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Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will address practices and ethics around digital photography and experiment with foundational tools and techniques. It aims to create space for students to foster their own interests and reflections on the impacts of digital photography on society. Classes will combine technical demonstrations, practical exercises, group critiques, a final self
Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in Lightroom, make local adjustments, retouch, and composite images in Photoshop, properly scan negatives, and produce digital portfolios and high quality inkjet prints. In addition to technical
Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Introduction to Digital Practice — PHO2368.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is designed to help students with fundamental tools and techniques of the basics of photography to develop and incubate their knowledge and technical skills such as usage of digital camera, lighting, composition, sense of moment, theme, use of color, storytelling and preparing for basic printing. In addition, this course intends to foster a creative and critical
Visual Arts

Foundations; Metalshop — SCU2217.02

Fall 2025
Instructor: Phoenix Malanga
Days & Time: FR 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design/fabrication methods. It is open to anyone with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas, arc, electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques like cutting and grinding

Sculpture

Framing the World - Animating the World — MA4212.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or projection design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and consistent endeavor. The first half of the semester will be concerned with conceptualizing and framing the world of the animations or projections, by research, drawings, investigation, imagining. The second half will be creating the

Drama Media Arts

French Film Adaptations — FV2302.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students will examine a variety of adaptations, focusing on the strategies used to turn a book into a film. Issues of adaptation theory will be explored, as well as the underlying ideology behind the rediscovery of specific authors through cinema. Students will discuss notions such as “faithfulness” to a source text, but more importantly intermediality and intertextuality, the
Visual Arts Languages

French Through Films — FRE4154.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

French Through Films: On connait la chanson and Vers la tendresse — FRE4153.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 2
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

French Through Films: Rue Cases-Nègres and Au revoir les enfants — FRE4152.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 2
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

From Digital Models to Technical Drawings — DA4250.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The historian Robin Evans thought of technical drawings as an “intervening medium” between object and thought. By protracting the distance between thoughts and the objects they produce, what alterations can be made in the process? What previously invisible things do we see? Do we also lose some control? This course is about understanding the technical drawing not only as an
Visual Arts

Future Studio — VA4207.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator for the development and articulation of new non-profit or for-profit enterprises which can be launched with powerful economic potential and socially responsible missions. The studio emphasizes creativity, innovation, place-centered economies, worker-centered ownership, environmental sustainability, social justice and financial viability.
CAPA Visual Arts

Future Studio — VA4207.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick Charles Crowell
Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator designed for the development and articulation of new enterprises that value workers, local communities, sustainability, and the environment equally with profit. The course is designed to lay the foundation for building new enterprise of all types through the unique integration of creativity, arts culture, and sophisticated business
CAPA Visual Arts

Future Studio — VA4207.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Robert Ransick; Charles Crowell
Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator designed for the development and articulation of new enterprises that value workers, local communities, sustainability, and the environment equally with profit. The course is designed to lay the foundation for building new enterprise of all types through the unique integration of creativity, arts culture, and sophisticated business
Visual Arts

Future Studio: Design Incubator — DA4206.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
***TIME CHANGE*** This course is conceived and structured as a small incubator for product and business development.  Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries inquiry-based idea development, design, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. 
CAPA Visual Arts

Future Studio: Idea to Prototype — DA4204.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: robert ransick; andrew cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This two-part (fall and spring) course is conceived and structured as a small start-up. Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries collaborative inquiry-based idea development, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. The course will progress over the
CAPA Science Mathematics and Computing Visual Arts

Future Studio: Production to Launch — DA4204.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick; Andrew Cencini
Credits: 4
This two-part (fall and spring) course is conceived and structured as a small start-up. Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries collaborative inquiry-based idea development, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. The course will progress over the
CAPA Science Mathematics and Computing Visual Arts

Games, Puzzles, and Modular Systems — PRI4119.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This upper-level printmaking course will explore games, puzzles, and modular building systems as inspiration for both two and three-dimensional work. The class is structured around a series of projects for which rigorous experimentation and play is encouraged. We will collaborate to teach each other techniques, engage with each other’s work, and explore the improvisational
Visual Arts

Gender, Race, and Fashion in Western Portraiture: 1500-1950 — AH4106.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
 For elite early modern sitters, portraits were a valued means of constructing a public image, securing a spouse, memorializing the dead, and emphasizing political and dynastic relationships. Taking as our point of departure period notions of likeness, otherness, and verisimilitude, we will investigate the problems of portrayal through various thematic subgenres as they
Visual Arts

Generative Art with Processing — DA2108.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Gene Kogan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will explore strategies for producing code-based generative art and computational design. Students will acquire methods for creating compelling artworks using algorithms and autonomous processes inspired from nature, statistics, biology, and computer science, with applications to interactive installation, digital fabrication, web apps, and others. The course will
Visual Arts

Glaze and Kiln Technology — CER2137.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jack Yu; see Barry Bartlett for registration
Credits: 2
This course will focus on fundamental technical requirements needed by intermediate and advanced level students pursuing advanced level projects in ceramics. Students will gain specific skills through focused training, learn about clay and glaze components in depth and the mechanics of kilns. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Katz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular breakdown of glaze recipes translates into unique fired surfaces. Through hands on and theoretical approaches students will gain experience developing
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CER2132.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Katz
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular breakdown of glaze recipes translates into unique fired surfaces. Through hands on and theoretical approaches students will gain experience developing
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CER2141.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jack Yu
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the technical requirements needed for beginning students to progress to intermediate or advanced projects in ceramics. This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CER2141.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jack Yu
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the technical requirements needed for beginning students to progress to intermediate or advanced projects in ceramics. This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular
Visual Arts