May 17, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Art and Design

  
  • ART 290 - Introduction to Ceramics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRODUCTION TO CERAMICS
    Component: Studio
    Introduction to the tools, processes and aesthetics of ceramics.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

  
  • ART 295 - Core Ceramics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    CORE CERAMICS
    Component: Studio
    First-year majors are introduced to both the fundamentals of working with clay, and the fundamentals of an artistic practice. What does it mean to think with and through a material? Process and and engaged investigation will be emphasized, with strong encouragement for experimentation and creativity. Course has a consumable fee.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: ART-BAAS. Course has a consumable fee.
  
  • ART 301 - Design Studio (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DESIGN STUDIO
    Component: Studio
    Designed to emulate a professional design studio practice. Students develop skills in collaboration, client relations, production and advanced media applications in conjunction with a refined development of personal creative process and awareness of cultural contexts.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: C- or better in ART 302  and ART 303  or ART 308 . RESTRICTIONS: Open to VC-BFA Majors only.
    Course Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • ART 302 - Typography Methods (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    TYPOGRAPHY METHODS
    Component: Studio
    Development in use of typogrpahy for communication: grid systems, effects of context on legibility and readability, type in sequence, typographic systems and modernist grid compositions in publications, use of computer as tool for typographic projects, introduction to design theory as it applies to typography.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: VC-BFA.
  
  • ART 303 - Design Methods (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DESIGN METHODS
    Component: Studio
    Development of image-making techniques and processes with the intention to communicate: graphic translation and representation, digital and analog processes, semiotics, design systems. Utilization of design fundamentals for composition and communication of visual form.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Graded
    RESTRICTIONS: For VC-BFA Majors only.
  
  • ART 307 - Interaction Design (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTERACTION DESIGN
    Component: Studio
    Focusing on the development of meaningful interactions between technology and people, specifically through screen-based interfaces, (computer screens, tablets, smart phones, etc.), students develop skills in planning and producing engaging user experiences, (information architecture, prototyping, user interface design and production), with special attention to conceptualizing innovative uses of new technology and critical evaluation of one’s work. Skills in html, css and Adobe Photoshop are required.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 205   or CISC 101 . RESTRICTIONS: Art Majors and Interactive Media minors only.
  
  • ART 308 - Type and Image (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    TYPE AND IMAGE
    Component: Laboratory
    Combining typographic and image-making techniques and processes for communication design. Students use materials and media in an advanced, refined way and develop personal methods for expressing a point of view and communicating ideas.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: C- or better in all of the following: ART 202 , ART 203 , ART 206  and ART 207 . RESTRICTIONS: Open to VC-BFA Majors Only.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ART 309 - Book Arts (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    BOOK ARTS
    Component: Studio
    Exploration of book arts as a complete object that integrates content and form through narratives and/or sequential picture planes. Emphasis on elements of design and the principles of book planning and production.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 310 - Photographic Design (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PHOTOGRAPHIC DESIGN
    Component: Studio
    Explores photographic imagery in communication design and to understand the creative relationship between image and design. Students develop conceptual and technical skills emphasizing both studio and location assignments for graphic and advertising design projects including editorial, print advertising, posters, collateral materials, books and packaging.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: BFA or permission of instructor. May be repeated for six credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 312 - Illustration Methods (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ILLUSTRATION METHODS
    Component: Studio
    Introduction to illustration methods through color mediums such as watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oils, and dry color media. Emphasis is on various approaches to illustrated visual imagery in editorial, book, institutional and advertising contexts.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: BFA or permission of instructor. May be repeated for six credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ART 315 - Issues in Contemporary Art (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART
    Component: Lecture
    Examination of current issues of content and form; developments in technology; and social, political and cultural issues affecting contemporary visual art and artists.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Completion of 60 credit hours.
    Additional University Requirement(s): A & S Writing Requirement

  
  • ART 317 - Printmaking Strategies (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PRINTMAKING STRATEGIES
    Component: Studio
    Different print techniques (screenprint, lithography, relief, etc.) will be explored and exploited for their ability to generate large editions in different formats including zines, books and large-scale print/installations.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 243  or ART 245 . RESTRICTIONS: Course has a course fee. May be repeated for six credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • ART 318 - Applied Design Visits (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    APPLIED DESIGN VISITS
    Component: Lecture
    To gain a global awareness of the applied design field students will visit, discuss and review design-related organizations (i.e. advertising agencies, design studios, interactive / Web design studios, photographers, illustrators, commercial directors, magazines, and design museums) through a series of assigned projects.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    COREQ: ART 319 .
    Course Typically Offered: Summer

  
  • ART 319 - Applied Design Topics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    APPLIED DESIGN TOPICS
    Component: Independent Study
    Students undertake assigned independent research projects relating to applied design topics and projects (i.e. advertising, graphic and design, typography, applied photography, etc.) resulting in visual and written presentations.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    COREQ: ART 318 . RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
    Course Typically Offered: Summer

  
  • ART 322 - Advertising Design Methods (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ADVERTISING DESIGN METHODS
    Component: Studio
    Introduces basic tools and techniques of modern advertising along with an overview of industry history and practices. Students create advertising strategies and use a variety of media to communicate ideas effectively. Assignments include semester-long and weekly assignments to build strategy, copywriting, and art direction skills.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: VC-BFA or permission of instructor. May be repeated for six credits.
  
  • ART 324 - The Art of Social Change (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    THE ART OF SOCIAL CHANGE
    Component: Lecture
    20th Century international liberation artists’ works are examined from interdisciplinary perspectives. Students will observe and write about art works using behavioral science methods. Interaction with contemporary social change artists and one visual project are part of the course.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with AFRA 324 .
    University Breadth: Social and Behavioral Sciences Additional University Requirement(s): Multicultural

  
  • ART 326 - Experimental Animation (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION
    Component: Studio
    Explores experimental techniques in animation through hands-on projects. Addresses fundamental problems such as timing, rhythm, and sound. Explores cultural and historical fascination with animating the inanimate through screenings, lectures, and readings. Includes a variety of formats: traditional, digital, and/or electronic.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 280  or ART 284  or ART 285  or ART 289  or ART 385 .
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 327 - Expanded Printmaking (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    EXPANDED PRINTMAKING
    Component: Studio
    Exploration of a variety of printmaking techniques including digital, silkscreen etching and woodcut for developing multiple and one of a kind images. Students will be introduced to the contemporary issues and conversations associated with Printmaking as an art form.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 243  or ART 245 . RESTRICTIONS: Course has a consumable fee. May be repeated for six credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ART 331 - Intermediate Painting (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTERMEDIATE PAINTING
    Component: Studio
    Identifying and exploring ideas through the development of critical awareness of contemporary painting issues and structures. Emphasis on directed conceptual problems and a variety of materials.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 231  or ART 236 .
    Course Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • ART 334 - Figure Painting (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    FIGURE PAINTING
    Component: Studio
    Evolving conceptual and technical solutions to depicting the human figure in oil. Emphasis is on creating a representational and expressive finished product.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 230  and ART 231  or ART 236 . RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for six credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 335 - Drawing Approaches (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DRAWING APPROACHES
    Component: Laboratory
    Exploration of drawing using various media. A range of conceptual ideas including representational and abstract concepts.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 112  or ART 129  or ART 235 . RESTRICTIONS: Open to Art Majors and Art Minors only.
  
  • ART 344 - Digital Printmaking (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DIGITAL PRINTMAKING
    Component: Studio
    Explores digital image making and output. Utilizes large-scale digital prints, commercial printmaking techniques, web-based editions, and combinations of new and traditional materials. Explores concepts and theory of new media in relation to printmaking.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 243  or ART 245 .
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 346 - Letterpress Printing (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    LETTERPRESS PRINTING
    Component: Studio
    Explores the process and product of printing through various media, technology and conceptual approaches. Focuses on text and image relationships by integrating letterpress, woodcut, linoleum blocks, and digital systems. Exploration of processes and results in creation of an edition conceptually centered around individual interests.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 243  or ART 207 . RESTRICTIONS: ART JR/SR Majors Only. May be repeated for up to six credits.
  
  • ART 350 - Sculpture Processes (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SCULPTURE PROCESSES
    Component: Studio
    Explores construction techniques and tools to create sculpture, introducing more advanced techniques and information. Pursue individual goals, selecting materials and types of artistic expressions that best suit each individual and creative situation.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 250  and ART255. May be repeated up to 6 credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • ART 352 - Illustration Narrative I (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ILLUSTRATION NARRATIVE I
    Component: Studio
    Introduction to the history, methods, and future of conceptual and narrative illustration. Learn to choose themes and make original stories through image making. Making effective, strong and original layouts is emphasized in this course. Utilize a variety of strategies and methods for image making in physical and digital media.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  
  • ART 353 - Illustration Studio I (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ILLUSTRATION STUDIO I
    Component: Studio
    Explores conceptual strategies that critically link type and image, and the creative approaches for developing unique visual form to abstract conceptual ideas. Strong emphasis is placed matching form to content, non-literal thinking, and experimentation. Projects are designed to further build a strong conceptual skill-base and point of view with the confidence and flexibility to work within conventional, emerging and future markets.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  
  • ART 363 - Introduction to Fashion and Fashion Photography (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRO FASHION & FASHION PHOTO
    Component: Studio
    Introduction to history of the medium and will cover fashion photography from the early 1900’s to the present. The genre of fashion photography is defined in part and is devoted to photographing clothing, models, still life and other fashion. Street fashion will be covered and explored.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  
  • ART 366 - Independent Study (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    INDEPENDENT STUDY
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ART 367 - SEMINAR (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  
  • ART 370 - Special Topics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SPECIAL TOPICS
    Component: Studio
    Thematically based studio course following faculty research interests. Repeatable for 9 credits. Requires Instructor permission.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Requires instructor permission. May be repeated for nine credits.
  
  • ART 382 - Alternative Photographic Processes (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ALTERNATIVE PHOTO PROCESSES
    Component: Studio
    Investigates alternatives within analog and digital media to create unique images exploring 18th - 20th century photographic processes and alternatives. Emphasizes concepts of light-sensitive imaging and investigations of classic and current materials augmenting traditional darkroom photographic processes.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 280  or ART 281  or ART 284  or ART 285  or ART 289  or ART 344 .
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 384 - Photographic Strategies (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PHOTOGRAPHIC STRATEGIES
    Component: Studio
    Expanded exploration of historic and contemporary photographic practice, critical theory and movements. Develop an advanced body of work through selective image processing, printing and portfolio development.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 280  or ART 284  or ART 285  or ART 289 . RESTRICTIONS: Course has a consumable fee. May be repeated for six credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • ART 385 - Moving Image Production (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MOVING IMAGE PRODUCTION
    Component: Studio
    Digital video animation, and time-based installation are contextualized within a tradition of fine art while exploring conceptual, experimental, narrative and documentary methodologies. Investigate lens media through readings, screenings, critiques, and hands-on creation of single and multi-channel video at an intermediate level.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 280  or ART 284  or ART 285  or ART 289 . RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for six credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 386 - Lighting Studio (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    LIGHTING STUDIO
    Component: Studio
    Investigation of light as subject and technique. Hands-on practice for students with interest in film/video, fine-art and applied photography. Explore a variety of lighting problems, concepts, and techniques through a series of interlocking workshops, exercises, and visual projects.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 207  or ART 280  or ART 281  or ART 284  or ART 285  or ART 289 .
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 390 - Ceramics-wheel throwing & firing (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    CERAMICS-WHEELTHROWING, FIRING
    Component: Studio
    Learn the fundamentals of wheel-throwing with emphasis on imaginative potentials inherent in this technique. Learn basic clay and glaze-mixing chemistry and how to fire electric and gas kilns. Encouraged to experiment in this course.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 290  or ART 295 . RESTRICTIONS: Open to non-majors. May be repeated for six credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 391 - Ceramics A Time Based Approach (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    CERAMICS A TIME BASED APPROACH
    Component: Studio
    Make clay come alive through a combination of claymation, time-lapse, kiln-based, and site-specific techniques. Projects may explore material and contextual transformations as well as abstract and narrative possibilities.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 290  or ART 295 .
  
  • ART 393 - Expanded Ceramic Processes (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    EXPANDED CERAMIC PROCESSES
    Component: Studio
    Students will explore and research ceramic materials, structures, and transformations n a rich variety of building, glazing, and firing techniques. Focus on material experimentation in group projects and individual investigation. Students will be introduced to contemporary issues/conversations associated with Ceramics as an art form. Course has a consumable fee. Repeatable for 9 credits.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 290  or ART 295  or by permission of Instructor. RESTRICTIONS: Course has a consumable fee. May be repeated for nine credits.
  
  • ART 400 - Visual Communications Practicum (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    VC PRACTICUM
    Component: Lecture
    Designed to introduce Visual Communications BFA seniors to various aspects of a career in visual communications. Faculty and visiting artists and designers are invited to present topics to the class in lecture and discussion formats. Develop an awareness of diverse creative practices.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: C- or better in ART 301  and ART 308 . RESTRICTIONS: Open to VC-BFA Majors Only.
    Course Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • ART 401 - Portfolio Preparation (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PORTFOLIO PREPARATION
    Component: Studio
    Produce a portfolio accurately and effectively showing media proficiencies and ability to communicate ideas and point of view. Develop an awareness of how work and individual strengths relate to the current culture, society and creative business environments, informed by knowledge of contemporary and historical visual communications.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: C- or better in ART 402  and ART 409  or ART 400 . RESTRICTIONS: VC-BFA.
  
  • ART 402 - Experimental Typography (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY
    Component: Studio
    Exploration of advanced typography in multiple media and for multiple purposes related to visual communications, including on-and-off-screen media, (i.e. motion graphics, illustration, graphic design, typeface design and publication design).
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: C- or better in ART 301 . RESTRICTIONS: VC-BFA.
  
  • ART 403 - Degree Project (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DEGREE PROJECT
    Component: Studio
    Independent project within Visual Communications disciplines that serves as an in-depth inquiry into a subject of the student’s choice, and directly relates to their intended career pathway. Projects are vetted and reviewed by a committee of faculty who serve as advisors.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: C- or better in ART 402  and ART 409 . RESTRICTIONS: VC-BFA.
  
  • ART 406 - Artist’s Machine (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ARTIST’S MACHINE
    Component: Studio
    Exploration of artist-constructed machines (i.e. micro-electronics, robotics, kinetic sculpture and interactive installation) as media for artistic expression. Balance of theory and practice with specific emphasis on making of electronic objects and positioning these in various contexts. No prior knowledge of electronics required.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with ARTH 408 .
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 407 - Topics in Art, Design & Technology (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    TOPICS IN ART, DESIGN & TECH
    Component: Lecture
    Produce multi-faceted projects that explore the impact of art, design and technology on society through research and theoretical study at an advanced level. Students may engage with diverse communities, cultural producers, and other departments.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 204   or ART 215   or ART 324   or ART 315 .
    Additional University Requirement(s): Multicultural Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 408 - Internship (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTERNSHIP
    Component: Independent Study
    Students have a hands-on professional experience in their field of choice in consultation with Faculty Advisors and interact with professionals in a creative working environment. The internship requires a minimum number of hours in a studio, gallery, design, advertising or related organization.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Junior and Senior BFA Art majors only. May be repeated for up to six credits. Requires permission of Instructor.
    Additional University Requirement(s): Discovery Learning Experience Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ART 409 - Design Contexts (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    DESIGN CONTEXTS
    Component: Studio
    Collaborative approach to large-scale design projects that take advantage of students’ individual skills and unique points of view. Projects are designed to emulate a small creative studio.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: C- or better in ART 301 . RESTRICTIONS: VC-BFA.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 416 - Junior Seminar (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    JUNIOR SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Explores issues relevant to advancing studio practice and developing a cohesive body of work for BFA exhibitions. Examines implications of pursuing a future in a fine arts studio discipline.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Open to BA-Art and BFA-FA juniors only.
    Additional University Requirement(s): Discovery Learning Experience Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ART 417 - BFA Exhibition (0cr.)

    Credit(s): 0
    BFA EXHIBITION
    Component: Independent Study
    The concluding exhibition required of all Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates and usually held during the final semester of undergraduate study.
    Allowed Units: 0 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
    RESTRICTIONS: BFA seniors only.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ART 419 - Senior Studio (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SENIOR STUDIO
    Component: Studio
    Students work independently to develop a body of art for BFA exhibition and portfolio. The approach is inter-disciplinary and students are encouraged to experiment with a variety of media and collaborate with other artists; critique and discussion emphasize concept and content.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 416 . RESTRICTIONS: Art Majors only.
    Capstone: Design Project Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 432 - Painting Studio (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PAINTING STUDIO
    Component: Studio
    Provides an atmosphere of support for a maturing studio practice. Emphasis on evolving a painting or material awareness in the pursuit of a more personal artistic direction and style.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 331  or ART 334 . RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated up to nine credit hours.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 440 - Printmaking Studio (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PRINTMAKING STUDIO
    Component: Studio
    Emphasizes color printing and integration of advanced printmaking methods and materials. Traditional printmaking techniques and ideas are expanded, experimentation promoted, and new technologies explored. Focuses on individual research through exploring one or more processes.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 243  or ART 245 , or ART 246   RESTRICTIONS: Art Majors only.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 450 - Sculpture Studio (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SCULPTURE STUDIO
    Component: Studio
    Provides for development of a cohesive body of work based on personal thoughts and artistic ideals. Self-directed in collaboration with the instructor. Strong emphasis on individual concerns and interest working three-dimensionally.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 350 . RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated up to 9 credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ART 466 - Independent Study (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    INDEPENDENT STUDY
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 467 - SEMINAR (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 470 - Special Topics (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SPECIAL TOPICS
    Component: Studio
    Thematically based studio course following faculty research interests. Repeatable for 9 credits. Requires permission of Instructor.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of Instructor. May be repeatable for nine credits.
  
  • ART 481 - Photo and Video Studio (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PHOTO AND VIDEO STUDIO
    Component: Laboratory
    Develop independent work through various stages of production culminating in a completed photo, video, web, or interactive work. Discuss criticism, techniques and contemporary lens media theory at an advanced level. Projects may include experimental techniques, multichannel or gallery-based installation, animation, narrative, and/or documentary approaches.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 307  or ART 310  or ART 326  or ART 384  or ART 385  or ART 386 .
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ART 490 - Ceramics Studio (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    CERAMICS STUDIO
    Component: Studio
    Curriculum is self-directed in collaboration with the instructor with a strong emphasis on individuality, articulation, and communicaiton. students will maintain an individual studio practice, participate in written and oral group discussions.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ART 290  or ART 295  and either ART 390  or ART 391  or ART 393 . RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated twice for nine credits.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept


Art Conservation

  
  • ARTC 101 - Art Conservation Freshman Seminar (1cr.)

    Credit(s): 1
    ARTC FRESHMAN SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to the field through exposure to Winterthur Museum, Library and Garden and current art conservation projects. Professional interaction fosters academic and social competencies while explaining education, research, and career opportunities.
    Allowed Units: 1 Grading Basis: Pass/Not Pass
    Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ARTC 166 - SPECIAL PROBLEM (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    SPECIAL PROBLEM
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  
  • ARTC 167 - SEMINAR (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  
  • ARTC 185 - Color Mixing and Matching (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    COLOR MIXING AND MATCHING
    Component: Lecture
    Lecture-studio presentation covering analytical and practical aspects of mixing and matching colorants without instrumentation. Pigments, dyes and the manufacture of paint studied. Major topics include color interaction and the Munsell system of color description.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTC 210 - Science of Color Phenomena (4cr.)

    Credit(s): 4
    SCIENCE OF COLOR PHENOMENA
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to basic physical and chemical principles which describe nature of light and the phenomena of color. Targeted for non-science majors who seek a descriptive understanding of scientific principles underlying formation of color phenomena found in nature and works of art.
    Allowed Units: 4 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with CHEM 210 , SCEN 210 . PREREQ: High school chemistry and algebra.
    University Breadth: Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTC 267 - SEMINAR (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTC 280 - Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Drawing in the West (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STUDIO/MAT&TECH DRAWING/WEST
    Component: Lecture
    Lecture-studio presentation on materials and tools, supports and techniques of wet and dry media drawing in the West from about the year 1400 to the present. Topics include the development and manufacture of paper, pens, brushes, inks, watercolor paint, charcoal, metal points, graphite pencils, natural and fabricated chalks, crayons, pastels, erasers and fixatives. Studio reconstructions of masterworks, lectures and library research.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with ARTH 280 . RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTC 301 - Care and Preservation of Cultural Property I (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    CARE & PRESERVATION CULT PROP
    Component: Lecture
    Examines philosophy, ethics, and practice of material culture preservation and the issues pertaining to collections management of cultural property. Typical deterioration characteristics and preventive conservation alternatives will be presented and discussed.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ARTC 302 - Care and Preservation of Cultural Property II (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    CARE&PRESERVATION CULT PROP II
    Component: Lecture
    This undergraduate course will serve as an introduction to the practice of conservation, specifically conservation documentation. The class will provide students with a basic knowledge of conservation terminology, conservation literature and research resources, methods of conservation documentation, and prepare students for conservation internships.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    PREREQ: ARTC 301 .
    Course Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • ARTC 367 - SEMINAR (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTC 390 - Art and Forensics: Painting (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ART & FORENSICS: PAINTINGS
    Component: Lecture
    The class will introduce the materials and techniques used by Western easel painters from the early Renaissance through the early 20th century and explore how science and analytical methods can answer questions relating to the materials, methods, age, attribution, and authenticity of paintings and artwork.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
  
  • ARTC 464 - Preservation Internship (3 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 3-6
    CONSERVATION INTERNSHIP
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 6 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Additional University Requirement(s): Discovery Learning Experience Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTC 466 - Independent Study (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    INDEPENDENT STUDY
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTC 467 - SEMINAR (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    SEMINAR
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTC 488 - Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting I (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STUDIO MTRLS & TECHS:PAINTNG I
    Component: Lecture
    Major masters and the materials, tools, supports and techniques of architectural painting and panel painting in tempera from about 1500 BC to AD 1500. Topics include true fresco and egg tempera painting. Studio reconstructions, lectures and library research.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with ARTH 488 . RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTC 489 - Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting II (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STUDIO MTRLS/TECHS:PAINTING II
    Component: Lecture
    Major masters and materials, tools and techniques of indirect and direct oil painting. Time frame: 1500 to present. Major topics include development of canvas, brushes, oil paint, mediums, varnishes, solvents and complex relationship between indirect and direct techniques. Includes studio reconstruction of masterworks, lectures and library research.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with ARTH 489 . RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTC 495 - Preservation Capstone (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    PRESERVATION CAPSTONE
    Component: Lecture
    Summarize and synthesize the previous three years of a student’s undergraduate career in Material Culture Preservation major. Faculty complete the undergraduate experience and prepare students for their next step (job market or graduate school). Career advisement and assessment of learning using exams, the creation of portfolios, oral presentations of internship or research experiences.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Capstone: Classroom course Course Typically Offered: Fall


Art History

  
  • ARTH 101 - Visual Culture (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    VISUAL CULTURE
    Component: Lecture
    Explores the ways we make, perceive and experience images and artifacts.Students will hone their skills in seeing, analyzing historical models andcritically engaging in discussions of visual art and material cultures inselected eras and civilizations around the world.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Additional University Requirement(s): Multicultural Course Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

  
  • ARTH 150 - Monuments and Methods in the History of Art (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MNMENTS & MTHDS IN HIST OF ART
    Component: Lecture
    Painting, sculpture and architecture studied as artistic and cultural expressions of their times. Emphasis on selected major artists, monuments and methods of analysis.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

  
  • ARTH 151 - Myth, Religion and Art (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    MYTH, RELIGION AND ART
    Component: Lecture
    An introduction to the study of mythical and religious images, types, attributes and symbols on a comparative basis from many ages throughout the world. Includes representations of deities, heroes and heroines, as well as images with supernatural powers and satirical images.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Additional University Requirement(s): Multicultural Course Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

  
  • ARTH 153 - Introduction to Art History: Pyramids to Cathedrals (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRO: PYRAMIDS TO CATHEDRALS
    Component: Lecture
    Survey of art and architecture from the ancient world through the Middle Ages studied in historical and cultural contexts. Topics include: Egyptian pyramids, ancient Greek and Roman monuments, and medieval manuscripts and cathedrals.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Additional University Requirement(s): Multicultural Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ARTH 154 - Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to Modern (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRO: RENAISSANCE TO MODERN
    Component: Lecture
    Art and architecture from 1300 to the present studied in historical and cultural context. Topics include art and illusion, the altarpiece, portraiture, the nude, print culture, the changing image of the artist, photography, Impressionism, art and politics, Pop Art, and performance.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • ARTH 156 - Rome: From Caesar to Fellini (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ROME: FROM CAESAR TO FELLINI
    Component: Lecture
    Investigates Rome from antiquity to the twentieth century focusing on art and architecture, archaeology, film, literature, urban planning, law, social history, religion, and politics.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 158 - Rulers’ Images: Antiquity to the Present (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    RULERS’ IMAGES
    Component: Lecture
    Detailed study or selected rulers from Alexander the Great to American Presidents, as presented in both visual and textual sources. Analyze widely differing historical rulers and sources. Explore methods of analysis and interpretive strategies applicable to the images of modern rulers.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 162 - History of Architecture (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
    Component: Lecture
    Survey of major buildings and settlement patterns as cultural expressions, ranging from antiquity to the present day. Lectures contextualize architectural and urban achievements in social, economic, political, religious and technological terms.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 163 - Architecture in Global Contexts (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ARCHITECTURE IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
    Component: Lecture
    Concepts of architecture, with case studies drawn from various world regions ranging from prehistoric times to present. Understanding the role of architecture in human society and how it has shaped human history. Study of physical and cultural dimensions of architecture in different parts of the world and learn how to place their varieties in global contexts.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 164 - World Architecture (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    WORLD ARCHITECTURE
    Component: Lecture
    “World Architecture” surveys patterns of architecture and settlement from around the world and from prehistory to last Friday. Lectures link monuments, landscapes and urban plans from major traditions with a series of themes to highlight cultural differences in the formation of the built environment.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Additional University Requirement(s): Multicultural

  
  • ARTH 166 - Special Problem (1 to 3cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-3
    SPECIAL PROBLEM
    Component: Independent Study
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
  
  • ARTH 167 - Experimental (1 to 6cr.)

    Credit(s): 1-6
    EXPERIMENTAL
    Component: Lecture
    Repeatable: Y Grading Basis: Student Option
    Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTH 198 - Studies in World Art and Architecture (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    STUDIES IN WORLD ART & ARCH
    Component: Lecture
    Monuments and artworks of the world, studied in a comparative and/or cross-cultural perspective. Topics highlight global cultural diversity in the history of art and architecture.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit twice when topics vary.
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ARTH 199 - Topics in Art History (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
    Component: Lecture
    An introduction to great artists and their masterpieces. Topics change with each time of offering. Specific topics may focus on a crucial moment in history, or on a particular theme explored throughout the ages.
    Repeatable: Y Allowed Units: 9 Grading Basis: Student Option
    RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit twice when topics vary.
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ARTH 201 - Introduction to Museums (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRODUCTION TO MUSEUMS
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to the history, operations and future of museums, historic sites, archives and related cultural organizations. Examines collecting and collection management, conservation of collections, exhibition development, public programs and museum education, and digital outreach. Museum careers and volunteer engagement are explored.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with MSST 203  and HIST 203 .
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change

  
  • ARTH 202 - Biblical and Classical Literature (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    BIBLICAL & CLASSICAL LITERATUR
    Component: Lecture
    Study of Greek, Roman, and Biblical literatures, set in their mythical, historical and cultural contexts, introducing appropriate critical concepts.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: Crosslisted with ENGL 202 , LLCU 202 JWST 202 . PREREQ: ENGL 110 .
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities

  
  • ARTH 203 - Art of the Black and African Diaspora (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ART OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
    Component: Lecture
    Through the art and architecture of the Atlantic and Indian oceans, introduces the art of African Heritage peoples after the early 15th century and indicates what connects them (and what separates them) in terms of subject matter, style, representational mode and critique.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 204 - Architecture and Power in Africa (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ARCHITECTURE & POWER IN AFRICA
    Component: Lecture
    Explores architecture in Africa as a representation both of political power and social/religious complexity. Architecture’s relationship to art forms a component of course content. Always regionally focused, lecture vary by semester among these five zones: West Africa and the Maghreb, the Sahel (West Africa and East Africa), East Africa and the Nile Valley, Southern Africa, and Central Africa.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with AFRA 203 .
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Additional University Requirement(s): Multicultural Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept

  
  • ARTH 205 - Science and the Detection of Art Forgeries (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    SCEN&DETECTION OF ART FORGERIE
    Component: Lecture
    Concepts from many scientific disciplines are useful for interpreting works of art. Analytical techniques based on those concepts often reveal art forgeries. Case studies will use basic scientific principles to investigate a wide variety of known or alleged art forgeries.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 206 - Introduction to Art and Architecture in Africa (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    INTRO ART & ARCHTR IN AFRICA
    Component: Lecture
    Explores the art history of the African continent from before Antiquity to the twenty first century, surveying a diversity of media including rock art, sculpture, painting and photography. Traverses the vastness of Africa’s ethnic, historical and climatic richness thematized in terms of African comologies, divinatory practices, histories of state formation, concepts of ancestry, colonialism, slavery, sensuality, revolution, and performance.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 207 - Art of Ancient Egypt and the Near East (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT&NEAR EAST
    Component: Lecture
    Survey of the art and architecture of ancient Egypt and Near East. Emphasis on the relationship of art to religion, politics and ritual. Topics include Egyptian pyramids and the after-life, images of kings and the art of propaganda and art in the service of religion.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 208 - Greek and Roman Art (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    GREEK AND ROMAN ART
    Component: Lecture
    Introduction to the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Italy. Emphasis on the meanings of art in political, religious, and social contexts in the cities of Athens, Rome, and Pompeii. Topics include the ancient Olympic Games, funerary monuments, and everyday life.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 209 - Early Medieval Art: 200-1000 AD (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    EARLY MEDIEVAL ART:200-1000 AD
    Component: Lecture
    Painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe and the Near East. Surveys the earliest Christian art as well as Byzantine, Early Islamic, Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian art.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 210 - Later Medieval Art: 1000-1400 AD (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    LTR MEDIEVAL ART:1000-1400 AD
    Component: Lecture
    Painting, sculpture and architecture of the Christian world, treating later Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic artistic traditions in their historical and cultural contexts. Development of a distinctively European art and society.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 213 - Art of the Northern Renaissance (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    ART OF THE NORTHERN RENAISSANC
    Component: Lecture
    Covers late medieval devotional images to the art of the early modern cities (1400-1570), especially in the Netherlands and Germany. Special emphasis on Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Durer and Pieter Bruegel.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: Creative Arts and Humanities Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 217 - Renaissance Art in a Global Perspective: The 1400s (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    GLOBAL RENAISSANCE: THE 1400S
    Component: Lecture
    Surveys the main artistic developments and cross-cultural exchanges in 15thcentury European art and architecture. Topics include: the Search for Antiquity; Naturalism and Illusion; Guilds and Workshops; Humanism and the Arts; Public and Private Devotions; Courtly Magnificence; the Peripatetic Artist; Looking East.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

  
  • ARTH 218 - Renaissance Art in a Global Perspective: The 1500s (3cr.)

    Credit(s): 3
    GLOBAL RENAISSANCE: THE 1500S
    Component: Lecture
    Surveys the main artistic developments and cross-cultural exchanges in 16thcentury European art. Topics include: the Splendors of Rome; the Crisis of the Image; Imitation and Competition; New Artistic Genres; the Genius of the Artist; Courtly Collectors; the Age of Discovery.
    Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
    University Breadth: History and Cultural Change Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

 

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