ok so i think it would be a good idea to get started on this proposal. thanks conor for getting it started. i re-read conor's post and i just don't want the idea of what we were originally intending to do slip away..... can we all start by agreeing on some of the changes we want to see?
i'll start...
1. the big problem is class size, and what we/the administration must do to fix this.
2. more theory (i.e. lectures, guest speakers etc.)
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1)The classes are over-crowded.
We need new professors.
The professors we have are over-taxed with the amount of students they have, and the extra classes they are having to take on because of this. They do not have the time nor the energy to try to give us the one on one attention that we need as well as pursue their own careers in design.
There need to be more sections.
The classes are over-crowded, there is not enough room in the classrooms for all of us to be in class and working when we are not having a critique. Even when we do have critiques with both sections there, there is not enough time to get through everyone.
We cannot really add more sections without another professor.
And there is not nearly enough computers in the lab for all the design students, as well as music and actors... but that is another issue.
2)
There really ought to be more substance to our classes, aside from only critiques.
Even if it is just explaining a little about the different assignments while giving them out (ex: the difference between coffee table book and magazine spreads), it would be an improvement.
I do like the idea of having one section for an hour, lecture/theory for an hour, and the last section. It would give people a chance to rest between sections, so people don't just get tired of speaking by the end of it all. Though, there might be time lost while people are shifting from one mindset to the other and back.
Guest lectures would be interesting, as well... I'd like to hear something about how some of these established designers got where they are, or simply how people get their freelace jobs, as well as hear about the work and what goes on behind it.
Agree?
Disagree?
Anything?
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