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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This course approaches creativity as a skill to develop, not as a magical gift bestowed on a few select people. The last three weeks of the course will be devoted to a large-scale project in an area chosen by the student at the time of registration. Two important elements of the course involve a specific style of journaling, and a weekly artist's date. Through the activities in this course, students will bring a higher degree of creativity to their daily lives. This course may be taken either at the lower-division level or at the upper-division level, but not both.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This is a general survey of art historical periods including the Prehistoric in Europe, the Near East, and the Americas; Ancient Egypt; the Bronze Age and Ancient Greece; the Etruscans; and the Romans. Study focuses on the materials, techniques, style, historical context, aesthetics, and criticism of this wide variety of art. Traditional art historical methods of slide lecture, discussion, written exams, and papers are de rigueur as well as exploration of relevant topics on the Internet and via the course website. Though sequential, ART220, ART221, and ART222 may be taken separately.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This is a general survey of art historical periods including the Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, Early Medieval, Gothic, and Renaissance. Study focuses on the materials, techniques, style, historical context, aesthetics, and criticism of this wide variety of art. Traditional art historical methods of slide lecture, discussion, written exams, and papers are de rigueur as well as exploration of relevant topics on the Internet and via the course website. Though sequential, ART220, ART221, and ART222 may be taken separately.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This is a general survey of art historical periods and movements during the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Study focuses on the materials, techniques, style, historical context, aesthetics, and criticism of this wide variety of art. Traditional art historical methods of slide lecture, discussion, written exams, and papers are de rigueur as well as exploration of relevant topics on the Internet and via the course website. Though sequential, ART220, ART221, and ART222 may be taken separately.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This studio course explores techniques of oil and acrylic paints as well as mixed media. The contemporary view as well as the traditional is examined. Students will create, critique, and display original works of art. Prerequisite: ART101.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This course explores the theories and techniques of traditional watercolor painting. However, non-traditional approaches to watercolor and other types of painting, e.g. mixed media, are often introduced. Students will create, critique, and display original works of art. Prerequisite: ART101.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. This course introduces the process of digital photography. Camera handling, editing techniques, and the elements of design are covered. Students are encouraged to pursue this art form in the surrounding community and landscape.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. The purpose of this course is to connect with scribes, past and present, to learn their skills and apply them today. Though immersed in art history, students of calligraphy spend most of the course studying, practicing, and laying out a variety of hands including Roman, Insular, National, Caroline, Gothic, Italian, Humanist, and post-Renaissance scripts. Traditional tool-making and usage include quill, reed, and bamboo pens and ink; other tools, media, and techniques may include brushes, steel pens, paper, papyrus, vellum, watercolor, gouache, embossing, relief printing, resist, computer-generated layouts, and more. Projects range from quotes to cards to wine labels to small books. Students will create, critique, and display original works of art.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours. Students manufacture a variety of stone tools to learn about the evolution of prehistoric technology. Obsidian, flint, and bottle glass are worked with stone, antler, bone, and wood to fashion arrowheads, spear points, knives, and scrapers. Normally offered May term. Nonrefundable materials fee required. Preference to majors and minors is given. This course may be taken either at the lower-division level or at the upper-division level, but not both.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester and on demand. 3 semester hours. Students in this studio course create original works of art using hand-building techniques such as pinching, slab-building, coiling, and modeling (sculpting). Wheel-throwing is also introduced. Students are encouraged to explore the use of design elements in the clay medium. They are also expected to be able to identify and articulate qualities that characterize notable ceramic works by studying both modern and historic ceramic pieces. Students will create, critique, and display original works of art.
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