The Department of Art offers courses across various disciplines and multiple skill levels, creating space for all students regardless of their academic focus or goals.
Below you will find a catalog of undergraduate courses in our active course rotation organized in two ways, first by course level and then by area. Please note that this list does not include some specialized/individualized courses such as independent studies.
**Please note that not all of these courses are offered each semester. Rather, this is an overview of all of our potential course offerings.**
If a course is listed as only being offered every even or odd year, this refers to the year number. For example, Spring 2024 would be an even-year Spring Term, and Autumn 2025 would be an odd-year Autumn Term.
Department of Art Courses by Level
2000 Encountering Contemporary Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
In this class, students will explore how and why contemporary artists make the work they do within a globalized art world. Through discussions, readings, virtual or in-person art excursions and related assignments, participants will apply critical written, oral, and visual communication skills as they analyze, interpret, and respond to significant works of art, their contexts and histories.
2100/2100E Beginning Drawing
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will explore fundamental freehand drawing techniques with a range of drawing methods, media, and concepts; emphasis on drawing from observation and expressive experimentation. Students will apply written, oral, and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret, and respond to significant works of art and their own expressive goals.
2200 Real and Recorded Time
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will engage in informed observations, explorations and communication through time-based media methods and tools as a practical and theoretical foundation for creating original artworks in video, sound, installation, performance and screen.
2300/2300E Two-Dimensional Studies
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will create aesthetic and interpretive studies exploring organizational elements and principles of 2D composition, visual perception, critical thinking, invention and material experimentation as they pertain to art practice. Students will advance written, oral and visual communication skills as they interpret and respond to significant works of art and their own expressive goals.
2400 3-Dimensional Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Basic concepts of three-dimensional art focusing on structure with the organization of space and form, using a variety of materials, processes, tools.
2555/2555H Introduction to Digital Photography and Contemporary Issues
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will learn fundamental digital camera techniques and explore contemporary and historical issues in photography including the relationships between technique, concept, and aesthetics as well as the relationship between images, identity formation, and larger social structures.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 3555. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.
2990 BFA Portfolio Review
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
BFA portfolio review.
Prereq: 2000 (200), 2100 (205), 2200 (208), 2300 (206), 2400 (207), and one core course in student's proposed area of concentration. Repeatable to a maximum of 2 completions. This course is graded S/U.
3000 Digital Image Manipulation
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software while creating digital media artwork and gaining knowledge of digital artists. Experiences include image capture, generation, manipulation, interpretation, critique, working with the fair use principle, and professional artistic output.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2500.
3001 Internet Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn introductory programming skills to integrate image, video, animation, and audio for the creation of internet art. Techniques, concepts, and aesthetics of network culture are practiced, such as tactical media, virality, remixing, and identity construction.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
3002 Intro to Ceramics: Structure
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Introduction to Ceramic Structures; lab practices with various modeling and potter's wheel techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of structural ceramics from brick to tile to sculpture.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2502. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.
3003 Introduction to Glass Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Introduction to skills used in molten glass forming, including; gathering, hot sculpting, and blowing. Studio practice is further expanded by experimentation with glass kiln methods. Emphasis on the development of original artworks.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2503. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
3004 Life Studio Drawing I
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students use a wide range of materials and processes to make drawings based on all aspects of life: the human figure, plants, animals, landscapes, interior spaces, etc. Students practice, appreciate and interpret drawing in relation to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.
Prereq: 2100. Not open to students with credit for 2504. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
3005 Photography II: Introduction to Darkroom
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will explore and learn analogue darkroom processes including manual 35mm camera techniques, black and white film development, and archival silver gelatin printing methods. Students will gain knowledge of historical and contemporary issues in photography and develop verbal and written language skills to critique the construction of images. Limited number of loaner film cameras available.
Prereq: 2555 (3555). Not open to students with credit for 4005.
3006 Introduction to Relief and Intaglio Printmaking
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students use a range of traditional processes in relief and intaglio, exploring the dynamics of their applications in the creation of unique works in print media. Students will apply oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art, the work of their peers, and their own expressive goals. 14 Weeks AU SP, 7 Weeks SU.
Prereq: 2100 or 2300. Not open to students with credit for 2516.
3009 Film/Video I
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students engage fundamental concepts and techniques in video including duration, framing, exposure, and sequence with an introduction to filming and editing. Students develop their videos through explorations of contemporary moving-image artwork.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 5501.
3012 Intro to Ceramics: Form and Surface
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Introduction to Utilitarian uses of Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and potter's wheel techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of ceramic form and surface, both historic and contemporary.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2602.
3017 Introduction to Sculpture
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
An introduction to the principles of sculpture, emphasizing basic forming processes and materials. Includes traditional and non-traditional sculpture making concepts, processes and materials through additive, subtractive, and assemblage sculpture making processes.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2507.
3014 Visual Studies: Color
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students investigate seeing and using color. Students develop projects dealing with color organization, phenomena, and interaction. Students integrate theory and practice to appreciate and interpret color as related to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2514.
3024 Painting I
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students explore the dynamics of painting. Students make paintings using a variety of approaches with attention to color, light, form, paint application, space and composition. Students practice, appreciate and interpret painting as related to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2524.
3054 Painting II
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students explore a variety of painting mediums emphasizing technical, historical and conceptual fundamentals of constructing paintings or 'picture-objects.' Students manipulate spatial and thematic pictorial relationships through painting on various surfaces with a variety of processes and begin to develop the ability to pursue individualized research, processes, themes, and aspirations.
Prereq: 3024.
3056 Introduction to Lithography and Silkscreen Printmaking
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students use a range of traditional processes in lithography and silkscreen printing, exploring the dynamics of their application in the creation of unique works in print media. Students will apply oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art, the work of their peers, and their own expressive goals. 14 Weeks AU SP, 7 Weeks SU.
Prereq: 2100 or 2300. Not open to students with credit for 2526.
3101 3D Modeling Sculpture
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn, practice, and utilize 3D modeling software for generation of form, character, and environment. Includes conceptualization, development, and creation of digital assets for output to formats such as digital prints, game art assets, 3D rapid prototyping, laser cutters and/or CNC mills.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
3104 Expanded Drawing
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students expand their definition of drawing by exploring an array of contemporary, historical and conceptual ideas. Students make drawings using a variety of methods and materials, from archival to ephemeral. Students manipulate spatial and thematic pictorial relationships. Students begin to develop the ability to identify and pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations.
Prereq: 3004 or 3024.
3107 Life Sculpture
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will gain abilities in modeling the human figure clothed and unclothed in clay with and without an armature. Students practice, research, and interpret sculpture in relation to various traditions and contemporary perspectives as a basis for individual creative development.
3191 Internship
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
A cooperative education or internship assignment conducted under the supervision of a faculty member.
Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U
4002 Intermediate Ceramics: Architectonics
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Intermediate course focusing on the Architectural Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and construction techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of the range of Architectural Ceramics, from structure to cladding to interior and exterior scale.
Prereq: 3002 (2502) or 3012 (2602). Not open to students with credit for 3502.
4006 Upper-Level Printmaking: Intaglio + Relief
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Students practice/examine individual development and artistic creation through advanced exploration of intaglio & relief printmaking. They begin to develop the ability to identify/pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations while they interpret/respond to significant works of art, work of their peers, and their own expressive goals through rigorous production and critique.
Prereq: 3006. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
4007 Sculpture: Topics in Experiential Making: Structure, Space, and Material
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Exploration of a range of technical and conceptual concerns of Sculpture using primary materials with a focus on research and experimentation. Metal in AU, Wood in SP.
Prereq: 3017. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 3 completions.
4009 Film/Video II: Experimental Strategies
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students engage with a broad range of strategies related to experimental film and video art in order to produce their own film and video projects. Alongside those projects, students learn about major historical and contemporary issues and movements in avant-garde time-based media.
Prereq: 3009 or MvngImg 2201 or 2202, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 5551.
4012 Intermediate Ceramics: Utility and Performance
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Intermediate course focusing on the utilitarian uses of Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and potter's wheel techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of the broad range of use, from a cup to a tool to performative gestures.
Prereq: 3002 (2502) or 3012 (2602). Not open to students with credit for 3602.
4014 Advanced Painting and Drawing
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
This course is designed to assist and guide independent work. Each term will focus on special topics in painting/drawing, with a wide emphasis upon current directions, new media, techniques, social issues. Students will be encouraged to explore the use of a wide range of materials in experimental approaches to drawing/painting. Individual work will be augmented by lectures/discussions/field trips.
Prereq: 3024 and 3054. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
4056 Upper-Level Printmaking: Lithography + Silkscreen
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Students practice/examine individual development and artistic creation through advanced exploration of lithography & silkscreen printmaking. They begin to develop the ability to identify/pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations while they interpret and respond to significant works of art, work of peers, and their own expressive goals through rigorous production/critique.
Prereq: 3056. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
4101 Moving Image Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
The creation of 2D animations through the generation, manipulation, and montage of multiple media elements such as drawings, video, and audio. Students gain hands-on experience with software sequencing tools and knowledge of the context of time-based computer imaging within a studio art practice.
Prereq: 3000 (2500), 3001, 3009, or 3101. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4115 Photography Studio Lighting
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Students will gain knowledge of studio lighting equipment, the principles of light, and techniques as applied to constructed photography created predominantly in the studio environment. Students will learn color management workflow from production, post-production, and digital printing. Students will apply lighting techniques with advanced photographic concepts to create new possibilities.
Prereq: 3005 or 4005, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 5115.
4201 New Media Robotics
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn component level electronics and programming languages on microcontrollers to create kinetic and interactive art. Digital control of objects, projections, and sound allow for responsive environments, wearables, and multimedia experiences.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4205 Large Format Photography
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Students will expand their definition of photography by exploring an array of contemporary/historical/conceptual ideas. Students will produce images using large format view cameras and will explore the mechanics/aesthetics/psychology of lg. format photography. Students will apply advanced B&W wet lab and digital printing experience to create a series of individual photo projects w/ lg. format film.
Prereq: 3005 or 4005, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 5205.
4401 Computer Animation
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn and practice the concepts, aesthetics and processes of 3D computer animation. Conceptualizing, producing and integrating 3D renders and sound, with awareness of cinematography and narrative, will culminate in the completion of computer animations.
Prereq: 3000 (2500), 3001, or 3101, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4503 Intermediate Glass Topics
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Continued exploration in a range of techniques for creating art using glass as a primary material. Projects will be introduced to prompt creative problem solving. Students encouraged to express conceptual concerns through the material and create original artworks.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4901 Studio Practice: Art and Technology
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students gain practical experience in the development and exhibition of independent artwork. Students practice planning, presenting, and discussing their art research in process as well as participating in the critique of the work of their peers. Techniques of exhibition and documentation will be practiced through writing, video, and photography.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4998/4998H UG Scholarship Research / Creative Activity
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Undergraduate research or creative activities in varying topics.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs. This course is graded S/U.
4999/4999H Senior Exhibition
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Course will provide seniors in the Department of Art with practical experience in the development of an exhibition of their work and exposure to professional practices for artists. This includes the development of an exhibition proposal, adequate documentation of the student's work, an artist's statement (short and long,) and presentation methods.
Prereq: Sr standing, and enrollment in BFA in Art; or permission of instructor.
5000 Art and Professional Practices Seminar
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students explore, practice, and analyze a range of approaches to presenting their artistic practice in visual, oral and written forms. Students explore multiple options, methods and strategies related to career choices and professional development. Students develop a variety of skills to sustain their practice after graduating with their BA or BFA.
Prereq: Sr or Grad standing in Art.
5001 Aspects of Art and Technology I
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Students explore and practice the technical, aesthetic, and theoretical topics in the field of Art and Technology. Includes interactive installation, biological, surveillance/telepresence, narrative, algorithmic, and performative art.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5004 Drawing Now
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Students expand approaches and definitions of drawing in relation to the chosen topic for the semester. Students explore drawing through individualized projects and in groups to cultivate/develop/refine ideas, research, experimentation, critical thinking and installation methods. Students explore/interpret contemporary issues in drawing, and develop a body of drawings as well as a drawing practice.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.
5006 Alternative Printmaking
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Students explore various reproduction technologies including analogue, digital, mechanical, photographic and hybrid approaches. Students engage in a rigorous practice of production, critique and interpretation of the conceptual, theoretical and aesthetic properties of these methods as a means for developing advanced, individualized research.
Prereq: 4006 or 4056, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5007 Advanced Sculpture I
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
With rotating faculty, students develop their own visual vocabulary and direction utilizing multiple media. Instruction: wood construction, metal fabrication, casting, and paper making. Sound art, video projection, installation, performance, sewing, and photogrammetry are supported.
Prereq: 3017, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5009 Film/Video III
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Students explore in depth one technology or strategy related to experimental film and video art. Topics have included 16mm film, expanded cinema, and cameraless filmmaking.
Prereq: 3009 or MvngImg 2201; or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5019 Film/Video IV
This course is offered every even-year Spring Term Only
Students explore thematic issues within experimental film and video art or in the relationship of those fields to other art forms or modes of filmmaking.
Prereq: 3009 or MvngImg 2201; or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5101 Aspects of Art and Technology II
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Students explore topical art science relationships while building connections between micro and macro, plants and humans, local and global, anthropocentric and eco-centric. Both scientific and artistic methods are used in creative projects surrounding climate stress & adaptation, biotech/bio art, constructed ecosystems, biomimicry, hyper-nature, symbiosis.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5202 Mold Making
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Students will design, fabricate, and use of a wide spectrum of mold-making techniques. Exploring the process of prototyping and generating multiples, students will generate functional and expressive artworks analyzing form with the purpose of reproducing it.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
5215 Social/Documentary Photography
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Student will engage in an advanced production course with emphasis on the conceptual frameworks underpinning the documentary tradition in historical and contemporary photography.
Prereq: 3005 (4005).
5254 Painting Now
This course is offered every even-year Spring Term Only
Students expand approaches and definitions of painting in relation to the chosen topic for the semester. Topics range from studies in abstraction, figuration, conceptual approaches, materials and techniques, landscape/light/space, installation, etc. Independently and in groups, students challenge themselves to make paintings through rigorous experimentation, research and critical reflection.
Prereq: 3054. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
5302 Material Science for Artists
This course is offered every odd-year Spring Term Only
Advanced studio focused on geologic and chemical earth science as it pertains to art. Safe and efficient testing habits will explore applications such as clay and glaze formulation. Parallels will be drawn in metals, glass, paper, and paint.
Prereq: 2502 (340), 2602 (342), and 3502 and 3602, or 440 and 442; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 640 and 644.
5335 Digital Imaging: Input/Output
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Exploration of the use of digital technologies in creating and printing images with emphasis on aesthetic content and excellent craft.
Prereq: 5205 (524) and 5215 (695.04), or permission of instructor. Concur: 5225. Not open to students with credit for 695.07.
5445 Alternative Processes in Photography
Advanced production and study of antique and alternative processes in photography such as non-silver emulsions, through the creation of a cohesive body of work.
Prereq: 5225, 5235, 695.07, or 695.08; or written permission of instructor. Concur: 4995 or 690. Not open to students with credit for 695.06.
5502 Special Projects – Ceramics
This course is offered every Autumn Term AND every even-year Spring Term.
Students explore ceramics through individualized projects to cultivate, develop and refine ideas, research, experimentation, critical thinking. Students explore and interpret contemporary issues in ceramics and develop a body of ceramics objects as well as a ceramic practice.
Prereq: 4002 or 4012, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5903 Advanced Glass Studio Practice
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Group studio course designed to facilitate independent work using glass as a primary material for expressing conceptual concerns and creating original artworks.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.
5995 Imagemakers' Seminar
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Students expand approaches and definitions of photography in relation to the chosen topic for the semester. Topics may range from but are not limited to studies in abstraction, performance for the camera, documentary, conceptual approaches, materials and aesthetics, and the intersections of issues of identity with contemporary photographic practices.
Prereq: 3005 (4005), or permission of instructor.
Department of Art Courses by Area
2000 Encountering Contemporary Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
In this class, students will explore how and why contemporary artists make the work they do within a globalized art world. Through discussions, readings, virtual or in-person art excursions and related assignments, participants will apply critical written, oral, and visual communication skills as they analyze, interpret, and respond to significant works of art, their contexts and histories.
2100/2100E Beginning Drawing
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will explore fundamental freehand drawing techniques with a range of drawing methods, media and concepts; emphasis on drawing from observation and expressive experimentation. Students will apply written, oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art and their own expressive goals.
2200 Real and Recorded Time
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will engage in informed observations, explorations and communication through time-based media methods and tools as a practical and theoretical foundation for creating original artworks in video, sound, installation, performance and screen.
2300/2300E Two-Dimensional Studies
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will create aesthetic and interpretive studies exploring organizational elements and principles of 2D composition, visual perception, critical thinking, invention and material experimentation as they pertain to art practice. Students will advance written, oral and visual communication skills as they interpret and respond to significant works of art and their own expressive goals.
2400 3-Dimensional Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Basic concepts of three-dimensional art focusing on structure with the organization of space and form, using a variety of materials, processes, tools.
3000 Digital Image Manipulation
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software while creating digital media artwork and gaining knowledge of digital artists. Experiences include image capture, generation, manipulation, interpretation, critique, working with the fair use principle, and professional artistic output.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2500.
3001 Internet Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn introductory programming skills to integrate image, video, animation, and audio for the creation of internet art. Techniques, concepts, and aesthetics of network culture are practiced, such as tactical media, virality, remixing, and identity construction.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
3101 3D Modeling Sculpture
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn, practice, and utilize 3D modeling software for generation of form, character, and environment. Includes conceptualization, development, and creation of digital assets for output to formats such as digital prints, game art assets, 3D rapid prototyping, laser cutters and/or CNC mills.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4101 Moving Image Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
The creation of 2D animations through the generation, manipulation, and montage of multiple media elements such as drawings, video, and audio. Students gain hands-on experience with software sequencing tools and knowledge of the context of time-based computer imaging within a studio art practice.
Prereq: 3000 (2500), 3001, 3009, or 3101. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4201 New Media Robotics
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn component level electronics and programming languages on microcontrollers to create kinetic and interactive art. Digital control of objects, projections, and sound allow for responsive environments, wearables, and multimedia experiences.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4401 Computer Animation
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students learn and practice the concepts, aesthetics and processes of 3D computer animation. Conceptualizing, producing and integrating 3D renders and sound, with awareness of cinematography and narrative, will culminate in the completion of computer animations.
Prereq: 3000 (2500), 3001, or 3101, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4901 Studio Practice: Art and Technology
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students gain practical experience in the development and exhibition of independent artwork. Students practice planning, presenting, and discussing their art research in process as well as participating in the critique of the work of their peers. Techniques of exhibition and documentation will be practiced through writing, video, and photography.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
5001 Aspects of Art and Technology I
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Students explore and practice the technical, aesthetic, and theoretical topics in the field of Art and Technology. Includes interactive installation, biological, surveillance/telepresence, narrative, algorithmic, and performative art.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5101 Aspects of Art and Technology II
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Students explore topical art science relationships while building connections between micro and macro, plants and humans, local and global, anthropocentric and eco-centric. Both scientific and artistic methods are used in creative projects surrounding climate stress & adaptation, biotech/bio art, constructed ecosystems, biomimicry, hyper-nature, symbiosis.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
3002 Intro to Ceramics: Structure
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Introduction to Ceramic Structures; lab practices with various modeling and potter's wheel techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of structural ceramics from brick to tile to sculpture.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2502. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.
3012 Intro to Ceramics: Form and Surface
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Introduction to Utilitarian uses of Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and potter's wheel techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of ceramic form and surface, both historic and contemporary.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2602.
4002 Intermediate Ceramics: Architectonics
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Intermediate course focusing on the Architectural Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and construction techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of the range of Architectural Ceramics, from structure to cladding to interior and exterior scale.
Prereq: 3002 (2502) or 3012 (2602). Not open to students with credit for 3502.
4012 Intermediate Ceramics: Utility and Performance
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Intermediate course focusing on the utilitarian uses of Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and potter's wheel techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of the broad range of use, from a cup to a tool to performative gestures.
Prereq: 3002 (2502) or 3012 (2602). Not open to students with credit for 3602.
5202 Mold Making
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Students will design, fabricate, and use of a wide spectrum of mold-making techniques. Exploring the process of prototyping and generating multiples, students will generate functional and expressive artworks analyzing form with the purpose of reproducing it.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
5302 Material Science for Artists
This course is offered every odd-year Spring Term Only
Advanced studio focused on geologic and chemical earth science as it pertains to art. Safe and efficient testing habits will explore applications such as clay and glaze formulation. Parallels will be drawn in metals, glass, paper, and paint.
Prereq: 2502 (340), 2602 (342), and 3502 and 3602, or 440 and 442; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 640 and 644.
5502 Special Projects – Ceramics
This course is offered every Autumn Term AND every even-year Spring Term.
Students explore ceramics through individualized projects to cultivate, develop and refine ideas, research, experimentation, critical thinking. Students explore and interpret contemporary issues in ceramics and develop a body of ceramics objects as well as a ceramic practice.
Prereq: 4002 or 4012, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
3009 Film/Video I
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students engage fundamental concepts and techniques in video including duration, framing, exposure, and sequence with an introduction to filming and editing. Students develop their videos through explorations of contemporary moving-image artwork.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 5501.
4009 Film/Video II: Experimental Strategies
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students engage with a broad range of strategies related to experimental film and video art in order to produce their own film and video projects. Alongside those projects, students learn about major historical and contemporary issues and movements in avant-garde time-based media.
Prereq: 3009 or MvngImg 2201 or 2202, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 5551.
5009 Film/Video III
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Students explore in depth one technology or strategy related to experimental film and video art. Topics have included 16mm film, expanded cinema, and cameraless filmmaking.
Prereq: 3009 or MvngImg 2201; or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5019 Film/Video IV
This course is offered every even-year Spring Term Only
Students explore thematic issues within experimental film and video art or in the relationship of those fields to other art forms or modes of filmmaking.
Prereq: 3009 or MvngImg 2201; or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
3003 Introduction to Glass Art
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Introduction to skills used in molten glass forming, including; gathering, hot sculpting, and blowing. Studio practice is further expanded by experimentation with glass kiln methods. Emphasis on the development of original artworks.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2503. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
4503 Intermediate Glass Methods
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Continued exploration in a range of techniques for creating art using glass as a primary material. Projects will be introduced to prompt creative problem solving. Students encouraged to express conceptual concerns through the material and create original artworks.
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
5903 Advanced Glass Studio Practice
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Group studio course designed to facilitate independent work using glass as a primary material for expressing conceptual concerns and creating original artworks.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.
3004 Life Studio Drawing I
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students use a wide range of materials and processes to make drawings based on all aspects of life: the human figure, plants, animals, landscapes, interior spaces, etc. Students practice, appreciate and interpret drawing in relation to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.
Prereq: 2100. Not open to students with credit for 2504. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
3014 Visual Studies: Color
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students investigate seeing and using color. Students develop projects dealing with color organization, phenomena, and interaction. Students integrate theory and practice to appreciate and interpret color as related to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2514.
3024 Painting I
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students explore the dynamics of painting. Students make paintings using a variety of approaches with attention to color, light, form, paint application, space and composition. Students practice, appreciate and interpret painting as related to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2524.
3054 Painting II
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students explore a variety of painting mediums emphasizing technical, historical and conceptual fundamentals of constructing paintings or 'picture-objects.' Students manipulate spatial and thematic pictorial relationships through painting on various surfaces with a variety of processes and begin to develop the ability to pursue individualized research, processes, themes, and aspirations.
Prereq: 3024.
3104 Expanded Drawing
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students expand their definition of drawing by exploring an array of contemporary, historical and conceptual ideas. Students make drawings using a variety of methods and materials, from archival to ephemeral. Students manipulate spatial and thematic pictorial relationships. Students begin to develop the ability to identify and pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations.
Prereq: 3004 or 3024.
4014 Advanced Painting and Drawing
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
This course is designed to assist and guide independent work. Each term will focus on special topics in painting/drawing, with a wide emphasis upon current directions, new media, techniques, social issues. Students will be encouraged to explore the use of a wide range of materials in experimental approaches to drawing/painting. Individual work will be augmented by lectures/discussions/field trips.
Prereq: 3024 and 3054. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5004 Drawing Now
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Students expand approaches and definitions of drawing in relation to the chosen topic for the semester. Students explore drawing through individualized projects and in groups to cultivate/develop/refine ideas, research, experimentation, critical thinking and installation methods. Students explore/interpret contemporary issues in drawing, and develop a body of drawings as well as a drawing practice.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs
5254 Painting Now
This course is offered every even-year Spring Term Only
Students expand approaches and definitions of painting in relation to the chosen topic for the semester. Topics range from studies in abstraction, figuration, conceptual approaches, materials and techniques, landscape/light/space, installation, etc. Independently and in groups, students challenge themselves to make paintings through rigorous experimentation, research and critical reflection.
Prereq: 3054. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
2555/2555H Introduction to Digital Photography and Contemporary Issues
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will learn fundamental digital camera techniques and explore contemporary and historical issues in photography including the relationships between technique, concept, and aesthetics as well as the relationship between images, identity formation, and larger social structures.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 3555. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.
3005 Photography II: Introduction to Darkroom
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will explore and learn analogue darkroom processes including manual 35mm camera techniques, black and white film development, and archival silver gelatin printing methods. Students will gain knowledge of historical and contemporary issues in photography and develop verbal and written language skills to critique the construction of images. Limited number of loaner film cameras available.
Prereq: 2555 (3555). Not open to students with credit for 4005.
4115 Photography Studio Lighting
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Students will gain knowledge of studio lighting equipment, the principles of light, and techniques as applied to constructed photography created predominantly in the studio environment. Students will learn color management workflow from production, post-production, and digital printing. Students will apply lighting techniques with advanced photographic concepts to create new possibilities.
Prereq: 3005 or 4005, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 5115.
4205 Large Format Photography
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Students will expand their definition of photography by exploring an array of contemporary/historical/conceptual ideas. Students will produce images using large format view cameras and will explore the mechanics/aesthetics/psychology of lg. format photography. Students will apply advanced B&W wet lab and digital printing experience to create a series of individual photo projects w/ lg. format film.
Prereq: 3005 or 4005, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 5205.
5215 Social/Documentary Photography
This course is offered every odd-year Autumn Term Only
Student will engage in an advanced production course with emphasis on the conceptual frameworks underpinning the documentary tradition in historical and contemporary photography.
Prereq: 3005 (4005).
5335 Digital Imaging: Input/Output
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Exploration of the use of digital technologies in creating and printing images with emphasis on aesthetic content and excellent craft.
Prereq: 5205 (524) and 5215 (695.04), or permission of instructor. Concur: 5225. Not open to students with credit for 695.07.
5445 Alternative Processes in Photography
Advanced production and study of antique and alternative processes in photography such as non-silver emulsions, through the creation of a cohesive body of work.
Prereq: 5225, 5235, 695.07, or 695.08; or written permission of instructor. Concur: 4995 or 690. Not open to students with credit for 695.06.
5995 Imagemakers' Seminar
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Students expand approaches and definitions of photography in relation to the chosen topic for the semester. Topics may range from but are not limited to studies in abstraction, performance for the camera, documentary, conceptual approaches, materials and aesthetics, and the intersections of issues of identity with contemporary photographic practices.
Prereq: 3005 (4005), or permission of instructor.
3006 Introduction to Relief and Intaglio Printmaking
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students use a range of traditional processes in relief and intaglio, exploring the dynamics of their applications in the creation of unique works in print media. Students will apply oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art, the work of their peers, and their own expressive goals. 14 Weeks AU SP, 7 Weeks SU.
Prereq: 2100 or 2300. Not open to students with credit for 2516.
3056 Introduction to Lithography and Silkscreen Printmaking
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students use a range of traditional processes in lithography and silkscreen printing, exploring the dynamics of their application in the creation of unique works in print media. Students will apply oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art, the work of their peers, and their own expressive goals. 14 Weeks AU SP, 7 Weeks SU.
Prereq: 2100 or 2300. Not open to students with credit for 2526.
4006 Upper-Level Printmaking: Intaglio + Relief
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Students practice/examine individual development and artistic creation through advanced exploration of intaglio & relief printmaking. They begin to develop the ability to identify/pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations while they interpret/respond to significant works of art, work of their peers, and their own expressive goals through rigorous production and critique.
Prereq: 3006. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
4056 Upper-Level Printmaking: Lithography + Silkscreen
This course is offered every Spring Term Only
Students practice/examine individual development and artistic creation through advanced exploration of lithography & silkscreen printmaking. They begin to develop the ability to identify/pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations while they interpret and respond to significant works of art, work of peers, and their own expressive goals through rigorous production/critique.
Prereq: 3056. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
5006 Alternative Printmaking
This course is offered every even-year Autumn Term Only
Students explore various reproduction technologies including analogue, digital, mechanical, photographic and hybrid approaches. Students engage in a rigorous practice of production, critique and interpretation of the conceptual, theoretical and aesthetic properties of these methods as a means for developing advanced, individualized research.
Prereq: 4006 or 4056, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
3017 Introduction to Sculpture
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
An introduction to the principles of sculpture, emphasizing basic forming processes and materials. Includes traditional and non-traditional sculpture making concepts, processes and materials through additive, subtractive, and assemblage sculpture making processes.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2507.
3107 Life Sculpture
This course is offered every Autumn and Spring Term
Students will gain abilities in modeling the human figure clothed and unclothed in clay with and without an armature. Students practice, research, and interpret sculpture in relation to various traditions and contemporary perspectives as a basis for individual creative development.
4007 Sculpture: Topics in Experiential Making: Structure, Space, and Material
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
Exploration of a range of technical and conceptual concerns of Sculpture using primary materials with a focus on research and experimentation. Metal in AU, Wood in SP.
Prereq: 3017. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 3 completions.
5007 Advanced Sculpture I
This course is offered every Autumn Term Only
With rotating faculty, students develop their own visual vocabulary and direction utilizing multiple media. Instruction: wood construction, metal fabrication, casting, and paper making. Sound art, video projection, installation, performance, sewing, and photogrammetry are supported.
Prereq: 3017, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.
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