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22-1040 Ceramics for Non-Majors
This course includes studio work, slide presentations, and discussions of traditional and contemporary use of clay that introduce students to various methods of forming and finishing work. Hand building, glazing, and firing are covered.
3 Credits
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22-1042 Jewelry and Objects for Non-Majors
This course introduces students to concepts and design practices to enable realization of objects using metals. Basic technical skills including fabrication, soldering, stone-setting, coloring, finishing, and cold joining will be introduced. Through a series of class projects, students will explore jewelry, objects, and sculpture.
3 Credits
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22-1101 History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic
This course introduces the history of art until the end of the Middle Ages. Various periods, including the Stone Age, Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Early Christian, Byzantine, Early Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic, will be studied in relationship to the Western art tradition. The art of Asia, the Americas, and Africa may also be surveyed. Students will gain an appreciation of the aesthetic values of these cultures and an understanding of the historical, socio-political, religious, and other contexts for the creation of art.
3 Credits
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22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
This course introduces the history of art from the Renaissance to the Modern period. European art of the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Romantic eras will be studied, as will the artistic movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. The art of Africa, the Americas, and Asia during the same time period may also be surveyed. Students will gain an appreciation of the aesthetic values of these cultures and an understanding of the historical, socio-political, religious, and other contexts for the creation of art works. This is a continuation of History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic, but can be taken independently.
3 Credits
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Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1101 History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic
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22-1120 Art in Chicago Now
This course surveys contemporary art in Chicago. This will be facilitated through field trips to major museums, galleries, and artist studios, and by lectures by visiting artists and critics. Familiarity with current discourse through art publications will be stressed. A historical context will be developed through slide lectures about the recent history of Chicago art. The art market or business of art will also be discussed. Much of the class time will be conducted outside the College.
3 Credits
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22-1131 History of Architecture I
This course uses the study of architecture to reveal human thought and aspirations and begins by examining ancient Egyptian architecture continuing through the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical periods. Focus is on Western architectural forms. Through the context of examining architecture, instruction touches on interiors, decorative arts, and furniture.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
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22-1132 History of Architecture II
This course uses the study of architecture and building techniques to reveal human thought and aspirations by focusing primarily on Western cultures. Through the context of architecture, the disciplines of interior design and the decorative arts are also touched upon. Covered time period spans from the precursors of modern architecture to the 21st century architecture of today.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1131 History of Architecture I
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22-1140 Architecture in Chicago Now
3 Credits
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22-1210 Drawing I
This course teaches students how to represent accurately and proportionately objects, planes, and volumes by developing hand-to-eye coordination with line and tone, wet and dry media. Basics of perspective are covered in various exercises augmented by critiques, slide lectures, and discussions.
3 Credits
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22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design
This course teaches students to organize visual images by acquiring understanding of visual elements, line, shape, tone, texture, and volume. Students examine and apply design principles such as repetition, variety, and movement. Emphasis is on simple graphic skills. Required for all Art and Design majors; course is also useful for nonmajors.
3 Credits
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22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
This course focuses on use of basic design principles and elements in developing 3-D compositions. Students use modular theories and systems as well as intuitive responses to manipulate a variety of materials. Projects are designed to heighten students’ perceptions of forms in space. This course is required for all Art and Design and Photography majors.
3 Credits
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22-1250 Scale Model Fabrication: Making Models of Interior and Exterior Spaces
Workshop course introduces students to the skills necessary to create small-scale models for use in studio or gallery presentations, installations, proposed onsite sculpture, and more. It also is an important tool for visualizing scale, proportion, and the conception of projects. Course is intended primarily for those in the Fine Arts curriculum; however, it will benefit those in other concentrations as well. This two-day workshop will cover a few basics of professional model making for applications in both indoor and outdoor spaces.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-1255 Display Structures for Your Work
Workshop course will teach students necessary fabrication techniques and skills required to build pedestals, plinths, and shelving to display objects. This workshop focuses on display structures needed by Fine Art students, but will benefit other students as well.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-1270 Jewelry Workshop
Workshop course explores the qualities of enameling in which students combine techniques of jewelry and metalwork to add texture, color, and form. Techniques taught include Limoge, cloisonné, and grisaille. A fine arts background or previous jewelry course benefits students enrolled in this course.
1 Credits
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22-1271 Fine Art Workshop: Frame & Stretcher
Workshop course teaches students how to build canvas stretchers and picture frames using the equipment in the Art and Design Department’s Wood Shop. Course goal is to enable students to become more self-sufficient in presenting their work (paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, etc.). Each student produces between five and 10 museum-quality canvas stretchers and picture frames. Students are also introduced to archival matting and mounting techniques.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-1275 Digital Video Editing Workshop for Artists
Three-day workshop course teaches Art and Design students the fundamentals of shooting and editing digital video. The workshop will be extremely useful not only for learning how to create original work in video format, but also for learning how to document work that does not transfer well to more static forms such as slides or photographs.
1 Credits
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22-1276 Workshop in Printmaking Techniques
Two-day workshop course teaches established and innovative printmaking techniques as part of a rotating sequence of introductory workshops on methods and techniques. Each workshop presents a specific printmaking technique through demonstrations and studio practice. Students produce sample prints and are introduced to current literature and resources on the subject. The workshop facilitates independent use of the print studio and is taught by specialist instructors who hold expertise in the various printmaking media.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1210 Drawing I
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22-1281 Workshop in Spatial, Object, and Sculptural Techniques
Workshop course introduces students to materials, fabrication, and manipulation techniques for spatial, object, and sculptural designs and compositions. Each workshop presents techniques through demonstrations and projects to develop studio practice. Students produce test pieces, prototypes, and explore concepts and theory relative to specific methodologies shown in examples of contemporary practice. Workshops facilitate independent use of facilities available for small metals, plastics, plaster, wood, ceramics, soft materials, fibers, kinetics, assemblage, or 3-D modeling. Instructors have expertise in each particular media.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites COREQUISITES: 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-1285 Anatomical Modeling
This course focuses on developing a greater understanding of the human form, as well as building on principles of 3-D design and creating forms in space. Students work from live models and learn anatomy, clay modeling, mold making, and casting, as well as connecting drawing and conceptual, perceptive skills to sculpture.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-1310 Beginning Typography
This course allows students to investigate the basic aspects of letterforms and typography through a variety of projects. Students are exposed to the historical background, technical and aesthetic issues, and communicative abilities of typography as individual forms and as text.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design CONCURRENT: 22-1320 Design Lab
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22-1320 Design Lab
This course covers digital typesetting, layout, and image editing techniques for graphic design, illustration, and advertising. Topics covered include digital document construction and layout, typography formatting and specification, digital image editing, and application.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design CONCURRENT: 22-1310 Beginning Typography
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22-1330 Information Design
This course teaches students the basic principles and practice of information design. Students will investigate, design, and test visual processes; develop information systems; map data; graph paths; and create interactive displays.
3 Credits
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22-1390 Special Issues in Design
This course explores current issues, technical procedures, and design practices in workshops led by noted designers in thesis guest lecture/discussion/studio series.
1 Credits
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22-1490 Special Issues in Illustration
This course allows students to work with a visiting illustrator to solve a particular illustration problem. Students learn specific technical and creative problem-solving methods from a leading illustrator in Chicago.
1 Credits
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22-1590 Special Issues in Advertising
This course involves visiting art directors, copywriters, and account executives examining a current trend in advertising strategies related to advertising design. Visiting instructors are working professionals in Chicago’s top advertising agencies.
1 Credits
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22-1700 Product Design I: Materials and Techniques
This course is intended for all Product Design majors. Instruction focuses on general theories of design, including problem definition, articulation, and resolution. Students study methodologies and historical case studies that look at the development of successful products from the standpoint of markets, manufacturing, and cultural concerns. Through class projects, students explore issues of function, cognition, and aesthetics in context with the various product types. MAY BE TAKEN CONCURRENTLY: 22-1220 FUNDAMENTALS OF 2D DESIGN, 22-1210 DRAWING I
3 Credits
Requisites CONCURRENT: 22-1701 Product Design: Drawing I COREQUISITES: 22-1701 Product Design: Drawing I
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22-1701 Product Design: Drawing I
This course focuses on systematic drawing systems as key communicators of design intent across a variety of contexts: designers, marketers, engineers, and independent clients. With each context comes a different type of drawing requirement. The course emphasized the following drawing systems: orthographic projection, paraline projection, and perspective with a focus on the connection between drawing, thinking, and innovating. Students will gain an understanding of the fundamental importance of sketching as a presentation and an ideation tool. Class content includes overviews of all drawing systems as well as techniques for rapid ideation, product documentation, rendering, and presentation.
3 Credits
Requisites CONCURRENT: 22-1700 Product Design I: Materials and Techniques
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22-1705 Product Design II: Design Paradigms
This course focuses on the idea of design paradigms (or models of existing solution types) within design and builds the students’ awareness of this critical methodology for solving problems by breaking the issues down to the most elemental nature. Through a series of lectures and small projects, students are exposed to the nature of paradigms and their flexible capabilities for multiple applications to various design problems.
3 Credits
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22-1710 Introduction to CAD for Product Design
This course focuses of fundamentals on 3-D parametric solid modeling. Students learn this industry-standard software through carefully paced tutorial exercises and hands-on development of different product types and geometry. Instruction provides an overview of sketching and manual drafting and historical development of computer-aided design.
3 Credits
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22-1800 Interior Architecture/ Design Theory I
This course introduces theoretical principles and nomenclature of architecture and interior architecture. Course examines historical, practical, and psychological influences through readings and special emphasis on basic elements of design (space, form, and order); aesthetics; and typology of space.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1810 Interior Architecture:Drawing I and 22-1811 Architectural Draft and Detailing I
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22-1810 Interior Architecture:Drawing I
This course will stress the fundamentals of drawing and composition pertaining to Interior Design. Problems of how objects and spaces are depicted by line, volume, texture, shade, and shadow and utilize a variety of drawing methods, including perspective, freehand sketches, and surface modeling. These exercises, using a variety of media and materials, are augmented by critiques, lectures, and discussions.
3 Credits
Requisites CONCURRENT: 22-1811 Architectural Draft and Detailing I
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22-1811 Architectural Draft and Detailing I
This course provides exposure to the vocabulary, drawing conventions, and principles of small building construction. Lectures, slides, and examples of construction drawing expose students to simple structural systems, building and finishing materials, simple cabinetry, and other construction issues. Students draft and detail a simple set of construction drawings.
3 Credits
Requisites CONCURRENT: 22-1810 Interior Architecture:Drawing I COREQUISITES: 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design
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22-1819 Sources and Materials
This course includes lectures, discussion, and field trips to showrooms, manufacturers, and suppliers, and exposes students to discovery of new and classical interior design furnishings and architectural appointments.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1820 Color for Interiors CONCURRENT: 22-2801 Design Studio II
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22-2043 Advanced Jewelry and Objects for Non-Majors
This course encourages personal expression through the creation of wearable art, jewelry, objects, and sculpture. Building on the foundations taught in Jewelry and Objects for Non-Majors, students learn a variety of techniques including etching, enameling, and forming. Non-traditional materials are also explored. Critiques and class discussions are an important component. Conceptual ideas are discussed and encouraged with each project while emphasizing skilled craftsmanship and aesthetics.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2042 or 22-2242 or 22-1042 Jewelry and Objects for Non-Majors
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22-2100 History of European Art: Topics
3 Credits
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22-2130 American Art, 1840-1940
This course covers major trends in American art and how they are interpreted in painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts. Topics include Luminism, Heroism, Mysticism, Symbolism, the Columbian World Exposition, Impressionism, the Armory Show, Cubism, the Ashcan School, Regionalism, Surrealism, and the New Realism.
3 Credits
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Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1101 History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic and and 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 22-1101 History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic and 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern and 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 22-1101 History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic and 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern and 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 22-1101 History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic and 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
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22-2135 Black Visual Culture
This course examines global visual culture, analyzing issues of class, status, gender and sexuality that historically and currently inform competing notions of blackness within the public sphere.
3 Credits
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22-2140 Latin American Modernisms
This course explores modern visual, literary, and cinematic cultures in Latin America. It follows the various currents of the modern that emerged between the late nineteenth century and 1980, focusing on the cultural production from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico. A special point of interest will be the convergences and divergences with Euro-Ameican modernism as well as hemispheric dialogues.
3 Credits
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22-2141 Art and Ritual
This course examines the relationship between art and ritual through diverse examples from many parts of the world and many time periods, including contemporary art. Art and ritual have been closely connected ever since the earliest works of art were created in the Old Stone Age. How has art been used in rituals related to spiritual beliefs, healing, the life cycle, political power, social cohesion, and personal identity? What is the process by which art embodies, represents, or transforms spiritual and other beliefs in rituals? These and other questions will be addressed through lectures, class discussions, films, and field trips.
3 Credits
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22-2142 Art of India
This course covers four thousand years of art on the Indian subcontinent. Course begins with the Indus Valley Civilization and then follows the development of painting, sculpture, and architecture created for the region’s varied religions and rulers. Course concludes with modern and contemporary Indian art, with an emphasis on how it relates to the past. Indian religious, royal, and popular art forms will be examined in terms of their style, iconography, and meaning in context.
3 Credits
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22-2145 Arts of Africa
This course introduces the arts of Africa south of the Sahara Desert, including sculpture, painting, textiles, architecture, pottery, metalwork, and body arts. Material spans 2,500 years of art history, including the works of contemporary artists. Several ethnic groups and individual artists are highlighted to explore these major themes: the relationship between art and African culture, religion, and politics; the role of the artist in African society; and changes in African art over time.
3 Credits
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22-2170 History of Communication Design
This course introduces graphic design, advertising, and illustration students to the history of visual communication, including text and image. Lectures, slides, and discussions focus on the work of important practitioners in the field and on the historical and cultural significance of design, technology, and innovation.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
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22-2172 Design Culture Now
This course presents a history of the way the designed world around us looks now. Instruction emphasizes current graphic design, advertising, architectural and interior design, fashion, and product design, with attention also paid to the history and technologies that have led to the present. Design’s relation to popular culture and fine art will also be discussed. Course is required for the BA in Art and Design.
3 Credits
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22-2190 Special Topics Workshop in Art History
Workshop topics rotate to offer coverage of material, opportunities, methodologies or career strategies that might not included in permament course offerings.
1 Credits
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Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
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22-2211 Contemporary Issues in Drawing
This course introduces current themes in drawing and its historical antecedents. Technical issues will be discussed and practiced through a variety of materials, methods, and imagery. Students will produce a series of drawings in a wide variety of styles and media. Through studio activity, exhibition attendance, and readings, this course will introduce students to the discipline of drawing as currently practiced and prepare them for more rigorous exploration. Students learn basic techniques of building form, representing visual concepts, texture and color.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern and 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-2220 Contemporary Issues in Painting
This course will introduce current themes in painting and its historical antecedents. Technical issues will be discussed and practiced through a variety of materials, methods, and imagery. Students will produce a series of paintings in a wide variety of styles and media. Through studio activity, exhibition attendance and readings, course will introduce students to the discipline of painting as currently practiced and prepare them for more rigorous exploration. Students learn basic techniques of underpainting, mixing, blending, building form, composition, and concept with effective use of texture and color.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern and 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-2251 Contemporary Issues in Sculpture
This course introduces material, techniques, and conceptual methods to develop students’ art-making practices. Contemporary sculpture is increasingly diversified, including object-making and other spatial art forms. Artists as visual communicators use many approaches and attitudes to articulate and disseminate ideas. Exercises, projects, and collaborative class work lead through concept development, choice-making, execution, presentation, and critique. Students will consider their own role regarding contemporary issues of audience, artistic attitude, desired mission, and social awareness as they develop their studio practice.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design and 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
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22-2253 Mural Design Strategies
This lecture and lab class will expose students to the history of Muralism, its theories and strategies. In the lab sessions, students will apply the procedures they have learned to design and create four small-scale finished mural studies for their portfolios.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design
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22-2258 Contemporary Issues in New Media
This course provides students with opportunities to explore new art forms in both a studio and discussion context. Students create performance, installation, and site-specific works dealing with issues of time and space in non-traditional ways. Video (including access to a computer-based digital editing suite), sound, performance, site-specific installation, photography, non-material approaches, and other contemporary means of communication are possible media. This class is required for all Fine Arts majors in both the BA and BFA programs in the Art and Design Department.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern and 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-2330 Introduction to Graphic Design
This course introduces students to graphic design as a form of visual communication through the use of type, image, form, and color. Projects explore design processes in two and three dimensions, visual identity and communication, thematic structure and hierarchy, creative problem solving, and basic design practice of critiques and discussion.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1320 Design Lab and 22-1310 Beginning Typography COREQUISITES: 22-2170 History of Communication Design
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22-2331 Introduction to Graphic Design for Photography Majors
This course introduces graphic design principles and processes to Photography majors. Students will explore the creative thinking, problem-solving, and articulation of visual concepts and ideas as applied in graphic design. Projects and class lectures will explore design technique and organization, typography use and principles, page organization and structure, image making and editing, current equipment, and computer systems and softwares used in the design field.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design
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22-2400 Illustration Introduction: Lecture
This course covers and analyzes the origins of contemporary illustration. course examines, from a historical perspective, illustrators, illustration trends, styles, and techniques from print to animated motion pictures. Significant illustrators and illustrations are featured throughout the semester. Course objective is to gain a better appreciation of illustration and its origin. Students learn to analyze how illustration has reflected and influenced our society and culture today.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2420 Applied Drawing CONCURRENT: 22-2415 Illustration Introduction: Studio
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22-2414 Figure Drawing
This course teaches students skills in representing the human form using a variety of materials, by concentrating on proportion, light, shape, and movement. Slide discussions of master figure drawings set examples and standards.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1210 Drawing I
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22-2415 Illustration Introduction: Studio
This course covers the fundamental process of illustration from conceptual development to application of traditional and digital media for books, magazines, journals, posters, and storyboards. The objective of the course is to develop, from a historical perspective, the fundamental understanding of illustration as a form of visual expression. Students learn to comprehend the basic principles of illustration as a form of communication.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2420 Applied Drawing CONCURRENT: 22-2400 Illustration Introduction: Lecture
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22-2420 Applied Drawing
This course examines theories of drawing, enabling the student to represent a visual concept, emphasizing visual form and construction of an object in space. The class explores various types of media to solve problems.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-2510 Advertising Art Direction: Introduction
This course provides a survey of advertising principles from conception through production and places emphasis on creating an advertising idea for a product. Students learn how to develop and present their ideas from thumbnail to finish.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1320 Design Lab and 22-1310 Beginning Typography
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22-2705 Intermediate CAD for Product Design
This course examines the design of intermediate level mechanical parts and assemblies within 3-D solid parametric software. Students learn to create complex geometry through the use of lofts and sweeps. Students study in greater detail what goes into the construction of manufactured parts and approach the process of computer-aided design from a systematic point of view. Explorations of design databases and complex rendering techniques are also a key component of the course.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2710 Product Design III: Product Semantics
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22-2715 Advanced CAD for Product Design
This course focuses on complex modeling processes, including the development of complex parts, assemblies, and core and cavity molds. Students develop skills for creating animations of complex assemblies and for exploring moving parts with simulation software. Students learn to use software for the final documentation as well as for concept development. Students also look at the integration of various software to create a robust design database and to complete final presentations in a variety of formats.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2705 Intermediate CAD for Product Design
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22-2720 Form Analysis for Product Design
This course focuses in depth on issues of form-appropriateness for user-centered design and manufacturing. Relying on case studies of a broad array of products, instruction exposes students to issues of ergonomics, kinesthetics, material selection, design for disassembly (DFD), and other issues that determine the interrelation of form, function, and production. Course is structured as a seminar with a smaller studio component where the principles discussed may be applied in shorter practical design projects.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1705 Product Design II: Design Paradigms
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22-2725 Interaction Design
This course introduces students to the complex issues involved in interaction design. Through a series of projects and readings, students explore a variety of design issues involving the navigation of complex data as well as the physical interaction of devices intended to assist in that navigation. Students create prototypes of their own hand-held digital devices to explore the ergonomic as well as the physical mapping of issues involved. Students learn a variety of quick prototyping processes for physical models in addition to using software such as Macromedia Director and Flash to virtually prototype the interface. Course is intended to look at the interconnection between the physicality and the virtuality of digital devices.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1210 Drawing I or 22-1701 Product Design: Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-2735 Technical Illustration
This course builds on Product Design: Drawing I by introducing students to vector-and raster-based approaches to rendering concepts. In the product development cycle, sketching comes first, followed by physical form models or rendered concepts to add a level of realism and greater comprehension of an idea. This process formerly done with markers and other media is now largely accomplished digitally. The student is introduced to a number of digital strategies to take a sketched concept and develop it into a fully realized rendered image using vector-and raster-based software. Students learn the fundamentals about lighting as they pertain to a full array of product surfaces ranging from wood and metal to plastic, ceramic, and rubber. This is a technical studio with an emphasis on learning the necessary skills to create professional quality product renderings. Software includes Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1701 Product Design: Drawing I or 22-1210 Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-2740 Toy Design
This course introduces students to the fundamental issues of designing products for the toy industry. Students are introduced to brainstorming around existing product niches, emerging technologies, or mechanical movements. Students are also introduced to the ideation process through sketching, modelmaking, and prototyping and presentations. Course assignments cover a broad range of toy markets from educational to plush toys to action toys and novelty products. This is an extraordinary course intended to give students the opportunity to design particularly for the toy industry while focusing on many of the traditional skills a product designer needs.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1210 Drawing I or 22-1701 Product Design: Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-2745 Introduction to Exhibition Design
This studio course deals specifically with issues relating to designing exhibitions: museum, trade-show, and gallery. The focus of the course is on the multiple issues pertaining to the realization of functional exhibition spaces from the standpoint of environmental graphics, space planning, and fixture design. This course is designed to be interdisciplinary and to involve a graphic and spatial component in the process. The studio will involve a combination of theoretical and practical issues.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1210 Drawing I or 22-1701 Product Design: Drawing I and 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design and 22-1230 Fundamentals of 3-D Design
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22-2814 Topics in Portfolio Graphics: Photoshop Illustration
This course is a tutored lab in which students work on thesis projects, design class projects, or use other interior design computer-related material. Class utilizes an unstructured approach in which subject matter is determined by needs of students. Reviews and customized tutorials are offered. Students must use class time working on some aspect of computer-aided drafting.
1 Credits
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Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1813 AutoCad Fundamentals
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22-2939 Introduction to Artists’ Books
Studio course introduces the tools and techniques of book construction as well as the conceptual possibilities and concerns of the book as a significant contemporary art form. Students will construct a variety of blank book models, learn simple image transfer techniques, and produce their own artists’ books.
3 Credits
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22-2960 Color Strategies
This course examines the study of traditional color theory in depth along with modernist color applications. The basic text sources for the course are Johannes Iten’s The Elements of Color and Joseph Alber’s The Interaction of Color. Many of the color exercises taught at the Bauhaus will be a foundation of the class. Students will be able to orient their color thinking towards their major area of study throughout the semester.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1220 Fundamentals of 2-D Design
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22-3042 Jewelry and Object Strategies for Non-Majors
This course teaches advanced processes in the design and making of body ornaments, sculpture, and objects. Techniques including forming, fabrication, patination, and mechanisms will be learned. Development of individual creative projects in addition to the application of design principles will be emphasized. Contemporary issues and history in the field of metals and jewelry design will be addressed.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2043 Advanced Jewelry and Objects for Non-Majors
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22-3100 Special Topics in Art History:
Course focuses on specific topics, themes, ideas, or periods in the history of art. Each semester this course covers different material that might not be included in the permanent course offerings or concentrates on new or experimental approaches to issues in art history.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
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22-3105 Dada, Surrealism, Futurism
Course surveys the avant-garde art movements of the early 20th century with particular focus on Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism. In keeping with the experimental flavor of the art produced by these movements, course has an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and comparison of painting, sculpture, typography, music, fashion, performance, film, photography, and writing. Course also provides a historical frame for understanding the experiments and investigations of the avant-garde artists who challenged and redefined the traditions of European art in response to social conditions of mechanization and war.
3 Credits
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Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English
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22-3120 Thesis Practicum in Art History
This is the final course for Art History majors and builds upon the methodological and professional foundations laid in the Advanced Seminar in Art History. Based on his/her investigations and interactions with the instructor, other faculty members, and fellow students, each student will produce a substantive research-based thesis of academic writing on a topic area of his/her choosing. The class will organize and formally present their research at the Art History Manifest Symposium, a public event, which will be held at the end of the year.
3 Credits
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22-3190 Senior Seminar in Art History
This is the first semester of the two-part Art History Capstone. This course examines the disciplinary foundations, historiography, and major issues of art history and explores the various methodological approaches used in the field. Students will focus on further developing their skills in critical reading and academic writing. In addition, students will be exposed to the conventions and professional practices of art history, will work on elements of their professional portfolio, and will learn about careers related to art history.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-3110 Twentieth Century Art Theory
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22-3211 Drawing Strategies
Course allows students to deal with contemporary concepts of art, applying their knowledge of representation and compositions to develop thinking and creative expression with varied media.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2259 BFA Review in Fine Art
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22-3221 Painting Strategies
This course will continue to explore art historical and contemporary developments in painting techniques, processes, and concepts. Projects will focus on developing individual painting skills and conceptual growth. Emphasis will be on the position and context of painting in the wider spectrum of contemporary art practice.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2259 BFA Review in Fine Art
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22-3223 Senior Fine Art Studio II
Senior Fine Art Studio II provides an intensive studio-based experience and ensures the completion of the student’s final body of work before their participation in the Fine Art BFA show, and provides the benefit of concentrated faculty input. The development of sustained, self-directed studio practice is a central aspect of the development of a professional practice. Students will meet both as a group to share goals and progress and individually with the instructor throughout the semester for intensive critique sessions.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-3253 Senior Fine Art Studio I CONCURRENT: 22-3269 Fine Art Thesis Exhibition Workshop II
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22-3224 Printmaking Strategies
This course offers students the opportunity to further explore techniques and concepts studied in Contemporary Issues in Printmaking, and to apply these to their own creative projects. Course gives more advanced instruction in a broad range of printmaking media both traditional and innovative, including silkscreen, lithography, intaglio, relief and hybrid forms, and emphasizes research and contextualization as an underpinning for studio practice.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-2259 BFA Review in Fine Art
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22-3225 Multiplicity: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Art
Course examines the theoretical and philosophical implications of the multiple through readings, discussions, writing assignments, and studio art projects. Studio techniques demonstrated may include printmaking, casting, or other processes useful in the production of multiples. Course culminates in an individual presentation in which students examine their own work in the theoretical context established by the course. Art history students may present a similar analysis of the work of a contemporary artist.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 22-1101 History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic and 22-1102 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern
Requirements Permission of Instructor
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