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C059. Introduction to Visual Language, Design (3 s.h.) (AR) FS
A foundation course in design focusing on the principles,
elements, and technical processes for visual understanding and
creative expression.
C069. Introduction to Visual Language, Drawing (3 s.h.) (AR) FS
A foundation course in drawing focusing on drawing techniques,
conceptual development, and the use of elements of design for
creative expression.
X069. Introduction to Visual Language, Drawing (3 s.h.) (AR) FS
A foundation course in drawing focusing on drawing techniques,
conceptual development, and the use of the elements of design for
creative expression.
C079. Introduction to Visual Language, Painting (3 s.h.) (AR) FS
A foundation course in painting focusing on painting techniques,
conceptual development, and the use of elements of design for
creative expression.
C089. Introduction to Visual Language, 3-D Design (3 s.h.) (AR)
FS
A foundation course in 3-D design focusing on the principles,
elements, and technical processes for visual understanding and
creative expression.
0118. Introduction to Painting (3 s.h.) FS
A foundation course in oil painting with emphasis on visual
elements and painting techniques. This course is required for art
majors.
0119-0120. Painting Workshop (3 s.h. each course) FS
Prerequisites: Art C079 and 0118. Painting for the advanced
student emphasizing individual instruction.
0122. 3-D Structures (3 s.h.) FS
Prerequisite: Art C089. A continuation of three-dimensional
design theory and practice through construction techniques in
wood and other materials. Emphasis on conceptual growth.
0131. Relief Printmaking (3 s.h.) FS
An introduction to basic relief and monotype printmaking,
black/white and color, in wood, linoleum, metal, and various
other materials.
0133. Intermediate Relief Printmaking (3 s.h.) FS
Prerequisite: Art 0131. Continued studies in relief processes
including photographic and digital printmaking, with emphasis on
conceptual growth and individual instruction.
0136. Lithography (3 s.h.) FS
An introduction to drawing, painting, photographic, and digital
printmaking techniques, processes, and image development,
black/white and color, on limestone and plate.
0138. Intermediate Lithography (3 s.h.) FS
Prerequisite: Art 0136. Continued studies in lithographic,
photographic, and digital printmaking techniques. Emphasis is on
conceptual growth and individual instruction.
0140. Introduction to Drawing (3 s.h.) FS
Prerequisite: Art C069. Basic drawing techniques with an emphasis
on work in color pastels.
0143-0144. Intermediate Drawing (3 s.h. each course) FS
Prerequisites: Art C069 and 0140. Drawing as an art form with
emphasis upon disciplined draftsmanship and imaginative
composition.
0145-0146. Drawing Workshop (3 s.h. each course) FS
Prerequisites: Art C069, 0140, 0143, 0144, Art 0145 is a
prerequisite for 0146. Continued drawing experience in a variety
of media.
0153-0154. Painting on Paper (3 s.h. each course) FS
Art 0153 is a prerequisite for 0154. Traditional and contemporary
approaches to painting with watercolor and gouache.
0155. Introduction to Landscape Painting (3 s.h.) SS
This course introduces students to the rich traditions of
painting outdoors. Focus will be on water-based medium.
0156. Advanced Landscape Painting (3 s.h.) SS
For students with some painting and drawing background, the
course emphasizes painting outdoors.
0159. Color Design (3 s.h.) S
Prerequisite: Art C059. An introduction to color design theory
and practice.
0160. Introduction to Computer Imaging (3 s.h.) FS
This course introduces students to the computer as an imaging
tool. The emphasis is on extending one's image-making concepts
and techniques while developing proficiency in PhotoShop,
Illustrator, and Quark Xpress. This course is taught on a
Mac-based platform.
0161. Intermediate Computer Imaging (3 s.h.) FS
This course builds on a student's fundamental knowledge of
PhotoShop, Illustrator, and Quark Xpress to further develop
various methods of working in the digital domain, including the
integration of computer imaging with traditional media. This
course is taught on a Mac-based platform.
0181-0182. Basic Photography in Black/White (3 s.h. each course)
FS
Principles and techniques of camera use, film development,
printing, and presentation. Investigation of visual criteria is
stressed as an integral part of the photographic process. A
simple, adjustable camera is required. Art 0181 is a prerequisite
for 0182.
0183-0184. Photo Workshop (3 s.h. each course) FS
Prerequisites: Art 0181 and 0182. Advanced projects in
photography with emphasis on individual instruction.
0186. Alternative Processes (3 s.h.)
This class provides the opportunity to use photographic media
that fall outside the normal silver based world of black and
white and color photo. These include platinum prints,
hand-applied monochrome emulsions, multiple print bichromate,
laser transfer prints, etc. Aesthetic problems are posed that use
the formal characteristics of these special media to support
image content to best advantage.
0190. Color Photography (3 s.h.)
The basic principles of color photography, including shooting and
printing, are taught through lecture/demonstrations, critiques,
and independent lab and field work; color photography is then
used as a fine art medium to expand the student's personal vision
and create a body of evocative images.
W192. Art Seminar (3 s.h.)
Prerequisites: Art C059, C069, C079, C089, 0140, 0159 and two
printmaking courses. The goal of this writing intensive
upper-level studio course is to help the advanced student find
his/her own voice through independent studio projects and writing
assignments. The class will meet as a group and the instructor
will also meet individually with students.
0193-0194-0195-0196. Independent Study (3 s.h. each course) FS
Prerequisites: Art C059, C069, X069, 0118, 0121, 0140, 0150, and
two printmaking courses. These courses allow the student to
explore an area of study that lies outside regular course
offering, working independently although under the supervision of
a faculty member. All proposals must be approved by the
department chairperson.
0321-0322. Advanced Printmaking (3 s.h. each course) FS
Prerequisites: Art 0131 and 0133, or Art 0132 and 0134, or Art
0135 and 0137, or Art 0136 and 0138. Exploration of advanced
printmaking problems.
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0085. Art in Elementary and Secondary Education (4 s.h.) FS
Examines methods, materials, and current research relating to
today's art education at elementary and secondary levels. A
hands-on challenging one-day-a-week internship reinforces class
discussions and laboratory activities.
0105. Arts in the Elementary School (3 s.h.) FS
Designed to assist elementary classroom teachers in presenting
worthwhile instruction in visual and related arts. Emphasis is on
theory, perception, and creative activities.
0187. Student Teaching (12 s.h.) FS
Students assume responsibility for direction of classes and
lesson planning in both elementary and secondary schools. The
practical experience is enriched through seminar discussions
focusing on the enterprise of teaching.
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C051. The Visual Experience (3 s.h.) (AR) FS
An introduction to art from the position of the observer, the
artist, the scholar, and the critic. Technical demonstrations and
museum trips. Emphasis on an analysis of individual works of art.
C055. Art Heritage Western World I (3 s.h.) (AR) F
Architecture, sculpture, and painting of the ancient world to the
High Renaissance. Historical examination of the impact of social,
economic, and religious conditions; stylistic changes through the
ages; contemporary trends in the perspective of historical
parallels. Field trips.
C056. Art Heritage Western World II (3 s.h.) (AR) S
Architecture, sculpture, and painting from the High Renaissance
to the present. Historical examination of the impact of social,
economic, and religious conditions; stylistic changes through the
ages; contemporary trends in the perspective of historical
parallels. Field trips.
0103. Art of the Film (4 s.h.) F
An introduction to the study of film as a work of art. The
relationship of film to the novel, drama, and modern art
movements. How to "read" a film by an analysis of how
films use images/sounds and inscribe cultural values, such as
images of women, African Americans, marriage, and the family.
0108. History of Photography (4 s.h.)
The photographic process from its inception to contemporary
innovations. Critical approaches to evaluation and interpretation
are also explored.
0115. Late Antique/Byzantine (4 s.h.)
The origins and development of Christian art in the Latin West
from 300 B.C. to 800 A.D. Byzantine art, with emphasis on
architecture and painting in Constantinople.
0116. The Dark Ages (4 s.h.)
Hiberno-Saxon, Merovingian, Carolingian, Ottonian, and Romanesque
art. Manuscript illumination.
0117. Gothic Art (4 s.h.)
The evolution and characteristics of Gothic art, especially in
France, Germany, and the Low Countries, with emphasis on
architecture.
0123. Early Renaissance: Italy (4 s.h.)
Italian art from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci with emphasis on the
Florentine and Venetian schools.
0124. High Renaissance: Italy (4 s.h.)
Painting and sculpture in Italy from Leonardo da Vinci to 1600.
The style of the High Renaissance in Raphael, Michelangelo,
Mannerism, the Venetians-Giorgione, Titian, and Tintoretto.
0125. Northern Art 1300-1600 (4 s.h.)
Late Gothic and Renaissance traditions in France, Germany, and
the Low Countries, with emphasis on 15th century Netherlandish
art and 16th century German painting, sculpture, and graphics.
0130. 17th Century Art, Italy/France (4 s.h.)
Developments from the late 16th through the 18th centuries, with
emphasis on the Caracci school, the Academy, and Poussin, the
creation of the high baroque; by Cortona, Bernini, and Borromini;
and the flowering of the French and Italian rococo.
0131. 17th Century Art: Holland and Spain (4 s.h.)
Baroque art in northern Europe and Spain. Artistic and cultural
relationships among Flanders, Holland, Germany, and the Hispanic
world in the 17th and early 18th centuries, with emphasis on
Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Velasquez. The concept of
"painterliness," the influence of Transaction,
Caravaggio, and the developments of secular painting.
0135. 19th Century Romanticism I (4 s.h.)
European art of the romantic era, 1750 to 1850. Painting,
sculpture, and selected works of architecture in England, France,
and Germany, with attention to such giants as Goya and Canova.
0136. Impressionism (4 s.h.)
Painting in Europe and America during the Impressionist era, from
1850 to 1914: Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissaro.
0140. Historical Epic Films (4 s.h.)
0142. Modern Painting and Sculpture 1900-1940 (4 s.h.)
Covers major movements in the first half of the twentieth century
such as Fauve, Expressionism, Abstraction, fantasy through such
artists as Matisse, Kokoschka, Kandinsky, Picasso, Chagall,
Duchamp.
0143. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (4 s.h.)
This course will study the art of France, the second half of the
19th century, as the origin of modernism. Methodologies such as
feminism, social art history, and psychoanalytic perspectives
will be engaged to analyze the artists and their pictorial work
in a variety of media.
0144. Modern Art 1945 to the Present (4 s.h.)
0146. Modernism and Anti-Modernism (4 s.h.)
Tradition and innovations in the painting of Second Empire France
and the periods just before 1848 and after 1870. The relationship
of naturalism and idealism in the evolution of style. The
painting of Ingres, Courbet, Manet, Rousseau, Couture, Bougerau,
and Gerome.
0147. Cubism and its Influence (4 s.h.)
Traces the invention of cubism by Picasso and its influence on
Futurists in Italy and Cubo-futurists in Russia and the Abstract
painters in Europe and America.
C148. Issues in National Cinema (3 s.h.) (IS)
0150. Symbolism, Dada, and Surrealism (4 s.h.)
Twentieth century movements concerned with the visual expression
of psychological pressures and private obsessions; reflections of
the worlds of the absurd and of fantasy. Nolde, Kandinsky,
Kokoschka, Klee, Duchamp, Chirico, Ernst, and Dali.
0151. American Art (4 s.h.)
From the early limners and sculptors through the colonial period
and the 19th century to abstract expressionism and pop art.
0163. Contemporary American Realism (3 s.h.)
The course will investigate the stylistic meanings of Realism in
the 20th century, after the Modernist period of abstraction.
Questions of content and criticism will be discussed to focus on
the meaning of Realism in the contemporary art world.
0168. Non-Western Arts (4 s.h.)
0171. Chinese Art (4 s.h.)
0177. Philadelphia Museums (4 s.h.) SS
Lectures and several field trips to art museums. The paintings,
sculpture, and other arts visible within the greater Philadelphia
area.
0183. Frank Lloyd Wright (2 s.h.)
America's most creative architectural genius. His building
designs for dwellings, skyscrapers, industrial plants, housing
projects, hotels, theaters, and museums. Also his design of
furniture, glass, fabrics, and other crafts.
0188. Art Criticism 20th Century (4 s.h.)
Major writers, ideologies, and tendencies in art criticism of the
20th century, with attention to the contemporary situation.
C191. Image of America (3 s.h.) (AR)
0195-0196. Independent Study (1-3 s.h.) FS
Intensive study in a specific area under individual guidance.
0201. European Decorative Arts (4 s.h.)
Traces the development of crafts from the beginning to the
Industrial Revolution, focusing on the role of the craft-worker
in his society, the role of the patron, and the style of
different eras. Includes European, Mediterranean, and Islamic
crafts. Field trips.
0215. Japanese Art (4 s.h.)
0278. Art Nouveau (4 s.h.)
The fine and decorative arts in Europe from 1880 to 1914,
including painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as
jewelry, glassware, metalwork, furniture, and posters. Artists
studied include Lautrec, Galle, Horta, Lalique, Klimt, Munch,
Beardsley, Mucha, and Gaudi.
0293-0294/0295-0296. Independent Study (2-4 s.h.) FS
Intensive study in a specific area under individual guidance.
W300. Topics in Art History (4 s.h.)
0303. Islamic Art (4 s.h.)
Form, structure, and meaning in Islamic art and architecture,
from their origins to the Timurid period, including the
decorative arts, viewed in its larger cultural context.
W306. Topics in Art History (4 s.h.)
W308. Topics in Art History (4 s.h.)
0341. Architecture: Historic, Ancient, Renaissance (3 s.h.)
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