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ART 105 Studio 1: Art & the Everyday
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores material culture, industrial/mass production, information media and design, craft, kitsch, and the banal through the concepts, processes and practices of two- and three-dimensional design and drawing. Required for first-year B.F.A. and B.A. majors.
ART 110 Studio 2: Constructed Body
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Investigates concepts and processes of drawing, three-dimensional and performance methods as forms of expression used in exploring the history and function of the human body in art. Introduces students to related issues such as sexual politics, post-colonialism and technology, and contextualizing their projects within a larger cultural framework. Required for first-year B.F.A. and B.A. majors.
ART 111 Drawing Fundamentals
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Involves drawing from still life, figure, and memory/imagination, utilizing a wide variety of media. Conceptual emphasis on line, gesture, shape, space, value, and texture. Covers compositional theory and development of visual expression.
ART 120 Studio 3: Public Space
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores concepts and design processes related to three-dimensional investigations situated in the public domain. We contextualize assignments by studying the history and social impact of these practices. Students experiment with contemporary modes of displaying and experiencing art and design, through site-specificity, collaboration, audience interaction, and development of public, commercial, and institutional communication.
ART 135 Studio 4: Self and Ritual
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Relates concepts and design processes to painting and printmaking, exploring the function of art through personal narratives, issues of identity, and as a vehicle for spiritual/psychological transformations.
ART 140 Studio 5: Time-based Strategies
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Investigates the concepts and practices of photography, computer art, and video as the basis for visual communication and expression in contemporary art and design. We ground assignments in the development of semiotics, media literacy, media ethics, dissemination techniques, and teamwork.
ART 202 Intro to Print Media/ Relief and Letterpress
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: Accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab Fee
Studio course utilizes methods of woodcut, linocut, letterpress, and digital letterpress (photopolymer plates) to introduce students to the historical conventions and contemporary extensions of relief printing. Explores the aesthetic possibilities of inking and impression, and seeks the pleasures of material involvement while building conceptual and technical knowledge. Culminates in an assignment that emphasizes the relationship between typography, language and meaning.
ART 205 Introduction to Print Media: Intaglio and Collagraph
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab Fee
Teaches the basics of intaglio (etching) and collagraph print media. Instruction in non-toxic methods is included along with traditional methods on copper and zinc plates. Analyzes historical and contemporary constructions of narrative and sequence, culminating in a project that builds upon this theme.
ART 207 Drawing Concepts 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: Accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab Fee.
First semester of a two-semester sequence of drawing courses focusing on the language, materials and concepts of drawing as foundation for all the visual arts. Emphasizes the development of perceptual, analytical, and structural drawing skills while simultaneously working with idea development. Includes sketching as concept generation; material exploration; creating pictorial and illusionistic space; recording the external world; and working with the figure. Line, texture, tone, shape, composition, light and shadow are covered along with a variety of wet and dry drawing media
ART 208 Drawing Concepts 2
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 207
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab Fee.
Second semester of a two-semester sequence of drawing courses focusing on the language, materials and concepts of drawing as foundation for all the visual arts. Emphasizes idea generation as a formal and conceptual process, from the thought in the mind to the gesture on the page to a fully articulated image. Students investigate the translation that occurs when representing ideas through a variety of drawing tools, materials and mark making. Topics covered include narrative sequencing, mapping, and scale. Projects are structured to make visible the internal world of emotions, imagination, memory and opinion.
ART 210 Introduction to Photography
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp Su
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab Fee.
Examines the historical, conceptual, and practical developments of the art of photography as embodied in the use of digital image-making technologies. Students must have their own digital camera with manual exposure control and a minimum image size of 5.0 MP, a computer capable of handling image files, and a color printer.
ART 211 Basic Painting
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: Accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Covers basic methods and materials in oil painting; including traditional and current approaches to form, color, and pictorial organization. Varied course structure includes direct interpretation of subject matter, as well as conceptually based visual problems.
ART 212 Painting Processes
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 211
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Covers basic methods and materials in oil painting; including traditional and current approaches to form, color, and pictorial organization. Varied course structure includes direct interpretation of subject matter, as well as conceptually based visual problems.
ART 216 Pictorial Structure
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: Accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab Fee.
Addresses the formal and conceptual aspects of 2D artwork. Art from the past and present is viewed, discussed, and utilized as a starting point for student-driven assignments. The nature of each assignment is based on the formal (visual) qualities of an idea paired with a conceptual (thematic) core. All student work is based upon and inspired by the ideas, theories, opinions, and reactions on art from a widely dispersed range of periods and regions.
ART 221 Typography
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: Accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Introduces typographic history, type anatomy, type styles, application of legibility guidelines, and explorations with interpretive and experimental typography.
ART 223 Figure Drawing 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Uncover the transient and internal in a series of sessions that refines memory, facilitates speed, hones powers of perception and expression, all inspired by nothing less than the eternal nude. Gesture, spirit, memory, motion, essence, speed, measure, pace, balance, focus, weight, gravity, rhythm are all filters through which we examine and express human form. Technical experimentation is essential.
ART 225 Introduction to Print Media: Lithography and Monotype
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Teaches the basics of lithography and monotype print media. Prized for its subtle effects and evocative surfaces, lithography is particularly well suited for artists who like to draw or use photographic/digital montage strategies to construct images. Often described as painterly printmaking, monotype may be combined with lithography and is adapted to print on a variety of surfaces with or without a press. Thematic focus is on cultivating visual memory and the imagination.
ART 229 Sculpture: Methods of Spatial Inquiry
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: Accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Paradigms of space, from map to model, shift radically from epoch to epoch. Reflecting these shifts, sculpture since Minimalism, has increasingly redefined its notion of 'form' and 'objectness' to include the surrounding perceptual space, temporal practices, and the socio-political constituents of space. Students are introduced to materials and methods of object/structure building, process and time based practices, and the relationship of sculpture to media and visual culture.
ART 231 Painting for Nonmajors 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
For students not singularly committed to becoming artists. We learn a basic approach to oil painting and experience a variety of visual points of view.
ART 232 Painting for Nonmajors 2
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 231
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
For students not singularly committed to becoming artists. We learn a basic approach to oil painting and experience a variety of visual points of view.
ART 240 History of Visual Communication
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Survey of the history of visual communication from prehistoric times to the present. Examines synchronic and diachronic relationships between art, media, critical theory, semiotics, literature and culture. Midterm and a final independent research paper or presentation of a scholarly nature required.
ART 250 Introduction to Digital Practices
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Surveys, in a hands-on fashion, the rich and unique resources the computer offers the artist/designer. Includes computer basics, letter manipulation, drawing and painting metaphors, image processing, 3-D modeling, sound/image synthesis, interactive scripting, and animation.
ART 259 Intro to Print Media/ Screen Print
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Screen print is a fast and non-toxic means for printing multiple-color images onto a wide range of surfaces. Instruction includes hand-drawn and photo-emulsion stencils using reductive methods, make-ready, and digital halftones.Culminates in an assignment that emphasizes the connections between the medium and the message, stressing innovative presentations and how they affect meaning.
ART 304 Screen Print Extended
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 259 or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Students build upon individual interests and talents in order to formulate, research, contextualize, and execute a body of work. Thematic focus changes each semester and provides new linkages to historical/theoretical contexts and extends material options. Themes for each semester are announced on the print media course website.
ART 306 Intaglio, Relief, and Digital Print Media Extended
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 205 or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Students build upon individual interests and talents in order to formulate, research, contextualize, and execute a body of work. Thematic focus changes each semester and provides new linkages to historical/theoretical contexts and extends material options. Students should have basic experience in one or more of the following print media: intaglio, relief, or digital (inkjet). Themes for each semester are announced on the print media course website.
ART 307 Thematic Drawing
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: Accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
A thematic approach to drawing; focuses on larger projects that combine a formal, material and conceptual approach to drawing. Students develop a personal language of drawing by researching, articulating and executing work though the interpretation of each theme. Themes vary from semester to semester. In addition to studio work, reading and lectures will correlate with each project contextualizing the theme within a historical and contemporary approach to art making. The class culminates with a self-determined, self-directed project.
ART 309 Digital Reproduction Processes
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 221
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Introduces digital graphic reproduction processes, digital and conventional printing processes, and new digital prepress techniques. Includes digital print file preparation, cost estimates, digital transmission and imaging processes.
ART 311 Alternate Painting Strategies
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 212 or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores non-traditional materials, processes and pictorial articulation in addition to conventional variants. Stresses thematic content, theoretical form, color, and space based upon individual interpretation. Compositional approaches include the use of appropriated imagery, allegory, and conceptualizations.
ART 312 Individual Painting Explorations
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 311
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Encourages individual creative research through a consistent exploration of themes, concepts, processes and media towards a cohesive body of work. This course also investigates a variety of possible ways for installation and exhibition.
ART 313 Photography: Image and Text
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 210
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores photographic concepts and techniques beyond the basic level, including combination with other 2-D and 3-D media. Involves camera, darkroom, and applied techniques. Emphasizes conceptual problem solving, and includes a written component.
ART 314 Photography Extended
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 210
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores photographic concepts and techniques beyond the basic level, including combination with other 2-D and 3-D media. Involves camera, darkroom, and applied techniques. Emphasizes conceptual problem solving, and includes a written component.
ART 315 Black and White Film Photography
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 210 or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Introduces students to the art and techniques of black and white film photography and its associated chemically-based darkroom techniques. Through shooting assignments and darkroom work, they learn first the use of this medium as a form of personal expression. Secondly, they learn the various technical means -such as camera control, exposure, Zone System theory, developing, printing and specialized chemical processes- to accomplish this.
ART 316 Cross Cultural Painting/Bricolage
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: ART 211 or ART 231 or ART 229
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Investigates themes, imagery, and processes re-contextualized through painting and bricolage, a construction from materials at hand. Requires experimentation with ideas, materials and processes inspired by non-Western cultures in addition to familiar cultural experiences. Lectures, projects, group critiques and individual instructions assist students to achieve creative objectives.
ART 319 Visual Semiotics and Rhetoric
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 221, accepted as communication design major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Involves theoretical, analytical, and practical exposure to visual semiotics, and rhetoric as used by the communication designer. Also, introduces information design and the development of theme and image. Emphasizes print media produced with digital tools.
ART 320 Design for New Media
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 221, accepted as communication design major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Introduces time-based visual communication with sound and motion, exploring interactive and non-interactive structures for persuading and informing.
ART 322 Design for Print and Electronic Media
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 221, accepted as communication design major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Hands-on exploration of the designer's role as author, visual editor, or art director of print and electronic publications: newsletter, newspaper, magazine, book, webzine, web site, etc. Review of historical and current publication media with a focus on purpose, formula and form.
ART 323 Figure Drawing 3
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 223
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Building on the skills of figure drawing one; the focus is on the complex and compelling subject of drawing the human body. Students will work from the model, studying the figure as a means to expand visual perception and refine drawing skills. Explores the body as an object of beauty and a metaphor for documenting the passion and the pathos of human experience. Introduces the landmarks of anatomical bone and muscle structure. Incorporates field trips to sites such as the Gross Anatomy Lab. Outside class, assignments will focus on the body as a means for expression, be it personal, social, political, narrative or emotional.
ART 324 Figure Drawing 4
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 323
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores issues concerning the nude, the gaze and gender, pose and possession, scale and scandal as we contextualize and historicize the tradition of figure drawing. Cross-temporal and cross-cultural visual and written texts inform and inspire our own projects and practice.
ART 326 Lithography and/or Monotype Extended
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 225 or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Students build upon individual interests and talents in order to formulate, research, contextualize, and execute a body of work. Thematic focus changes each semester and provides new linkages to historical/theoretical contexts and extends material options. Students should have basic experience in one or more of the following print media: lithography, monotype, or digital (inkjet). Themes for each semester are announced on the print media course website.
ART 330 Intermediate Sculpture 2
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 329
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Continuation of ART 229 directed primarily toward sculptural concepts.
ART 333 3D Precision Production Concepts
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
An undergraduate technical elective focusing on methods of 3D precision production. Through a series of assignments and site visits to commercial production facilities students are familiarized with the language of industrial production. Students are exposed to 3D modeling and digital manufacturing techniques such as CNC, laser cutting and stereo-lithography printing. Assignments focus on technical problem solving and understanding material capabilities. Students learn technical drawing, scaled model building, semi-precise metal working, jig/fixture design and rubber molding. This course provides a conceptual basis for understanding 3d digital production methods.
ART 337 Figure, Foundry and Casting
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Methods of figurative sculpting will be introduced in conjunction with traditional plaster and rubber mold making and lost wax bronze casting
ART 340 Historic and Experimental Photo Techniques
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 210
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores various alternative photographic techniques, such as cyanotype, gum, and platinum; also studies historic importance in the medium, and creative contemporary uses.
ART 341 Book Design
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: Accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores the book as object and as object/form. Topics include typographic design, image-text relationship, sequential design/image making, book structure, construction, and production. Involves completion of semester-long projects. Emphasizes development and articulation of the student's conceptual and aesthetic concerns.
ART 353 View Camera
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 210
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores practical and chemical aspects, such as the view camera, silver photographic emulsions, developers, toners, special chemicals, archival processing, exposure, and zone-system theory.
ART 354 Studio Photography
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 210
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Examines photographic studio lighting for both black/white and color; artificial lighting (tungsten and photo studio strobes), studio setups, portraiture, and large-scale printing.
ART 356 Exploring Identity
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 150
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Studio course exploring the role of representation of identity in the issues regarding personal, cultural, ethnic, social, economic, sexual/biological, and gender identity. Investigates the expanding and changing function and form of the representation of "identity" tradition in contemporary art and, according to Foucault, how we "create ourselves as a work of art."
ART 360 Photo Process Imagery
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 210
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Studies the physical medium as the chief vehicle for creative expression, including pinhole, manipulated negatives, and prints.
ART 361 Art and Research
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: Accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Students experiment with different research methods as a means to generate, inspire, and inform projects. This course is process-oriented, content-driven, and is designed for students who want to develop greater conceptual depth in their art practices. It is recommended to students who want to begin preparing themselves for Senior Thesis.
ART 380 Algorithmic Art
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 250, accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Hands-on exploration of image creation through direct coding of computer graphic, text, and sound data. Review of algorithmic art and artists. Introduction to basic programming, computer graphic data structures and processing, and a variety of algorithmic approaches for the creation of interactive or non-interactive, static or moving, art and design pieces.
ART 381 Computer Motion Imaging
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 250, accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores with computer graphics, the expressive and informative impact of real time and frame/cell animation: pixilation; metamorphosis; interaction of synthesized actors with backgrounds; the dynamics of sound/image synthesis; and time-space structures' application to computer animation.
ART 382 Computer Modeling and Simulation
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 250, accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores, in a hands-on fashion, computer processes that construct, model, transform, and render simulated 3-D objects in virtual space. These objects are utilized either as exploration and development tools for actual 3-D sculpture for packaging, product, interior, and exhibit design, or in the creation of virtual sculpture or virtual art installations.
ART 383 Interactive Computer Art 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 250, accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Studio course for creating experimental interactive computer productions for artist expression, and the presentation of knowledge in which participants observe and navigate in nonlinear directions and reorganize media components for other users. Students are exposed to the work of theorists, artists, designers and technologists relevant to selected projects. The course explores new approaches that define an aesthetic within this emerging art form.
ART 385 Computer Image Synthesis
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 250, accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Looks at the use of images in the digital age. Students work from a number of image sources, including printed images, photographic images, video, and computer-generated images. Explores the new imaging technology and tries to find pathways toward the development of an aesthetic discourse for the medium.
ART 387 Telematic Art and Design
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 250, accepted art major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Involves hands-on exploration of the technical, aesthetic, cultural, economic, ethical, and political aspects of computerized communication networks for artistic creation and information design.
ART 401 Professional Practices in Photography
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 210
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Introduces professional practices of the working photographer.
ART 402 Tactical Media
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: junior standing
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
An advanced undergraduate course in tactical media designed to bring artists from various specializations together to discuss methods and possibilities for independent public art activities, and to experiment with soft interventions in locations not typically accessed by artists. Pays particular attention to process (as opposed to product); to what can be created, organized, and/or produced outside of the artist's studio; and to engaging the immediate and specific qualities of a given socio-phenomenological field.
ART 410 The Intersections of Design and Community
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: ART 309, ART 319, ART 320, or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Using a collaborative approach, students work for the semester on creative projects for local, not-for-profit organizations. Teams are responsible for concept development and design, schedules, budgets, production, printing, and client management. Entails information design, interactive media, print, product design, packaging design, exhibition design, and design for public space. Students will visit participating organizations, print houses, and project related lectures.
ART 411 Advanced Painting 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 312
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Develops professional methods and strategies as they relate to theory, art history, practice and career development. Emphasizes students' individual painting ideas and sensibilities through self-initiation and creative resolution of visual investigation.
ART 412 Advanced Painting 2
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 411
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Emphasizes students' mature and self-directed painting articulation aimed at a coherent body of work. High expectation placed on students' investigation towards the utilization of private and public space for exhibition.
ART 419 Identity Design
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 221, accepted communication design major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores identity, image, and branding for non-profit and for-profit organizations, including product and service marks, stationery, packaging, 3D displays, exhibitions, and signage for identification and way-finding.
ART 422 Design Issues
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 221, accepted communication design major
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Involves research, lectures, guest speakers, video interviews, readings, discussions, and presentations that investigate contemporary design issues and professional practices. Topics include design theory and criticism focusing on ethics and social responsibility, and design management within a wide range of professional practices.
ART 423 Figure Drawing 5
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 324
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores the ways that representation and absence, ersatz eros, and the prurient present underlie the origins and continued allure of the figurative tradition. The scene is paramount in setting off the seen. Emphasizes the psychological and physical aspects of figured relationships and spaces that we portray in ambitious and subtle works that entice, revolt, and reclaim the viewers. Independent research and considerable out-of-class commitment bring in-class efforts to fruition.
ART 424 Figure Drawing 6
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 423
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Explores the ways that representation and absence, ersatz eros and the prurient present underlie the origins and continued allure of the figurative tradition. The scene is paramount in setting off the seen. Emphasizes the psychological and physical aspects of figured relationships and spaces that we portray in ambitious and subtle works that entice, revolt, and reclaim the viewers. Independent research and considerable out-of-class commitment bring in-class efforts to fruition.
ART 426 Interactive Computer Art 2
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: ART 380 or ART 383 or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Students create experimental interactive computer production to present knowledge and artistic expression, which participants observe, navigate in nonlinear directions, and reorganize for other users.
ART 429 Advanced Sculpture - Studio Practice 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 330
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
ART 430 Advanced Sculpture - Studio Practice 2
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 429
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
ART 447 Studio Seminar
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: junior/senior standing in the fine arts, art history, or literature
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Lab fee if appropriate.
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A combination of theory and practice involving a focused topic important to art. Assigned topics vary and are announced before preregistration. Requires the preparation of a visual or written work that addresses issues raised in the course.
ART 448 Studio Seminar in Photography
Credits: 3Semester(s): F
Prerequisites: ART 210 or ART 213
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Lab fee.
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Combines theory and practice (studio components) involving a particular topic. Assigned topics vary each semester and are announced before preregistration. Involves lectures, critiques, readings, writing, discussions, demonstrations, darkroom sessions, and slide presentations.
ART 462 Installation: Urban Strategies
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: accepted art major or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
The focus of this course is on the exploration of spatial practice in any media, including time-based (e.g. sound, moving image, etc.) and the ephemeral (e.g. scent, light, air, etc.), and site-specificity in art. Studio assignments
are integrated with theoretical research and analysis. A range of material and technical explorations will be made in relation to concept development. On and off-campus installation sites will be sought out, negotiated and utilized in
the realization of student projects. Projects will range from material form in the dedicated and sheltered space of interiors and private environments, to the complex structures in the
socio-cultural space of public exteriors and urban environments.
are integrated with theoretical research and analysis. A range of material and technical explorations will be made in relation to concept development. On and off-campus installation sites will be sought out, negotiated and utilized in
the realization of student projects. Projects will range from material form in the dedicated and sheltered space of interiors and private environments, to the complex structures in the
socio-cultural space of public exteriors and urban environments.
ART 476 Topics in Printmaking
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: ART 205, ART 225, ART 259, or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Involves the research and production of a significant semester-long project or series. A thematic topic (which changes each semester and is announced on the print media website) serves as a springboard for focused readings and discussion. Includes professional preparation, guest artists, visits to collections, and demonstrations. Students may utilize any print media alone or in combination with other 2-D/3-D media (not all projects require prior printmaking experience).
ART 489 Real-Space Electronic Art
Credits: 3Semester(s): Sp
Prerequisites: ART 380 or ART 383 or permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
Enables students to create sophisticated, self-generated projects using interactive electronic technologies other than mouse, keyboard, and CRT monitor, such as micro-controllers. Involves hands-on explorations of applied electronic principles; selected readings and discussions; short exercises; and a final, self-directed project.
ART 494 F/S Senior Thesis Project I & II
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: Senior standing in art
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
Lab fee.
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Involves preparation, research, proposal development, and initial studio exploration for a senior thesis projecto be completed in a two-semester sequence. The advanced work expected is demonstrated by technical expertise, independent motivation, maturing personal interpretation and expression, and understanding one's work in relation to current works by mature artists. Students can work in one or a combination of studio art media: computer, drawing, installation, film, paint, photography, print, sculpture, type, or video.
ART 496 Internship
Credits: 1 - 4Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: LAB
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Choose from the following:
Arts Management Internship - Students are assigned to art galleries or other institutions within the university or the community to get hands-on experience as interns. May be repeated once in a different location.
Communication Design Internship - An arranged experience within an agency and the printing industry familiarizes students with actual working conditions and considerations; students observe and participate in design for publication, mechanicals, and other facets of graphic arts production. May be repeated second semester.
Photography Internship- Internship at an art gallery or with a commercial, portrait, or architectural photographic firm; provides professional experience and familiarizes students with working conditions and expectations in their field.
Print Media Internship- Provides professional experience and familiarizes students with practices and expectations in the field. An internship may be arranged with a commercial or not-for-profit print studio or gallery.
Arts Management Internship - Students are assigned to art galleries or other institutions within the university or the community to get hands-on experience as interns. May be repeated once in a different location.
Communication Design Internship - An arranged experience within an agency and the printing industry familiarizes students with actual working conditions and considerations; students observe and participate in design for publication, mechanicals, and other facets of graphic arts production. May be repeated second semester.
Photography Internship- Internship at an art gallery or with a commercial, portrait, or architectural photographic firm; provides professional experience and familiarizes students with working conditions and expectations in their field.
Print Media Internship- Provides professional experience and familiarizes students with practices and expectations in the field. An internship may be arranged with a commercial or not-for-profit print studio or gallery.
ART 499 Independent Study Studio Art
Credits: 1 - 5Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: accepted art major, permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: TUT
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Open to studio majors only. Requires a written proposal of the project and its justification, and approval by a faculty member supervising the work.
Updated: Aug 27, 2008 10:14:45 AM