Catalog 2013-2014

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The following studio/performance-oriented courses require the consent of the instructor for admission and may be repeated for additional credit.

ART 400 Special Problems in Ceramics

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore ceramics with the guidance of a member of the art faculty. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 401 Special Problems in Painting

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore painting with the guidance of a member of the art faculty. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 402 Special Problems in Sculpture

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore sculpture with the guidance of a member of the art faculty. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 403 Special Problems in Printmaking

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore printmaking with the guidance of a member of the art faculty. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 404 Special Problems in Drawing

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore drawing with the guidance of a member of the art faculty. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 408 Special Problems in Photography

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore photography with the guidance of a member of the art faculty. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 410 Special Problems in Digital Art

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore computer graphics with the guidance of a member of the art faculty. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 411 Internship

This studio/performance-oriented course involves placement in an advertising agency, magazine or related enterprise for hands-on work experience. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-4
(A)

Prerequisites

Junior and senior art majors only, with consent of instructor.

ART 415 Special Problems Graphic Design

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore the graphic arts with the guidance of a member of the art faculty. May be repeated for additional credit.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 417 Special Problems in 3-D Animation

This studio/performance-oriented course is the capstone course for the concentration in this specific area of study. It allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore the digital arts and/or computer animation with the guidance of a member of the art faculty.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 420 Sustainable Design

This studio/performance-oriented course explores sustainability issues as they relate to graphic design. Special emphasis is placed on specific aesthetics relative to graphic design, as well as the many forms of sustainable inks, materials and paper.

Credit Hours: 4
(A)

Prerequisites

ART 305 and ART 309

ART 430 Physical Computing

This studio/performance-oriented course offers an approach to learning how humans communicate through computers that starts by considering how we express ourselves physically. This course explores the nature of transduction, the usage of microcontrollers and their communication with other computers, and advances in human-computer interfaces and digital art. It requires a hands-on approach to writing code, soldering and building circuits and controls to determine how best to make these components relate to personal expression.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

ART 210, ART 310, ART 311

ART 450 Advanced Painting Studio

This studio/performance-oriented course explores issues concerning media and methods relevant to individually designated concepts in order to encourage students to develop their own vision and style. This course provides the time and focus to develop a significant and fully realized body of work while exploring the intellectual connections between work in the studio and readings, writings and discussions in contemporary art and culture. The objective is for students to develop, through research and practice, a personal vocabulary of imagery and ideas regarding painting. May repeat for credit.

Credit Hours: 4
(A)

Prerequisites

Two of the following: ART 201, ART 250, ART 251, ART 252, ART 350, ART 351.

ART 470 Special Problems in Art History

This studio/performance-oriented course allows the professionally oriented art student to select and intensively explore a specific area of interest with the guidance of a member of the art faculty.

Credit Hours: 1-6
(A)

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor.

ART 498 Senior Seminar

This course is designed to coincide with the preparation and exhibition of the Senior Exhibit (studio art) or the preparation of a Senior Thesis (art history). Students concentrating in studio art learn the proper techniques and procedures for planning, presenting and mounting an organized body of work. Emphasis is also given to the development of an artist's statement and the proper techniques for photographic documentation. Required for digital arts majors, graphic design majors and BFA majors. Students concentrating in art history prepare a 10-15-page thesis based on a paper previously written in an art history course, and will take a short comprehensive exam.

Credit Hours: 1

Prerequisites

ART 398.

ART 499 Senior Project

Mandatory for Electronic Media Art and Technology, New Media Production, Graphic Design and Digital Arts majors. Can be taken in conjunction with ART 498 in order to participate in the BFA Senior Art Show. The Senior Project is a capstone class where students produce professional projects that summarize what they have learned in their area of concentration within their declared major. A faculty member with sufficient experience in the subject matter teaches the class as an independent study or as a full course, depending on the number of students interested in similar topics.

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites

Senior standing and permission of the instructor.