Art (ART)

This course offers students the opportunity to learn how design influences our understanding of every aspect of contemporary culture. Taking a critical and analytical approach through readings, exercises, field research, and examination of design in the world, this course investigates visual language as expressed in such diverse disciplines as engineering, science, medicine, law, finance, literature, politics, and media.

This course investigates concepts and practices of two-dimensional forms of art as the basis for visual communication and aesthetic practice. Projects explore intersections between art and design and utilize a variety of media such as drawing, painting and printmaking. Projects assigned demand intense observation, processes, research, creativity and critical thinking. There is a lab fee assigned to this course.

Investigates concepts and processes of drawing, three-dimensional and performance methods as forms of expression used in exploring the history and function of the human body in art. Introduces students to related issues such as sexual politics, post-colonialism and technology, and contextualizing their projects within a larger cultural framework. Required for first-year B.F.A. and B.A. majors. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

This course investigates concepts and practices of drawing from observation, memory and imagination, while building individual skills and awareness of composition, expression and visual communication. Projects utilize a wide variety of media and demand intense observation, processes, research, creativity and critical thinking. There is a lab fee assigned to this course.

This course investigates concepts and practices of three-dimensional forms of art as the basis for visual communication and aesthetic practice. Projects explore contemporary practices in sculpture and installation, public art, collaboration and performance. Projects assigned demand intense observation, processes, research, creativity and critical thinking. There is a lab fee assigned to this course.

This course investigates concepts and design principles of two-dimensional processes of painting and printmaking. Conceptually, the assignments are driven by an exploration of art through personal narratives, issues of identity, and as a vehicle for spiritual and psychological transformation. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Introduces and explores visual, aesthetic, and critical theory, and the social and cultural dynamics that inform and influence contemporary art making.

The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.

The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.

The Department of Art Speakers Series is comprised of lectures by visual arts professionals practicing in the fields of visual art, design, multi-media, cultural theory, and criticism. Exposes students to a wide range of viewpoints, art practice, and contemporary theory. Speakers change each semester. This course is the same as DMS 200 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

A critical approach to graphic design is indispensable in the social worlds it mediates. This course develops the designer capacity for graphic thought through semantic and syntactic explorations of visual form. Through a variety of studio exercises and assignments, students develop their own design processes to discover the ways in which graphic design engages in visual knowledge production. Students will cultivate a conceptual aptitude and an understanding of methods, principles, conventions, and experimental processes of form-making as a communicative and intellectual practice.

First semester of a two-semester sequence of drawing courses focusing on the language, materials and concepts of drawing as foundation for all the visual arts. Emphasizes the development of perceptual, analytical, and structural drawing skills while simultaneously working with idea development. Includes sketching as concept generation; material exploration; creating pictorial and illusionistic space; recording the external world; and working with the figure. Line, texture, tone, shape, composition, light and shadow are covered along with a variety of wet and dry drawing media. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

This course investigates concepts and practices of time-based forms of art as the basis for visual communication, aesthetic and social practice. Projects explore contemporary practices in photography, video, and media literacy. Projects assigned demand intense observation, processes, research, creativity and critical thinking. There is a lab fee assigned to this course.

Building on the skills of figure drawing one; the focus is on the complex and compelling subject of drawing the human body. Students will work from the model, studying the figure to develop perceptual drawing skills including study of anatomical bone and muscle structure. Incorporates field trips to sites such as the Gross Anatomy Lab. There is a fee associated with this class.

This course will follow the history of machines and coding systems from the use of physical implements in agrarian societies to electronic digital computation. This is not a history course, but an overview of concepts related to information technologies that substantially impact daily life today. Consequently, it will focus on cultural aspects of technologies and the myriad ways in which they are woven into the fabric of human activity. It will cover topics such as the onset of tool production, agriculture, numbering systems, cybernetics, robots, human rights, algorithms, interaction design, household appliances, and software systems. Students will be introduced to these topics through primary source materials (texts and videos) and guided through them in weekly discussions. This course is the same as DMS 220, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

There is a fee associated with this class. For students not singularly committed to becoming artists. We learn a basic approach to oil painting and experience a variety of visual points of view.

n this printmaking process the artist first applies a stencil to mesh screen and then uses a squeegee to push ink through the screen to the surface below. Screen print is a relatively fast and non-toxic means for printing multiple-color images onto a wide range of surfaces. Instruction includes hand-drawn and photo-emulsion stencils using reductive methods, make-ready, and digital halftones. Culminates in an assignment that emphasizes the connections between the medium and the message, stressing innovative presentations and how they affect meaning. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Examines visual theory, aesthetic philosophy, and critical theory and their application to and effects on visual art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Provides a broad grounding in both Modern and Postmodern thought based upon a carefully considered exposure to a set of representative primary texts. Lab fee.

A course that explores different aspects of visual culture, which focuses on a different subject each semester that it is offered. Explores both the visual qualities and the critical analysis of a particular aspect of current and historical visual study.

Covers basic methods and materials in painting; including traditional and current approaches to form, color, and pictorial organization. Varied course structure includes direct interpretation of subject matter, as well as conceptually based visual problems. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Studio course utilizes methods of woodcut, linocut, and letterpress to introduce students to the historical conventions and contemporary extensions of relief printing. Explores the aesthetic possibilities of inking and impression, and seeks the pleasures of material involvement while building conceptual and technical knowledge. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

There is a fee associated with this class. Surveys, in a hands-on fashion, the rich and unique resources the computer offers the artist/designer. Includes computer basics, letter manipulation, drawing and painting metaphors, image processing, 3-D modeling, sound/image synthesis, interactive scripting, and animation. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Students build upon individual interests and talents in order to formulate, research, contextualize, and execute a body of work. Thematic focus changes each semester and provides new linkages to historical/theoretical contexts and extends material options. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

In intaglio printmaking the image is incised into the plate and the incised line holds the ink to be printed on paper. It is the opposite of relief printmaking. Collagraph is similar to intaglio but uses inexpensive materials to build the plate to be printed. We teach flexible, non-toxic methods that are easily scaled up or down. Each project builds on previous skills and culminates in a final project of the student's choice. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account

Students build upon individual interests and talents in order to formulate, research, contextualize, and execute a body of work. Thematic focus changes each semester and provides new linkages to historical/theoretical contexts and extends material options. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

A thematic approach to drawing; focuses on larger projects that combine a formal, material and conceptual approach to drawing. Students develop a personal language of drawing by researching, articulating and executing work though the interpretation of each theme. Themes vary from semester to semester. In addition to studio work, reading and lectures will correlate with each project contextualizing the theme within a historical and contemporary approach to art making. The class culminates with a self-determined, self-directed project. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Second semester of a two-semester sequence of drawing courses focusing on the language, materials and concepts of drawing as foundation for all the visual arts. Emphasizes idea generation as a formal and conceptual process, from the thought in the mind to the gesture on the page to a fully articulated image. Students investigate the translation that occurs when representing ideas through a variety of drawing tools, materials and mark making. Topics covered include narrative sequencing, mapping, and scale. Projects are structured to make visible the internal world of emotions, imagination, memory and opinion. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

A critical approach to graphic design is indispensable in the social worlds it mediates. This course develops the designer's capacity for graphic thought through semantic and syntactic explorations of visual culture, semiotics and representation. Through a variety of studio exercises and one semester-long assignment, students develop their own design processes to discover the ways in which graphic design engages in visual knowledge production. Students will cultivate a conceptual aptitude and an understanding of methods, principles, conventions, and experimental processes using various digital platforms to create print and digital media as a communicative and intellectual practice.

Covers basic methods and materials in oil painting to investigate contemporary themes of popular culture. This course includes traditional and current approaches to form, color, and pictorial organization. Varied course structure includes direct interpretation of subject matter, as well as conceptually based visual problems. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Explores non-traditional materials, processes and pictorial articulation in addition to conventional variants. Stresses thematic content, theoretical form, color, and space based upon individual interpretation. Compositional approaches include the use of appropriated imagery, allegory, and conceptualizations. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Encourages individual creative research through a consistent exploration of themes, concepts, processes and media towards a cohesive body of work. This course also investigates a variety of possible ways for installation and exhibition. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

There is a fee associated with this class. This studio course examines the historical, conceptual, and practical developments of the art of photography as embodied in the use of digital image-making technologies under natural and ambient lighting. Technically based course, students are initiated to digital technologies such as camera, printing and imaging software (Photoshop) for the photographer. This beginning course is required to access all advanced courses in photography. It includes demonstrations, studio/lab works oriented towards the acquisition of skills, critical vocabulary and initiation to conceptual approach to photography. Requirement: Students must have their own digital camera with a manual exposure or speed control, a minimum image size of 8.0 Megapixels, and a hard drive storage device of 100 GB or larger. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

The course addresses the changing nature of photography. It explores photos capacities beyond the border of the traditional photographic print to encompass inter-activity, time/movement, space/three-dimensionality and installation. Display, forms of presentation, intervention will be explored. This is an intermediate, conceptually based course that focuses on art practice activities, which includes lectures, discussions, production and research.

There is a fee associated with this course. Introduces students to the art and techniques of black and white film photography and its associated chemically based darkroom techniques. Through shooting assignments and darkroom work, students learn the use of this medium as a form of personal expression. Various technical areas -such as camera control, exposure, Zone System theory, developing, printing and specialized chemical processes are also explored. Course includes both shooting and writing components.

Paradigms of space, from map to model, shift radically from epoch to epoch. Reflecting these shifts, sculpture since Minimalism, has increasingly redefined its notion of 'form' and 'objectness' to include the surrounding perceptual space, temporal practices, and the socio-political constituents of space. Students are introduced to materials and methods of object/structure building, process and time-based practices, and the relationship of sculpture to media and visual culture. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Uncover the transient and internal in a series of sessions that refines memory, facilitates speed, hones powers of perception and expression, all inspired by nothing less than the eternal nude. Gesture, spirit, memory, motion, essence, speed, measure, pace, balance, focus, weight, gravity, rhythm are all filters through which we examine and express human form. Technical experimentation is essential. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

There is a fee associated with this class. This course focuses on aspects of professional front-end web design technologies and processes, including hand-coding HTML5/CSS3, simple JavaScript, WordPress, responsive design for mobile devices, integration with social media channels, information architecture, and user experience design. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

This course introduces the basic terminology, concepts and practices of communicating with typography. It engages the construction of typography from the scale of the letterform to the word, the line, the paragraph and the page/screen.The assignments cultivate craftsmanship and rich conceptual thinking. Developing an appreciation for typography's formal dimension, the way it looks, equips students with knowledge and concepts that will inform their usage of type to optimize its effect and communicative power. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Building on the concepts and skills developed in Typographic Form, this course introduces students to a systematic approach to the use of typography in graphic design towards building a capacity to work with complex sets of information. The assignments in this course develop and exercise the student¿s sense of structural logic, style and syntactics. This course equips students with the ability to develop and execute advanced projects in graphic design, such as (but not limited to) mapping, information design/visualization and publication design (print and digital). There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Building on the skills of figure drawing one; the focus is on the complex and compelling subject of drawing the human body. Students will work from the model, studying the figure as a means to expand visual perception and refine drawing skills. Explores the body as an object of beauty and a metaphor for documenting the passion and the pathos of human experience. Introduces the landmarks of anatomical bone and muscle structure. Incorporates field trips to sites such as the Gross Anatomy Lab. Outside class, assignments will focus on the body as a means for expression, be it personal, social, political, narrative or emotional. There is a fee associated with this class.

Explores issues concerning the nude, the gaze and gender, pose and possession, scale and scandal as we contextualize and historicize the tradition of figure drawing. Cross-temporal and cross-cultural visual and written texts inform and inspire our own projects and practice. There is a fee associated with this class.

Prized for its subtle effects and evocative surfaces, lithography is particularly well suited for artists who like to draw or use photographic/digital montage strategies to construct images. Often described as painterly printmaking, monotype may be combined with lithography and is adapted to print on a variety of surfaces with or without a press. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Students build upon individual interests and talents in order to formulate, research, contextualize, and execute a body of work. Thematic focus changes each semester and provides new linkages to historical/theoretical contexts and extends material options. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Continuation of ART 317 directed primarily toward sculptural concepts. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Continuation of ART 229 directed primarily toward sculptural concepts. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Much has been made of the difference between Art and Science. Art has been said to be an imaginative activity drawing upon the right side of the brain, while science has been said to be analytical and situated in the left side. Alternately, the French poet Paul Valéry has asserted Science and Art are crude names, in rough opposition. To be true they are inseparable. Art and Life charts the intertwined histories and mutual influence of the visual arts and the life sciences in the Western world. The premise of this course is that each discipline has provoked the other and made important contributions to the study and nature of Life, but that each and their perceived differences are products of an underlying worldview as evidenced by artifacts and scholarship of the time. In our current worldview, the course structure may seem unusual as it includes lecture, studio and laboratory components. Through deep textual and material engagements that this course provides, students will gain a deeper understanding of both Art and the Life Sciences and learn to articulate their interrelationship with nuance and clarity. There is a fee associated with this class.

ART 333 is a technical elective teaching 3d modeling and techniques in digital and analog fabrication. Students learn how to build models in Rhino 3d and export those models to digital fabrication tools including: a 3d printer and 3-axis CNC router. ART 333 relies heavily on software but the focus is physical object making. Assignments focus on project planning, problem solving and material tectonics. ART 333 is designed for art majors but is open to all undergraduates without prerequisite.

Explores various historical and alternative photographic techniques, such as salted paper prints, cyanotype, gum, Van Dyke, and platinum/palladium printing. The course also studies the historic importance, and creative contemporary uses of these techniques. Course includes both shooting and writing components. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

The first half of the semester focuses on the acquisition of knowledge and skills related to structures of the visual book. We will study and practice: sewn and adhesive bindings¿ covers and cases¿ adhesives, paper and tools. This hands-on work provides a foundation for expanded conceptual and experimental individual projects. Students are encouraged to integrate interests in photography, text, drawing, printmaking, collage and/or digital methods.

There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Explores the creative and technical aspects of large format view camera photography including, camera operation, exposure control, B&W photographic emulsions, darkroom and digital image processing techniques, exposure, and zone-system theory. Students are provided with a view camera kit for the semester. Course includes both shooting and writing components. There is a fee associated with this class.

Examines photographic studio lighting and location shooting. Digital studio techniques and image processing, artificial lighting (tungsten and photo studio strobes), studio setups, portraiture, and large-scale printing are subjects covered in this class. Course includes both shooting and writing components.

Studies the physical manipulation of the photography medium as the chief vehicle for creative expression. Subjects covered including pinhole camera construction, Holga camera photography, manipulating images through chemical darkroom and digital process means, and post-photographic process manipulation. Course includes both shooting and writing components. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

This course explores photographic images and their interactions within the broader field of information including print and digital screen platforms. Students refine digital photography skills while exploring and questioning the expanded tools in Photoshop, including advanced image adjustments, video and color management for printing. Building upon skills learned in previous classes, this course expands student's knowledge using extended digital controls to manipulate and enhance photographic images. This is an intermediate, conceptually based course that focuses on art practice activities, which includes lectures, discussions, production and research. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

This course provides students with opportunities to explore different tools of capture and image process as an avenue for a creative production. These experimentation with non-conventional cameras, chemical formulas and the non-silver processes will develop a sense of the possibilities beyond a straight photograph and may provoke an investigation of layers of meaning within the simplest of images. The students are expected to experiment with toy cameras, pinhole, scanner, photogram, camera Lucida, photocopy, chemical solutions, non-silver, methods of transfer and printing. The students working in the media will discover the creative use and possibilities of these technologies to stimulate the imagination to produce, transform, and challenge the content, process and form of image production.

This studio course examines the production of photographic images inspired by different fields of research: social, cultural and political environments, as well as issues related to contemporary art, to investigate their impact and their traces in photographic art practices. This course is a conceptually based intermediate/advanced course that focuses on art practice activities, which includes lectures, discussions and research. The content of this course is variable and therefore it can be repeated for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. The topic will vary and will be announced before registration. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Introduces critical issues in science, culture, and emerging media-especially as they pertain to contemporary artistic practice. Topics are addressed through artists' works; selected readings include historical trends, biotechnology, virtuality, net theory, and cultural resistance. Lab fee. This course is the same as DMS 375, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

Explores with computer graphics, the expressive and informative impact of real time and frame/cell animation: pixilation; metamorphosis; interaction of synthesized actors with backgrounds; the dynamics of sound/image synthesis; and time-space structures' application to computer animation. There is a fee associated with this class.

Studio course for creating experimental interactive computer productions for artist expression, and the presentation of knowledge in which participants observe and navigate in nonlinear directions and reorganize media components for other users. Students are exposed to the work of theorists, artists, designers and technologists relevant to selected projects. The course explores new approaches that define an aesthetic within this emerging art form.

This course introduces students to creative practices that come into play when we translate human ideas into machine operations. We will use computer languages to generate data flows expressed as images, texts and sounds and signals, locating the potential for artistic expression and action along multiple stages of the creation process. Students will learn to work across multiple coding contexts, including Processing and Python on cloud compute environments, learn to love the command line interface and make computers do some very strange things.

A course that explores different aspects of visual culture, which focuses on a different subject each semester that it is offered. Explores both the visual qualities and the critical analysis of a particular aspect of current and historical visual study.

An advanced undergraduate course in tactical media designed to bring artists from various specializations together to discuss methods and possibilities for independent public art activities, and to experiment with soft interventions in locations not typically accessed by artists. Pays particular attention to process (as opposed to product); to what can be created, organized, and/or produced outside of the artist's studio; and to engaging the immediate and specific qualities of a given socio-phenomenological field. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Art & Design for Social Impact will introduce students to the impact of using design as a catalyst for positive social change in contemporary society. This course will cultivate a sense of social responsibility and inquiry by providing opportunities to investigate, discuss, write and design solutions on social, political, cultural, environmental and ethical issues, locally, nationally and globally. Students will then develop their voice and role as designers, authors and critics. With the aim to become engaged leaders in society, students will explore the systems and methodologies to challenge unfair power structures through interdisciplinary research, informed engagement and design practices. Particular emphasis is applied (but not limited) to activism, equity, inclusion, accessibility, diversity, self-reflexivity, coloniality and speculative design.

Develops professional methods and strategies as they relate to theory, art history, practice and career development. Emphasizes students' individual painting ideas and sensibilities through self-initiation and creative resolution of visual investigation. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Emphasizes students' mature and self-directed painting articulation aimed at a coherent body of work. High expectation placed on students' investigation towards the utilization of private and public space for exhibition. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Topics vary by semester. There is a fee associated with this class.

Explores identity, image, and branding for non-profit and for-profit organizations, including product and service marks, stationery, packaging, 3D displays, exhibitions, and signage for identification and way-finding. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Design and Entrepreneurship explores design as an interdisciplinary practice invested in current and historical issues of theory, methodology, ethics and collaboration. We will address the cultural impact of design and the role of the designer within the context of: sustainability and social justice, representations of class, gender and race, new technologies, public space, DIY and user-centered production models. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Explores the ways that representation and absence, ersatz Eros, and the prurient present underlie the origins and continued allure of the figurative tradition. The scene is paramount in setting off the seen. Emphasizes the psychological and physical aspects of figured relationships and spaces that we portray in ambitious and subtle works that entice, revolt, and reclaim the viewers. Independent research and considerable out-of-class commitment bring in-class efforts to fruition. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Explores the ways that representation and absence, ersatz Eros and the prurient present underlie the origins and continued allure of the figurative tradition. The scene is paramount in setting off the seen. Emphasizes the psychological and physical aspects of figured relationships and spaces that we portray in ambitious and subtle works that entice, revolt, and reclaim the viewers. Independent research and considerable out-of-class commitment bring in-class efforts to fruition. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Focuses on the changing role of "play" and its impact on contemporary cultural production. Investigates the following topics: how we currently define play - is it aimless, productive, meaningful; production of "play" and use of game-based models in consumer, educational and corporate culture; shifting boundaries between work and leisure. Integrates studio assignments with theoretical research and analysis from a broad range of platforms including: digital and non-digital gaming, virtual worlds, public space and situated technologies, interactive and environmental design.

Continuation of ART 329-ART 330. Develops an individual language and promotes extended exploration of media in sculpture. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Continuation of ART 329-ART 330. Develops an individual language and focus in sculpture. Also encourages extended exploration of and experimentation with personally relevant materials, media, and techniques. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Survey of the history of visual communication from prehistoric times to the present. Examines synchronic and diachronic relationships between art, media, critical theory, semiotics, literature and culture. Midterm and a final independent research paper or presentation of a scholarly nature required.

A combination of theory and practice involving a focused topic important to art. Assigned topics vary and are announced before preregistration. Requires the preparation of a visual or written work that addresses issues raised in the course. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Combines lecture, readings, and class discussion in examining major issues in contemporary photography. Theoretical, critical, and historical topics vary each semester. Lab fee.

Graduate and advanced undergraduate course that integrates studio practice with theory, allowing students of Art, Architecture, and Media Study as well as other departments to benefit from a circle of discussion, interchange of ideas, and the realization of interdisciplinary projects. Structured sequence of conceptual foci include material, sensorial, phenomenological, psychological, cultural and political considerations of body and social space in urban contexts. The course moves spatial practice and material form out of the sheltered space of interiors and private environments into the complex and charged space of urban environments. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account. This course is the same as DMS 464, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

Comprehensive introduction to biological art. Focuses on recent advances in the life sciences, both theory and practice. Emphasizes the development of critical and creative thought, discussions of ethical and cultural issues, and cross-disciplinary experimentation in art and science. Course activities include lecture and group discussion; laboratory demonstrations, exercises and projects; and group critique. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

The goal of the seminar is to explore machine learning as a cultural artifact. The approach is inspired by media theory (cultural techniques) that reevaluates the role of technical processes as 'material conditions that constitute semantics' (Siegert2013).

This course offers intensive work in critical analysis and research methods in art practice. Art methodologies will be articulated as the processes of practice. The course addresses the processes of creativity (preparation, incubation, verification etc.), critical analysis and interpretations in the context of contemporary art issues and visual, social and cultural theories. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Graduate and advanced undergraduate course on the theories and practice of performance and performativity in contemporary art. Integrates multiple disciplines and genres including body art, intervention, sound art, writing, dance, theatre. Explores the history and social contexts of embodiment, relational actions, participatory interactions, situated interventions and art/life encounters. Integral to curriculum are visiting artist lecture/workshops(s) and class trip to attend a related event. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Involves the research and production of a significant semester-long print-based project. Includes critiques, presentation and discussion, guest artists, visits to collections and demonstrations. Students may utilize any print media alone or in combination with other 2-D/3-D media. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

An advanced undergraduate seminar. Investigates the visual art that arose from revolutionary tensions between theory and everyday life in key European and American political upheavals.

Provides the student with a critical examination of how the medium of photography has been philosophically problematized by poststructuralist theory, focusing upon visual culture and visual art. Lectures and directed reading provide the basis for discussion.

This course will allow students to orient themselves in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and to experiment with approaches and methods from STS to address and discuss topics within the sciences that might otherwise remain opaque.

Enables students to create sophisticated, self-generated projects using interactive electronic technologies other than mouse, keyboard, and CRT monitor, such as micro-controllers. Involves hands-on explorations of applied electronic principles; selected readings and discussions; short exercises; and a final, self-directed project.There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

This course involves preparation, research, proposal development, and studio exploration for a capstone project that is completed in a two-semester consecutive sequence. Students are expected to create self-directed art and design projects that show technical expertise, concept, expression, and a broad understanding of their project¿s relationship to contemporary art and design practices. Graphic Design students can apply to join the Design Lab, and work on a two-semester project with a local socially-engaged client/project. There may be a class fee assessed to your student account.

Choose from the following: Arts Management Internship - Students are assigned to art galleries or other institutions within the university or the community to get hands-on experience as interns. May be repeated once in a different location. Communication Design Internship - An arranged experience within an agency and the printing industry familiarizes students with actual working conditions and considerations; students observe and participate in design for publication, mechanicals, and other facets of graphic arts production. May be repeated second semester. Photography Internship- Internship at an art gallery or with a commercial, portrait, or architectural photographic firm; provides professional experience and familiarizes students with working conditions and expectations in their field. Print Media Internship- Provides professional experience and familiarizes students with practices and expectations in the field. An internship may be arranged with a commercial or not-for-profit print studio or gallery. There is a fee associated with this class.

There is a fee associated with this class. Open to studio majors only. Requires a written proposal of the project and its justification, and approval by a faculty member supervising the work.