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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Completion of OLP302, OLP301 5 semester credit hours The Advanced Painting course continues to develop students' creative abilities and personal artistic style by focusing on their choice of medium. Greater mastery over the media, and the growth of personal vision, are achieved through concentrated studio work with complex subjects and the development of an individual philosophical outlook.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Completion of OLP403 5 semester credit hours The curricular objective of Advanced Painting 404 is to further develop individual painting skills and creativity in the medium of choice and to obtain greater mastery over this medium in preparation for entry into the professional fine art field. This is accomplished by concentrated study of the medium of choice with complex subjects and in-depth aesthetic problem solving. With more independent studio work, the individual has a greater opportunity to develop personal ways of interpreting a subject.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Completion of OLP305 5 semester credit hours In this advanced course, students will examine master works of their choice by making "copies" of them. Using texts as backdrops to thecourse, students will explore a chosen master's way of seeing, vis-avis technique and ways of copying can be used to challenge contemporary principles of painting. By the end of this course, students will have an intellectual understanding of how certain paintings were made and will be able to demonstrate an advanced ability to reproduce the old masters' expressive effects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Must be taken in final semester of BFA program 3 semester credit hours This course is for students who will be graduating in Design, Multimedia/Web Design or 2-D and 3-D Animation/Digital Video programs. The goal of this course is the final preparation for entry into the professional world. The development of an exceptional body of work and/or portfolio geared towards the major specialization will be strongly emphasized.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 semester credit hours This course examines the basic physics and chemistry of light in the framework of geometrical and physical optics. Topics to be covered are refraction and diffraction, structural color, the nature of light and its interactions with matter, photochemistry, pigments and dyes and the principles underlying fluorescence and phosphorescence, lasers and holography.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation Studies 5 semester credit hours This course is designed to enhance the understanding of space and its development on the two-dimensional plane through a strong anatomical focus and the disciplined observation necessary for rendering the human form in three dimensions. Upon completion of the course, the student will be familiar with the tools and techniques used in modeling the figure. Emphasis will be placed on the development of skills in careful observation and accurate rendering of the figure in three dimensions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Completion of SCP201 5 semester credit hours Exploration of other materials used in sculpting such as wax, plaster and preparation for metal casting will be covered in this course.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Completion of first-year Humanities and Sciences course requirements 3 semester credit hours This course focuses on the way that film reflects and influences society. Students will concentrate on the content of the film (script, period style or historical reference) as opposed to the form (cinematography, design, etc.). The sociological principles of conflict theory, social structure and organization and social control will be studied.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: SOC105 3 semester credit hours This course focuses on the ways in which films produced in other cultures reflect their societies. Films from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America are explored to develop a holistic, cross-cultural perspective. Students gain an appreciation of cultural similarities and differences and enhance their intercultural sensitivity. Films viewed in and out of class, oral reports, written essays, class participation and exams are required.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Completion of first-year Humanities and Sciences course requirements 3 semester credit hours This course provides an interdisciplinary examination of visual culture and how the ways of seeing structure our understanding of the world. The course offers historical and contemporary views of visual culture from a sociological perspective incorporating various critical theories. Through field trips, screenings, readings and discussion, the student focuses on how visual culture is constructed, written about, analyzed and viewed in the larger construction of culture.
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