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Spring 2027

4,369 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 sample

A 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 2026

3D 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.

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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 2026

Examines major developments in graphic design and typography across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, focusing on field emergence and self-definition.

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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 2026

Focuses on the design and creation of non-printed artist's books, emphasizing contemporary folded book structures, boxes, and integrated mixed-media projects.

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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 sample

Special 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.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Intro to light as a sculptural medium, focusing on techniques for creating art with luminous tubes and neon glass.

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historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Advanced graphic design focusing on corporate brand identity, including mark development, packaging, web branding, and broadcast advertising, applying semiotics and communication theory.

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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 2026

Information 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 sample

Graphic Design for Posters examines poster design as communication, focusing on combining words and images using principles of composition, perception, and rhetoric.

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historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Explore 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 sample

Intermediate Photography covers advanced digital printing techniques, critical analysis, and the history of photography and current trends.

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historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Contemporary letterpress printing of text and image as an art medium, including handset type, photopolymer plates, broadsides, and artist's books.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Advanced 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.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Prominent artists, curators critics present their work through lectures and visual presentations.

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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.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Advanced Drawing I focuses on advanced-level drawing, addressing various problems and issues while developing a unique visual language to express complex ideas and emotions.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Fall 2025 · limited sample

Advanced Sculpture Workshop 1 focuses on using various materials based on formal and conceptual bases, emphasizing independent research and studio project development.

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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.

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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.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Advanced 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 sample

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.

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Advanced Life Drawing I examines drawing the human figure with emphasis on formal elements, structure, and intense studio practice working from the model.

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No recorded grade history

Advanced Wood Working develops advanced concepts and techniques in wood-based functional and/or fine art forms.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Advanced Serigraphy focuses on developing advanced concepts and techniques using silk screen processes to create fine art forms.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sample

Advanced 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 sample

Graphic 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

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