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An introduction to the craft and expressive potentialities of etching, screen printing, and lithography through demonstrations, slide lectures, and studio work. Group discussions and individual critiques will be used to discern how technical skills can become a means to achieving a creative and meaningful art form. ARTS, Fall and Spring semesters.
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An introduction to the arts of Europe in the Middle Ages. This course discusses the traditions of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish faiths as expressed in art and architecture. The course examines the ways that these traditions intersected each other and created a vibrant visual culture that continues to influence the contemporary world. ARTS, WRITD, Spring semester.
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This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of camera vision and black and white photographic materials. Students will learn to operate all the major controls of the camera, expose negatives accurately, and produce prints with good tonality. Through lectures, demonstrations, group critique, and individual discussion, students will be encouraged to pursue their own ideas in response to the assignments. A fully manual camera with an adjustable lens and a built-in or hand-held light meter is required. ARTS, Fall semester.
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This course is an introduction to the use of the potter's wheel as a means of personal study of the creative art making process. A wide range of pottery forms and surface treatments will be studied and applied to the work made. Students will be given a strong foundation in the history, aesthetic, and technical aspects of working with clay on the potter's wheel. ARTS, Spring semester.
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An introduction to ceramics through hand-building, glazing, and firing to make containers, sculptures, and reliefs. Development of capacities for positive critical analysis of volumetric function, sensitivity of three-dimensional form, and surface enrichment. Emphasis will be on the creation of work that is well crafted and reflects the student's ability to develop ideas surrounding personal images and creative problem solving abilities. The hand-building techniques of slab, coil, pinch, and press modeling will be taught. Assignments will be structured to build both technical skill and one's problem-solving aptitude. Experience will be gained in the use of glazes and the firing of kilns. Materials presented will involve historical, technical, and aesthetic concerns of sculptural handbuilt clay forms. ARTS, Fall semester.
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Special topics in art history and studio art. Content will vary from semester to semester. Course will explore an area in the studio arts or in art history in depth and students will pursue projects that develop advanced skills in their appropriate disciplines. More than one special topic may be taken. Fall and/or Spring semester.
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A study of the development of painting and sculpture from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries in Europe. Special attention will be given to the relationship between visual images and intellectual concepts such as the revival of classicism, the emergence of humanism and the influence of mathematics. Major masters and monuments (Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Bernini) will be studied, with emphasis on the general artistic principles of the Renaissance and Baroque styles. ARTS, WRITD, Fall semester.
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An introduction to watercolor as a means of painting with transparent washes of color. A variety of subject matter will be explored in quick sketches and larger, more developed paintings. The techniques will be used to discover creative directions for content and formal qualities. ARTS, Fall and Spring semesters.
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This course focuses on both the development of art classroom teaching skills and also individual hands-on art experiences. Discussions of art, creativity, and general philosophy of education are combined with a survey of the developmental stages of children and their art. Course contains practical, developmental, and philosophical considerations for planning and teaching an art program in the elementary school. ARTS, Fall and Spring semesters.
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This course will consider the impact of gender on the production, reception, and cultural understanding of art and imagery. We will study a number of artists, both women and men, who have used art to effect social change. Influenced by feminist approaches to art historical study, we will explore perceptions of gender through visual culture and personal experience. We will examine the ways that certain ideals of masculinity and femininity are represented in art and its history to gain insight into gender performance and sexual identity both in past periods and in contemporary society. ARTS, WRITD, Spring semester.
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