PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT
Sheryl Konen, Professor
Syllabus
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Semester: Spring Semester 09 |
Catalog Number: INT-113 |
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Day & Time: Thursday 8:00-8:50am |
Semester Credits: 1 |
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Telephone: (319) 398-4917 |
Email Address: skonen@kirkwood.edu |
Course Description
This course prepares the student to exit the Program and enter Business with a Portfolio of work samples that displays technical skill in the following Design Sectors: Kitchen & Bath, Residential, and Contract Design. Guest speakers from the Design Sectors of the career will help prepare the Program Completer to transition from school and enter the Business World. The teacher will be available to help students revise their projects in an attempt to attain the best Portfolio Work Samples for Employment Interviews. The class is team driven and simulates the environment of a professional design firm where work is constantly revised until the Client and all persons involved find approval with a project.
Prerequisites
The first three semesters should be completed.
Required Text
INTERIOR DESIGN VISUAL PRESENTATION, SECOND EDITION, MAUREEN MITTON
Course Materials
All materials are from the other Interior Design courses.
Attendance Policy
Attendance is mandatory, as instruction is skill based and guest speakers will be scheduled as in-class activities and punctuality and dependability is of major importance.
Method of Instruction
Learn by doing is encouraged with hands-on demonstration and participation from everyone.
Expected Learner Outcomes
Following the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Attend all classes as they simulate the professional work setting where attendance is mandatory and commitment is expected.
The student will gain skill and self-confidence in them selves as they revise previous work according to the Instructor's Evaluation Rubrics with Revision Notes. Technical skill and accurate subject matter content will be in their Portfolio which ensures their success in job interviewing. CAD drawings can be revised and printed in the CAD Lab in Jones Hall.
Course Competencies
Following the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Make a goal concerning which Interior Design Career Sector you would like to enter upon graduation and revise your Portfolio to show technical strength in this area of subject content.
Prepare yourself to enter the professional world by displaying a strong interest and curiosity towards a career specialty.
Orally Present their Portfolio in 55 minutes to the first year Color Theory class and explain the Programming and Subject Matter content of each required projects CAD drawings and Material Swatch Boards.
Answer any questions the first year Interior Design Students may ask concerning the second year of the Interior Design Program and the development and completion of the Portfolio and Internships/Career Placement.
Assessment of Learner Outcomes
The following criteria will be used to determine your final grade:
This is a hands-on skill class that provides career goals and projects for the student to organize into a Portfolio. A Rubric Rating Scale that is attached to the Course Syllabi will be used to Evaluate the Portfolio. Points are earned for being in class at 8:00am to greet a Guest Speaker and promptly start the workday. It has simple numerical ratings that will assess the required projects and student’s organization of the Portfolio. A Letter grade of the student’s overall performance will be the student’s grade for this course.
Grading Criteria
| A = |
93-100% |
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C = |
73-76 |
| A- = |
90-92 |
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C- = |
70-72 |
| B+ = |
87-89 |
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D+ = |
67-69 |
| B = |
83-86 |
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D = |
63-66 |
| B- = |
80-82 |
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D- = |
60-62 |
| C+ = |
77-79 |
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F = |
59 and below |
Academic Integrity
Academic Integrity is submitting one's own work and properly acknowledging the work of others. Cheating, plagiarism, or fabrication constitutes academic dishonesty and is subject to disciplinary action.
According to Webster, to plagiarize is "to steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own….to use created productions without crediting the source….to commit literary theft….to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source."
Kirkwood students are responsible for authenticating any assignment submitted to an instructor. If asked, you must be able to produce proof that the assignment you submitted is actually your own work. Therefore, we recommend that you engage in a verifiable working process on assignments. Keep copies of all drafts of your work, make photocopies of research materials, write summaries of research materials, hang onto Writing Center receipts, keep logs or journals of your work on assignments and papers, learn to save drafts or versions of assignments under individual file names on the computer, diskette, etc.
The inability to authenticate your work, should an instructor request it, is sufficient grounds for failing the assignment.
In addition to requiring a student to authenticate his/her work, Kirkwood Community College instructors may employ various other means of ascertaining authenticity such as engaging in internet searches, creating quizzes based on student work, requiring students to explain their work and/or process orally, etc.
Americans with Disabilities
Kirkwood Community College complies with the Americans with Disabilites Act. Students with disabilities who need accommodations to achieve the course objectives should file an accommodation application with the Learning Services located in ROOM 133 of LINN HALL as soon as possible.
Equal Opportunity Educator
Kirkwood Community College is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Kirkwood is committed to an appreciation of diversity with respect to the differences among the diverse groups comprising our students, faculty, and staff that is free of bigotry and discrimination. Kirkwood Community College is committed to providing a multicultural education and environment that reflects and respects diversity and that seeks to increase understanding and tolerance.
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