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In this course, students explore the interdisciplinary nature of the book form and its content from conception to execution. This course covers all stages of creating a limited edition book, including development of text, instruction of printmaking, letterpress and digital technology, and a variety of bookbinding techniques.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFN 117, DFN 120 and DFN 137
This course is aimed at expanding the student’s modeling and casting skills and familiarity with the figure, while building on conceptual understanding of the role of the figure in contemporary sculpture.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 130, DFA 230
The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Independent Study is available to students who are at Junior or Senior level standing with a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above. The student may receive approval to work in an area or on a project that is not otherwise offered or addressed in the regular curriculum. An Independent Study should include opportunities for individual student voice and provide a space for diverse perspectives. Students may receive credit toward graduation for no more than 6 credit hours. The student must submit to the chairperson of the department in which they wish to study, an Independent Study Proposal of 150 words (no less) of the student’s plan for study and her/his reason for choosing to study independently. Once the department chairperson provides approval and the instructor for the Independent Study is determined, the faculty member must write an Independent Study Syllabus with education goals, learning outcomes, meeting dates, course expectations, timelines, and due dates. Art Education candidates must pass DAE 490 with a grade of ‘C’ (2.00) or higher to qualify for certification.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFN 116, DFn 118, DFN 105, DFN 106
This course investigates sculpture object making. Students experiment with a wide range of scale, format, materials and media options, with emphasis on the creation of meaning in personal objects. Presentations and readings provide historical and contemporary context for a deeper understanding of sculpture as object. Readings include Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed .
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 230, DFA 231 OR DFA 332
This course will introduce students to bending birch plywood to create custom curved shapes. Students work through the basics of building, and lamination processes. Paper modeling and other hands-on processes will be used to inform design decisions and mimic construction processes. The plywood bending techniques allow for a wide range of possibilities ranging from lighting fixtures to seating and sculpture. Open to non-majors.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Take DFN-116
(This is a faculty led study abroad course * syllabi will differ per destination), On a Global Learning Experience course, students are brought outside the typical classroom, for a 24/7 learning experience in varying locations outside the USA. The course will provide students with tools for analyzing your learning process and identifying cultural patterns, differences, similarities and values encountered during the journey. Students develop a sense of cross-cultural understanding, and navigate towards becoming a global citizen. Students develop a heightened sense of confidence, and leadership as they plan, and execute this excursion. In addition students discover the role of becoming an ambassador for their own culture. Practical issues about studying abroad (safety, money, packing, etc.) are delivered via pre-departure sessions with the International Student Services Office.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SLP 007
This course allows students who have progressed beyond the beginning level screen printing course, and engage with a more extensive and expansive approach as it relates to their own art practice, all while presenting important visual and conceptual problems relevant to the screen printing medium that challenges previous set boundaries of the serigraphy and its methodologies.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SAC 105 (formerly DFA 105) and DPM-260 (formerly, DFA 260)
This course explores the theory and practice of creative site activation through material, technological and performance-based interventions. Students will have the opportunity to work in extended relationships to site and space, via light, sound, time based technologies like video, and performance. Students will investigate installation as active experience between artist and site, and site and the question of audience. Open to non-majors with departmental approval.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 105, DFA 130, DFA 253