The design concentration teaches student to become effective and expressive designers. Courses in the design concentration teach both the theory of design and how to apply these theories using digital technologies to create effective and innovative designs.
Take three courses in DCOM or Art & Art History, with at least one course at the 300 level. At the discretion of the student's advisor, courses from other concentrations or from outside DCOM can be used to satisfy the required courses in the concentration.
Possible courses include:
ART 205 Drawing I: Material and Form| The primary goal of this course is learning to draw as a way of seeing and recording visual information from the world around us. Students are trained in the techniques of sighting, measuring, and perspective by drawing from objects, interior spaces, and human form. Assignments also require students to create images independently from a variety of sources, in addition to working in a drawing journal for the duration of the course. Charcoal, graphite, pastel, and ink are the primary media. |
| The technical, aesthetic, and conceptual elements of photography as a contemporary art form are the basis of this course. Students are introduced to the mechanics of the Single Lens Reflex camera, processes of film development and black-and-white printing, compositional and aesthetic principles, and thematic explorations of subject matter. Issues of photographic history and contemporary photography are also examined. SLR camera with manual mode required. |
| Emphasizing human anatomy and movement, this course teaches important figurative skills for the aspiring artist, illustrator, or art teacher. Important components include proportion, light and shadow, and thematic development in addition to expressive use of various drawing media. Historical and contemporary figurative art is used to illuminate and inspire the development of individual approaches to drawing. |
| In this course students continue the development of artistic skills and conceptual approaches to painting. Projects include portraiture, abstraction, and the development of a painted series in which a theme or motif is used as the basis for a consistent group of paintings. Emphasis is on process, technique, and individual conceptual investigation. |
| This course immerses students in a thematic investigation of color in human culture from ancient times to the present. Using case studies from the histories of art, literature, and philosophy, students examine the role color plays in our understanding of the world, particularly in relation to economic, moral, and spiritual value systems. |
| For junior or senior students who have completed foundation and intermediate-level courses in studio art and are ready to work independently while receiving faculty guidance and feedback. Working in a medium of one's choice (for example, ceramics or painting or photography), students create and present a resolved body of work. |
| An introductory studio/lecture course designed to increase visual literacy and vocabulary, develop design skills, and present the creative possibilities of the computer as an art-making and editing too. |
| This is a hands-on course that teaches students how to use video editing software to edit video and create video effects. One-day-per-week, one-hour class that will emphasize completing daily assignments, in class work, and quizzes. |
| This course introduces students to the basic principles and practices of digital video creation and production. This course allows the student to build their digital video making skills by having them conceive, storyboard, film, edit, and author video projects. To complement their practical knowledge, the course gives the students theoretical understanding of how moving and time-based imagery function both conceptually and expressively. |
| Students will learn programming and scripting for the web. This should teach the importance of clean, semantic markup coupled with advanced CSS techniques of today and tomorrow [CSS3]. Also cross browser compatibility, web accessibility, and web standards. Topics to be covered would be CSS and XHTML. Students begin by learning how web pages are structured and styled with scripting, then learn to use advanced applications to create sophisticated presentation and interactive effects, including typographical and layout control, and interactive elements. Students receive hands-on experience programming in web/multimedia projects and learn to create advanced Web sites and multimedia projects using current scripting languages and website authoring software. |
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DCOM 390 Special Topics