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Three Credits LA This course will examine the structure and function of art museums, house museums, art galleries, and art centers as well as related institutions in the fields of historic preservation, conservation, and folk culture. The history and development of museums as educational institutions in modern times will be studied in the broader context of collecting, maintaining, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art. The relationship between the museum and the public as well as the policies and programs of funding art institutions will also be discussed. Offered biennially. (Fulfills the Core/LS requirement for Fine Arts.)
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Three Credits Advanced study in painting, including concentrated investigation of master painters. In this course, students will be encouraged to paint in an innovative and personal way to establish and develop individual imagery. Offered every year. Prerequisite: ART 202
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Three Credits Advanced study in drawing, stressing a more personal expression. Includes substantial experimentation and consideration of contemporary aesthetic issues in art. Offered every spring. Prerequisite: ART 203
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Three Credits This upper-division studio course centers on advanced black and white printing and aesthetics. Students will work primarily on the further development of a personal response to the medium as class critiques are directed toward the evolution of sophisticated criteria to aid in understanding images within the context of historical and contemporary photography. Offered every spring. Prerequisite: ART 240
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Three Credits This course will focus on communication design problems, with a special emphasis on advertising and publication design. Concept development will be stressed as students explore fundamental perceptual, symbolic, and expressive approaches to design. Students will further develop their digital skills as they learn today's computer-based equivalents to traditional analog skills. Production skills will be refined, along with a closer examination of the expressive nature of typography. Offered every spring. Prerequisite: ART 215
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Three Credits LA Students will be introduced to the creation, enhancement, and manipulation of photographic imagery using a computer. Production and criticism will be aimed toward developing an understanding of how photography can be extended beyond the traditional silver print with an emphasis on image retouching and compositing. Students will learn how to cut and paste images, as well as the use of layers, channels, paths, and specialized filters to modify images. Printing technologies of digital imagery will also be explored. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: ART 231
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Three Credits LA This experimental course is an introduction to the new field of digital painting with an exploration of industry-standard software. Students will be introduced to the traditional principles of the medium and learn how they are applied digitally. They will also gain an understanding of emerging techniques for creating paintings and learn how the digital paintings are used in other media. This class will utilize lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and hands-on experiences. Assignments will include projects that explore digital printing and a journal of techniques and creative issues. Offered biennially. Prerequisite: ART 231
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Three Credits LA Multimedia is a new and challenging medium for artists and designers, and the multimedia artist needs to be aware of new terminology, tools, techniques, and the art concepts behind them. Students will learn how to create an interactive work that integrates digital images, design, typography, animation, and sound. Students will also learn the stages in the development process, survey current design and artistic approaches, and have a hands-on experience as a member of a team developing a multimedia design project for distribution on disk or via the Web. Offered biennally. Prerequisites: ART 235, ART 320, or permission of instructor
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Three Credits LA This course introduces students to the World Wide Web as a design and fine-arts medium. Through a combination of lectures, demonstrations, research, and hands-on experiences, students will learn the concepts and vocabulary of web design, its history, and how to apply their traditional design knowledge in a new, nontraditional medium. Students will also learn how to prepare effective graphic and multimedia elements for the Web and develop a greater understanding of the importance of the interrelation of these elements in the aesthetics of web designs. Students will also gain a sense of web design as a profession and artist's medium and the range of successful design and artistic approaches in use today. Offered every spring. Prerequisites: ART 231, ART 215 (recommended)
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Three Credits LA This course introduces advanced desktop-publishing techniques using page layout software such as QuarkXPress and InDesign. Students will produce a variety of projects that incorporate the use of master pages, style sheets, spot and process color separations, custom layout formats, design libraries, and the conversion of EPS files into Portable Document Format files. This course stresses production techniques that are required knowledge for contemporary designers. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: ART 231, ART 320, or permission of instructor
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