Art Foundry
3 creditsART FOUNDRY covers traditional and nontraditional methods of fine art foundry.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sample4,369 courses
ART FOUNDRY covers traditional and nontraditional methods of fine art foundry.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sampleA studio course focused on 2D digital animation, teaching students to use software tools to create narrative or fine art videos while exploring the history and current practice of the field.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Stephen Hilyard
The workload included approximately six hours of weekly video tutorials, intense critiques, and long lectures that some students felt reduced time for in-class work.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 20263D Digital Studio I introduces computer-based 3D modeling for creating images and objects, covering polygonal modeling, shaders, rendering, and contemporary practices in art, design, and entertainment.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Stephen Hilyard
Students described the lectures as grueling and excruciatingly dull, noting that the instructor spoke in a monotone voice during long sessions.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Examines major developments in graphic design and typography across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, focusing on field emergence and self-definition.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Claire Tomkiw
Students completed approximately 200-300 words of writing and reading per week, along with occasional discussion posts and a 6-page final essay.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Focuses on the design and creation of non-printed artist's books, emphasizing contemporary folded book structures, boxes, and integrated mixed-media projects.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Jim Escalante
The workload involved everyone working simultaneously within a relaxed atmosphere, though specific time commitments were not detailed.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sampleSpecial Topics covers various elementary topics courses in Art.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Lynda Barry
Assignments were time-consuming and required consistent effort; students reported that showing up and doing the work led to good grades.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Intro to light as a sculptural medium, focusing on techniques for creating art with luminous tubes and neon glass.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Advanced graphic design focusing on corporate brand identity, including mark development, packaging, web branding, and broadcast advertising, applying semiotics and communication theory.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Dennis Miller
The course required significant effort, with students reporting they had to pull all-nighters to manage the heavy workload.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Information Graphics examines visual information representation theory and practice, focusing on creating clear graphical displays of data via location, time, category, hierarchy, and index.
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historical GPA · grades
Fall 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleGraphic Design for Posters examines poster design as communication, focusing on combining words and images using principles of composition, perception, and rhetoric.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Explore historical, theoretical and studio components of time-based art forms including digital animation, video, installation, and visual art performance.
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historical GPA · grades
Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sampleIntermediate Photography covers advanced digital printing techniques, critical analysis, and the history of photography and current trends.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sampleContemporary letterpress printing of text and image as an art medium, including handset type, photopolymer plates, broadsides, and artist's books.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sampleAdvanced Relief Printmaking emphasizes color problems and surface qualities through studio practice, discussion, and critiques.
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No recorded grade history
Making Comics 2 continues studying comics as academic inquiry, exploring history, theory, and cultural significance while developing practical visual storytelling skills.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleProminent artists, curators critics present their work through lectures and visual presentations.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Elaine Scheer
In Elaine Scheer’s past class, a student reported that attending artist talks and writing reflections were the main tasks, and that make-up assignments existed if a talk was missed.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Advanced Drawing I focuses on advanced-level drawing, addressing various problems and issues while developing a unique visual language to express complex ideas and emotions.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Fall 2025 · limited sampleAdvanced Sculpture Workshop 1 focuses on using various materials based on formal and conceptual bases, emphasizing independent research and studio project development.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Advanced Lithography develops concepts and techniques in lithography, including drawing on stone, transfer techniques, and color processes through studio practice, lectures, discussions, and critiques.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Installations and Environments focuses on studio projects in site-specific art making, supported by readings and examples of contemporary artists' work.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Advanced Painting I focuses on technical processes and personal expression in painting, aiming to develop a hybrid painting practice and sustainable studio habits through experimentation.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sampleAdvanced Ceramics I covers thrown and hand-built forms, clay bodies, glazes, and firing, emphasizing the development of personal concepts through complex clay construction.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2024–Spring 2024 · limited sampleAdvanced Etching/Intaglio focuses on research in advanced intaglio techniques and color printing.
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No recorded grade history
Intermediate/advanced studio course covering the theory and practice of 3D digital modeling and animation software as a tool for making art.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Stephen Hilyard
A student rated the course difficulty as 4 out of 5, indicating a moderately challenging workload.
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sampleAdvanced Life Drawing I examines drawing the human figure with emphasis on formal elements, structure, and intense studio practice working from the model.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Advanced Wood Working develops advanced concepts and techniques in wood-based functional and/or fine art forms.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleAdvanced Serigraphy focuses on developing advanced concepts and techniques using silk screen processes to create fine art forms.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sampleAdvanced Watercolor I covers transparent and opaque watercolor media through studio practice, critiques, and field trips. Students design experimental approaches to watercolor media and papers.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Advanced Art Metal I teaches advanced techniques for creating functional and fine art metal objects, covering metals fabrication methods like chasing, repoussé, and electroforming.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sampleGraphic Design for Publications covers theory and practice in designing newspapers, magazines, books, and narrative forms with emphasis on advanced typographic theory and production skills.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026