> Seriously, though—why should it be a requirement? Why do you have to have a > degree to know how to teach a class that gets someone else a degree?
I think it depends. It depends on the field. It depends on the person's experience. In an MFA program, probably all that matters is the person is a great designer and a great teacher. Would you take a Psych class from someone who doesn't have a degree in Psych, but has counseled their friends on relationships for years? > Why > does a degree prove that you know what you're doing more than experience > proves it? As many have noted here, the graduates are often terrible > designers, and the great designers are often sans degree. > True that. Again - I am guessing that this is more than just studio classes. Are they going to cover dynamic visualization of quantitative data? Might help if the teacher knows a bit about gestalt principles and pre-attentive processing - and you don't pick that up coding xhtml and designing great things in Photoshop. Unless I am missing something... ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
