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4.00 Credits
An investigation of materials and processes, and conceptual and aesthetic concerns of sculpture. Students learn basic properties of various sculptural materials and consider the relationship between materials and ideas. Introduction to additive and subtractive processes, casting, assemblage, and mixed media serves as a vehicle for formal and expressive exploration, as well as consideration of fundamental sculptural issues, including space, time, scale, reference, content, and context. Studio activities are informed by intensive examination of contemporary and historic three-dimensional art through discussion and field trips. Prerequisite: ART 3 or permission of instructor. Offered annually.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the technical and conceptual basis for the organization and development of three-dimensional structures. Examines the function of space, volume, mass, plane, and line. Explores sculptural issues through the solution of design problems. Uses a variety of materials for physical and expressive qualities. Extensive out-of-class assignments supplement studio practice. Emphasizes the development of critical skills as they apply to visual aesthetic issues. Offered fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the expressive possibilities of alternative photographic techniques and presentation of visual ideas. Explores pinhole photography, classic, antique and experimental cameras, digital imaging and negative production, traditional silver printing and hand applied emulsions. Encourages student independence and ambition in terms of developing creative vision and artistic direction. Students bear the cost of film, paper, and other supplies. Offered spring semester.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the visual world using the camera as an aesthetic medium. Focuses on intensive seeing, pictorial organization, fine printing, and reading of the photograph. Studies the work of selected 20th-century photographers through literature and gallery viewing. Students must furnish an adjustable 35mm SLR camera and bear the cost of film, paper, and other supplies. Offered annually.
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4.00 Credits
Uses the computer as a medium for creating and manipulating images, and for solving design problems. Encourages critical awareness of graphic media and introduces the computer as a fine arts tool. Offered fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
Engages the student in the development of their ideas through installation video and interactive multimedia. Integrates design through techniques in sound, animation, 3D graphics, video, text, and image. Explores the impact of the moving image while introducing concepts of temporality and visual and verbal narrative. Class discussions strengthen connections between the new media and contemporary art while assignments provide a foundation in multimedia composition and use of media related software. Offered fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the World Wide Web as a forum for fine arts. Applies design and technology to the creation of web sites while investigating contemporary art and web-based media. Students consider issues of audience and interactivity, society, technology and culture, while structuring web sites to interact artistically with a global audience. Projects explore sequential and non-linear narratives, and the implications of digitally mediated interactivity, while encouraging independent idea development and critical thinking. Offered spring semester.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
A studio topic or process not covered by regular offerings. Amount of credit established at time of registration. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offering to be determined.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the classical foundations of Western culture in the visual arts of the Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman eras. Considerations of the art as it intersects with questions of religion, heroism, democracy, imperial grandeur, private life, sexuality and gender. Offered fall semester in even-numbered years.
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4.00 Credits
Study of European art from the seventh through the fourteenth centuries, with special attention to the role and impact of works within their diverse, cultural, social and political contexts. Presented chronologically and thematically, the course introduces selected examples in a variety of media and discusses critical issues surrounding artistic production during the designated time period. Offered fall semester in odd-numbered years.
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