This essay assignment is in two parts. In both sections you are asked to complete a written reflection of your experiences in this course. After the assignment deadline, you are required to return to this module to evaluatethree of your peers' submissions. Failure to do so will result in a full forfeiture on your grade (100% penalty) for this assignment.
Submission guidelines (please read them carefully):
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Part 1
This course asks how artists actively make a history for their own practices by thinking about their creative process as a “conversation” with a wide range of art from the past. How has this course helped you establish a greater sense of your own art historical awareness?
To help focus your answer, you must include an example of a work from one of the lectures, the discussion forums, or any research initiated from your participation in this class. Choose a work that not only interests you, but has had an impact, no matter how small, on your creative practice as well.
This section should be 300-600 words in length.
Part 2
How has the process of receiving and giving feedback influenced your approach to your work?
To help focus your answer, you must choose a work you provided feedback on or an example of feedback that you gave or received, and write about what impact of reviewing that work or giving/receiving that criticism had on your own practice.
You may also use any or all of the following prompts to form your answer:
Submission guidelines (please read them carefully):
- You are encouraged to write in a first-person voice.
- Review both prompts carefully, and the rubric below to understand what is expected of you.
- Both parts require you to incorporate an example from either the course content or from peer assessment to help focus your answer. Brief descriptions, excerpts, or quotations are sufficient here—do not place too much emphasis on descriptions or summaries of other people’s work or evaluations, or on quoted material. Your response should be primarily your analysis of your experience of the course. If you must choose, your own words are always better than someone else’s.
- There is no need to add a full citation for work referenced in this class—just stating the source is sufficient (ie. lecture number or title, or a forum thread title).
- Please do not use links or images to reference other material or content from either the course or outside of it; your entire submission must be submitted as text within the module.
- This assignment is not asking you to provide feedback on the course itself—save your comments for the post-course survey!
- As before, you are primarily providing qualitative (written) feedback on the student's submission. Unlike previous assignments, the appearance of the evaluation looks a little differently. There are four parts to the evaluation: a feedback field for Part 1, a feedback field for Part 2, and then two overall evaluations at the bottom. Please provide feedback in every field as marked; note there are minimum word counts for all fields.
- You are not evaluating the work based on its artistic merit or effort, or on grammar, spelling, or syntax errors. Please be as objective as possible while still offering thoughtful and constructive comments.
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Part 1
This course asks how artists actively make a history for their own practices by thinking about their creative process as a “conversation” with a wide range of art from the past. How has this course helped you establish a greater sense of your own art historical awareness?
To help focus your answer, you must include an example of a work from one of the lectures, the discussion forums, or any research initiated from your participation in this class. Choose a work that not only interests you, but has had an impact, no matter how small, on your creative practice as well.
This section should be 300-600 words in length.
Part 2
How has the process of receiving and giving feedback influenced your approach to your work?
To help focus your answer, you must choose a work you provided feedback on or an example of feedback that you gave or received, and write about what impact of reviewing that work or giving/receiving that criticism had on your own practice.
You may also use any or all of the following prompts to form your answer:
- How did giving feedback help you develop greater skills of observation, description and analysis?
- How did your intentions align with the feedback that you received? Did some aspect of the feedback surprise you or cause you to think differently about your approach?
- Did you feel like feedback you received encouraged you to take a risk, or explore a medium or concept you hadn’t previously?
- If you were negatively affected by the peer assessment process, either as a submitter or an evaluator, how might you be able to apply that experience to your practice in a positive way?