Detailed Grading Information

⚡︎ RUBRIC
⚡︎ LEARNING OUTCOMES & COURSE OBJECTIVES

Kehinde Wiley, Femme Piquée par un Serpent, 2008
THE A ASSIGNMENT
The A assignment is outstanding and excels in meeting all criteria. The piece demonstrates exceptional initiative in working well beyond the basic requirements of the assignment.
Aim:The A assignment shows a fully-developed engagement with the focal subject matter and expresses a clear and compelling concept in an aesthetic language. The concept is explored in significant depth, and the work takes on a high degree of intellectual and artistic challenge.
Organization and Development:The A assignment explores a concept with
outstanding aesthetic organization, based in the formal constraints of the chosen
medium. The A assignment’s aesthetic structure demonstrates a stong and
meaningful variation and complexity in space &/or time.
Method:The A assignment clearly adopts an aesthetic approach to working with the chosen materials with outstanding conceptual integration of form and content.
Communication:The A assignment expresses its concept clearly with a good
sense of audience appropriate to the work’s concept.
Technique:The A assignment demonstrates notably good technique with the chosen medium in the service of the concept.
THE B ASSIGNMENT
The B assignment is highly competent, exhibiting no serious or recurring deficiencies. The piece(s) demonstrate some initiative in working beyond the basic requirements of the assignment.
Aim:The B assignment establishes and shows engagement with the focal subject matter and expresses a discernible concept in an aesthetic language. The concept is explored in some depth, and the work takes on some intellectual and artistic challenge.
Organization and Development:The B assignment expresses and explores a concept with good aesthetic organization, based in the formal constraints of the chosen medium. The B assignment presents clear and coherent aesthetic structure with meaningful variation and complexity in space &/or time.
Method:The B assignment clearly adopts an aesthetic approach to working with the chosen materials with effective conceptual integration of form and content.
Communication:The B assignment expresses its concept clearly with a good sense of audience appropriate to the work’s concept.
Technique:The B assignment demonstrates notably good technique with the chosen medium in the service of the concept.
THE C ASSIGNMENT
The C assignment is competent, however, the piece(s) demonstrates little or no initiative in working beyond the basic requirements of the assignment, as described below.
Aim:The C assignment establishes a focal subject matter and expresses a
discernible concept in an aesthetic language. The concept, however, may not go beyond an apparent or summary presentation of the subject and may not take on a significant intellectual and artistic challenge.
Organization and Development:The C assignment expresses a concept; however, this expression may not develop the concept with a strong aesthetic organization, based in the formal constraints of the chosen medium. The C assignment presents aesthetic structure; however, it may do so formulaically or mechanically and without meaningful variation and complexity in space &/or time.
Method:The C assignment clearly adopts an aesthetic approach to working with
the chosen materials but with minimally effective integration of form and content conceptually.
Communication:The C assignment expresses its concept clearly; however the
expression may not develop a fully effective sense of audience appropriate to the concept.
Technique:The C assignment demonstrates satisfactory technique with the
chosen medium in the service of the concept.
THE D ASSIGNMENT
The D assignment is deficient in one of the five criteria described below.
Aim:The D assignment lacks a clear subject matter and/or does not express a
discernible concept in an aesthetic language.
Organization and Development:The D assignment does not develop a concept with adequate aesthetic organization, based in the formal constraints of the chosen medium, lacking meaningful variation and complexity in space &/or time.
Method:The D assignment does not adopt a clear aesthetic approach to working with the chosen materials and shows no integration of form and content conceptually.
Communication:The D assignment does not express its concept with clarity or with
adequate sense of audience appropriate to the concept.
Technique:The D assignment demonstrates overall ineffective technique with the
chosen medium.
The F Assignment
The F assignment is deficient in two or more of the five criteria noted above, and therefore fails.