Opaque, transparent, and inventive procedures with watercolor. Emphasis is on expressive use of the medium and development of personal style. A basic understanding of the concepts of graphic design that include layout, typography, image-making, and theme. Students will create work from thumbnails through completed projects. An introduction to fine art photography emphasizing visual literacy and technical skills for non-art majors. Course content focuses on digital camera operation, composition and design, lighting, ethics, basic computer editing, and outsourced printing.
Student must provide camera. Introduction to black and white digital photographic image capture emphasizing visual literacy, creative possibilities and critical awareness of the medium as an art form.
Course content focuses on DSLR camera operation, composition and basic computer editing. A digital SLR camera is required. This course is designed to give students a technical and theoretical overview of digital media as a means of personal and cultural expression, strengthening visual literacy. Students will explore static and dynamic digital methods.
A mandatory review of work within each studio concentration. Students must pass to continue in the program. Examination of sculptural concepts through individual projects. Emphasis is on contemporary sculptural issues, techniques, and media. Directed readings, technical workshops and critiques required. This course examines contemporary sculptural issues, techniques and media. Students explore alternative sculptural approaches.
Individual student projects determined by faculty consultation and critiques. Directed readings, writings, group discussions. May be repeated up to 12 semester hours. This course examines the casting process used in creating jewelry and small metal objects. Emphasis will be on sound craftsmanship and successfully meeting the design challenges of the metals medium. Slide lecture, demonstrations, assigned readings and studio problems.
Exploration of contemporary drawing practices with a focus on creative and alternative extensions to traditional image making. Emphasis placed on the development of perceptual, conceptual, and interpretive solutions to drawing problems and the relationship of technique, scale, media, format and materials. Articulation of personal content, research and revision is stressed.
Investigation of experimental, collaborative and interdisciplinary art practice-extending outward to include a variety of creative fields; including technology. Projects challenge students to redefine traditional approaches to art making utilizing concepts, processes and performative actions inherent to drawing in a wide context of materiality, surface, space, site-specific, collaborative and ephemeral methodologies.
May be repeated a total of two times for 6 semester hours. Continued exploration of contemporary drawing practices with a focus on advancing creative and alternative extensions to traditional image making. Students develop personal, perceptual, conceptual, and interpretive solutions to a variety of drawing problems employing both traditional and unconventional processes and materials.
Directed readings, research, writing, group discussions and critique. Further exploration of intaglio, relief, lithography and screenprinting processes, including digital and photo-mechanical processess.
Emphasis on refining technique, experimentation, and further development of concept through the study of historical and contemporary printmaking artists.
Continuation of handbuilding methods; introduction to wheel-thrown ceramics. Explore alternative ceramic processes, midrange clay, glaze and firing technology while strengthening craft, technical, and conceptual skills. A variety of techniques, applications, technology, and the use of various interdisciplinary tools and methodologies will be covered. Class projects will allow students to build skill while developing a personal aesthetic within the realm of ceramic art. Cognitive and interdisciplinary arts activities for multiple age levels to meet the developmental needs of learners at diverse ages.
Curriculum development, long- and short-range planning, motivational procedures, assessment processes, field-based activities.
Specific content varies by semester and may include a general survey of Medieval art, or in-depth topics such as Early Christian and Byzantine art or Medieval sculpture. May be taken twice for credit if content differs. The art and architecture of Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Examines the work of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Durer, and others. May be repeated if the content is different. Art and architecture of the 17th and early 18th centuries, an era of world exploration and scientific investigation. The works of such artists as Bernini, Velazquez, and Rembrandt are included.
Covering all aspects and media of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts of 17th and 18th centuries. European painting and sculpture of Neo-classicism, Romanticism, and Realism. Include Impressionism and related movements. Art as part of social and political developments, and the foundations of modern formalism. Covering all aspects and media of painting, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts of the 19th century.
A survey of Black American art history from the 17th century through the 20th century. Study in one of the many areas of the visual process that focuses on specific content or technical methods. An understanding of painting processes in relation to both historical and contemporary painting practices. Students will be introduced to a variety of materials, processes and techniques for a diverse investigation of painting practice with concentration on individual content, direction, style, and personal expression.
Students will explore issues of cultural diversity, individuals with exceptionalities and gifted learners, gender differences, and differences in socioeconomic backgrounds, and how these affect student learning and behavior in the classroom. Students will be challenged to apply their understanding of the needs of all learners and knowledge of the richness of contributions from diverse populations, to develop inclusive and pluralistic curricular in art education. An Investigation of the aesthetic and practical processes, philosophies, and history behind the field of interactive design for on screen applications.
An Investigation of typographic design within a system over a variety of formats with a focus on a technical understanding of the principles of typography, including classification, legibility, readability, use of a grid, alignment, mood, audience and visual hierarchy as well as an understanding of typography as an art form.
The interaction of type and images in visual communication. Students will be introduced to typographic grid as an organizing principle as well as the relationship of form to content. The development of sensitivity for specific typefaces and their effective use in communications. Emphasis will be directed toward the expressive use of type in interpretive, symbolic, and metaphoric solutions. Visual expression through various media, both electronic and traditional.
Emphasis is on problem-solving through the exploration of technique, creative process and the development of personal styles. An investigation of typeface design. Students will engage in developing one or more unique typefaces, and the promotional materials used to market them. Students will engage in research related to the history of type design, and current type trends and cultural inspirations. Students will engage current technologies to create dynamic motion for screen-based design.
Introduction to the technical requirements of preparing a design for production including the importance of understanding pre-press software, printing technology and printing specifications. Students will encounter projects ranging from web design to interactive screen-based publications. This course focuses on photographic analog printing emphasizing photography as an expressive art form. Course content focuses on lighting, film development and black and white enlargement and printing. Directed readings and group discussion.
Introduction to color digital still photography utilizing the computer as a fine art tool. Course content focuses on retouching, image manipulation, color management and high quality printing. This course continues the examination of contemporary digital photography issues, techniques, media, and concept.
Students explore digital photography in terms of advanced image manipulation, lighting technique, various camera formats, and large-scale printing. Directed readings, writings, and group discussions. Study of African tribal art forms and their relationship to the historical period in which they were created.
The impact and influence of African art on the development of contemporary Western art trends. The art and architecture of the native peoples of North America. Includes archeological sites and living artistic traditions, stressing the relationship between art and society.
The art and architecture of the ancient peoples of Mexico, Central and south America. May be taken twice if the content is different. A chronological survey of graphic design from ancient to modern times. The art of China from prehistory to the present day. Media including ceramics, stone carving, bronzes lacquer, wood, architecture, painting, and new media will be placed in cultural, religious, political and social contexts.
Japanese art from prehistory to the present including ceramics, bronzes, lacquer, wood, architecture, painting, photography and new media. Emphasis will be placed on putting works into cultural, religious, political, and social context. The theories and philosophical implications of form in the visual arts, with emphasis on contemporary thought. Arts of greater India and both maritime and mainland Southeast Asia from prehistoric to contemporary, including ceramics, stone carving, architecture, painting, and photography in their cultural, religious, political and social context.
Students will gain technical knowledge by working individually and in small teams. May be taken up to 6 semester hours. An introductory study of time-based motion graphics including traditional and two-dimension 2D computer animation. Principles and techniques of motion graphics from storyboarding to digital composition. Discussion of exemplary works, historical background, and technological trends in motion graphics. A forum for further study of methods, procedures, and results attainable with video editing software, advanced editing techniques, digital compositing, and tilting software.
This course focuses on learning about and practicing creative strategies that improve communication of content and ideas. While emphasis will be on strategies related to digital culture, outcomes can be in digital or non-digital mediums.
This course is studio based with additional emphasis on reading, writing and discussion of related topics. Advanced, independent study in any two- or three-dimensional studio discipline. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 s. Interdisciplinary courses developing areas of self-interest using the most suitable range of visual strategies, media and methods of artistic production. Students select faculty from different visual disciplines to form team of two mentors.
Directed readings, structured research initiatives and individual projects. Experience in selected disciplines required. A studio concentration intended as preparation and production of work for the Senior Show graduation requirement. Capstone course for studio majors integrating writing, oral, and critical reasoning skills specific to the student's discipline within the larger framework of the visual arts. Gen Ed : Capstone. This internship opportunity is open to any qualified studio art, art history or art education students.
Interns work in galleries, art centers or an approved community art entity. The B. Department of Education Curriculum Sheet. Student Bulletin PDF. Facebook Twitter Instagram. Art Education. Undergraduate Program Art Education students are first and foremost artists who want to teach. You'll create your own educational journey of artistic diversity while studying subjects like ceramics, printmaking, photography, sculpture, drawing or digital media. To begin taking courses in this track, you'll first need to pass the foundational portfolio review.
Course Listing. Check out our Painting and Printmaking track. Check out our Photography track. This minor gives you the chance to dive deeper into two or three fine arts disciplines. Areas to choose from are painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and drawing. You'll take a total of 18 semester hours to complete the Interdisciplinary Studio Art minor.
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