{"id":26,"date":"2017-05-01T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2018-10-17T01:28:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:28:33","slug":"curriculum-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/curriculum-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, I served as the Undergraduate Advisor for studio Visual Art (VISA). In our department, this position not only performs administrative and managerial duties, but also acts to advance curriculum development in a leadership position. During my time in this role, I chose to lead the studio side of the department towards better-identified degree outcomes, including curriculum mapping and revising. I also collaborated with the Department of Theatre and Film as we embarked upon a revision of Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) degree requirements. Eventually the Department of Creative Writing\u2014the third and final BFA granting program at UBC Vancouver\u2014also came on board as a part of the proposals that we put forward. As a result, I played an active role in implementing some of the biggest changes at a degree and program level that the department has ever seen. The following is selected summary of what I accomplished with live links to further information on each component.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/bfaba-degree-outcomes\/\">Visual Art Degree Outcomes<\/a>\u00a0<strong>(2014)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Visual Art Curriculum Redesign (2014-2017)<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Trajectory of Theory by Development of New Course: VISA 280 &#8220;Contemporary Art: Ideas as Practice II&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Flexible Degree to Encourage Complimentary Academic Pursuits<\/li>\n<li>First Year Cohort Development of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/a5-new-course-visa-101-bfa-studio-practice-syllabus-proposal\/\">New Course:\u00a0VISA 101 &#8220;BFA Studio Practice&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Overall Increase in Visual Art Requirements<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/direct-entry-bfa\/\">Direct Entry BFA &#8211; Bachelor of Fine Arts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/a2-bfa-degree-revision-chart-pre-post-implementation\/\">Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Requirement Revisions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>New VISA Stream: 2 New Courses in Practicum (2016)<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Experiential Learning, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/375-syllabus\/\">New Course:\u00a0VISA 375 &#8220;Artists in Society&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Exhibition Practicum, New Course:\u00a0VISA 475 &#8220;Exhibition Theory and Practice&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Example links to syllabi are provided on for courses in which I was the sole author, or developed a team-teaching structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, I served as the Undergraduate Advisor for studio Visual Art (VISA). In our department, this position not only performs administrative and managerial duties, but also acts to advance curriculum development in a leadership position. During my time in this role, I chose to lead the studio side of the department towards better-identified degree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/curriculum-development\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curriculum Development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17601,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}