Global Art Education Association
OUR
PROGRAMS
The Global Art Education Association offers a platform of online art courses from our member art schools. Upon successful completion of the course, students can elect to receive academic credits or certificate of completion from the art school offering the course. These art courses would allow international students who couldn’t physically come to the US to study. In the future we also plan to offer art courses by our partner international art schools which teach specialized traditional arts of their country.
Additionally, in conjunction with the Global Youth Sustainability Contest, we are offering a track of courses in Sustainability. Here are some of the courses we are offering summer of 2020.
Our Art Education Programs
Are Coming This Summer
IL308 Character Creation (3 credits)
In this course students explore the process of designing characters as well as the objects they possess and the environments they inhabit. Students develop characters and environments that are both personally and culturally resonant and imaginative. Particular emphasis will be placed on research as well as the expressive power of facial expression, body posture, color and costume. Through exploring students' own perceptions of good and evil, success and failure, as well as beauty and ugliness, they will aim to create characters that are highly original. Character Creation's application to diverse and emerging illustration markets such as digital game design, children's books, animation, comic books, film, merchandising and marketing will be discussed and explored.
Prerequisites: One 200-Level Drawing Course, or Permission of Instructor Fulfills: A+IM 300-Level Elective (A+IM students); Illustration Elective (Illustration students); 300-Level Studio Elective
ID220 Information, Images and Ideas (3 credits)
A course investigating the relationship of imagery and content. Through the creation and manipulation of image collages, image and word pairings, and photographs, students investigate the construction and alteration of meaning. Prerequisites: None Fulfills: Studio Elective (syllabus attached). (This is a super good course for people with advanced drawing skills -- it will make them think about what and how they create). This is my first choice for an international online course. It need not go into politics/culture. Also, we have a lot of flexibility here in WHO can teach it.
DR316 Advanced Drawing: Nature and Abstraction (3 credits)
This course introduces the historical and contemporary use of nature as a source for abstraction. Students develop drawing ideas based on observation and interpretation of natural phenomena. Through a series of specific subject units (the human body, macro/micro worlds, geological and botanical subjects, landscape forms and weather) students learn to integrate abstract forms and content in drawing. Issues of scale, form, space, surface tension and mark making will be stressed.
Prerequisites: One 200-Level Drawing Elective Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-Level Studio Elective; Studio Elective
Our Sustainability Education Programs
Are Coming Soon...
Introduction to System Dynamics
System Dynamics was born at MIT Sloan in the 1950s and developed by Prof. Emeritus Jay W. Forrester. System Dynamics helps us understand, design, and manage change. Using data and technology, System Dynamics models the relationships between all the parts of a system and how those relationships influence the behavior of the system over time.
Today, System Dynamics is taught around the world and used by corporations, nonprofits, schools, and governments to manage complex challenges in domains from organizational change to climate change, physiology to fiscal policy. Current research at the MIT Sloan System Dynamics Group focuses on organizational capabilities and strategy, process improvement, environmental and social sustainability, climate change policy, alternative fuel vehicles, and global public health.
The Earth System
We will cover fundamentals of ecology, considering Earth as an integrated dynamic system. Topics include co-evolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere and oceans; photosynthesis and respiration; the hydrologic, carbon and nitrogen cycles. We will examine the flow of energy and materials through ecosystems; regulation of the distribution and abundance of organisms; structure and function of ecosystems, including evolution and natural selection; metabolic diversity; productivity; trophic dynamics; models of population growth, competition, mutualism and predation.
Professional Seminar in Sustainability
Sustainability challenges organizations to address the implications – and responses – in their own operations and supply chain, products/services/markets, and community responsibilities. This course exposes students to professionals and organizations who are actively working toward making their organizations and industries sustainable.
Sustainability Lab
The goal is for students to gain hands-on understanding and experience in sustainability. Students are to team up and take on a local sustainability project under the supervision of the instructor. The student team is to submit a proposal. The instructor must approve the proposal and would guide student team in the project. The student team must submit a final report.