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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces film/video-making as an artistic practice and as a mode of cultural production. Using the medium of digital video, students acquire filmmaking skills and respond to historical and contemporary artists, film/video experiments, as well as to the current moment, both creatively and analytically. Through a series of sketches, or short-term assignments in the first two thirds of the semester, students develop a fluency in cinematic language, acquiring technical skills as well as critical vocabulary for discussing creative work. In the last third of the semester, students apply these new skills to a focused creative project. A lab fee is required.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces analog photographic processes based in the traditional wet darkroom. Techniques include camera building, exposure, film processing, silver-based printing methods, and alternative and experimental 19th century photographic processes. Artworks are discussed in the context of historical and contemporary photographic concepts and imagery. Students will present a final portfolio and critiques will be held regularly throughout the semester. A film camera and course fee are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course will include study and practical application of the dynamics of freehand visualization. It is designed to enhance each student's ability to communicate pictorially by transforming cerebral impressions into descriptive, tangible, visual images utilizing manual drawing and digital painting applications. Visualization strategies, perceptual skills, conceptual inventiveness, and manual rendering dexterity will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on the development of a portfolio showcasing the application of freehand ideation to multiple contexts and to various fields of study.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores basic methods in designing and making jewelry and small metal sculpture from non-ferrous metals, stones, and other materials. Techniques taught and assignments will include soldering, cold joining, lost-wax casting, lapidary work, and patinas. A lab fee is required. (Formerly Art 1150)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore visual branding strategies for artists utilizing digital print software and interactive/web media. Students will utilize vector-based, bitmap imaging, and web design software and apply them to a series of print, interactive, and online design projects. Discussions will include the role of digital technology in the visual arts, graphic design, typography, multimedia, and print in self-promotion. Critical evaluation of artwork will focus on formal and inter-face design issues, and visual print communication. A lab fee is required for this course.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide hands-on experiences in the Visual Arts. Internships are an opportunity for students to link theory with practice. They are temporary, on-the-job experiences intended to help students identify how their studies in the classroom apply to the workplace. Internships are individually arranged by the student in collaboration with a faculty member in the chosen discipline and a supervisor at the workplace. This course is repeatable for up to 6 credits, with no more than 3 credits per semester. Internships are typically pass/fail credits. Students desiring a grade will need to negotiate a contract with significant academic work beyond the actual work experience.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
An opportunity for majors to apply knowledge and techniques learned in the classroom to an actual job experience. Classroom instrucion must precede the job experience, or the student must be registered for courses at the same time the student is enrolled in the work experience.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
An opportunity for majors to apply knowledge and techniques learned in the classroom to an actual job experience. Classroom instruction must precede the job experience, or the student must be registered for courses at the same time the student is enrolled in the work experience.
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2.00 Credits
This capstone course is for Visual Art Majors who have been accepted to and are on track toward the AFA degree. Content will examine professional practices within the visual arts and is designed to prepare students for transfer and successful articulation into BFA programs. Emphasis will be placed on the development of an artist statement, curriculum vitae, oral and visual presentation skills, the digital documentation of portfolios, the promotion of an independent web presence, and the assessment of the visual arts program. The course will also lay the groundwork toward the staging of each student's required solo AFA exhibition. This course is required for all AFA degree candidates and should be taken the Fall semester in the year which they anticipate graduating.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an experimental drawing experience designed to enhance and expand abilities and sensibilities beyond those established in foundation drawing. Students are expected to possess a basic level of proficiency in drawing from life and developed skill working in conventional black and white dry drawing media. Through a series of guided assignments utilizing conceptual prompts, mixed media drawing processes, and the creation of unique substrates, this course provides an increased awareness and broadens the language of drawing. Students will be required to present work and critically analyze drawings during group critiques. This course is repeatable once for credit. A program fee is required.
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