Bascom Course
BASCOM COURSE develops critical reading, logical thinking, evidence use, and library skills, emphasizing writing in field-specific conventions.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2018: 3.81 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.85 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.38 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Demonstrate reader-awareness and art-specific language and reasoning.
Examine one's own thoughts and feelings at the root of that enthusiasm and ground those in the objective delineation of how the work functions.
Critically dissect a work of culture in oral presentation.
Formulate and concisely communicate a basic personal aesthetics.
Demonstrate collaboration and cooperation in forms crucial to artistic practice.
Write persuasively about culture as a member of a critical community; work in peer workshops to learn collaboratively.
Use library research methods to engage with critical context.
Source: UW Guide
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Prerequisites
Course mapSatisfied Communications A
- Satisfied Communications A
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- Satisfied Communications A
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2018: 3.81 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.85 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.38 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
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Topics
- Critical reading, logical thinking, evidence usage, and library resources.
- Examining personal thoughts and feelings grounded in objective analysis of how works function.
- Collaboration and cooperation in forms crucial to artistic practice.
Skills
- Critical reading, logical thinking, use of evidence, and library resource utilization.
- Writing in the conventions of specific fields.
- Reader-awareness and art-specific language and reasoning.
- Persuasive writing about culture and collaborative learning in peer workshops.
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