University of California Berkeley Personal Creative Processes Essay

Discussion Board Assignment:

A lesson on looking | Amy Herman (Links to an external site.)

For this discussion board, I’ve modeled the structure of the responses after the questions in art grants. With grants, they look for you to give a lot of information in a short amount of space. With that as a consideration, what I’m looking for in students’ answers are not only your unfiltered opinion but also your ability to condense what you’ve read, what you think, and how you plan to apply it directly to your work into a brief and compressive summary.

For each reading or video-viewing students are required to respond to the discussion board with a two-paragraph (min) responses demonstrating critical thinking and knowledge of concepts presented. Each student must also respond to at least three other discussion posts.

Assignment point criteria: (4pts = 10% for each project)

1. Evaluate: Explain the speaker’s theme and any relation it has to your personal creative processes. 10%
2. Organize: Explain in your own terms the most relevant points of the speaker’s theme 10%
3. Apply: Explain what ideas you’ve taken from the reading/talk that have inspired your personal creative process 10%
4. Communicate: Explain how you plan to effectively apply those ideas to your current/future projects 10%