88 courses with the subject ART, 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.
ART 101Portfolio Review I0
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 A required beginning-level portfolio review to determine basic skill levels have been achieved to create successful designs and compositions by applying the elements of art and design, understanding how to create pictorial space, and demonstrating strong evidence of technical ability. Pass/fail.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An introductory course in two-dimensional design. It provides a basic understanding of elements and principles of design as they relate to drawing, painting, and the graphic arts.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 The study of basic principles of freehand drawing. This course emphasizes the elements and principles of art through self-expression and utilizes a variety of drawing media.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 This course is a basic introduction of computer-based skills in the area of visual design. Limited graphic skills will be introduced to assist in self-marketing, advertising techniques, layout, and computer generated images. 662
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course introduces the principles of animation through a variety of computer animation techniques. Topics include basics of surfacing, lighting, animation, and modeling techniques. Advanced topics: compositing, particle systems, and character animation.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 A required portfolio review to assess ways in which idea (content) is being successfully applied to intermediate skill levels in design or composition, the student is exploring ways to successfully create or use space (2D or 3D), and the student is demonstrating strong evidence of developing technical ability. Pass/fail.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the history of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the minor arts, with an historical summary of art form developments in various cultures.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The study of theories, methods and painting techniques for landscapes, still-lifes, and varied compositions with special emphasis on the elements and principles of art in painting.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An introductory course in art education which explores the theories and history of art education. Students will learn about current practices and philosophies in the discipline. The course also includes the study of children's artistic, creative, and aesthetic growth and development.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Students will study the cultural and personal image of the child and how to integrate these images into art making. The course is a combination of written responses, class discussions, research observations, technological applications and includes a community collaborative art experience.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An art survey course exploring artistic traditions, forms, and achievements from around the world. Students shall examine underlying cultural, social, and aesthetic developments outside western classical traditions, 664
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The study of compositional development through experimental drawing. This course emphasizes the technical expansion of drawing techniques with varied drawing media and subjects.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An in-depth investigation of the figure as a means of exploring drawing as depiction, organizational device, metaphor and object. Students will explore various dry and mixed media such as pastel, color pencil, collage techniques. This course is designed for the advanced art major who seeks to master observation, interpretation, and foundation skills in figure drawing.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 A course which introduces basic three dimensional design principles and the application of those principles in a variety of traditional sculpture techniques.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An introduction to printmaking processes, including history, development, and techniques. Two traditional categories of printmaking, the relief print and intaglio, are introduced and practiced. Using techniques in each category, students will practice reductive and additive processes; work in black and white and color; and understand the registration and printing of multiple matrixes. Traditional and experimental approaches are encouraged. Serigraphy and lithography are demonstrated by the instructor.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 This course is an introduction to wheel throwing. Techniques and processes include basic wheel throwing skills, related hand forming techniques (i.e. pulling handles), use of specialized equipment for clay work, glaze application, and discussions about the work with reference to contemporary and historical ceramics. Projects will be introduced by means of visual presentations, demonstrations (when appropriate) and posted assignments outlining project objectives and due dates. During visual presentations students will become 666
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 This class is meant to serve as a basic introduction to the elements of visual storytelling. Sequential Art as an artistic, mechanical, and advertising medium will be covered in detail as well. Historical examples will be used and the evolution of sequential, graphic, and comic art into its current forms will be explored.
ART 285Game Design II: Character and Environment Animation3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course extends the conceptual framework developed in ART 185: Introduction to Game Design. Students will learn to use a game engine and work through all stages of the game design process, including concept development, design, implementation, play-testing, and deployment. The final product for this course will be a multistage game.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 A benchmark of accomplishment, showing evidence of the successful blending of the following: advanced technical ability, purposeful and successful construction using the elements of art and design (2D or 3D), successful creation or exploitation of space (2D or 3D), and the ability to incorporate a student's individual ideas (content). Pass/fail
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An introduction to simple sculptured forms, construction, printing, carving, weaving, modeling, and lettering, and to the handling of such materials as wood, metal, clay, fabrics, and paper.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An introduction to the fundamentals of landscape, still life, and portrait drawing and painting, with special emphasis on line, form, texture, and color in objective and non-objective art.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 This course focuses on the figure as a central motif in the manipulation of space and pictorial investigation. Students will explore various wet pigment and dry media such as ink, watercolor, acrylic, and oil pigments. This course is designed for the advanced art major concentrating on mastering interpretative and technical aspects concerns of figurative representation.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides a detailed examination of visual art from ancient to medieval times. Students explore architecture, sculpture, and painting in relation to, background history, traditions, and cultural attributes. Museum and gallery visits, photographic slide presentations, and lectures will be integral elements in the course. 668
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides a detailed examination of visual art from the Renaissance to the modern period. Students explore architecture, sculpture and painting in relation to, background history, traditions, and cultural attributes of art forms. Museum and gallery visits, photographic slide presentations, and lectures will be integral elements in the course.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 This course investigates the concept and techniques of applying computer imaging to fine art. Macintosh and IBM computers will be used to generate desktop publishing from creative graphics. Focus will be given to the leading graphic software applications.
ART 101 and ART 110 and ART 121 and ART 123 or ART 250
ART 331Color Theory and Techniques3
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 The study of color theories, color harmonies, and the orchestration of colors in design composition and nature to express symbolic, psychological, and aesthetic ideas.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on how Western aesthetics and cultural ideology have shaped women's relationships to the visual arts from the medieval period to the present.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 A study of working theories and practical applications of design linked to the sale or promotion of a product or commodity. Skills developed include fashion design, cartooning, illustrating, lettering, and package design, as well as photographic, and airbrush techniques.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 A course designed to explore and combine traditional printmaking techniques with digital, computer generated, and other photo-based technologies.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey of works by African-American artists, including an investigation of the historical and environmental influences on contemporary black art.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of late modern art to the present, the course is an analysis of works of art in their historical, social, and cultural context. Artists and works of art are examined within periods and style, influential art theories, the art market, and changes in consumer society.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An introduction to metal sculpture using basic fabrication and casting techniques. Beginning metal fabrication includes the development of design concepts, as well as techniques for cutting, forming, welding, and finishing. Casting in metal includes basic lost wax methods, the foundry process, and finishing techniques.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An introduction to sculptural concepts developed through reductive carving techniques in the medium of wood, plaster, and stone as an expressive method of creating forms in space. Technical proficiency is based on understanding materials, use of specialized hand tools and equipment (power and pneumatic), safety practices, shaping, finishes, and presentation.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An introduction to wood and wood fabrication as a sculpture medium, this course includes an overview of general wood properties; medium specific wood working hand tools; safety and equipment in cutting; and joinery and finishing techniques.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 This class is meant to serve as an advanced introduction to the elements of visual storytelling. This class will focus on classical animation and current animation technologies. The course uses historical and international examples and explores the evolution of sequential, graphic, and comic art into contemporary 672
ART 101 and ART 121 and ART 201 and one of the following: ART 230 or ART 231 or ART 260 or ART 371
ART 375Installation Art: Ceramics and Mixed Media3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course explores many of the twentieth century sculptural issues related to installation art. Topics may include indoor and outdoor site-specific work, sculpture on a grand scale, and 3-D public art. Students are required to execute an installation piece complete with proposals and preliminary models.
ART 101 and ART 201 and ART 121 or ART 230 or ART 231 or ART 250
ART 380(3-3-0) Art Education: Methods and Materials: This course focuses on the creative abilities of the
elementary school child. The course will explore the graphic abilities of the child, the philosophy of sequential learning, and various production techniques and processes appropriate for elementary school. In addition to creating and executing production lesson plans, students will learn to discuss exemplary works of art with the elementary student. Required course for Art Education Majors. Fall, Spring. Credit, 3 semester hours. ART 391 (3-3-0) Computer Graphics in Fine Arts: This course explores the development of computers as a tool to produce art. This class will allow students to experience the creation of their own art using computers, and to understand the concepts and rules of fine art production as they relate to this medium. Prerequisite: ART 123. ART 400 (1-0-1) Art Thesis: A course that involves individual projects relating to an investigation of survival strategies, materials and techniques, theory of art, methods of criticism, exhibition and presentation in the selected area for specialized studies in painting, ceramics, sculpture, graphics, and art history. Prerequisite: Two successful portfolio reviews with Art Faculty and by approval of the instructor. ART 410 (3-3-0) Art Criticism: A course aimed at the evaluation of art concepts, the philosophy of aesthetics, and an analytical approach to discussing art forms. Prerequisites: ART 321 and ART 322. ART 411 (3-2-1) Art in Childhood Education: An investigation into the problems in children’s art, the nature of art for children, art for creative expression, and the correlation of art with other subjects, with practical experience in the making and the teaching of simple art projects and activities appropriate to elementary school children. ART 412 (3-0-6) Advanced Painting: The study of painting techniques and composition, emphasizing a variety of painting media and the treatments of surface and subject matter to the development of styles. Prerequisite: ART 121 and ART 212. ART 413 Directed Study in Advanced Painting III: A directed study course for students seeking contemporary water media painting problems. Emphasis is study of design principles, color structure, and fundamental methods of pictorial organization. Prerequisites: ART 121, ART 212, ART 412.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey of Islamic art from the period of the early caliphates (c. 700) to the heights of the Islamic empires (c. 1700), combined with close examinations of the issue of aniconism in the Islamic artistic tradition and of relationships between the Islamic and western traditions. 673
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 An analysis of learning themes relating to growth and development in the visual arts, the organization of tools, media and materials appropriate for the elementary level. A practicum of 10 hours at an assigned elementary school is required where the student assists the teacher, tutors students, and teaches a minimum of two art lessons.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Mechanics are the working parts of a game system. Whether on a screen or on a table, all games have rules and logic that make the game fun and challenging. In this course, students analyze and implement a wide range of the interactive components of game design. This course takes an in-depth look at what makes a game a game, and how to best approach player interaction for any given concept. Through demonstrations and discussion, students explore the vast possibilities to consider as they construct their own game structure.
ART 101 and ART 110 and ART 121 and ART 201 and ART 253 or permission of the instructor.
ART 410Art Criticism3
Core Academic Skills for Educators Test Requirement Required for students with less than 2.5 Undergraduate GPA Core Academic Skills for Educators: Reading (5712)—Score 156 Core Academic Skills for Educators: Writing (5722)—Score 162 Core Academic Skills for Educators: Mathematics (5732)—Score 150
An investigation into the problems in children’s art, the nature of art for children, art for creative expression, and the correlation of art with other subjects, with practical experience in the making and the teaching of simple art projects and activities appropriate to elementary school children.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 The study of painting techniques and composition, emphasizing a variety of painting media and the treatments of surface and subject matter to the development of styles.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A directed study course for students seeking contemporary water media painting problems. This course emphasizes the study of design principles, color structure, and fundamental methods of pictorial organization.
A developmental study of creative expression facilitated through art in the intermediate grades, with students required to participate in activities involving a variety of ar media such as drawing, painting, graphics, ceramics, etc., to develop a background for teaching art and to refine personal skills for artistic expression. Prerequisite: ART 311and ART 322..
ART 431(3-0-6) Ceramics III: A practical course focusing on advanced techniques in wheel throwing, clay
formulation, glaze mixing, and glaze application, with students learning “how to,” and gathering experience in loading and firing gas and electric kilns. Variable credit may be earned in this course. Prerequisite: ART 430.
ART 433Directed Study in Advanced Printmaking III3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is a directed study for students seeking extensive experimentation in printmaking techniques particular to traditional and contemporary printmaking processes.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A direct study for students seeking to apply their knowledge of advanced printmaking techniques with an emphasis on development of personal style.
Restricted Electives....................................................................................................................... 21 Credits Select from one of the following areas: Art History, Ceramics, Graphics, Painting, Printmaking, or Sculpture 1. Art History 2. Ceramics ART 340 Women, Culture, and Imaging ART 371 Clay Modeling I ART 361 African Art ART 372 Clay Modeling II ART 362 African American Art ART 430 Ceramics II
ART 101 and ART 201 and ART 360 or ART 371 or ART 372 or ART 375 or CHEM 161 or CHEM 421
ART 453Ceramics V: Directive Study3
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 Students will be guided in advanced ceramic skills and techniques as they pertain to the individual goals described in a written contract of the student's construct. Within the structure of a studio class the focus will be to guide and instruct the student on the development of a body of work to be presented in a senior thesis show. Students will also become familiar with navigating the art industry and professional practices to establish a career trajectory. 677
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 A course providing additional and advanced experiences in photographic production through the mastery of photo materials and equipment, with emphasis on visual literacy, the aesthetic manipulation of compositional elements, and successful photographic production.
ART 471(3-0-6) Wood Working: A course that emphasizes the fabrication and carving the medium of wood
ART 472 (3-0-6) Metals: A course that emphasizes metal fabrication using torches and connectors and the process of casting in metals. Prerequisite: ART 231.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 This course builds on the basic techniques of casting and fabricating metal sculptures. Application of advanced three-dimensional design principles, mixed media, finishing techniques and patinas are explore.
This course introduces the student to basic reductive techniques in the carving of wood and stone. Hand, power and pneumatic tools are used. Prerequisite: Art 231
