COURSES

101 Fine Arts Foundation Program HU
Staff
Drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and printmaking are offered. Students are introduced to at least three different disciplines from the five presently offered by the department: drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and printmaking. Each subject is an introductory course, dealing with the formal elements characteristic of the particular discipline as well as the appropriate techniques. Part of the work is from life model in drawing, painting and sculpture. These subjects are offered as half-semester courses; students may choose four for two course credits in any two semesters, not necessarily consecutive, or any three to receive one and one-half credits. For example: a student may take two sections in one semester in one year, and one or two sections in another year. The course is structured so that the student experiences the differences as well as the similarities between the various expressions in studio art, thus affording a “perspective’’ insight into the visual process as a basis for artistic expression. For those intending to major, Art 101 consists of taking four of the five disciplines from each of the staff, including Foundations 120 to 123.

120 Foundation Printmaking: Silkscreen HU
H. Kim
A seven-week course covering various techniques and approaches to silkscreen, including painterly monoprint, stencils, direct drawing, and photo-silkscreen. Emphasizing the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement.

121 Foundation Printmaking: Relief Printing HU
H. Kim
A seven-week course covering various techniques and approaches to the art of the woodcut and the linocut, emphasizing the study of design principles and the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement.

122 Foundation Printmaking: Lithography HU
H. Kim
A seven-week course covering various techniques and approaches to lithography, including stone and plate preparation, drawing materials, editioning, black and white printing. Emphasizing the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement.

123 Foundation Printmaking: Etching HU
H. Kim
A seven-week course covering various techniques and approaches to intaglio printmaking including monotypes, soft and hard ground, line, aquatint, chine collage, and viscosity printing. Emphasizing the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement.

223a or b Printmaking: Materials and Techniques HU
H. Kim
Further development into other printmaking techniques, covering a broad range of alternative processes within wood, lino, collagraph, monoprint, drypoint, etching, and photo etching. Students will work independently. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor by review of portfolio.

231a or b Drawing (2-D): All Media HU
Y. Li
Various drawing media such as charcoal, conté, pencil, ink, and mixed media; the relationship between media, techniques, and expression. The student is exposed to problems involving space, design, and composition as well as “thinking’’ in two dimensions. Part of the work is from life model. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 101 or consent of instructor.

233a or b Painting: Materials and Techniques HU
Y. Li
Problems of (1) form, color, texture, and their interrelationships; (2) influence of the various painting techniques upon the expression of a work; (3) the characteristics and limitations of the different media; (4) control over the structure and composition of a work of art; and (5) the relationships of form and composition, and color and composition. Media are primarily oils, but acrylics, watercolors and egg tempera are explored. Part of the work is from life model. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 101 or consent of instructor.

241a or b Drawing (3-D): All Media HU
C. Cairns
In essence the same problems as in Fine Arts 231a or b. However, some of the drawing media are clay modeling in half-hour sketches; the space and design concepts solve three-dimensional problems. Part of the work is done from life model. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 101 or consent of instructor.

243a or b Sculpture: Materials and Techniques HU
C. Cairns
The behavior of objects in space, the concepts and techniques leading up to the form in space, and the characteristics and limitations of the various sculpture media and their influence on the final work; predominant but not exclusive use of clay modeling techniques: fundamental casting procedures. Part of the work is done from life model. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 101 or consent of instructor.

251a Photography: Materials and Techniques HU
W. Williams
Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach to photography. Emphasis is placed on the creation of black and white photographic prints which express plastic form, emotions, and ideas about the physical world. Work is critiqued weekly to give critical insights into editing of individual student work and the use of the appropriate black and white photographic materials necessary to give coherence to that work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum exhibitions, lectures, and a critical analysis of photographic sequences in books and a research project supplement the weekly critiques. In addition, students produce a handmade archival box to house their work which is organized into a loose sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 101. Enrollment limited.

260b Photography: Materials and Techniques HU
W. Williams
Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach to photographic prints which express plastic form, emotions, and ideas about the physical world in color. Work is critiqued weekly to give critical insights into editing of individual student work and the use of the appropriate color photographic materials necessary to give coherence to that work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum exhibitions, lectures, and a critical analysis of photographic sequences in books and a research project supplement the weekly critiques. In addition, students produce a handmade archival box to house their work which is organized into a loose sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 101. Enrollment limited.

327a or b Experimental Studio: Lithography and Intaglio HU
H. Kim
Concepts and techniques of black and white and color lithography. The development of a personal direction is encouraged. Prerequisites: A foundation drawing course and Foundation Printmaking, or permission of instructor.

331a or b Experimental Studio (Drawing) HU
Y. Li
In this studio course the student is encouraged to experiment with ideas and techniques with the purpose of developing a personal expression. It is expected that the student will already have a sound knowledge of the craft and aesthetics of drawing and is at a stage where personal expression has become possible. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Fine Arts 231a or b, or consent of the instructor.

333a or b Experimental Studio (Painting) HU
Y. Li
In this studio course the student is encouraged to experiment with ideas and techniques with the purpose of developing a personal expression. It is expected that the student will already have a sound knowledge of the craft and aesthetics of painting and is at a stage where personal expression has become possible. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Fine Arts 223a or b, or consent of instructor.

341a or b Experimental Studio (Drawing) HU
C. Cairns

343a or b Experimental Studio (Sculpture) HU
C. Cairns
In this studio course the student is encouraged to experiment with ideas and techniques with the purpose of developing a personal expression. It is expected that the student will already have a sound knowledge of the craft and aesthetics of sculpture and is at a stage where personal expression has become possible. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 243a or b, or consent of instructor.

351a or b Experimental Studio (Photography) HU
W. Williams
Students produce an extended sequence of their work in either book or exhibition format using black and white or color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the student’s work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented by an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture books and related critical texts guide students to the completion of their course work. This two semester course consists of the book project first semester and the exhibition project second semester. At the end of each semester the student may exhibit his/her project. Prerequisites: Fine Arts 101, 251, 260, and consent of the instructor.

480a or b Independent Study HU
Staff
This course gives the advanced student the opportunity to experiment with concepts and ideas and to explore in depth his or her talent. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

499a or b Senior Departmental Studies HU
Staff
The student reviews the depth and extent of experience gained, and in so doing creates a coherent body of work expressive of the student’s insights and skills. At the end of the senior year, the student is expected to produce a show of his or her work.

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