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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits A course designed to familiarize students with the vast artistic patrimony of Rome. Visits to archaeological sites, churches, palaces, museums, and galleries. The course is for the non-art major. It is conducted almost entirely on site. (Offered only at the American University of Rome.)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 2 credits This course studies drawing as a primary tool of vision and consequently as a means of apprehending the world around us. The essentials of perspective, anatomy, and drawing from observation are followed by an introduction to the analysis of compositional dynamics. Students may work from the human form, still life, and/or landscape. Studio classes are tutorial by nature but may be supplemented by group critiques. Students are familiarized with various drawing media, which may include charcoal, conté crayon, pastel, ink, and graphite. (arts & com.)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 2 credits Basic study of the human head and facial expressions with particular attention to the problems of portraiture. For beginning students.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 2 credits The course is an introduction to the fundamentals of painting a picture. Students are first familiarized with materials, equipment, and studio maintenance. Basic pictorial concepts such as color, composition, perspective, space, and the picture plane are introduced. Studio classes are tutorial by nature but may be supplemented by group critiques. Students choose from a wide variety of unusual still lifes. They allow the student to return to his/her picture repeatedly over several weeks and outside of class time. Late-term gleanings can be reapplied to earlier efforts. Prolonged work allows the imagination to generate new possibilities from the initial attempt as the student is made to see as an artist does. (arts & com.)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 2 credits An examination of the relationship between two-dimensional design and three-dimensional structures. Ideas will be realized through work in a series of media. Flat simple drawings will be converted into digital images on the computer; these will be turned into oaktag models, and finally reproduced in metal. Students will be required to build a minimum of two finished steel sculptures and two color digital images. (arts & com.)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits This survey course will trace the development of painting, sculpture, and architecture from their beginnings in the Stone Age to the Early Renaissance. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship between the historical setting and the works themselves. Introduction to the history of the visual arts. (arts & com.) Prerequisite: ENG 111
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A continuation of ART 200, this survey course traces further developments in the visual arts from the Renaissance to the works of the 20th-century masters. (arts & com.) Prerequisite: ENG 111
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits An examination of the art and architecture of predynastic Egypt, the Near East, the Aegean, mainland Greece, and Republican and Imperial Rome. While the course is, of necessity, a survey, particular emphasis will be placed on the evolution of the classical tradition. (arts & com.) Prerequisites: ART 100 or 103 or 104, or permission of the instructor, and ENG 111
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3.00 Credits
(Also AMS 209) 4 hours; 4 credits Three hundred years of American art, studied as an expression of American life. Works of art are viewed in terms of style and also as guides to the complexities of American history and culture. (arts & com.) Prerequisites: ENG 111; and ART 100 or ART 200 or ART 201 or AMS 101
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A selective review of the practice of architecture from antiquity to the present. The course will analyze changing formal and aesthetic concepts in the light of contemporaneous social and economic factors. (arts & com.) Prerequisites: ENG 111, and ART 100 or 200 or 201, or permission of the instructor
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