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Portraits: Intermediate Video — FV4241.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
This production course will explore moving image portraits and character studies through screenings and projects in documentary, narrative and experimental forms. Using observation and investigation the class will create portraits and discuss issues of representation, authorship and intimacy. We will examine Cinema-verite portraits and experimental self-reflections and
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Positionality and Time — PAI4419.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
A course that begins with defining the words positionality and time. Once defined we will examine the relationship between positionality and time through the history of painting. Class exercises will include researching art works through the lens of positionality and time, presenting on individual findings, and making paintings in response to or informed by the research.
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Positionality and Time — PAI4419.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
A course that begins with defining the words positionality and time. Once defined we will examine the relationship between positionality and time through the history of painting. Class exercises will include researching art works through the lens of positionality and time, presenting on individual findings, and making paintings in response to or informed by the research.
Visual Arts

Possibilities in Clay – A Material Exploration — CER4234.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will explore the potential of clay as an expressive medium, outside of standard ceramic practices. Let’s do all the things you aren’t supposed to do with clay! Students will cultivate an experimental approach as the guiding principle during their investigations. Alternative material use and its outcomes will inform our ideas – students should expect to mix a variety
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Post-Production Intensive — FV4310.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This semester-length, two-credit course will take students through the process of revising and refining a single project through multiple iterations, based on peer critique and instructor feedback. We will dig deep into the logics, techniques, and ever-evolving tools of editing, and also make space for experiments with animated elements, multi-channel audio/video configurations
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Pre-Photography 4000 B.C.E - 1839 C.E. — PHO2152.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
This class will explore many of the concepts and techniques that eventually gave rise to the invention of photography in the 19th century. Why did it take so long? The notion of imagery formed by a pinhole was apparent to ancient Chinese culture, understood by Aristotle, and studied by the great Arabian mathematician Ibn al-Haitam. Pictorial strategies depicting three
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Pre-Production for Advanced Projects in Video — FV4224.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 2
This course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects course in spring 2019 with Jen Liu, will support advanced students in planning and pre-production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. Students will learn how to use treatments, shooting scripts, storyboards, shot lists, and budgets to plan narrative,
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Premiere Pro for Moving Image — FV2305.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Katie Soule
Credits: 1
This course is a 1-credit, seven-week course focused on providing video and animation students with the skills to edit in Premiere Pro CC 2015. The first third of the course will provide the essential training of capturing, editing, audio mixing, and performing special effects, as well as review methods of best practice when organizing footage and exporting finished
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Pretty Lies, Ugly Truths, and Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting — PAI2109.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Fake news, reality television, “IRL” - asserting the veracity of our perceptions is a constant preoccupation in contemporary culture. What is real? Realism is a widely used term with multiple connotations: verisimilitude, authenticity, objectivity, truth, fact. In this course we will consider how painting reflects and/or perverts “reality” by making imitations of historical
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Pretty Lies, Ugly Truths, and Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting — PAI2109.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Fake news, reality television, “IRL” - asserting the veracity of our perceptions is a constant preoccupation in contemporary culture. What is real? Realism is a widely used term with multiple connotations: verisimilitude, authenticity, objectivity, truth, fact. In this course we will consider how painting reflects and/or perverts “reality” by making imitations of historical
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Print and Process — PHO4246.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: May Hemler
Credits: 2
The focus of this course is preparing digital files for large inkjet printing. Starting with capture, students will learn how to make images with the intention of printing them larger than 20 inches. Students may work with analog negatives or digital RAW files and will learn how to properly scan and import. Students will learn how to appropriately organize and catalog their
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Print Assemblage — PRI4115.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jesse Connor
Credits: 4
Print Assemblage is a course that explores printmaking as a base medium/material for a variety of mixed media projects. Students will bring to class various levels of printmaking experience, and be challenged to look beyond a traditional approach to printmaking.Demonstrations will be given in intaglio, monotype, woodcut along with variety of bonding and coating methods that
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Printing with Purpose — PHO2461.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Throughout this course students will learn how to use the Epson 3880 and P800 printers to create high quality prints from their existing digital image files. Using adjustment layers in Photoshop, students will focus on color correcting, sharpening, and modifying curves in their images. While getting familiar with preparing their files for printing, students will also
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Printing with Purpose — PHO2461.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Throughout this course students will learn how to use the Epson 3880 and P800 printers to create high quality prints from their existing digital image files. Using adjustment layers in Photoshop, students will focus on color correcting, sharpening, and modifying curves in their images. While getting familiar with preparing their files for printing, students will also
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Prints into Books — PRI4216.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This advanced level course combines printmaking and bookmaking. We will explore techniques such as relief printing, pressure printing, monotype, and collograph, integrating our prints into a variety of book structures. For the first 7 weeks, we will work in the Word Image lab using Vandercook proofing presses, and also in the printmaking studio located in VAPA. Students
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Processing and Making with Rhino 7 — DA4348.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Derek Parker
Credits: 2
Processing and Making with Rhino 7 is a course designed to leverage Computer Modeling to create prototypes, models, and functional objects through digital outputs. These outputs include 3D Printing, Laser cutting and engraving, and CNC milling. This course builds upon the skills learned in the class Modeling and Thinking in Rhino 7, and will explore the relationship between
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Processing and Making with Rhino 8 — DES4103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Derek Parker
Credits: 2
Processing and Making in Rhino 8 is an introductory course in Digital Fabrication using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) equipment. This course will explore the use of 3D Printers, CNC Laser Cutters, and CNC Routers to create custom objects modeled in Rhino 8. The course will cover the necessary workflows and parameters used for each machine
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Production of Unconventional Space — SCU4120.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This class will be fabricating a large inflatable structure (ultimate synthesis of the first seven weeks). The first two classes will be dedicated to critical discussions on form, membrane properties, and the final showing environment. The chosen form will be digitized and the 3D model will be used to leverage logistics of the large form and patterning. The digital model will
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Professional Practices: Demystifying the Art World — VA4324.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Credits: 4
What does it really look like to pursue being a professional artist? What exactly is the "art world"? How does what I am learning in college apply to life afterwards? This seminar course will address and explore why there is no clear or singular path to "becoming an artist" and offer students the tools to navigate shaping their artistic path from an empowered position.
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Projection of Images — MA4109.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 2
This will be a condensed class concerned with projecting images, and mapping these onto a variety of forms. The content will be created in a number of programs. How this interacts with a location/space, a surface, an object, a performer, a body will be explored in the class, as well as how this brings further information to a form, and shifts the viewer's reading or
Drama Visual Arts

Projection _ Mapping _ Design — MA4106.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with projecting images, and mapping these onto a variety of forms. The content will be created in a number of programs. How this interacts with a location/space, a surface, an object, a performer, a body will be explored in the class, as well as and how this brings further information to a form and shift the viewers reading or understanding.
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Projection – Mapping — MA4106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 2
This class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected imagery with a location. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into, bring further information and alter a location. Two locations will be used one interior, the other exterior. The images can be created in a number of programs, with the content and how this works with the
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Projections — ARC2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
This course will combine an introduction to both the history of architecture as well as its systems of representation. A thematic history of architecture will be presented through slide lectures and readings. Studio work will employ sketching, hand drawing with tools and digital modeling. The studio work will inform the understanding of the work that is presented in the history
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Projections – Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, projection or interactive project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to
Drama Visual Arts

Projections – Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
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. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, interactive project, projection mapping etc. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class
Drama Visual Arts