2024-2025 Course List

A specialized topic of the students' choice. Coordination with a faculty member is necessary.

2-D visual problem solving and art-making strategies using the elements and principles of design. For elementary education majors and general education.

Goal Areas:

GE-06

For art, art history and art education majors.

Introduction to concept and processes related to the visual and physical organization of three-dimensional form and space.

Introduction to traditional drawing techniques and concepts.

Introduction to Western and non-Western visual arts and the variety of methods by which art is understood. These may include art appreciation, art criticism, the history of art, popular culture, and aesthetic awareness.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This graphic design course is an introduction to digital media technology as a creative tool for the development of visual expression. The course is taught using the Mac OS and explores vector and bitmap image making.

Continued exploration of drawing techniques and concepts.

Prerequisites:

ART 110

Experience in drawing from the human figure.

Prerequisites:

ART 110

This course explores the basic principles of graphic design. Emphasis is placed on developing an awareness and effective use of type, image, and symbol. Students focus on the design process as a way to develop and refine design solutions.

Prerequisites:

ART 202

ART 225 offers art experiences with a focus on working with children. The class will be introduced to methods and materials that work best with these populations. The course includes an introduction to a broad scope of artists and artworks that reflect our culturally diverse country, as well as the global nature of our world. Visual Culture, work of fine art, museum analysis, installations, performances, video art, and graffiti will be discussed. Students will participate in hands-on art making activities through studio experiences, they will write and reflect on the outcomes, and they will participate in critiques and discussions.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-07

Multimedia art exploration is a problem solving art studio experience involving the use of a variety of traditional and non-traditional art materials.

Goal Areas:

GE-06

Beginning experience with oil and/or acrylic paint. Emphasis upon technical and conceptual development.

Prerequisites:

ART 100 or ART 101, ART 110 or consent

Introduction to basic techniques in watercolor.

Prerequisites:

ART 100 or ART 101, ART 110 or consent

An introduction to basic wheel throwing techniques exploring the potential of clay as a creative and expressive material.

An introduction to basic sculptural hand building techniques exploring the nature of clay as a creative-expressive medium.

Introduction to art history from prehistoric and ancient cultures through the Middle Ages. Includes representative examples and styles of art and architecture of Western (Europe and the Near East) and non-Western cultures (China, India, Japan, Southeast Asia, Africa, Mesoamerica, South America, North America, Australia).

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Lecture-based survey of the Art and Architecture of both Western and non-Western countries from the thirteenth through twentieth centuries.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

This course analyzes relationships between art and politics from ancient times through today, exploring uses of art from persuasion to overt propaganda in visual arts and architecture. It will deal with diverse cultures, covering material from a global perspective.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

Introduction to silkscreen and lithography printmaking processes including silkscreen, monotype, and plate lithography.

Introduction to intaglio and relief printmaking processes including collagraph, etching, relief carving, and engraving.

Introduction to the techniques and expressive potential of both digital and darkroom photography. Topics include basic camera controls, lighting, composition, editing, and fine art printing in the digital lab and darkroom. A digital camera with manual controls of aperture and shutter speed is required for part of the semester (a film camera will be provided).

Goal Areas:

GE-06

Exploration of the visual and physical organization of three-dimensional form and space through problems employing various media and processes.

Prerequisites:

ART 103 or consent

This studio course familiarizes students with the basic concerns of installation art, including relationship to site and audience. A variety of materials and approaches will be explored. Environmental impact, health, and safety will be addressed. In addition to studio work, historical and contemporary examples will be discussed to provide context and encourage awareness of the disciplines past and present potential.

Prerequisites:

ART 103 or consent

Lecture/discussion/studio course on a selected area of discourse relating to the study of Art History, Art Criticism, Art Education or Art Studio. May focus on a specific artists, style period, cultural group or technical or methodological problem.