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2.00 Credits
The interdisciplinary field of scientific illustration will be explored through practical work, assigned readings, field trips and visits from experts in the field. Skills to observe and illustrate biological, anthropological, archaeological and/or other scientific materials will be developed through individual and small-group exercises. These exercises will illustrate a variety of different methods and techniques used in scientific illustration, and will help to hone observational and artistic skills. Working directly with a faculty member, professional scientist or illustrator, each student will complete a final project to be used in a publication, laboratory notebook or public display. Required co-requisite: BIOL 380: Topics in Biology: Scientific Illustration. Prerequisite: ART 204 and consent of instructors. Co-requisite: BIOL 380. Topics in Biology: Scientific Illustration (2).
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Off-campus experiential learning opportunity. A variety of internships can be arranged through the director of internships, subject to the approval of the art faculty. The off-campus internship is an individually designed experience that allows the student to explore the relationship between learning and everyday work situations. Prerequisites: admission to the Internship Program and approval of the department chair. (See "Internships" under "Academic Policiessection.) Credit/No credit grading.
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4.00 Credits
This writing intensive course focuses on developing effective presentation materials by which studio artists contextualize, articulate and document the intentions of their own creative work. Course activities include learning how to write effective visual analysis and artist statements, photograph and digitally document artworks, create on-line portfolios, and prepare a variety of professional presentation materials such as résumés and letters of application.Course work culminates with students creating their own on-line portfolio. This course satisfies an art theory requirement for art majors with a concentration in studio art. Prerequisite: One 300-level studio art course or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Supervised experience in organizing, preparing, and teaching a studio art course and supervising studio lab sessions. Students are assigned to a specific art studio course and will assist the instructor. Grade evaluation will be based on attendance, preparation, teaching ability and specific tasks assigned by the instructor, such as designing a demonstration or presentation to illustrate art studio principles and practices. Prerequisites: students must be art majors and/or must obtain consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a structured environment in which students explore and develop their own artistic interests in the context of exchange with fellow seminar members and a faculty mentor. In a selected area of focus (drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, or combined media) students pursue sustained independent studio projects accompanied by written formulation of artistic concerns and research into related art and ideas. Consult the Department of Art and Art History's guidelines for the St. Mary's Project. Prerequisite: one 300-level studio art course in the student's chosen area of focus and the approval of the instructor and chair of the Art and Art History Department.
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4.00 Credits
In this course students continue to develop and produce a body of self-generated studio work culminating in a public exhibition. This exhibition will be accompanied by a written statement of goals placed within an art historical context and a public lecture that addresses the project's expressive significance and its relationship to contemporary art and art theory. Consult the Department of Art and Art History's guidelines for the St. Mary's Project.This course replaces ART 490. Prerequisite: one 300-level studio art course in the student's chosen area of focus selected from the following; ART 304 Drawing Studio; ART 306 Painting Studio; ART 308 Sculpture Studio; ART 312 Photography Studio; ART 314 Digital and Time Based Studio; and the approval of the instructor and chair of the Art and Art History Department.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course consists of an independent reading or research project designed by the student and supervised by an art history faculty member. The nature of the project, the schedule for accomplishment, and the means of evaluation must be formalized in a learning contract prior to registration. (See "Independent Study"under "Academic Policies" section.)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the art of the ancient and medieval world. Utilizing the three elements of rock, paper, and sword, this course examines how different Western, Asian, and Islamic cultures approached art in these media. Exploring rock involves both architecture and sculptural representation; examining paper engages issues of two-dimensional media and the sweeping changes caused by the introduction of paper; and considering the sword includes both the production of metalwork and the artistic scope of ancient and medieval empires. A museum visit as well as the College's collection of plaster casts and artifacts will be integral to the course. Slide presentations, lectures, and discussion. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Arts.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of the Americas before the Spanish Conquest. The course surveys a diverse range of cultures including: Native Americans of the Southeast, Southwest and Plains regions of the United States; the Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, and Aztec of Mesoamerica; and Andean empires from Chavin through the Inca. Analysis takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the form, function, and symbolism of Ancient American art and architecture and its role in the construction and maintenance of political power, religious belief and practice, concepts of space, and bodily performance. Slide presentations, lectures and discussion.
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4.00 Credits
Various topics in art history, each representing an introduction to an aspect of the discipline. May be repeated for credit if the topic is not repetitive. For a description of each course, see the current online "Schedule of Classes." Thiscourse satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Arts.
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