Subject Description
Art - Studio

ARTS 250 | Landscape Drawing and Painting

This course explores identity and cultural values through landscape painting and drawing. Technical skills are fused with conceptual inquiries and critical analysis, emphasizing the interplay between conceptual, expressive, and material aspects of the creative process. Course content critically engages with landscape traditions as well as contemporary artists. Environmental concerns, visualizing ecological and place based thinking inform considerations of landscape. This course fulfills the ENVR elective.

ARTS 498 | Internship Seminar

This scheduled weekly interdisciplinary seminar provides the context to reflect on concrete experiences at an off-campus internship site and to link these experiences to academic study relating to the political, psychological, social, economic and intellectual forces that shape our views on work and its meaning. The aim is to integrate study in the liberal arts with issues and themes surrounding the pursuit of a creative, productive, and satisfying professional life. Students receive 1.0 unit of academic credit for the academic work that augments their concurrent internship fieldwork.

ARTS 390 | Themes, Methods, and Making

In this upper-level studio course, students engage in art practices that explore distinct forms of research, reflection, and making to address overarching themes and concepts. Student art making will be informed by shared readings, discussion, and explorations of familiar and new forms and formats. Students will explore a range of criteria for making, critiquing, and sharing artwork with audiences in different settings. Students will also document, reflect, and present their own artistic practices using autoethnographic research methods.