Evaluation:
Grades in this course will be based on regular class attendance, the quality of your work, class participation, behavior, and progress. Tardiness, excessive absences and poor behavior will adversely affect your grade. Participation in discussions and critiques is mandatory, as is a concerted effort to work together to make this experience stimulating, challenging, and pleasant. Attention to the class values (below) is also required.
Sincerity - please take your work and our time together seriously. weak, last minute, or poorly thought out projects and participation will recieve poor grades and lessen our collective experience.
Innovation - as a leading art institute, MICA seeks to foster innovation from its students and faculty. innovation requires hard work, critical thinking, and a willingness to experiment. innovators do not seek to become cubicle drones, creating derivative, familiar projects and following orders from others. instead, innovators work to develop novel solutions and ideas to improve and challenge their respective industries, and communities. it is assumed that each of you aspire to be innovators.
Community - please respect each member of the classroom community.
Competition - not the sports or money kind, but challenging oneself to continually improve, learn and make each day in class better than the previous session. that's what your teacher does, and he needs you to do it, too.
Effort - hard work will be rewarded, and hard work will include concerted efforts toward each of the class values described above.
Projects & Grading:
You will be asked to do assignments throughout the semester. Most of the assignments will be presented in class and will be designed to stimulate group conversation.
***We will not have a final exam during finals week***
Students will be graded by letter, A-F, on all evaluated work. Work must be completed on time and in full satisfaction of each project goal. Late work (assignments handed in or posted after the start of in-class critique sessions) will be automatically downgraded by one letter grade. In addition to in class exercises, you will complete four projects.
Grades:
| A | Well above the expectations of the course. Outstanding participation, behavior, attendance, and exceptional progress. No absence (except due to illness). |
| B | Above average assignments, participation, and behavior. No more than one absence. |
| C | Average execution of assignments, participation, and no more than two absences. |
| D | Well below average: work, attendance (two absences), projects, and participation. |
| F | Unsatisfactory: work, attendance (more than two absences), projects, and participation |
Attendance:
Two or more unexcused absences from class may result in failure. Two unexcused late arrivals, or early departures will be marked as the equivalent of one absence. Absence from a class is not an excuse for skipping a tutorial, reading assignment, or posting an assignment. You are fully responsible for completing work.