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3.00 Credits
This course is basic to all other studio courses for the fine arts major and should be taken in the fall of the freshman year. The formal concerns of composition such as color, color theory, perspective, and the realization of visual space formed by line, plane, texture, and value make for visual coherence on the two-dimensional surface. A wide variety of contemporary media are used to realize the formal concerns of two dimensional visual meaning such as paint, photography, video, and computer. Every fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course is basic to all fine arts majors and should be taken in the spring of the freshman year. It is an introduction to problems relating to the study of volume, mass, shape, surface, and other aspects of three-dimensional design. An integral part of this course includes the study of various materials, tools, and sculpture techniques. Every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Sculpture, made in clay, must be approached by learning to build structures in clay. These include slab, coil, sling, and press mold methods of construction. The application of color to the finished product introduces the student to the use of engobes, paint, and stains. The student is also given instruction in the loading and firing of the kiln. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Ceramics introduces the student to hand-built and wheel-thrown clay forms. Glazing and firing of finished pieces is required. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced ceramics continues the techniques of the beginning class with a greater emphasis upon glaze formulation and complexity. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introduction to photography as a fine arts medium. Learning to print and enlarge and an overview of the history of photography are basic to the awareness of photography as a fine arts expression. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course continues to explore black and white photography as an applied artistic medium, with special emphasis on alternative methods of photography such as use of infrared film, pinhole cameras, solarization, and photograms. (Prerequisite: Art 250.) As required.
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3.00 Credits
Nineteenth-century art is the most controversial and fertile area of art history scholarship today. This course will concentrate upon Neo-Classicism, Realism, Romanticism, the Victorians, and the French Royal Academy through Impressionism to the revolt of the Post-Impressionists in the early 20th century. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Modernism is now a century-old tradition. This course traces its growth from its sources in the 19th century to the present post-modernist revision. As required.
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3.00 Credits
A comprehensive survey of the historical development of photography from its inception to the present. This course investigates artistic and technical developments in photography, major photographers and movements, and the thought and theory of photographic uses such as documentation, self-expression, and exploration of form. As required.
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