Tag: 2024-2025

DFA-485 SPECIAL PROJECT 300/400

The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.

FALL 2023


COLLAGE: CONTEMPORARY METHODS AND MATERIALS This course will investigate and implement the various materials, techniques, processes, and concepts of, contemporary collage. Students will work with everything from traditional cut paper, digital processes, video and audio, installation, and more. The emphasis will always be on the making of collages but with a strong consideration of what this kind of image making does in terms of meaning, its impact on contemporary art and visual culture, and its relevance to most cultural forms operating today.

CURATOR AND GALLERY MANAGEMENT

This course is an introduction to exhibition planning and management within a contemporary art gallery context. Through readings, presentations, and hands-on experiences, students will learn about the exhibition-making process, including research, curation, exhibition design, installation, and promotion. By the end of the course, students will have gained practical experience in organizing and managing an exhibition and be equipped with the skills to become curators and gallery workers within contemporary art spaces. Open to Non-Majors

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFA 115, DFA 120

DFD-310 ADVANCED WEAVING

In this advanced class, students will use floor and dobby looms to further explore more complex weave structures while expanding the knowledge and proficiency within the craft of woven textiles. Special focus is placed on documentation and presentation of inspiration, creative process. and finished works are complementary to the professional practice of this studio course.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFD 210

DFN-135 IMAGE CONCEPTS I

An introduction to analog image-making that investigates analog media and techniques from gestures to contemporary interdisciplinary processes. Students will problem-solve key concepts through a series of individual and collective projects that rethink drawing beyond observation and perception, incorporating research, chance, and experimentation.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

DGD-224 MOTION NARRATIVES

This second motion design course is an elective, and expands on the concepts and methods presented in designing dynamic digital communications that rely on the use of typography, image, video, message, and sound that were introduced in Motion I. Students will expand on their understanding of how messages are created in a dynamic context using typography, image, sound, and semiotics. Project will integrate 2D/3D concepts that expands on the important role of video creation and production, including digital tools, and techniques, relevant for communication design majors. Projects consider appropriate narrative messaging structures with audience(s)/User(s) needs and intents as a primary focus.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DGD 211, DGD 251, DGD 263

DGD-378 EXPERIENCE DESIGN

This elective course expands students’ ability to create human centered user interfaces and experiences. Projects consider the role of systemic nature of interactive experiences from analog to digital, real to virtual. Project outcomes are a connected set of experiences that can shift from screen to spatial environments through the use of code, gesture, type, narrative messaging, color, image, sound, and motion. Research and development into information mapping, wireframing, high-low physical prototyping, performative usability testing, logic, narrative messaging, and material construction are key themes in the process of creating systemic UxD solutions with expanded definition of user needs and inclusive scenarios are core to project outcomes.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DGD 365, DGD 311 OR DGD 312

DHS-338 SHOPPERS, ADVERTISERS AND RETAILERS:,CONSUMPTION AND AMERICAN CULTURE

This course offers students an introductory survey to the cultural, intellectual, social, and institutional histories of consumption in the United States. In particular students focus on four issues: the development of the mass market at the end of the nineteenth century, the cultural and institutional histories of advertising and marketing, consumption and the construction of gender, race and sexuality and the long-running debate over the social effects of consumption.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Take one 3.0 credit, 200 level course from one of the following subjects: DAH (Art History), DEN (English), DAS (Academic Studies), DVC (Visual Culture).

DIL-311 ILLUSTRATING WITH TRANSPARENT MEDIUMS

This course explores the wide range of techniques employed when painting with transparent acrylic, watercolor, and oil paint. Some of the methods examined and applied by the students to create illustrations in class are monochromatic, under-painting, glazing, dry brush, scumbling, wet-on-wet, gradations, renaissance, sfumato and the combination and joining of traditional and digital mediums. Successful and well-known artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds, genders, and sexual identity/orientations that have used these methods are studied. Assignments include figure, book, institutional, editorial, landscape, product, and fashion illustration.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 246

DIL-363 CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATION

In this course, students explore the characteristic of children’s book illustration, including age, gender, disability/differently- abled, economic class, climate change/justice, and global cultures. A variety of techniques are explored relevant to the translation of a story into visual form. Professional conditions and business practices connected to the profession of children’s book illustration are considered. Sketchbooks are an important component in the overall project mix.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 246

DIL-515 STUDY ABROAD

Junior or first-semester senior students in good academic standing have the opportunity to spend a semester (fall or winter) or a full year of study at an accredited institution abroad. Information is available from International Student Services.

Credits: 12

Prerequisites: DIL 246, DIL 247, DIL 261, DIL 270, DIL 281