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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the history of art and architecture of the ancient and medieval worlds. Beginning with the Paleolithic period, this course will chronologically investigate the artistic crea-tions of a diverse range of cultures from around the globe, including the art of the Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt, Africa, and the Islamic world. Emphasizing the principle that the ideal way to experience art is to look at it in person, the class will take two museum trips during the semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a foundation for under-standing the history of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Beginning with the thirteenth century in Florence, this course will survey visual culture and artistic activity through the Age of Empiricism, concluding with the rise of Modernism and the International Avant-Garde in the twentieth century. In addi-tion, this course will study a broad range of cul-tures from around the world. Since the ideal way to experience art is to look at it in person, the class will also take two museum trips.
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3.00 Credits
This class will combine time-honored materials such as glass, clay, fiber, wood, with other craft media chosen by the instructor. A hands-on ex-perience, students will learn how to make things with manual dexterity, producing craft with care, skill, and ingenuity. The course will be enhanced through exposure to ancient and modern mas-terworks of various craft forms. A possible field trip and research project will be included.
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3.00 Credits
Devoted to the art of ?beautiful writing?, this class focuses primarily on mastering pleasing and consistent calligraphy using the Chancery Cur-sive. After achieving mastery of this fine alpha-bet, students will develop their projects into fi-nished art pieces using various media that will enhance their calligraphy. Some history of the formation of calligraphic styles such as the illu-minated manuscript will be studied. A possible museum trip and research project will complete the course.
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn to make their own paper using natural bark fibers combined with recycled mate-rials and various pulps. Processing bark fibers including Thai Kozo, Japanese Gampi, and oth-ers, will be included. The resulting papers will be further enhanced through the use of pigments and sizing during the papermaking process.
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3.00 Credits
This course asks students to look beyond the frame and gallery of traditional art making, en-couraging them to consider alternative ways of creating and displaying work. Projects will con-sider site-specificity, temporality, and movement.
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3.00 Credits
This course enables educators (K-8 and beyond) to bring the arts to others, while also learning to enhance arts pedagogy through an energized cre-ative process. Although the basis of this course will be studio art, other disciplines may be inte-grated into the curriculum. (Also see MUS 215 Music for Educators) This class is highly recommended for Teacher Education students.
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3.00 Credits
This course is formulated as an elective for the non-Art major. Here, the student can explore the arts on an equal footing with other students who have little experience with the development and skills related to the making of art objects. The student will be guided in creating art through a variety of art-making techniques such as drawing,painting, and printmaking as well as three-dimensional projects with materials like clay, glass and plaster. Some art historical information will be used to enrich and enhance the art work, pointing the way to quality design and apprecia-tion of art in general.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course explores the basic prin-ciples of three-dimensional art - mass, volume and space -through a variety of hands-on projects. These projects introduce the student to various construction methods as well as develop sculpture-modeling skills. There will be a series of short readings on the principles of design to aid students in building a vocabulary and to assist them in expressing their ideas through sculpture. An additional goal is to provide an informed sen-sibility and understanding with which to look at three-dimensional art, design, and architectural spaces.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the vast range of the ceramic arts. Both functional pottery and clay sculptures will be explored. This course will focus on hand building, including coil, slab, and extruded forms. There may also be the op-portunity for learning the basics of the potter's wheel.
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