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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will introduce the student to a variety of relief printing methods with emphasis on monoprinting, and linoleum and wood block printing. Both monochrome and color printing will be explored. Students will also learn to properly edition prints.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a continuation of the design concepts learned in Introduction to Computer Arts, allowing for more development in digital visual communication. Students use Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to create digital illustrations and complex layout designs while beginning to develop a personal visual style through project prompts, which question content, technique, materiality and physical form. Projects created during this course will bridge commercial design practices and techniques with artistic exploration, allowing students to integrate image and type through personally driven projects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will introduce students to painting in acrylics. This will include experimentation with a variety of painting techniques and learning to prepare canvases for painting. Emphasis will be placed on color theory, value structure, and developing effective compositions. Subject matter will include still life, landscape and thematic studies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to the fundamental tools of digital photography. Through a series of projects, students will learn manual camera functions, downloading and organizing images and editing photographs in Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop. By the end of the course each student will gain skills for proper workflow, including: complete control of a manual digital camera, image control (depth of field, motion, composition, color balance etc.), importing images to the computer, organization, image rating, processing in Camera Raw and Photoshop and basic photography history. Each project requires a one-paragraph artist statement outlining concepts, inspiration and visual analysis. **This course requires students to have an approved camera with full manual functions and Camera Raw capabilities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Through an immersion of studio projects informed by film/video history, this course focuses on conceptual ideas and the technical fundamentals of video production as an art form. Students will gain hands-on training in digital film making and editing to produce original video art works. Requirements include production projects, screen attendance and analysis as well as active participation in class discussions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will continue the development of the student's perceptual and manual skills, and will introduce the use of color as a drawing element. Figure drawing will also be introduced with studies in anatomy, figure proportions, and portraiture. Drawing as a means of personal expression will be explored.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Ceramics II introduces students to advanced clay-forming techniques that include hand building, throwing on the potter's wheel, and working with plaster molds. Surface treatments are explored, including both pre and post firing processes. Students are introduced to the electric firing process and will be expected to load and fire a kiln. Glaze and non-glaze processes are covered.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students will be challenged technically and conceptually in continued exploration of linoleum and woodblock printing methods. Students will be expected to complete a series of editioned prints. Monoprinting and nontraditional printing methods may also be explored.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to web based media, web page/ site design and HTML/ CSS coding. Students will: analyze websites' aesthetic and user interface, design page layouts in Adobe Photoshop and learn basic HTML and CSS coding. Projects include redesigning a small business website and creating an online portfolio for personal promotion.
  • 3.00 Credits

    In this course students will learn advanced photographic techniques using digital photography. Through broadly structured assignments, students will incorporate historical and contemporary concepts critical to photography, including: lens-less practices, constructing an image, performance, repetition, appropriation, the archive and conceptual art. Students will also write an artist's statement based on an analysis of completed projects.
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