2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    May 18, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Studio Art

  
  • ARTS HI - Honors I in Art


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • ARTS HII - Honors II in Art


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • ARTS 1000 - Beginning Drawing


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-1000 is an introduction to observational drawing using gesture, contour, weighted line, and structural line techniques.

  
  • ARTS 1100 - Beginning Painting


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-1100 offers technical training in the use of materials and in the basics of color and composition.

  
  • ARTS 1200 - Beginning Printmaking


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-1200 provides an introduction to printmaking techniques, including intaglio and lithography, as well as issues related to two-dimensional design and content.

  
  • ARTS 1300 - Beginning Sculpture


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-133 explores a wide range of traditional sculpture media and techniques, including carving, modeling, and casting, and introduces issues of three-dimensional design.

  
  • ARTS 1400 - Beginning Digital Arts


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-1400 explores the use of digital media for artistic expression, with a focus on enhancing technical abilities and understanding related issues of design.

  
  • ARTS 2000 - Intermediate Drawing


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-2000 is an intermediate-level drawing rhR course varies in its specific focus. Topics may include figure drawing, color theory, and experimental drawing. This course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.

    Prerequisites: ARTS 1000  
  
  • ARTS 2100 - Intermediate Painting


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-2100 is an intermediate-level course that varies in its specific focus. Topics may include watercolor painting, acrylic painting, encaustic, and collage.  The course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.

    Prerequisites: ARTS 1100  
  
  • ARTS 2200 - Intermediate Printmaking


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-2200 is an intermediate-level course that varies in its specific focus. Topics may include woodcuts & monotypes, combination prints, color intaglio, and book arts.  The course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.

    Prerequisites: ARTS 1200  
  
  • ARTS 2300 - Intermediate Sculpture


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-2300 is an intermediate-level course that varies in its specific focus. Topics may include casting and mold-making, and installation art.  The course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.

    Prerequisites: ARTS 1300  
  
  • ARTS 2400 - Intermediate Digital Arts


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-2400 is an intermediate-level course that varies in its specific focus. Topics may include digital printmaking, video, and web-based media.  The course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.

    Prerequisites: ARTS 1400  
  
  • ARTS 2750 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • ARTS 2751 - Special Topics


    1 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • ARTS 2752 - Special Topics


    2 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • ARTS 2753 - Special Topics


    3 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • ARTS 2760 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • ARTS 2770 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • ARTS 3650 - Digital Arts Internship


    4 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works with a firm or agency focusing on digital arts or graphic design for at least 75 hours This internship will count for the Digital Arts concentration in the Studio Art major,or for the Digital Arts minor Supervision of a member of the Art faculty is required Prerequisite: consent of the art department chair

  
  • ARTS 3750 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • ARTS 3751 - Special Topics


    1 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • ARTS 3752 - Special Topics


    2 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • ARTS 3753 - Special Topics


    3 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • ARTS 3800 - Directed Study


    4 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • ARTS 3801 - Directed Study


    1 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • ARTS 3802 - Directed Study


    2 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • ARTS 3803 - Directed Study


    3 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • ARTS 3850 - Internship


    4 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • ARTS 3851 - Internship


    1 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • ARTS 3852 - Internship


    2 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • ARTS 3853 - Internship


    3 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • ARTS 3900 - Junior Studio Art Seminar


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-3900 is an upper-level studio art seminar focused on a different topic every fall semester, open to all students who have had a previous studio art course, with instructor’s permission, and strongly recommended for junior studio art majors.

  
  • ARTS 4701 - Undergraduate Research


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • ARTS 4800 - Directed Study


    2 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • ARTS 4850 - Internship


    4 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • ARTS 4900 - Senior Studio Art Seminar


    4 Semester Hours
    ARTS-4900 is an upper-level studio art seminar focused on a different topic every fall semester, required of all senior studio art majors.