Abstract

It is vital for students to understand the process of critique as they situate themselves in this global world where visual language plays a dominant role in how we read, understand, and build relationships with people and situations we do not know of. The building and reading of visual messages are critical as we ask the younger generation to become sophisticated in a propaganda and commerce driven global culture. In my pursuit to do so I have come up with a system of critique that enables the development of the students’ visual thinking process where many a times they have to juggle, balance, and hold on to uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and contradicting concepts. This is where learning begins. This paper works towards giving structure and guidelines in how students and faculty can participate in a critique process that nurtures and develops the voice of the student: a learning based teaching methodology not just a content driven teaching strategy. This paper will discuss the following issues: 1. Three rules of practice in the classroom critique, 2. Procedure of the critique, 3. Questions to ask at critiques.