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Fine Art & Illustration Studio Course Offerings 
for BFA Majors:

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. 

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