Assessment of Requisites of Topics and Textbooks for Art Programs

Amid the major problems facing art students and art instructors alike is thedeficiency of tutorial resources. This essay is a research based on three successivestudies mainly aimed to examine the present status of the relevant topics coveredand the textbooks used in various art programs (sixteen in total), and also to exploreall possible solutions that might lead to the attainment of an eligible or at any rate anacceptable educational standard. The procedures used for gathering the relevant datainclude library, computational, and questionnaire (field) methods and the researchmethodology comprises of statistical, comparative and analytical studies. Theprocess of this study has been carried out in, stages of research. Research No. 1concludes with topics and course outlines for art programs extracted from fiftyacademy centers. In phase I of Research No. 2 and relevant to the topics both presentand requisite, the following data was extracted from the distributed questionnaire; anapproximate number of 2000 printed material for translation, writing and research;110 books for re-print, and 493 researchers, authors, and translators. In phase II, afterevaluating the data in phase I, at least 900 printed material or books relevant to alltopics (230 topics) were assessed as indispensable. In order to eliminate thedeficiency observed, the following factors were considered and recommended: intotal 1740 printed material for translation, writing and research; as well as more than370 scholars, authors and translators; and, 39 printed books for re-print. The allimportantpoint in this survey was coming to the conclusion that course outlines inart programs and above all the tutorial resources are in a highly challenging statusand as yet there are many problems to tackle. However, the output of this researchcan be considered a huge step in the improvement and re-evaluation of the presentcourse outlines and tutorial resources.