Hello College J-term, it’s Emily! Today is January 18th and we have 4 days left of J-term. Today was an open work day. This morning, the majority of our time was spent listening to podcasts, reading The Gatekeepers, and working on our case studies. At the end of the morning we were asked to answer questions about how the J-term is going which Mr. Awkward created. This afternoon, students will continue researching their assigned colleges. We will also be watching a movie towards the end of the day called, Mona Lisa Smile, a movie about the life of a UCLA graduate. We are looking forward to next week and we will be returning next Tuesday for more blogs!
We started off our day at the University of Houston (main campus) School of Art where we were introduced to Mr. Hanna who showed us around most of the building that housed the design studios. Classes at UH had begun this past Monday and everyone seemed to have settled back in to classes, the first class we got to see was an intermediate class that included undergraduates working on paintings. Students who took that class went there for 3 hours, twice a week. After we took a small walk around the classroom looking at the students work, we went to the senior painting studio where each student had their whole own room to work in with their paintings either in or outside the space they had. Senior Studio Paintings Senior Studio Painting The rest of the classes and work going on in the rest of the building had more to do with computer design. We were told that some students from the graphic designing group weren't just working on their art for the assignments they received in...
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