foundations in aesthetic and technical skills necessary for the development and expression of their personal vision. |
| Action | Insure Basic Skills are Being Provided Review all courses to insure that basic skills are being provided and reinforced. |