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Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition & Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: free
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: An exhibition of Fine Arts faculty at the College of Visual and Performing Arts presents recent faculty work in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Mixed-Media at the UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery from November 8 through December 12, 2016.
Also on display will be the Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition. Collaborative Aggregates has awarded six $1,500 scholarships to students in the Department of Fine Arts enrolled in the graduate or undergraduate program: Henry Carpio, April Claggett, Devin Kish, Andrew Laverty, Allen TenBusschen, and Erin Wheary. Works by each scholarship winner will be included in the Collaborate Aggregates annual calendar and are also presented in this exhibition.
The mission of the Department of Fine Arts is to maintain an environment where artists are committed to the pursuit of teaching, research, and creative work. This faculty of professional artists provides a high-quality cross-disciplinary studio education to students at the foundation, undergraduate, and graduate levels through formal, aesthetic, technical, and intellectual training. Faculty members prepare students to become creative artists, pursue graduate study, or engage in Fine Arts-related professions through the attainment of their BFA and MFA degrees.
The closing reception will be held on Monday, December 12th, from 4 pm to 6 pm with artist talks at 5 pm.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Concerts
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11/30
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment.
Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD.
The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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