2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

ART 121 - Art and Design I

4 credits

This course is designed for students with no or limited prior knowledge of art and has been designed to provide a foundation for understanding the various disciplines of the visual arts. The course will look at contemporary and historic models, aesthetics, and technical information to provide a vocabulary of choices for the studio artist. Students will use this information to make choices while writing, presenting, and creating their work. This course introduces students to diverse art studio practices and concepts where topics include forms of communication, sourcing inspiration, and critical theory. Projects focus on critical thinking and problem solving and are augmented by lecture, discussion, reading, writing and critical analysis. (3 credits - Art Studio Class) (1 credit - Directed Study Hour)

Studio fees apply