School of Art
Art Education
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AED 510 - Special Problems in Art Ed School of Art
1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Individual study of particular problems in art education which are of pertinence to the student. Counseling and consent of the instructor determine the area of study.
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AED 524 - Visual Language School of Art
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Visual language as catalyst for interdisciplinary experiences in art, math, science, and social studies. Visualization, determination of essential features, methods of teaching surrogate and relational form. Curriculum for specific grades or particular audiences. For senior and graduate art majors.
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AED 534 - Creative Processes and Curriculum Structures College of Visual and Performing Arts
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Through experimentation, divergent thinking, and openness to discovery and possibility, students will document the curricular ideas and opportunities for creative learning that emerge through the exploration of various studio art and design processes.
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AED 584 - Cultural Knowledge, Identity, and Postmodern Art Education School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
A course providing a safe space for arts educators and teaching artists to reconceptualize their language, attitudes, and approaches toward viewing, learning, and teaching the visual arts to diverse students in a global postmodern society.
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AED 612 - Creativity & Its Cultivation School of Art
3 credit(s) Irregularly
How do we recognize creativity? Who are the innovative individuals? Seminar workshop identifies essential criteria to discover and experience levels of creative behavior. Multisensory nature of imagination and its cultural significance. Students experiment in perceptual activities leading to design of aesthetic and educational strategies.
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AED 617 - Philosophy & Foundations of Art Education Practice School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: AED 317
Historical trends and philosophies of diverse art education practices and the growth of American public education. Includes field observations, interface with cultural institutions, cultivation of professional affiliations, and the development of a beginning teaching philosophy.
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AED 618 - Seminar in Art Education School of Art
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Prevailing opinions concerning objectives, materials, and curriculum procedures in art education at various age levels. Variety of research requirements and procedures in the field.
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AED 621 - Making Meaning: Socially Responsible Arts & Design Practices School of Art
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Experiments with new approaches for making art, architecture and/or design when creative practice and arts & design education are undertaken as an avenue of social responsibility.
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AED 710 - Problems/Teacher As Artist School of Art
2-18 credit(s) Irregularly
Technical problems in art education. Limited to students working toward master’s degree in art education.
Repeatable
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AED 798 - Making Methodology: Exploring Arts-based Research School of Art
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: AIC 619
An in-depth exploration of arts-based research methodologies that emerge out of the natural affinity between research practice and artistic practice. Various methodologies will be applied to selected social, educational, and creative research problems.
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AED 896 - Final Presentation School of Art
3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
Final presentation accompanied by written statement, culminating in oral examination. Taken during final semester upon advisor’s approval.
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AED 990 - Independent Study School of Art
1-6 credit(s)
Repeatable
Arts in Context
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AIC 500 - Selected Topics School of Art
1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable 4 time(s), 6 credits maximum
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AIC 600 - Selected Topics School of Art
1-6 credit(s)
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
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AIC 610 - The Creative Classroom: Reexamining School Art Misconceptions Through Studio Inquiry School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
A studio art course that disrupts misconceptions about the relevance of the arts and design practices in education through arts-based inquiry.
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AIC 611 - Creative Leadership and Social Responsibility in the Arts School of Art
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Double Numbered with: AIC 311
Online course designed to equip students with strategies for a socially responsible approach to creative leadership and citizen entrepreneurship that may be applied within school systems, arts organizations, museums, and community centers. Additional work required of graduate students.
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AIC 612 - Methods in Creative Leadership: Talent/Agency School of Art
3 credit(s) Every semester
Double Numbered with: AIC 312
Community engagement coursework focused on planning and instruction of ongoing arts & design-based portfolio development, mentoring workshops for teens, fostering the next generation of creative leaders. Additional work required of graduate students.
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AIC 618 - Collaborative Arts & Design Practices School of Art
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Double Numbered with: AIC 318
Drawing upon diverse disciplinary content rethinking the role of the arts & design in society as purpose-driven, as a way of knowing and as an urgent, beneficial means of active social entrepreneurship. Additional work required of graduate students.
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AIC 619 - Making Methodology: Exploring Arts-based Research School of Art
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: AED 798
An in-depth exploration of arts-based research methodologies that emerge out of the natural affinity between research practice and artistic practice. Various methodologies will be applied to selected social, educational, and creative research problems.
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AIC 621 - Art, Activism, Modernity School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: AIC 321
History, theory, and practice of visual artists in publicly-engaged, community-based, and socially-active projects.
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AIC 623 - Artists Who Write School of Art
3 credit(s)
Double Numbered with: AIC 423
Analysis, history of manifestos, theoretical writings produced by visual artists in the 20th century. Students write their own manifestos, press releases, artist statements and other forms of art communication.
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AIC 640 - Visiting Artist Lecture Series School of Art
1 credit(s) Every semester
Double Numbered with: AIC 340
Contemporary artists and art educators with significant national and international exhibition and publishing records talk about their work and its development, including art-historical and other inter-disciplinary connections. Additional work required of graduate students.
Repeatable 5 time(s), 6 credits maximum
Art Intensive in Studio Arts
Arts Lab
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ARL 600 - Selected Topics School of Art
1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
Illustration
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ILL 565 - Intro to Digital Illustration School of Art and Design
3 credit(s) Every semester
Double Numbered with: ILL 256
Exploration and use of vector and bitmap computer applications to solve visual communication problems and create illustrations.
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ILL 650 - Illustration Graduate Summer Intensive School of Art
3 credit(s) Only during the summer
This two week intensive will allow students to visit or host visits with NYC art directors, workspaces, museums and galleries, design firms and publishing houses. Special drawing and research assignments will be assigned throughout.
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ILL 651 - L.A. Illustration Studio School of Art
3 credit(s) Only during the summer
Students travel to Los Angeles to observe the illustration industry. Students will visit major film studios along with meeting illustrators and other creative industry leaders. Final project is a travel journal documenting their class.
PREREQ: ILL 662
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ILL 653 - The Business of Illustration School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: ILL 453
Presentation, marketing and promotion for the professional illustrator. Pricing, negotiation, contracts, copyright laws, and other professional issues.
Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
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ILL 655 - Illustration Concepts: Editorial Focus School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: ILL 455
Course is designed for students who are interested in field of freelance illustration for publishing. Assignments expect stylistically distinctive creative work and conceptual thinking in commenting on social or political topics. For graduate students, additional work will be required.
Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
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ILL 656 - Illustration Concepts: Sequential Focus School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: ILL 456
For students interested in improving drawing and story-telling skills for Graphic Novels, Children’s Books, Comics or Storyboarding. Assignments will include a series of images that convey a narrative, using strong drawing skills and incorporating essential descriptive elements. Grad students are required to do additional work.
PREREQ: ILL 356
Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
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ILL 657 - Illustration Concepts, Visual Development Focus School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: ILL 457
This course introduces students to the specifics of Visual Development for animation and gaming. Students will develop characters and environments for a story of their choosing. Grad students are required to do additional work.
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ILL 658 - Illustration Concepts: Product Focus School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: ILL 458
Students will make illustrations in a distinctively personal style to create products targeted to licensing, patterning, and decorative work. Students will explore prospective marketplaces appropriate to their work. Grad students are required to do additional work.
Repeatable 2 time(s), 6 credits maximum
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ILL 660 - Illustration Research Problems School of Art
1-18 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
Research into application of illustration.
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ILL 661 - Illustration Graduate Studio I School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course will focus on fostering creative ideas and a general understanding of contemporary illustration while exploring a variety of media and materials that are used in the field.
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ILL 662 - Illustration Graduate Studio II School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
The goal of this class is to build on the objectives learned in ILL 661 Illustration Graduate Studio I. The course will function more independently with students creating, researching and making a hardbound book of a collection of their drawings or visual narrative stories.
PREREQ: ILL 661
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ILL 663 - New Directions in Illustration School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This class analyzes primitive, native, and outsider art and their utilization in contemporary illustration. Students will explore new artistic directions in their own work, moving from classic European figurative-based photographic works to the more Expressionistic works of artists like Picasso, Matisse, and Duchamp.
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ILL 664 - Licensing from Studio to Market School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
A class for the entrepreneurial artist to develop creative products for commercial markets that can be disseminated via licensing. Students will take their ideas from concept to fabrication while learning about the licensing world.
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ILL 665 - Illustration Grad Workshop School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This advanced workshop focuses on defining a professional orientation in the practice of illustration and visual narratives. There will be a strong emphasis on storytelling techniques widely used in modern visual development for film, video games, storyboards, graphic novels and picture books.
PREREQ: ILL 662
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ILL 667 - Illustration Practice School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course is an exploration of the tools used in communicating visual ideas. Assignments and projects will integrate design, illustration, typography and branding, using digital, analog and emerging technologies.
PREREQ: ILL 662
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ILL 669 - Drawing on Location School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course consists of three components: Weekly sketchbook drawings at various locations, a narrative series of drawings that journal a place, person, or thing, and the reinterpretation of a historical landmark with a modern approach.
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ILL 671 - Creative Strategy School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This is a seminar class for graduate students and will focus on exploring research strategies including the collection, interpretation, and presentation of visual information. Students will read selected writings by creatives on a weekly basis, contribute to class discussions, and examine their own research strategies.
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ILL 672 - Visual Voice I School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course focuses on defining a professional orientation in the practice of visual narratives and storytelling. There will be a strong emphasis on finding each individual artistic practice and visual voice.
PREREQ: ILL 671
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ILL 673 - Story Lab School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course explores narrative formulas common within movies, tv, video games, graphic novels, and children’s books. By reading and analyzing works of literature students will delve into why such work produces powerful emotional connections. In addition to reading books students will create their own narratives.
PREREQ: ILL 671
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ILL 674 - Play Matters School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This class will not only encourage, but demand exploration and experimentation. Students will step out of their comfort zones and play seriously with a range of media and processes, seeking new forms of expression.
PREREQ: ILL 671
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ILL 675 - Visual Voice II School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course focuses on advancing the professional orientation in the practice of visual narratives and storytelling. There will be a strong emphasis on finding the artistic practice and visual voice in the community and the world.
PREREQ: ILL 671 and ILL 672
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ILL 676 - Entrepreneur School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course helps students identify and foster new opportunities to form and sustain future creativity and culture. Class dialogue will examine the impact on and relationship of artists to business. Students will explore traditional and contemporary ways creatives can connect with their audience.
PREREQ: ILL 671 and ILL 672
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ILL 677 - Visual Integration School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This advanced workshop focuses on defining a professional orientation in the practice of illustration and visual narratives. There will be a strong emphasis on the integration of visual and verbal modes of communication widely used in contemporary visual development for graphic novels, picture books, storyboards, film, and video games.
PREREQ: ILL 671 and ILL 672
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ILL 760 - Illustration Communication School of Art
1-12 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
Historical and contemporary aspects of illustration as they relate to the communication process.
PREREQ: ILL 660
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ILL 761 - Printmaking for Illustration I School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course will introduce printmaking procedures, including monotype, drypoint, linoleum cut and silkscreening, that can be done without investing in major printmaking equipment.
PREREQ: ILL 662
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ILL 762 - Printmaking for Illustration II School of Art
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Students will apply the processes learned in Printmaking I to create a narrative or conceptual book using online digital printing.
PREREQ: ILL 761
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ILL 763 - MFA Thesis I School of Art
6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This class focuses on thesis topic choice, research, and writing. The written thesis is
grounded in research with a direct correlation to the topic of the visual thesis. The
thesis subject will be formulated in anticipation of professional outcomes.
PREREQ: ILL 671 and ILL 672 and ILL 675
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ILL 764 - MFA Thesis II School of Art
6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Students will create a cohesive series of artworks based on their chosen thesis topic. The form of the visual thesis will be reflective of the students’ chosen professional direction, using appropriately targeted media, style, and topical focus. The visual thesis will be created for exhibition. The written thesis will be finalized.
PREREQ: ILL 671 and ILL 672 and ILL 675 and ILL 763
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ILL 996 - Final Presentation School of Art
3 credit(s) Every semester
Written statement to accompany final project, culmi- nating in oral examination for M.F.A. degree. Taken during final semester upon advisor’s approval.
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ILL 997 - Master’s Thesis School of Art
0-6 credit(s) Every semester
Formal master’s thesis. Written document exhibiting substantive and original research. Planned under direction of major departmental advisor.
Jewelry and Metalsmithing
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AIC 641 - History of Jewelry and Metalsmithing School of Art
3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
Double Numbered with: AIC 441
Study the history of jewelry/metalsmithing from prehistoric to contemporary pieces. Differences and similarities among cultures is discussed.
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