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I. ART 4363: Graphic Design Internship. II. This course offers the qualified advanced student the opportunity of earning college credit while working full or part time in a professional graphic design setting. III. Justification: 1) This course will give Qualified advanced students the benefit of real world on-the-job experience in graphic communications. This course will provide valuable work experience to augment the studio/classroom. 2) This course will allow the student to test the marketability of his graphic design skills, and make contacts in the graphic design profession thus facilitating his transition into that profession. 3) This course is for Seniors only. 4) This course is for students who are in their senior year and are ready to prove their abilities in a professional design environment. IV. The course will be handled on a TBA basis in co-operation with professional graphic design and advertising agencies in the community or region. The student must be on site for nine hours per week for the 3 credit-hour course. Students will be assigned an advisor who will require weekly written reports (via form letter) from both student and employer. The Weekly Reports should detail the student's general duties and conduct as well as specific tasks accomplished that week. The advisor will visit or telephone the employer at least twice during the semester and the student will be expected to produce a portfolio of work at mid-semester and another at the end of the semester. V. The prospective intern site supervisor must agree to involve the student in every aspect of the business. The student will be required to produce examples of work suitable for portfolio presentation. A minimum number of projects for the semester may be established by the advisor based on the individual situation. VI. This course will be undertaken with the co-operation of various professional graphic design and advertising agencies in the community and surrounding area who have expressed interest in such an involvement with the Art Department. No additional cost will accrue to the Art Department however, students in internships outside of the immediate community will be expected to make their own travel and in some cases living arrangements. Also, internships in distant cities may involve liabilities that the department may not wish to accept. VII. Required Reading: Graphic Design Career Guide by James Craig and The Graphic Artist's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion by Sally Prince Davis. VIII. Staffing will be handled on a TBA basis with no impact except on the individual instructor. XI. Library holdings are adequate to support this course. |
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