Comments on: Teaching Design at UBA http://books.sorodesign.com/2007/03/30/teaching-design-at-uba/ designing books Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: H. Todd Duren http://books.sorodesign.com/2007/03/30/teaching-design-at-uba/comment-page-1/#comment-1440 H. Todd Duren Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:00:36 +0000 http://books.sorodesign.com/2007/03/30/teaching-design-at-uba/#comment-1440 I would love to be a student in this kind of a course. At Pellissippi State Technical Community College where I teach (and where you were once a student) we have class sizes of 7-18, which is great for one-on-one instruction. Still, sometimes I'd like to have the energy and bustle of a larger enrollment. I've not heard of any American typography courses with 150 students. I recently talked to David Madden who teaches creative writing at LSU in one of these monster courses, and it sounds quite well-organized and even theatrical. Are you on semesters? If your course runs for a calendar year it makes me think you are on quarters. Either way, a year-lond Typography II course is a great opportunity for your students, particularly if they intend to get into editorial design. My university training didn't prepare me at all for the typographic details of book design, so I teach as much as I can to my students. You can see PDFs of their work at http://opendoordesign.edublogs.org/downloads/ under "Gutenberg Book Design." I would love to be a student in this kind of a course. At Pellissippi State Technical Community College where I teach (and where you were once a student) we have class sizes of 7-18, which is great for one-on-one instruction. Still, sometimes I’d like to have the energy and bustle of a larger enrollment. I’ve not heard of any American typography courses with 150 students. I recently talked to David Madden who teaches creative writing at LSU in one of these monster courses, and it sounds quite well-organized and even theatrical.

Are you on semesters? If your course runs for a calendar year it makes me think you are on quarters. Either way, a year-lond Typography II course is a great opportunity for your students, particularly if they intend to get into editorial design. My university training didn’t prepare me at all for the typographic details of book design, so I teach as much as I can to my students. You can see PDFs of their work at http://opendoordesign.edublogs.org/downloads/ under “Gutenberg Book Design.”

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