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3.00 Credits
Foundation skills in the formal and conceptual principles of graphic design: concept, composition, legibility, language, typography. Projects develop visual literacy and skills in text, drawing, and image production using the Macintosh computer as primary design tool. Critical thinking is stressed through analysis of content and its most effective form of visual presentation. Prerequisite: Art 170 or permission of instructor. Krenos, Nicholas
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A guided investigation of basic concepts and techniques of visual organization, addressing theory and application of two-dimensional design and color using various concepts, media, and techniques. Weekly projects develop students' awareness of formal elements of composition and interrelationships between form and content. Utilizing fundamental design principles, including line, shape, color, value, space, balance, proportion, and scale, students learn and use appropriate vocabulary to verbalize their creative process and critical thinking. Learning to analyze one's own work and the work of others is as important a skill as making the work. (M6) Fletcher, Zucco 145.2. Graphic Design for Presentations. This half-semester course introduces the principles of graphic and information design, focusing on the use of design techniques to clarify communication and improve learning. Discipline-based projects will be created using digital technology and software, with an emphasis on text hierarchy, page layout, illustration, and photography. Macintosh platform. Computer literacy is expected. May not be taken for credit by students who have completed Art 131 or the equivalent. Spring. Laubach
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This half-semester course introduces materials, tools, and procedures of printmaking and may include linocut, woodcut, intaglio, solarplate, and paper-making. Final project may include a book designed, produced, and bound by the student. Fall. Zucco
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In-depth investigation of basic forms involving a variety of multidimensional media. Recommended foundation course for sculpture. Spring. (M6) Faggioli
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3.00 Credits
This course explores specialized outdoor fi red ceramics techniques, including raku and pit-fi red. Students will create hand-built and wheelthrown pieces and demonstrate knowledge of the outdoor fi ring techniques. A paper in which students describe these processes is also required. There are no prerequisites; students will use the techniques to create ceramic pieces at a level appropriate to their ceramics experience. May Term. Faggioli
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the fundamentals of ceramic art, including hand-built and wheel techniques applied to tiles, objects, and vessels. Methods of glazing and the use of low-fi re electric kilns will be covered. Includes introduction to the history and use of ceramics. Final project will involve the design of lesson plans for a ceramic project for middle and high school students or an oral presentation. Faggioli
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the impact of art on cognitive, social, physical, emotional, and linguistic development of typical and atypical children. Societal infl uences, school and community cultural norms, peer-group expectations, age, economic status, race, and gender will be considered. Projects will focus on developing diverse strategies for K-12 visual arts curricula. Spring. Crooker
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to aesthetics and practice of photography as a means of communication. Emphasis upon learning through critiques and historical reviews. Subjective and objective characteristics of photojournalism. Students must have a fully adjustable 35mm or larger-format camera and meter. Fall. (M6) Hurwitz
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3.00 Credits
Fundamentals of photography, with attention to camera operation, fi lm processing, printing. Through discussion and critiques, students discover how we see the world. Students must have a fully adjustable 35mm or larger-format camera and meter. (M6) Hurwitz, Kotsch, Steinke
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3.00 Credits
Skills and critical understanding of the fundamentals of drawing: composition, perspective, value, and balance, developed through rendering the observed world. Students engage in the pictorial issues of drawing, especially the relation of subject and context. These fundamentals are taught in context with a pictorial language, rather than elements of abstract design. Fall. (M6) Crooker, Fletcher, Fraleigh
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