ARC 405/505: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modernism
To prepare for submitting a course to the Liberal Education Council for approval as a University Capstone, Dr. Benson focused on his first-time offering of ARC 405/505. The course was designed to be available to students from any major, to use the student-scholar model, and to address diversity and global issues.

During his participation in the ACT project, Dr. Benson created the following items (available at the bottom of the page):

• Learning outcomes for the course, including their relation to the relevant MP principle(s), examples of pedagogical techniques, assignments, and assessment strategies.

• A template that offered a systematic way of analyzing architectural form that each student could use to assess his/her examination and analysis of individual buildings.

• Three assignments developed to advance the realization of the learning outcomes as well as rubrics for assessing each assignment.

In reviewing the projected student learning outcomes and their relationship to the assignments and rubrics, Dr. Benson identified several changes he will make the next time he teaches the course.

• Students will begin developing their research projects earlier in the semester. Dr. Benson will also create more detailed guidelines for selecting the topic, developing the bibliography, making connections with students' own majors or interests, and addressing diversity and/or global issues.

• Students will complete additional short papers at the beginning of the course to ensure that they are using good visual evidence as well as information from textual sources. Rubrics will be broken down into smaller action steps that the students can understand more readily.

• The assigned readings and class lectures will better build the foundation for the diversity and global issues that students should address.

Learning Outcomes

Detailed Learning Outcomes (with links to Miami Plan principles, pedagogy, assignments, and assessments)

Assignments

Short Paper

Research Paper

Rubrics

Rubric #1 (Short Paper)

Rubric #2 (Research Paper)