Fine Art & Illustration Studio Course Offerings
for BFA Majors:
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Foundation Courses for all majors:
1110 Foundation Design A basic course in the elements of design and the principles of composition, pictorial space and structure as they relate to image making. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 1130 Color: Theory and Application An exploration of the properties and perception of color and its function in the effective manipulation of visual communication. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. Studio & Fine Arts Related courses: 1200 Introduction to Drawing I Black and white drawing materials, such as pencil, pen, brush and ink, conte, charcoal and chalks, are explored. Students are guided by problems in direct observation, linear and elliptical perspective, space, composition, modeling, and line quality. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 1210 Introduction to Drawing II Prerequisite: ART 1200. New drawing materials are introduced as students work toward exploring the visual world with increasing technical facility, emotional expressiveness and imagination. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 2220 Anatomy and Figure Drawing I The human skeleton and musculature are studied while drawing from the model. Basic proportions and movement of the figure in space are emphasized. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 2230 Anatomy and Figure Drawing II Prerequisite: ART 2220. The figure is studied in detail and used as the basis for experiments in space composition. Students work for emotional expressiveness as well as fluent accuracy and technical facility. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3240 Drawing III Prerequisites: ART 1200, 1210 This course focuses on the activity of drawing through the exploration of a variety of mediums and contemporary processes. While working from the basis of their own thematic and formal concerns, students will be directed through a series of experimental projects that investigate the fabrication of line and its relationship to other media. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 2310 Painting I An introduction to painting composition emphasizing the development of various technical skills. Projects are observation-based and employ perspective, color theory, and process. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 2320 Painting II Prerequisite: ART 1200, 2310. This course builds on the principles of Painting I encouraging investigation into painting’s conceptual, material, and expressive possibilities. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3330 Acrylic Painting Developing a focus in stylistic and content concerns, this investigation pursues a refinement of the student’s directions in painting. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3340 Figurative Painting Developing a focus in figurative concerns, this investigation pursues a refinement of the student’s directions in painting. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 1510 Printmaking I: Relief and Intaglio This course introduces the methodologies and concepts of relief and intaglio printmaking processes. These processes include linoleum and wood cut, found objects, dry point etching and variations of intaglio. Credit: 3 semester hours.Studio fee, $50. 2520 Printmaking II This course introduces the methodologies and concepts of planographic methods of printmaking processes. These processes include stencils, screen-printing, transfer methods, monoprints and variety of newer adaptations, such as polyester plate lithography. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 2530 Printmaking III Prerequisite: Art 1510 and or 2520. This course examines advanced concepts of printmaking processes extending expertise from introductory printmaking. Students will adapt a wider and more complex variety of printing techniques. Emphasis will be placed on individual ideas and content. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3550 Experimental Printmaking Prerequisite: Art 2530. This course encourages further exploration of various printmaking media including digital printmaking. For advanced printmakers. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3565 The Visual Narrative Prerequisites: Foundation and Intermediate courses within the BFA major or minors must be completed. This course will provide a creative and critical forum in which junior and senior level artists of diverse media can work on their own unique narrative projects simultaneously. |
2120 Three-Dimensional Design
The principles of design as applied to three-dimensionalstructural form. Additive, subtractive, constructive and kinesthetic processes are explored. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 2430 Figurative Sculpture An introduction to the principles and practices of figure sculpture. Studio. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee $30 3350 Mixed Media Concerns An advanced level of research pursuing high standards of studio creativity and application. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3110 Professional Portfolio A pre-professional course in which students with clarified career goals refine and perfect their portfolios by emphasizing the needs and concerns of target markets. Business skills, legal, contractual and taxation issues prepare the student for the professional world. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3115 Book Arts Prerequisite: ART 1105 and ART 1510. This course will introduce students to the book as an art form. Emphasis is on visual and conceptual structuring of the book that investigates the interplay between idea and form. Various methods of book construction will be taught along with basic printing techniques encompassing traditional and digital methods that focus on the sequencing of images. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3560 Studio Seminar I This studio course introduces students to methods for independent creative inquiry and artistic production. The course encourages thematically unified projects that are inventive and topical. Credit: 3 semester hours. 3565 Studio Seminar II In this advanced level studio course students will create a body of creative work that responds to evolving issues within society and Contemporary Art. Credit: 3 semester hours. 4953 Independent Study (Art) A semester of independent work in the student’s major field of concentration. (permission of the Department Chair required). Credit: 3 semester hours. 4125 Creative Thesis Restricted registration. Open to senior B.F.A. degree candidates only, upon recommendation of the Chair and Faculty Review Committee. Prerequisite: Completion of 78 art credits. A written statement of intention by each individual, followed by the creation of a major or related body of work in the area of concentration. Credit: 9 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 4909 Internship Restricted registration. Open to senior B.F.A. degree candidates only, upon recommendation of the Chair and Faculty Review Committee. Prerequisite: Completion of all required studio art courses. Students are placed in design studios, advertising agencies, galleries, museums or other institutions concomitant with their career aspirations, where they gain practical experience in real situations under the supervision of working professionals. Credit: 9 semester hours. Courses specific to Illustration: 1270 Illustration I An introductory illustration course that provides students with a basic overview of visual perception; using materials, techniques and the creative application of the principles of art to illustrative problem solving. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 1280 Digital Illustration An introduction to the central features and functions of Adobe Illustrator, the industry’s leading vector-based application that is currently used as an illustration, technical drawing, animation and vector paint program. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee $50. 1290 Introduction to Cartooning A studio course in cartoon and caricature. Students receive experience in the use of materials and techniques in their creative application. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 2240 Drawing for Illustration A course designed to the development and application of drawing skills relative to creative illustration problems. Studio. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 2265 Global Sketchbook This distance learning drawing course enables students to work at their own pace. All course work will be independently achieved and assessed using a distance-learning mode. Credit: 3 semester hours. 2280 Illustration II Prerequisite: ART 1270. A course in advanced illustration that expands upon concepts and techniques acquired in ART 1270. Emphasis on specialized application of illustrative skills: medical, technical, product, anthropological, natural science illustration and illustration as journalism. Credit: 3 semester hours. Studio fee, $50. 3570 Junior Sequential Art Prerequisite:ART 1200, 2220 or permission from Chair based on portfolio review. This course explores the planning, composition and methods of narrative art and image creation, focusing on the development of image layout and methods that bring ideas from roughs to finished forms. 4115 Senior Sequential Art Prerequisite: ART 3570. This course concentrates on the development, design and execution of narrative art for publication across media. |