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The course introduces students to the basic elements and principles of 3D design (6 lecture-lab hours). Students will develop the ability tp apply these elements and principles to their own design or artwork within the context of a given project. Pre-requisite: ART 13.
Introductory experiences in drawing using observation, imagination, and expressive means. Fundamentals of form, space, techniques, and composition will be studied. G.E. Breadth C1. (6 lecture-lab hours).
Introduction to the history of photography from the early 19th century to the present. Examines contemporary issues in photography and the role of photography as a social commentary on culture as an approach to cultivate lifelong learning.
Introduction to painting processes through creative experiences and critiques. Emphasis on concepts and processes of contemporary painting. G.E. Breadth C1. (6 lecture-lab hours).
Specific lecture area not normally covered in regular course offerings or in art history. Topics may include but are not limited to: African American art, Chicano art, cinema art, urban aesthetics, formalism in art, economics of art, careers in art, portfolio preparation.
Introduces students to the problems of the modern/postmodern debate through first, a historical analysis of structuralism and poststructuralism, and second, the application of these ideas to art production.
Prerequisite: ART 30 & ART 37 or equivalent. Approaches to non-traditional photography and the manipulated image in digital photography with an emphasis on producing personal imagery. (6 lecture-lab hours) (Class fee, $50).
Introductory studio experiences in traditional crafts media in community service-learning settings. Fundamental exploration of several media (e.g. clays, plaster, fibers, leather, wood); understanding materials; historical and cultural context of art products. Field trips required.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Investigation of advanced studio topics selected by the department. Coursework includes studio productions, their critiques and evaluations.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Theories of the visual arts as developed by artists, critics, and philosophers, and their application to art criticism in our time. Oral presentation and defense of critical papers required. Meets the graduate writing skills requirement.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Work individually with selected staff in chosen area of concentration. Concurrent obligation to meet regularly scheduled seminars for group progress reports and critiques.
Prerequisites: 6 units of upper-division art history and permission of instructor. Research problems applicable to art history students or studio artists. Meets the graduate writing skills requirement.
Pre-requisite: Project 298. For continuous enrollment while completing the project. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
Prerequisite: permission of the Art and Design Department graduate coordinator; see Criteria for Theis and Project. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree. Approved for RP grading.
Pre-requisite: Thesis 299. For continuous enrollment while completing the thesis. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
Introductory success strategies for Art and Design students through orientation to university resources, academic skills, and the arts community. Topics include academic skills, time management, wellness, communication, and interacting with arts communities. Internet-assisted. Service-learning and field trips required.
Prerequisite: ARTDS 7A. Intermediate success strategies for Art and Design students through orientation to university resources, academic skills, and the arts community. Topics include academic skills, time management, wellness, communication, and interacting with arts communities. Internet-assisted. Service-learrning and field trips required.
Specific introductory studio processes not covered in regular course offerings. Areas offered may be drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, design, crafts, motion picture, art education, computer graphics, graphic design, and interior design.
Specific lecture area not normally covered in regular course offerings in art, graphic design, or interior design. Topics may include African American art, aesthetics of electronic imagery, careers in art and design, portfolio preparation, interior design, and graphic design.
An introductory survey of the arts of the ancient and medieval worlds, beginning with the Palelitihic and including Near Eastern, Egyptian, and European (Aegean, Greek, Roman, medieval) traditions through the mid-14th century. G.E. Breadth C1.
An introductory survey of Western art from the Renaissance through the 18th century, including Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassicism from the mid-14th century to the end of the 18th century. G.E. Breadth C1.
Specific areas in art history not normally covered in the regular course offering. Possible topical areas include Arts of the South Pacific, Buddhism, Chinese Painting, Happenings, History of Modern Art through Film, Museums and Monuments of Europe, Fountains of Baroque Rome, Popes and Patrons of Renaissance Europe, 17th Century Holland, and the Rise of the Secular in Art.
This course aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the major artistic and architectural manifestations of colonial Mexico and other territories of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from ca. 1520-1820s. Through lectures, readings, multimedia, discussions, we will examine the overseas expansion of the Spanish empire and the role played by the arts in the process of colonization, evangelization, accomodation, and construction of multicultural and multi-ethnic societies in the Novohispanic territories.
The course investigates historical, theoretical and practical issues of Museum Studies considering the history of museums, and the museum's main activities of collecting, exhibiting, and educating. Although the course looks specifically at art museums, the basic principles apply to other types of museums such as history, science and nature. The first part of the course focuses on the history of the museum investigating its social, cultural, and political role from its origin to the present day. The student gains insight into the museum's organizational structure and various museum careers. The second part of the course provides an understanding of museum collections and exhibitions. The discussions focus on the importance of the object, the building and managing of collections and the curating of exhibitions. The final part of the course considers the museum's educational programs in the context of its audiences and various interpretative methods. The course also includes a field trip looking behind the scenes of a local museum.
Artistic revival of classical antiquity in Italy between 1300-1550.
Painting and sculpture from the Netherlands, France, and Germany between 1300-1550.
Baroque art from its conception in Rome to its dispersal throughout Italy from 1600-1750.
Diffusion of Italian Baroque art to the Netherlands, France, Spain, Germany, and Austria between 1600-1750.
A more developed critical look at modern art in its relationship to the needs of the social political context of the 19th century.
A more developed critical look at modern art in its relationship to the needs of the social political context of the 20th century, up to the mid-1950s.
A comprehensive survey of contemporary art focusing on the issue of postmodernism from the mid-1950s onward.
Sculpture, painting, architecture, festivals, and personal adornment of sub-Saharan Africa.
Arts of the indigenous North American cultures from the Arctic to the American Southwest.
Art of the Olmec through the Aztec cultures.
Art of the Chavin through the Inca cultures.
Prerequisites: ARTH 10 and ARTH 11. It is strongly recommended that students complete at least 2 upper-division (100-level) Art History courses before enrolling in ARTH 180. Methods and theories of art historical research and interpretation.
See Academic Placement - Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.
Foundational visual and cognitive organizational processes for the practice of visual communication, presented through lectures and applications through studio exercises. Includes visual perception and organization, visual ideation, and visual problem solving processes techniques and principles. (2 lecture, 2 lab hours) (Course fee, $30).
Prerequisites: ART 13, GD 35. Emphasis on basic skills, theories, and principles of graphic design including photo manipulation and illustration software applications as related to the graphic design field. (6 lab hours). (Formerly GD 40) (Course fee, $30).
Prerequisite: ART 13, GD 37. Exploration and application of layout design and pre-press software as related to the graphic design field through projects encompassing the basic skills, theories, and principles of graphic design.(Course fee, $30).
Prerequisite: GD 35 and GD 41 or concurrently. Advertising and graphic design projects taken through steps from thumbnail sketches through rough layouts to computer-generated comprehensive presentations. Emphasis on evaluation of market and audience and development of aesthetic solutions to communication problems. (6 lab hours) (Formerly GID 142) (Course fee, $30).
Prerequisite: GD 41, GD 42. Introduction to Internet design for graphic designers focusing on Web site structure. Emphasizing on professionally designed, visually integrated Web sites utilizing contemporary software for We design, image creation, and manipulation. (6 lab hours).(Course fee, $30).
Prerequisites: ID 43 or ART 20. Introduction to various traditional drawing and painting techniques. Emphasis on the application of rendering solutions to graphic design problems. (6 lab hours). (Course fee, $5). (Formerly GD 143).
Prerequisites: ARTH 10 and ARTH 11. A survey of characteristic design approaches, solutions, materials, and technologies, their relationship to popular culture and trends, and their social and political history. Course includes lectures and studio projects. (2 lecture and 2 lab hours) (Course fee, $30).
Prerequisite: GD 42, GD 50. An Intermediate web design class for graphic designers. The class focuses on user experience design methods and practices to improve the usability and aesthetic of a user interface. Students will use user experience methods to engineer the whole experience surrounding a digital environment, emphasizing how data-driven research can improve the layout, hierarchy, typography, and color scheme of a user interface.
Prerequisite: GD 41, GD 42 and GD 50. Advanced application and exploration of Web standards-based Web sites design. Emphasis on the aesthetics and structure of Web site development. (6 lab hours). (Course fee, $30).
Prerequisite: GD 41, GD 42 and GD 50. Interactive design for graphic designers. Use of contemporary software to develop professionally designed, visually integrated, interactive graphics and content for Web and multimedia applications. (6 hours) (Course fee $30).
Prerequisite: GD 153. Integration of advanced and complex interactive content for Web and multimedia applications. Emphasis on experimentation and concept development incorporating elements from different thematic structures. (6 lab hours).(Course fee $30).
Prerequisite: GD 153. Application of software to create visually integrated, concept driven motion graphics and interactive web content Web and multimedia applications. Emphasis on research and production on advanced projects. (6 lab hours) (Course fee $30).
Prerequisites: GD 150, GD 155. Collaborative design and development of a real-world digital product for a non-profit partner. Emphasis on the iterative design process loop of research and analysis, prototyping, visual design, and evaluation.
Prerequisite: GD 60 and ART 116. Understanding how illustration functions with text. Experiences in the conceptualization, and organized development of illustrative images, Creative illustrative strategies applied to design situations. (6 lab hours). (Formerly GD 146, Advanced Rendering).
Prerequisite: GD 42, GD 60, and GD 163. Introduction to digital illustration, appreciation of its strengths. Applying basic digital illustration techniques to characteristic graphic design problems and formats. (6 lab hours). (Formerly GD 147, Advertising Illustration) (Course fee $30).
Prerequisites: GD 163, Illustration. Advanced techniques in non-digital illustration. Creative illustrative visual solutions to a range of problems in graphic design, including complex, and abstract subjects. Developing distinctive individual work. (6 lab hours).
Prerequisites: GD 163, and GD 165. Advanced digital illustration techniques. Analyzing and applying components of a visual style. Combining traditional and digital illustrative components. (6 lab hours).
Prerequisite: GD 41 and GD 42. Advanced principles of typography, including design of typefaces utilizing contemporary software. Exploration of sophisticated typographical projects incorporating commercial and student designed fonts. Emphasis is placed upon typographical experimentation. (6 lab hours). (Formerly GD 141) (Course fee $30).
Prerequisite: GD 170. Creation of unique typefaces for use in typographic solutions to projects such as brand identity, packaging design, environmental graphics, and publication design. (Course fee $30).
Prerequisite: GD 41 and GD 42. Examination of the structures of primary/secondary and co-equal communication systems as applied to identity, packaging and other graphic design projects. (6 lab hours). (Formerly GD 142) (Course fee $30).
Prerequisite: GD 174. Examination of the importance of an underlying concept development to successful graphic design solutions. Emphasis placed on the development of strong concepts in projects such as identity applications and environmental graphics. (6 lab hours) (Course fee $30).
Prerequisite: GD 171 and GD 175. Advanced projects in packaging with emphasis on the application and exploration of the socio-cultural, physical, and legal requirements of packaging systems. (6 lab hours) (Course fee $30).
Prerequisites: GD 176 and GD 178, or GD 155 and GD 157, or GD 167 and GD 169. Advanced exploration of the fields of graphic and advertising design, and the standards and practices common in advertising agencies and design studios. Covers workplace structures, time and record-keeping, estimating, self-promotion, and working with vendors and employees. (6 lab hours). (Formerly GD 149) (Course fee $30).
Prerequisites: (GD 176 and GD 178), or (GD 155 and GD 157), or (GD 167 and GD 169). Organization and creation of a professional portfolio. Advanced approaches and production of various media and professional applications including practices encompassing the portfolio, exhibitions and competitions. (6 lab hours).
Aesthetic and functional aspects of interior design. Integration of design principles: color, space planning, furniture selection, creative expression, product information, and design process.
Prerequisites: ID 43. Computer graphics. Topics include 2D/3D digital graphics (digital) photographic editing and illustration, typography, computer/web graphics, presentation and communication. (6 lab hours).

References: ART 13
 ART 30
 ART 37
 ART 13
 ART 13
 ART 20
 ART 116