Seminar in Art is a course designed to be the culminating class for all Art Majors. This course can be roughly divided into two aspects. The first aspect is a nuts and bolt approach at filling in missing information (slide copying, copyright issues, overmatting if you missed this in other courses, etc.) and preparing for life after college. This includes making and performing multiple revisions to a resume, portfolio, slide set (for some majors), and mini-portfolio.

The other aspect of the course involves furthering your communication and thinking skills to prepare you for life without the support of classes to help you improve your knowledge. In support of this aspect, the student prepares two papers, two presentations, and should participate in class discussions on the ethics and theories of art. Hopefully these papers, presentations, and discussions will not be regurgitations of what published authors think, but opinions of the student's informed by the thoughts of these writers and of the student's own experiences. If you do plan on going to graduate school, this aspect of the course will also aid in the transition to the way of approaching things there.

The culminating experience of this culminating course is the Senior Exhibit. Here the student shows off the best of what they have done while in college. In many ways it should be a reflection of what was learned in the course of four years.

Seminar is a time-consuming course, especially if you have to redo or make work for your portfolio and/or senior exhibit. It can also be a lively class where students can bring their own personality to the table. It should also be a class where free speech rules the hour and feelings don't get brittle. Comments made on your projects are made to better them (and help you), not to belittle you.

Class Forms (pdf format-payne's sections):
note: if you are using these for class, make sure they are for the correct term - things change.
Course Policies
Syllabus
Schedule
Requirements
Keep these handy, and if you loose them, print another set.
Copyright Issues
This sheet won't make much sense without the discussion, but here it is to peruse.