GUC - Applied Sciences and Arts Winter08 review: Complain against Media Department in GUC 1

Dear Prof. Ashraf Mansour,
It has been the university's motto "Education for Global Excellence" the hot glowing flame of hope for a better GUC. It has been the motto that made us Faculty of Applied Arts - Media Design 5th Semester Students to write down our complaint against German Professors and Tutors in Media Design department for the following reasons :
1. The absence super vision of the department's head Professor Daniel Fetzner on the course's syllabus and planing
2. The absence of planing and clear syllabus for every course
3.Not having qualified teaching staff
4.The absence of terminology with in the courses
5.Not having a certain Criteria for the assignments and projects
6.Tutors depending mostly on Junior Teaching Assistants (Undergraduate Students) in the teaching process
7.Posting important announcements on "Facebook", and neglecting the official sources "The GUC-mail"
8.Posting grades by Professors from other departments, as Digital Editing course which was tutored by Magdalena Kallenberger and the grades were posted by Professor Anne Krafting, head of theory department

In order to make it clear and support our complaint, here is a brief summary on what has been done through the last semester with each tutor separately in comparison to what has been posted the Media-Design WIKI (http://www.mediadesign-guc.com)

Magdalena Kallenberger :
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Who was tutoring : Digital Editing on Final Cut Pro

What has been done through out Winter Semester 2010/2011
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1.Not Having a certain Curriculum or plan for the course
2. Not for filling the syllabus on the wiki, as non of the following has been tutored : Capturing and transferring footage / Building the rough cut / Trimming, Editing Points and Transitions/ Color Correction
2.Depending on her Junior TA in the teaching progress
3. Considering Facebook an official source for proper announcements
5.Assigning Students to grade them selves according the cretieria she distributed, inaddition to considering this as 25% of the course grade
6. Unclear grading criteria for assignments and projects
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Sebastian Kraft :
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Who was tutoring :
Animation
Digital Composting on After Effects
Story-writing and Script

What has been done through out Winter Semester 2010/2011
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What he has done out so far through the semester:
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1.The absence for either Curriculum application or certain plan followed for the whole semester
2.Canceling for AutoDesk Maya, as the univesity does not own the Original Version for MAC
3.Most of the basics for storywriting tutorials have been tutored after students were done writing their stories for the final project
4.Non of the basics for After Effects has been lectured
5.Canceling tutorials for more than a month, replacing them with meetings instead till the end of the semester
6.The grades are not posted out on the system
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Julien Alexander Schmid :
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Who was supposed to be teaching camera techniques and video-production

What has been done through the course :
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1.The absence for either Curriculum application or certain plan followed for the whole semester
2.The only terminology that was given for students was how to put their cameras on tripods
2.Repeating the same this has been taught in Moving image 2009/2010 with Tilo and Nina inaddition to the lack of the most important terminology required for teaching as writing shooting list
3.Canceling tutorials for more than a month, replacing them with meetings instead till the end of the semester
4.Unclear grading criteria
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Jochen Braun:
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Tutoring animation techniques and action scripting through Flash CS4

1.Caneling the whole syllabus for the course
2. Not archiving the course out come which is implement a Flash-Microsite, which contains video and animation. awareness of different interaction- and navigation principles.
3. Assigning his Junior Teaching Assistant, to teach the students the main basics for Flash CS4
4.Obliging Students to depend on learning them selves through "Online tutorials"

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In closing, our main demand that every course should have a certain syllabus and calendar that is clearly announced clearly and properly to students
either on the GUC's intra-net or posted on the wiki, in addition to following that plan .
We hope that we find some one who listens to us, care for their sons and daughters around the campus

Sincerely,
Faculty of applied arts - winter08 students