Notes on class

Our Tuesday Nights. The course develops with spontanaeity--that's what I value. I give the group a WORD each week as starting point. Everyone does a project, brings it in to pin up for the following week. We look at them together and have a conversation. And gradually get to know each other this way. The challenges are quite real--but they're based on each person's development. I've had grad students who've repeated the course more than once because they find this approach meaningful. But as you can see, it does not lend itself to a worked-out-in-advance syllabus. Here's the class blog from SP2017 to give you an idea. Most of the class development takes place in class.    http://anthonydubovsky47.blogspot.com/


I start each evening with a talk about paintings (and other art work) to set the basis--so there's what I call a practical art history element to the class as well.  


Regarding the Online Notebooks: Set up your blog site, using blogger (google blog service) and send me an active URL to your home page before Tuesday, Week 2. You'll use the blogs to post photos of each of your projects, week by week--together with ongoing written journal entries about your work. We can discuss this in class. Basically, I want you to write in parallel with your projects. Again, we can discuss in class...

Here are my notes on this from a previous class: 

Digital Notebook. I expect each of you to make  a personal blog for the class. This will be a week-by-week record of your work, with notes on my in class presentations, readings and visual discoveries. Use blogger (blogspot.com) format, not tumblr. This will allow me (and your classmates) to make comments on your posts. And yes, you need to make a new blog for this class...
Have your name in the title or description. The class is VS280 Grad Seminar: Beginnings.   Go to google's www.blogspot.com   Use a simple template so that your work stands out. (Some of the blogger template formats are much too busy.) Your first post should be a kind of self portrait.
When I have full set, I will share list of URL's with class as a whole. I'll expect you to keep your blog notebook up to date for each week of the class. It really is a notebook--showing your work and your thoughts & responses as they develop! Also remember that class attendance remains primary. Your notebook posts are not a substitute for being in class. 

End of Semester Exhibtion. In the past we've always had a show of everyone's work--an open-house to share what happens in VS 280. Both to make it available to everyone in Wurster--your friends and classsmates--and as a way of letting future students know about the course. So keep your work from each week, and we'll plan this come November...

Course Book. In the description I discuss a hand-made book with each of your projects, but in recent years the Online Notebooks have taken on this function instead. Their value lies in the timeliness of your posts, week by week--and in their cumulative effect. The Notebooks become an interesting record not just of what you've done, project-wise, but how the work has developed--and how you've chosen to write about it. Plus the fact that everyone can follow each others posts..
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 Course Requirements. Some general guidelines as to what's expected from students in the course:

*  Attendance at all classes

*  Participate in discussion

*  Weekly projects (as discussed in class)

*  Weekly Reading (class blogsite post and my comments on your projects, with additional readings as suggested.)

*  Digital Notebooks--(Individual Student Blogs)--Record of work and readings, visual discoveries). Please use blogger.com format with simple background, as discussed in class. Blogger allows for comments on your posts.
IMPORTANT: Your weekly notebook post is not a substitute for being in class!