JEFFREY CHARLES STANLEY | JCS

UTRGV
Past Syllabi

FALL 2023 - in person

ARTS 2313 - 02: Design Communication I
Design Communication I is a Core Visual Communication Design Course that focuses on the best practices of Adobe CC Illustrator. Students complete a variety of Exercises in Illustrator learning the most effective digital tools. With these tools, students create Postcards and Movie Posters. These projects establish best practices with illustration and print design. The final section of the course focuses on Adobe CC InDesign to learn the basic workflow, then design a Magazine Layout. Same syllabus as below sections of ARTS 2313 - just differing times.

ARTS 4336 - 01: Multimedia and Emerging Design
Multimedia and Emerging Design has changed over time - originally, a course I created for Visual Communication Design Students to learn video. Students effectively learn several new programs including: Adobe CC Premiere Pro, Audition, Dimension, and After Effects, as well as Blender, to create projects that integrate simple 3D modeling and animation, best practices in Video Production, Video and Sound Editing, and creating in Augmented Reality with Adobe Aero. In addition to technical training, students are also given tools to strengthen their vision and voice with research, journaling, and peer discussion. The class also covers basic practices involving Original Content, Professional Practices, Project connections to Real-World Practices, Worldbuilding and Emerging Media, Copyright, Creative Commons License 0, and Open-Source Software.

SPRING 2023 - in person

ARTS 2348 - 01: Digital Media
Digital Media is a class for beginning and intermediate Studio Art Photo Students to learn best practices for video, digital still photography, and other emerging medias. Students concentrate on non-fictional storytelling and building narratives with traditional and emerging digital media.

ARTS 2348 - 02: Digital Media
Second Section of Digital Media (meeting 4:30pm-7:25pm - syllabus identical otherwise)

ARTS 4336 - 01: Multimedia and Emerging Design
Main section of Emerging Design on Edinburg Campus

FALL 2022 - in person

ARTS 2313 - 01: Design Communication I
Design Communication I is a Core Visual Communication Design Course that focuses on the best practices of Adobe CC Illustrator. Students complete a variety of Exercises in Illustrator learning the most effective digital tools. With these tools, students create Postcards and Movie Posters. These projects establish best practices with illustration and print design. The final section of the course focuses on Adobe CC InDesign to learn the basic workflow, then design a Magazine Layout.

ARTS 3342 - 01: Introduction to Installation and Performance Art Concepts
Installation and Performance Art focuses on exposing students to a variety of Performance Art, Video Art, Projection, and Installation Art methods. The class begins with Performance Art, covering very basic Performance exercises and projects, followed by Performance for Video, Video Art, Exploring Spaces, Curating Found Objects, and simple non-traditional Object Making. Concepts for contemporary (1960s-present) performance and installation concepts in lectures throughout the semester. Students use the processes they learn throughout the semester and create a Final Insallation Project.

ARTS 4336 - 01: Multimedia and Emerging Design

SPRING 2022 - in person

ARTS 2313 - 01: Design Communication I syllabus is identical except for dates/times listed in above section of the course

ARTS 4336 - 01: Multimedia and Production Design
Slightly more polished, pre-Multimedia and Production Design course, teaching Video and Augmented Reality to Visual Communication Design Students.

FALL 2021 - hybrid

ARTS 4336 - 01: Multimedia and Production Design
an earlier version of Multimedia and Emerging Design, less polished. This was the first semester I conceived of and developed this course.

University of Texas at Austin: Past Syllabi

Adjunct / Lecturer from 2012-2014

Digital Time Art I
Students learned techniques and methods for electronic and media arts practices from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Digital Time Art II
Intermediate Digital Time Art: students engaged in a new variety of projects with Digital Time-Based Arts Practice, including intersections with contemporary philosophy, aesthetics, narrative generation, and installation art.

Digital Time Art III
Advanced Digital Time Art: students continued a advanced practice with Interdisciplinary Digital Time-Based Art Practices. May also be taken for additional terms and as independent study.

Video Art I version 2.0
Students learned Video Art practices and history, created projects based on the properties of video, collaborated on an exquisite corpse video with After Effects procedural and generative tools, and learned about expanded video tools such as: visual programming with Max MSP, projection mapping, and Alice - an object-oriented programming language.

Video Art I version 1.0
a less polished version

Performance Art I with Mike and Jeff
Teaching Assistant of Performance Art with the great Michael Smith.