2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ACCT 5100 - Accounting Analytics
This course introduces the basic analytical techniques for examining “big data” as it pertains to accounting professionals. The focus of this course is to provide students with an understanding of data analytic thinking and terminology as well as hands-on experience. Students will develop skills in problem assessment, data preparation, analysis, and visualization using select data analytics tools and techniques that are extensively used in data analytics for accounting professionals. This course requires extensive use of the computer as a tool.
Prerequisites: ACCT 4100 or ACCT 4101
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring Semester
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ACCT 5103 - Management Accounting
This course emphasizes accounting from the management perspective. It examines cost measurement issues and discusses how managers use accounting data for their decision making. Topics include: job-order costing, process costing, activity-based costing, cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, variable costing, budgeting, standard costing, segment reporting, and relevant costs for decision making.
Corequisites: ACCT 4100 , or ACCT 4101 , or waiver.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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ACCT 5109 - Government and Nonprofit Accounting
The first half of the course focuses on government accounting standards as promulgated by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). We explore fund accounting, special issues in government budgeting and preparation of government financial statements. The second half of the course deals with accounting issues associated with nonprofit health and welfare organizations, colleges and universities, health-care organizations, and other nonprofit organizations.
Prerequisites: ACCT 4100 , or ACCT 4101 , or waiver
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall Semester
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ACCT 5114 - Principles of Internal Auditing
The Institute of Internal Auditing (IIA) definition of internal audit states, “Internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.”
This course introduces students to the internal audit profession, the internal audit process, organizational risk management, and internal control. Topics that will be included in this course are: the definition of internal auditing, The IIA’s International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF), risk, governance and control issues, risk of fraud and illegal acts, and conducting internal audit engagements, i.e.: Preliminary Survey; Audit Programs; Fieldwork Activities; Reporting; and Management Review. The duties and responsibilities of the Internal Auditor within the management team of the organization are explored in detail.
Prerequisites: ACCT 4100 or ACCT 4101 or Waiver
Anticipated Terms Offered: Summer
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ACCT 5200 - Advanced Accounting Analytics
This course is intended to provide students with a deeper understanding of data analytic thinking in more complex accounting topics. Students will gain hands-on experience with data analytics tools and techniques. Students will leave this course with the skills necessary to translate accounting and business problems into actionable proposals that they can competently present to managers and data scientists. The focus of this class is on concepts, not algorithms or statistical math, with some use of statistical tools.
Prerequisites: ACCT 5100 and BAN 4550
Corequisites: STAT 4600
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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ACCT 5206 - Federal Taxation
This course covers the fundamentals of individual taxation including an analysis of tax policy, structure, legal hierarchy and procedure, as well as a brief discussion of tax aspects of the various common forms of business organizations. In addition, the course examines the tax implications in implementing various employee benefit plans. Cases emphasize the necessity of considering the impact of federal taxes in management decisions (i.e. tax planning). Students perform a tax compliance project.
Prerequisites: ACCT 4100 , or ACCT 4101 , or waiver.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall Semester
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ACCT 5900 - Special Topics in Accounting
Each year, the Graduate School of Management offers courses under the “special topics” category. These courses are often different each semester and can be either .5 or one unit courses.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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ACCT 5910 - Directed Research
For a directed research course, a student and professor design a self-study course based around a common research interest shared by both. A directed research must be approved by the professor and the Associate Dean of GSOM. It can be designed as either a 0.5 unit or 1 unit course. For questions or additional information, contact your academic advisor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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ARAB 101 - Elementary Arabic I
This course will educate students in the Arabic language and the diverse cultures of the Arabic-speaking world. Throughout the semester, students will master the alphabet, and build a foundation in grammatical structures, phonetics, and various uses of Modern Standard Arabic (with some dialectical exposure). The main goal of this course is to develop skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking Arabic.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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ARAB 102 - Elementary Arabic II
This course is designed to help students move from the beginning level of proficiency, which centers on daily life and their immediate world, to the intermediate and high intermediate level toward the end, which broaden to include topics of general and professional interest. The materials revolve around a story about a set of characters and focus on vocabulary activation and developing speaking, listening and reading comprehension, and writing and cultural skills. Also, they are structured with exercises to be done before class and activities to be done in class. The chapters starts with extensive work on vocabulary acquisition and activation. After, students are prepared for the story, which is followed by focused grammar work. The cultural, the reading and the listening sections and their activities, along with their speaking and writing activities, appear later in the chapters as they are designed to push the students to expand their skills and use their vocabulary in new contexts. The materials offers a choice between Egyptian and Levantine dialect. In other words, teaching spoken forms results in an enhanced fluency that transfers to formal Arabic as well. Teaching with this approach and these materials, students will reach solid intermediate proficiency in all skills by the end of the semester.
Prerequisites: ARAB 101
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every spring semester
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ART 1010 - Basic Drawing
Introduces students to basic drawing concepts such as: line, volume, shape, perspective, value and composition. There will be a strong emphasis on observational methods to learn these basic concepts. Requires no previous experience. Students will be responsible for purchasing their own supplies.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: -
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ART 1030 - Introduction to Photography
Introduces students to the medium of photography as an art form and means of communication. The zone system, camera functions, composition and printing are covered in detail. Class discussion on contemporary and historical views of photography are encouraged. In this studio/laboratory course, students are in the darkroom developing black and white film and printing archival fiberbase silver prints. By course completion, students produce a fine small portfolio of prints. Must have 35 mm camera capable of manual settings. Material fee: $50.00.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ART 1080 - Techniques of Ceramics
Traditional and experimental ceramic techniques will be explored. Design quality will be emphasized in the production of functional, sculptural, and architectural ceramic pieces. Individual problem solving will be stressed. Material fee: $60.00 payable to Craft Studio on first night of class.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ART 1140 - Exploring New Forms : Combining Ceramics and Textile Arts
Explores the historical, traditional and contemporary artistic applications of these two plastic mediums. Students will gain a working knowledge of traditional and experimental ceramic and fiber techniques. Design quality will be stressed throughout as a fundamental aspect of good craftsmanship. Students will gain an understanding of the artistic heritage inherent in crafts of the past and present. Material fee applies and is payable to Craft Studio on first night of class.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ART 1160 - Introduction to Digital Photography
Designed to work artistically within a computer-mediated environment, this course is intended as a venue for discussing the history, current practices and social value of technology-based creativity in the field of photography. You will learn to use the digital camera, Adobe Photoshop, scanners and printers to complete the digital workflow. Students must have a digital camera and a digital SLR is strongly suggested. Material fee: $100.00.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ART 1500 - Landscape Up Close: A Study of Natural Form
The focus of this course is to expand our observational powers and our conceptual abilities through drawing from organic forms such as rocks, roots, bones, vegetables, seashells, plants, and trees. Discussion of visual qualities found in the forms such as shape, line, surface texture and three-dimensional structure will expand your drawing concepts and abilities through the use of conte, ink, and pencil, alone and in combination. Additional media such as collage, off-press printmaking and relief will be included to expand your drawing vobcabulary. Works by artists such as Van Gogh, Mondrian, Ellsworth Kelly, Jean Dubuffet, Jennifer Bartlett, Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Joseph Stella will be studied. Some previous drawing experience helpful.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ART 1530 - Luminous Watercolor
Students will become acquainted with the many techniques of watercolor through demonstration, exercises and instruction. Color theory and applications will be stressed. Through individual problem solving, the creation of luminous paintings in abstract, illustration, still life and landscape will be our goal. Open to novice as well as advanced students. Students will be responsible for purchasing their own supplies.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ART 1540 - Scotland Summer Experience in Art and Humanities
Through Clark University and The University of Dundee you will participate in an intensive month-long programme (June 12 to July 13) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. This experience will introduce you to Scotland’s rich culture and heritage, while also offering a sampling of studio art instruction, lectures, seminars and contemporary practitioners & scholars in Art, Design and Humanities. You will take part and experiment with various types of media, materials, styles and approaches, attend various seminars and lectures and explore the cultural landscape through on-site visits. Each week, participants will have creative time in studio spaces to engage in photography, drawing, printmaking, jewellery & metals, textiles, or animation with documentation and/or writing. You will visit open studios hosted by current postgraduate and MFA students, you will participate in lectures and illustrated presentations from PhD students about their research, and art and humanities academic staff; have ‘hands-on’ sessions guided by PhD Art and Humanities students, which allow you to develop your art practice. You will be immersed in Scottish history, geography and visual culture on local tours and field study trips to see much of Scotland’s historic sites, cities, museums and landscapes during the four weeks. You will travel by coach tour to Meiklelour, Dunkeld, the Hermitage, the
Kingdom of Fife, Stirling and South Queensferry. Visits will include museums and galleries in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee, and outdoors in the Grampians, Kingussie, Newtonmore, Highland Folk museum and Aviemore, Aberlemno, Stonehaven, Jupiter Artland and St. Andrews.
For additional information and details regarding cost, date and University Dundee please contact jajohson@clarku.edu
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ART 1670 - African, Oceanic and Native American Art
Focuses on the Art of the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria, the Northwest Coast Native Americans, and the Asmat, Abelam, and Highland Peoples of New Guinea, and considers the art forms, cultural settings, and the articulation of their distinctive ways of looking at the world. Students will be expected to make aesthetic and stylistic judgments concerning selected original material.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Various
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ART 1780 - Essentials of Modern Art
In this course we will focus on demystifying the all too often intimidating and misunderstood art of the 20th century and making it rather palatable and quite easy to approach. Beginning with an analysis of contemporary cultural trends, the course then explores the roots of these trends by turning to the Modernist period. After some training in ‘aesthetic scanning’, a method for looking at writing about and discussing art, students will have the opportunity to study the connections with the major artistic movements from Impressionism through Post-Modern performance, informational, word, installation, and street art.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ART 2080 - Ceramic Design
This course will focus on the design process and principles of shape, form, surface and function through practical instruction in studio techniques. Student will develop a series of ceramic vessels using the potter’s wheel and hand building techniques.
Prerequisites: ART 1080
Anticipated Terms Offered: spring
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ART 2100 - Intermediate Photography Projects
An advanced photography course for the individual who has made a commitment to the medium. Students will self-design a semester long project, and can explore one of many themes including: journalism, landscape, architecture, portraits, still life, personal images and alternative processes. This course is based on weekly critiques that are designed to encourage and stimulate students to develop a personal style. The goal for the semester is to conclude with a comprehensive portfolio. Some class meetings will be held off campus. Material fee: $100.00. Prerequisite: Photography Projects.
Prerequisites: ART 2000
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ART 2120 - Drawing Extended-Works On Paper
Concentrating on more expressive use of drawing materials we will work with both observation and imagination with consideration of composition and scale. More complex objects will be drawn from and include the use of color and wet media. Standard drawing materials will be augmented with the inclusion of collage, montage, monotype and “accidental” effects”. Demonstrations and discussions of artists’ works will expand our approach to drawing in expressing our dreams and visions. Previous drawing experience is necessary. Students will be responsible for purchasing their own supplies.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ART 2130 - Landscape Issues
The grounds on campus and in surrounding areas will serve as material for studying issues in landscape drawing and composition. Issues such as color and the illusion of 3-dimensional space, the role of pespective, light and shade and the structure of landscape objects will be addressed with a variety of media. Working both indoors and out we will create compositions of both observed and imagined landscapes. The work of artists such as Van Gogh, Cezanne and John Singer Sargent will be studied to aid in the creation of our works. This course is best for those who have had some drawing or design experience.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ART 2200 - Advanced Photography Projects
An advanced photography course for the individual who has made a commitment to the medium. Students will self-design a semester long project, and can explore one of many themes including: journalism, landscape, architecture, portraits, still life, personal images and alternative processes. This course is based on weekly critiques that are designed to encourage and stimulate students to develop a personal style. The goal for the semester is to conclude with a comprehensive portfolio. Some class meetings will be held off campus. Material fee: $100.00. Prerequisite: Intermediate Photography Projects.
Prerequisites: ART 2100
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ART 2400 - Special Topics
This course addresses current or timely topics (in Art) that are in a pilot phase or are known to be one-time offerings. Special Topics can vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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ARTH 105 - The Aegean World
An introduction to the architecture, sculpture and painting of Egypt and the Aegean during the Bronze Age. The course covers the Old and New Kingdoms of Egypt, Crete, and mainland Greece. Examines artistic forms and traditions of each region in order to shed light on the individual religious and social contexts in which they evolved. Highlights the archaeologists whose discoveries have illuminated the history and artifacts of these lands. Field trips to area museums.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 109 - Greek Myth and the Classical Ideal in Art
Investigates selected Greek myths and the concept of the “Classical ideal” as expressed in art, both in ancient Greece and in various later periods, including the 20th century. Approaches the myths from the standpoint of origin and significance, changing modes of representation and manipulation for political purposes. The “Classical ideal” is also examined both as it originally developed and as it was conceived in subsequent ages. The course also considers the changing attitudes towards the classical world and the significance of the classical tradition in art and history. Field trips to area museums.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 110 - Ancient Greek Art
This intensive survey reviews Greek art from the collapse of the Minoan-Mycenaean world in the 12th century B.C. to the close of the Hellenistic period in the first-century B.C. Geographically, it reaches from Greece, westward to the Greek cities of South Italy and Sicily and eastward to the Hellenized lands of Asia Minor, Egypt and the Near East. The course discusses the concept of artistic originality and stylistic development, the relationship between art and politics and the contribution of Greek art to the history of the visual arts in the Western world. Field trips to the Worcester Art Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 114 - Ancient Cities and Sanctuaries
Introduces the great urban and religious centers of the ancient world. The course examines the concept of the city as it first evolved in the Near East and as it developed in classical Greece and Rome. The course emphasizes both the design and structure of urban spaces and the factors affecting town planning. Discusses ancient sanctuaries not only as areas of religious worship, but also as centers of cultural activity involving theater, art, athletics and politics. Cities and sanctuaries are viewed in their historical setting as part of the larger civilizations, that nurtured them.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 118 - Art in the Age of Alexander the Great
By his death in 323 B.C., at age 33, Alexander the Great had conquered most of the known world, his empire stretching from Greece to the Indus River Valley of India. In the process, he transformed this region into a polyglot, multicultural mix that has been compared to the global village in which we live today. This course examines the life and times of Alexander and his followers through the record of the material culture they left behind: architecture, sculpture, painting, gold, coins, jewelry and everyday artifacts. It specifically examines how culture is shaped by such material goods and uses an historical perspective to gain insight to the ever-changing profile of our society today. Trips to area museums.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 124 - Italian Art from Giotto to Botticelli
Examines one of the most crucial periods in Western art, the Early Renaissance in Italy. Investigates painting, sculpture and architecture in their cultural and historical contexts from the trecento (1300s) to the late quattrocento (1400s), with a focus on Tuscany and its flourishing capital, Florence. Explores the movement away from Byzantine and Gothic art toward a new, uniquely Italian style emphasizing humanity, realism and science. Assesses how humanist studies, republican politics, monastic reform and the emergence of a wealthy mercantile class affected artistic style and theory. Considers artists‚ growing self-awareness as professionals contributing to contemporary intellectual developments and the ideology of genius. Artists highlighted in this course include Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Alberti, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca and Botticelli. Field trips to area museums.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 125 - Art in the Age of Michelangelo
Focuses on the art of the 1500s in Italy, an era comprising the High Renaissance and Mannerism, perhaps the single most influential period in Western art after classical times. Investigates painting, sculpture and architecture in the major Italian cultural centers of Florence, Rome, Milan, Parma, Mantua and Venice. Considers questions of style, influence, patronage, art theory and scholarly and religious developments. Highlights the work of Michelangelo, including the recently restored Sistine Chapel frescoes, the Medici Tombs, the David and the Pietà. Also considers the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Correggio, Giorgione and Titian, and their relationship to Michelangelo and his legacy. Looks at the rise of papal Rome and the building of St. Peter’s basilica and the Vatican palaces. Field trips to area museums.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 131 - Baroque Art in the Age of Bernini
Considers European art and architecture from around 1580 to 1680, the age known as the Baroque. An era of astonishing artistic activity, it was marked by lavish patronage by popes, cardinals and princes, centering on the cosmopolitan capital of Rome. This period was characterized by fundamental changes in society, a re-examining of religious imagery and orthodoxy, new and revolutionary scientific discoveries, a new global awareness and the growth of political absolutism. Explores how these developments informed the style, iconography and patronage of art. Analyzes works by some of the best-known “Old Masters,” including Bernini, Borromini, Caravaggio, Rubens, and Rembrandt. Topics include developments in optics and drama, the rise of landscape painting, still life and genre painting, as well as the concept of the Baroque unity of the arts. Field trips to area museums.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 140 - Modern Art: 19th Century
Examines neoclassicism, romanticism, realism and impressionism. Studies the development of landscape painting in England, France, and the United States in relation to the rise of urbanization and industrialization, and the origins of an “avant-garde.”
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 143 - Art from 1940 to 1970: Modernism and Its Discontents
A survey of the major trends in art between 1940 and 1970, focused primarily on the art scene in the U.S. and Europe. We will begin with the emergence of New York as the center of the international avant-garde and the seat of Abstract Expressionism in the years after World War II. Abstract Expressionism is typically understood as the exemplary moment in high modernism, and we’ll discuss how an artist’s gender and race profoundly shaped this influential moment. The course will then trace the disintegrating confidence of mid-twentieth-century modernism, examining such movements as neo-Dadaism, pop art, minimalism, land art, and AfriCOBRA. We will discuss how these movements critiqued both modernism and postwar society itself, as they paralleled (and participated in) the Civil Rights protests and international student uprisings of the 1960s.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 151 - New Topics in Art History
Lecture/ discussion course that introduces students to new topics in Art History that are not covered in regular course offerings. Subjects may range from the ancient to modern period, and might engage art made in diverse geographic regions. No prior art history experience is expected.
Spring 2023 Topics:
ARTH 151.1 How Houses Build People: Ancient and Modern Domestic Life
Home, abode, dwelling, hovel, mansion, apartment, cabin, cottage, house. We use many terms to refer to the places we live. At a basic level, all human societies build dwellings for shelter, but these structures have taken an astonishing variety of forms. In this course, we will examine this fundamental structure-the house-not just as a simple shelter, but also as a carrier of social meaning. Archaeologists have spent a considerable effort to determine how early people built houses, but this course aims to invert the emphasis and ask how houses build people. That is, how did the form and organization of houses influence social behavior in the past, and, similarly, how do houses influence our own society today? As houses are a basic unit of social and economic organization, we will explore how the house acts as a medium through which culture is passed down and transformed, in both the present and in the past. Be it ever so humble, the house can shed light on social relationships within families and other social groups, as well as larger cultural priorities. We will focus on dwellings in ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the modern United States, including taking some field trips to visit historic houses right here in Worcester.
ARTH 151.2 The Floating World: Design and Material Culture of Ukiyo-e
This class will introduce students to major developments in Japanese art during the Edo period (1600-1868), with special focus on how the culture of mass consumption and media production informed popular design. It will use a single exhibition, The Floating World: Japanese Prints of the John Chandler Bancroft Collectionat the Worcester Art Museum as a point of reference, allowing students the opportunity to see the art they are studying up close and make more informed observations about its material qualities. There will be a particular focus on the material culture of premodern Japan, and students will learn what the physical attributes of prints, including its material composition, tell us about their history. Students will be asked to give presentations on assigned topics, as well as complete a research project for the course. The course content will also engage with the practice of collecting and curating Japanese prints in the West, and how that informs scholarship on the topic.
Students will be charged a lab fee when enrolling in ARTH 151.2.
FALL 2022 TOPIC TROY ETERNAL: MYTHOLOGY, ART AND HISTROY - A half-divine warrior. An unusually crafty general. A beautiful woman far from home. A giant wooden horse? Many ancient Greek and Roman sources, including Homer’s poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, tell the story of the Trojan War and its aftermath. This mythological, ten-year conflict between the united Greek cities and the Trojans was among the most popular themes in both art and literature in the Classical world, featuring memorable figures such as Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen. Artists from the 8th century BCE through the present day have responded to and interpreted these stories through their own cultural lenses in ways that emphasized issues of contemporary importance.
How did one Bronze Age town stay famous enough that it was featured in a movie starring Brad Pitt thousands of years after its founding? This course will examine both the archaeology of the site of Troy and the legacy of the legend of the Trojan War in later art. By the end of the semester, students will have read excerpts from both the Iliad and the Odyssey in translation and will also be knowledgeable about significant works of art from antiquity through the present day which respond to these texts. We will cover topics such as the historicity of the war, the political use of images of the war by the Athenians after the Persian War, Augustus’ promotion of the figure of Aeneas in early Roman Imperial Art, the cultivation of a purported Trojan heritage by Medieval royal families, the popularity of reimagined scenes from the war in Renaissance and Baroque painting, the role of The Odyssey in art about the African diaspora, and depictions of Troy in film.
May be repeated three times for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-Annually
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ARTH 156 - African Art and Architecture
This introductory course focuses in the art and architecture of the vast African continent from prehistory to the present day, including the art of the global African diaspora. It addresses the wide range of African arts from the many diverse African peoples and regions and the complex historical, cultural and religious overlay with the introduction of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and colonial rule. Particular aspects of African art featured will include visual abstraction, innovation of form and assemblage of materials, the primacy of sculpture and adornment of the human body, and the linkage of art to ritual and performance. Students will also critically evaluate problematic and discrepant interpretations of African art and changing perceptions. This course operates on the theory that “less is more” and we will focus on a few select monuments from each area and period of Africa to study in depth.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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ARTH 158 - Art and the City of Worcester
This class is an introduction to art history, using the rich trove of art collections within the city of Worcester as primary objects of study. Each week we will be immersed in the art of a specific time and place, reading relevant articles and then examining, in person, actual examples of art from the period. Over the course of the semester, we will visit the collections of the Worcester Art Museum, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Higgins Armory Museum, and will also study several examples of public art in the city. By the end of the semester, students will have gained a foundation in art history and will also have come to know the City of Worcester in greater depth. Fulfills the Aesthetic Perspective requirement.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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ARTH 159 - Latin-American Art
Surveys the art and architecture of Latin America, ranging from Argentina to the United States, from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Begins with an exploration of the art of Mesoamerica and the Andes before the arrival of the Europeans, including the Olmecs, Maya, Aztecs and Inca. Explores the cultural convergence that resulted from the conquest in the 16th century, focusing on the role of indigenous artists and traditions in the formation of early Colonial culture. Traces the development of the colonial arts, considering the role of civil and religious patronage, the rise of the art guilds, the international makeup of European cultures in the Americas and the relationship with the arts of Spain and Portugal. Considers the rise of nationalism in the 17th and 18th centuries and its effect on the arts, including the revival of Amerindian forms by the independence movement in regions that would later become Peru and Mexico. Explores the development of the arts from independence from Spain and Portugal in the early 19th century to the present-day Latin American Art. Field trips to area museums.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 161 - The Arts of Islam
The rich visual and material histories of the Islamic peoples encompass many cultures and regions as diverse as Spain, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia and include one third of the world’s population. This course explores Islamic art and architecture from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632) to the present. Tracing the development of the mosque and the madrasa (religious college), palaces and fortresses from the 7th century, we will reflect on regional variations and influences of neighboring cultures and religions. We will also look at the complex and challenging ‘exchanges’ of art and architectural techniques fostered and forced by the Crusades. The course will consider arts including architectural decoration, calligraphy, miniature and mural paintings, ceramics, glassware, ivory and metalwork, and textiles. The disinclination towards the representation of figural art (aniconic art), sacred geography and ritual, and the importance of commercial and political exchange will also be studied. Major monuments will include the Alhambra in Granada, Krak des Chevaliers and the Citadel of Aleppo, the Great Mosques of Damascus, Cordoba, and Djenne, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, and the Taj Mahal in India. Field trip(s) will be to area museums.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: na
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ARTH 210 - The Art of Art History: Teaching and Methods
This seminar and practicum is the capstone experience for majors in art history. Students enrolled in this course will serve as PLAs (Peer Learning Assistants) for the art history survey, Arth 010, Stone Age to Our Age. This seminar has two primary goals:1) to explore some of the major critical questions that art historians have asked, and attempted to answer, about our discipline; and 2) to provide guidance and critical support for teaching art history discussion sections. Among the questions that our seminar readings will address: how do we talk and write about art, which is by definition non-verbal, and how do we help others learn to talk and write about art? What is the influence of social and political context on a work of art, and how can we guide others to an appropriate use of this historical information? What makes for an effective discussion group experience?
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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ARTH 215 - The Temple Builders: Architecture in Ancient Greece
Traces the evolution of monumental architecture in Greece from its origins in the Geometric period through its development in Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic times. Emphasizes the integration of craftsmanship, or techne, with elements of design in the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders. Discusses the relationship between architect and patron, the social role of architecture and its political impact, as well as the problems of modern investigation and reconstruction of ancient buildings.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 216 - Architecture and Democracy
This seminar explores the relationship between the built environment and civic ideology in ancient Athens and 20th-century America. “Built environment” refers to structures in, through and around which a society functions and includes both private and public buildings and spaces. “Civic ideology” means ideas that embody the collective beliefs and aspirations of the citizen body. In particular we will be interested in the relationship between the individual citizen and the state in ancient Athens and 20th-century United States and the means by which architecture acts to construct that relationship. Area field trips.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 219 - Special Topics in Ancient Art
Introduces specific topics and approaches in the study of ancient art. The course develops the student’s research, oral presentations, and writing skills through intense study that is not possible in a survey course. While the seminar is designed for majors, qualified students from other disciplines are welcome.
Sping 2023 Topic: Who Am I? Social Identity in Ancient Greek Art
The ancient Greek world was a diverse place, full of people with complex social identities based on many intersecting aspects of how they represented themselves and how others saw them. Yet, what is identity? Why do we have categories like male, female, child, adult, citizen, and slave? And how did ancient Greek artists represent aspects of identity in depictions of the human form? This course is concerned with what we can learn about the lives of varied members of society from representations in ancient art. We will use visual culture as a jumping off point to explore issues such as conceptions of childhood and old age in the ancient world, changing notions of gender and sexuality, `elite’ and `non-elite’ culture, slaves, and the visual creation of the `other’ in Greek. Examples will be drawn from a variety of contexts, including public monuments, religious architecture, private houses, and more local and vernacular styles across the Greek world. Materially, we will examine representations of the human (and divine!) form in bronze and marble sculpture, wall paintings, mosaics, vase paintings, and small portable objects.
FALL 2022 TOPIC: ANCIENT MONUMENTS, MODERN POLITICS - In 1934, the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini tore down houses in a poor neighborhood in Rome to expose the Circus Maximus, an enormous ancient chariot-racing venue. He also rerouted roads and leveled other residences, all to highlight the city’s ancient past and style himself after Rome’s first emperor, Augustus. Mussolini was neither the first nor the last leader to use ancient monuments to further political goals. This raises an important question: who owns the past? In this class, we will explore the ways in which state actors and political leaders have used and abused ancient monuments and narratives about the past in building modern national identities in the Mediterranean. Case studies will include the Nazi appropriation of the Greek past, ISIS and the destruction of Palmyra, Masada and nation-building in Israel, ancient Athenian manipulation of earlier monuments, competing ‘Roman’ pasts in France, and the complexities of cultural heritage in North Africa after French colonization. Ultimately, this course is concerned with the vital role of the past in the present.
May be repeated for credit
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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ARTH 230 - Caravaggio
Focuses on the work of one of the best known artists of any period, the painter Michelangelo Merisi or Caravaggio (1573-1610). Although he died a young man in 1610, he is often considered the most important painter of the 17th century. Explores Caravaggio’s intense naturalism and the controversy it caused, his sense of drama and supernatural light and the role of his personality in works of art. Surveys his life in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily, considering his religious paintings, genre scenes and still lifes. Considers the contradictory aspects of his character: his sexual ambivalence, his criminal violence and his intense spiritual devotion. Explores his artistic legacy in Italy and abroad with a strong emphasis on Artemisia Gentileschi. Readings include art-historical scholarship, history and original documents from the period. Field trips to area museums.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall 2010, Offered every other year
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ARTH 231 - Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci is often regarded as the Renaissance epitome of the “universal man.” This seminar will help students reach a deeper understanding of Leonardo’s achievements and working methods as an artist, architect, anatomist and engineer. As our own age moves towards narrower specialization, the myth of Leonardo looms large as an unreachable ideal of “genius.” How relevant is Leonardo, and how might one unite humanistic and artistic thinking with the latest advances in science and engineering? What role did aesthetic knowledge play in the life of Leonardo, and what assumptions do we make about aesthetics today? What methods did Leonardo use to cultivate and express his intellect? Analyzing Leonardo’s paintings and notebooks will provide an introduction to developments in Renaissance Art. We will examine various writings about Leonardo in an effort to develop a critical understanding of biography and its tropes. Students will learn fundamental methods of art historical analysis while engaging in their own attempts to ‘decode’ the works of the master as well as more recent art that engages with science and technology. The course will interweave historical study of aesthetics, sixteenth-century “science”, and technology. In the process, each student will be encouraged to find ways to make Leonardo’s example relevant to his or her own intellectual development.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 233 - Tropical Baroque: The Arts of Colonial Latin America
Tropical Baroque will be the first seminar devoted to the Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture of Colonial Latin America (1492-1820), an arts tradition of greater richness and diversity than many in Europe itself. It will include not only Spanish America, including New Spain (Mexico, New Mexico and California), the Andean region, the Caribbean, Brazil and the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay), but also the former Portuguese territories in Brazil. The course will consider architecture, including palaces and villas, cathedrals and churches, and fortresses and public spaces. It will also examine painting and sculpture, both religious and secular, as well as the so-called minor arts such as furniture, metalwork, textiles and ceramics, which have received much attention in recent scholarship. The field of Colonial Latin-American art is enjoying a renaissance in recent years. The people and societies who produced and used this art and architecture came from the widest spectrum of backgrounds and walks of life. They included Amerindians, Africans, Asians and mestizos, as well as Europeans from places as varied as Spain, Italy and Bohemia. Mirroring the incredible diversity of Latin America’s natural landscapes, colonial art and architecture blended styles and techniques from Aztec, Inca and Guaraní civilizations with those from Europe, North Africa and the Far East to produce works of unprecedented creativity and originality.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2010, Offered every other year
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ARTH 234 - Art and Architecture of the Early Americas
Examines how certain societies of the early Americas created objects and buildings that gave meaning to the sense of self, community and world. Objects and buildings, both in their characteristics and function, assist in the retelling of certain sociological and spiritual “truths” shared within a community. This seminar offers students an introduction to case studies of objects and architecture that reflect narratives about creation, sacrifice, divinity, and communal success from the early Americas. The examples are drawn from Mesoamerica (Olmec, Nayarit, Teotihuacan, Maya, and Aztec) and the Andes/Peru (Nazca, Moche, and Inca). Those cultures included creative artisans, shamans, sacred structures and social organization in which visual culture played many roles. Although the course ends at the time of conquest when Spanish and Portuguese merchant/explorers entered the Americas, even early seminar discussions try to address colonialism and the lenses both historic and contemporary by which we try to understand the objects and the civilizations. There are still more than a million Mexican citizens who identify as ethnically Maya, and other countries, including Peru, have peoples strongly identified with indigenous peoples. Although this course is not addressed to modern Latin America, it explores the past record of those foundational, sometimes national identities. There are no prerequisite classes in art history or language. Seminar work will include first-hand study of artifacts & objects in the Worcester Art Museum.
Course Designation/Attribute: DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
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ARTH 239 - Special Topics: Renaissance and Baroque Art
Introduces specific problems in Renaissance and Baroque art and focuses on student research, oral presentation and writing skills. Qualified students from other disciplines are welcome.
May be repeated for credit
Fall 2022 Topic: Renaissance Venice
At the beginning of the fifteenth century Venice, a unique city floating on water, was a thriving economic capital and a flourishing center of artistic production. The only Republic in the history of the Italian peninsula which lasted until 1797 (when it was eventually conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte), Venice was the Renaissance gateway to the East and the most important European interface with the Ottoman Empire after the Fall of the Byzantine empire (1453). This class will analyze the development of Venetian art in the fifteenth and sixteenth century through the lens of artists’ mobility, cross-culturality and global connections. We will focus on the evolution of devotional images (altarpieces), the “invention” of the genre of the landscape and its philosophical implications, portraiture, the role of printing, and the exchanges with Germany, Flanders and the Ottoman Empire.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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ARTH 243 - Design in the 20th Century: Arts & Crafts to Ikea
In our weekly seminar meetings, we will focus on selected movements in the history of modern design in the Western world, including furniture, textiles, appliances, and architecture. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, designers have used their work to promote various reformist agendas: reform of working conditions for the industrial laborer, reform for the lifestyles of individual consumers, and reform of the values held by society at large. Ultimately, design is a tool of power that affects lives at the community and individual level. This course examines the objects and buildings that were designed to be the vehicles of social change, and analyzes their aesthetics as well as their ideological agendas: whose bodies are empowered by these designs, considered through the lenses of class, race, gender, health, and ability? whose skills and heritage are celebrated through designs, whose are erased?
The course begins with the radical Arts & Crafts movement in Britain and the U.S., and then covers selected episodes in design history including the Bauhaus in Germany, Art Deco in France, biomorphic and atomic-age design in the mid-twentieth century, and socially responsible design in the 21st century. The course concludes with an analysis of our own contemporary, design-obsessed society, investigating the role of design in enormous commercial empires such as Apple and Ikea.
Prerequisites: Prereq: A lecture class in modernist art strongly recommended.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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ARTH 245 - Urban Art and Society in Jazz Age New York
In the 1920s and early 1930s, New York City was home to (or the inspiration of) some of the nation’s most innovative visual, literary and cinematic works. In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will investigate skyscraper architecture, paintings of city life, advertising photography, The Great Gatsby, art-deco furnishings, the Harlem Renaissance, and flapper movies. Through a mixture of secondary literature and a wide range of primary sources, we will explore broader themes such as the changing boundaries between “low” and “high” culture and the construction of an urban American identity as inflected through race, gender and class.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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ARTH 250 - Special Topics in Visual Culture
Introduces students to a wide range of visual culture products made in the U.S., including material artifacts from popular culture, traditional fine arts, architecture, and landscape design. Possible field trips include the American Antiquarian Society and the Worcester Art Museum. This course develops the student’s research, oral presentations, and writing skills through intense study that is not possible in a survey course.
Fall 2019 Topic
Introduction to American Material Culture
This weekly seminar will acquaint students with basic concepts and methods in the study of material culture as it relates to the American experience. “Material Culture” means all things created or modified by people - clothing, tools, furniture, works of art, books, buildings, landscapes, and even food. This course will investigate the ways to interpret objects by considering them in the contexts of their designers, makers, and users as well as expose what meaning the study of artifacts can reveal about both ”high” and “low” culture. In addition to theoretical readings about how to approach the study of material culture, the class will consider discrete objects within the classroom and utilize the seminar’s three-hour time block for a few excursions to explore a broader range of artifacts. The course will culminate with students completing a research project that includes a close reading of an object of their choosing and an oral presentation of their analysis and findings.
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
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ARTH 251 - Special Topics in Art Histroy
Introduces specific topics and approaches in the study of art history. The course develops the student’s research, oral presentations, and writing skills through intense study that is not possible in a survey course. While the seminar is designed for majors, qualified students from other disciplines are welcome.
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
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ARTH 297 - Honors
Honors in Art History: Senior Year
Qualified students who want to pursue Honors in Art History should identify an area of interest, select an appropriate advisor, and apply for eligibility to the art history faculty before April 1 of their junior year. The honors thesis is a year-long project, and the student registers for one section of ARTH 297 each semester. During the first semester, the student completes research and begins the writing process. No grade is given in the fall. In the second semeseter, the thesis is completed, and is submitted no later than April 15. A second reader, chosen by the student and advisor, will participate in the final evaluation. Credit is given for course work completed, even if a student is not recommended for honors. The honors in art history fulfills two area requirement courses for the art history major.
May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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ARTH 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors & seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved & directed by a faculty member.
May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: every semester
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ARTS 100 - Visual Studies: 2D Design and Color
Considers visual perception and visual problem-solving/figure-field relationships, two-dimensional pattern and form, and theory and dynamics of color. This is a project-based class exploring design elements and principles. Open to nonmajors.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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ARTS 102 - Drawing: Eye, Mind, Hand
Addresses the mechanics and expressive potential of drawing. Traditional illusionist drawing techniques will be combined with exercises that facilitate personal expression and subjective response. In exploring the relationship among seeing, thinking and making, the beginning student will acquire fundamental skills in image making and insight into the creative process in general. Each faculty member will bring his/her unique perspective and personal studio practices to bear in the teaching of this course.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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ARTS 104 - Creative Diet: Sketchbook Challenge
This course is outside of a “normal” drawing class in that the focus of this course is entirely in creating with thought-provoking restrictions inside the confines of a sketchbook. Questions about what a sketchbook is, its role in a daily practice, restrictions, contingencies and play with materials will be explored. Creative prompts will lead conceptual issues and the inter-relatedness of the media. Within the pages, a new side of one’s work can open up and content can arise out of process. Image lectures and viewing of works online will be presented to discuss sketchbooks in terms of contemporary issues, process and content.
Over the course, you will receive creative prompts, after which you will create in your sketchbook as a response to the prompt. Using traditional and non-traditional art materials, you will expand the borders of the sketchbook page with creative visual responses.
Prerequisites: ARTS 102 Drawing Eye Mind Hand is strongly recommended.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
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ARTS 124 - Introduction to Graphic Design
Introduction to the language and process of graphic design as communication. Exercises and applid problems emphasize the relationship between form and meaning, typography, image making and conceptual development. Students will be charged a V & PA lab fee upon registering for this course.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year/fall semester
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ARTS 125 - Graphic Design Workshop
Intermediate-level projects in graphic design with emphasis on exploring conceptual development and the problem-solving process. Consideration of the role of and opportunities for design in meeting communication needs. Bridges the study of design and professional practice.
(Knowledge of design and layout software is helpful, but not required.)
Students will be charged a V & PA lab fee upon registering for this course.
Prerequisites: ARTS 124 or permission of the instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year/spring semester
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ARTS 126 - Art & the Alphabet
This course combines a practical understanding of lettering techniques with a survey covering the history of hand drawn letters and alphabets. Students will study letterforms, historical lettering styles, tools, and processes while also having the opportunity to create their own expressive hand lettered compositions.
Students will be charged a V&PA lab fee upon registering for this course.
(Prior studio art experience is helpful but not required).
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually/bi-annually
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ARTS 128 - Drawing: Sense of Place
The focus of this course will be on the development of rendering and compositional skills observed from landscape and interiors.Student landscapes will be limited only by the range of their feet and imaginations.There is much to draw within a short walk of campus, including a range of different kinds of Worcester neighborhoods and parks.Outdoor work and walking are a required component of the course and should be considered before enrolling.The course will also focus on invented worlds, building maquettes to draw from, and interiors observed and staged or created.Weekly slide lectures will place assignments in historical and contemporary context.Discussion, critique, readings, studio and homework assignments are all integral to the development of a rich and varied drawing practice. Artists who have reference or manipulated “place” in their work will also be studied.
Prerequisites: ARTS 102 or ARTS 129 or instructors permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically/fall semester
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ARTS 129 - Drawing: The Body
Focuses on the human form through various drawing methods, with analysis of the structure and anatomy of the body, as well as exploration of the expressive potential and symbolic associations of the human figure. Arts 102 recommended.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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ARTS 132 - Painting I
Seeing and Believing/Rotating Faculty: Emphasis on representational painting strategies. Introduces the fundamentals of craft and explores the synthetic possibilities of paint, while discussing the conceptual basis for this medium (Why paint?). Focuses on material-both the materials employed by the painter, and the materials the painter simulates. Painting as a vehicle for thinking and communication will be stressed. Students who have taken ARTS 132 Painting I: Self Made Worlds may take ARTS 132 Painting I: Seeing and Believing for full credit.
Self- Made Worlds/Rotating Faculty: Emphasis on constructing alternative realities. The painted image has been with us since the first handprint appeared on a cave wall. It remains an intimate and powerful index of an individual’s quest for self-expression, and acts as a mirror of culture’s changing image of itself. The basic toolbox of painting techniques will be explored along with an introduction to painters and painting concerns from the past through to the contemporary moment. The emphasis of this course will shift depending on the professor. Students who have taken ARTS 132 Painting I: Seeing and Believing may take ARTS 132 Painting I: Self Made Worlds for full credit.
May be repeatable for credit with differnt instructor.
Prerequisites: ARTS 102 - Drawing: Eye, Mind, Hand or ARTS 100 or instructor permission
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year/fall semester
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ARTS 133 - Painting II
Beyond the Surface/Rotating Faculty:
Emphasis on representational painting, but we will also strive to see beyond the appearance of things. This course will continue an exploration of painting techniques including more experimental media and approaches to the depiction of form and space on a two-dimensional surface. The game of illusion in trompe l’oeil will challenge the student as will the metaphysics of apprehending the physical world. Can the invisible be made visible?
Students who have taken ARTS 133 Painting II: Beyond the Surface may take ARTS 133 Painting II States of Being for full credit.
States of Being/Rotating Faculty:
After a basic introduction to painting, one can experience more elaborate and personal directions within the medium. This course will look at alternative notions of space and states of being such as micro/macro, dream and psychological states, as well as cyberspace. Painting II again taught from varying perspectives based on the studio work of each professor. Students who have taken ARTS 133 Painting II: States of Being may take ARTS 133 Painting II Beyond the Surface for full credit.
May be repeatable for credit with a different instructor.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year/spring semester
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ARTS 136 - Sculptural Dynamics
What is sculpture? These days, the term “sculpture” encompasses art ranging from traditional figuration to radical conceptual work, and everything in between. But there are some fundamental elements, common to all three-dimensional works of art that we can explore individually to gain a solid sculptural foundation. Scale, surface, structure, and materials - these are all fundamental properties of sculpture, and in this class students will begin to explore them. We will also examine the expressive implications of objects; sculptures are objects that communicate, and we will examine how they go about doing this.
The class will take a learning-by-doing approach, and as a result will emphasize process over product. The acts of making, looking, evaluating, and remaking are at the core of the sculptural process, and students will be encouraged to take risks and not be too precious with their pieces. We will use materials that are readily available, inexpensive, and that allow us to work quickly: cardboard, foamcore, found objects, etc. We will also look at examples of work, both historical and contemporary, to broaden our understanding of what sculpture is and what it can be. In-class assignments and take- home projects will emphasize sculptural fundamentals while allowing for broad interpretation.
Students will be charged a V & PA lab fee upon registering for this course.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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ARTS 137 - What & Where/Sculptural Practices
Sculpture course focused on contemporary issues and objects in spatial environment. We live in a material world; a world that is filled with the objects and detritus of our lives. In this studio-based sculpture class we will source the abundance of material that surrounds us. Students will explore the social, cultural and personal implications of using found and domestic objects in their work. We will discuss the multidimensional relationship between form and meaning when potentially disparate objects exist within a work. From bringing the world of objects into our work, we will then examine the possibilities of bringing our work out in to the world. What are the contextual relationships when a work is placed in a dark alleyway, on the beach, in the woods, in an old basement or on the ceiling? Does the environment in which the work exists merely inform it, or does it become a part of the work itself?
The class will take a learning-by-doing approach, emphasizing process. Students will be taught a range of fabrication and construction methods including casting, (plaster, body, resin and plastic casting), woodworking and “soft sculpture” techniques like sewing and upholstering. In addition, we will look at examples of work, both historical and contemporary, to broaden our understanding of what sculpture is and what it can be.
Open to non-majors.
May be repeatable for credit.
Students will be charged a V & PA lab fee upon registering for this course.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered ever year
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ARTS 150 - Special Topics in Studio Art
This course addresses current or timely topics in the area of Studio Art. Topics can vary from semester to semester.
Fall 2020: Smartphone: Mobile Media Art
Through use of the smartphone students are introduced to the basic technical elements of the medium. The smartphone camera will be exploited to its potential to generate still images and informative videos of the highest quality, both in aesthetics and conceptual value. Students will be encouraged to build upon a personal point of view.
Required equipment: smartphone
Students will be charged a V & PA lab fee upon registering for this course.
May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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