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ART 106: Electronic Media

Offered summer and Fall, 2012

(The course name will be changed to Core Concepts: Time in fall semester.)

ART 106 is a beginning course in electronic media. Students will be introduced to various programs frequently used in art making.

Required Text

  • Lewis and Luciana, Digital Media: An Introduction (2005), ISBN: 978-0130873903

You may purchase the textbook at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Required Software

You will be required to download and install this free software if you don’t already have it:

  • Gimp, GNU Image Manipulation Program, free software for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring.
  • one of the following, depending on whether you have a PC or a Mac:
    • Windows Movie Maker (PC). This software is usually installed on any computer running Windows (look in your Accessories folder). You may need to update your copy of Windows if you do not have Movie Maker. You can do this at Microsoft Update.
    • Apple iMovie (all Macs come with iMovie).

Additional Requirements

  • a high-speed Internet connection (DSL or better)
  • a digital camera for still photographs, as well as the cable required to transfer images to your computer
  • a digital camcorder (if your camera captures video as well as stills, it may be sufficient for the purposes of this course).

Course Details

  • Summer instructor: Jessye McDowell, MFA
  • Fall instructor: Kristin Hondros
  • Department: Art
  • Credit hours: 3
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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ART 151: History of Western Art I

Offered summer and fall, 2012

This course is a general introduction to the history of Western art, its ancestry, and its heritage. It is designed for the beginning student, and assumes no previous experience in art or art history.

In addition to introducing many of the major surviving monuments of painting, sculpture, metalwork, and architecture from circa 2500 BC to circa 1300 CE, this course will teach the fundamental skills of visual analysis and provide you with vocabulary and concepts for discussing works of art. No less important, the enormous geographical range and long time span covered by the course provide a unique opportunity for investigating the relation between works of art and the varied cultures in which they were produced. As much as learning about creative thinking and skills, understanding human cultural diversity is a major goal of our education.

Required Text

  • Stokstad, Art History: A View of the West, Volume 1, 3rd edition (2008), ISBN 978-0131566101

You may purchase the textbook at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates. Friday Center Books & Gifts sells only the correct edition of this text (of which there are many). If you purchase elsewhere, be sure to buy the View of the West version of the textbook—match the ISBN. All assignments are based on this version.

Course Details

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ART 152: History of Western Art II

Offered summer, 2012

Art 152 is the second half of a two-part general introduction to the history of Western European art. It is designed for the beginning student, and assumes no previous experience in art or art history. Although ART 151 is not a prerequisite for ART 152, students are encouraged to take both courses, preferably in sequence.

ART 152 acquaints students with the historical development of art and architecture, primarily in Western Europe and the United States between 1495 and the early twentieth century. It will teach you fundamental skills of visual analysis and provide you with the vocabulary and concepts for discussing works of art orally and in writing. Readings, discussion forums, Internet sites, and the portfolio are designed to focus on how art functions in particular cultural and historical settings.

Required Text

  • Stokstad, Art History: A View of the West, Volume 2, 3rd edition (2007), ISBN: 978-0131565777

You may purchase the textbook at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates. Friday Center Books & Gifts sells only the correct edition of this text (of which there are many). If you purchase elsewhere, be sure to buy the View of the West version of the textbook—match the ISBN. All assignments are based on this version.

Course Details

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ART 161: Introduction to American Art

Offered summer, 2012

This course surveys American art and architecture, analyzing paintings, sculpture, buildings, and popular imagery produced between the early colonial period and World War I.

Required Texts

  • Craven, American Art: History and Culture, revised 1st edition (2002), ISBN 978-0072823295
  • Doezema and Milroy, Reading American Art (1998), ISBN 978-0300069983

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

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ART 282: Modernism I: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

ART 282 is a detailed study of selected paintings and associated critical texts, intended to develop an understanding of the issues of late nineteenth-century impressionism and symbolism.

Required Text

  • Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Nineteenth-Century European Art, 2nd edition (2006), ISBN 978-0131886438

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Robin Holmes, MA
  • Department: Art
  • Credit hours: 3
  • Prerequisite, any introductory-level art history course or permission of instructor.
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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ART 356: Introduction to Digital Photography

Offered summer and fall, 2012

This course introduces students to digital photography. Students are encouraged to be in control of their cameras and technology, to develop an artistic style moving beyond the snapshot, and to learn to describe and critique work with a command of digital and artistic vocabulary.

Required Text

  • There is no required textbook. Students will instead be required to read various online articles and Web sites.

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Required Equipment

  • Students must have a digital SLR Camera with a standard focus lens (approximately 50mm) and full manual exposure and focal controls (focus, ISO, aperture, and shutter speed settings).

Course Details

  • Instructor: Ashley Florence, MFA
  • Department: Art
  • Credit hours: 3
  • Prerequisite: ART 105 or equivalent
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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