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ART 120 Influences in Contemporary Art (5) VLPA
Introduction to recurring themes and practices in the visual arts. Moves beyond medium-based categories, surveying a diverse range of issues that motivate artists and create content in contemporary art. Examines the importance and influence of the visual arts in the larger context of contemporary culture and society.
Instructor Course Description:
Jamie Walker
Timea Tihanyi
ART 124 3D4M Studio: Materials in Real Space (5) VLPA
Introduces three-dimensional concepts and a critical, formal vocabulary through exploration of the dependent relationship of visual, physical, and experimental principles involved in created three-dimensional art. Emphasizes exposure to a variety of physical materials, processes, and diverse approaches to designing and solving assignments and investigations. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Loewenstein
John T Young
Louise Cabeen
Timea Tihanyi
ART 126 Topics in Studio Art (5) VLPA
Studio-based class introducing students, through particular studio practice of individual instructors, to methods of visual awareness, principles of organization, and approaches to visual and conceptual observation. Relationship between art history and contemporary art practice. Artistic medium in each class varies with instructor expertise. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description:
Anne Hayden Stevens
Claire L. Putney
Curt W Labitzke
John J Rousseau
Layne Goldsmith
Shirley E. Scheier
Timea Tihanyi
ART 131 Alternative Approaches to Art and Design (5, max. 20) VLPA
Presentation of process through which artists discover and translate ideas, feelings, and concerns into images or objects. Use of a wide variety of methods and approaches, from traditional to technological, to promote visual expression. Discussion and critiques leading toward better understanding the creative process.
Instructor Course Description:
Anne Hayden Stevens
Carolyn J. Bodle
John J Rousseau
Karen Gutowsky-Zimmerman
Jason A. Tselentis
Christopher Ozubko
Norman J Taylor
Timea Tihanyi
ART 134 Concepts in Three-dimensional Art (5) VLPA
Exploration, study, and application of thematic concepts not generally associated with traditional three-dimensional art forms. Investigation of themes such as installation, performance, public, and socio-political art.
Instructor Course Description:
Timea Tihanyi
ART 140 Basic Photography (5) VLPA
Introduces theory, techniques, and processes of still photography in an artistic context. Emphasizes photography's creative potential. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Ellen J. Garvens
Paul E Berger
Rebecca Cummins
ART 165 Introduction to Industrial Design (5) VLPA
Provides a general introduction to industrial design. Develops students knowledge through lectures, readings, and studio projects that focus on the history of the discipline and the processes of brainstorming, ideation, skill building, problem solving, and professional presentation used in the creation of design. Includes participation by guest designers.
ART 166 Design Foundations (5) VLPA
Examines the rudiments of visual structure and problem solving in two and three-dimensional design. Emphasizes design methodology and design processes with emphasis on the formal principles of composition and organization. Offered: A.
ART 190 Introduction to Drawing (5) VLPA
Builds basic drawing skills, develops understanding of primary concepts which relate to drawing and develops an understanding of the grammar or syntax of two-dimensional language. Students move beyond their current knowledge and abilities and link new skills, concepts, and understandings to creative expressing. Offered: AWSp.
ART 191 Color Studies Studio (5) VLPA Lin
Examination of color as a distinct visual phenomenon with investigations of its practical, theoretical, and illusionary aspects. Employs various media and materials in exercises and compositions that demonstrate properties of color structure, symbolism, and perception and the potential application to art and design.
ART 201 Introduction to Ceramics: Handbuilding (5) VLPA
Introduces a variety of ceramic handbuilding and surface processes with an emphasis on problem solving and self-expression. Includes examination of contemporary sculpture in clay.
Instructor Course Description:
Akio Takamori
ART 202 Introduction to Ceramics: Wheel Throwing (5) VLPA
Introduces wheel throwing and glazing as a means to explore functional and conceptual considerations with clay in a contemporary context and art practice.
Instructor Course Description:
Akio Takamori
Jamie Walker
ART 207 Design Drawing (5) VLPA
Concentrates on developing skills used to communicate ideas that exist in the imagination. Focuses on study of design drawing history and development of basic skills necessary for ideation, exploration, communication, explanation. Prepares students to visualize and discuss ideas rapidly and professionally. For design majors only. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Karen Cheng
ART 208 Survey of Design History (5) VLPA
Comprehensive survey of the ideas, events, and individuals that determined the design of information, objects, culture, and commerce across societies. Examines the social, political and cultural contexts that shape graphic design and the ideologies and relationships of similar movement in art and architecture. Late 19th Century - contemporary issues.
ART 209 Fundamentals of Typography (5) VLPA
Develops understanding of and sensibility to typographic details used to create effective communication. Focus moves from understanding letter forms that make up words to the complexities of developing phrases, sentences, and short paragraphs with multiple levels of hierarchical meaning. Prerequisite: ART 207. Offered: W.
ART 210 Collaboration and Improvisation (5) VLPA
Introduces key factors in the theory and practice of creating and participating in collaborative projects. Focuses on creating and participating in effective teams, understanding strengths and roles within teams, working through team issues, developing techniques for interdisciplinary problem solving. Prerequisite: ART 207.
Instructor Course Description:
Annabelle K Gould
ART 211 3-D Foundation (5) VLPA
Introduction to aesthetic fundamentals of 3-dimensional form. Explores the articulation of form and space in both abstract and applied scenarios. Prepares design students for subsequent work in interaction design, design, studies, industrial design, and visual communication design. Prerequisite: ART 210.
ART 212 Introduction to Interaction Design (5) VLPA
Introduces human-computer interaction, interface design, and interactive and time-based media for designers. Reviews foundational interaction design concepts such as human factors, perception, cognition, research techniques, and design methods for the design of interactions. Prerequisite: ART 211.
ART 226 Introduction to Structure (5) VLPA
Explores the structure of two- and three-dimensional textile forms. Students work with floor looms, computer-aided looms, as well as working directly with materials.
Instructor Course Description:
Layne Goldsmith
ART 227 Introduction to Surface (5) VLPA
Basic techniques of dying, printing, and embellishing, with emphasis on their conceptual uses in art making.
Instructor Course Description:
Louise Cabeen
Layne Goldsmith
Grace M. Willard
ART 233 Introduction to Glass (5) VLPA y
Introduces the materials of glass and its applications in the fine arts. Examines historical, technical, and contemporary practices. Focuses on glass-forming processes including cold fabrication, cold-working, kiln-forming, mold making, kiln-casting, flame working, and hot shop practices.
ART 234 History of Public Art and Public Space (5) VLPA Young
Survey of the melding of public art, architecture, and landscape architecture through the ages, starting with Stonehenge, the Pyramids, and Gothic cathedrals, and ending with contemporary earthworks, public art, and twenty-first century performance art. Offered: W.
ART 241 Intermediate Photography (5) VLPA
Includes studio projects examining the expressive and conceptual uses of alternative photographic materials and techniques. May include an introduction to analog photography, large format and studio lighting. Prerequisite: ART 140. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Ellen J. Garvens
ART 245 Concepts in Printmaking (5) VLPA
Introduction to contemporary printing methods such as monotype, monoprint, stencil, and photocopy. Survey of historical and current approaches to the art of printmaking.
Instructor Course Description:
Shirley E. Scheier
Richard L. Johnson
ART 246 Works on Paper/Monotype (5) VLPA
Introduces contemporary imaging methods, expands traditional drawing methods, and encourages relationship of content to structure. Introduces relationship of printmaking and painting to drawing through monotype methods.
Instructor Course Description:
Claire M Cowie
ART 259 Water-Soluble Media (5, max. 15) VLPA
ART 272 Introduction to Sculpture I: Techniques (5) VLPA Taylor
Introduces a variety of techniques and processes used in the creation of sculpture in the form of multiples, series, narrative, progressions, and identity. Includes the study and studio practice of mold making and casting. Prerequisite: ART 124.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael J. Magrath
ART 273 Introduction to Sculpture II: Structures (5) VLPA Lynn
Introduces understanding the specific concepts and skills needed to construct and create structure driven in wood, steel, plastic, glass, rubber, fabric, and found object. Explores issues of materiality, form, object, scale, and connection. Prerequisite: ART 124.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Loewenstein
Michael J. Magrath
William S Trimble
ART 290 Beginning Drawing: The Figure (5) VLPA
Introduction to the human figure as historically traditional subject matter as well as an important component in self expression. Covers proportion, foreshortening, and composition. Prerequisite: ART 190. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description:
Zhi Lin
ART 291 Beginning Drawing Topics (5) VLPA
Revolving topics in the study of drawing at the beginning level. Not open for credit to students having taken ART 290.
ART 292 Beginning Painting (5) VLPA
Beginning oil painting. Prerequisite: ART 290.
Instructor Course Description:
Zhi Lin
ART 293 Beginning Painting Topics (5) VLPA
Revolving topics in the study of painting at the beginning level. Prerequisite: ART 292.
ART 316 Introduction to Industrial Design (5) VLPA
Introduces the fundamentals of 3-D design with emphasis on analytical and intuitive approaches to problem solving, technical skills, and form development. Prerequisite: ART 207; ART 211.
ART 317 Intermediate ID Studio 1 (5) VLPA
Introduces theories, methods, and design development focused on design principles involving form, function, usability, and product development. Prerequisite: ART 316.
ART 318 Intermediate ID Studio 2 (5) VLPA
Includes studio experiences that expand upon and combine intellectual and manual skills for the practice of industrial design. Emphasizes the ideation process with form development. Prerequisite: ART 317.
ART 320 Industrial Design Special Projects (5, max. 15) VLPA
Progressive industrial design methodology and criticism introduced through projects corresponding to major international design competitions, visiting critics and lecturers, corporate sponsored projects, or faculty design research. Independent or group work on projects to expand students' visual research, drawing, modelmaking, presentation, and literacy skills. Includes contemporary manufacturing and information technologies.
ART 321 Materials and Manufacture (5) VLPA
Analyzes materials used in mass-produced products, focusing on how these materials impact product design and on finishing quality of products. Emphasizes materials research and manufacturing processes.
Instructor Course Description:
George L Mccain
ART 322 Presentation for Industrial Design I (5) VLPA
Introduction to presentation skills, from quick sketching of design concepts to refined representation of the finished design in a two-dimensional format. Emphasis on accuracy and development of an individual style. Prerequisite: ART 211; ART 212.
ART 323 Presentation for Industrial Design II (5) VLPA
Techniques to progress from design control drawings to three-dimensional models, including both study models and finished appearance models, in order to communicate design concepts in a professional, effective manner. Prerequisite: ART 322.
ART 327 Intermediate Surface Design Studio (5, max. 10) VLPA
Explores intermediate techniques used in the basic fiber media, surface design. Covers pattern development, expanded scale, visual clarity, and conceptual depth. Prerequisite: ART 227.
Instructor Course Description:
Layne Goldsmith
ART 328 Intermediate Fiber Studio (5, max. 15) VLPA
Explores more advanced techniques used in the basic fiber media, weaving and surface design. Technical focus of each class varies. Covers pattern development, expanded scale, visual clarity, and conceptual depth. Prerequisite: either ART 226 or ART 227.
Instructor Course Description:
Louise Cabeen
Layne Goldsmith
ART 329 Topics in Fiber Art (5, max. 15) VLPA
Explores a range of special topics in fibers, including non-traditional materials and processes and interdisciplinary areas of interest within the field, while offering specific technical, hands-on training when appropriate. Emphasizes the development of the thematic content of the individual's work.
Instructor Course Description:
Louise Cabeen
Layne Goldsmith
ART 330 History of Textiles (5) VLPA
Overview of Western textiles from Coptic tapestry through industrialization. Discussion of textiles not only in aesthetic terms but also as cultural documents arising from, and reflecting, a broad range of societal pressures and concerns. Special topics in contemporary issues and non-Western textiles with emphasis on holdings in the University collection.
Instructor Course Description:
Louise Cabeen
ART 332 Intermediate Sculpture (5, max. 15) VLPA
Studio practice focusing on sculptural installation in architectural, urban, and natural settings; foundry, forging, and advanced fabrications; and movement, kinetics, and interaction. Prerequisite: either ART 201, ART 233, ART 272, or ART 273.
Instructor Course Description:
John T Young
Michael J. Magrath
ART 333 New Materials and Processes in Glass (5, max. 15) VLPA
Explores the process through which artists discover and translate ideas, feelings, and concerns into images or objects. Investigations include various glass forming methodologies and material properties. Topics rotate and may include mold-making, kiln casting, photo processes, mixed medial, cold fabrication, enamels, cold-working, hot glass practices, and sculptural applications. Prerequisite: either ART 201, ART 233, ART 272, or ART 273.
Instructor Course Description:
Gloria A Bornstein
Daniel F. Loewenstein
John T Young
Lauren Grossman
Michael J. Magrath
ART 334 Public/Professional Art Issues (5, max. 15) VLPA Young
Topics vary, centering on issues of public art and professional practices.
Instructor Course Description:
Elizabeth D. Brother
James Keith Nicholls
John T Young
Louise M St. Pierre
ART 335 Metal Casting (5, max. 15) VLPA
Introduction to foundry techniques as applied to fine arts casting of ferrous and nonferrous material. Prerequisite: ART 272.
ART 338 Photography: Theory and Criticism (5) I&S/VLPA
Art traditions of photography from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present. Emphasis on photographic traditions and photographers of the twentieth century, and investigations of and research into local collections.
ART 339 Intermediate Photography: Color (5) VLPA
Introduction to photographic color theory and processes with emphasis on color printing on type-C darkroom printing. Additional traditional and experimental color materials explored. Offered: Sp.
ART 340 Digital Imaging I (5) VLPA
Introduces the creative use of photographic digital workflow in the processing, cataloging, and printing of camera generated digital imaging. Examines a variety of manipulations and transformation of both photographic and non-photographic imagery, involving multiple programs, procedures, and hardware (Macintosh platform). Prerequisite: ART 241. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Paul E Berger
ART 341 Digital Imaging II (5) VLPA Berger
Advanced topics in digital imaging, including specialized output, interactive presentations, the moving image, and web based works. Emphasizes creative exploration of both software and hardware tools and the possibilities of integration with other art media. Prerequisite: ART 340.
Instructor Course Description:
Keeara J. Rhoades
Paul E Berger
ART 342 Contemporary Issues in Photography (5) VLPA
Examines the use and role of photography and related media in contemporary culture. Introduces how an artist's work responds to these contemporary issues. Prerequisite: ART 241; ART 340. Offered: S.
Instructor Course Description:
Ellen J. Garvens
Rebecca Cummins
ART 343 Advanced Photomedia (5, max. 10) VLPA
Explores the concepts and techniques of contemporary photographic practice, including non-traditional approaches to photography and related media. Includes an exploration of 3-dimensional installation practices, collaborative projects, and the moving image. Prerequisite: ART 340. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Rebecca Cummins
ART 345 Intermediate Printmaking (5, max. 25) VLPA
Development of mature and personal statement within context of the print form through studio practice and group discussion and critique. Processes and media emphasis varies on a revolving basis.
Instructor Course Description:
Curt W Labitzke
Shirley E. Scheier
ART 350 Printmaking Special Projects (5, max. 15) VLPA
Approaches to water based printmaking. Introduces serigraphy, collagraph and relief printing through lecture, critique, class discussion, and creative practice.
Instructor Course Description:
Curt W Labitzke
Larry D. Sommers
Shirley E. Scheier
ART 351 Furniture Design and Making (5, max. 10) VLPA
Introduction to furniture design and making. Covers history of furniture from 1850 to present and includes hands-on learning resulting in design and fabrication of three unique tables. No previous experience required.
ART 352 Furniture Design and Production (5, max. 10) VLPA
Hands-on woodworking and furniture production. Includes development of technique and collaboration with fabrication shops and design professionals. Uses design drawing, model building, and full-scale construction prototypes as tools of communication. End-of-term exhibit places work on public view.
Instructor Course Description:
Curt W Labitzke
ART 353 Intermediate Ceramic Art (5, max. 20) VLPA
Explores a variety of ceramic processes and conceptual development including: press and slip molds, glaze formulation, multiples and installation, tiles and bricks, intermediate wheel, time, space, and scale. Prerequisite: ART 201; either ART 124, ART 233, ART 272 or ART 273.
Instructor Course Description:
Jamie Walker
ART 360 Topics in Studio Art and Practice (5, max. 20) VLPA
Examines a variety of cutting edge, emerging, and interdisciplinary approached in studio art and practice. Topics vary.
Instructor Course Description:
Anne Hayden Stevens
David Brody
Carolyn J. Bodle
Judith W. Clark
Timea Tihanyi
ART 361 Critical Ideas in Contemporary Art (5, max. 15) VLPA
Surveys critical ideas in contemporary art practice. Includes lectures by nationally recognized artists to introduce a wide range of artistic positions and practices. Engages students with the major issues informing contemporary art and new modes of practice.
Instructor Course Description:
Timea Tihanyi
ART 366 Editorial Visualizations (5) VLPA
Expands focus on design process through a broad variety of image production techniques. Emphasizes concept development and the power of the image for storytelling. Design of stand-alone compositions is expanded into the development of a series of themed works. Prerequisite: ART 209; ART 210. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher Ozubko
ART 367 Communications Programs (5) VLPA
Investigation of strategies and graphic interpretations using typography, images, and diverse applications of design. Emphasis on development of conceptual themes, graphically implemented across an array of communications media. Prerequisite: ART 366, ART 376. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Annabelle K Gould
ART 368 Case Studies in Corporate Identity (5) VLPA
Research and analysis of visual identity systems for complex institutional and corporate entities. Focuses on issues that concern how design programs function across divers application and media and how they engage various audiences. Prerequisite: ART 377. Offered: Sp.
ART 376 Typography (5) VLPA
Explores how meaning, hierarchy, and legibility are affected by typographic contrast, organization, and composition. Prepares students to create dynamic compositions with type, understand how type is sued as an image/conceptual visualization, understand the nuances/techniques involved in a professional typesetting, and develop vocabulary. Prerequisite: ART 209; ART 210.
ART 377 Marks and Symbols (5) VLPA
Investigates formal and conceptual problems associated with mark and symbol design. Students individually/collaboratively research and develop a series of marks and symbols for specific organizations. Helps develop the ability to recognize effective marks/symbols that identifies/communicates an identity or idea, identify specific types of marks and symbols, and determine the most suitable types for a specific communication problem. Prerequisite: ART 366, ART 376.
Instructor Course Description:
David Kendall
ART 378 Information Architecture and Web Design (5) VLPA
Fundamental issues in web design, including site planning, information architecture, navigation, visual hierarchy, and interactivity. Emphasis on understanding the unique functional limitations of designing for the web while building an awareness of contemporary design practice. Design a simple site and produce a working a prototype. Prerequisite: ART 209; ART 211; ART 212. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Annabelle K Gould
Karen Gutowsky-Zimmerman
ART 381 Design Case Studies (5) VLPA
History, theory, and practice of ways design functions in society and culture. Emphasis on developing broad understanding of design production while working collaboratively and individually on a quarter-long research project concerned with producing a comprehensive conceptual map of the design discipline. Prerequisite: ART 211; ART 212.
ART 383 Fundamentals of Interaction Design (5) VLPA
Focus on human-to-product interaction and ways we perceive, understand, and experience the world regards to objects, environments, or on-screen controls/information. Prerequisite: ART 211; ART 212.
Instructor Course Description:
Andrew H. Davidson
Christian Richard
Axel Roesler
ART 390 Intermediate Drawing (5, max. 10) VLPA
Prerequisite: ART 290.
ART 391 Intermediate Drawing Topics (5) VLPA
Revolving topics in the study of drawing at the intermediate level. Prerequisite: either ART 290 or ART 291.
ART 392 Intermediate Painting (5, max. 10) VLPA
Prerequisite: ART 293, ART 390. Offered: AWSp.
ART 393 Intermediate Painting Topics (5) VLPA
Revolving topics in the study of painting at the intermediate level. Prerequisite: ART 292 .
ART 400 Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Senior Studio (5, max. 10) VLPA Labitzke
Focuses on the development of exhibition quality artwork and culminating in a group show. Covers curatorial issues, installation, and presentation. Assignments are designed to strengthen oral presentation skills, artist's written statement, critiquing abilities, and ability to place work within a larger art historical framework.
Instructor Course Description:
Timea Tihanyi
ART 421 Video Art (5, max. 15) VLPA
ART 427 Special Topics in Surface Design (5, max. 15) VLPA
Advanced art making in the field of surface design. Topics include improvisational silk screening, artist's books, and explorations of non traditional approached in surface design. Prerequisite: ART 227.
ART 428 Senior Thesis in Fiber Arts (5, max. 20) VLPA
Specialized investigation involving surface design and/or fabric structures. Prerequisite: ART 328; ART 329.
Instructor Course Description:
Louise Cabeen
Layne Goldsmith
ART 440 Senior Thesis in Photomedia (5, max. 20) VLPA
Develops of a coherent artistic theme or topic evolved over three consecutive quarters resulting in a finished thesis portfolio. Prerequisite: ART 343. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Ellen J. Garvens
Paul E Berger
Rebecca Cummins
ART 445 Advanced Industrial Design (5) VLPA
Emphasizes solving problems through the manipulation of design theory, application of human factors, appropriate combination of materials and manufacturing techniques, and presentation of concepts. . Prerequisite: ART 318; ART 323.
ART 446 Advanced Industrial Design: Professional Practice (5) VLPA
Collaboration project with the professional design industry. Students learn how industrial designers brainstorm, develop, and refine initial design concepts to final product solutions. Prerequisite: ART 445.
ART 447 Advanced Industrial Design: Degree Projects (5) VLPA
Industrial design project of the student's own choosing, with consent of instructor, to refine problem solving and design ability in preparation for graduate exhibition.. Prerequisite: ART 446.
ART 450 Individual Projects in Printmaking (5, max. 15) VLPA
Individual media study within the context of group discussion and critique.
Instructor Course Description:
Shirley E. Scheier
ART 457 Artist Handmade Books (5) VLPA
The creative and structural development of an artist's book. Focuses on issues of sequential imagery, conceptual development, and the relationship between work and image.
ART 458 Alternative Approaches to Drawing (5) VLPA
Advanced works-on-paper class. Focuses on drawing issues such as formal process, working methods, conceptual development, and practical working applications.
ART 466 Publication Design (5) VLPA
Stresses the research, development, organization, design, and presentation of a complex printed document, such as a journal, annual report, or large publication. Addresses all aspects of design, content, image creation, and production through a quarter-long project. Prerequisite: ART 368; ART 378. Offered: A.
ART 467 Exhibition and Installation Design (5) VLPA
Explores how to communicate powerful messages and stories in three-dimensional space, bringing together typography, imagery, and innovative use of materials and structures. Emphasizes sustainable processes and materials. Prerequisite: ART 211; ART 212. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher Ozubko
ART 477 Type Design (3-5) VLPA
Exploration of contemporary type design.
ART 478 Information Design (5) VLPA
Exploration of strategies for enhancing and visually presenting complex statistics and data. Various information subjects are select and formed into charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, directories and maps. Identify, through personal investigations, the principles which provide the most successful means for presentation of information. Prerequisite: ART 368; ART 378.
ART 479 Interaction Design (5) VLPA
Exploration of design issues unique to user-centered interaction in digital media. Explore a range of formal and conceptual issues including user interface, organization, narrative, motion, time, and sound. Prerequisite: ART 466, ART 478. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Annabelle K Gould
ART 480 Senior Project/Presentation (5) VLPA
Presents an opportunity for advanced, individualized design research and study. Complete a unique capstone project based on individual design interests and prior experiences in the VCD program. Public exhibition of this project is required in the BFA Graduation Exhibition. Prerequisite: ART 467, ART 479. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Annabelle K Gould
ART 481 Design Field Studies (5) VLPA
Students develop an understanding of significant theoretical models related to design through a series of readings, lectures, discussions, and assignments. Prerequisite: ART 211; ART 212.
ART 482 Capstone Design Project (5, max. 10) VLPA
Two-quarter sequence capstone for students in the design studies program. Develop individual projects that address issues of theory and practice in the design field. Students present their projects in a public forum. Prerequisite: ART 381; ART 481.
ART 483 Advanced Interaction Design (5) VLPA
Explores the role of visual interface design and interaction flows in technology-driven work settings. Introduces techniques for knowledge elicitation and design of interactive systems in expert domains or special use contexts to develop interface that are useful, understandable, and usable. Prerequisite: ART 383.
ART 484 Projects in Interaction Design (5) VLPA
Project-based course gives students the opportunity to explore key issues and theories in the field of interaction design. Multi-disciplinary studio requiring collaboration between students from a variety of backgrounds including design, engineering, and computer science. Prerequisite: ART 383; ART 483.
ART 490 Advanced Drawing (5, max. 15) VLPA
Study at an advanced level involving history, practice, and theory of drawing as an art form. Prerequisite: either ART 265 or ART 390. Offered: AWSp.
ART 491 Advanced Drawing Topics (5) VLPA
Revolving topics in the study of drawing at the advanced level. Prerequisite: either ART 390 or ART 391. Not open for credit to students having taken ART 490.
ART 492 Advanced Painting: The Figure (5, max. 10) VLPA
Drawing and painting from the model. Prerequisite: ART 390; ART 392. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Zhi Lin
ART 493 Advanced Painting Topics (5) VLPA
Revolving topics in the study of painting at the advanced level. Prerequisite: either ART 390 or ART 391; either ART 392 or ART 393.
ART 494 Senior Seminar in Painting and Drawing (5, max. 15) VLPA
Development of individuality in painting through creative exercises. Prerequisite: ART 492. Offered: AWSp.
ART 496 Undergraduate Internship (2-5, max. 10)
Faculty supervised fieldwork in art related activities. Credit/no credit only.
Instructor Course Description:
Judith W. Clark
ART 497 Study Abroad-Studio Individual Projects (3-10, max. 20) VLPA
ART 498 Individual Projects-Painting/Sculpture (2-5, max. 15)
ART 499 Individual Projects-Design (2-5, max. 15)
ART 512 Graduate Seminar (3, max. 9)
Instructor Course Description:
David Brody
Patricia A Failing
Louise Cabeen
Norman K Lundin
Paul E Berger
ART 515 Graduate Studio Photomedia (3-15, max. 60)
Photomedia graduate studio and seminar, including readings, discussions, and studio critiques.
Instructor Course Description:
Ellen J. Garvens
Paul E Berger
ART 540 Fiber Arts (3-15, max. 60)
Instructor Course Description:
Louise Cabeen
ART 550 Printmaking (3-15, max. 60)
Instructor Course Description:
Curt W Labitzke
Shirley E. Scheier
ART 553 Ceramic Art (3-15, max. 60)
ART 581 Graduate Seminar in Design (5, max. 30)
Addresses critical issues in design through research, writing, presentations, and discussion. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Andrew H. Davidson
ART 582 Design Graduate Studio (5, max. 40)
Explores a range of ideas and influences in the context of applied design.
ART 590 Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar in Contemporary Practices (5, max. 25)
Constructive forum for developing dialogue and critique in practicum-based setting. Professional development highlights the student's experience.
Instructor Course Description:
Ellen J. Garvens
Jamie Walker
Kurt H. Kiefer
Rebecca Cummins
ART 591 Graduate Studio: Drawing (5, max. 15)
Supervised studio for advanced-level students from various media-based disciplines designed to develop an interest in and familiarity with aspects of drawing. Utilization of various media. Discussion of historical and contemporary issues concerning drawing.
ART 592 Graduate Studio: Painting (3-15, max. 60)
Offered: AWSp.
ART 594 Graduate Seminar in Painting and Drawing (5, max. 15)
Designed as a forum for the presentation and criticism of student work as well as for discussion of contemporary directions in visual art. Credit/no credit only.
ART 595 Master of Fine Arts Research Project (2-5, max. 10)
An independent research project related to and informed by the MFA student's studio work. Final project form may be a lecture, slide presentation, or paper.
Instructor Course Description:
Ellen J. Garvens
Louise Cabeen
ART 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
ART 700 Master's Thesis (*)
