ALS-A. Offered each semester. Students learn how to operate tools safely and efficiently, how to construct things with wood and other materials, and how to describe and discuss sculpture and other objects and spaces. The course uses hands-on instruction, readings, slide talks, field trips and discussion. ALS-A. Offered each semester. This course introduces students to black and white photography and to fundamental elements in visual art, as well as to the aesthetics and history of photography and the role of photography in modern culture.
Students learn camera operation, black and white film processing, printing, and print presentation.
Students must provide their own 35 mm camera. With the exception of art majors, credit not allowed also for Physics 120. ALS-A. Offered each semester. In this introductory course that employs handbuilding techniques, the primary emphasis of the class will be the student's imaginative approach in solving visual problems. Included in the course will be clay mixing, kiln loading, various firing procedures, and glaze and surface embellishment.