Art Department | Major,
Minors, Concentrations
Lower Division Courses |
Upper Division Courses
Winter. Prereq.: ART 130 or other appropriate studio experience. This studio course explores traditional and experimental approaches to portraiture. Students will consider a variety of issues including the factors contributing to a likeness, and the presentation of public versus private images of the sitter. A variety of media will be used, and some art-critical reading may be required. Extra fee. Limited enrollment.
Winter. A studio course in complex drawing problems to foster a more independent and individual drawing style, including greater use of color media. Extra fee. Limited enrollment.
Prereq.: Art 100, 130 or permission. A study of monoprints, block prints, and intaglio prints. A variety of techniques and concepts, including etching and dry-point, will be explored. Extra fee. Limited enrollment.
Fall. Prereq.: some art history or upper-level humanities or social sciences course work is recommended. A history of western art from Post-Impressionism to the present, focusing on key artists, movements and critical theories.
Winter. Prereq.: some art history or upper-level humanities or social sciences course work is recommended. Students will examine the major contributions Pablo Picasso made to Cubism, Surrealism, and Modernist Abstraction. Themes of eroticism, popular culture, violence, and political protest in the artist's work will also be considered.
Spring. Alt. years. Prereq.: some art history or upper-level humanities or social sciences course work is recommended. A survey of western art from the mid-Eighteenth century to the Napoleonic period, focusing on the rise of Romantic individualism, and its importance for the art of our time.
Prereq.: Art 100 or permission. A studio course focusing on traditional and innovative approaches to rendering the human figure. A variety of media will be used. Extra fee. Limited enrollment.
Fall. Alt. years. Prereq.: some art history or upper-level humanities or social sciences course work is recommended. A survey of western art from the 1850s to the 1930s, focusing on rationalist, utopian and subjectivist approaches in early modern art. Attention is also given to the development of collage and to theories on the creative role of the subconscious.
Spring. Alt. years. Prereq.: some art history or upper-level humanities or social sciences course work is recommended. A survey of western art from the early 1900s to the present, and examination of the nature of expressionism in the work of the German Expressionists, the New York School, and the Neo-Expressionists of the l980s.
Prereq.: ART 100, or 130, or permission. A studio course in complex drawing problem to foster a more independent and individual drawing style, including use of color media. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 100 or 130 or permission. An investigation of the relationship of form and function as it applies to principles of color, line, and shape. Specific projects might include fabric, poster, or book design. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 123, or 130, or permission. A computer lab course that further investigates the relationship between fine and applied art. Problems may include animation or desktop publishing. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 100, 130 or permission. A studio course that includes a variety of studies in any of the graphic arts including ink, printmaking, pencil, and photography. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 100, or 130, or permission. An exploration of a variety of media that may include two- and three-dimensional materials such as pen, watercolor, paper, and clay. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 101 or permission. An investigation of oil, tempera, acrylic, or watercolor. Special projects are designed to meet the interests of individual students. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 315 or permission. A study of etching, aquatint, monoprinting, wood block, cyanotype or other specialized printmaking projects of interest to the student. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 106 and 130, or permission. Individualized photography projects. Typical projects might include the pinhole camera, sports action, the view camera, nonsilver print processes, exhibition processing, or color. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 130 or permission. An investigation of the design of functional and nonfunctional objects. Advanced studio problems include aspects of form and function and construction technique. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 103 or 125 or 126 or permission. A studio course in ceramic pottery or sculpture. Students may investigate techniques of throwing, hand building, kiln construction, glazing and firing of a variety of clays. Extra fee. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Prereq.: ART 230 or permission. A studio course exploring realism or abstraction in sculpture. Students may study traditional approaches involving casting and modeling as well as contemporary techniques of constructed metal and found object sculpture. May be repeated once for credit with a different project.
Spring. Prereq.: ART 100, 130 and previous advanced studies course work. Creation of a body of two-dimensional work for the spring exhibition. Organizing, hanging and critiquing work and related reading are also covered. (INDEPENDENT WORK)
Spring. Prereq.: ART 100, 130 and previous advanced studies course work. Creation of a body of three-dimensional work for the spring exhibition. Organizing, hanging and critiquing work and related reading are also covered. (INDEPENDENT WORK)
Spring. Prereq.: ART 100, 130 and previous advanced studies course work. Creation of visual arts projects within a business or museum environment and presentation of that work in the spring exhibition. Organizing, hanging, critiquing work and related reading are also covered. (INDEPENDENT WORK)
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq.: Permission. Approved reading and research studies in art history. See independent study guidelines. (INDEPENDENT WORK)
Specific internship projects which may include computer graphics, museum work, or various applied experiences in art. See internship guidelines. (INDEPENDENT WORK)