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.

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.

ARTS 289 | Machine Art and Installation

In this course students will combine two forms of creative practice: installation art and machine art. In doing so we will learn to construct environments that transform the spaces we inhabit and make site-specific artworks that reimagine the way we interact with our world. We will develop a creative practice of machine art--where we design and interact with technology to create dynamic and interactive installations. We will learn how to program and control physical systems such as lights, motors, sensors, and computer-numerical control (CNC) machines.

ARTS 288 | Art from Code

This course explores the use of computer code as a form of creative practice and artmaking. Students discuss the history, practice, and current trends in computational art through a blend of theoretical and project-based learning. Through weekly examples and projects, students learn core concepts of computer science and apply them to the creation of digital artworks. Creative coding, the practice of writing computer programs for creative purposes, is practiced in many different domains of art and design.