ARTS 418
Senior Seminar Spring 2014
Division I
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The purpose of the Senior Seminar is to strengthen ideas, develop formal skills and practice critical analysis while creating original art. Students may work in any medium in which they have prior experience. At the beginning of the class, each student defines his/her project and completes the necessary research. The following weeks are spent producing new work in preparation for an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. The class will meet in large and small groups throughout the semester for critique and discussion. This course is for students who have the ideas and discipline to work independently; participants are expected to be highly motivated and to be exceptionally engaged in the class discourse. Students are responsible for buying their own materials. Evaluation is based on the following: consistency of effort, the quality of analysis in critique, the quality of the portfolio at midterm and the quality of the final portfolio.
The Class: Format: one full class meeting a week on Wednesday for discussion and workshop and one small group meeting a week for critique to be scheduled once class begins
Limit: none
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation is based on the following: consistency of effort, the quality of analysis in critique, the quality of the portfolio at midterm and the quality of the final portfolio
Prerequisites: Studio Art major; permission of the instructor is required for History and Practice majors
Unit Notes: no student will be accepted into an independent study project unless he/she has completed two 200-level ARTS courses and one 300-level ARTS tutorial
Materials/Lab Fee: no lab fee, students are responsible for purchasing supplies
Distributions: Division I

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