What does your discipline look at in order to learn?  How do you understand or analyze what you see? How can you use images to make arguments?  How can you teach your students the necessary skills or technologies to create effective visual products?  As we develop our new curriculum, as the internet and innovative digital technologies become more central to every discipline, we recognize that visual skills are essential.  Across the college, colleagues are exploring new visual pedagogies that provide opportunities for students to learn to use, analyze, create, and evaluate visual images and objects.

Over the three days of the workshop, we will explore how different disciplines might use visual learning, examine colleagues’ examples of exciting visual pedagogies, design and refine our own visual assignments, and evaluate visual products to see how our disciplines understand and interpret visual objects. 

Participants can apply for a follow-up stipend to continue their work, consulting with a colleague or support staff as they implement new visual course materials and assignments and assess the results.  In addition, they will be encouraged to apply for Viz curricular grants for Summer ’10 to develop a course or revise an existing course to incorporate visual materials.

Dates: December 7, 8, 9 (9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Alumni Guest House Meeting Room)

Stipend:  $360 for all three days

Curricular connections:  Argument and Inquiry Seminars, Arts Practice requirement, Academic Civic Engagement

Questions: Contact Susan Jaret McKinstry (sjaret@carleton.edu, x4325)

To sign up for the workshop go to:

https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/ltc/calendar/winter_workshops/form/