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3.00 Credits
3 credits Non-majors only. This course is designed to give the non-major an opportunity to learn such rudiments of free-hand drawing as volumetric description of form, spatial illusion, and the use of the gesture to animate form. Students work in a variety of materials on projects that range from direct observation to more imaginative approaches.
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3.00 Credits
I3 credits Open to art majors only. No prerequisite. Printmaking I is an introduction to several major printing processes, including drypoint, linocut, aquatint, and hard and soft-ground etching. In addition, students gain familiarity with the print shop and safe print room practice. This course sets the stage for more advanced and individualized work in printmaking.
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3.00 Credits
I3 credits No prerequisite. Ceramics I is an introduction to basic ceramic studio techniques. Students produce hand-built and wheel-thrown vessels and learn to glaze and fire their products.
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3.00 Credits
I3 credits No prerequisite. A lecture-demonstration course in black-and-white photography designed to provide the beginning student with practical camera and darkroom experience. It is necessary that all students have access to a camera, preferably a 35 mm with variable controls.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits No prerequisite. This course introduces the use of the broadedge pen and features an in depth study of the elegant style of writing known as “chancery cursive,” commonly called “italic.” The instructor provides clear examples and individual attentio
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3.00 Credits
I3 credits No prerequisite. Course is repeatable. This workshop focuses on the design and fabrication of jewelry, using traditional silver smithing techniques of forming, soldering, and stone setting.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Art majors only. Fundamentals of 3D Design examines the structural principles that underlie sculpture, model building, and other three-dimensional art. In a series of practical assignments and employing varied materials and processes, students explore the character of form in space.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course introduces the student to the “digital darkroom,” which includes file management and types, workflow, color theory, and remedial and editorial image manipulation in Photoshop. At all times emphasis will be placed on the content and esthetics of the photograph.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Art majors only. The Introductory Art Seminar is a series of discussions among freshman art majors that examine basic assumptions about contemporary art and design. The instructor moderates the dialogue and selects essays, films, and art objects for discussion. Students refine their opinions in a series of short writings that are compiled in a “portfolio of ideas” about art, its place in society, and the processes by which it is made.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The course provides a global view of major epochs of human experience and major events of historical and cultural significance: in the first semester, from the Stone Age through the Ancient Near East, Classical Antiquity, Africa, Asia, and other cultural areas, to the Renaissance period in Europe; in the second semester from the Baroque, Neoclassical, and Romantic periods to Eastern traditions and in Africa to the present. Works of art examined in context offer insight into ways that people in different times and places have explored their relationships with other human beings and with nature, and have defined meaning and value in existence. Links will be made between the events and character of the periods discussed and our time, establishing a historical foundation for understanding the rise of modernism and the modern world.
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