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Blowing Our Own Horn: The Departments of Art Education and Graphic Design


 

The objective of this paper is to find out how well the potentials of the school has been fully advertised and also identify how best the school can be advertised. The paper was centred on the Departments of Graphic Design and the Art Education of the School of Creative Arts of the University of Education, Winneba. Qualitative and descriptive research methods were used in this research. The qualitative was used to ascertain prevalent information from staff members of the university and some indigenes of the Winneba community, as required by the study whiles the descriptive method was also used to specifically reveal the prevailing situation in the university and its environs. The study revealed that, members of the university community and people within the Winneba community have little knowledge about the two departments, let alone their full potentials in the university’s activities. The study therefore commends that effective and efficient advertising media be used to create the awareness of the existence of the Departments of Graphic Design and Art Education and also publicize their full potentials to the University community and its environs and the country at large.


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The objective of this paper is to find out how well the potentials of the school has been fully advertised and also identify how best the school can be advertised. The paper was centred on the Departments of Graphic Design and the Art Education of the School of Creative Arts of the University of Education, Winneba. Qualitative and descriptive research methods were used in this research. The qualitative was used to ascertain prevalent information from staff members of the university and some indigenes of the Winneba community, as required by the study whiles the descriptive method was also used to specifically reveal the prevailing situation in the university and its environs. The study revealed that, members of the university community and people within the Winneba community have little knowledge about the two departments, let alone their full potentials in the university’s activities. The study therefore commends that effective and efficient advertising media be used to create the awareness of the existence of the Departments of Graphic Design and Art Education and also publicize their full potentials to the University community and its environs and the country at large.