Drawing I is a two-semester course focusing on the fundamentals of drawing,emphasizing perceptual, analytical and imaginative approaches. The course enhances students’ observational sensibilities and hand-eye coordination, develops an understanding of methods, concepts and drawing systems, and encourages experimentation and “outside the box” thinking. Through regular critiques,students begin to make critical decisions about their work.
Estimated cost of materials: $75.00
Students are introduced to the elements and principles of two-dimensional design, how to recognize and identify them and apply them in their own work. Through analysis of compositions as well as problem-solving exercises, students will develop an intellectual and practical understanding of the construction of a work of art, expand their color sensibility and vocabulary and broaden their understanding of the visual and verbal language of design and color.
The Critique Handbook, Buster & Crawford, ISBN-10: 0131505440, Retail $26.00
This two-semester course provides students with the skills necessary to construct paintings using the three-dimensional world as reference. Using oil paint, students proceed through a series of sequential assignments designed to promote a thorough understanding of value and color and to introduce them to formal conventions employed by both historical and contemporary painters. Students develop an intentional, reliable approach to painting, familiarity with materials and techniques and understanding of composition and color theory, improving their creative approach and critical judgment.
The Critique Handbook, Buster & Crawford, ISBN-13: 978-0205708116, Retail $24.00
Estimated cost of materials: $150.00
This two semester introductory course explores the observation and duplication of three-dimensional form and composition. This course also serves as an introduction to the tools, materials and techniques of modeling the human figure. The history and traditions of sculpture will be discussed as a foundation and context for understanding class exercises. Observation of basic forms will begin the systematic study of convexity, concavity, planar orientation, projection, volume, silhouette, line, symmetry and proportion. These foundational concepts will be coupled with methods for accurately observing, measuring and depicting an object in three-dimensions. The synthesis of these methodologies will be the cornerstone for assessing figural archetypes and anatomical structures.
Modeling and Sculpting the Human Figure, Lanteri, ISBN-10: 0486250067, Retail $14.95
Estimated cost of materials: $199.00
English Composition is designed to develop and hone those writing and critical reading skills basic to any college-level coursework. Careful seeing leads to effective writing— only by devoting our scrupulous, passionate attention to the texts and images we encounter, are we able to evaluate them in writing. In weekly assignments students work on organizational and structural strategies; analytical writing skills; and methods of revision. Over the course of the semester students undertake a variety of writing assignments of increasing length and complexity, developed through multiple drafts and constructive peer review.
The Essay Connection (9th edition), Bloom, ISBN-10: 0547190786, Retail $90.95
This is a two-semester required course examining major periods, styles, and themes in Western Art. The first semester examines works from the Prehistoric era to the Gothic period, continued in the second semester by the study of works from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Lectures and readings are devoted to presenting students with a repertoire of significant painting, sculpture, and architecture, and an understanding of the meanings of these works within their original cultural contexts. Students are also challenged to expand their observation and vocabulary skills through close formal analysis of the visual properties of art. Exam essays and writing assignments develop research skills and promote the development of analytic and critical thinking. Requirements each semester: purchase of textbook, assigned readings, museum visit, two exams, a short presentation and essay. Completion of both semesters of this course is required for entry into all upper level Art History courses.
Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, Janson, ISBN-13: 9780205685172, Retail $157.20
Drawing I is a two-semester course focusing on the fundamentals of drawing,emphasizing perceptual, analytical and imaginative approaches. The course enhances students’ observational sensibilities and hand-eye coordination, develops an understanding of methods, concepts and drawing systems, and encourages experimentation and “outside the box” thinking. Through regular critiques,students begin to make critical decisions about their work.
Estimated cost of materials: $100.00
3-D Design introduces students to basic principles, processes and materials used in 3-D design and concept generation. Students learn to define space through the use of line, planes and solid forms, and to manipulate mass, volume and void through a series of projects that encourage drawing, experimentation and construction. Presentation skills and craftsmanship will be developed, as well as creativity and critical judgment.
Estimated cost of materials: $50.00
This course will run provisionally and will be assessed for final approval at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year.
This two-semester course provides students with the skills necessary to construct paintings using the three-dimensional world as reference. Using oil paint, students proceed through a series of sequential assignments designed to promote a thorough understanding of value and color and to introduce them to formal conventions employed by both historical and contemporary painters. Students develop an intentional, reliable approach to painting, familiarity with materials and techniques and understanding of composition and color theory, improving their creative approach and critical judgment.
Estimated cost of materials: $150.00
This two semester introductory course explores the observation and duplication of three dimensional form and composition. This course also serves as an introduction to the tools, materials and techniques of modeling the human figure. The history and traditions of sculpture will be discussed as a foundation and context for understanding class exercises. Observation of basic forms will begin the systematic study of convexity, concavity, planar orientation, projection, volume, silhouette, line, symmetry and proportion. These foundational concepts will be coupled with methods for accurately observing, measuring and depicting an object in three-dimensions. The synthesis of these methodologies will be the cornerstone for assessing figural archetypes and anatomical structures.
Estimated cost of materials: $65.99
This is an introductory literature course, with an emphasis on twentieth-century modernism, and its roots in certain foundational works by Goethe, Shakespeare, and Sophocles. We will read and discuss nine works of fiction and drama in terms of their historical context and continuing cultural relevance. Students will be introduced to traditional scholarly views and encouraged to explore their own personal responses to these works. Each student will give an oral presentation elucidating aspects of the work discovered through additional research. Requirements will include formal essays expressing original ideas and following the conventions of literary analysis, as explained in the class.
Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (4th Edition), X. J. Kennedy, ISBN-13: 978-0205151660, Retail: $62.00
This is a two-semester required course examining major periods, styles, and themes in Western Art. The first semester examines works from the Prehistoric era to the Gothic period, continued in the second semester by the study of works from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Lectures and readings are devoted to presenting students with a repertoire of significant painting, sculpture, and architecture, and an understanding of the meanings of these works within their original cultural contexts. Students are also challenged to expand their observation and vocabulary skills through close formal analysis of the visual properties of art. Exam essays and writing assignments develop research skills and promote the development of analytic and critical thinking. Requirements each semester: purchase of textbook, assigned readings, museum visit, two exams, a short presentation and essay. Completion of both semesters of this course is required for entry into all upper level Art History courses.
Required:
Art History, Volume 2 (4th Edition), Stokstad & Cothren, ISBN-13: 978-0205744213, Retail: $151.00
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series, Berger, ISBN-13: 978-0140135152, Retail: $15.00
Recommended
A Short Guide to Writing about Art (7th Edition), Barnet, ISBN-13: 978-0321101440, Retail: $42.19
Idea & Image will run in two 3-hour sessions and attendance in both is required.
Exploration of drawing as a means of thought and communication. Specified problems in ideation, graphic interpretation and visual semantics. Projects emphasize a variety of illustrative approaches, craft, and mastery of tools.
Illustration majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $100.00
Working from direct observation students will broaden their visual vocabulary by developing a
more sophisticated utility of formal painting elements and techniques. Students will interpret
perceptual cues on a two dimensional canvas utilizing painting devices such as lost and found
edges, color as form and space, value hierarchies and shapes, and control of painterly surface
texture to obtain desired space, subject characterization, mood and 2-D design. Venues will
include landscape, studio set ups, and interior spaces.
Painting majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $250.00
This two-semester lecture course studies spatial illusion with specific reference to the convention of linear perspective. In the first semester, students learn to represent simple geometric forms on a two-dimensional surface as they would appear in a three-dimensional space. Homework assignments allow them to apply the various methods to more complex figures. The second semester surveys cast shadows and reflections.
3 instructed hours and 1.5 hours of required independent work each week.
Estimated cost of materials: $35.00
An exploration of the physiology of the joint and muscular systems of the human body in a series of illustrated lectures. Emphasis is placed on physiological principles governing the body’s movements. Points of intersection between such principles and artistic concerns are also addressed. The live model is present during the lectures on a periodic basis to demonstrate and vivify course material. Required weekly readings from the course text, The Anatomy of Movement, by Blandine Calais-Germain, supplement information presented in the lectures. Students are evaluated on the basis of a graded final examination.
1.5 instructed hours and 3 hours of required independent work each week.
An introduction to essential and effective figure drawing procedures. Sound life drawingpractices are established and practiced in treating the representation of the live model as the transcription of visual information gathered through select, focused observations made froma fixed position. Observation-based strategies involving selection and emphasis, grouping, the cueing of spatial depth, size calibrations and eye level are pursued. Consistent with anobservational approach, the aptness of constructional procedures that establish figural mass or trajectory, or that vivify additional planar contrasts, is also addressed.
Drawing majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $25.00
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed the rise of the European avant-garde: the Realists, Impressionists, Post- Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. Rapid social, economic, and political changes encompassed a revolution
in communication systems and technology. The first half of the twentieth century saw a shift from European to American modernism and the rise of abstract expressionism as Clement Greenberg’s answer to a purely autonomous art form. This course will explore art and visual culture in relation to urban capitalism, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism tracing theories of representation, perception, and modernism from the 19th to the 20th centuries.
Techniques, subjects, and scope unique to the field will be examined through the creation of visual solutions to communication needs. Typography will be introduced, and the relationship between illustration, design and fine art will be explored. Projects focus on interpreting written material in a visual form.
Illustration majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $225.00
An introduction to the development of Illustration from its fine arts roots to become an independent discipline. Students are introduced to pioneers in the field, historical styles, techniques, reproduction and media influences, and current fields of illustration. Course is required by Illustration majors and may be taken as an elective for majors in Sculpture and Painting to be applied towards the additional courses needed for the Art History minor.
This two-semester lecture course studies spatial illusion with specific reference to the convention of linear perspective. In the first semester, students learn to represent simple geometric forms on a two-dimensional surface as they would appear in a three-dimensional space. Homework assignments allow them to apply the various methods to more complex figures. The second semester surveys cast shadows and reflections.
Physiological principles covered in Anatomy I are related to a system of description that proceeds on the basis of comparisons between anatomical structures and drawable Euclidean-type solids. Ways in which the representation of the human body by means of such comparisons can be seen to serve goals common to both scientific and artistic endeavors—particularly the goals of comprehensibility, regularity and predictability—are established. Students prepare individual projects delineating the skeletal and muscular systems for figures they either have chosen from among artistic representations or that they themselves have generated.
1.5 instructed hours and 3 hours of required independent work each week.
Estimated cost of materials: $25.00
All students are required to complete one humanities course. Humanities courses are generally offered during the fall semester, and should be taken when indicated on the planning sheet to ensure adequate progress towards degree and successful scheduling. Please review the semester’s course schedule for specific information regarding topic, the instructor of record, and time/days offered.
Drawing strategies are established and applied meeting the artistic challenges of creating whole pictures. In a variety of formats, including studio set-ups, on-site landscape and imaginative composition, successful over-all pictorialization is pursued as an effect of artistic completeness and unity to which each pictorial element and part has contributed.
Drawing majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $50.00
A development from Illustration I, Illustration II focuses on an understanding of the unique
needs and consistent issues in the development sequential format solutions, and the
development of a productive personal process. Emphasis is given to visual problem solving
and integration of vision and vehicle.
Illustration majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $375.00
A comprehensive exploration of digital image-making. This course examines both “paint” (raster) and “draw” (vector) imaging. Techniques to draw and paint directly into the computer are explored. Student work is directed towards learning print-based applications.
4 instructed hours and 5 hours of required independent work each week.
Illustration majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
An introduction to drawing as representation through graphic symbols. Ways that the handand its acquired cursive habits propel graphic representations and ideas are demonstrated. Through the in-depth study of a variety of precedents, the role that calligraphic dynamismand acuity play in stimulating observation and spurring inventiveness is established and experienced. Students’ own cursive habits are buoyed through free-hand copying andinternalization of examples, and by applying them in both figure drawings and in on-sitelandscape drawings. Emphasis is also placed on formal creativity through the calligraphicallypropelledinvention of scenes and objects.
Drawing majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $85.00
All students are required to complete one science course in addition to the fulfilling the College’s Anatomy requirement. Science courses are generally offered during the fall semester, and should be taken when indicated on the planning sheet to ensure adequate progress towards degree and successful scheduling. Please review the semester’s course schedule for specific information regarding topic, the instructor of record, and time/days offered.
All students are required to complete two social science courses. Social science courses are offered during both fall and spring semesters, and should be taken when indicated on the planning sheet to ensure adequate progress towards degree and successful scheduling. Please review the semester’s course schedule for specific information regarding topic, the instructor of record, and time/days offered.
In this course students begin to identify areas of special interest that they will explore
more extensively in the Senior Studio. The instructor will assist each student with project
development and in identifying further skills needed for effective realization.
Illustration majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Digital Illustration II will run in two 3-hour sessions, and attendance at both sessions is required.
An exploration of time-based illustration projects with special application to the web utilizing a variety of software including Flash.
Illustration majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Estimated cost of materials: $50.00
The College offers a range of illustration courses. Please review the semester’s course schedule for specific information regarding topic, the instructor of record, and time/days offered.
This course will explore movements in visual art from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, concentrating on post 1945 approaches, with special interest in post 1980 approaches. In addition to examining modern and contemporary art, the course will survey a variety of critical and scholarly methodologies of modernist and postmodernist viewpoints. Assignments will include written and verbal critiques of this artwork and its critics in the form of essays, presentations, and classroom debates. It is the intention of this course to develop an in-depth visual knowledge of modern and contemporary art, long with a close familiarity with the writings of influential contemporary art critics, and to develop strong written and verbal skills in art criticism.
Required:
Postmodern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art (2nd Edition), Risatti, ISBN-13: 978-0136145042, Retail: $65.20
Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, Barrett, ISBN-13: 978-0073379197, Retail: $57.20
Recommended:
A Short Guide to Writing about Art (7th Edition), Barnet, ISBN-13: 978-0321101440, Retail: $42.19
After Modern Art 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art), Hopkins, ISBN-13: 978-0192842343, Retail: $27.95
All students are required to complete two social science courses. Social science courses are offered during both fall and spring semesters, and should be taken when indicated on the planning sheet to ensure adequate progress towards degree and successful scheduling. Please review the semester’s course schedule for specific information regarding topic, the instructor of record, and time/days offered.
In consultation with faculty, seniors will undertake a comprehensive yearlong book project. Project will investigate idea and narrative development, image sequencing, graphoc format, typography, various book structure, and audience. 3 instructed hours and 15 hours of required independent work each week.
An opportunity for independent project development utilizing the skills and concepts learned through the course. The student may elect to do a variety of projects to demonstrate versatility or may chose a more focused body of work and technique. 1.5 instructed hours and 7.5 hours of required independent work each week.
Illustration majors must earn a minimum grade of C- in this course to receive credit.
Choose elective studio course this semester.
This course examines the practical, philosophical and artistic challenges in pursuing a career as a fine artist. Emphasis is placed on the adjustment in transitioning from the academic environment to the working world and its effects upon the discipline of being an artist. The course covers several aspects of the business side of art including the documentation, presentation and marketing of one’s artwork as well as information concerning: grant opportunities and artist’s residency programs; website development; graduate school; gallery representation, curatorial/museum work and teaching. Through class discussions, assignments, course materials and guest speakers, students are exposed to the various practitioners that comprise the art world and gain the necessary skills for their development as professional artists. Co-requisite Senior Studio.
2 instructed hours and 4 hours of required independent work each week.
Art & Fear, Bayles & Orland, ISBN-13: 978-0961454739, Retail $12.95
ART/WORK, Bhandari & Melber, ISBN-13: 978-1416572336, Retail $16.95
An extension of ILU460, students will complete their self-directed projects concluding with a
public presentation. 3 instructed hours and 15 hours of required independent work each week.
An extension of ILU470, to develop portfolio for professional practice. 1.5 instructed hours and 7.5 hours of required independent work each week.
Choose elective studio course this semester.
Introductory and intermediate approaches to mathematical and geometrical problems. Topics include: sets, logic, ancient number systems, number theory, algebra, trigonometry, statistics, as well as business math with the goal to improving quantitative reasoning and approaches to business applications
Mathematical Ideas, Miller, ISBN-13: 978-0321361462, Retail Price $142.67
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The 120-credit Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration develops each student’s ability to create compelling and effective visual communication, built on a solid grounding in drawing, design, painting, liberal arts, and art history. The development of drawing abilities and competency in anatomy provides students with the high level of technical skill that supports a personal vision as an artist and communicator, where creativity is enabled by craft.
Specialized Illustration courses focus on the development of each student’s ability to convey information, tell stories and express ideas through image making. Skill development includes idea generation, professional collaboration, and digital production. Technology is integrated into the curriculum as a means to communicate, create and collaborate, alongside and in conjunction with traditional art-making processes. Professional planning, production and presentation skills are advanced throughout the program, as well as an understanding of Illustration and its companion industries.
Content is structured in an ordered sequence to develop progressively student comprehension and mastery. Elective courses and independent studies with the College’s skilled faculty enable students to augment the core curriculum to advance individual areas of interest, including printmaking, digital image manipulation, animation and video.
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