High Impact Practices utilized in this project:

Collaborative Assignments and Projects

Collaborative learning combines two key goals: learning to work and solve problems in the company of others, and sharpening one’s own understanding by listening seriously to the insights of others, especially those with different backgrounds and life experiences. Approaches range from study groups within a course, to team-based assignments and writing, to cooperative projects and research.

High-Impact Educational Practices Excerpt from High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter, by George D. Kuh (AAC&U, 2008)

The BFA Specialization in Graphic Design is a professional degree. Graphic Design is a field in which students need to learn to work on teams in order to prepare for a career of working on teams, teams composed of collaborators from all sorts of art/design, art/design adjacent, and fully non-art/design backgrounds – as well as working with clients with potentially plenty to no art/design experiences.

To that end I am bring up three collaborations, two with students from the English Department, one with students from Business:

Da Vinci Innovation Celebration:

Collaborations between students in my GRA4874C Senior Design Studio and Robert Perkins’ MAN 3802: Small Business/Family Business Management

Exquisite Pensacola: A Corpse in Six Parts

A Collaboration between students in GRA4874C Senior Design Studio and Robin Blyn’s AML 4054 – Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature

Troubadour:

Annual student-edited anthology of selected art and creative writing