Week One: Welcome! - syllabus and important info

Hi All - Welcome to our Class blog!

On this blog you will find notes from class lectures, helpful resources and links to reading assignments that are not in the textbook.

Each week your assignments will be listed at the end of the entry in RED.  Assignments are due on Thursdays unless otherwise noted. They will be marked down one letter grade for each day that they are late.  Assignments may be improved in response to the critiques that they receive and turned in at the end of the semester. Their grade will reflect any improvements that were made. The goal is to create the best possible work for YOUR portfolio!

Reading assignments will be given each week. They will be listed at the end of the entry in BLUE

SYLLABUS

Textbooks , Materials, & Technology
		Check one
		Required	Optional
Textbook(s): (Name, Author, Edition, Year, ISBN)	Pegler, Martin M, Visual Merchandising and Display, 2012, 978-1-60901-084-3	X
eBook:
Bibliographic & Digital Resources
Resources & Supplies:	o   Lined notebook o   Pens and Pencil o   Highlighters o   Paper scissors o   Glue sticks o   White computer paper o   Mechanical pencils o   Colored Media – your choice of: o   Prismacolor Marker set – 24 colors - List Price: $110.01    (Art Supply Warehouse: $71.99) o   Prismacolor Colored Pencil set  - 48 colors – List price: $80.52  (Art Supply Warehouse: $53.28) o   4 Pigma Micron Graphic Pens - 03 o   Package of 11 x 17 bristol board o   Sketchbook	X
Technology Needed:	Access to computer and color printer

Instructional Methods

Criteria and Methods of Evaluating Students

Class Participation                   20% Quizzes                                       10% Projects                                       60% Homework                                % Presentation                             % Mid Term                                   % Final                                             10%                                     ________                                             100%

A                                        100-93 A-                                      92-90 B+                                      89-87 B                                        86-83 B-                                       82-80 C+                                      79-77 C                                        76-73 C-                                       72-70 D+                                     69-67 D                                        66-65 F                                        64 or below

Weekly Topical Class Meeting Outline
Meeting	Course Outcome Supported	Description of Content	Out of Class Assignments	Quizzes/Tests/ Projects Due
Week 1		Introduction to the course. What is merchandising? Why do we display?	Paragraph with example discussing a display. Open Pinterest account
Week 2		Color and Texture in Merchandising, analyzing brand image, creating a store brand	Mood board with color story, color assignment in class	Paragraph due
Week 3		Light and Lighting in Display.		Quiz on Color,
Week 4		Creating Window Displays, brainstorming, working in studio	Create window display drawing
Week 5		Logos and Signage, Critique		Quiz on windows, Mood Board due
Week 6		Store Plans, Floor Plans and Planograms, work in studio	Create a Planogram and store logo
Week 7		Exteriors and store locations, critique	Presentation of store exterior	Quiz on signage,  Window Drawing Due
Week 8		Fixtures, work in studio
Week 9		Accessorizing, critique	Put together outfit for display	Quiz on Exteriors, planogram and store logo due
Week 10		Mannequins	Begin box window assignment
Week 11		Field Trip, work in studio	Field Work Project
Week 12		Careers in Merchandising		Quiz on fixtures. Store floor plan and exterior due
Week 13		Professionalism in the work place		Quiz on Mannequins, Box Project due
Week 14		Review for Final Exam, Critique of Field Work Project		Photographs of field work project due
Week 15		Final Exam and Critiques		Final Exam

                  Note:  The above class outline is subject to change at the instructor’s discretion.

COURSE EXPECTATIONS

 

VISUAL MERCHANDISING
SPRING 2014

Instructor: Julian Crooks

COURSE EXPECTATIONS

ABSENCES: 

Students are expected to attend all classes.

•  If a class must be missed, the student must inform the Instructor by email to be excused.

• A doctor’s note or other documentation is necessary to be excused.

Students may miss two classes without consequences.

• If more than two class periods are missed in a given semester, the student’s final grade for the course will be effected.

Fashion Departments Attendance and participation policy:

Classes that meet twice a week:

0 absences---100%

2-3absences----95%

4-5 basences----80%

6 absences-----50%

more than 6-----0%

• Students that miss 4 or more classes may be dropped from the course

•It is up to the student to keep track of their absences, and be aware of the effect it will have on their grade.

THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!  You WILL fail the class for excessive absences even if you do all the work.

Students are responsible for making up any work missed while absent.

LATENESS:

STUDENTS WHO ARE MORE THAN 10 MINUTES LATE TO CLASS WILL BE MARKED ABSENT.

 IT WILL COUNT AS AN UNEXCUSED ABSENCE. 

At 10 minutes past the start time for class, the door will be locked.  Students arriving late miss instruction and disrupt the class. It is not fair to other students or to the instructor. Being on time is part of professional behavior.

HOMEWORK:

Homework and projects are due upon their due date.  If they are turned in one week late, they will be marked down one letter grade.  After one week they will no longer be accepted, and will be marked as a zero.

Work that has been ALREADY handed in can be reworked and handed in again for a higher grade.