Tag: 2024-2025

DDG-316 DIGITAL PRINT AND PATTERN DESIGN

This is an Adobe Photoshop based course focusing on creating interconnected repeat patterns and textile artworks via painting, collage, and mixed media. Students produce original designs, repeat layouts, coordinates, and colorways while exploring mood boards, color palettes and design application. File management and printing options are explained, and presentation skills are emphasized using InDesign to create a final process book along with a variety of material studies.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 119

SAC-475 STUDIO ART & CRAFT INTERNSHIP

Participation in an internship experience allows students to use classroom-learned skills in a related employment experience. Students must work a minimum of 135 hours over the course of the entire semester. To participate students must be of junior or senior status with completion of freshman and sophomore studios. Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8. Seniors may not be eligible to participate in an internship during their final semester. Transfer students must have attended one semester at CCS in addition to meeting the other eligibility criteria.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

DSC-355 PERFORMATIVE OBJECT

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

DPM-260 BEGINNING SCREEN PRINTING

This course acquaints students with a wide range of screenprinting techniques and approaches using a variety of inks and a range of experimental materials. Students discover the medium’s flexibility, exploring the inherent cross-connections and expressive possibilities of photomechanical, screen stencil, monotype and digital processes.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 104 DFN 119 DFN 120 and SAC 105 (formerly DFA 105)

DPM-330 ADVANCED SCREEN PRINTING,ADVANCED SCREEN-PRINTING

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)

SAC-490 INDEPENDENT STUDY

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:

DPM-340 ADVANCED PRINTMAKING

In this course, the diverse possibilities of lithography, intaglio and papermaking serve as a focal point for augmenting the extensive primary skills already acquired. As the scope of artistic development and sensibility matures, instruction becomes increasingly individualized.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFA 240, DFA 243, DFA 255