#College course

[transx-mogai-cafe]

📚That Time There was a Transracial (Trace) College Course📙

Okay so I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole today and felt compelled to share my findings. I clearly remembered that, off the back of Nkechi Diallo's forcible outing as trace in 2015, a couple years later there was a smaller scandal related to a college course that delved deeper into this idea on an academic level. I remember thinking, even though at the time I was against being trace, that it would have at least been interesting to attend. There are only a few reactionary articles from mid-2017 reporting on it, as the course has been scrubbed clean from the website of the Rhode Island School of Design. But thanks to the power of the Waybackmachine, I was able to take a look at it!

The faculty who taught the course is named Joon Lee, a Korean-American queer transsexual! Unfortunately I still haven't been able to pinpoint if he considers himself trace in some way, although he appears to have in-depth studies on black feminism, so it's possible that's related in some way? Just pure speculation. Thankfully he still works there even though this particular course is no longer offered. Here's his website!

But what's interesting is that this wasn't a new course in 2017; I found the same class (although called something else) in a course list from 2009-2010 and even one as far back as 2005-2006!!!

I don't really have a conclusion to this little deep dive except I'm sad I wasn't born early enough to attend this class. 🫠 These are some really interesting concepts I'd love to see actually discussed metacontextually and it's upsetting this was being talked about as early as at least the mid 00s but then got roped into the tracephobic hype.

[bog-bitch]

y’all my anthropology class is about to read “Body Rituals Among the Nacirema” i am so hyped right now

[neliamricarte]

TP Integrador - Computación II | Lic. en Diseño y Comunicación Visual UNLa | 1° cuatrimestre 2023

La consigna consistía en diseñar un cuadernillo/revista de un total de 16 páginas, con el objetivo de ordenar y jerarquizar información en el género gráfico Revista, demostrar pericia en la instrumentación de aplicaciones de maquetación digital, demostrar haber incorporado modos de apropiación de retículas tipográficas, familiarizarse con aspectos funcionales y estilísticos de la tipografía, y experimentar con combinaciones tipográficas en tamaños display y texto.

El objetivo (más personal que de la consigna) fue crear un sistema y estética elegante y chic, intentando ir por colores vivos y llamativos, por lo que para trabajo, opté por una paleta de colores cálida, teniendo como color principal un magenta-rosado y como colores secundarios, y para general mini-sistemas en las dos notas, un naranja (nota personal) y un verde manzana claro (nota en honor a familiar). También, utilicé para los títulos y subtítulos fuentes serif, y para los distintos bloques de texto más extenso opte por distintas sans.

[hiding-all-the-bodies]

"We have enough knowledge here to be dangerous now" -- My Music Technology Professor, seconds after teaching us the basics of Adobe Premiere Pro

[cullen-blue23]

UAL Level 3/4 Foundation Dip in Art & Design Unit 1

This is a small collection of work from Unit 1, which took place over the first half of the term up to the end of October. This was very different from my previous course, which was pretty structured. I decided I wanted to do a course that was more experimental, using different media, and get used to being more messy and try and get out of my comfort zone.

From the start we were working in groups, collaborating and using different mediums. We went on couple of field trips and encouraged to go beyond the studio. I made some good friends, which helped my social anxiety a lot. I enjoyed all of the workshops, though some were more challenging than others. The installation stuff, 3D work and puppet making was tricky, but enjoyable. I really liked how my puppet turned out. My first attempt was a disaster and had to learn how to sew in a week, it was rapid learning curve. Making the Julian Robers dress was interesting, and I really liked working with my friends on this.

Overall, Unit 1 for me was pretty much almost everything I had hoped for. I've explored, I've experimented, I’ve gotten messy and pushed myself out of my comfort zone. Unit 2 is the Pathway stage, and I have chosen Narrative and Printmaking. Will try and post about that more frequently.

[cumscrotesailboat]

time is nearing to choose a college course and i have no idea what to fucking choose. My main motivator is money but my only interest rn is studying evolutionary biology which I heard is super hard to get a job with. Life is sucking rn

[futuretvperson]

Today, there was a talk discussing the project that we will be working on, we are tasked to make a series of short promotional videos celebrating the 850th Anniversary of the founding of Glasgow. This celebration is called “Glasgow 850”. We have been allocated to our groups, we have a What’s App group for the Project.

The second half of the day was focused on editing the work we did last week and practice working with sound.

[joneswebgoods]

Online Courses via EdX

If you're looking for some course work online, try EdX. They can connect you to some really good free courses online.

The goal of EdX is to provide everyone, regardless of location or financial situation, with increased access to high-quality education. In order to further its goal, this non-profit aggregates courses from some of the most prestigious colleges in the world and offers free audits to students. Because of its abundance of possibilities, solid history as a pioneer in online education, and affiliations to prestigious universities, EdX is our choice for the finest overall provider of free online courses.

I came here looking for some leadership courses I want to try out later this month.

You can visit their site at https://www.edx.org/

[buglaur]

[vaampiricdecay]

average research day

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was forced to read a Donald Trump autobiography for one of my college courses. It was just the plot of Boss Baby. He thought nobody would notice. 

[neliamricarte]

TP 4 Sistema teatro - Taller de Diseño II | Lic. en Diseño y Comunicación Visual UNLa | 2° cuatrimestre 2023

La consigna consistió en la realización de un sistema para el Teatro Cervantes, incluyendo y/o modificando el afiche anterior.

Teniendo en cuenta el afiche realizado posteriormente, opté ir a por una paleta también oscura con resaltes de luces para dar un estilo algo neón.

El sistema incluye:

Afiche institucional en tamaño A2

Programa/afiche doble faz tamaño A3

Postal tamaño A5

Dos pines

Corrección del afiche de la obra Camarín 19 para que encaje de mejor forma en el sistema.

Para el título se utilizó Averia Libre Regular, para el destacado de la fecha se utilizó Bebas Neue Regular, y para los demás textos se utilizó Celebes regular y bold.

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Bocetos descartados:

Paleta descartada:

Esta idea fue más diseñado con la idea de verano y carnaval, por ende la paleta era más colorida.

Afiche institucional

3. Flyer y/o post para redes sociales

4. Marcapáginas

Afiche descartado:

Originalmente iba a ser parte del sistema final, pero los colores no encajaban con la estética.

Posts para redes sociales:

[biology30scientificproject]

first day of senior year and i’m taking AP Initiation and there’s a big portion of the test called the promoter which starts off with our DNA sequence

[cullen-blue23]

UNIT 4: Workbook Roiben: Head/Body Studies + Final Draft Studies

Having decided to go with the Holly Black book, Tithe, I had an idea for which scene I wanted to do. So, I decided to focus on only doing the two main characters as they were the only ones in my chosen scene. I decided to do Roiben first as I had a clearer idea of how I wanted his character design to look like compared to Kaye’s. I decided to design his clothes with a blend of fantasy/historical and modern styles. As with all the projects for this course, ‘content is King’, so annotate...annotate...annotate.

[anonwyvern]

Taking a humanities class on monsters this semester, and the required textbook is absolutely wild on its takes of how the monster image relates to gender, sex appeal (yes indeedy) and how it can make us look within to the monster ourselves.

I’m taking a monster-fucking class. I’m getting paid to learn why I am the way I am. Thanks HUMAN25, you were an elective but now you’re my spiritual decoder.

The text, if you’re interested:

[lilianade-comics]

the face of a man who neither regrets his answer nor is aware of his imminent violent demise