I view the critique as essential to your development, therefore your participation in critiques and in class will be graded. As the semester proceeds, you should become more comfortable with the process of commenting on visual work. Comments are often critical, both positive and negative, and both varieties should be considered essential to your development. You should work to include the vocabulary learned in the readings and through lecture in your comments. Your overall performance will be graded on a cumulative point basis with 1000 points available.
Journalism is a deadline business.
In journalism professions, missed deadlines mean added expense and potential loss of business. In journalism school, missed deadlines mean no grade. Students with medical emergencies must provide a signed note from their physician. If there are other conflicts or special circumstances that Together we'll spend this semester engaged on active interaction. We may not love each other but we certainly will respect each other.