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2008-2009 University Catalog [Archived Catalogue]

Courses

 
  

  • FAPR 234 - Book Arts: Structures

    Historical book forms serve as models as well as a departure point for innovative new work. Students are made familiar with traditional binding techniques, encouraged to explore new applications and to experiment by combining images and text into unique book structures. Among the structures presented are signature binding, Japanese binding, accordion structure, pop-up structures, and tunnel books. May serve as a follow-up course for those who have completed PR233. Priority enrollment to Printmaking majors and minors. Formerly PR 224

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPR 301 - Attitudes and Strategies: Printmaking

    The first semester of this course concentrates on general issues of contemporary artists’ practices; the second semester continues with a focus on the printmaker’s world. The student creates prints, exploring a variety of printmaking methods. Drawings to clarify the direction that a possible later series of prints might take are another expectation as well as completed drawing projects. Students should take at least one area of printmaking and develop technical skills beyond elementary proficiency. All three mediums: relief, intaglio, and lithography are to be used in making prints this semester. Formerly PR 333

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FACR 301

    Open to Printmaking majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPR 302 - Printmaking Workshop

    An investigation into the combination of previously studied printmaking media including, but not confined to: relief, intaglio, screenprinting, lithography and photo & digital imaging. Students are encouraged to investigate unorthodox uses of materials and techniques through the creation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional work. Formerly PR 301

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FAPR 201, FAPR 204

    Priority enrollment to Printmaking majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPR 303 - Print Study Seminar I

    Students meet at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Print Study room to discuss and study original prints and rare books from the museum collection. Masters of the 15th through the 18th centuries are introduced and researched. Various print processes that parallel the material covered in the course will be researched in the printmaking studios. Formerly PR 306A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to Printmaking majors only. Student must have completed the first semester of their Sophomore year (45 credits).

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPR 304 - Book Arts: Concept and Structure

    An opportunity to explore the integration of type and relief image in unique and editioned book structures. Hands-on experience in dealing with composition (metal) type and computer typesetting is on an intermediate level. Relief printing, photopolymer plates, color reduction printing, and related traditional and contemporary methods of multiple image making are pursued. Special emphasis on development of a personal visual language. Formerly PR 307

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Students must have completed the first semester of their Freshman year (15 credits). Priority enrollment to Printmaking majors and minors; and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts majors. May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPR 305 - Lithography

    All of the basic techniques of drawing, imagemaking and printing skills that are necessary to produce hand-pulled lithographs from stones and plates are taught. An emphasis is placed on visual expression and development of ideas through group discussions and critiques. Formerly PR 300

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FAPR 201 and FAPR 204

    Priority enrollment to Printmaking and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPR 314 - Advanced Non-Silver

    Opportunity for continued development of images and skills in combinations of non-silver processes. Introduction of palladium printing and the use of the Scitex Image Setter in the Imaging Lab. Formerly PR 322

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPR 214

    Priority enrollment to Printmaking majors. May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5-3 cr
  

  • FAPR 321 - Advanced Lithography

    Opportunity for further investigation and development of lithographic image making, including photographic techniques and multicolor printing. Editioned prints of greater scope and complexity are undertaken, consistent with the student’s interest and experience. Formerly PR 308

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPR 305

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPR 323 - Intro to Offset Lithography

    Students are offered a hands-on course that develops skills in image preparation and printing techniques using offset lithography. An emphasis is placed on personal imagery where both hand-drawn and photographic methods of image making are investigated. Formerly PR 326

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Printmaking majors and minors. Student must have completed the first semester of their Freshman year (15 credits).

    Credits: 1.5 - 3 cr
  

  • FAPR 324 - Advanced Offset Lithography

    Students have the opportunity for a continued investigation of offset lithography with advanced projects. Formerly PR 327

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPR 323

    Priority enrollment to Printmaking majors. May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 - 3 cr
  

  • FAPR 401 - Advanced Workshop

    Students continue to develop their ideas, images, and technique while establishing their direction and personal original expression. The workshop atmosphere permits a comfortable handling of all procedures and printmaking processes. Students are encouraged to be involved with adjacent expressive means such as drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and crafts in combination with printmaking. Formerly PR 400

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPR 305

    Open to Printmaking and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPR 402 - Thesis Workshop

    Offers the student the opportunity to develop a body of work in preparation for portfolio and exhibition presentation. An emphasis is placed on the development of ideas and content in the individual student’s work, which is supported by a series of individual and group critiques by faculty and visiting artists. The student is expected to participate in group exhibitions as well as a solo exhibition and to present a professional portfolio of work. Formerly PR 420

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FAPR 201, FAPR 204, FAPR 305

    Open to Printmaking majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPR 403 - Print Study Seminar II

    The historical and conceptual context of prints, portfolios and book arts of the 19th and 20th centuries are studied at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Written and printed expression of the ideas and processes involved are integrated into this course of study. Formerly PR 406

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to Printmaking majors only. Students must have completed the first semester of their Sophomore year (45 credits).

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPR 411 - Digital Printmaking

    This course offers the students an opportunity for continued investigation within the various printmaking processes. Photoshop is introduced with an emphasis on using the computer as an imagemaking tool within the context of printmaking. The emphasis is on the integration of idea and process. Graduate students may register for this course under GRPR 633. Formerly PR 412

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Printmaking majors; Book Arts and Digital Fine Arts minors. Computer literacy required. May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPR 434 - Book Production

    This advanced course focuses on the development and production of a printed book or portfolio of works: design and formatting of a publication including the investigation of sequence, page design, and binding possibilities; hands-on experience in the preparation of images for press production, pre-press techniques; and assisting the Master Printer in the printing. All work is produced in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, the University’s offset lithography facility. Students may choose to collaborate on projects or work independently. Formerly PR 425

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to majors in the College of Art and Design only. Student must have completed the first semester of their Sophomore year (45 credits). May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5-3 cr
  

  • FAPR 481 - Collaborative Printmaking

    Students will be involved in the business, technology, and experience of printing limited editions for faculty,  other students, or professional artists. During this process they will work with the artist in preparing the idea, then proofing and printing the edition. Advanced students only; they must demonstrate mark-making and editioning abilities. Formerly PR 421

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor permission required.

    Credits: 1.5 - 3 cr
  

  • FAPT 101 - Freshman Painting

    An introduction to the decisions, general methods, and problems pertaining to the act of painting. Students are introduced to oil painting with both still life and figure subject matter. Technical instruction is given to allow the student to focus on the broad imagery possibilities in painting. This class introduces and encourages the student in the use of oil and acrylic. We work from setups and models and, when weather permits, landscapes. Formerly PT 101

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Foundation majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 102 - Freshman Drawing

    This course is designed to increase the beginning student’s awareness of  and capacity for drawing expressively. It is meant to enrich not duplicate, the Foundation Drawing experience. Students are made aware of the options and issues in responding imaginatively to the visual world. Studio practices include observation and representation of objects and scenes, as well as mark-making, composition and style as conveyers of feelings, sensations, and ideas. Emphasis is on awareness of options for expressive approaches. Formerly PT 124

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Foundation majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 201 - Sophomore Painting

    Studio work introduces the student to the domain of painting through projects that cover not only the basic elements of form, color, and technique, but also the fundamental conceptual challenges unique to painting. Students are exposed to the origins and purposes of painting and the range of possibilities offered by both traditional and contemporary approaches. Formerly PT 202A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FNDP 111, FNDP 121 

    Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 202 - Sophomore Painting

    A continuation of the practices and purposes of FAPT 201. Formerly PT 202B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FNDP 111, FNDP 121

    Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 203 - Media/Techniques

    A studio course of instruction and demonstration in the variety of traditional technical approaches to the handling of paint media, including the preparations of grounds and supports. Media options could include oil, acrylic, encaustic, casein, gouache, gold-leafing, fresco, and egg tempera. This course is unique in its focus solely on physical processes not concept or image development. Formerly FA 235

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 151, FNDP 161

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 211 - Drawing: Form and Space

    An introduction to the issues of drawing, including perception, analysis, invention, and experimentation. A variety of thematic ideas, structural possibilities, and imaginative interpretations are explored. Students are exposed to a wide spectrum of precedents in the history of drawing and are encouraged to enlarge their working definitions of how form and space can by effectively expressed. Formerly FA 222

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 151, FNDP 161

    Open to Fine Arts majors only. May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 212 - Drawing Studies

    A studio course advancing the objectives of Drawing: Form/Space. Emphasis is on two essential concerns: process and purpose. Students are expected to carry out sustained involvement in specific projects focused on method and content. Studio practices include both open-ended invention and closed-system approaches. This kind of sustained focus on a variety of techniques and themes culminates in a final term project. Formerly FA 234

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 151, FNDP 161

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 213 - Figure Drawing

    Students work from the clothed and nude model and are introduced to the range of approaches relevant to the act of direct observation. This course encourages the students to clarify what they are looking for when they are drawing the human body. Proportion, anatomy, psychology, posture, kinetics, weight, volume, tactility, and environment are a few of the considerations that have an impact on the diverse ways in which figure drawings can be made. Formerly PT 225

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 or 3 cr; 3 or 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 214 - Abstract Drawing

    An assignment-critique format, which examines the nature of abstraction in the context of drawing disciplines. Options in media, tools, methods, and formats are considered in relation to the purposes of a given project. In general, abstraction calls for an appreciation of the intrinsic properties of the materials used in a work, the formal characteristics of toolmarkings, and the significance of pictorial structures. Formerly PT 226

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 215 - Figure Composition

    A drawing course emphasizing the development of images using multiple figure arrangements. Assignments are designed to foster awareness of the significance of poses and groupings relative to formal design virtues, narrative, and symbolism. Formerly PT 236

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 or 3 cr; 3 or 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 221 - Painting Studio

    A general study of painting subjects, such as the still life, landscape, the city, the human figure, and its environs. This course usually includes a subtitle, such as Figure in the Landscape, which defines the thematic basis for the studio projects. Formerly PT 211

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FNDP 111 and FNDP 121

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 222 - Watercolor

    A course in which the preferred medium is transparent watercolor, the particular characteristics of which are explored. Both perceptual and non-perceptual approaches are introduced. Formerly PT 219

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 227 - Figure Painting

    Painting projects are designed to develop awareness of the many issues to be considered in creating forms that represent the human being. Working from the live models as well as from other visual sources, including photography and fine-art masterworks, students investigate of conceptual and stylistic possibilities in depicting the human figure. Concerns for gesture, weight, color, proportion, scale, apparel, portraiture, space and light, composition, and narration can all be circumstances in which the human figure is the center of interest. Formerly PT 227

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 233 - Landscape Painting

    Projects examine possible ways of seeing and interpreting the tradional components of the landscape: city, country, land, water, sky, light, and atmosphere. Procedures can include working from on-site experience, memory and other research information. Formerly PT 233

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 234 - Pictorial Elements

    Projects assignments will explore the potential of form-making through focused study of the abstract elements of line, shape, color, tone, and texture. Formerly PT 234

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 235 - Earthspace

    This course explores the dynamic forces of nature and their impact on the Earth, including weather activity such as wind, rain, lightning, formation of clouds, tornados, hurricanes, tidal waves, and other dramatic events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, mudslides, blizzards, dust storms, drought, erosion. Projects are undertaken through imagination, experimentation, as well as through use of both anecdotal and scientific resources and are developed by means of both drawing and painting tools and media. Formerly PT 235

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation or equivalent.

    Credits: 1.5 or 3 cr, 3 or 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 237 - Representational Painting

    A studio course addressing the traditional and contemporary concepts and approaches to representational images. Emphasis is placed on the relation between content and form. Exploration in color, space, texture, shape, composition, and style are evaluated in the context of intention, aspects of recognition, and precedent. Paintings are generated out of direct observation of nature and human models as well as from the student’s own resources. Projects may focus on contemporary prototypes (paintings since 1945), specific domains such as American Portraiture, or paradigms from the entire lineage of East/West traditions of representational art. Formerly PT 237

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 238 - Abstract Painting

    The genesis of abstraction can be nature, an idea, or an emotion. An abstract painting is one in which the pictorial form is primarily a product of invention and imagination. It may or may not reflect a reality outside itself. Assignments investigate a range of concepts, sources, and procedures. Formerly PT 238

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 241 - Mixed Media

    A diversity of drawing and painting media and methods, including collage and construction, are explored, discovered, invented, and intermixed in order to develop a versatile repertoire of studio skills. Formerly PT 264

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 243 - Collage: The Constructed Image

    Studio projects are assigned that promote the development of images through the aggregation of fragments. Collage as a principle of construction examines compositional notions of unity and harmony and can involve the interaction of diverse and incongruous materials, methods, styles, and/or images. Formerly PT 269

    Prerequisites & Notes
    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 301 - Junior Painting

    A continuation of FAPT 301. Formerly PT 302A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPT 201, FAPT 202

    Priority enrollment to Painting/Drawing and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts major.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 302 - Junior Painting

    Continuation of FAPT 301. Formerly PT 302B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    FAPT 201, FAPT 202 or equivalent

    Priority enrollment to Painting/Drawing majors and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 303 - Color Studies

    Studio group projects and independent projects consider the purposes and effects of color organization, color perception, and color theory. Color is approached as emotive, symbolic, descriptive, and structural. Formerly PT 340

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPT 202

    Priority enrollment to Painting majors. May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 304 - Junior Drawing

    An advanced studio in drawing, extending knowledge, experience, and authority in drawing as a form-making act in the painting process and as a form of expression in its own right. Students are guided through various uses of pictorial elements (line, tonality, surface, etc.) in the making of expressive and meaningful images. References to contemporary and historical sources are investigated. Formerly PT 334

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FAPT 211, FAPT 212 or FAPR 205 or equivalent

    Priority enrollment to Painting/Drawing majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FAPT 306 - Junior Seminar

    A discussion format aimed at investigating and understanding the content of, the motivations for, and the influences on contemporary painting. Emphasis is on exploring the theories, questions, and issues that create the intellectual content for contemporary artists. Students are given reading assignments as preparation for the seminar dialogue. Selected texts include artists’ documents, critical writings, and classic essays covering such areas as aesthetic principles, political and cultural realities, and psychological perspectives. Class sessions emphasize group discussions based on viewing slides, PowerPoint presentations and other appropriate visual material, reading assignments, and various written and oral forms of student presentations. Formerly PT 360

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPT 202 Open to Painting/Drawing majors only.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 307 - Junior Drawing

    This course will be a continuation of information and experiences encountered in FAPT 211: Drawing Form and Space and the introduction of more sophisticated concepts in pictorial art. Drawing will be considered as a preparatory form-making act in the painting process and as expression in its own right.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FAPT 211, FAPT 212 or FAPR 205

    Priority to Painting/Drawing majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 308 - Junior Drawing

    This course will be a continuation of information and experiences encountered in FAPT 211: Drawing Form and Space and the introduction of more sophisticated concepts in pictorial art. Drawing will be considered as a preparatory form-making act in the painting process and as expression in its own right.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FAPT 211, FAPT 212 or FAPR 205

    Priority to Painting/Drawing majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs.
  

  • FAPT 401 - Senior Painting

    Critical commentary centers on four areas of concern: 1. The character of the work – its formal properties, its physical properties, aspects of intelligibility. 2. Intention – the investigation of motives and choices. 3. Context – ways that a work relates to a larger body of work, both generic and stylistic. 4. Quality – approaches to questions of value. There are individual critiques each week and periodic group critiques, sometimes involving the participation of a visiting artist. Formerly PT 402A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPT 302

    Open to Painting/Drawing majors only.

    Credits: 3 or 4.5 cr; 6 or 9 hrs
  

  • FAPT 402 - Senior Painting

    The Painting major formulates a senior thesis project. Working with senior faculty who read and critique early drafts, the student develops a formal written thesis and a body of artwork to be presented at the end of the term to a review panel. This panel is comprised of Studio faculty, Liberal Arts faculty, and student peers. Formerly PT 402B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPT 302

    Open to Painting/Drawing majors only.

    Credits: 6 cr, 12 hrs
  

  • FAPT 403 - Drawing References

    Advanced drawing projects focus on the relation between a given work and its references and resources. Emphasis is on understanding the nature of references or resource material and the manner in which references or resources influence the outcome of a work. This studio/critique course aims at enhancing students’ ability to connect their personal and subjective interests to the larger context of nature, history, and culture. Formerly FA 425

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FAPT 304 or FAPR 301 or FASC 302

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 404 - Drawing References

    Continuation of FAPT 403. Formerly FA 426

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FAPT 304 or FAPR 301or FASC 302

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 405 - Senior Seminar

    This seminar focuses on pictorial art and its role in culture, both in historic and contemporary contexts. Issues surrounding the various purposes of art and how the culture deals with artists will be explored. Emphasis is placed on student participation. Formerly PT 490

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Corequisite: FAPT 401

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 411 - Senior Drawing

    Advanced drawing, specialized projects. Formerly PT 424

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPT 304

    May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FAPT 421 - Advanced Painting Projects

    Painting assignments deal with the implications of the formats, processes and pictorial structures of painting. Students are expected to give individualized responses to these issues and convene in group critiques to discuss the results. Formerly PT 451

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FAPT 302

    Open to Painting majors only.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FASC 101 - Freshman Sculpture

    An introduction to sculptural thinking and methods using a variety of materials and processes, including modeling and fabrication. Form-making options are undertaken that are especially suited to acquaint beginning students with the diversity of sculptural activity. Formerly SC 101

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Foundation majors. Restricted to Undergraduate students only. Student must NOT have completed the second semester of their Sophomore year (45 credits).

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FASC 201 - Sculpture I

    Emphasizes the fundamental and formal aspects of sculpture. Projects are assigned to help the student experience and understand the unique expressive values of mass, space, plane, line, balance, rhythm, scale, movement, and time transformation. This course also serves to introduce the student to a variety of materials and techniques. Assigned projects, group critiques and slide lectures. Formerly SC 201

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 202 - Sculpture I

    Emphasizes the fundamental and formal aspects of sculpture. Projects are assigned to help the student experience and understand the unique expressive values of mass, space, plane, line, balance, rhythm, scale, movement, and time transformation. This course also serves to introduce the student to a variety of materials and techniques. Assigned projects, group critiques, and slide lectures. Formerly SC 202

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 203 - Introduction to Figure Modeling

    Modeling from life for the beginner, stressing direct observation, eye-hand coordination, and depth discrimination. Both perceptual and conceptual skills are developed and fundamental studio practices are taught, such as armature construction, clay utilization, and modeling techniques. Works are fired in clay or cast in plaster. Formerly FA 223

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors. May be taken three times for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 211 - Structure of the Figure

    Anatomic and morphological analysis of male and female bodies for artists through a three-dimensional constructional method. Proportions, anatomic structure, surface topology, morphological variation, and the body in movement are covered. Directed toward two-dimensional artists as well as sculptors. The means by which the body’s salient features can be recognized from any viewpoint in any pose is stressed. Formerly SC 260A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 212 - Structure of the Figure

    Anatomic and morphological analysis of male and female bodies for artists through a three-dimensional constructional method. Proportions, anatomic structure, surface topology, morphological variation, and the body in movement are covered. Directed toward two-dimensional artists as well as sculptors. The means by which the body’s salient features can be recognized from any viewpoint in any pose is stressed. Formerly SC 260B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 221 - Introduction to Sculpture Projects

    An open studio oriented toward helping the development of individual initiative. Stress on how ideas are transformed into sculptural statements through aesthetic reasoning and the internal logic of a sculpture’s color, material, and physical construction. Formerly SC 241

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 222 - Introduction to Sculpture Projects

    An open studio oriented toward helping the development of individual initiative. Stress on how ideas are transformed into sculptural statements through aesthetic reasoning and the internal logic of a sculpture’s color, material, and physical construction. Formerly SC 242

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 231 - Molding and Casting

    Covers processes and techniques utilizing plaster, rubber, plastics, clays, and wax for making hard and flexible molds and for casting sculpture in durable materials. Provides a thorough foundation in foundry practices, including wax preparation, investing, pouring bronze or aluminum, chasing, finishing, and patinating finished metal casts. Formerly SC 220A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation or FNDP 104

    Priority enrollment to Sculpture majors. May be taken three times for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FASC 232 - Molding and Casting

    Covers processes and techniques utilizing plaster, rubber, plastics, clays, and wax for making hard and flexible molds and for casting sculpture in durable materials. Provides a thorough foundation in foundry practices, including wax preparation, investing, pouring bronze or aluminum, chasing, finishing, and patinating finished metal casts. Formerly SC 220B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation or FNDP 104

    Priority enrollment to Sculpture majors. May be taken three times for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FASC 300 - Junior Sculpture

    This course is designed to help each student begin to understand his own aesthetic proclivities and to place these within an art historical context. The emotional, intellectual, philosophical, and historical implications of various movements in art history are explored in order to begin to understand their relationship to the personal artistic development of each student within the history of Sculpture. An emphasis is placed on the development of ideas and content in the individual student’s work, which is supported by a series of individual and group critiques by faculty and visiting artists. Weekly class meetings will include slide talks related to current assignments, films, discussions, and field trips to exhibitions around the Philadelphia area. This will be followed by personal conferences with the instructor.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Sculpture and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 301 - Junior Sculpture

    This course is designed to help each student begin to understand his own aesthetic proclivities and to place these within an art historical context. The emotional, intellectual, philosophical, and historical implications of various movements in art history are explored in order to begin to understand their relationship to the personal artistic development of each student within the history of Sculpture. An emphasis is placed on the development of ideas and content in the individual student’s work, which is supported by a series of individual and group critiques by faculty and visiting artists. Weekly class meetings will include slide talks related to current assignments, films, discussions, and field trips to exhibitions around the Philadelphia area. This will be followed by personal conferences with the instructor.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Sculpture and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 302 - Attitudes and Strategies: Sculpture

    A studio-criticism course that focuses on the issue of artistic strategy as it applies to the creation of art. Assignments attempt to aid students in recognizing their own and alternative tendencies and history through projects that are made to reflect attitudes like expressionism, idealism, mathematical systems, naturalism, time, and installation, etc. Formerly SC 333

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FACS 201 or FACS 202

    Open to Sculpture majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FASC 331 - Carving

    Introduces the student to carving, one of the basic methods of forming sculpture. Students learn to prepare, maintain, and use the tools of the carver. They are introduced to the characteristics of suitable carving materials. Emphasis is placed on the exploration of the formal and expressive potentials of carved sculpture. Formerly SC 321

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Sculpture majors. May be taken three times for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FASC 363 - Medallic Sculpture

    The Medallic Arts have a long history beginning with monetary coins in the ancient world, developing through Renaissance medals into a vital and international art form that now includes small free-standing sculpture. The link between all of these is not only size, but the need for the work to have a specific communicative function, while at the same time exploring the contemporary sculptural issues. This is a studio course with a lecture component to give the student a history of the discipline. Projects are designed to challenge the student conceptually and to introduce forms and techniques such as bas relief, carving, mold making casting and fabricating, all on a small scale. There will be annual opportunities to exhibit the finished sculpture internationally.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. May be taken twice for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FASC 364 - Installation and Performance

    This course explores the concepts and practice of installation and performance art and their development during the past century. Four primary aspects of Installation are explored: the multisensory immersive environment; the site-specific work – work responsive to the history, usage, or natural aspects of a particular site or location; interactivity or installations in which the audience is encouraged to participate; and the performance art ranging from theatrical situations through the private acts of the artist that explore particular behavioral, experiential, or social issues and is documented through photos, videos, etc. The history of installation and performance work is discussed through a series of lectures and video presentations that examine the art historical, social, cultural, and psychological concerns from which these art forms are derived. Students are expected to be resourceful and inventive when realizing their work.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Completion of Foundation or MMDI 101, MMDI 102

    May be taken three times for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 401 - Sculpture III

    Terms like site-specific, monumental, genre, narrative, emblematic, environmental, etc., reflect the cluster of types of sculptural imagery. This studio-criticism course is concerned with the ideational and technical issues raised by various types of sculptural imagery that are assigned in turn. The relationship that sculptures have with the context they exist in and the purpose they serve is stressed. Formerly SC 401

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FASC 302

    Open to Sculpture majors and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 402 - Sculpture III

    Terms like site-specific, monumental, genre, narrative, emblematic, environmental, etc., reflect the cluster of types of sculptural imagery. This studio-criticism course is concerned with the ideational and technical issues raised by various types of sculptural imagery that are assigned in turn. The relationship that sculptures have with the context they exist in and the purpose they serve is stressed. Formerly SC 402

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FASC 401

    Open to Sculpture majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 411 - Advanced Figure Modeling

    For students seriously involved with the figure, this course provides an atelier to continue figure modeling on increasingly advanced levels and a context to help formulate a personal figurative sculptural idiom. Works are sculptured at various scales, including life size, and independent projects are undertaken in consultation with the faculty. Critiques involving the meaning and sculptural significance of the works are an integral part of the ongoing class activity. Formerly SC 431

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FASC 203, FASC 211 or FASC 212

    Priority enrollment to Sculpture majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 412 - Advanced Figure Modeling

    For students seriously involved with the figure, this course provides an atelier to continue figure modeling on increasingly advanced levels and a context to help formulate a personal figurative sculptural idiom. Works are sculptured at various scales, including life size, and independent projects are undertaken in consultation with the faculty. Critiques involving the meaning and sculptural significance of the works are an integral part of the ongoing class activity. Formerly SC 432

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FASC 203, FASC 211 or FASC 212

    Priority enrollment to Sculpture majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 413 - Projects in Figure Modeling

    Allows the student to move beyond modeling the figure as an academic study. Exploration using the figure in expressive contexts is emphasized. Formerly SC 433

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FASC 203, FASC 211 or FASC 212

    Priority enrollment to Sculpture majors. May be taken four times for credit.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 421 - Advanced Projects

    Provides a studio context where maturing self-initiated areas of concentration in sculpture can be developed to fruition on an advanced level. Whatever the direction, a critical emphasis is placed through both open and devised assignments on how materials and forms compatible to personal statements are found. Graduate students may register for this course under GRSC 621. Formerly SC 441

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FASC 221 or FASC 222

    Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 422 - Advanced Projects

    Provides a studio context where maturing self-initiated areas of concentration in sculpture can be developed to fruition on an advanced level. Whatever the direction, a critical emphasis is placed through both open and devised assignments on how materials and forms compatible to personal statements are found. Graduate students may register for this course under GRSC 621. Formerly SC 442

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FASC 221 or FASC 222

    Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FASC 433 - Metals

    Forming metal sculpture has contributed much to the history of sculpture, particularly in the present, where the idiom has become as familiar as carving and modeling. Concurrently offering both basic and advanced technical instruction in welding and forging, using both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, this course is concerned with both the technical and aesthetic aspects of metal sculpture. Formerly SC 421

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Sculpture majors. May be taken three times for credit.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FASC 440 - Sculpture Since 1945

    Lectures, discussions, projects concerning various artists, movements, concepts, philosophies, and critical theories influencing contemporary art with an emphasis on sculpture. Focus on the currents since 1945. Formerly SC 251

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Fine Arts majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 1.5 hrs
  

  • FNDP 101 - Sketching and Drawing

    This course provides individuals who are not majoring in visual arts with basic skills required to represent the form of simple objects and the presence of space on a two-dimensional surface. No prior drawing experience or portfolio of work is required to enroll in this course. In-class projects focus on fundamental principles, while homework assignments support the students as they develop the ability to sketch and draw, and think and plan, using manual drawing tools and materials. Formerly FP 101

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Theater Design and Technology students. Not open to students in the College of Art and Design.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FNDP 102 - Sketching the Human Figure

    This course provides individuals who are not majoring in visual arts with an introduction to some of the materials, strategies, and methods useful when drawing the human figure. No prior experience or portfolio of work is required. The course uses the figure as subject. Analytical and responsive approaches are compared and a range of materials are used. The figure, its volume and structure, and immediate spatial environment are studied, and the ability to capture the gesture, appropriate scale, proportion, and mass of the figure are stressed. Homework assignments apply principles learned in class. Formerly FP 102

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Theater Design and Technology majors. Not open to students in the College of Art and Design.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FNDP 103 - Color Basics

    This course provides individuals who are not majoring in the visual arts with basic skills required to work with color. No prior experience or portfolio of work is required. The course introduces the basic color vocabulary and begins training the eye to perceive and apply the distinctions of hue, value, tone, and temperature. Methods of color classification set the stage for a sequence of projects designed to help students develop the ability to begin working with color formally and descriptively. Homework assignments apply principles learned in class. Formerly FP 103

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Not open to majors in the College of Art and Design. Priority enrollment to Theater Design and Technology majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FNDP 104 - Materials, Tools and Form

    This course instructs students in those basic manual skills that help them build three-dimensional objects and spatial works. No prior experience with manual media or a portfolio of work is required. Paper and wood are the primary materials used and all assignments include instruction on how to best use these materials. Assignments that focus on the design of spaces and environments are included. Instruction is conducted in the Foundation studio and wood shop, and all students are given an orientation to the safe use of that facility and all its power tools. Formerly FP 104

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Not open to students in the College of Art and Design. Priority enrollment for Theater Design and Technology majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • FNDP 111 - Drawing

    Drawing is approached as a process by which the student examines and investigates the visual world. Line, mark, and shape are among the drawing elements emphasized in the first semester. Students observe the form and structure of various subjects while they improve their skills, strengthen their vision, and begin to define their drawing vocabulary. Graphite pencils and a range of appropriate papers are the most frequently used materials. Focus is on the challenges and rewards of developing perceptual skills. Formerly FP 110

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor permission required. Open to Foundation majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FNDP 112 - Drawing

    Building on the sensibilities, skills, and information of FNDP 111, students refine their perceptual abilities, utilize a wider range of media, and develop additional drawing strategies. Students study complex natural and organic form, including the human figure in both line tone. Controlling proportion, building volume, engaging the illusion of space, while at the same time developing the desired quality of light and illumination are issues explored in this semester. Faculty bring skills, projects, and information developed in the two- and three-dimensional classes into the service of drawing. Formerly FP 111

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor permission required. Prerequisite: FNDP 111

    Open to Foundation majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FNDP 151 - Two-Dimensional Design

    This course introduces the fundamental language of the visual arts within the two-dimensional plane, The first semester defines and investigates the visual elements of point, line, shape, pattern, and value. These fundamental elements are analyzed as independent units and brought together supporting and animating one another in a variety of formats. The investigation of compositional forces, interactions of shape with format, historic origins, mathematical structures, and time-based and sequential concepts are explored. Perceptual skills are developed using a variety of traditional and digital media. Examination of principles of movement in two-dimensional space using animated imagery and digital animation software is incorporated. The discovery of the power of the underlying fundamentals and their application defines the more complex subject of this class. Formerly FNDP 121

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor permission required. Open to Foundation majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FNDP 152 - Two-Dimensional Design

    This course builds on the projects and skills established in FNDP 151. The majority of FNDP 152 is devoted to the study of color. With color comes additional visual enrichment, light and luminosity, a specialized language and the necessity to mature manual  and digital skills, and control new media and concepts. The major works of the semester are based in the use of digital media as well as acrylic paints that require skills of mixing and application. Color theories are discussed, projects requiring tinting, shading, and toning clarify these basic concepts and master works are studied. Ideas developed in the class are shared with the other Foundation courses and skills from 3D and Drawing are imported to support current 2D projects. As the semester progresses, representational and non-representational images are developed as students work to integrate past experience, refine their skills of observation and explore more complex principles of organization. Instructor permission required. Formerly FNDP 122

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 151

    Open to Foundation majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FNDP 161 - Three-Dimensional Design/Time Motion

    An introduction to the fundamental principles of three-dimensional and time-based work. Concepts of space, movement, mass, volume, the qualities and properties of materials as well as kinetic works are explored using traditional and digital processes. As the semester progresses the construction of three-dimensional objects emphasizing serial and sequential concepts combines with the use of video for motion capture and other means of exploring fundamental time-based works. The course emphasis is on processes of thinking and planning, thoughtful articulation of form, principles of perception and an appreciation and refinement of acuity in regards to static and kinetic forms. Formerly FNDP 131.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor permission required. Open to Foundation majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FNDP 162 - Three-Dimensional Design

    Building on the skills, language, and sensibilities of FNDP 161, the second semester undertakes more complex projects. Some projects often involve the combining of several materials and require the assembly of multiple parts. The semester explores the challenges of scale and engages time and movement as ideas. The introduction of environmental works, setting in place new principles of three-dimensional organization, researching the order in nature and taking up the challenge of representation in three dimensions are some of the arenas in which students work. Faculty relate works and share principles with either the two dimensional, drawing, or time motion classes and attempt to harvest skills and sensibilities developed in those classes to inform of projects in Three-Dimensional Design. Formerly FNDP 132

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FNDP 161

    Open to Foundation majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • FNDP 171 - Time and Motion

    Building on the concepts and sensibilities of FNDP 151 Two-Dimensional Design Principles and FNDP 161 Three-Dimensional Design/Time Motion, students undertake an expanded exploration of time-based art. Students develop works that explore mechanical and digital animation devices, kinetics, and the cinematic language. Projects that focus on the controlled movement of objects, the positioning of the viewer and the use of sound prepare the students for the development of increasingly complex narrative works. Students experiment with a variety of materials and media.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor permission required. Open to Foundation majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 101 - Freshman Graphic Design Projects

    An elective course introducing the Foundation student to the profession of graphic design and its working processes. The classwork begins with directed formal studies and leads to an introductory communication project. Emphasis on the craftsmanship and working methods of the students as well as the breadth and depth of the student’s individual investigative process. Studio lecture/demonstrations focus upon professional case studies to supplement the course assignments. This course offers the student the opportunity to measure his or her suitability to the Graphic Design major. Formerly GD 105

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Foundation majors.

    Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
  

  • GDES 201 - Design Systems

    An intensive laboratory where the formal aspects of composition, organic and geometric form, color, symbolic drawing, craftsmanship, and the processes of conceptualizing are investigated. All of the assignments are founded on directed goals and playful investigation to train the student in the areas of selection, set theory, and visual logic. Formerly GD 213A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Completion of Foundation or MMDI 101, MMDI 102

    Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 202 - Design Systems

    A continuation of Design Systems GDES 201. Further investigation of the visual language of design, culminating in a basic communication problem. Formerly GD 213B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GDES 201

    Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 203 - Letterform Design

    The analysis and development of letterforms. The norms of weight, proportion, character width, and alphabetic relationships are developed perceptually, by hand. This course stresses the inherent optical relationships that exist in the construction of typefaces derived from the Latin alphabet. Formerly GD 210

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation or MMDI 101 MMDI 102

    Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 212 - Typography Fundamentals

    The course addresses the basic formal language of typography and the application of typographic principles to frame basic communication messages. Typographic investigations are achieved by both manual and digital means. Formerly GD 212

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Completion of Foundation or MMDI 101, MMDI 102

    Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors and Typography minors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 221 - Descriptive Drawing

    A freehand drawing course that teaches the student to consciously observe, analyze, understand, and represent the underlying structure and form of manmade and natural objects. Logical representation and problem-solving is emphasized. A visual vocabulary of line, shape, value, texture, and their spatial organization is developed so that drawing can be used as a method of research and invention. Formerly GD 211A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of Foundation. Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 222 - Descriptive Drawing

    A continuation of Descriptive Drawing GDES 221. A freehand, analytical drawing course that concentrates on organic form and objects from nature. Formal composition and visual vocabulary of line, shape, value, texture, and spatial organization are stressed. Drawing skills are developed to sketch and research visual concepts, as well as to use the medium for the invention of original images in upper-level courses. Formerly GD 211B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GDES 221

    Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 301 - Communications Studio

    Developing an understanding of visual relationships and how to use them to create visual impact and clarity while solving communications problems. Invention, intuition, and discovery are combined with logical thought and thorough preliminary research. Special attention is given to refining the student’s perceptual abilities, hand skills, and the integration of various media. Coursework is completed using both traditional and computer technologies. Students must have working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, basic image scanning, and basic Macintosh operation or be concurrently enrolled in EMDI 201. Formerly GD 311A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: EMDI 201

    Open to Graphic Design majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 302 - Communications Studio

    A continuation of GDES 301, concentrating on the development of color, sensitivity, perceptual abilities, and hand skills within a communications context. A working process that develops invention through logical thought and intuition is applied to communication problems. Coursework is completed using both traditional and computer technologies. Students must have working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, basic image scanning, and basic Macintosh operation or be concurrently enrolled in EMDI 203. Formerly GD 311B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GDES 301

    Open to Graphic Design majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 311 - Typographic Systems

    This course investigates and defines the principles of typography in a communication context. Directed research based upon typographic norms addresses the issues of informational hierarchies achievable through visual form and structure as well as the editorial and expressive potentials of typography. Coursework is completed both using traditional and computer technologies. Students must have working knowledge of Adobe InDesign and basic Macintosh operation or be concurrently enrolled in EMDI 202. Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is preferred. Formerly GD 306A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: EMDI 201, GDES 212

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 312 - Typographic Systems

    This course is an extension and continuation of Typographic Systems GDES 311. The course addresses the typographic principles of the grid, text typography, text hierarchies, and image integration, all within the context of a multipage format. Students must have working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, image scanning, and basic knowledge of Photoshop or be concurrently enrolled in Electronic Media/Production II EMDI 312 to gain admission to this course. Additional working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is preferred. Formerly GD 306B

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: GDES 311, EMDI 202

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 331 - Photographics I

    Develops a designer’s methodology and viewpoint to achieve both structure and meaning in photography, and as a way to extend the range of how objects and nature can be seen and translated using photographic processes. Students use both traditional photography and digital software to create hybrid photographic images. Formerly GD 310A

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 334 - Font Design Lab

    The emphasis of this course is on the design and production of an entire alphabet or limited set of letters to form distinct word picture as in a logotype. The work process seamlessly integrates hand and computer skills. Students rely on, expand, and also question existing conventions of the Roman alphabet. The course uses specialized type design software to make the new typefaces available in word processing or page layout environments. The course provides highly applicable professional skills.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: GDES 203

    Graphic Design majors only.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
  

  • GDES 335 - Single Image

    This course explores the communication potential of imagery both in a single and/or serial format. Students develop an understanding of literal and abstract forms of expression and how they can be used to articulate and solve visual concepts. Formerly GD 326

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GDES 202

    Student must have completed the first semester of their Sophomore year (45 credits). Open to majors in the College of Art and Design only. Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors.

    Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
 

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