Course Expectations
All policies, requirements, assignments, materials, expectations, rules, operating methods, and procedures including but not limited to office hours, classroom practices, assignments and grading policies and methods, conferencing as well as informal and/or oral guidelines provided by Professor Jamie Skye Bianco are fully subject to change at Professor Bianco’s discretion. If changes are made, notification to students may be made in and/or out of the classroom, on one or several of our online community pages, the website, NYU Brightspace, or any other communication method established in the class. Changes are the immediate and ongoing responsibility of the students.
Workload
Students must stay on schedule with the workload. Each class builds to the next. If you are absent, you are still expected to turn in the work due on the date it is due.
Professor Bianco practices foundation and minimal marking a style of teaching that maximizes practice, engagement, respects the integrity of student work, and supports the student's responsibility to learn. You are learning critique and will practice it regularly, far more than Prof. Bianco will provide it for you.
In class, we will regularly critique and discuss work. Prof. Bianco and the Lab Assistants will also discuss your work with you individually as often as you make yourself available in the lab and office hours. Furthermore, you will receive constant in-class "collaborative feedback."
In the end, your university career, your work, your education, your progress in this class are yours – your responsibility, your achievement, and your brilliance. Learning to evaluate the quality of your own thinking, methodologies, and work is the number one goal for this course.
Evaluation
Use generative AI tools to create an entire or part of an assignment is strictly prohibited in this course. Every submission should be entirely your work.
In-class projects, writing, assignments or exercises cannot be made up for credit in the event of absence or tardiness, even excused absences or tardiness.
You must adhere to your assigned dates and times for presentation. All assignments must be prepared prior to the class meeting, according to the due date and time, and fully complete. No credit will be given to assignments if components are missing, the tech doesn't play, or if the assigned date is missed.
If your assignment is late for up to one day, it will receive 80% credit. After that, it will receive a "0".
Digital Communications
Your digital focus is required. This means that when we are having a presentation, discussion or workshop, you should be joining in the class activity, not doing something else on text, TikTok, Insta, etc.
Recording class is NOT permitted unless permission is given in writing by professor Bianco. This is a privacy issue for every member of this class.
Absences
If you miss more than one class (2+ full weeks worth of class time), your grade will be negatively impacted.
You must make up any in-class work no later than the following class meeting.
Let me repeat: If you are absent from class more than once, for any reason, excused or otherwise, your grade will be lowered and it is possible that you will not pass this course.
Contacting Prof. Bianco
Do not wait until the night before class to contact Prof. Bianco or the Lab assistants to confirm or to ask for help for what you should have prepared for class.
Plan ahead!
When emailing Prof. Bianco (and anyone for that matter), fully identify yourself and indicate the course that you are taking. Consider the context in which you are writing... is Prof. Bianco your neighbor, best friend, parent, or barista? No, they are your professor. Use the appropriate language codes - including pronouns - for any given communication in order to a) not offend; and more importantly, b) to optimize the outcome.