Art (ART)
ART-100 
Introduction to Art
3 Credits
Lecture: 3 hours per week
Offering: Fall, Spring, and Summer, All Years
This course is designed to create a greater aesthetic understanding and appreciation of the various visual arts. Emphasis will be on painting, sculpture, architecture, and related art forms. When appropriate, gallery tours, films, and visiting artists will be included. A basic understanding of visual art coordinates with the principles emphasized in studio art classes. This course is appropriate for both non-art students and art majors who wish to view art with greater awareness and respond to and evaluate art with approaches that are both objective and critically subjective.
ART-101
Art History from Caves to Cathedrals
3 Credits
Lecture: 3 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course offers a historical survey of visual art from prehistoric societies to the 12th century. Through study of significant works of visual art, including architecture, sculpture, and painting, students develop aesthetic awareness along with an understanding of the societies and cultural contexts pivotal to the development of European and non-European art. This process enables the student to make connections to contemporary society and culture. No prior course or experience with art or history is required.
ART-102
Art History from Da Vinci to Digital
3 Credits
Lecture: 3 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course offers a historical survey of visual art from the 1300s to the present. Through study of significant works of visual art, including architecture, sculpture, painting, and current digital arts, the course emphasizes the struggle to find a universal visual language for a world of changing values, new institutions, and unprecedented diversity. This course develops students' understanding of the interconnections of visual art within diverse societies and cultural contexts. Students learn how creative expression and visual communication relate to contemporary society and culture. No prior course or experience with art or history is required.
ART-111 Drawing I
2 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 4 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course offers beginning experiences in the concepts of composition, line, value, form, perspective and texture, introduced through the use of still life, nature, and the model. The media used include charcoal, conte, pencil, and dry pastels. This course is also fundamental for the Graphic Design program and for transfer programs in fine arts and architecture. The concepts covered in this course will help students develop a visual vocabulary as well as a heightened ability to "see" and respond creatively.
ART-112 Drawing II
2 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 4 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course is a continuation of ART-111 with an emphasis on personal artistic expression and imagery. Students will be exposed to a variety of drawing mediums and approaches to the picture plane. Traditional, as well as contemporary trends in drawing, will be explored.
Prerequisites: ART-111
ART-121 2-D/Design Foundations
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall Only, All Years
This course offers instruction in the design process with consideration of abstract/concrete and intangible/tangible elements. These design elements are explored through various media in two-dimensional problems. ART-121 helps students to channel conceptual thinking and to organize and master skills of the basic elements of art. The course is necessary for the artist/designer in all fields.
ART-122 3-D/Design Foundations I
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Spring Only, All Years
This course offers instruction in the use of basic art fundamentals as applied to three-dimensional art work and the creative concepts evolving from these properties. This course helps students to channel conceptual thinking and organize and master skills of the basic elements of art as they relate to three-dimensional expression. Design II is important for artists and designers in all fields.
ART-180 Plein Air Art
1 Credit
Lecture: 0.5 hours per week, Lab: 1 hour per week
Offering: Summer Only, All Years
This course takes students outdoors to create artwork (weather permitting). The course introduces students to different mediums, their application, and the visual and tactile elements of composition, design, and color. Emphasis will be on visual thinking, exposure to materials, and technical approaches. This is a beginning course that teaches basic skills. Class supplies are to be purchased by the student. The medium selected (drawing, painting, watercolor, etc.) may change each semester. This course does not serve as a prerequisite for any of the Art program classes. This course may be repeated for credit. This course is graded as satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
ART-217 Life Drawing I
3 Credits
Lecture: 2 hours per week, Lab: 3 hours per week
Offering: Spring Only, All Years
This course offers an exploration of various media to develop an artistic understanding of the human form. Emphasis will include both anatomical analysis and interpretive drawing of the undraped and draped model. ART-217 helps to develop eye/hand coordination that is important for careers in applied arts and fine arts.
Pre/Corequisites: ART-112
ART-218 Life Drawing II
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Spring Only, All Years
This course is an exploration in the artistic expression of the draped and undraped human form. Included will be drawing in various media from the model with an emphasis on personal interpretation. ART-218 offers a basis for development in any of the visual arts. The course equally accommodates the gestural artist and the technical illustrator.
ART-231 Beginning Painting I
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course develops competence with the oil paint medium through specific assignments designed to emphasize composition and the fundamentals of painting and color. Attention is given to visual thinking, exploration, exposure to materials, and technical procedures. The course is structured around individual instruction and group critiques. ART-231 helps develop ideas and competence with a creative medium. It promotes the articulation of feelings and objectives through a descriptive visual vocabulary. Class supplies are to be purchased by the student.
ART-232 Beginning Painting II
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course offers additional instruction in the knowledge and understanding of the paint medium with special emphasis on personal development. The course is structured around personal instruction and group critiques. Beginning Painting II encourages divergent thinking and different approaches with the medium through the presentation of abstract concepts. Class supplies are to be purchased by the student.
ART-241 Sculpture I
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course provides an introduction to ideas and materials designed to facilitate the student's response to three-dimensional forms. Emphasis is on concepts of modeling, carving, and constructing. This course promotes confidence for the three-dimensional artist through technical fundamentals.
ART-242 Sculpture II
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course is a continuation of Sculpture I. The course explores problems of greater complexity through both technical and personal involvement. The course further develops the necessary skills for three-dimensional work.
ART-245 Intermediate Painting I
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course is structured to meet students' needs and interests with an emphasis on creative expression and exploration beyond the visual image. The course includes individual instruction and group critiques. It promotes an appreciation for the complexity of the medium and the range of possibilities associated with it. It is intended for the intermediate student who has a firm understanding of the properties and fundamentals of this studio discipline. Class supplies are to be purchased by the student.
ART-246 Intermediate Painting II
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course is a continuation of ART-245. The course focuses on developing students' greater understanding of personal intent, continuing creative expression, and exploration beyond the visual image. The course offers individual instruction and group critiques. Class supplies are to be purchased by the student.
ART-251 Printmaking I
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall Only, All Years
This course explores the relief printmaking processes of woodcut, linocut, wood engraving, and collagraph. Emphasis is on developing compositional and design skills using the various methods, techniques, and exploration of materials. Additional focus will be placed on the historical influence of each medium and its relationship to other artistic expressions. The course is structured around individual instruction, group critiques, lectures/slides, and studio time.
ART-252 Printmaking II
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall Only, All Years
This course provides additional exploration of the relief printmaking process. While concentrating on linocuts and one other medium of choice, the course explores various techniques and methods of printmaking. Focus is on developing compositional and design skills, using color, and developing personal expression. The course is structured around individual instruction, group critiques, lectures/slides, and studio time.
ART-261 Ceramics I
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course introduces the student to wheel-thrown and handbuilt clay forming techniques, ceramic design concepts, and glaze experimentation. Emphasis is on the development of fundamental skills and understanding the creative potential of clay. This course helps develop sensitivity of design and aesthetics for the clay objects used daily. The course enhances an appreciation for the creative process and establishes the student as a designer/craftsperson. This may be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
ART-262 Ceramics II
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course is a continuation of Ceramics I and is structured to develop the creative potential of the student using the medium of clay as a vehicle of communication. The course focuses on continued development of fundamental skills and expressive use of materials. Additional emphasis is placed on establishing individual design criteria and expanding awareness of aesthetic qualities of ceramics as art forms or as utilitarian vessels. This may be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
Prerequisites: ART-261
ART-281 Watercolor I
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course introduces the student to a water-based medium that includes the application of visual and tactile elements and the functions of design. Emphasis will be on visual thinking, exploration, exposure to materials, and technical approaches. Individual instruction and group critiques are utilized. ART-281 helps to develop an appreciation for complexities and the potential for creative expression. Class supplies are to be purchased by the student.
ART-282 Watercolor II
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 5 hours per week
Offering: Fall and Spring Only, All Years
This course offers additional instruction in watercolor design to increase student awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the medium's potential. This course introduces mixed media for the purpose of combining with the watercolor medium. Individual approaches are encouraged and personal development is emphasized. This course helps to develop different approaches and divergent thinking through the presentation of abstract concepts. Class supplies are to be purchased by the student.
ART-285 Professional Practices
3 Credits
Lecture/Lab: 3 hours per week
Offering: Spring Only, Even Years
This course provides instruction in the business of art, guides in the development of portfolios, and requires a final exhibition of students' work. Art students transferring to colleges and universities will prepare portfolios, artist statements, and resumes. Moreover, students will learn about the business of fine art and design and its career options. Each student is expected to conduct both traditional and field research, to select from among artwork completed in previous classes for a strong portfolio, to write an essay that articulates the artwork's focus, and to show selected work in a group exhibition.