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ARTS 832 - Advanced Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Complex compositional problems of image making will be
addressed. Students will explore a broad range of
solutions to pictorial problems to reinforce and expand
individual concepts of image and technique. Along with
structured in-class work, graduate students will be
required to develop sustained out of class projects in
consultation with the instructor. May be repeated for a
total of 8 credits. Prereq: permission.
ARTS #846 - Advanced Painting
Credits:
4.00
Development and refinement of technical skills leading to
more advanced conceptual problems will be emphasized.
Along with structured in-class work, graduate students will
be required to develop sustained out of class projects in
consultation with the instructor. May be repeated for a
total of 8 credits. Prereq: permission.
ARTS 897 - Seminar in Art History
Credits:
4.00
Topics and prerequisites to be announced before
preregistration. May be repeated with permission
instructor up to a maximum of 12 credits. (Also offered as
ARTS 799.)
ARTS 932 - Graduate Drawing
Credits:
6.00
Structured to emphasize developing skills and to explore
techniques to create invented and observed space. Drawing
will be considered as an inventive tool to extend the
students' repertoire of ideas. May be repeated for a total
of 12 credits. Prereq: advanced drawing; permission.
ARTS 932T - Graduate Drawing (Teaching)
Credits:
6.00
This course intends to encourage the practice and study of
drawing and introduces students to approaches to the
teaching of drawing. Students work on projects designed to
develop individual bodies of work in drawing and explore
the teaching of drawing through development of course
syllabi and observation of Introductory Drawing courses.
The course includes discussions and demonstrations of the
use of slides, reproductions, digital imagery, and
critiques in the teaching of drawing.
ARTS 996 - Independent Study in the Visual Arts
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
C01 - Drawing; D01 - Painting; E01 - Printmaking; I01 -
Painting in Italy; L01 - Art History. An opportunity for
independent study in the above listed disciplines. The
content and structure of the course will be developed
through collaboration of the graduate student and the
supervising faculty member. May be repeated for a total of
18 credits in any one area. Prereq: undergraduate degree in
studio art and permission.
ARTS 997 - Graduate Painting Thesis
Credits:
10.00
The Graduate Painting Thesis is the culmination of the MFA
student's graduate work in painting. The course requires:
1) continued work in the studio under supervision of
graduate faculty; 2) a more formal midterm critique with
graduate faculty (oral summarization of thesis work); 3)
extensive work with The Art Gallery in preparation for the
MFA Thesis Exhibition (including hanging the exhibition);
4) the thesis exhibition itself; and 5) an oral
presentation to the faculty during the thesis exhibition.
ARTS 998 - Graduate Painting Seminar
Credits:
4.00
Students meet once a week for a three-hour structured
session of painting from life under the supervision of the
instructor. Students are expected to apply the information
gained in these sessions to the development of their
individual bodies of work in their studios. Additional
requirements could include readings, presentations, gallery
and museum visits, discussions, and critques.