If you make this choice, you will write an outline based on the reading assignments. Your outline should be compact, yet thorough enough to allow your textbook to become victim to spontaneous internal combustion for the midterm and final essays. This means that it must STAND ON ITS OWN. This means that each item on the outline needs to be defined or explained!!! I will judge your entries primarily upon:
(a) content
(b) organization
(c) creativity, which is optional, and must not be at the expense of (a) and (b).
If you make this choice, you will write an summary for reading assignments. Your summary should be essay form, and thorough enough to allow your textbook to become victim to spontaneous internal combustion for the midterm and final essays. I will judge your entries primarily upon:
(a) content
(b) quality of expression
(c) organization
(d) creativity, which is optional, and must not be at the expense of (a), (b) and (c).
If you make this choice, you will write three "meaty" questions for reading assignments ***and answers to those questions*** in your journal. Your questions and responses should be compact, yet thorough enough to allow your textbook to become victim to spontaneous internal combustion for the midterm and final essays. I will judge your questions AND RESPONSES primarily upon:
(a) content
(b) quality
(c) creativity, which is optional, and must not be at the expense of (a) and (b).
If you make this choice, you will write a free-form "response" for reading assignments in your journal. You may integrate elements from your studio practice, respond to lecture material or provide some type of interactive commentary on the material. This journal becomes a record of your intellectual journey through the course. Your responses need not be compact. I will judge your entries primarily upon:
(a) content
(b) evidence of "involvement" with the material
(c) creativity, which is optional, and must not be at the expense of (a) and (b).
If you make this choice, you will take copious notes on both the textbook on the left side of your notebook. (Or, if you want to combine this with one of the other options, you would put your outline etc.on the left side). On the right side of the notebook you provide an interactive commentary on the material similar to the "Open-Ended" Journal in the above option, but individual comments will likely be briefer. I will judge your entries primarily upon:
(a) content
(b) organization
(c) evidence of "involvement" with the material
(d) creativity, which is optional, and must not be at the expense of (a), (b) and (c).
Note: this is a good choice for people who already take copious notes and would like to receive credit for that. It is a sucky choice if you typically don't take notes, don't take "copious" notes, or don't learn by taking notes.
If you make this choice, you will integrate current events (do not have to be art-related, but some of these would be a good idea!) with the material covered in the textbook. This journal can also be "combined" with any of the options listed above (for instance, you could write a summary, then relate that to current events). I will judge your entries primarily upon:
(a) content
(b) lucid expression of the relationships between course content and current events
(c) evidence of "involvement" with the material
(d) creativity, which is optional, and must not be at the expense of (a), (b) and (c).