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Taking advantage of the surrounding landscape, culture, and history of Ireland and areas of the United Kingdom in close proximity to the Burren campus, this course examines visual art and culture specific to the region in order to enhance students' international fluency with art. A combination of classroom and on-site experiences, this art history seminar examines how artists have produced work in a particular geographic area as their culture and landscape changes with the effects of human development, thus promoting awareness of how time and place influence art. Content varies from semester to semester but the course addresses both past and contemporary art.
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3.00 Credits
Critical Theory provides a survey of significant philosophical and critical theories that influence aesthetic debates in visual art and culture. Knowledge and understanding of the various methodologies used to create and interpret works of art is emphasized, with special attention given to the emergence of New Art History. Candidates will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to apply these methodologies to their studio practice through course content, readings, writing assignments and discussions in class.
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3.00 Credits
Visual Anthropology introduces students to a broad range of cultural constructs and ideas, examining how film, photography and other media have been used for anthropological studies. Satisfies: Liberal Arts elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Basic Design serves as a bridge to all studio courses in the freshman curriculum. It involves the understanding and manipulation of the formal elements of the visual language. In the first semester, point, line, plane, shape and texture are discussed in terms of the visual dynamic they set up. A variety of materials are employed as students investigate design principles involving balance, repetition, pattern, proportion and scale and their relationship to various compositional formats. Satisfies: First Year Requirement
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Basic Design Lab is a non-credit safety training workshop that meets for seven weeks. This lab introduces the wood shop to students in preparation for BA102. Through a series of lectures and projects, students are trained how to use numerous hand and power tools and are introduced to a variety of wood working techniques. Upon completion of the lab projects, students who successfully pass a written safety test are issued a card that entitles them to access to the wood shop. Satisfies: First-Year Requirement
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3.00 Credits
In the second semester, three-dimensional concerns are addressed. The language of form is investigated through such issues as line, plane, mass and volume. Tool skills learned in the Basic Design Lab (BA101L) are used to explore a broad range of materials and processes. Planning and problem solving strategies are stressed throughout the course. Satisfies: First Year Requirement
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3.00 Credits
Drawing the human figure is a year-long class that serves as an introduction to understanding visual relationships. Working directly from the model, initially with gesture drawings done from short poses, students begin to draw the figure by both geometric and anatomical means. Formal issues such as proportion, scale, line, tone and light are discussed as they apply to understanding the relationship between surface volume and skeletal structure. Learning points of reference, axial relationships and basic volumes of the human figure will help the student understand the figure as a construct of primary and secondary planes. Such skills as drawing the figure in different lighting situations, positioning the figure in space, correlating structure with movement and drawing the figure as volume by both line and tone will be presented. Charcoal and conte are the primary media but a variety of drawing tools and materials will be used. The aim of this course is to produce a student who will be able to apply her skills, sensibilities and conceptual intelligence to produce a figure drawing that satisfies a descriptive, expressive, narrative or applied requirement. Satisfies: First-Year Requirement
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3.00 Credits
Basic Drawing is a year-long perceptually based course that aims to have the student understand the activity of drawing as a means to study form a process of building and discovery, not mere duplication. Central to the aims of the class is the concept that composition is the organization of a drawing and is directly involved with the application of design principles. Students will study the visual differences that give rise to the perception of light, volume, location and proportion in deep or shallow pictorial space. Other concepts covered include the tactility of the mark and how it is employed in the service of organizing and unifying the surface of a drawing and how perspective is used as a means to translate a subject into a construct of measured angles and plotted reference points. A variety of drawing tools and materials will be used to produce drawings by means of both line and tone. Satisfies: First Year Requirement
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3.00 Credits
Basic Drawing is a year-long perceptually based course that aims to have the student understand the activity of drawing as a means to study form a process of building and discovery, not mere duplication. Central to the aims of the class is the concept that composition is the organization of a drawing and is directly involved with the application of design principles. Students will study the visual differences that give rise to the perception of light, volume, location and proportion in deep or shallow pictorial space. Other concepts covered include the tactility of the mark and how it is employed in the service of organizing and unifying the surface of a drawing and how perspective is used as a means to translate a subject into a construct of measured angles and plotted reference points. A variety of drawing tools and materials will be used to produce drawings by means of both line and tone. Satisfies: First Year Requirement
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces computer technology as a current and relevant tool necessary to accomplish a wide range of visual, verbal and communication skills. Students will be introduced to the Macintosh computer and the Moore College of Art & Design computer lab environment. Students will also be introduced to a variety of Word Processing operations, desktop management skills, the Internet as a research and communications tool, and a number of imaging concepts and applications. Problem solving strategies and work habits as they specifically relate to computer operations are stressed. The course will help prepare and encourage students to apply their computer skills as an investigative and creative tool in their chosen field of study. Satisfies: First Year Requirement
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