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The Costume Designer's Handbook : A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers

The Costume Technician's Handbook : A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Technicians

 

These pages were originally designed for an online version of a Costume Design and Construction Class at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.  Since I have left UAF and this class is no longer offered, I am leaving these class materials up online for other teachers to use, link to, or print out for their own classes. 

THIS IS NOT AN ACTIVE UAF COURSE-USE ONLY FOR INSPIRATION

 Costume Design & Construction
Assignments and Grading

Assignments: 

Grading will be based on an accumulation of letter grades awarded for the projects and an overall grade for participation in Message Board postings as follows:

Grades for the accumulated projects are 80% of your grade. The format of this course allows you to choose project assignments from a series of categories to develop skills in the two main  areas of this class: Costume Design and Costume Construction.  Because many online learners come to my classes with extensive experience in some areas, and gaps in other areas, this smorgasbord is designed so that a student may skip over areas that he/she already knows about, and can concentrate on developing new skills. How this works is that every assignment is "worth" a certain number of "credits" in either Design or Construction or both, depending on the nature of the assignment and it's difficulty.  As a student you are required to finish project assignments adding up to 50 "credits" in each of the two categories, with a total of 100 credits overall.  A shortage of credits in either category will lower your grade for projects.

 Message Board participation (providing helpful commentary, ideas, and moral support to your fellow students) is 20% of your grade.  

To begin participation in the Message Board, do the following:

Write an introduction about yourself to the group, and post it to the class eGroup.  If you happen to have a web site, send us the URL too.  Make sure to describe a little bit about your background, why you are taking this class, what you hope to learn, and where you are located.