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Academic Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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Fine Arts 3D: Sculpture |
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3DSC354 Anatomical Structure 3 cr.
An in-depth study of the bones and muscles of the human figure, working primarily in 3D form. Course covers movement, proportions, and development through growth and aging.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
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3DSC392 SC Course Assistantship
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3DSC399 SC Independent Study
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3DSC399 SC Independent Study
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3DSC401 3D Seminar: Sculpture 3 cr.
A forum for discussion of current issues related to contemporary sculpture. Students research the topics and artists important to their own development. Visiting artists, slide lectures, studio visits, and exhibitions are incorporated. Students work with faculty to develop a personal body of work that represents depth and breadth of exploration of appropriate media. Mid-semester critiques and final semester review boards required. Before graduation, students are required to document their work and submit 10-20 slides of their final projects to the FA3D Department.
Lecture/Seminar
Spring
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3DSC450 Adv.Studio: Sculpture Not on Web 3 cr.
Production of a consistent, advanced body of work. Students work with faculty to develop a personal body of work that represents depth and breadth of exploration of appropriate media. Group and individual discussions emphasize the development of critical vocabulary along with advanced technical exploration. 6 credits
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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3DSC451 Adv.Studio: Sculpture 3 cr.
Production of a consistent, advanced body of work. Students work with faculty to develop a personal body of work that represents depth and breadth of exploration of appropriate media. Group and individual discussions emphasize the development of critical vocabulary along with advanced technical exploration. 6 credits
Prerequisites: All freshman/sophomore level SC requirements (SC200/SC201)
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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Fine Arts 3D: Three Dimensional Arts |
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3DTD201 Projects in Wood 3 cr.
An introduction to object-building in the woodshop. Students are instructed in the proper use and application of hand and power tools, material selection, and safety issues. Weekly projects incorporate design/concept problem solving with various construction form-making techniques.
Prerequisites: SFDN182, SFDN183, SFDN191
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
Fall/Spring
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3DTD208 Objects That Change Lives 3 cr.
This is a studio-based course that focuses on making ceramic objects which improve people’s health and living conditions. Students will be introduced to various global non-profit organizations whose missions are to combine art and social concerns, including water purification, hunger, shelter and mental stress while learning how to make their own ceramic objects. Various handbuilding, wheelthrowing, mold-making and design techniques will be used in studio projects. This course is appropriate for both beginning and advanced-level students.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DTD209 Draw What You Mean 3 cr.
Drawing is a tool essential for jewelry designers and object makers. Whether the student plans to be a studio artist, own a small business or work at a big firm, he or she will need to express ideas clearly with images. In this course, students will explore drawing as a tool for developing and refining ideas before committing to making them. Students will work in various traditional media: markers; color pencils; gouache, and watercolor. The class will pay attention to how the choice of media can influence the style of the work being rendered. The class will alternate between hand drawing and computer rendering using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Students will utilize these programs as a layout tool, to explore design variations, to create and control patterns and as a drawing and rendering tool. The class will investigate how computers can be an addition to hand drawing skills by manipulating drawings, renderings and photographs. Knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop is encouraged.
Prerequisites: introduction to drawing (perspective and lighting). Knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop is encouraged.
Hybrid Studio
Departmental Elective
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3DTD210 Advanced Techniques for Furniture Making 3 cr.
This course will expose students to a variety of somewhat specialized techniques that can be applied to furniture production. Sessions explore the basics of select special skills, with of the objective of giving students enough exposure to begin applying these techniques independently to their studio projects. Areas of study may include turning, veneering, vacuum pressing, casework techniques, laminating, chair-making techniques, upholstery, caning and marquetry, and carved molding.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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3DTD213 Artist Resource Projects 3 cr.
MassArt is an institution, but it doesn’t have to look like one! There are many needs that the college has for stairway banisters, planters, railings, conference tables, signage etc. This course is a focused effort to address some of the needs of the college as a professional, creative opportunity. Students select one or more projects for the class to address as a group effort.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
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3DTD300 Drawing for Object-makers 3 cr.
A drawing studio in which students can explore different methods and applications of drawing appropriate for object-makers. Discussion and projects include using drawing as a tool to understand space, to discover the various possibilities of an object, and/or to incorporate it with an object. Students are encouraged to experiment with various materials, techniques and formats.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
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3DTD301 Vietnam: Art and Culture
See 3DFB101.
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3DTD304 Drawing Between 2D and 3D
This is a drawing class that will join drawing to sculpture and object-making. The class explores conventional and experimental ways to draw and to incorporate drawing into studio practice. Some projects will focus on skills, others on conceptual aspects of the relationship between 2D and 3D thinking and production. Students will work on self-curating and presentation. Most of the work will be done in class. This class is a 300 level class open to all.
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3DTD309 History of Adornment 3 cr.
This lecture-based course is designed to provide a deeper understanding of the jewelry traditions in non-western as well as western cultures. Topics are thematically organized and examine historic and contemporary contexts through slide lectures. The lectures are complemented by a library tour, fieldtrips, visits to local museum collections and current gallery exhibitions and visiting artist lectures (which are organized by the Jewelry and Metalsmithing Area). Ongoing class discussions focus on related topics and assigned reading material. Part of the class is geared towards strengthening presentation as well as research skills through specific assignments.
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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3DTD310 Theme: Narrative 3 cr.
An investigation of traditional and modern uses of symbols through objects and place. Projects cover storytelling, literary comparisons, and analogies with ancient and personal ritual objects and images.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DTD312 Theme: Installation 3 cr.
An examination of issues of site and space as a primary component in contemporary art-making. Projects deal with site specificity particular to socio-political and psychological issues, multimedia possibilities, and temporal conditions. The course also addresses issues related to documentation of installation work.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DTD313 Mixed Media 3 cr.
Emphasizes the use of mixed media in developing individual sculptural approaches. Various technical materials and processes are incorporated into course content. Experimental attitudes in creating objects and installations are encouraged.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DTD315 Lost Historic Wall Painting 3 cr.
This course will focus on both theory and practice. Students will research and analyze part of an accurate replica of the interior cupola of the Gwozdziec synagogue, originally built in the seventeenth century and destroyed during the Nazi invasion of Poland during WWII.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DTD317 Poland: Documenting Historic Wooden Architecture 3 cr.
This program is designed for students whose interests may include: Poland; Czech Republic; historical wooden structure, Eastern European history, preservation, documentation, medieval carpentry and participating in a remarkable international experience. This year, the course will have two components; students will first travel to historic sites in Poland and work as a team to document a selected wooden structure from the seventeenth century through measured drawings and photography of architectural details and artifacts. Poland’s wooden architecture includes Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches, mosques and synagogues. Today, many of these early wooden structures in Poland need restoration and documentation. Secondly, students will travel to the Czech Republic and join an international team of traditional timber frame carpenters that will be using a twenty-first century working replica of a fourteenth century human powered crane in the authentic restoration of the Castle Tocnik, located twenty miles east of Prague. Students will work along side world-class experts, reside in the castle, be an active part of the restoration project and travel to historic sites. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and experience. Czech television will be documenting the project for a made for television film with international partners.
Travel
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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3DTD318 Assemblages in Wood 3 cr.
This course is open to students from any college discipline having completed a prerequisite in either Projects in Wood, Materials and Methods or their equivalent. There will be an emphasis on developing an understanding of the dynamic relationship between form, subject, & content. A wide range of wood-related techniques and processes such as joinery, wood lamination, carving, framing, steam bending, finishes, history of wood, and more may be presented through slide presentations, discussions, demonstrations and field trips.
Prerequisites: 3DTD201
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DTD319 Computers for Object Makers 3 cr.
This course is designed for students who are either 3D majors or are 3D-oriented in their current work. In this class instruction and practice with computer applications is offered to familiarize students with methods of 3D modeling and using the computer to create interactive environments as part of their work.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DTD330 The Art of Furniture Design I: Fundamentals of Design and Construction 3 cr.
In this course students initiate and are guided through a hands-on design/build project based on fundamental tenets of furniture design. Students will come to class with work from Design Processes for Furniture Design to use as the basis for their project. This studio shop course will begin with a review of design fundamentals and the concept design process. If necessary, concepts are refined through additional drawings and maquette model-making as preparation for the concluding phase: completion of the final product. This class will also be open to students outside of the certificate program who have experience in basic hand tool use and maintenance as well as a comfort level for work in standing machine power tools.
Prerequisites: Design Processes for Furniture Design
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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3DTD340 The Art of Furniture Design II: Fundamentals of Design and Construction 3 cr.
In this course students initiate and are guided through a hands-on design/build project based on fundamental tenets of furniture design. Students will come to class with work from Design Processes for Furniture Design to use as the basis for their project. This studio shop course will begin with a review of design fundamentals and the concept design process. If necessary, concepts are refined through additional drawings and maquette model-making as preparation for the concluding phase: completion of the final product. This class will also be open to students outside of the certificate program who have experience in basic hand tool use and maintenance as well as a comfort level for work in standing machine power tools.
Prerequisites: The Art of Furniture Design: Fundamentals of Design and Construction I
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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3DTD355 Drawing for Sculptors & Object Makers 3 cr.
This is a drawing class for people whose main work is three-dimensional. We will explore conventional and experimental ways to draw and use drawing. Some projects will focus on skills; others on conceptual aspects of the relationship between 2D and 3D thinking and production. We will also work on self-curating and presentation. Most of the work will be done in class.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DTD392 TDA Course Assistantship
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3DTD399 TDA Independent Study
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3DTD400 FA3D Senior Seminar 3 cr.
An examination of the business aspects of being an artist and a survey of career options and graduate school possibilities. Various professionals visit the class, including accountants, gallery directors, curators, lawyers, working artists, and public art directors. Students prepare a professional portfolio, which includes a resume and statement of intent, and give several presentations. Students are required to leave a copy of these materials in the FA3D office upon graduation. This course is required of all seniors in FA3D and is offered in the fall semester only.
Lecture/Seminar
Fall
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3DTD440 Intermediate Furniture Design: Pre-Capstone Studio 3 cr.
Working with greater autonomy in the shop environment, each student develops a more advanced design project in consultation with faculty. The project will be based on students’ ongoing practice of concept documentation and idea development in their sketchbooks, and focused on continued evolution of individual vision and practice. Practical issues such as rapid decision making and timely procurement of materials are incorporated into the design/build process. This course may be combined with the Art of Furniture class depending upon enrollment.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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3DTD441 Furniture Design Capstone 3 cr.
This is the culmination of a five-semester concentration on the development of studio furniture. Students are required to produce a significant work of merit - a furniture suite, or a series of pieces - in order to successfully complete the capstone course. The expectation is for the student to produce work which is a cohesive representation of his or her individual aesthetic voice and vision. As such, the final work will be the defining element of the emerging artist’s portfolio as the student moves into professional practice.
Prerequisites: Intermediate Furniture Design: Pre-Capstone studio
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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Graphic Design |
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CDGD101 Graphic Design Basics 3 cr.
Graphic Design Basics is an elective course developed specifically for freshmen who are interested in graphic design as a major. It is a “primer” to the Graphic Design program - a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of visual communication and design.
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD205 West Meets East: Exploring Communication Design in China 3 cr.
The understanding of other cultures is a prerequisite for effective communication and design. Some of the most vital moments of cultural exchange come when engaging in a true dialogue with one’s peers. With this in mind, “West Meets East” is sixteen days experiencing China’s most dynamic cities: Beijing; Guangzhou; and, Hong Kong. This in-depth tour will lead a select group of American communication design students to experience first hand how a Chinese designer lives and works, to discover the sources of his/her inspiration, and to learn how he/she communicates in this rapidly changing global environment. In addition to discovering some of China’s greatest architecture, art and cultural riches, our itinerary will take us to a few leading design education programs as well as into the studios of some of China’s top designers.
Travel
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CDGD206 Sophomore Graphic Design Studio 6 cr.
This sophomore-level required course meets twice per week for 5 hours; it is a 6-credit course. Sophomore Studio provides a foundation in the methods of concept, image, and form development. Students are introduced to the language of design; working in both traditional and digital media, students will explore issues of form, color, texture, image, sequence and narrative, learning how to harness these elements to communicate concepts clearly, effectively and expressively. Mind-mapping and the sketching of ideas as a part of the process of inquiry and design problem solving also will be covered. Faculty will collaborate and share lectures and demonstrations across all sections.
Prerequisites: SFDN185
Double Hybrid Studio
Culturally Diverse Content
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDGD210 Typography I 3 cr.
A study of the design and use of basic letterforms, typographic contrast, hierarchy of information, major type families and their characteristics, typographic grids, and legibility.
Prerequisites: SFDN185
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDGD212 Creative Algorithms: Programming for Designers 3 cr.
Written for visual thinkers with little to no prior experience in computer programming, this elective course will focus upon the development of systems for design and the translation of those systems into algorithm. Assignments will include using generative systems to create graphic form, studies in interactivity and motion, and creatively transforming and visualizing abstract data.
Prerequisites: CDGD220
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD214 Lettering in Design 3 cr
The first component of the course involves the
use of both cursive and spontaneous writing and
letterforms as a basis for establishing an
indissoluble relationship of text and image. The
energy and vitality of words and lyrics used in
poetry and music is linked to their conceptual
development of graphic imagery as appropriate to
contemporary society, communication modes and
language usage. A familiar personal writing
alphabet will be created and exercised as a
starting skill later conjoined with brushed
letterforms to establish East-West cultural
letterforms analysis and contrast. The second
component of the course involves the design of
experimental abstract letterforms through drawing
and design exercises using hand media to explore
extensions and graphic elaborations of existing
fonts with the intent of using them for specific
visual communication problems.
Prerequisites: CDGD210
Critique
Departmental Elective
Fall/Spring
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CDGD220 Graphic Design I 3 cr.
Basic design principles and skills are applied to graphic design projects. The course presents the formal elements of typography, color, and idea generation in the context of design responsibility and the development of professional attitudes and approaches to problem solving.
Prerequisites: CDGD210
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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CDGD230 Typography II 6 cr.
In this sophomore level required course, students continue their typographic education by looking at issues of text type, typographic structure and hierarchy. They develop their sensitivity to type at both a macro and micro level, and explore issues related to typography for print and screen environments. The course meets twice a week.
Prerequisites: CDGD210 Typography I
Double Hybrid Studio
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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CDGD300 Letterpress Printing 3 cr.
An introduction to hand set metal and wooden type, letterpress printing techniques, and limited edition printing on fine papers. Emphasis on typography rather than pictorial elements.
Prerequisites: CDGD210 or by permission of the instructor with equivalent class, or printmaking courses
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD302 Package Design 3 cr.
An introduction to the field of packaging design, covering branding, graphics, materials, technology, and typography. This studio course focuses on design phases from concept to three-dimensional comprehensives, and includes field trips and guest lecturers. The goal of this class is to engage the five senses in the consumer experience with the product/package and create memorable packaging that sells product.
Prerequisites: CDGD220
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD303 Letterpress Printing II 3 cr.
Advanced letterpress printing class demonstrating setting type and images in forms for two and three color printing, printing in registration, embossing, integrating linoleum cuts and wood cuts with text, producing and ordering photo engravings, specifying and ordering linotype and monotype composition, creative paper selection.
Prerequisites: CDGD-300 or printmaking and letterpress
experience demonstrated by portfolio.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD304 Web Design I 3 cr.
Introduction to web development skills through the use of Dreamweaver and Flash. Design for the web and multimedia through the use of assignments, examples, and discussion.
Prerequisites: CDGD220
Critique
All College Elective
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CDGD305 Community Partnership Design 3 cr.
This course explores almost every area involved in print production for graphic designers,
including offset printing, printing estimates and working with a printer, binding and finishing
paper, pre- press, color seperation and color proofing, and halftones and scanning issues. The
course centers around a community service- based print project that is designed and produced by
students.[Formely Print Production]
Prerequisites: CDGD220, CDGD230
Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
Departmental Elective
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CDGD306 Digital Photography 3 cr.
This course will focus on encouraging students to develop a personal vision and means of photographic expression coupled with the technical skills and confidence to work in digital media to improve the content of their individual communication through print or the web. By introducing students to the language and tools of digital photography, they will understand how to create, import and transform images into digital format as well as alter them using a graphics program. Students will also explore some of the fundamental principles of photography and its uses.
Prerequisites: CDGD 210 or CDIL 205
Critique
All College Elective
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CDGD308X Design for Social Action 3 cr.
This course for juniors/seniors/graduates aims to introduce students to addressing issues related to the design of communications in the social/humanitarian arena. Emphasizing the designer’s responsibility, ethics, culpability and awareness of the messages the world really needs shared, coursework will include projects and exercises to convey messages for the betterment of the world, via political, personal expression and/or social environmental change, where design becomes responsive and an active and positive force in visual culture and therefore an integral part in the well-being of our communities local and global.
Prerequisites: CDGD220
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD322 Information Architecture II 3 cr.
Advanced course in information architecture focused on exploring large and complex, user-centered systems of information with emphasis on organization, navigation and management. Subjects of study include printed and interactive media. The course content represents professional problem-solving methods in interface design.
Prerequisites: CDGD342 Information Architecture I
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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CDGD329 Crossing the Pond
The UK is recognized internationally for cutting edge and innovative communication design - Illustration, Design, Advertising, Motion Graphics and Animation. This course, culminating in a two-week trip to London, will investigate all areas of graphic communication as they give shape, form and content to contemporary British culture.
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CDGD340 Graphic Design II: Making Meaning 3 cr.
In this junior level required course, students explore how meaning is created through design by looking at visual communication strategies, communication theory, and the roles of message senders and receivers in the communication process. Coursework includes both print and simple time-based applied projects.
Prerequisites: CDGD220 Graphic Design I
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDGD341 Typography III: Designer and Content 3 cr.
In this junior level required course, students continue their study of typography, focusing on issues of authorship and editing, and the designer’s relationship to text content. Projects are more experimental in nature, and move beyond the single project to simple systems. Additionally, the course involves a research component which prepares students for their degree project research the following semester.
Prerequisites: CDGD230
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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CDGD342 Information Architecture I 3 cr.
This is an introductory course covering basic concepts, methods, and procedures of information architecture with a focus on managing information complexity. This course addresses issues of information structures developed for various contexts and audiences. Subjects of study include print and interactive media, and both static and dynamic approaches to information design.
Prerequisites: CDGD210 & CDGD220
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDGD343 Poster Design 3 cr.
This junior/senior course continues to develop skills in creativity and graphic design focusing on the poster’s utilitarian goal. The course emphasizes conceptual, visual and technical aspects of the medium, its history and impact on society emphasizing persuasive communication and education.
Prerequisites: CDGD220
Critique
Culturally Diverse Content
Departmental Elective
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CDGD346 Desiging Stories 3 cr
Storytelling is the art of expressing human
experience. Designers such as A. M. Cassandre,
Saul Bass, Paula Scher, Kyle Cooper, and Nicholas
Felton, rely on the principles of storytelling to
enrich their work. And a new generation of
interactive designers like Jonathan Harris,
Camille Utterback, and Theo Watson and Emily
Gobeille are creating systems that allow users to
make their own stories. In this course, we’ll
explore storytelling across a broad range of
media forms - folk songs, myths, short stories,
comic books, photographs, illustrations,
paintings, posters, film titles, interfaces, and
immersive experiences. We’ll read, watch, and
listen to stories from around the world. Most
importantly, we’ll tell stories through a series
of three studio projects.
Critique
All College Elective
Spring
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CDGD347 Advanced Web Projects 3 cr
Students will apply their knowledge of web design
to create advanced applications that deal with
the manipulation and display of data. The course
will cover a range of technologies essential to
modern web design and development including
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP and MySQL.
Prerequisites: CDGD304
Critique
Departmental Elective
Spring
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CDGD353 Type Design 3 cr.
This introductory elective course for junior and senior graphic design majors explores the drawing and spacing of collections of digital letterforms. Students will develop original typeface designs with the goal of enhancing their sensitivity to the shapes and uses of letters within print and electronic media. Particular emphasis will be placed on developing better insight into the history and classification of typefaces through the exploration of the influence that traditional and digital design tools have had as shapers of form. Projects will include designing typefaces in response to particular design challenges, the creation of expressive and decorative letterforms, and the consideration of the possibilities within on-screen dynamic typography.
Prerequisites: CDGD210 Typography I
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD354 Publication Design 3 cr.
In this graphic design elective course, students will explore the process of designing publications (such as books) and periodicals (such as newsletters, magazines, newspapers), both for print and digital publication.
Prerequisites: CDGD210, CDGD220
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD355 Branding Design 3 cr.
Brand Identity: good brands tell a story. This course will focus on the fundamentals of developing (brand) identity, both formally and conceptually. Students will learn how to generate and convey ideas and concepts and “tell the story” visually. The class will explore brand factors, such as positioning, audience, and market analysis. Students will study the formal nuances of logo design including typographic and color choices to create marks and visual systems that are distinct and meaningful. Open to Graphic Design juniors and seniors.
Prerequisites: CDGD220
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD356 Introduction to Environmental Graphic Design 3 cr.
This introduction to the design of graphics for the built environment is for junior/senior Graphic Design and Architecture students. Through a combination of lectures and studio-based projects, the course will introduce students to wayfinding, branded environments, and interpretive displays.
Prerequisites: CDGD230, CDGD220 or EDAD223, EDAD227
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD357 Identity Systems 3 Cr
Branding is an integral part of professionalpractice. It goes far beyond logo design to
engage all elements of a designer’s skill set,from critical anaylsis and strategic thinking, to
exacting typography and color theory. Branding establishes systems that allow an organization to
visually express its values and aspirations, and creates a clear and consistent voice across
materials, including business papers, websites,brochures and interfaces.
In this class we will explore the branding process from the ground up. We will create
research-based identity systems that include refined logos, color palettes, typography suites,
and image guidelines, all of which will be fleshed out in print and digital samples. We will
discuss branding’s historical precedents, and how those models are evolving in an increasingly
digital environment.
Prerequisites: CDGD-220 and CDGD-230
Hybrid Studio Critique
Elective
Fall/Spring
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CDGD364 Language of Motion 3 cr.
In Language of Motion students explore visual narratives in reference to
time-based media. The course emphasizes conceptual, visual and technical aspects of
typography in motion. [Formerly DynamicTypography]
Prerequisites: CDGD210
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD392 GD Course Assistantship
A course assistantship allows qualified
sophomores, juniors, and seniors to assist a
faculty member with whom they have studied
previously. Duties may include set up, assisting
with demonstrations and critiques during class
meetings. Course assistants may not grade
students. Students may register for only one
3-credit course assistantship each semester, and
no more than two such assistantships may count
toward degree requirements.
Students selected by faculty to be course
assistants submit a Course Assistantship form
with the faculty and chair’s signatures to the
Registrar during registration and no later than
the end of the Add/Drop period. Students who are
performing a Teaching Assistantship should follow
Independent Study procedures
Prerequisites: By Permission of Instructor
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CDGD398 GD Internship
An internship is a supervised professional
experience that allows you to use classroom
training in a real work environment, develop your
skills, focus your career goals, and make
professional contacts.
MassArt offers students enrolled in a degree
program the opportunity to register an internship
for credit. An internship counts as 3 studio
elective credits. To receive credit, the
internship must meet our basic internship
requirements, be approved by a faculty advisor,
and registered before you start the internship.
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CDGD399 GD Independent Study
Juniors and seniors who have a specific studio
project which cannot be accomplished within the
structure of a course may arrange to work with a
faculty member on an independent basis. The
Independent Study form (available in the
Registrar’s Office) includes a description of the
project. Students may take only one 3-credit
independent study each semester, and no more than
four independent studies will count toward the
degree.
Independent Study forms, with faculty and the
chair’s signatures, should be submitted to the
Registrar during registration and not later than
the Add/Drop deadline.
Prerequisites: By Permission of Instructor
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CDGD402 Design Research 3 cr.
In this studio/seminar course, students will explore multiple goals and methods of design research in the context of communication design practice. Through case studies and studio projects, multiple creative strategies and tactics in design research will be investigated. The course will make a strong argument for performing rigorous experimentation and analysis as creative practice that makes designers’ way of thinking and communicating so unique. Additionally, the course involves a student-defined research project in preparation for degree project course.
Prerequisites: CDGD340, CDGD341
Lecture/Seminar
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDGD411 Graphic Design IV 3 cr.
Students work on complex projects, researching and developing content. Finished work is portfolio quality, and conceptual thinking, problem-solving, and formal design principles are explored in each critique. Projects allow opportunity for discussion concerning professional business practice and design ethics.
Prerequisites: CDGD340 & CDGD341
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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CDGD414 Advertising Design 3 cr.
This course is an introduction to advertising and explores the kinds of problems that advertising agencies deal with on a day-to-day basis. The interrelationship of the art director, the client, and the consumer is emphasized with the focus on solutions to typical agency problems. When possible, informal talks with art directors and visits to Boston agencies are arranged.
Prerequisites: CDGD220 or CDIL220
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD415 Advertising Design II 3 cr.
This is an advanced course in advertising that builds on the skills and issues introduced in GD 414.
Prerequisites: CDGD414
Critique
Departmental Elective
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CDGD420 Graphic Design Portfolio 3 cr.
Preparation of an entry-level portfolio demonstrating professional competence in design, concept, and craft with an emphasis on the student’s particular area of interest. Students pass a review panel, produce a resume, and interview in the professional design community.
Prerequisites: CDGD410 & CDGD402
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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CDGD430 Senior Degree Project 3 cr.
A continuation of the research began in GD 303X, in this course students synthesize the research, document the design process, and produce a final project based on the chosen subject of their research. At the end of the course, process documentation and design projects are exhibited at a departmental showing.
Prerequisites: CDGD402, CDGD411
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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HART100 Introduction to Western Art 3 cr.
This course is a condensed and comprehensive introduction to the history of Western art from prehistorical times to the twenty-first century. The basic purpose of the course is three-fold: to examine a selection of the most significant monuments of creative endeavor which constitute the canon of Western art; to contextualize succinctly, with historical references and coetaneous examples in other media (especially literature), those monuments; and, finally, to engage students in the ongoing discourse which determines and revises the canon and the ways in which we see and interpret works of art.
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Required
Fall
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HART206 Art & Revolution 3 cr.
Exploration of the cultural and artistic responses to the major modern, social and,
political revolutions between the end of the 18thand 20th centuries. The focus is on rarely
covered artistic responses to political, social,and religious revolutions of the 20th century.
Historical, political, philosophical currents and their impact on painting, sculpture, and
architecture are analyzed. Using a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, the visual arts
are viewed in the context of their relationships to political, social, and religious events of
their representative time periods.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART207 Ancient Greek Art 3 cr.
Glory of Ancient Greece: Gods, Politics, and Art will survey the private and public art and architecture produced in Greece and its colonies in the east and west. Emphasis will be placed on the interrelationships among art, mythology, religion, athletics, and history. The class will first discuss the early periods before the people known as Greeks and continue with the formation of the Greek city-state and the rise of Athens as a cultural center of the Greek world in the mid-fifth century B.C.E. Students will then address the spread of Hellenism under Alexander the Great, and conclude with the Late Hellenistic Period shortly after Roman domination of the Mediterranean world.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
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HART208 Ancient Roman Art: Politics, Propaganda, and the Decadence of Rome 3 cr.
By the beginning of the third century CE, Rome’s dominance reached to England in the north, Africa in the south, and Russia and Iraq in the east. By the late third century CE, however, the Roman Empire became unstable. How was one city able to amass such a vast territory in a relatively short period of time? What were the long-lasting effects of Rome’s attempt at world domination? To help answer these questions and others, students will explore the numerous advancements made in architecture, engineering, and art during the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Students will also become familiar with various forms of entertainment and literature that address the social, political, and religious makeup of the Roman world.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
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HART209 Early Christian and Byzantine Art 3 cr.
This course will examine the visual arts of early Christianity from its roots until the fall of the Roman Empire in the Latin west in the fifth century, and will continue with an examination of the visual arts of the Roman Empire in the Greek east until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Topics to be considered will range from whether the image of Christ might be rooted in that of Zeus or of the Roman Emperor to the role and function of icons; from iconoclasm to the art of monumental mosaics; and from cross-cultural interactions between Christian, Jewish and Islamic visual cultures to the role of visual culture in marking the development of a variety of Christian identities.
Prerequisites: Freshman Seminar
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All College Elective
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HART210 Early Medieval Art 3 cr.
A survey of art produced in early Medieval Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa, focusing on the interaction among the diverse cultural traditions of classical Rome, Byzantium, and Northern Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire through the Christianization of Europe, the advent of Islam, and the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne. Emphasis will be on wall painting, manuscript illumination, stone sculpture, and portable metalwork objects.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART211 Romanesque and Gothic Art 3 cr.
European art and architecture produced between the years 1000 and 1400. Focus will be on figural and decorative arts (monumental and miniature painting, stained glass, sculpture, and metalwork) and on architecture as a physical context for monumental public images. The functions of objects and the audiences for whom they were made will be considered along with their styles, subject matter, techniques and materials. Medieval ideas about sight, vision, and representation will be examined as essential to an understanding of the art of this era.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
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HART212 Medieval Castles and Cathedrals 3 cr.
A survey of major monuments of European architecture from the Early Christian era through the Gothic style, including both religious and secular buildings. Elements of structure, and design sources and processes, will be considered alongside the function and reception of different buildings and building types. The class will also explore the place of architecture in urban and rural settings, the importance of pilgrimage and Crusading for the transmission of ideas, and the translation of monastic ideals into buildings.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART222 Artistic Personality in the Renaissance I: The Early Renaissance 3 cr.
Artistic Personality in the Renaissance I: The Early Renaissance is the first part in a two-part sequence, opening in the fall semester with an investigation of Italian art in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Students will concentrate on those artists whose works signal the transition from the Early to the High Renaissance, a brief period when Western culture finds a spectacular climax in the artistic productions of Florence, Rome and Venice, and when such work comes to be known, imported, emulated and revered throughout Western Europe and beyond. Primary sources, and above all the artistic biographies of Giorgio Vasari, will be complemented by modern and contemporary scholastic commentaries. Artists include Giotto, Duccio, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Alberti, Donatello.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART223 Artistic Personality in the Renaissance II: The High Renaissance 3 cr.
In the second semester of Artistic Personality in the Renaissance, students undertake a detailed examination of the High Renaissance, the supreme moment of artistic achievement in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Primary sources, and above all the artistic biographies of Giorgio Vasari, will be complemented by modern and contemporary scholastic commentaries. Artists include Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael, the Bellini, Giorgione, Titian.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART226 Northern Renaissance Art 3 cr.
This course explores the art of the Netherlands, France, England, Bohemia, and Germany between about 1350 and 1560, focusing on the development of panel painting and portraiture, and on changes in subject matter, patronage, and the artist’s practice related to the Protestant Reformation. Modern debates about interpretation and the revelations of recent technical analyses will be brought to bear on the works of Claus Sluter, Jan Van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Brughel, Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, and others.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART230 Italian Baroque Art 3 cr.
This course comprehensively investigates the Baroque style in painting, sculpture and architecture from its origins in Counter-Reformation Rome at the end of the Renaissance to its dissemination throughout Italy during the seventeenth century. The course identifies and places in context masterpieces of the Baroque and considers the transformation of the Baroque into what is known as the Rococo at the beginning of the nineteenth century, briefly considering nineteenth and twentieth centuries - American variations on Italian baroque themes.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART231 American Art and Visual Culture, 1600 to the present 3 cr.
A survey of American painting, architecture, sculpture, prints and photography from 1600 to the present, covering a wide range of movements including Early American Art, Native American Art, Civil War era photography, Gilded Age painting and architecture, the Ashcan School, Early American Modernism, Regionalism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. The course will include visits to local museums and institutions that house some of the finest collections of American art in the country, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Fogg Museum. We will examine style, technique, and iconography in their historical and cultural contexts, considering the political, social, and intellectual climates articulated in the arts, including systems of patronage and public reception.
Lecture/Seminar
All College Elective
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HART232 Seventeenth-Century Baroque Art 3 cr.
This course will examine the works of major artists in the seventeenth century in Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and France. The work of Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Poussin, and others will be considered in the context of religion, politics, and patronage. Special emphasis will be placed on the widespread diffusion of Baroque trends, which was stimulated not only by ongoing artistic dialogues, but also trade, exploration, and colonization.
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART233 Northern Baroque Art 3 cr.
Art of Northern Europe in the seventeenth century. The course will emphasize the changing social and political contexts for the making of art, including the effects of exportation and colonization of the Americas. Stylistic continuities with Renaissance art, the influence of Italian art, and the adaptation of native American ideas will be considered.
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Culturally Diverse Content
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HART240 Art and Archeology of Ancient Mesoamerica 3 cr.
Students explore the arts and cultures of the Aztec, Maya and other ancient civilizations of Mexico and Guatemala from 3000 B.C. to the Spanish Conquest of 1521. Special emphasis is given to the formation of religious ideologies and to the processes of urbanization and state development and decline. The legacy of ancient Mesoamerica in modern and contemporary art and culture in the Americas also will be addressed.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART252 Survey of Japanese Art 3 cr.
Japanese culture has been taking and transforming diverse cultural elements from various traditions into its own. The unique art of Japan continues to inspire modern artists. This class is designed as a basic introduction to Japanese art from antiquity to the modern era. It is a chronologically organized survey of the canon of Japanese art, including ceramics, architecture, sculpture, painting, woodblock prints, and religious art. We will analyze the works of art and place the art in historical and social context. We examine how this unique tradition develops and changes through the ages and how this tradition interacts with other traditions of art.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART257 Islamic Art and Architecture 3 cr.
The creation of the Islamic arts has historically involved multiple factors, physical, conceptual, and social, which have shaped its character and meaning. With this in mind, the course will explore the art and architecture of Islam from its beginnings in seventh century Arabia through the early modern period under the rule of the Ottoman and Mughal dynasties (fifteenth to eighteenth centuries). It will address the role of medium, technique, visual program (how Islamic art is composed, placed and structured, whether on a page or in a building), and the temporal dimension - the impact of movement through time and space on the interpretation, development, and physical character of the Islamic arts. Attention will be given to the relationship of image and text. The agency of artist and patron, spirituality, politics, social identity, reception, display, and cultural exchange will also be primary areas of study. The cultural diversity within the Islamic world, which produced various artistic traditions, will be emphasized.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART260 Arts of Africa 3 cr.
Students examine royal, sacred and secular arts from Western, Central and Southern Africa in this survey course. The impact of the African Diaspora on belief systems and the arts in the United States, Brazil and Haiti also will be examined. The focus of study is on work in wood, metals, fibers, clay and body decoration and modification. Form, design, technique and what they reveal about women’s and men’s roles in the community will be examined.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART261 Contemporary African Art
This course will examine the work of contemporary artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations, both within Africa, and far beyond its borders. Critical texts will provide insight into the geopolitical, social and cultural complexities that inform the art of the past thirty years. Finally, the work produced by African artists in the twenty-first century will be situated in the sphere of global art.
Prerequisites: HART100
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HART270 Modernism in European Visual Culture, 1886-1936 3 cr.
This surveys major movements and theories of modernism in the European visual arts from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1930s.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART271 Nineteenth Century Art in Europe 3 cr.
A survey of the major artistic and cultural developments in European visual art and culture from the late eighteenth century to Impressionism.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART272 History of American Art Before the Civil War 3 cr.
This course will examine American art from the time of European settlement to the Civil War with special emphasis on political, social and cultural contexts. The course is both chronological and thematic. It focuses on major figures, such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Charles W. Peale, and Thomas Cole. It also focuses on issues such as the construction of an American identity, the role of the fine arts in American society, and the tensions of class, gender, race and ethnicity in American art. This course will combine slide lecture with discussion of secondary readings.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART273 American Architecture: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Gehry 3 cr.
This course will trace the evolution of American architecture from the country’s earliest days to recent years. It will explore how national identity, landscape, and history have factored into the creation of a uniquely American architectural dialogue. The course will engage primary source texts and local sites to illustrate the nuances of important themes.
Prerequisites: HART100
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All College Elective
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HART274 Early American Art 3 cr.
This course will focus on art and architecture in colonial and early America beginning with Native American Art up to the early nineteenth century, including artists such as John Singleton Copley, Joshua Johnston, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Paul Revere, Gilbert Stuart John Trumbull, John Vanderlyn. The course will examine American art, architecture, decorative arts and visual culture from the period c. 1600 to c. 1825 from a variety of perspectives. This course will have at its center the question of how we read/should read works of art, and thus the varied course readings will range from traditional to more recent and even controversial methodological frameworks.
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HART280 Art Since 1945 3 cr.
Advanced study of the artists and issues of the visual arts since 1945, with emphasis on the arts of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART283 Russian Modernism 3 cr.
A survey of modern art and architecture in Russia
from the beginning of the twentieth
century. The course will explore issues of
national identity and cultural autonomy that
informed the emergence of modernism; the
postcolonial relationship to European art; the
tension between nationalism and internationalism,
and how the experiences of exile and diaspora
affect these feelings and the artistic
expressions
thereof; how artists respond to forces such as
imperialism, authoritarianism, and revolution;
and
how globalizing and transnational social,
economic
and political processes call into question the
notion of Latin American art. (Formerly
“Twentieth Century Russian Art”)
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
Spring
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HART284 Moving Pictures: Visual Language of Narrative Cinema: Techniques and Traditions 3 cr.
Concentrating on the visual language of film, this course will consider the pictorial traditions upon which the new medium draws, and out of which, to some extent, it can be said to grow. We will compare the composition of the standard modules of cinema, the shot and the scene, with precedents drawn from Western art history, from Greek vase paintings to Renaissance fresco cycles and nineteenth-century English narrative pictures. We will simultaneously consider what is unique to the new medium. Weekly examinations of film clips in order to illustrate traditional and non-traditional visual techniques of cinematic narrative will be complemented by wide-ranging readings and regular viewing and reviewing of full-length films. Following a brief history of the medium before the Second World War, we will identify and examine many of the traditional ways in which cinematic artists compose their visual narratives. We will then undertake an in-depth study of some of the major works of cinema since 1945, including films by Rossellini, Bresson, Hitchcock, the French New Wave directors and those of Das Neue Kino in Germany, and the American Independents.
Prerequisites: HART100
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Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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HART285 History of Photography 3 cr.
An introduction to the history of photography from the inventions of Daguerre and Fox Talbot to the twentieth century masters. The course addresses problems and issues arising from the different techniques of, and the interrelationships between, art, photography, science, and society.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
Culturally Diverse Content
All College Elective
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