8 courses with the subject GRLA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Only offered Fall semester This course teaches students strategies for developing and designing high quality online courses, how to help artists and designers facilitate the creative process remotely, and how to conduct critiques effectively online.
Semester 1 In this five-week course offered at the start of the MFA program, students reflect on personal and situational context, privilege and difference, intentions versus results, and intended audiences for their creative practices. Students take field trips focused on different groups of people living in the Twin Cities who have influenced and shaped current cultural and social circumstances, potentially including Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and hyper-local/neighborhood-level perspectives. Artists, designers, curators, writers, or other cultural workers/thinkers are invited to help illuminate relationships to creative practice. The course establishes a framework for sustained commitment to antiracism in practice and community life by introducing related vocabulary and concepts.
Semester 1 This is one of two courses that exposes students to contemporary visual criticism and theory in art and design. This course brings together reading, discussion, writing, oral presentations, and at least three site-visits (museums, galleries, agencies, conventions, studios, etc.), to help students expand their art and design vocabulary. Students will practice verbally analyzing and articulating their practices in relationship to various histories and cultures. Via individual studio visits with the instructor early in the semester, this course becomes highly tailored to reflect the areas of foci of the enrolled students. Early in this course, students will examine concepts of privilege and difference in relationship to systems of power, both in and outside the art and design worlds. Also early in the course, students will be briefly introduced basic popular lenses for examining a
Semester 2 This is the second of two courses that expose students to contemporary visual criticism and theory, along with corresponding historical context. Students gain exposure to artists, designers, systems, curators, critics, and visual/textual methods influencing current practices in art and design, building beyond content/topics covered in the first course. This course brings together reading, discussion, writing, oral presentations, and at least three site-visits (museums, galleries, agencies, conventions, studios, etc.), to help students expand their art and design vocabulary. Students will practice verbally analyzing and articulating their practices in relationship to various histories and cultures. Via individual studio visits with the instructor early in the semester, this course becomes highly tailored to reflect the areas of foci of the enrolled students. With instructor guid
Semester 3 This course is designed to help students articulate the theoretical basis of their work in relation to acknowledged contemporary works and culture. Students research, outline, and write the first three-quarters of their thesis paper on the nature of their current practice. The semester concludes with public presentations based on the students’ work over the course of the semester. OutcomesInvestigate the theoretical basis of one’s own creative practice. Find, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize appropriate literary sources using online and library-based resources. Compose, edit, and revise written papers based on feedback. Present the results of thesis research in an oral presentation.
Semester 4 This course is designed to guide students through the process of final thesis development. Students will meet throughout the semester to ensure work is moving forward according to various requirements and deadlines. There will be a writing intensive component at the end of the semester to complete the required final quarter of the thesis paper. The instructor will submit the final grade for the paper as a part of this course. This course also guides students through the process of finalizing the thesis paper for submission to the college.OutcomesDemonstrate effective time-management, communication, and organizational skills through working with a thesis committee.Engage in reflective thinking and writing to formulate personal responses to experiences, situations, events, or new information.Follow instructions to prepare a final written thesis for submission to the college repos
Only offered Spring semester This course addresses skills and knowledge useful for succeeding post-graduation. Students will further develop their communication skills in both written and oral forms. Via individual studio visits with the instructor early in the semester, this course becomes highly tailored to reflect the areas of foci of the enrolled students that builds upon their prior professional understanding gained through undergraduate study and/or previous professional experience. Topics can include goal setting and planning, informational interviews, job/internship searching/ applications, writing for professional opportunities and applications, the documenting and marketing of work, tax issues, and studio/business startup concerns. By the end of this course the students will be expected to produce a portfolio of documents or artifacts related to their professional goals.
Only offered Spring semester This course introduces graduate students to general teaching pedagogy, course planning resources, as well as classroom and course management. It exposes students to teaching and learning theories as they develop skills in the higher education classroom. The cohort will reflect together on their experiences in varied classrooms, whether previous and concurrent experiences as graduate teaching assistants, as students, or as teachers in other educational contexts. The course will also introduce professional documents and strategies for teaching job applications and interviews. Read more about teacher training and support
Source: Minneapolis College of Art and Design's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
