This studio course provides an introduction to the materials and techniques of basic drawing. It develops observational skills while exploring aesthetic issues that pertain to drawing. The course covers a range of techniques and media and includes still life, landscape, and portraiture. Lab Fee
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Lecture, Web
This studio course introduces the concepts of three-dimensional art and includes technical and historical information. Studio assignments explore the elements, principles, and basic construction of 3- dimensional forms and structures. Lab Fee
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Lecture
This studio course focuses on drawing the human form. It uses live models, the skeleton, and a variety of drawing media for gesture and for short and long poses. It emphasizes basic anatomy, structure, and proportion. Lab Fee
Pre-requisite(s): FIAR 1000
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Lecture
This course introduces the origins and historical development of art. It emphasizes the relationship of design principles to various art forms, including but not limited to sculpture, painting, and architecture.
Schedule type: Independent Study, Lecture, Web
This studio course introduces the basic principles, media, and techniques of painting. It emphasizes the development of understanding color mixing, exploration of form, content and space while working from realistic and abstract subject matters. It includes technical and historical information and uses a survey of selected painting traditions to build visual vocabulary. Lab Fee
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Lecture
This studio course provides an introduction to basic techniques for the forming, firing, and surfacing of clay. It includes technical and historical information. Students complete hand-building projects that further their individual technical and creative skills. Lab Fee
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Lecture
This studio course provides an introduction to basic techniques for forming, firing, and surfacing clay. It includes technical and historical information. The course emphasis will be in the use of the pottery wheel. Lab Fee: $20.00 (Fees are subject to change) 2.00 Lecture Hours 4.00 Lab Hours 3.00 Credit Hours Transferable
Pre-requisite(s): FIAR 1700
Schedule type: Independent Study
This studio course introduces students to the fundamental tools of digital photography. Students will receive instruction in manual camera function, picture making techniques, photographic composition, editing and image control, digital image correction, image output and basic photography history. **This course requires students to have an approved camera with full manual functions and Camera Raw capabilities** A lab fee is required for this course.
This studio course is intended to introduce students to basic digital imaging manipulation skills within the Fine Art context of creative expression. Focus on digital imaging manipulation techniques learned within a raster-based environment, primarily including the fundamentals of various special effects, filters, layers, and masks used to explore the creation of artistically expressive images. Students will use current computer-imaging software to create original art in a variety of final output formats. Hardware and image input processes are also discussed. Lab Fee: $20.00 (Fees are subject to change) 2.00 Lecture Hours 4.00 Lab Hours 3.00 Credit Hours Transferable
This studio course provides an introduction to a wide variety of printmaking processes. Topics include relief, intaglio, lithography, and mono printing. Students focus on the comprehension of techniques and materials, and the relationship to the printed image and visual concepts. Lab Fee: $20.00 2.00 Lecture Hours 4.00 Lab Hours 3.00 Credit Hours Transferable
This studio course is an exploration of basic screen printing techniques with emphasis on preparing screen-process stencils (photo and hand-cut film stencil), drawing fluid, color registration, and photo emulsion processes. Students will develop a series of a range of single, and multiple colored-run edition prints while exposed to various techniques for making silkscreen prints and basic mastery of these processes. Students are encouraged to investigate their own interests, conceptual ideas in terms of content, and image making in the printing. Lab Fee (Fees are subject to change)
This studio course emphasizes the enhancement of technical skill while developing representational and subjective drawing using various media and techniques. Lab Fee
Pre-requisite(s): FIAR 1000
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Lecture
This course traces the history of art from antiquity through the Middle Ages with a focus on visual analysis.
Schedule type: Independent Study, Lecture, Web
This course covers the history of art from the Renaissance to the 21th Century with special attention to visual analysis.
Schedule type: Independent Study, Lecture, Web
This studio course introduces the basic techniques and processes of watercolor. Students work from realistic and abstract subject matters to develop an understanding of color and to explore form, content and space. Lab Fee
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Lecture
2.00 Lecture Hours 4.00 Lab Hours 3.00 Credit Hours Lab Fee Transferable Level: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture/Lab, Independent Study
Schedule type: Independent Study
Lab Fee 2.00 Lecture Hours 4.00 Lab Hours 3.00 Credit Hours Transferable Level: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture/Lab, Independent Study
Schedule type: Independent Study