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The Web as Artistic Platform — DA2110.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to creative practices with digital technologies specifically focused on creating online fine art projects. A broad survey of web-based digital arts is examined in tandem with an overview of tools necessary to create your own work. These include HTML, CSS, Photoshop (for prepping images for the web), content management systems, and a basic
Visual Arts

The Web as Artistic Platform — DA2110.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to creative practices within digital technologies specifically focused on Internet based fine art projects. A broad survey of web-based digital arts is examined in tandem with an overview of design methodology and the tools necessary to create your own work. These include HTML, CSS, Photoshop, content management systems, and a basic introduction
Visual Arts

The Web as Artistic Platform — DA2110.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to creative practices within digital technologies specifically focused on Internet based fine art projects. A broad survey of web-based digital arts is examined in tandem with an overview of design methodology and the tools necessary to create your own work. These include HTML, CSS, Photoshop, content management systems, and a basic introduction
Visual Arts

The Web as Artistic Platform — DA2110.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to creative practices within digital technologies specifically focused on Internet based fine art projects. A broad survey of web-based digital arts is examined in tandem with an overview of design methodology and the tools necessary to create your own work. These include HTML, CSS, Photoshop, content management systems, and a basic introduction
Visual Arts

Theatre and the Arts for Peace and Reconciliation — MED4102.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How can Theatre, Visual Arts, Music and Dance build international peace, or help youth in at-risk situations, or help victims of genocide, or heal the environment?  Guest artists will discuss their particular projects, and students will investigate various efforts, both local and international, that involve the Arts for peace or social action.  Students will write
CAPA Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Thing Library Project — VA4211.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Thing Library Project is a research based Visual Arts class in which students investigate critical theories of “thingness” and design and create artwork (designed objects, sculptures, utilitarian goods, garments etc.) to establish an object lending library within the Crossett Library. This collection of three-dimensional items will be classified and catalogued for circulation
Visual Arts

Third Cinema — FV2316.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course is a seminar focusing on films that were made by filmmakers and collectives which saw themselves as inaugurating a new kind of filmmaking modeled neither on the commercial American filmmaking, nor on the European “Auteur” Cinema, instead crafting a third position, a cinema that was implicated in anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggles of the time. These

Media Studies Film and Video

Tile: Expanding the Parameters — CER2126.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This course will explore the ceramic medium through the format of tile. Given this, as a parameter, we are presented with an exciting opportunity to explore clay in two dimensions and in low relief. Students will be introduced to historical and contemporary tiles as examples of both architectural elements and art objects. Tiles will be made using various building methods
Visual Arts

Tile: Expanding the Parameters — CER2126.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This course will explore the ceramic medium through the format of tile. Given this as a parameter, we are presented with an exciting opportunity to explore clay in two dimensions and low relief. Students will be introduced to historic and contemporary tiles as examples of both architectural elements and art objects. This general survey of ceramic tiles will include many
Visual Arts

Tile: Expanding the Parameters — CER2126.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This course will explore the ceramic medium through the format of tile. Given this as a parameter, we are presented with an exciting opportunity to explore clay in two dimensions and low relief. Students will be introduced to historic and contemporary tiles as examples of both architectural elements and art objects. This general survey of ceramic tiles will include many
Visual Arts

Time Capsule 2016 — MOD2159.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 1
If we were to prepare a time capsule to leave behind for a future generation to open, how would we go about it? What would we include? What kinds of questions would we have to ask in order to decide on a list of items? First, we might have to define ‘ourselves’, and what we know and think about our time and place in history. Then, how do we express this understanding through a
Modules: Transferable Approaches Visual Arts

Topics in Ceramic History: Global Perspectives — CER2148.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
The study of ceramics is the study of human history in all of its cultural diversity, from artisanal pottery to highly sophisticated modern product design or contemporary sculpture. This course will explore ancient, indigenous and historical ceramics with lectures and discussions around clay materials, technology, art, and culinary traditions.
Visual Arts

Topics In Video: Experimental Documentary — FV4236.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
This course explores documentary possibilities through screenings and video projects. The class will look at and consider non-fiction techniques from early cinema verite films to recent attempts to address point of view and outsider status in documentary and experimental video work. In collaborative and individual projects, the class will take a hands-on approach to documentary
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: J. Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.”

Striking

Art History

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: J. Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: J Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Traces, Mistakes, and Leftovers — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The role of drawing has changed over the history of art, from primitive recording to preliminary sketch, to documentation, to works that function independently. How can we expand these categories to include the remnants of the making process. Can the research done before a project, the many mistakes made in process, or the discards left after completion of an artwork be
Visual Arts

Traces, Mistakes, and Leftovers — DRW4237.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 2
The role of drawing has changed over the history of art, from primitive recording to preliminary sketch, from documentation to works that function independently. How can we expand these notions to include the remnants of the making process. Can the research done before a project, the many mistakes made in process, or the discards left after completion of an artwork be
Visual Arts