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Academic Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

History of Art
  

  • HART306 Art and Symbolism in Rituals And Festivals 3cr

    Dramatic rituals, ceremonies, and celebrations

    are pervasive in social life, but what are they

    doing and what do they mean?  This course

    explores how such cultural enactments use art and

    artifacts to present and structure people’s

    perceptions of reality. We will consider how the

    symbolic behavior of rituals and festivals

    contributes to the individual and collective

    negotiation and enactment of ethnic, gender,

    religious, and national identities.  On one hand,

    we will look at how art in ritualized

    performances function to articulate, maintain,

    and legitimize particular cultural institutions,

    world views, and ideals about consensus and

    order.  At the same time, we will also analyze

    customary rites and festivals as arenas where

    authority and resistance, memories and counter

    memories sometimes collide in controversy and

    contestation.  We will draw on analytic

    perspectives from psychology, religious studies,

    anthropology, sociology, history, art history,

    and folkloristics to examine the artistic

    aesthetic expression in a range of religious and

    secular rituals and celebrations including rites

    of passage, seasonal festivals, national

    holidays, and public protests.  Issues of

    cultural representation and preservation,

    cultural appropriation and commodification, and

    cultural tourism will also be considered,

    particularly in regard to how they relate to the

    tensions that emerge when traditional cultural

    practices come into contact with modernity and

    commercialized cultural industries. We will

    consider such topics as masking and mumming

    traditions in Ireland, Japan, and the Caribbean;

    the sacred art of Haitian Vodou, Mardi Gras

    Indians in New Orleans, the Italian-American

    Giglio festival, Day of the Dead celebrations in

    Mexico and the U.S., spontaneous memorials

    related to 9/11, and protest art used in various

    demonstrations.

    Prerequisites: HART-100

    Lecture

    Spring
  

  • HART307 The Banjo As American Material Culture 3cr

    Might an understanding of this musical instrument
    expose the American psyche more fully than a
    gallery of paintings or book of laws? The
    Americanized African instrument remains a potent
    icon today and we will explore its varieties of
    mythic and material reincarnations,
    contextualizing it in historical studies of
    labor, race, class, gender, technology and
    musicology.

    Taken with Sculpture 3DS “The Banjo Project”
    -they are co-requisites

    Prerequisites: HART-100 Co-requisites: 3DTD-The Banjo Project

    Seminar

    Fall
  

  • HART311 Materials and Methods in Medieval Art 3 cr.

    This course will examine the broad range of materials used to create works of art during the Middle Ages, the techniques used and the thinking that underpinned medieval ideas about artists, art works and the process of artistic creation. Attention will be given to a variety of artistic media produced during the Middle Ages from monumental architecture, stone sculpture and wall painting, to manuscript illumination, textiles and metal work.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture/Seminar

  

  • HART314 Climate Change in Contemporary Art 3cr

    In this class you will study contemporary artists working with the new conditions of social and cultural experience caused by climate change. We begin with readings by a historian and writer to learn about the implications of climate change for long standing ideas of man’s relation to nature. Following these readings are art historical interpretations of contemporary eco-artists in relation to precedents in land art, performance, activist art, and photography. The concluding readings of the course explore new ways of thinking about human relations to non-human animals and materials. Visiting lectures by an art historian and an artist will be opportunities to ask questions about their ideas and practices. We will take a field trip to a sound art project at the Arnold Arboretum to experience this site, and reflect upon how an artist and botanist worked collaboratively to produce it. One aim for this class is for you to use the research you do for this course, particularly for your paper, to develop a resource for the MassArt community on climate change issues in contemporary art and design: we will work as a group to set up a web site and/or a print publication.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture

    Spring
  

  • HART320 Villas and Gardens of the Italian Renaissance 3 cr.

    An investigation of the architecture of leisure in Renaissance Italy, from the early Humanist villas of the powerful Medici family to the farm-villa complexes designed by Palladio in the sixteenth century. Gardens and villas are considered in their role as purveyors of the economic, social and political power of the elite, and in relation to ancient literary and archeological sources and Renaissance design theory.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • HART325 Palaces,Pavilions and Gardens 3cr.

    Much of Islamic art is inspired by ideas of paradise. This course will explore the image of paradise and its models in Islamic arts from the 8th through 18th centuries. Islamic palace and garden complexes such as the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal, Topkapi, and others will be examined, as well as paradisical themes in Islamic portable arts, color theory, and abstract geometries. The historical origins of Muslim paradise iconography will be investigated, including the role of Qur’anic and other early Islamic texts, and the ancient garden traditions of Persia, Rome, and Byzantium.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Undergraduate Elective
    Spring
  

  • HART337 Folk Art,Folk Craft 3cr

    This course introduces major analytic approaches and issues in the study of traditional expressive
    behavior that employs artifacts. The class explores how cultural groups use material
    expression to articulate worldview, values, and social relations, and considers such diverse
    forms of folk art as the scrimshaw carved by whalers, gravestones in Colonial New England,
    Hmong storycloths, Hopi Katsina, graffiti around the world, and Samoan tattooing.

    Prerequisites: HART-100

    Lecture

    Fall and Spring
  

  • HART340 Maya Art and Archaeology 3 cr.

    An intensive study of the ancient Maya of Mexico and Guatemala, creators of magnificent sculpture, architecture, painting and ceramics. Students will examine the origins of the Maya, their calendars, writing and artistic traditions, trace the history of the major Maya cities and investigate the decline of Classic Maya art and civilization. The course concludes with the study of modern Maya culture and political issues.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • HART346 Australian Art 3 cr.

    This course will examine aspects of visual art and architecture produced on the Australian continent before, during and after the colonial era. In addition to questions of style, meaning and technique, attention will be placed on the question of identity: what do terms such as Australian, Aboriginal, western, non-western mean in the context of contemporary Australia, its history and artistic culture.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture/Seminar

  

  • HART347 Renaissance Splendor: Art & Architecture of Venice and the Veneto 3 cr

    An on-site, comprehensive examination of the painting, sculpture and architecture produced during the Golden Age of Venice, the Veneto and southern Lombardy, 1200-1800. There will be a classroom component at MassArt, in which students will discuss relevant art historical texts and learn conversational Italian. Beginning with a week-long stay in the great city itself, we will study the evolution of Venetian culture from its origins as an outpost of the Byzantine Empire to its rise as the greatest and most enduring republic the world has ever known, as well as one of the richest and most magnetic artistic centers in Europe. After seven days in Venice, we will leave for Mantua, stopping first in the foothills of the Alps to view Palladio’s Villa Barbaro, and then at Padua to view the frescoes by Giotto in the Arena Chapel, which for many mark the beginning of the Renaissance. In Mantua we will study the architecture of Alberti, the frescoes by Mantegna in the Ducal Palace, and finally, the tour-de-force of Renaissance pleasure construction, Giulio Romano’s Palazzo Te. SEE TRAVEL COURSE SECTION FOR OFFICIAL REGISTRATION PROCEDURES. TRAVEL TO ITALY REQUIRED.

    Prerequisites: HART100

  

  • HART355 Survey of Chinese Art 3 cr.

    The long tradition of Chinese art is an important part of human aesthetic experience and a part of the cultural heritage of every modern woman and man in the global family. This class is a chronologically organized survey of the canon of Chinese art, including ceramic, jade, bronze, sculpture, architecture, garden, furniture, calligraphy, painting, and religious art. This survey is meant to provide a historical perspective on the works of art in their historical and social context over the centuries in China and to introduce the students to a repertoire of usable methods of approach to art. The concept of “China” itself is culturally constructed. Students in this class will be asked to think and examine critically how the works of art under the label “Chinese”. constitute a special tradition and how this tradition develops, changes, and interacts with other traditions of art through the ages.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • HART373 Architecture of Boston 3 cr.

    This course will explore the evolution of Boston’s architectural landscape from colonial times to the mid-twentieth century. Challenging the common adage that “Boston’s streets were laid out by cows,” the course will identify the local geographical, industrial, and social factors that uniquely shaped Boston’s development, and will situate the city’s growth within the context of larger national trends. Topics will include individual neighborhoods, as well as celebrated architects like Charles Bulfinch, H.H. Richardson, and Ralph Adams Cram. Primary-source texts and local site visits will supplement in-class mastery of material.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture/Seminar

  

  • HART375 Landscape: Space and Place in Art 1600-2000 3 cr.

    Focusing on how artists have engaged with their environment from the eighteenth century through the twentieth, this class will subject the subject matter of landscape to close scrutiny. This class will look at parallel developments in Europe and America, and will consider how various stylistic movements in eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century painting, as well as photography, graphic arts and even sculpture have reacted to the significance of space and place, and humankind’s impact on the land. Through regular reading assignments, student presentations and research projects, students will track their own relationship to the land, the city and the environment in which we live.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • HART390 Feminism and Art History 3cr

    The feminist movement of the 1960s and ‘70s
    raised questions for both artists and art
    historians about the absence of women in the
    canon of art history. Scholars and artists first
    set out to retrieve the stories of unsung
    heroines of the past, and to probe the nature of
    female creativity and artistic identity. These
    early efforts led to a deeper understanding of
    the effect of socially accepted gender roles on
    art production as well as reception. The
    development of feminist critical theory has
    changed the way we look at art history, not only
    from the perspective of gender identity, but also
    with an awareness of the ways that art reflects
    attitudes toward race, religion, and social
    status. This course will follow the trajectory of
    feminist art history and criticism as it has
    expanded from the first inquiries of the 1970s
    and enriched the stories we tell about art in the
    past and the present.

    Prerequisites: HART-100

    Lecture

    Fall
  

  • HART400 Directed Study in Art History 3 cr.

    Directed Study is designed to provide students with the opportunity to pursue an independent art area. Typically, the end result of this project would be a research paper of 30 plus pages, or the equivalent, as agreed upon by the faculty member supervising the project. A Directed Study is a 3-credit course. Because of their advanced nature, Directed Studies courses are open only to seniors, and are limited to one per semester. No more than two Directed Studies may be counted toward degree requirements. You must fill out and return a Directed Study form with a complete description of the project including a bibliography, and a description of the final project. You must also register for the Directed Study.

    Prerequisites: By Permission of Instructor

    Fall/Spring
  

  • HART403 Archaeological Theory and Practice 3 cr.

    An introduction to applied archaeology as a preparation for participation in an archeological excavation. Investigation of archeological theory including history, purposes, goals, and ethics of excavation.

    Prerequisites: HART100 and any 200 or 300 level HART course

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • HART404 Protection of Cultural Heritage 3 cr.

    Examination of the forces that threaten the world’s shared artistic, architectural, and archaeological heritage, and discussion of the practical and theoretical responses to deal with these threats. Class readings and discussion will focus on threats from looting, collecting, museums, and armed conflict. For Art History majors only.

    Prerequisites: HART100 and any 200 or 300 level HART course

    Departmental Elective
  

  • HART407 Curatorship and Art Historiography 3cr

    The expertise in the fields of art, history of

    art, archaeology, anthropology, science, and/or

    classics enable curators to perform their

    broad-ranging, multifaceted jobs as

    specialists/scholars, conservators & managers &

    archivists of material & digital museum

    collections, monitors of archeological work &

    contract, connoisseurs of artworks and cultural

    products, interpreters of cultural (& natural)

    heritage, producers and designers of actual &

    virtual exhibitions, organizers of symposia,

    authors / editors / publishers of scholarly and

    popular catalogs / books / websites, and

    ambassadors of cultures. Some even regard

    curating as a medium of artistic practice. Very

    often, curators’ work is interactively engaging

    and entangled with the important sociopolitical,

    and ethical & legal issues of our society,

    inviting experts and the public with different

    perspectives to participate the dynamic culture

    of curating and to scrutinize, debate, and

    reflect on our views, actions, and policies. The

    roles of curators evolve alongside the evolving

    scholarship, the changing technology, and the

    roles of museums. This seminar is to discuss the

    interrelationships between curatorship and art

    historiography.

    Prerequisites: HART 100 and any 200 or 300 level HART course.

    Seminar

    Instructor’s Discretion
  

  • HART408 Stained Glass: Histories, Contexts, Interpretations 3cr

    This advanced seminar in the history of art is an

    in-depth exploration of the medium of stained

    glass and its long life, from its medieval

    origins to modern collecting, revival, and

    conservation. Stained glass was an integral

    component of

    medieval religious buildings and remains an

    object of fascination and interpretation in the

    modern era. The class will take the greatest

    possible

    advantage of old and new stained glass in local

    collections and churches to gain a first-hand

    understanding of the medium. Course work includes

    weekly reading, writing, and discussion of

    current professional scholarship in the field,

    and a

    guided independent research project.

    Prerequisites: HART-100 and any 200 or 300 level HART course.

    Seminar

    Fall
  

  • HART409 Intro to Art Conservation 3cr

    This course will provide an introduction to the field of art conservation and the preservation of cultural heritage.  Students will gain an understanding of the principles and ethics of conservation as well as preventive conservation and the proper handling of artifacts.  Lecture topics will include materials and methods of manufacture, deterioration processes, treatments and the role of science and analytical techniques in conservation.  Case studies will be used to illustrate these topics where possible.  The instructor will draw upon the rich network of local colleagues and labs for guest speakers and site visits.  Students will produce an examination and condition report on an assigned object and present their work in an oral presentation at the end of the semester.

    Prerequisites: HART100

    Lecture

    Fall and Spring
  

  • HART440 Seminar: When Worlds Collide: Aztecs at the Conquest and Beyond 3 cr.

    The 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec of Mexico forged a new world from a monumental collision of religions, philosophies and visual cultures. Through critical reading, research and oral and written presentation of 10-12 page papers, students in this seminar explore the power and paradoxes of Aztec civilization before and in the wake of conquest through examination of Aztec art and documentary sources including pictorial manuscripts and codices, sculpture, painting and architecture. Students also analyze first-hand accounts, memoirs and philosophical treatises recording Spanish conquistadors’ and clergies’ ambivalent responses to Aztec culture, to its sophistication and to its seeming barbarity. The influence of Aztec art on modernism in Mexico, North America and Europe also will be a focus of student discussion and research.

    Prerequisites: HART100 and any 200 or 300 level HART course; Art of Mesoamerica and/or Maya Art &Architecture (recommended, not required)

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • HART455 Cultural Crossings: China and Japan after 1840 3 cr.

    This seminar is a critical examination of the visual cultures created in China and Japan after the events of the Opium War and Matthew Perry encounters. The visual cultural crossing between the West and East and between China and Japan is an important part of the developing inter-civilizations in the global age.

    Prerequisites: HART100 and any 200 or 300 level HART course

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • HART490 The Methodologies of the History of Art 3 cr.

    This seminar explores the different ways of seeing, thinking, and writing about art and the history of art. Topics include: art historical narratives, history of form and style, iconology, psychology and art, biography and autobiography of artists, sociopolitical histories of art, gendered histories of art, semiotics— structuralism and deconstruction, post-colonialism, and museology. Students are exposed to the problems of why art changes over time, the hermeneutic challenge to interpret the meaning of arts of various cultures, and how art historians’ own perspectives shape the narratives of the history of art.

    Prerequisites: HART100 and any 200 or 300 level HART course

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective

Illustration
  

  • CDIL205 Media Techniques 3 cr.

    An introduction to the practical application of a range of Illustration materials with a focus on water-based paint media. Through demonstrations, in-class exercises and comparative assignments, students build technical skills and increase knowledge of color in applied problems.

    Prerequisites: SFDN181, SFDN185

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall & Spring
  

  • CDIL208 Digital Illustration 3 cr.

    This course explores digital imaging using scanners, drawing tablets, digital cameras, Photoshop and Illustrator for the Macintosh. Concept-driven assignments have strong drawing components.

    Prerequisites: SFDN181, SFDN185

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall/Spring
  

  • CDIL211 Human Figure in Illustration 3 cr.

    By drawing the human figure in a variety of situations, students explore basic anatomy. Assignments include use of figure or anatomical drawing in professional practice situations.

    Prerequisites: SFDN181, SFDN185

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall/Spring
  

  • CDIL214 Drawing: Observation to Concept 3 cr.

    The course stresses the process of working with dry media techniques (graphite, pastel, colored pencil. scratchboard) basic drawing skills, and2D principles to render concepts. Visual, metaphors are explored by manipulating the contexts and relationships of objects and figures.

    Prerequisites: SFDN181 and SFDN185

    Critique

    Departmental Elective
    Fall/Spring
  

  • CDIL215 Sophomore Illustration 3 cr.

    An introduction to professional illustration with emphasis on drawing and painting from observation. Assignments will introduce students to a variety of illustration venues including book, editorial, and product illustration while exploring the visual methods of color and composition as precise visual tools.

    Prerequisites: Take 9 credits from CDIL-205, CDIL-20, CDIL-211 CDIL-214,
    CDIL-216

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Spring
  

  • CDIL216 Color for Illustrators 3 cr.

    Color is a powerful aspect of an illustrator’s education. In response to this assertion, this studio course draws upon the understanding of color theory -though the steadfast focus remains on practical application, on tutoring intuition, heightening awareness, and refining skill. Through a practical exploration of theoretical/conceptual issues, students investigate the complexity and interrelatedness of elements of color - its perceptual, emotional/psychological, technical and aesthetic aspects. Students are required to complete a series of studio projects emphasizing the informed intuitive awareness, creative use, and practical application of color as a formal means of visual communication and expression for storytelling.

    Prerequisites: SFDN181 and SFDN185

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall/Spring
  

  • CDIL302 Narrative Illustration 3 cr.

    An exploration of the storytelling power of illustration. Emphasis is on the research and drawing skills needed to develop strong characters in sequential imagery. Students work in a variety of media, both traditional and digital. The course also examines historical and emerging trends in the business of children’s books, textbooks, book covers, artists’ books, and graphic novels.

    Prerequisites: CDIL215 or permission of instructor

    Critique

    All College Elective
  

  • CDIL303 Watercolor 3 cr.

    An exploration of watercolor as a medium for illustration. Emphasis is on value, light, and applied color theory, working toward an evocative and personal palette. Work of historical and contemporary illustrators is discussed.

    Prerequisites: CDIL215 or permission of instructor

    Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • CDIL304 Advanced Drawing Projects for Illustrators 3 cr.

    The course is a continuing deep investigation into informed drawing. Focus is on drawing as a way of understanding objects, figures, animals, and place in terms of physicality, substance, and subjective response. The practice of drawing is explored as means for research, inspiration, and expression. A series of open-ended topics will be approached individually and idiosyncratically, with the goal of producing a series of rendered essays which inform, reveal, report, and narrate.

    Prerequisites: CDIL205, CDIL208, CDIL211,CDIL214, CDIL215, CDIL216

    Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall & Spring
  

  • CDIL305 Word and Image 3 cr.

    Exploration of letterforms as pictures and pictures as symbols. Typography, the language of designers and art directors, is examined by studying the history and development of fonts and letterforms. Progressively challenging assignments use words and text as pictorial elements in illustrations to strengthen and reinforce concepts.

    Prerequisites: CDIL205, CDIL208, CDIL211,CDIL214, CDIL215, CDIL216

    Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall & Spring
  

  • CDIL308 Painting for Illustrators 3 cr.

    This studio course explores various techniques using watercolor, gouache, acrylics, oil and mixed media in the development of advanced drawing and painting skills as they apply to illustration. The effective use of color will be a primary consideration in all assignments and exercises. Students work in class on painting and drawing skills through still life, landscape and figure studies.

    Prerequisites: CDIL215 or Permission of Instructor

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • CDIL309 Digital Painting and Techniques 3 cr.

    This class will use software to apply traditional painting and drawing techniques in a digital format. The students will also have the opportunity to reinforce certain traditional aesthetic values in the creation of a digital painting. Students are encouraged to work as much as possible with their own images and references and to use traditional drawings and utilize found textures. They will be encouraged to use the program to experiment stylistically. This is an advanced course and a basic knowledge of Photoshop and its tools are required.

    Prerequisites: Take CDIL-205 CDIL-208 CDIL-211 CDIL-214 CDIL-215 CDIL-216

    Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • CDIL313 Experimental Illustration Techniques 3 cr.

    Students explore a variety of experimental techniques that push the boundaries of the 2D/3D plane.  By looking at the work of mixed media artists of the past and present this class will investigate the possibilities of alternative image making.  As the semester progresses these experiments  develop into more advanced conceptual pieces over multiple weeks.  Some of the techniques covered in the course: various media transfers, collage and layering techniques, various distressing techniques, screen printing, working with found objects, working with 3D objects and photographing your 3D pieces.  Basic drawing skills and being open to experimentation are required.

    Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors

    Critique

    Undergraduate Elective
    Fall and Spring
  

  • CDIL314 Book Arts 3 cr.

    Students will explore bookbinding techniques for various adhesive and non-adhesive book structures, as well as a range of spine structures: sewn, concertina, leperello, wrapped, stabbed, coptic. Methods for creating the student’s own cover papers will be demonstrated and explored. Students will design and create an illuminated trilogy using three different book structures, and design and build a container to hold these. Illumination media may be simple relief printing, painting, drawing, collage, stenciling, or photography, and incorporated text may be self generated or borrowed prose, poetry, lyrics, or dialog. Graphic design and printmaking majors welcome. Students should be at junior or senior levels.

    Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    All College Elective
    Fall & Spring
  

  • CDIL326 Junior Illustration 3 cr.

    This course explores various areas of professional illustration. Assignments address book, editorial, product and advertising illustration and emphasize working with color as
    a precise visual language.

    Prerequisites: CDIL-205,CDIL-208, CDIL-211, CDIL-214, CDIL-215, CDIL216

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall & Spring
  

  • CDIL327 Technical Illustration 3 cr.

    This course includes an introduction to the laws of linear perspective,–an exploration of how three-dimensional reality is depicted on a two-dimensional surface. Additional course content includes tools of the trade, various techniques for producing technical illustrations, informational art and instructional illustrations in sequential series.

    Prerequisites: CDIL205, CDIL208, CDIL211, CDIL214, CDIL215, CDIL216

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall/Spring
  

  • CDIL334 Professional Illustration 3cr

    Boston is a city rich in diversity as well as
    being home to over 100 non-profit organizations
    that serve the community at large.

    The Professional Illustration for the Community
    course aims to provide students with an
    opportunity to partner with a variety of area
    non-profit organizations, creating illustrated
    projects specific to their needs.

    Similar in structure to the very popular
    Professional Freelance Studio class, assignments
    produced in Professional Illustration for the
    Community would however have one major
    difference: intent.
     
    This course will make students aware of the fact
    that illustration need not be limited to the
    commercial realm and that their artistic
    contribution can lead to greater understanding of
    themselves, the community and beyond.

    Organizations such as Eagle Eye Institute
    (empowering urban people from low-income
    communities, especially youth of color, to play
    an active role in caring for our environment),
    The Bay State Reading Institute (ensuring that
    every child leaving elementary school a
    proficient reader) and The Boston Tree Party (an
    urban agricultural and participatory art
    project), would be invited to collaborate with the class.

    Prerequisites: CDIL-215

    Critique

    Undergraduate Elective
    Fall
  

  • CDIL337 Virtual 3D Illustration 3cr

    This course teaches the basics of creating digital 3D illustrations using ZBrush. ZBrush is industry standard software that enables
    artists to sculpt directly in a 3D environment. With an emphasis on drawing and composition, this course explores ways to translate 2D drawings into three dimensions. Topics covered include,
    character development, environment, lighting and texture.

    Prerequisites: CDIL-208 or Permission of Instructor

    Hybrid Studio Critique

    Fall
  

  • CDIL392 IL 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: Permission of Instructor

    Fall & Spring
  

  • CDIL398 IL 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.

    Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor

    Fall and Spring
  

  • CDIL399 IL 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: Permission of Instructor

    Fall and Spring
  

  • CDIL400 Professional Freelance Studio 3 cr.

    A course designed for highly motivated students interested in freelance illustration. Assignments, developed in conjunction with publishers, corporations, and small businesses, focus on illustration for publication and the experience of taking an actual commission from concept to completion.

    Prerequisites: Seniors Only

    Critique

    Departmental Elective
    Spring
  

  • CDIL401 Black and White Illustration 3 cr.

    Students will explore various dry and wet black and white illustration media and techniques, both additive and subtractive, including some experimental printmaking. Course will include working with brush and ink, pen and Ink, gouache and acrylic paint, stipple with technical pen, pencil on toned paper, block prints, monoprints with emphasis on the power of creating dynamic value as a means to communicate ideas. Students will complete a series of assignments designed to showcase each media’s distinctive strengths.

    Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors

    Critique

    Departmental Elective
    Fall & Spring
  

  • CDIL403 Thesis Project I: Research 3 cr.

    The first of two semesters involving investigations of a topic of personal interest to
    each student which is relevant to illustration. This course demands far-reaching scholarly
    research and extensive comprehensive drawings in preparation for a finished body of work.

    Prerequisites: CDIL-304, CDIL-305, CDIL-327 or
    CDIL-210, CDIL-350, CDIL-326 or
    CDIL-310
    Runs concurrenlty with CDIL-404 Co-requisites: CDIL404

    Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall
  

  • CDIL404 Thesis Project II: Imagery 3 cr.

    This course is the second of two semesters in
    which students continue to produce finished
    illustrations/animations and prepare a bound
    graphic summary for the degree project
    exhibitions. (Previoulsy Illustration Thesis
    Project II)

    Prerequisites: CDIL-304, CDIL-305, CDIL-327 or
    CDIL-210, CDIL-350, CDIL-326 or
    CDIL-310
    Runs concurrenlty with CDIL-403 Co-requisites: CDIL403

    Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall
  

  • CDIL419 Senior Illustration 3 cr.

    This course is focused on the development of a body of images geared toward a specific area of
    the illustration marketplace that is of particular interest to each student.

    Prerequisites: CDIL-403 & CDIL-404

      Co-requisites: CDIL420

    Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Spring
  

  • CDIL420 Illustration Portfolio 3 cr.

    Development of portfolio material based on the student’s professional focus. Through a series of discussions with the instructor and presentations by illustrators/animators in the field, students develop professional standards and produce finished portfolio pieces.

    Prerequisites: CDIL-403 & CDIL-404 Co-requisites: CDIL419

    Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Spring

Industrial Design
  

  • EDID3X8 Ethnography and Culture 3 cr.

    This course explores methods of observing activities of human interaction within cultural context, and focuses on the applied use of these methods and observation activities to product development. The class looks at user culture within specific identifiable groups to aid in the development of design solutions for the needs of the end user.

    Prerequisites: EDID245, EDID315

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • EDID203 Design for Fabrication 3cr

    The design of beautiful and desirable object is
    enhanced by its details. Understanding the
    benefits and limitations of materials and how they
    come together to create products feeds the
    attention to these details. When one makes this
    object they have an intimate connection to these
    details. By moving beyond the one-off and
    developing the blueprint for multiples the
    designer will develop the necessary communication
    skills to translate these intentional coming
    together with a keen focus on production methods
    and color, material and finishes for fabrication
    of these objects. Materials explored are wood,
    metal, plastics, ceramics and glass.

    Hybrid Studio Critique

    Fall and Spring
  

  • EDID205 Drawing for Designers 3 cr.

    The documentation and communication of ideas require fluency with symbolic and illustrative methods; a language. This course develops and refines the basis of this language, the “alphabet and grammar” used to communicate the characteristic of objects and systems. Through the exploration of various media using architectural or industrial design contexts, this language will be applied to objects and systems allowing them to be easily understood and reproduced.

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Elective
    Fall/Spring
  

  • EDID215 Industrial Design Principles 3 cr.

    An introduction to processes used in all areas of design and illustration, this course provides a foundation in the methods of concept, image, and form development. Using initial techniques such as brainstorming, mind-mapping, and researching, ideas are developed for a variety of 2D and 3D solutions to applied projects. Tackling common issues of personal engagement, collaboration, and client interaction, students express a personal voice within the specific parameters of each assigned problem.

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall
  

  • EDID216 Introduction to CAD/Solid Modeling for ID 3 cr.

    This course focuses on introducing (industrial) designers to the basics of solid modeling. Aside from basic software familiarization, concepts for 2D and 3D visualization will be introduced. CAD modeling techniques, including surface modeling and plastic design best practices are highlighted with emphasis on the role CAD plays within the design process. Various examples of how CAD can be used; from creating underlays and final mechanical drawings, to exporting files for photorealistic renderings and 3D printing, are explored. Basic familiarity with computers is a must.

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Elective
    Fall & Spring
  

  • EDID218 Product Rendering 3 cr.

    An in-depth study of several product illustration and presentation styles. Many different drawing and rendering media are used to develop skills in product design presentation.

    Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • EDID220 Joinery 3 cr.

    Students will develop and refine craftsmanship and design process in the context of furniture design and the construction of two or more furniture pieces. There will be lectures and student research on the history of furniture design, modern movements and techniques.

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • EDID224 Conceptual Drawing 3 cr.

    The course stresses the process of working with dry media techniques (graphite, charcoal, pastel, colored pencil, scratchboard), basic drawing skills, and 2D principles to render concepts. Visual metaphors are explored by manipulating the contexts and relationships of objects and figures.

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • EDID225 Industrial Design Form 3 cr.

    The purpose of this course is to endow students with a vocabulary of form with which to express the function and meaning of their ideas. This will be achieved through the exploration of the objects and object vocabulary, which surround us, and the development of the students’ skills to express ideas visually. The students will be required to develop their communication skills as well as refine their two and three dimensional conceptualization and actualization of projects.

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall
  

  • EDID235 Manufacturing Process I 3 cr.

    A materials and manufacturing awareness production course in two parts. Part one includes casting, fabrication, and molding techniques for metals and plastics. Students discuss production techniques, selection and use of modern machine tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures. Part two includes product development documentation (three-view preliminary design layout drawings) for manufacturing processes such as sheet metal, casting, extrusion plastics, injection molding, vacuum form, blow molding, and fiberglass.

    Prerequisites: EDID215, EDID225

    Lecture/Seminar

    Departmental Requirement
    Spring
  

  • EDID245 Human Factors Seminar I - Ergonomics 3 cr.

    Review of current theory and practice in issues related to human/machine interface, ergonomics, universal design, etc. Methods and practice of human factors research applied to the re-definition of a product idea.

    Prerequisites: EDID215

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Spring
  

  • EDID302 Packaging and the P.O.P. 3 cr.

    This course is an examination of 3D packaging design covering branding, graphics and the development of a P.O.P. “point of purchase” display. This studio course focuses on design phases from concept, design development to the three-dimensional actualization of a point of purchase display. The goal of this class is to develop a user-centered consumer experience with product/packaging that creates a memorable experience that resonates with the consumer. Open to Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Architectural Design juniors and seniors.

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    All College Elective
  

  • EDID303 Integrated Product Design 3cr

    IPD is structured around the process of creating a successful new product. Our class sessions will explore the knowledge, methodologies and tools
    associated with this process. In turn, we will put this process to work in our classroom and in product design and development facilities at Babson College, at Olin College of Engineering, and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
    The results will be a well-researched market and product opportunity, a product design and an alpha-prototype - all presented at an end-of-semester presentation session.

    Critique

    undergraduate Elective
    Fall
  

  • EDID306 Storytelling for Design Leaders 3cr

    Storytelling predates writing, and was critical to
    early human survival. Today, people and cultures
    tap into human emotions, motivations, and
    psychology to move others to understand and
    interpret their experiences. In Design, success is
    directly related to your ability to tell an
    engaging story -it is impossible to be understood,
    find support for your idea, or have influence as a
    Leader without delivering compelling reasons to
    listen and take action. This course will help you
    be aware of who you are, in order to effectively
    express your purpose as a designer in many
    formats; visual, written, told and expressed. We
    will deploy best practices for telling other
    people’s stories-stories of your end users, to
    build empathy and support for innovative ideas.
    Finally, we will examine and compose the
    ingredients to an excellent pitch-how to establish
    value, simplify message, construct anticipation,
    and persuade your audience to believe and follow
    your lead.

    Prerequisites: EDID-245

    Critique

    Fall and Spring
  

  • EDID314 Rapid Visualization and Perspective 3 cr.

    Course focuses on sketching as the fundamental tool for communication for designers. Students will be required to maintain a sketchbook as well as complete various weekly sketching assignments. Fundamentals of perspective will be introduced and practiced throughout the class. Examples of how rapid viz techniques fit into the design process as a whole will be illustrated.

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • EDID315 Industrial Design I 3 cr.

    An introduction to the design process and problem solving techniques used in industrial design. The course presents the tasks required for research, preliminary concept sketching, design refinement, presentation, and fabrication possibilities. It also introduces the use of media and drawing techniques and basic scale model-making.

    Prerequisites: EDID235, EDID245

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall
  

  • EDID318 Branding - Product 3 cr.

    This course examines issues around industrial design in brand development, through applied problems. There is a focus on the relationship of telling compelling stories to connecting a brand with people.

    Prerequisites: EDID245, EDID315

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Elective
  

  • EDID325 Manufacturing Process II 3 cr.

    An investigation of specific problems in the manufacturing development of a product. The course uses a detailed case study of a new product from its inception to its completion. Topics include cost analysis and research into the technical problems of competitive manufacturing and marketing.

    Prerequisites: EDID235

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall
  

  • EDID345 Industrial Design II 3 cr.

    Integration of creative concepts with the development of visual communication skills, such as rendering and model-making.

    Prerequisites: EDID315

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Spring
  

  • EDID355 Professional Practice:Discovering Your Professional Self 3 cr.

    Directing of students through the process of developing a professional portfolio. Basic elements of Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Acrobat, web-based. Students required to present complete portfolio piece at reviews. [Fomerly titled Portfolio and Presentation]

    Prerequisites: EDID315

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Spring
  

  • EDID365 Product Development Laboratory 3 cr.

    Explores the process of bringing a product to fruition with special emphasis on the role of the industrial designer in new product development. The course will deal with the design and development of real products. Students work with local manufacturers and their product development groups.

    Prerequisites: EDID215, EDID225, EDID235, EDID315

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall/Spring
  

  • EDID392 ID Course Assistantship

  

  • EDID398 ID Internship

  

  • EDID399 ID Independent Study

  

  • EDID402 Design for Social Impact 3cr.

    The first project is constructed to give students the broad understanding of SDI and includes
    precedent studies, product/service development, research, synthesis and a final presentation.
    Students work closely with a chosen non-profit or social enterprise as a means for deconstructing
    and understanding as well as first hand insights into the complicated system. For the second
    project, students follow the design process from inception to finalization with the end
    deliverable as a presentation to pitch to venture capitalist, non-profits, endowments or community
    leaders to incite traction, funding or future collaboration.

    Prerequisites: Open to Seniors only

    Undergraduate Elective
    Fall Only
  

  • EDID415 Industrial Design III 3 cr.

    Design projects developed in full four-phase programs: Analysis and Conceptual Refinement;Final Design and Documentations; Model and Presentation.

    Prerequisites: EDID345

    Studio

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall
  

  • EDID425 Degree Project I - Research 3 cr.

    A student selected and faculty approved project of significance.

    Prerequisites: EDID345

    Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Fall
  

  • EDID435 Degree Project II- Development 3 cr.

    A student selected and faculty approved project of significance.

    Prerequisites: EDID425

    Hybrid Studio/Critique

    Departmental Requirement
    Spring

Liberal Arts: Freshman Seminar
  

  • FRSM100 First-Year Seminar 3 cr.

    A freshman seminar is a course for first year students that seeks to develop reading & thinking skills. It is a skills-development course designed to complement LALW100 Written Communication. It seeks to teach students to read written texts with college-level comprehension skills and to think analytically. Freshman seminar topics vary by section. Educating students in a particular subject or discipline is a by-product, not an objective, of  a freshman seminar. [Formerly titled Freshman Seminar]

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Required
    Fall/Spring

Liberal Arts: Literature, Writing, and Film
  

  • LALW100 Thinking, Making, Writing: Using Words with Clarity and Flair 3 cr.

    An introduction to writing for today’s global communication. Six to eight writing assignments
    designed to develop deep thinking skills. Course includes expository and critical essays, with
    some requiring research. Students also practice close reading skills with outstanding pieces of
    prose,  poetry, fiction, and nonfiction selected for the artist. [Formerly known as Written
    Communication]

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Required
    Fall/Spring
  

  • LALW200 Literary Traditions 3 cr.

    An exploration of the sources of culture through a survey of literary masterpieces from the ancient world to the seventeenth century.

    Prerequisites: LALW100; FRSM100 (Freshman Seminar

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Required
    Fall/Spring
  

  • LALW201 Men, Women, and the Myth of Masculinity 3 cr.

    The course examines the idea of masculinity and how it is portrayed in literature from ancient times to the twenty-first century. In addition to studying traditional views of manhood, we will also look at men’s attitudes towards women, since “masculinity” is usually defined in opposition to “femininity.” There will be many opportunities to discuss perceptions of what it means to be a man or a woman, and to explore the elusive concept of gender identity. The syllabus will include works by Shakespeare, Ovid, Ibsen, and Hemingway, among others. We will also watch and listen to selected films and operas.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • LALW203 Film Viewing and Criticism 3 cr.

    A critical study of the expressive elements of film. Class meetings consist of film viewing, evaluations, and discussions. Students frequently write critical papers.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • LALW205 Children’s Literature 3 cr.

    What makes a children’s book a classic? We’ll find out as we read, analyze, and enjoy the best of the field–fantasies from Peter Pan to Harry Potter, realistic novels from Anne of Green Gables to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and stories falling somewhere in between, like The Secret Garden. Though our emphasis will be on longer books for older children, we’ll also consider fairy tales and picture books. Final project: writing a “classic” children’s book, illustrating one, or both.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • LALW206 Graphic Novels 3 cr.

    The course explores the art and composition of the graphic novel and examines its many sub-genres, from superhero tales to memoirs to manga. The textbook is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. Other texts include Watchmen, Contract With God, Sandman, Maus, and Persepolis. For the final project, students create and make preliminary sketches for an original graphic novel.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • LALW210 Famous Writers & their Celebrated Illustrators 3 cr.

    Famous Writers and their Celebrated Illustrators combines literature and art. Discussed are great works of literature and the visual images they inspired. Writers include Dante and Cervantes. Pushkin, Gogol, Corneille, Swift, Defoe and Wilde, among others, are discussed. Illustrators include Botticelli, Dore, Delacroix, Beardsley, Picasso, Pasternak (the father), Favorsky, Baskin, and numerous contemporary illustrators.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • LALW214 History and Issues of Documentary Films 3cr

    Documentary, as defined by John Grierson, is the
    creative treatment of actuality. Grierson coined
    the term in his review of Robert Flahertys Moana
    (1926). Contemporary culture expands on classical
    rhetorical and observational forms to include
    docusoaps, agitprop, advocacy, animation, sensory
    ethnography, mockumentary, first-person, and more.
    In this course we will explore the origins of
    documentary, discuss the central issues of the
    field, examine historical and contemporary trends,
    and identify the aesthetic strategies and
    techniques used by documentary makers along with
    their rhetorical effects.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture

    Undergraduate Elective
    Spring
  

  • LALW215 Memoir & the Artist 3cr

    Re-create your life in art and words. Students will produce their own memoirs using images and
    written language. We will also discuss recent graphic memoirs. For inspiration, you’ll read
    memoirs by artists, writers, and musicians, including “Just Kids,” by Patti Smith. Then you
    write – on such topics as Childhood Memories, How You Began, Who Influences Your Art, Your
    Creative Process, Your Successes and Failures - and What They Taught You.[Formerly
    Titled: Memoir Writing]

    Prerequisites: LALW-200

    Seminar

    Spring
  

  • LALW220 Why I Write, Why I Create 3cr

    This course introduces students to the history and practices of creative nonfiction writing. Here our connections to people, places, and things are expressed through nature and environmental writing, travel and adventure too. In creative nonfiction, both memoir and narrative nonfiction include the “I,” because direct experience is an important part of this genre. Creative nonfiction writing gives us the space we need to reflect and give meaning to moments in
    our lives. Creative nonfiction writing is an experimental art because meaning is discovered in the act of creating; playing with form is part of the process. Students develop six essays of their own that concentrate on one form: flash nonfiction. No prior writing experience required. [Formerly Titled: Creative Nonfiction]

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture

    Undergraduate Elective
    Fall
  

  • LALW222 Fantasy Worlds 3cr

    Modern fantasy literature consists of fantastic
    stories set in imagined  worlds. It features
    characterscreated by the author rather than drawn
    directly from traditional myths and legends. The
    course examines the origins of the genre, which
    emerged during the nineteenth century, and which
    has taken both epic and satiric forms. Although
    some attention is given to the legends,
    folktales, and romances that provided models and
    inspiration to fantasy authors, the main focus is
    on the classic works of the genre.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture

    Undergraduate Elective
    Spring
  

  • LALW227 The Female Gaze in Film 3cr

    This course is an introduction to feminist film
    and theory with a particular focus on the concept
    of the Female Gaze. Students will explore issues
    of representation, visual pleasure,spectatorship,
    scopophilia and subjectivity. We explore how
    women are represented in mainstream film, and the
    function and consequence of these representations
    in a social, historical and cultural context. The
    course will examine the works of filmmakers such
    as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Sally Potter,
    Jane Campion and Andrea Arnold, with a specific
    focus on feminist filmmakers who subvert
    conventional cinematic trends.

    Prerequisites: LALW-200

    Lecture

    Spring
  

  • LALW229 Social Justice Documentaries 3cr

    This course will introduce social justice issues
    as they are represented and explored through
    documentary film and video. The course provides a
    conceptual overview of the forms, strategies,
    structures and conventions of documentary film
    and video. The class will examine documentaries
    that construct arguments about the power
    relations in society, while attempting to raise
    awareness and motivate action for social justice.
    Students will consider dominant, experimental and
    emergent modes of representation; including
    important documentary texts, movements,
    filmmakers and selected documentary genres.
    Specific topics for the course include: Mental &
    Physical Disabilities, Notions of “Race”, Crime &
    Punishment, Immigration, War, Gender & Sexual
    Identity, Environmental Concerns, Social Class &
    Workers’ Rights, Personal Narratives, Politics,
    Education, and Counter Cultures.

    Through this course, students should gain
    knowledge of the current theoretical dilemmas and
    debates in documentary filmmaking, including
    questions of how to define documentaries, what
    constitutes the ethical treatment of subjects and
    subject matter, documentary’s construction and
    positioning of audiences, as well as political
    and economic constraints on documentary
    filmmaking. Ultimately, the course will emphasize
    critical thinking and viewing skills related to
    representations of the social world through
    documentaries.

    Prerequisites: LALW-200

    Lecture

    Spring
  

  • LALW233 Creative Writing Workshop: A Multigenre Workshop 3cr

    This course introduces students to creative
    writing-through poetry and fiction-and explores
    hybrid genres and connections between word and
    image. Students learn the elements of craft that
    are particular to each genre and universal for
    both. They write their own pieces that are
    critiqued by peers and instructor. Students also
    read literature as models for their own writing
    and become familiar with contemporary literary
    journals.

    Seminar

    Spring
  

  • LALW300 Playwriting 3 cr.

    A course that teaches the fundamentals of writing drama for the stage. Students study the craft of successful plays by Edward Albee, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and others, applying what they learn to writing their own scenes and plays. The course culminates in a public developmental reading of some of the best one-act plays written by the students.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • LALW301 Monster Madness 3 cr.

    We round up the usual suspects: the appalling and tragic monster and his equally tragic and appalling creator; the charismatic vampire and his bevy of vamps; the traveling salesman who finds himself transformed into a giant dung-beetle. More broadly, the course studies the idea of monstrosity and the ways in which monsters represent the shadowy side of human nature: what people fear and what they desire. The syllabus includes Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and Nabokov’s Lolita.

     

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
    Summer (PCE)
  

  • LALW305 Russian Short Story 3 cr.

    Russian literature burst on to world stage suddenly and unexpectedly in the early nineteenth century and almost immediately gained tremendous worldwide influence. Everyone knows the names of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Pasternak, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Great Russian literature is also uniquely connected to Russian philosophy and politics. Reading and studying these works helps students to better understand the trials and tribulations of modern times.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
    Fall and Spring
  

  • LALW306 Modernist Word and Image 3 cr.

    Nearly 100 years on, the visual and verbal experiments of high Modernism still have the
    power to arrest our gaze and our attention. In this course, we explore the unique conversation between word and image that occurred between approximately 1910 and 1945. How did visual artists respond to innovations in poetic form? What does literature look like when it aspires to be pictorial or visual? Do artists and writers actually practice the principles laid out in their manifestos? Questions like these-and many others- guide our investigation and analysis. Texts include seminal writings from Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism; avant-garde poetry by Apollinaire, Pound, Stein, Williams, and others; Wyndham Lewis’ periodical Blast; Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and other readings that complicate the boundaries between mediums, genres, and forms of
    expression.

     

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
    Fall/Spring
  

  • LALW308 Lyric Poetry 3 cr.

    Literary analysis and oral readings of lyric poems from several eras and cultures. Particular attention is given to subtle interactions between linguistic and structural elements such as rhythm, meter, stanza form, syntax, diction, and imagery.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • LALW309 Twentieth Century American Literature 3 cr.

    A focus on major writers who emerged in the twentieth century. The course concentrates on late twentieth century figures and earlier modernist writers.

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
  

  • LALW312 Creative Writing: The Essay 3 cr.

    This course, conducted as a workshop with essays read aloud and critiqued in class, provides students with an opportunity to explore through their own writing the power and variety of the essay form. From memoir to observation, personal profile to political observation, this course encourages students to transmit interior reflection and external observation into essay form. Assigned reading of essays. Grade based on 25-page portfolio (usually five essays).

    Prerequisites: LALW200

    Lecture/Seminar

    All College Elective
 

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