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  • 3.00 Credits

    Three basic content areas: the creative process, art criticism, and aesthetics, along with a chronological history of art. The content within these three areas is designed to be gender-conscious, cross-cultural, and discipline-correlated--meaning that visual art is introduced to include filmmaking, computer graphics, architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing, graphic design, and photography. The creative process, aesthetics, composition, and history draw upon all of the diverse interests mentioned above.
    General Education Course
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    This is an introductory studio course where non-art major students will create visual art in both two-and three- dimensional media. Rather than being focused on a specific technique or artistic medium, this class introduces art techniques, concepts, and methods through a response to the physical materials used. This approach results in a wide-ranging exploration that includes traditional art materials and techniques such as ink, pencil, charcoal, paint, printmaking, paper, wood, and wire, as well as newer more contemporary genres related to installation and new media. It will also introduce the use of found materials such as books, natural objects, and discarded items that can be incorporated into mixed-media assemblages. The conceptual focus is on building the ability to communicate ideas, themes, and personal experiences using the language of visual art.
    General Education Course
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    Course introduces the fundamentals of drawing. Graphic media used include pencil, charcoal, pen, and ink. Students learn techniques in line, contour, form, light and shade, texture, and explore problems in design awareness and drawing accuracy.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course explores the figure as a three-dimensional form. Students work directly from the model to gain knowledge of figure structure, gesture, scale, proportion, and composition, as well as to consider how the figure engages with space. A variety of sculpture processes are used to investigate the figure, including clay modeling, carving, mold making, and fabrication techniques. Contemporary ideas in figurative sculpture are explored through readings, lectures, and discussions.
    General Education Course
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    This course builds upon information and skills presented in ART 1020 with the presentation of instruction in basic techniques of painting emphasizing concepts of shape, volume, and use of color theory. Students also learn direct and indirect (glazes) painting. Subject matter varies from representation to free form.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course introduces photographic processes based in the traditional darkroom. Topics covered will be pinhole photography, photograms, cyanotype (sunprints), and photo transfers. Students will build their own pinhole cameras, and create photographs using black and white film and chemicals. Cyanotypes will make use of the sun to expose student's images. By working with Xerox copies of photographs (whether digital or film), students will learn several photo transfer processes. A film camera is optional for this course.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course introduces studio ceramics. It provides the basic technical, historical, theoretical and hands-on experience needed to understand and make high fired, hand made, stoneware ceramics. Through the making of ceramic objects in various techniques, formal discussions, slide presentations and critiques, students are introduced to contemporary artistic and aesthetic issues transcending the clay medium. Students work in stoneware clay and fire work in high fire reduction and Raku.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    Beginning course in wheelthrown pottery to develop skills in throwing, surface decoration, and glazing of stoneware and porcelain. Students explore work rhythms of the pottery studio as they learn the concept of good craftsmanship.
    General Education Course
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    The class introduces the history, mechanics and applications of digital photography as well as basic photographic combination of lectures, guest lectures, viewing the work of master photographers, class assignments and in-class critiques of student work which will be projected on the screen.
    General Education Course