4 courses with the subject ARTS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ARTS 1000Introduction to Drawing3
Analyze basic drawing concepts and techniques through demonstrations, discussions, critiques, slide lectures, and the use of a sketchbook. Work from observation using line, tone and other elements of art to solve spatial, compositional and light problems to accurately render the illusion of 3-dimensional form on a 2-dimensional surface.
Design has shaped human civilization for centuries, influencing everything from the tools we use to the ways we communicate and experience the world. This course surveys key design movements, cultural trends, and influential figures in graphic and object design, art, and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. You’ll use language of design to place its historical context and to explore its ongoing influence in shaping the modern world.
Early Global Architecture unfolds as a journey through the built world, revealing how every building tells a story—and how some tell the story of entire civilizations. Moving from prehistory through the Renaissance, architecture is traced across continents and cultures, from Egyptian pyramids and Greek temples to Gothic cathedrals, Asian sacred spaces, and Indigenous structures of the Americas. Across this global landscape, culture, politics, technology, geography, materials, and social equity emerge through the built environment, revealing influential architectural works and the ideas that shaped civilizations.
Design reflects the evolving intersection of global history and diverse cultures, particularly in spatial design fields such as architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning. This course examines how these disciplines are reflective of past cultures and responsive to the present through social, political, and environmental influences using examples from across the globe. You'll decode the historical trajectories and illuminate the meanings in cultural influences that have shaped and are expressed in the world’s built environments; influence design practice, theories, technologies; and create cultural meaning.
