ART DEPARTMENT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS BOOKLET



ART DEPARTMENT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS BOOKLET

Spring 2018

Special Notes and Restrictions on Registration

The following course is not open to students with 90+ credits: Art 293. This regulation does not apply to Art majors.

The following courses are not available through Touch-tone or On-line Registration: 381, 383, 386, 387, 393, 395, 397, 470, 478, 488, and 491. Students register through the Department using the On-Line Registration Form.

All courses in photography, video, printmaking and digital media carry four credits and require open lab time each week - a minimum of 3 hours of lab per week required; 6 hours are recommended. Tentative lab schedules for spring 2009 will be released at a later date.

ccde = Courses administered through the Division of Corporate, Continuing and Distance Education.

Ccde ART 100: The Language of Art 3CR AR

Sec 1 01394 TuTh 11:00-12:15 Y-4-4170 Carol Scollans

CAPS Sec 2 16574 Sat 12:00-3:00 Y-2-2330 Carol Scollans

This class introduces the student to the salient features of the creative process and the tools employed in the creation of art. It enables the student to grasp the expressive content of art works in a wide variety of media and teaches them to critically analyze how the artist creates his/her effects. It is not a historical survey course. The course offers the student a solid introduction to the visual arts by developing the student’s ability to see and critically analyze forms as a result of aesthetic and interpretive decisions. We will also examine important topical issues that impact on the appreciation, perception and interpretation of artistic practices such as race and gender issues, connoisseurship and public art. Course requirements include three short paper assignments, mid term and final examination.

ART 102 Renaissance to Modern Art 3CR AR

Sec 1 6938 MWF 11:00-11:50 Y-2-2120 Lorenzo Buonanno

CAPS Sec 1 10173 Sat 8:15-11:15 Y-4-4170 Carol Scollans

This course is a historical survey which introduces the student to the technical, aesthetic, and theoretical aspects of architecture, painting and sculpture in Western cultures from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. Topics include the Renaissance in Europe, diversity in the Baroque age, the birth of the modern world in the eighteenth century, and the pluralism of style in the nineteenth century. Special attention is given to the principle period styles and individuals who help to define each era. The student learns to critically analyze and interpret objects and buildings through visual materials presented in class, readings, lectures, class discussions and museum visits. The course requirements include one paper (a research assignment), mid-term, and final exams.

ART G105 FRESHMAN SEMINAR: Eyes on the Ball: The Art of Play 3CR AR

Sec 1 10351 MW 10:00-11:45 Y-4-4400 Erik Levine

Lab Fee: $100.00

This course will focus on the broad definition of play in contemporary culture as experienced through the eye, body, and mind. It will seek to activate and heighten your senses and acumen in the artistic arena using the notion of play in various categories. We'll look at how prominently play and games figures into daily life through language, art, film, and sports. In addition to critical reading and writing there will be exercises and projects designed to make you more aware of our kinesthetic responses to the daily visual stimuli all around us. The goal of this course is to enliven your notion of curiosity and make manifest the layered richness of your surroundings, develop critical visual literacy, and to play. You will also learn basic video skills and explore the poetic, empirical, experiential, and mundane.

ART 175: Visual Techniques 3 CR AR

Sec 1 9716 WF 12:00-1:30 Y-4-4380 Zach Horn

Lab Fee: $100

This course is an exploration of the fundamental underpinnings of visual representation. We will use a series of studio assignments to experiment with Technical Color, Functional color, and Structure. We will review the rationale behind various concepts and techniques so that we better comprehend how artists think strategically. Through class projects, we will use our expanding knowledge and skill set to create thought-provoking, meaningful artwork.

Art 207L: Queer Visual Culture 3 CR AR

Sec 1 10340 TuTh 9:30-10:45 Y-4-4100 David Areford

Satisfies the US Diversity requirement

This course explores the intersections of sexuality, gender, and visual representation from the viewpoint of LGBT studies and queer theory. We will explore the visual culture of non-heteronormativity across time, mainly in the western world, from "high art" to advertising, film, and performance. The course is divided into three modules: Recovering the Queer Visual Past – Problems and Methods; Back to the Queer 80s and 90s – Art, Love, Politics, Theories, and Histories; and Strategies of Representation – Modern and Contemporary Queer Visibility. Class meetings will consist of a mix of lecture and discussion based on a variety of required readings, including scholarly articles, book chapters, and exhibition catalogues. Student evaluation will be based on discussion, a reading journal, and two writing assignments, including a research paper and presentation.

ART 210 Special Topics: Painting I                        3CR AR

               Sec 1     10352 MW      12:00-1:30   Y-4-4390 Cristopher Schade

An introduction to the materials, techniques, history and approaches involved in oil painting. We will explore perceptual challenges involved in working from life. Issues of color, drawing and composition as well as varying ways of paint handling including glazing, wet-into-wet, and impasto will be addressed through in-class studio work sessions, one-on-one discussions of progress, demonstrations, presentations of artists work, and class critiques.

Art/Asian 212L Traditional Japanese Architecture 3CR

Sec 10346 F 1:00-3:30 Y-4-4170 Victoria Weston

Satisfies the International Diversity and World Cultures requirements

Traditional Japanese Architecture introduces major forms of Japanese architecture, garden, and building practice prior to contact with the West.  Students learn about Japan’s two major religions, Shinto and Buddhism, and see how architecture gives form to ideas about divinity, ritual, and national identity.  Study of city plans and government buildings illuminate notions of class identity and power.  Residential and leisure sites embody a range of distinctive aesthetic principles. All of these examples show how culture provides a vital framework for thought and form.  Study of architecture prior to Japan’s opening to the West helps us understand how modern Japan builds upon its traditions as its engages with issues of contemporary life. The course meets once per week to accommodate a field trip at the end of the semester.  

ART 230: Architecture, Design, and Society (Diversity: International) 3CR

Sec 1 10339 TuTh 12:30-1:45 Y-4-4100 Stacey Sloboda

This course is a general survey of the history of architecture, interior design, urban planning, and landscape design from a variety of cultural and historical contexts that explores how designed spaces shape social practice and identities. We shall study a variety of social spaces including the Street, the Home, the Garden, and the School, and specific architectural sites associated with them, in historical and cross-cultural perspective to understand both how humans have shaped their environments, and how those environments shape us. There are no prerequisites for the class, and introductory students are welcome. This course satisfies an International Diversity requirement.

ART 250: Art of the 20th Century 3CR AR

Sec 1 9669 TuTh 2:00-3:15 Y-4-4170 JohnTyson

This course presents visual art in the long 20th century. Beginning with an overview of 19th-Century modernism, we will survey most of the important art movements that emerged during this period, including Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, De Stijl, various tendencies in American Modernism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art. We will conclude with lectures addressing key themes in contemporary art. Class lectures, discussions, and readings will focus primarily on the ideas and works of individual artists as examples of the movements or trends in which they participated. Additionally, we will consider the importance of medium specificity and the turn toward the post-medium condition. Furthermore, we will interrogate ideas about authorship, originality, and myths of the artist in relation to figures, such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol. 

Textbook: Elizabeth C. Mansfield, H. H. Arnason, History of Modern Art (Paperback), 7/E

ART 252 American Art in Boston 3CR AR

Sec 1 10338 TuTh 12:30-1:45 Y-4-4170 Carol Scollans

An historical survey of painting, sculpture, architecture and graphic arts in Boston and surrounding communities from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. Emphasis is given to the principal theories and intellectual currents that shaped American art. Topics include an analysis of Puritan aesthetics, the search for an American style, eclecticism, and diversity in the 19th century, and Boston Impressionism.

The course requirements include regular attendance, memorization of objects and images, 2 papers, mid- term and final essay exams as well as visits to museums, institutions and venues around the city of Boston.

ART 281 Drawing I 3CR AR

Sec 1 6939 WF 2:00-3:30 Y-4-4380 Zach Horn

Sec 2 10349 TuTh 8:15-10:00 Y-4-4380 Aaron Norfolk

CAPS Sec 1 10174 Sat 9:00-12:00 Y-4-4380 Kevin Dacey

CAPS Sec 2 10175 Sat 12:15-3:15 Y-4-4380 Kevin Dacey

CAPS Sec 3 10377 F 3:30-6:30 Y-4-4380 Zach Horn

Lab Fee: $100

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to basic materials and techniques, with emphasis on drawing as a primary means for the description and interpretation of people and their environment. It explores problems in still life, landscape, and life drawing. Fundamentals of visual language are also addressed.

ART 286 Introduction to Contemporary Sculptural Practice 4CR AR

Sec 1 10353 MW 1:00-2:30 Y-4-4400 Erik Levine

Lab fee: $150.00. A MINIMUM OF THREE HOURS OF LAB PER WEEK IS REQUIRED; SIX ARE RECOMMENDED

This course presents the concepts, processes, and materials that form the foundation of sculpture and its evolving definition. It will explore the possibilities for autobiographical, aesthetic, conceptual, and formal expression through the practice of sculpture. Methods and approaches to the sculptural practice will include object making, conceptual art, video, installation, public art, and performance. This course will introduce new ways of visual thinking, development, and awareness through individual meetings, critiques, readings, discussions, and current exhibitions.

ART 287 Introduction to Printmaking 4CR AR

Sec 1 8468 TuTh 10:15-11:45 Y-4-4340 Aaron Norfolk

Lab fee: $150.00. A MINIMUM OF THREE HOURS OF LAB PER WEEK IS REQUIRED; SIX ARE RECOMMENDED.

Introduction to Printmaking is hands -on entry-level studio course that introduces the principles of two-dimensional design and image-making in both black and white and color.  Instruction covers several different printmaking methods that highlight traditional and experimental applications.  These include the relief print, the monotype and the intaglio print.  Demonstrations, slide presentations and a trip to a museum print exhibition or study room introduce historical and contemporary examples of the print and further the development of each student’s unique creative process. 

ART 293 Photography I 4CR AR

Sec 1 6941 MW 12:00-1:30 Y-4-4310 Margaret Hart

Not open to students with 90+ credits, except art majors.

Lab Fee: $150.00. A MINIMUM OF THREE HOURS OF LAB PER WEEK IS REQUIRED; SIX ARE RECOMMENDED.

NOTE: Photography is an expensive medium. In addition to the lab fee approximately $200 will be required for film and paper

This course will cover the basics of black and white photography, including the use of a 35mm camera, film processing, and printing in the darkroom. There will be four assignments over the course of the semester. These are self-portrait, documentary, sequence/series and a final project you will define for yourselves. In addition to the creative assignments you will also be required to visit one art exhibition or lecture on photography and submit a portfolio.

ART 297 Introduction to Digital Media 4CR AR

Sec 1 8769 TuTh 10:15-11:45 Y-4-4430 Cat Mazza

Sec 2 TuTh Y-4-4310 Cat Mazza

Lab Fee:  $150.00.  A MINIMUM OF THREE HOURS OF LAB PER WEEK IS REQUIRED; SIX ARE RECOMMENDED.

This course will introduce students to the Macintosh computer as a creative, art-making tool.  Focusing mostly on still images, the course introduces Adobe Photoshop and relevant hardware devices (i.e., scanners and printers).  There are three lab assignments, a midterm project and a final project.  Students will be asked to explore the digital medium through these devices in conjunction with creative projects, relevant readings, field trips, class discussions and critiques.  There are required lab hours in addition to the scheduled meetings.

The lab assignments focus on developing individual creative processes and utilizing specific technologies, while the midterm and final projects allow students to more thoroughly investigate their own interests and creative ideas.  The instructor will present lectures throughout the semester on historical and contemporary artists dealing with concepts relevant to the assigned projects, the medium itself, and the arts.

ART 310 Section 01: History of Modern Prints 3CR

10337 TuTh 11:00-12:15 Y-4-4100 John A. Tyson

This course will primarily focus on the history of prints and printmaking from c. 1850 to the present. Specifically, this class covers the nineteenth-century Etching Revival to the 1960s print Renaissance to cotemporary 3-D printing. We will additionally asses the technological side of printmaking, studying the history of techniques like woodcut, etching, engraving, and silkscreen. In addition, and going beyond fine art prints, we will analyze magazines and the portfolios of multiples that began to appear in the late 60s. We will assess the materiality of prints and consider how these forms of cultural production contest (and also uphold in some cases) dominant ideas about originality and singularity of art. We will consider the way that prints have the potential to widely spread artistic information and make tangible social networks.

No textbook

ART 310 Section 02: Eighteenth-Century Art 3CR

10393 TuTh 9:30-10:45 Y-4-4170 Stacey Sloboda

This course explores an extraordinary period in the arts in which experimentation and innovation produced some of the most peculiar objects in the history of art. We shall study a wide range of media, from painting, sculpture and architecture to porcelain, furniture, wax, and shells, as well as the styles of the Rococo, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism. Since the 18th Century was an age of global expansion and vibrant cross-cultural contact, this course examines the visual and material culture of Europe specifically in relation to other parts of the world, particularly Asia and the Americas.

ART 312 Late Italian Renaissance Art 3CR

Sec 1 10336 MWF 10:00-10:50 Y-4-4100 Lorenzo Buonanno

Prereq: Art 102 or permission of instructor

This course focuses on painting and sculpture in sixteenth-century Italy, the age of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. It studies developments in artistic style and theory in light of religious, political, and social developments. Emphasis is given to art produced in Florence, Rome, and Venice. Colossal sculptures, reclining nudes, unfinished artwork, personal rivalries, and the evolving status of the artist are among the topics examined.

ART 383 Painting Workshop 3CR

Sec 1 8767 W 3:30-6:30 Y-4-4390 Christopher Schade

Lab Fee: $150

Department permission required. Note: Art 383 may be taken 3 (three) times.

Prereq: Art 281 plus one additional art course or permission of instructor. For students previously enrolled in Art 383, four art courses, including one in art history.

This course is designed to explore various approaches and strategies to help the student define a personal vision that has emotional resonance. While the focus is on individual work with ongoing individual and group critiques, classes will include exercises, experimentation with mixed media, technical demonstrations and slide talks.

ART 393W PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: Experimental Photography 4CR

Sec 1 7705 MW 2:00-3:30 Y-4-4310 Margaret Hart

Department permission required. Note: Art 393W may be taken 3 (three) times.

Prereq:  Art 293 plus one additional art course or permission of instructor.  For students previously enrolled in Art 393W, four art courses, including one in art history.

Lab Fee: $150.00.  A MINIMUM OF THREE HOURS OF LAB PER WEEK IS REQUIRED; SIX ARE RECOMMENDED.

NOTE:  Photography is an expensive medium.  In addition to the lab fee, approximately $275.00 will be required for film, paper and other supplies.

This semester the workshop will focus on portrait and still life photography. We will work with studio lighting and natural light for  portraits and build small set-ups, light them and photograph them either digitally or with film. Students will be expected to complete all assignments, do assigned reading and writing assignments, and participate in class critiques. A working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and ART 293 are the prerequisites.

 It is expected that you have a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and have access to (or own) a digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR). There are cameras for check out through the department on a very limited basis. There will be no extension of project deadlines due to the inability of securing a digital camera. No iPhone or other mobile phone devices will be accepted.

ART 395 Video Workshop: Performance for Video 4CR

Sec 1 9210 Th 12:00-3:00 Y-4-4420 Wenhua Shi

Lab Fee: $150.00. A MINIMUM OF THREE HOURS OF LAB PER WEEK IS REQUIRED; SIX ARE RECOMMENDED

Department permission required. Note: Art 395W may be taken 3 (three) times.

Prereq: Art 295 plus one additional art course or permission of instructor. For students previously enrolled in Art 395, four art courses, including one in art history.

This course explores the relationship between performance and video. Understanding the history of performance art, the document, and the power of language behind the body, this course will address the particular issues of creating performances with live viewers and for the video medium itself. Students will explore topics of environment, editing, perspective, presentation, and ways of addressing the camera by the performer(s). This course is not about making documentaries of live performance but utilizing it as a tool to broaden the understanding of per formative based arts.

Art 481 Seminar in Visual Studies CAPSTONE 4CR

Sec 1 10354 Tu 12:00-3:00 Y-4-4400 Wenhua Shi

Lab Fee: $150

Designed primarily for the art major, to provide advanced work in areas and topics not normally offered in existing courses. Course content varies with instructor.

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