Picture Perfect: Demonstrating the

Value of a Liberal Arts Education

NACADA

2010

Orlando

Katie McFaddin - Brandeis University

Jennifer Joslin - University of Oregon

Undergraduates: 18,514

75+ majors

63% of students are Oregon residents

31% are out-of-state

6% are international students

*data courtesy of UO Admissions, Fall 2009

Liberal Education for the 21st Century:

Essential Outcomes

Knowledge of Human Cultures

and the Physical and Natural

World

Intellectual and Practical Skills

Personal and Social Responsibility

Integrative Learning

General Education

Major

Electives

UO Bachelor’s Degree

General Education Major

Electives

UO General Education

Distribution Arts & Letters Social Science Science Writing Multicultural Math Language

Writing

WR 121 & 122 or 123 Previous credit (AP)

Priority registration

Fall A-G Winter H-O Spring P-Z

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How can we better connect the concepts with the coursework?

Is this image “real”?

ARH 206: History of Western Art III

Arts & Letters

Is this image “real”?

(top) Gustav Courbet - Stone Breakers, 1849 (bottom) Jean-Francois Millet - The Gleaners, 1857.

Can a farm be economically viable and environmentally sustainable?

EC 333: Resource & Environmental Economic Issues

Social Science

Can a farm be economically viable and environmentally sustainable?

How do nutrients flow between the various

components of this ecosystem?

BI 130 – Intro to Ecology

Science

How do nutrients flow between the various components of this ecosystem?

How does our built environment reinforce

assumptions about culture & lifestyle?

INTL 250: Value Systems in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Multicultural

How does our built environment reinforce assumptions about culture & lifestyle?

Does the photo inspire questions, or answer them? The image should suggest a contradiction or dramatic tension.

4 photo-finding filter questions

Does the photo inspire questions, or answer them? The image should suggest a contradiction or dramatic tension.

Does the photo have spatial depth? There should be something happening in the foreground, middle ground, and background.

4 photo-finding filter questions

Does the photo inspire questions, or answer them? The image should suggest a contradiction or dramatic tension.

Does the photo have spatial depth? There should be something happening in the foreground, middle ground, and background.

Does the photo contain themes that relate to general education courses offered at your institution?

4 photo-finding filter questions

Does the photo inspire questions, or answer them? The image should suggest a contradiction or dramatic tension.

Does the photo have spatial depth? There should be something happening in the foreground, middle ground, and background.

Does the photo contain themes that relate to general education courses offered at your institution?

4 photo-finding filter questions

Do you have the rights to use this photo?

Microsoft Office Online Clip Art 2009

Eli Reed 2005 ARTstor www.magnumphotos.com

Peter Geller 2008 National Geographic http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/rialto-bridge-venice/

Catullo Roberto 2008 Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acqua_alta_Venezia.JPG

Image Source #1: Google images

Image Source #1: Google images

Image Source #1: Google images

Image Source #2: ARTstor

Image Source #2: ARTstor

Image Source #2: ARTstor

Image Source #3: Flickr Creative Commons

Image Source #4: Library of Congress

Image Source #5: Campus Library

If your campus library uses the Library of Congress call number system (not Dewey Decimal), then search the keywords “pictorial works.” “pictorial works” = books that are >50% images

Other suggestions?

Do you have the rights to use this photo?

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