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Academic Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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Fine Arts 3D: Sculpture |
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3DSC309 Advanced Wood Sculpture 3 cr.
This is a hands-on studio course focusing on sculptural object-making, using wood as a medium. The course will integrate intuitive approaches and structured processes through direct engagement with the material. In addition to guiding the student through various technical hurdles encountered as the projects unfold, equal stress is placed on the development of ideas and intent. Investigations in planning and prototyping, multiples production and large-scale works will also be included.
Prerequisites: 3DTD201 or EDAD202
Hybrid Studio/Critique
All College Elective
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3DSC310 Intro to Kinetic Art 3 cr.
This course is intended for object-makers, to introduce motion into their sculpture. An overview on the history of kinetic art is provided to inspire a richness of conceptual thinking. The course is directed toward a final project of the student’s design, which may be sculpture, installation, performance, costume, robotics, toys, etc. Issues covered include: mechanism design and troubleshooting; hand cranks; ratchets; solenoids; motors; drive systems; and, basic steelworking techniques aimed at building safe and reliable kinetic art.
Prerequisites: 3DSC253, 3DSC264 or instructor’s permission
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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3DSC313 Advanced Foundry 3cr
Students in this section review and build upon
the techniques and processes from 3DSC201, and
are exposed to knowledge about how to run foundry
equipment such as: burnout kilns, melting
furnaces, and ceramic shell slurry equipment.
Prerequisites: 3DSC-201
Hybrid Studio Critique
Undergraduate Elective
Fall and Spring
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3DSC334 Metalshop II 3cr
Metalshop II begins where Metalshop I left off. First, there will be a review of the techniques learned in Metalshop I. Machining and
cold-connections will be explored alongside and building upon skills from Metashop I.
Prerequisites: 3DSC-253 or 3DSC-234
Hybrid Studio Critique
Fall and Spring
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3DSC350 Adv.Studio: Sculpture 3 cr.
Nurtures the development of a coherent body of work based on sophisticated techniques and a maturing sense of aesthetic direction. The course stresses the importance of drawing, model-making, and journals to the creative process. Group and individual discussions emphasize the development of critical vocabulary along with advanced technical exploration. 6 credits (two semesters).
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Fall
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3DSC351 Adv.Studio: Sculpture 3 cr.
Nurtures the development of a coherent body of work based on sophisticated techniques and a maturing sense of aesthetic direction. The course stresses the importance of drawing, model-making, and journals to the creative process. Group and individual discussions emphasize the development of critical vocabulary along with advanced technical exploration. 6 credits (two semesters).
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Spring
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3DSC353 Metals Fabrication & Blacksmithing 3 cr.
Development of skills and techniques used in ferrous and nonferrous metal object-making. Students learn hot forge processes and machine tooling. Projects incorporate conceptual experimentation and technical skill development. Proper use and maintenance of all equipment is stressed.
Prerequisites: 3DSC253
Hybrid Studio/Critique
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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
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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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3DSC434 Metalshop III 3cr
Metalshop III is for students who are thoroughly engaged in all aspects of metalworking. Students will review the processes developed from Metalshop II, and create their own projects to
complete. All aspects of Metalworking in the shop will be engaged.
Prerequisites: 3DSC-201 and 3DSC-334
Hybrid Studio Critique
Fall and 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
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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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
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3DTD214 Lasercutting for Object Makers 3cr.
This is a multi-disciplinary course using laser-cutting technology to explore new ways of
designing and making art with digital design processes to achieve a physical outcome. The
course provides a hands-on introduction to laser technology as a resource for creative
applications within the art practice. Students will investigate the use of multiple materials
resulting in sculptural objects and installation concepts, jewelry and accessories, apparel and
functional products. This process is particularly interesting for the creation of
multiples, for the fabrication of functional components, for the production of repeated simple
shapes and for the creation of one of a kind objects. In addition instruction in laser cutting
and software, students will be introduced to the use of hand tools, drills, cold connections, heat
forming and adhesives.
Undergraduate Elective
Spring Only
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3DTD215 Technology & Culture I 3cr
“Technology & Culture I is an “envelope”, or “template” course; whereby the general course content, outcomes, and methods for assessment remain the same in addressing various topics.
“Technology and Culture I:” is a project-based all college elective and departmental elective that has no prerequisite. This course provides the opportunity for students from all levels to
participate in a collaborative effort to fully explore the significance of a specific historic object, object type, or method of object-making.
Sample Topic:
Technology & Culture I: Trojan Horse
In this course students will research the history of the Trojan Horse through an intense investigation of myth, literature, history, art, architecture, archeological findings, sculpture, drawings, period boat building techniques, material culture, ancient horses, bronze age tools, art and crafts building techniques. This semester will include research, lectures, demonstrations, museum visits, drawings, model making, and presentations. During the semester students will produce drawings clay models, and wooden models of the Trojan Horse with the intention ultimately to build a full-scale reproduction in wood in cooperation with the International SPY Museum In Washington DC.
Hybrid Studio Critique
Fall and Spring
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3DTD216 Lighting Design for Object Makers 3CR
Engaging with Light as a material, and how light
interacts with traditional and non-traditional
materials such as wood, paper, concrete, metal,
plastic, stone, etc., and how that light behaves
when deployed in different settings, such as a
living room, bed room, corporate office, etc.
Students will explore how light is transmitted
from different sources, how it transmits through
and reflects off different materials and how that
shaped the way we experience spaces.
Hybrid Studio Critique
Fall
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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
All College Elective
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3DTD310 Theme: Narrative 3CR
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
Spring
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3DTD320 Critique Practices 3cr
This course takes studio critique as both a subject of study and as a practice of peer inquiry and feedback. As the subject of the
course, the practice of critique is studied through readings and reflections upon the history, current norms, and emergent practices of peer review today, particularly in relation to questions of equity within arts education. As practice for the course, students will examine their own and others’ work through emergent modes
of critique with the aim of better understanding both the work and the practice of critique itself.
Critique
Spring
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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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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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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
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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CDGD214 Lettering in Design 3 cr
This course will cover the fundamentals of brush
lettering and design from a sign painting
perspective.
In the first section, we’ll study and execute
four key alphabets that are central to hand
lettering and commercial design. The alphabets
will first be formed by pencil and chalk, then
crafted by brush as the lesson advances.
The second section will cover lettering layout.
Here we will examine principles of natural
layout, format, negative space, line value,
rhythm, and color. These principles will then be
utilized in the creation of painted show
cards-advertising signs that are intentionally
temporary and often painted on paper.
The third section will explore the use of “bells
and whistles” in letterform and design. Here we
will learn how to alter the traditional
letterform to create a more expressive cousin.
We’ll also look at other forms of ornamentation
including dimension, convex, pinstripes, and
flourishes.
The final project will entail creating a
hand-painted design for a mock client. You will
be responsible for interpreting the client’s
requests and creating a design that utilizes the
skills you’ve learned throughout the semester.
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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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
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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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
Departmental Elective
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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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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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CDGD363 Programming for Designers 3cr
This course is written for visual thinkers with little to no prior experience in computer programming. Students focus on the development of programmatic systems to create graphic studies in
interactivity and motion. Students are expected to perform at an advanced conceptual and basic programmatic level.
Hybrid Studio Critique
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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CDGD368 Disobedient Design:From Activist Posters to Augmented Reality 3cr
Start a revolution. Make your own protest poster.
Break the internet with digital resistance .
Inspired by the protests that started in November
2016, this course looks at the power of public
activism as it has evolved from the letterpressed
broadside to today’s acts of technological
interventions. Students examine criteria for
successful acts of resistance through a variety
of project deliverables, ranging from letterpress
posters, websites, digital installations,
augmented reality experiences, and more.
Hybrid Studio Critique
Spring
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CDGD369 Experimental Book Arts 3cr
Go beyond thinking about the book as two covers
and a spine! Learn several basic bookbinding
methods then adapt them to create experimental
book structures using alternative materials and
methods. Make books that move, books that change
with time, and books that challenge the definition
of what a book can be.
Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors Only
Critique
Fall
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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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CDGD403 Professional Practice 3cr
Professional Practice is a deep dive into the
business of graphic design: how it works, how
it’s structured, and how best to prepare yourself
for a successful career. We’ll look at the
different career opportunities available to you
in design studios and what you can expect when
you’re hired. We’ll explore everything it takes
to be a freelancer from writing proposals and
setting prices to managing clients and delivering
work. We’ll investigate what it takes to start
your own studio, how to finance it, how to market
and sell your services, and how to win repeat
business. And we’ll see how entrepreneurial
designers are launching innovative new businesses
and services.
Prerequisites: CDGD-230
Lecture
Spring
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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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CDGD416 Advanced Projects I 1.5cr
Advanced Project I, a senior-level required
course, is an advanced study in areas of special
inquiry within the field of communication design.
Students focus on projects that involved design
research reflect current industry expertise.
Students are expected to perform at an advanced
conceptual and formal level.
Prerequisites: CDGD-340 and CDGD-341
Fall
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CDGD417 Advanced Projects II 1.5cr
Advanced Project II, a senior-level required
course, is an advanced study in areas of special
inquiry within the field of communication design.
Students focus on projects that involved design
research reflect current industry expertise.
Students are expected to perform at an advanced
conceptual and formal level.
Co-requisites: CDGD-340 and CDGD-341
Fall
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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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History of Art |
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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
All College Required
Fall
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HART110 Art Now 3cr
This course follows upon, and continues and
expands, the work of the Western Survey; it is in
fact the culmination of the first term
exploration of the Western Canon, updating and
globalizing the discussion. The course is
collaborative, team-taught by History of Art and
Studio faculty and visiting experts in
appropriate fields, who present the material in
modules, most modules comprising two lectures,
given Tuesday and Thursday, with a short, vital
reading assignment and an online quiz to be
completed before the commencement of the next
module.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture
Spring
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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
Lecture/Seminar
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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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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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
Lecture/Seminar
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
All College Elective
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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
Lecture/Seminar
All College Elective
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HART214 The Gothic Image 3cr
An examination of the images produced in Europe between about 1150 and 1400 in sculpture, stained glass, wall painting, manuscript illumination,
and precious metalwork. Materials, techniques, workshop practices, and patronage will all be studied with an eye to understanding the subject
matter, function, and visual effects of works of art in both their original contexts and subsequent history.
Prerequisites: HART-100
Lecture
Fall and Spring
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HART216 Art of the African Atlantic World 3cr
Caribbean scholar Édouard Glissant has described
the violence of the Atlantic slave trade and
European colonialization as “the point of
entanglement” between disparate peoples on
opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This course
seeks to pull a thread from this tangled web of
history, considering the artistic production of
the “African Diaspora,” African-descended peoples
across the Atlantic World. Over the course of the
semester, we will consider transatlantic circuits
of artistic development and exchange, looking to
diverse cross-section of African-Diasporic
“material culture.” Fine arts, crafts, fashion,
performance, and ritual will provide fertile
points of inquiry to consider themes such as
colonial encounter, creolization, representation,
slavery, revolution, gender, and identity. In
addition, questions of representation, inclusion,
and erasure within the canon of Western Art will
be addressed. Because this course is
cross-temporal and transnational in scope, our
course content will be fluid and mosaic, much as
the Atlantic World constitutes an aqueous
continent encompassing a multitude of
interconnected peoples, geographies, and
narratives.
Prerequisites: HART-100
LEC
Spring
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HART217 Printmaking Empires: Print Culture in The United States, the Americas, and the Caribbean 3cr
“Printmaking Empires: Print Culture in the United
States, the Americas, and the Caribbean
In the nineteenth century, an explosion of images
swept the Americas. Facilitated by advancements in
printmaking technologies, these images “conquered”
the hemisphere, often functioning to disseminate
colonial and imperialist ideologies that advanced
the ambitions of various political entities over
the course of the century. This class will
consider the various ways these images produced
meanings in the Americas, looking primarily to the
United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
The nineteenth century was a volatile and
formative period, producing standards, tropes, and
ideas that continue to manifest in our own times.
In particular, the rise of powerful artistic
institutions combined with the emergence of mass
consumer culture produced a plethora of visual
imagery that documented every aspect of modern
life. A close consideration of these images can
potentially illuminate negative modes of
representation that persist in contemporary
discourses. By investigating common symbols,
icons, devices, and tropes of this period, I hope
that students will leave this class with improved
“visual literacy,” the ability to “read” images,
both historical and contemporary, in a critical
fashion. Additionally, working closely with the
Printmaking Department at the Massachusetts
College of Art and Design, students will become
conversant in the history of printmaking and
printmaking techniques. “
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture
Fall
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HART222 Artistic Personality in the Renaissance I: The Early Renaissance 3 cr.
Students undertake an investigation of Italian
art in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Students will concentrate onthose 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
Lecture/Seminar
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
Lecture/Seminar
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.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
All College Elective
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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
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
All College Elective
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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
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
Lecture/Seminar
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.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
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HART280 Art Since 1945 3 cr.
In this course we analyze several individual
practices and group movements from 1945 to the
present. Instead of adhering to the distilled
summaries of a textbook, we engage art of this
period at less of a remove. Students come to
comprehend the difficulty and subjectivity
involved in formulating a history of art by
struggling to grasp one viewpoint, and then by
considering similarities, differences, and
distinctions of degree between it and other
viewpoints. Through this firsthand experience,
students weave together an understanding of art
history that acknowledges the true variety and
complexity of art at any given moment in the
second half of the twentieth century and the
first decades of the twenty-first.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
All College Elective
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HART281 Art After Modernism 3cr
“Modernism” comprises images, objects, acts,
performances, and so on that derive from an
artist’s experimentation with the inherent
properties of a given medium. Art after modernism
(sometimes called “postmodern”) tends to expand
upon the technical, material, and
intellectual foundations of modernism while also
investigating identity and personal narrative;
political ambiguity and complicity;
institutional critique; the imagery of commerce;
and mechanisms of the artworld and other
phenomena from culture at large. This development
amounts to both an extension and a rejection of
modernist principles, and we will aim to
understand this complexity in recent art.
Prerequisites: HART100
Spring
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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 Russian art. (Formerly “Twentieth Century Russian Art”)
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture
Fall and 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
Lecture/Seminar
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
All College Elective
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HART286 Modern Architecture 3 cr.
An investigation of the designed and built environment, from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. This course examines the influence of technology, aesthetics, politics, social history and economics on modern architecture and urban planning, including the Chicago School, Art Nouveau, international modernism of the 1920s to the 1960s, Post-Modernism, Deconstructivism and worldwide contemporary theory and practice.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
All College Elective
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HART288 Comics: History & Theory 3cr
Comics: History and Theory is a broad survey course on the history and theory of comics, from
the beginnings to the present, that deals with American, European, and Japanese comics. This
course provides students with a broad overview of the history of the medium as well as the tools to
analyze and compare comics in terms of narrative techniques, combination of text and visuals,
style, and content. The course assignments are designed to integrate the two main tracks of the
course: history and theory. Students will situate comics within the context of the major genres
(from super heroes, underground comics, graphic novels/memoirs, to manga and European comics),
and within the broader context of the history of the medium. The course will also deal with social
issues related to the making and reading of comics, and how these are reflected in comics.
Prerequisites: HART-100
LEC
Instructor’s Discretion
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HART289 History of Sound Art
What is Sound Art? Imagine mind-bending sound
pieces using nothing but the echo of a space,
vegetable instruments that turn into soup, a
“Sound Chair” that propels you through the room,
and meditations that reveal sounds in daily life
that you never dreamed were there. The course
will
provide a solid knowledge of sound history and
basic acoustic principals, and examine works by
artists who have blurred traditional boundaries
between music and other disciplines such as
science, design, visual arts and philosophy. This
is an ideal course for artists engaged in
multi-media work that includes sound (i.e.,
video, film, animation, installation, performance art,
circuit-bending) and people interested in
experimental music of any genre. No previous
experience with sound or music needed.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture
Spring
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HART294 Fashion History I 3cr
This survey course will introduce students to
fashions from the 18th through the early 21st
centuries. It will address the phenomenon of
increasingly changing styles, and connect fashion
with concurrent art movements and social
developments. Students will make frequent visits
to the Museum of Fine Arts to examine historic
garments and contextual art works, developing
critical “seeing” and thinking. In-class
discussions will explore fashion from multiple
perspectives, taking into account issues of
ethnicity, class, and gender. By the end of the
course, students will be able to identify
stylistic developments over three centuries, and
understand fashion as an art form.
Important themes to be covered:
- Influences of contemporary art and design
movements
- Impact of politics and society on fashion
- Emergence of the haute couture fashion system
in Paris
- Development of the primacy of the
couturier/designer
- Impact of technological advances and
development of ready-to-wear
- Democratization of fashion in the late 20c.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture
Fall and Spring
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HART295 Design History 3cr
The history of communication design, from the
Industrial Revolution to the present, with
selected references to pre-industrial
developments. The course investigates
technological phenomena such as mass production
and movements, including Postmodernism and
Deconstructivism.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture
Fall
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HART296 Modern + Contemporary Latin American Art 3cr
This is an introductory course to the art and visual culture of Latin America from the
pre-conquest era to the present. After a survey of pre-conquest cultures, our focus shifts to
Spanish and Portuguese colonial art, then to art of the independence era in the first half of the
nineteenth century, the rise of modernism across Latin America in the 1920s, and finally,
contemporary Latin American and Latino American art, including Chicano American art.
[Formerly titled Latin American Art]
Prerequisites: HART-100
Lecture
Fall
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HART297 Roots/Design History 1650-1920 3cr
This course examines the history of designed
objects, largely furnishings, inclusive of
industrial design and graphic design, handicraft
and automation. The industrial revolution changed
the domestic sphere as much as the conditions of
labor. The increase in mass- produced and
accessible goods (and in ownership) is often
referred to in shorthand as ‘democratization’ and
as a characteristic component of the American
experience. IKEA and Philippe Starck employ the
phrase ‘democratic design’ and DIY practitioners
use it to stake out their independence from
corporations. Can we also use this perspective to
evaluate the proliferation of such things as
newspapers, clocks, mantelpiece statuary, chairs,
ice cream bowls and sardine forks between 1650
and 1920? (Formerly American Design, 1650- 1920)
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture
Spring
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HART300 Art of Ancient Iraq 3 cr
The arts of the ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures of Mesopotamia (Iraq) from the
eighth millennium BC through the fall of the Babylonian Empire in 539 BC. Emphasis is on the
interpretation of art objects as evidence for such historical, social, and cultural developments as
urbanism, social stratification, the institutionalization of religion, imperialism, and
international commerce.
Prerequisites: HART100
Fall Only
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HART301 Art of Ancient Egypt 3 cr.
Survey of the visual culture of ancient Egypt from the Predynastic period (ca. 5000 B.C.) until the end of the New Kingdom (ca. 1000 B.C.). Emphasis is on major examples of architecture, sculpture, and painting viewed in their historical, political, social, economic, and religious contexts. The class looks at the methods and goals of archaeological work in Egypt and how these have shaped contemporary views of the ancient culture.
Prerequisites: HART100
Lecture/Seminar
All College Elective
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HART305 The Body Politic in American Art to 1876 3cr
This course examines how representations in art
and visual culture were tools with which
individuals learned to think of themselves as
American, from the Colonial era to the late 19th
century.Considering how class, race, gender, and
models of physical health and fitness were
rendered visible to widely-dispersed viewers, we
attend to the ‘body’ in the body politic. We
examine how the self, both externalized and
internalized, was understood as essential to
American identity, and mapped onto emerging
concepts of a democratic society. Throughout the
class, we will question what it means to be
‘American,’ and consider the ways in which issues
important in the development of 19thcentury art
remain significant to artists today.
Prerequisites: HART-100
Lecture
Spring
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