1. All design courses are 'tag' or team taught. Throughout the year each student will be exposed to all design tutors.
   
   
2. Attendance at classes is mandatory: No excuse other than illness is acceptable. No appointments will be made during the class time and trips to the Art Store/Library will be accomplished out of class time.
   
   
3. There are four design projects of equal weight assigned throughout the year.
   
   
4. Each project is of four to five weeks in duration.
   
   
5. The last week of each project will be for Presentation and Critique.
   
   
6. All students are expected to attend all Presentations for all years. Occasionally guests will be invited. Presentations should be equated with a designer's presentation to the cast at the first rehearsal or the technicians at the first Production Meeting. It is an opportunity to explain your choices, excite your audience and sell your product. 'Presentation' is a learnt form: The work and the way it is offered to the audience are indicative of the designer's confidence in the design. Consequently the work must be ordered, reasoned, thought about - and the nature of the Presentation considered.
   
   
7. Design students will receive a further personal Critique with all three of the instructors following the Presentations.

At the end of the year, projects and students' work from other classes will be showcased in a Portfolio Show. This show is presented in the Second Playing Space at the Timms Centre for the Arts and is open to the public. The Portfolio Show is designed, set up and run by the Design and Technical students, and is a showcase of your work both now and for the future.

MATERIALS: To be discussed in class.

GRADING: Each of the four projects will be graded by the tutor responsible for that project, and at the end of the year a letter grade based upon the Four Point Grading System will be given. Each project will constitute 20% of the final grade. A further grade of 20% will be added at tutors' discretion, based upon overall progress, creativity and contributions to Course activities.

Please note that all Design Courses are core to the BFA and MFA Design programs and the BFA Technical Theatre program therefore require a minimum grade of C+ at the undergraduate level and B- at the graduate level.

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Colin Winslow
Email: cwinslow@ualberta.ca

Policy about course outlines can be found in §23.4(2) of the University Calendar. (GFC 29 SEP 2003)

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In particular, please note:
No student shall represent another's substantial editorial of compositional assistance on and assignment as their own.
No student shall submit in any course or program of study, without the written approval of the course instructor, all or a substantial portion of any academic writing, essay, thesis, research report, project assignment, presentation or poster for which credit has been obtained by the student or which has been, or is being, submitted by the student in another course or program of student in the University or elsewhere.

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