Department of Fine Arts
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Courses
ARTS H101 ARTS FOUNDATION-DRAWING (2-D) (0.5 Credit)
Jonathan Goodrich
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no experience in drawing. Students will first learn how to see with a painter's eye. Composition, perspective, proportion, light, form, picture plane and other fundamentals will be studied. We will work from live models, still life, landscape, imagination and masterwork.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H103 ARTS FOUNDATION-PHOTOGRAPHY (0.5 Credit)
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and artistry of photography to students with some or no skills in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two-hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be determined during the first class. Offered in the first quarter.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H104 ARTS FOUNDATION - SCULPTURE (0.5 Credit)
Markus Baenziger
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
This is a seven-week, half semester course designed to provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and techniques. Skills associated with organizing and constructing three-dimensional form will be addressed through a series of projects within a contemporary context. The first projects will focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while later projects will allow for greater individual self-expression and exploration. Various fabrication skills including construction, modeling, basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class. All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail in class, and no prior experience is required to successfully complete this course.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H106 ARTS FOUNDATION - DRAWING (0.5 Credit)
Zachary Hill
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
This is a seven-week introductory level course designed to provide an overview of basic drawing techniques addressing line, form, perspective, and composition. Various drawing methods will be introduced in class, and students will gain experience in drawing by working from still life, models, and architecture. Preference to declared majors who need Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for the same Foundations course at least once without success.
(Offered: Spring 2025)
ARTS H107 ARTS FOUNDATION-PAINTING (0.5 Credit)
Ying Li
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no experience in painting. Students will be first introduced to the handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study color theory such as interaction of color, value & color, warms & cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, and surface quality. We will work from live model, still life, landscape, imagination and masterwork.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H108 ARTS FOUNDATION-PHOTOGRAPHY (0.5 Credit)
Staff
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and artistry of photography to students with some or no skills in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two-hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be determined during the first class. Offered in the second quarter.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H121 FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING- RELIEF (0.5 Credit)
Hee Sook Kim
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
(Offered: Spring 2025)
ARTS H124 FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING: MONOTYPE (0.5 Credit)
Hee Sook Kim
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
Basic printmaking techniques in Monotype medium. Painterly methods, direct drawing, stencils, and brayer techniques for beginners in printmaking will be taught. Color, form, shape, and composition in 2-D format will be explored. Individual and group critiques will be employed.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H142 INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL STUDIES (1.0 Credit)
Emily Hong
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
An introduction to the trans-disciplinary field of Visual Studies, its methods of analysis and topical concerns. Traditional media and artifacts of art history and film theory, and also an examination of the ubiquity of images of all kinds, their systems of transmission, their points of consumption, and the very limits of visuality itself. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, Fine Arts, Comparative Literature
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H224 COMPUTER AND PRINTMAKING (1.0 Credit)
Hee Sook Kim
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
Computer-generated images and printmaking techniques. Students will create photographic, computer processed, and directly drawn images on lithographic polyester plates and zinc etching plates. Classwork will be divided between the computer lab and the printmaking studio to create images using both image processing software and traditional printmaking methods, including lithography, etching, and silk-screen. Broad experimental approaches to printmaking and computer techniques will be encouraged. Individual and group critiques will be employed. enrollment limit: 12 Lottery Preference: Fine Arts Major and Minors
(Offered: Spring 2025)
ARTS H225 LITHOGRAPHY: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit)
Hee Sook Kim
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
An intermediate course covering B/W and Color Lithography in plates. Combined methods with other printmaking techniques such as Paper lithography and Monotype are explored during the course along with photographic approaches. Editioning of images is required along with experimental ones. Development of technical skills in traditional Lithography and personal visual study are necessary with successful creative solutions. A strong body of work following a specific theme is required. Individual discussions and group critiques are held periodically. Additional research on the history of printmaking is requested.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H231 DRAWING (2-D): ALL MEDIA (1.0 Credit)
Jonathan Goodrich
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
Students are encouraged to experiment with various drawing media and to explore the relationships between media, techniques and expression. Each student will strive to develop a personal approach to drawing while addressing fundamental issues of pictorial space, structure, scale, and rhythm. Students will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide lectures, museum and gallery visits.
ARTS H233 PAINTING: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit)
Ying Li
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
Students are encouraged to experiment with various painting techniques and materials in order to develop a personal approach to self-expression. We will emphasize form, color, texture, and the relationship among them; influences of various techniques upon the expression of a work; the characteristics and limitations of different media. Students will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide lectures, museum and gallery visits. Prerequisite: Fine Arts Foundations or consent.
(Offered: Spring 2025)
ARTS H243 SCULPTURE: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit)
Markus Baenziger
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
This course is designed to give students an in-depth introduction to a comprehensive range of three-dimensional concepts and fabrication techniques. Emphasis will be on wood and metal working, and additional processes such as casting procedures for a range of synthetic materials and working with digital tools including a laser cutter and CNC equipment will be introduced in class. Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: ARTSH104 or permission from the instructor.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H250 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EXHIBITION: OBJECTS, IMAGES, TEXTS, EVENTS (1.0 Credit)
John Muse
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
An introduction to the theory and practice of exhibition and display. This course will supply students with the analytic tools necessary to understand how exhibitions work and give them practical experience making arguments with objects, images, texts, and events.
(Offered: Spring 2025)
ARTS H251 PHOTOGRAPHY: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit)
Staff
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach to photography. Emphasis is placed on the creation of color photographic prints which express plastic form, emotions and ideas about the physical world. Work is critiqued weekly to give critical insights into editing of individual student work and the use of the appropriate black-and-white photographic materials in analog or digital formats necessary to give coherence to that work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum exhibitions, lectures and a critical analysis of photographic sequences in books and a research project supplement the weekly critiques. In addition students produce a handmade archival box to house their work, which is organized into a loose sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 103 or equivalent.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H322 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: ETCHING (1.0 Credit)
Hee Sook Kim
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
An advanced course covers Color Etching using multiple plates. Viscosity printing, line etching, aquatint, soft-ground, surface roll, Chin-collè, plate preparation, registration, and editioning are covered. Students study techniques and concepts in Intaglio method as well as visual expressions through hands-on experiences. Development of technical skills of Intaglio and personal visual study are necessary and creative and experimental approaches beyond two-dimensional outcomes encouraged. A strong body of work following a specific theme is required. Individual discussions and group critiques are held periodically. Additional research on the history of printmaking is requested.
(Offered: Spring 2025)
ARTS H333 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: PAINTING (1.0 Credit)
Ying Li
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses to develop further their individual approach to painting. Students are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique character of their chosen media in making their own art. Completed projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. Class will include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists' lecture and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide talk and discussion of either their own work or the work of artists who influenced them.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H343 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: SCULPTURE (1.0 Credit)
Markus Baenziger
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
In this studio course the student is encouraged to experiment with ideas and techniques with the purpose of developing a personal expression. It is expected that the student will already have a sound knowledge of the craft and aesthetics of sculpture and is at a stage where personal expression has become possible. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 243A or B, or consent of instructor
(Offered: Spring 2025)
ARTS H351 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY (1.0 Credit)
Staff
Division: Humanities
Domain(s): A: Creative Expression
Students produce an extended sequence of their work in either book or exhibition format using black and white or color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the student's work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented by an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture books and related critical texts guide students to the completion of their course work. This two semester course consists of the book project first semester and the exhibition project second semester. At the end of each semester the student may exhibit his/her project.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H460 TEACHING ASSISTANT (0.5 Credit)
Hee Sook Kim
ARTS H480 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1.0 Credit)
Markus Baenziger
This course gives the advanced student the opportunity to experiment with concepts and ideas and to explore in depth his or her talent. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
(Offered: Fall 2024)
ARTS H499 SENIOR DEPARTMENTAL STUDIES (1.0 Credit)
Ying Li
Division: Humanities
The student reviews the depth and extent of experience gained, and in so doing creates a coherent body of work expressive of the student's insights and skills. At the end of the senior year the student is expected to produce a show of his or her work.
(Offered: Fall 2024)