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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the art of the narrative video short. Students study the rudiments of visual storytelling by developing their own short projects. Students study all aspects of production from concept to screening, including idea generation, pre-production planning, lighting, shooting, editing, and sound mixing, with special emphasis on innovative approaches to narrative form. Prerequisites: Art 104 or permission of instructor. Materials fee. Offered alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores 3D computer animation as a tool for creating visual images with movement and sound. Emphasizing concept development and creative expression, students investigate time-based software, including animation and video capture programs. The course introduces students to the work of traditional and computer animators. Prerequisites: Art 104 or 117 or permission of the instructor. Materials fee. Offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Drawing the human form from life has been a mainstay in the training of artists since the Renaissance because of its unparalleled discipline in the training of the eye. Along with becoming better observers, students reach a personal understanding of the figure and an appreciation of its art-historical uses. Various media and techniques are explored as a means to understand the expressive possibilities of the figure. Prerequisites: Art 102 or 111 and 112 (or 110), and 113. Offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course, designed for students who want to heighten their drawing skills, emphasizes using expressive qualities of drawing by investigating various media, techniques, and content. Assignments are both traditional and nontraditional within historical contemporary perspectives. Experimentation is encouraged. Developing a personal visual language is stressed, culminating in the production of a series of drawings that relate thematically. Critical thinking and discussion skills are important. Prerequisites: Art 102 or 111 and 112 (or 110), and 113. Materials fee. Offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level course assumes students have a substantial understanding of ceramic processes, plus a good awareness of their own interests in the realm of ceramic expression. The instructor helps students focus their efforts by proposing specific areas of investigation. Prerequisites: Art 103 or Art 207, or 116, 119, or 121. Previous studio experience in ceramics is accepted when approved by the instructor. Materials fee. Offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
In this intermediate photography course, students explore a variety of techniques and topics. Techniques include historic processes such as cyanotype and salted paper printing, digital photography, Polaroid materials and traditional black and white photography. Experimental approaches and nontraditional forms for presentation are investigated. Photography is investigated from a broad historical, aesthetic and social perspective. This course includes field trips, readings, discussion, and slide presentations. Prerequisites: Art 102 or 205 or 124 or permission of instructor. Materials fee. Offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores video as a creative medium. Students learn basic video production and editing techniques, producing a number of individual and group projects. During the semester students examine a wide variety of videos and films, exploring experimental, documentary, and narrative approaches. The class also considers the history of video art and its relationship to other time-based and static art forms. Prerequisites: Art 104 or Art 117 or permission of instructor. Materials fee. Offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
The boundaries between the fine arts disciplines of visual art, music, dance, and theater are now seen as completely permeable. This course allows students to combine visual art making with movement, sound, and performance to create visual spectacle. The course is organized around a theme or text set each year by the instructor. The course emphasizes process and collaboration and incorporates readings, discussion, critiques, field trips, guest artists, and studio practice. Prerequisites: At least one full credit (or equivalent) in art, dance, music, or theater. Offered occasionally.
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5.00 - 7.00 Credits
This course provides intensive exposure to career opportunities in the field of art including advertising, graphics, illustration, film, television, computer graphics, architecture, textile design, and fine art (painting, sculpture, etc.). Working five to seven hours a day, students interview over 25 artists/designers during the month, visit more than 100 galleries and museums, and write extensively about artists and artwork. This course does not count toward the minimum major in studio art or art history. Prerequisites: Art 253 (preferred) or Art 252. Offered Interim only.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the diverse arts produced by people of African descent in the Americas (U.S. and the Caribbean), from the colonial period to the present. An examination of selected West and Central African cultural practices and art forms serves as a basis for understanding creative transformations in the African Diaspora. Important issues to be addressed include art and resistance, survivals and transformations, and ideas about race and the construction of beauty.
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