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  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall Semester Installation Art challenges the creator and audience to expand their definition of art. It is often removed from the gallery to disrupt spaces in unexpected ways. Frequently, it addresses social issues, is time based, involves the viewer, and utilizes materials and practices that mirror the complexity of contemporary culture. Students will use the campus to explore personal and universal issues. The Course culminates in a "Day of Art."
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Beginning students work with Intermediate and Advanced students to learn the fundamentals of camera operation and darkroom printing. Intermediate and advanced students refine skills, developing more fully a personal vision. In critiques students explore "big picture"themes, and create BIG photographs that employ processes from traditional to unique, from constructed negatives to mural-size printing. Prerequisite: FA 210 encouraged.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Spring Semester Designed to increase the student's perceptual skills and provide an introduction to the human figure. Various drawing approaches are discussed and utilized throughout the course. Emphasis is placed on anatomy and the structure of the human form. Critiques and lectures help students develop an understanding of the critical issues of drawing and its context within the History of Art.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall Semester Topics include developmental theory, curriculum design, and numerous hands-on experiences to explore visual creativity. Techniques of structuring, time, space, and materials are addressed to support independent student work in various art media. Course results include the production of materials to be used in the "real world" of public schools.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Spring Semester Students in Portrait Workshop explores the portrait using a variety of materials, including charcoal, pastel, and paint. The course begins with study of the anatomy of the head and progresses to the portrait in various settings. Some drawing experience is required.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall Semester Explores traditional and less conventional drawing and painting approaches to the physical environment. Through dry and wet media, students work on site and in the classroom using nature as the primary subject source. Students strive to understand the nature of natural light, atmosphere, space and other general concepts relating to this historical artistic genre.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall Semester Investigates focused topics in American art and culture from the Colonial period to the present. The topic will change each time the course is offered. Possible areas toe be explored include: The "Other" in America;Jazz Age and Depression Art and Culture; Modernist/Postmodernist Architecture. Recommended for Art History and American Studies concentrators. Fall 2008 topic: Art, Politics, and Identity in 19th Century America.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Spring Semester This workshop is intended for piano students who have taken FA 231, Piano Workshop, or for students with a strong piano background. Topics include a wider range of major and minor keys, more complex textures and rhythmic patterns, and original pieces of intermediate to advanced difficulty. The class will play in several public performances during the semester. Prerequisite: FA 231 or consent of the Instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 The purpose of this course is to show how Irish history, politics and emigration from the colonial period through the Famine to the present have formed and lent interpretive structure to the traditional music, dance and song that is such a splendid part of Irish heritage.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Spring Semester Explores the techniques involved in developing musical ideas into coherent compositions. Students will develop facility in composition through individual assignments as well as through class discussion and critiques. Composition exercises, extensive practice in using standard music notation, a longer project, and a public performance of compositions are required. Prerequisite: FA 240 or consent of the Instructor.
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