Introduction to various verbal and visual techniques for creative problem solving, including the use of the computer as a creative tool. 

General Education Requirement: Foundation - Arts
Offering: Fall and Winter Semesters
Credits: 3

For non-art and design majors. Studio Art or Art Education majors must take ART155.

Drawing course designed for non-art and design majors and minors outside of the Department of Visual and Media Arts. Students will learn how to create observational and expressive drawings using the elements and principles of art, and how to develop ideas for drawing.

General Education Requirement: Foundation - Arts
Offerings: Fall and Winter
Credits: 3

Fundamentals of painting in opaque media with a variety of subjects and styles. 

General Education Requirement: Foundation - Arts
Offerings: Fall and Winter Semesters
Credits: 3

Direct modeling, carving, and construction as approaches to sculpture. Experimentation with plaster, clay, wood, and metal. 

General Education Requirement: Foundation - Arts
Offerings: Fall and Winter Semesters
Credits: 3

All basic hand-building techniques, glazing, and concepts relating to ceramics and pottery. Included will be historical background, some clay geology, clay making, kiln loading and unloading. All other general studio practices and safety will also be covered. 

General Education Requirement: Foundation - Arts
Offerings: Fall and Winter Semesters
Credits: 3

Introductory course on film as a significant cultural form. Examines the formal elements through which films tell stories, and the kind of stories they tell in response to audience needs and desires. Focuses on how audience interaction shapes narrative filmmaking. Fulfills Arts Foundation. Offered every semester.

Credits: 3

A course for those who want to be able to use still photography at an introductory level but do not require darkroom expertise. Covers camera operation, composition, aesthetics, and visual communication. 35mm camera required. Does not count toward the photography major. Offered fall semester.

Credits: 3

For non-art and design majors. Studio Art or Art Education majors must take ART150.

Explores two dimensional composition by applying visual elements and design principles. All work is computer generated. It is designed for any student outside the Art and Design Department who requires or seeks a background in composition. 

Prerequisites: Photography majors or by permit.
Offerings: Fall and Winter semesters
Credits: 3

Explores the theories and concepts of two-dimensional art forms. Basic visual design principles, their application, comparison of contemporary and historical examples are presented through lectures and slides and applied to studio problems. 

Offerings: Fall and Winter Semesters
Credits: 3

Fundamentals of design with an emphasis upon projects that develop the language of art as applied to three-dimensional forms in space. O

Offerings: Fall and Winter semesters
Credits: 3

A study of fundamental pictorial concepts of drawing. Experimentation with varied technical means and media directed toward both descriptive and expressive ends. Offered fall and winter semesters.

Credits: 3

The history of design from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Discussions of the politics and ethics of design. Offered fall and winter semester.

Credits: 3

A survey of art history from prehistoric times to the Renaissance. Offered fall semester.

Credits: 3

A survey of art history from the Renaissance to the present day. Offered winter semester.

Credits: 3

Experimentation with varied techniques and with different composition ideas related to some fundamental forms of printmaking. Work with wood/linoleum cut, intaglio, and collagraph. Offered fall and winter semesters.

Credits: 3

Visual art methods are used to study, form, and present art in a specific public context. Includes the development of a project site, individual and collaborative work, and service learning. Studio operates “in public” presenting lectures, visual displays, and public gatherings. Part of the Identity Issue. (May be repeated once for credit.) Offered every third fall or winter semester. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

Credits: 3

Curatorial Studio explores presentational and critical practice and the theoretical discourse specific to such practice within a studio context. This involves the curation (study and creation of visual presentations) in exhibitions or projects. Part of the Information, Innovation, and Technology Issue. Offered every third semester (fall and winter). (May be repeated once for credit.) Prerequisite: Junior standing.

Credits: 3

During Fall/Winter semesters, contact the professor to obtain their permission to register for this course.

Image studio explores the creation, use, and presentation of images and the theoretical discourse specific to such practices within a studio context. The studio incorporates uses of current image creation and presentation technologies. (may be repeated once for credit). Offered fall semester.

Credits: 3

Interactive Studio addresses the study and creation of art works in which the audience is involved in an interactive exchange. Media explored include interactive situations, community collaborations, social/political interactions, and current electronic interactive interfaces. (May be repeated once for credit.) Offered fall semester. 

Credits: 3

Space Studio addresses the creation of site-specific works based in the primary form and experience of space typically referred to as ‘Installations’. It includes studio considerations of space, site, installation, public art, presentational practices and the related theoretical discourse within a studio context. (may be repeated once for credit.) Offered every third semester (Fall/Winter).

Credits: 3

Time Studio explores temporal and presentational practices and the theoretical discourse specific to such practices within a studio context. Time-based works include time and change as central elements. This includes ephemeral and kinetic objects, performance, sound works, and works incorporating moving images. (may be repeated once for credit.) Offered winter semester. 

Credits: 3

A continuation of techniques and media from Introduction to Drawing I. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: ART 155.

Pre-requisite: ART155
Credits: 3

A study of the fundamentals of metalsmithing: fabrication techniques, surface embellishment, simple stone setting, and finishing placed within a conceptual context. Offered fall and winter semesters. 

Pre-requisite: ART152, ART157 (waived for non-majors)
Credits: 3

Introduces students to three dimensional computer technologies and their application in studio art practice. Activities focus on using good computer “craft,” employing appropriate compositional principles, and choosing subjects and content that engage viewers and encourage rich conceptual associations. Offered fall semester.

Pre-requisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing
Credits: 3

This course will be offered in the Fall 2016 semester only.

A thematic examination of  the arts and visual culture created between the 6th and 15th centuries in Europe and the broader Mediterranean. Explores diverse media in relation to their political, religious, and social contexts. Also considers 19th century and contemporary reception of medieval art and ideas.

Prerequisite: ART221, or junior standing
Offerings: Every Fall semester of even-numbered years
Credits: 3

This course will only be offered during the Winter 2017 semester.

A thematic examination of the visual arts of Europe created between 1350 and 1600. Topics include the artist in society, civic and domestic settings for the arts, and global contexts, as well as the representation of gender, ethnicity, and social class. Also considers the reception of renaissance art in later eras.

Prerequisite: ART222, or junior standing
Offerings: Every winter semester of odd-numbered years
Credits: 3

This course highlights important moments of modernist and contemporary aesthetic development from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Offered winter of even-numbered years. Prerequisite: ART 222 or junior status.

Credits: 3

This course will be offered in the Fall 2016 semester only.

n introduction to the field of art education, including the study of its historical, sociological, and theoretical foundations and their effect on its practice in the K-12 classroom. Offered fall semester. 

Prerequisites: ART 152, ART 157
Credits: 3

An overview of the skills needed to function in the retail and wholesale jewelry industry. The course will cover such topics as stone setting, fabrication, assembly of standardized findings, rebuilding, restoring and repairing of various jewelry times. Sales and situational challenges of working with customers will be addressed. Offered fall semester every other year. Prerequisite: ART 245 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

This course will be offered in the Fall 2016 semester only.

This class will explore the varied facets of human-animal relationships by examining representations of animals in the visual arts. Using a thematic approach, we will consider works from prehistory to the present, incorporating imagery from cultural traditions throughout the world. 

Prerequisite: ART221, ART222, or junior standing.
Offerings: Every Fall semester of even-numbered years
Credits: 3

This course will be offered in the Winter 2017 semester only.

This course provides an in-depth investigation of the Surrealism movement, addressing its artistic, as well as its historical, political, philosophical, and psychological implications. Offered winter of odd-numbered years. Prerequisite: ART 222, or junior or senior status.

Pre-requisites: ART222, or junior standing
Offerings: Every Winter semester of odd-numbered years
Credits: 3

This course will survey the visual arts of India, China, and Japan, focusing on the relationship between visual form and cultural ideology. Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years. Prerequisites: ART 221 and ART 222, or junior status.

Credits: 3

Examines the arts and material culture produced in Islamic contexts between the 7th century and the present. Themes include patronage, materials, reception, cultures in contact, plurality of meaning, as well as colonial and postcolonial circumstances. Also explores the work of contemporary artists in relation to transnational contexts. Course offered winter semester of even-numbered years. Prerequisite: ART 221 or junior standing.

Credits: 3

A thematic approach to 19th century American arts and visual culture. Considers individual artists, but stresses the role of objects to reflect and shape cultural change. Discussions include portraiture, westward expansion, the Civil War, as well as the role of visual culture and conceptions of gender, race, and social class. Course offered fall semester of odd-numbered years. Prerequisite: ART 222 or junior standing.

Credits: 3