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Art

Course Code
ART 303C  Credits
Title Painting: Technique, Color and Composition 
Prerequisite ART 203C 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Emphasis on technical skills, color strategy and compositional methods. The class projects are designed for developing students’ personal subject matter. Specific paint applications and technical information will be provided in order to develop painting skills. 



Course Code
ART 303D  Credits
Title Printmaking: Relief, Paper, Book 
Prerequisite ART 203D 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Students will explore an intermediate level of printmaking focusing on expanded techniques in relief printmaking, as well as exploring some bookbinding and papermaking. Assignments will allow students to incorporate other techniques and concepts of their choosing, but at least, in part, will address some of the techniques in relief printmaking and book arts in contemporary and historical applications. 



Course Code
ART 303E  Credits
Title Sculpture: Technique and Object Making 
Prerequisite ART 203E 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course expands on furthering student’s skill level with tools and technical abilities. The course will emphasize the exploration of object making while assisting the development of a conceptual vocabulary. 



Course Code
ART 303F  Credits
Title Contemporary Digital Concepts 
Prerequisite ART 203F 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course is dedicated to the expanded exploration of digital image making processes and alternative methods of display with an emphasis on photographic concepts and contemporary digital practices. 



Course Code
ART 303H  Credits
Title Scientific Illustration 
Prerequisite ART 203C or ART 203D or ART 203H or ART 203L  
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Emphasis on processes and techniques of scientific illustration in traditional media. Botanical, anatomical, and other subjects addressed. May be repeated for up to 8 credits. 



Course Code
ART 304A  Credits
Title Intermediate Handbuilding/Ceramic Sculpture 
Prerequisite ART 203A 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course delves into the techniques of producing larger sculptural objects as well as conceptual approaches to sculpture. The course also introduces the use of paperclay and alternative surface effects appropriate to sculptural work. Students may take 303A, 304A, and 305A in any order. 



Course Code
ART 304C  Credits
Title Painting: Portraiture 
Prerequisite ART 303C 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Refinement of technical facility and concentration on the subjects of portraiture and figure painting. Study of portraiture/figure painting and their compositional strategies. In-depth studio investigation in historical and contemporary portrait/figure painting. Students may take 303C, 304C and 305C in any order.  



Course Code
ART 304D  Credits
Title Printmaking: Intaglio and Photo-based Printmaking 
Prerequisite ART 203D 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Students will explore an intermediate level of printmaking focusing on expanded techniques in intaglio printmaking and photo-based applications. Assignments will allow students to incorporate other techniques and concepts of their choosing, but at least, in part, will address intaglio and photo-based printmaking in contemporary and historical applications. 



Course Code
ART 304E  Credits
Title Sculpture: Installation and Space 
Prerequisite ART 203E 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course will explore the use space, site and place. The goal of the course is to assist students in the utilization three-dimensional space beyond the object to actualize fully realized works of art. 



Course Code
ART 304F  Credits
Title Experimental Techniques in Photography 
Prerequisite ART 203F 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course is dedicated to understanding an expanded definition of the photographic medium from both an historical and interdisciplinary viewpoint. Explorations can include early photographic processes, new and mixed media processes with a core photographic component, and both lens and non-lens based forms of image making. 



Course Code
ART 304H  Credits
Title Contemporary Drawing Concepts and Methodologies 
Prerequisite ART 203H or ART 203C or ART 203D or ART 203E 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Emphasis on interdisciplinary and multi-media approaches to drawing. The boundaries of "drawing" will be pushed. Non-representational and representational subjects explored. May be repeated for up to 8 credits. 



Course Code
ART 305A  Credits
Title Technical Ceramics 
Prerequisite ART 203A 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Explores the fundamentals of glaze and clay chemistry with an emphasis on glaze development and coloration. Students also investigate firing theory, image transfers, mold making and slip casting. Students may take 303A, 304A, and 305A in any order. 



Course Code
ART 305C  Credits
Title Painting: Abstract and Mixed Media 
Prerequisite ART 303C 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Emphasis on the historical, theoretical and conceptual development of abstraction. Further understand color theory, elements of art and principles of design as basics for abstraction. Personal subject matters will include landscape, human figure, architectural, interior space or non-objective. Students may take ART 304c and 305c in any order.  



Course Code
ART 305D  Credits
Title Printmaking: Planographic and Digital Applications 
Prerequisite ART 203D 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Students will explore an intermediate level of printmaking focusing on expanded techniques in lithography, screen-print, and digital applications. Assignments will allow students to incorporate other techniques and concepts of their choosing, but at least, in part, will address lithography, screen-print, and digitally-based printmaking in contemporary and historical applications. 



Course Code
ART 305E  Credits
Title Sculpture: Concepts in Materiality 
Prerequisite ART 203E 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course will explore the use of materials and making processes to realize a finished work of art. There will be an exploration of the conceptual, formal, and poetic implications of different materials in art-making.  



Course Code
ART 305F  Credits
Title Untrue Narrative 
Prerequisite ART 203F 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course is dedicated to the deconstruction of photography as a truthful medium through the use of fabricated narratives. Explores notions of self-contained narratives, as well as, linear and nonlinear visual storytelling in photography. 



Course Code
ART 305H  Credits
Title Sequential Art 
Prerequisite ART 203H or ART 203D or ART 203C or ART 203L or GDES 203 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course investigates strategies for visual storytelling. Students will explore both traditional and contemporary two-dimensional media. May be repeated for up to 8 credits. 



Course Code
ART 305L  Credits
Title Digital Illustration 
Prerequisite ART 203H or ART 203L or ART 203C 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course addresses the tools and techniques of producing digital illustrations. Students will learn the use of appropriate software and hardware to create digital and hybrid hand-drawn/digital illustrations. 



Course Code
ART 306A  Credits
Title Ceramics Studio 
Prerequisite ART 303A ART 304A 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Assignments, readings and individual contracts are employed encouraging students to seek their own voice and direction in ceramics, preparing them to continue as active individually expressive artists after graduation. 



Course Code
ART 306C  Credits
Title Painting: Watercolor 
Prerequisite ART 203C 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Watercolor Media Painting, an intermediate course emphasizes on experiencing in the basic techniques of watercolor and also introducing a variety of experimental approaches.  Student will work toward a high degree of personal expression and to investigate ideas which occur during the course of study. Slide lecture, demonstration and class discussion is utilized; instruction is based on both structured class and an individual project research assignment. Students may take 303C, 304c, 305c and 306c in any order.