Review 1 Brief
There are two components to Review 1: a one-page written document and an oral presentation to design faculty and graduate students.
Review 1 One-Page Document
48 hours prior to their oral presentation, Review 1 students must submit a one-page written document to the Design Graduate Advisor that briefly addresses:
a) how their coursework to date both within and outside of the Design program has informed their thinking and interests
b) what they have learned, accomplished, and/or realized during their first year of study
c) their current area(s) of primary interest within the field of design
d) what they still hope to learn about, or learn how to do, before completing the program
e) one to three ideas about the direction their master’s project might take, ideally framed as questions
f) what their plans for summer and fall study are, and how they relate to the answers for questions d and e.
Review 1 Oral Presentation
The oral presentations for Reviews 1 and 2 are structured similarly. The graduate advisor acts as moderator for the reviews; the allocations of time listed below for the different portions of the review are approximate, and vary each semester at the discretion of the graduate advisor.
a) Any work pinned up or on display may be viewed during the first five minutes of the review.
b) The student makes an oral presentation for ten to fifteen minutes. In these presentations, students should address essentially the same points that they do in the written document (see above), but in addition, should introduce the faculty to the range of work they have completed to date in the program. Students should present images not only of final products, but also of their working processes, research/design methods, and works by others that have influenced their thinking.
c) The student fields questions from the GSC faculty and other approved reviewers for 30–35 minutes.
d) The GSC faculty and other approved reviewers exit the room to deliberate during the final 10 minutes of each review slot, during which students and non-voting faculty may continue discussion, if they wish, or disband in order to allow the next person to set up.