8 courses with the subject DRAW, 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.
DRAW 10004Figure Drawing0.5
18 hours CE level continuing studies course Drawing the figure is crucial for many forms of artmaking and design. This course allows you to focus exclusively on articulating the human form. You’ll work from nude models as you learn basic anatomy, gesture, volume and how to check accuracy. Previous drawing experience is recommended.
DRAW 10005Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes0.5
18 hours CE level continuing studies course Learn to use your sketchbook as a visual journal for observation and invention. You’ll experiment with markers, ink and cut paper, and field trips will encourage you to work from life and your imagination.
90.0 hours 100 level undergraduate course Students explore the visual world around them through numerous processes of perceptual drawing. Form, structure and space are among the drawing elements emphasized in this beginning course as it relates to Art, Film and Design. Emphasis is placed on visual judgment and measurement as student’s progress from understanding two- dimensional surfaces to the analysis of simple geometric objects in a shallow space. As the space and objects increase in complexity, principles of linear and isometric perspective are examined, and applied to more complex and prolonged drawings of interior and exterior spaces. Historical precedents are discussed, master works analyzed, reading and writing assignments, as well as off campus visits and collaborative projects are assimilated into the flow of class assignments. With these skills and concepts, students examine form, structure and space of various subjects while they improve their perceptual skills, strengthen their visual judgment and begin to define the vocabulary necessary for Art, Film, and Design. This course is not repeatable for credit.
DRAW 111Drawing: Natural Forms and the Human Figure3
90.0 hours 100 level undergraduate course Drawing from natural forms and the human figure respects the historical practice of maturing the human gaze. This course nurtures the eye’s ability to discern the difference between gross and subtle distinctions in visual information. It poses projects and problems that improve the student’s ability to sustain observation and use vision discerningly, logically and intelligently as it applies to Art, Film, and Design. The class couples an intensive effort at serious scholarship based on principles of visual perception with an awareness of the value of using drawing as a tool for thought. Basic drawing materials are used and exercises in perceptual skills are practiced. Analytical thinking permeates the course and integrates the quest for insights about the graphic and spatial qualities of a variety of subjects related to natural forms and the human body. Indispensable methods of recording information based on principles of location, size, proximity, orientation and proportion are explained and utilized in the execution of drawings of various scales and media. Reading, writing, research, off-campus visits and a collaborative assignment, are all folded into the flow of course activities. This course is not repeatable for credit.
90.0 hours 100 level undergraduate course The course focuses on drawing as a way to discover, develop, and communicate ideas. Students formulate their ideas through observational drawing studies and drawings based on their memories, fantasies, or inventions. By working through many iterations and making choices, students use drawing to problem solve, and learn how to clarify and communicate their ideas. Students investigate mark making as a way to explore the language of drawing. Engaging in processes of abstraction, students explore expressive and formal concerns. Through drawing, using different media, students address issues related to changing viewpoints, scaling, transformations using multiple and sequential images, narrative, and isometric perspective. This course is not repeatable for credit.
67.5 hours 200 level undergraduate course In this course students will be introduced to multiple approaches to drawing across art, film and design. Using digital and manual techniques, students will investigate drawing as performance, the record of an event, material, marking time, mapping, the display of data, body extension, a score, and other genre-bending approaches. Students will be introduced to historic and contemporary practitioners who blur the boundary between drawing and other disciplines. Students will work independently and collaboratively to produce artworks that challenge traditional notions and limitations of drawing. This course is not repeatable for credit.
45.0 hours 200 level undergraduate course This studio course explores Drawing as a contemporary practice. Students will be exposed to a range of drawing methodologies that expand beyond its traditional role as preparatory source material. Studio practices include both open-ended invention, and the reinterpretation of source material; found, observed, created or imagined. Requires completion of 30 credits. This course is not repeatable for credit.
45.0 hours 600 level graduate course This studio workshop will have at its core both the philosophical understanding of when and why one needs to draw but also building skill sets that enable students to become fluent visual thinkers and communicators. The rationale that underpins drawing as a visualization tool is to calculate, consider, and develop sketch concepts to facilitate communication and collaborative engagement within a team as objects, spaces, experiences, and systems are crafted. Students will progress from drawing what they see in space to visualizing, designing, and documenting what they are developing as a vehicle of communication with others. Students will understand the many levels of design drawing from rough sketching and ideation of individual and team concepts, to perspectival spaces and renderings for the client and user, to measured scale drawings for fabricators and technicians. Students will gain the ability to strategically plan for and implement the appropriate level of drawing to communicate visually with the appropriate audience. Priority enrollment for Grad Design Programs This course is not repeatable for credit.
