Practice of Art (ART)
ART 8 Introduction to Visual Thinking 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 2.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
A first course in the language, processes, and media of visual art. Course work will be organized around weekly lectures and studio problems that will introduce students to the nature of art making and visual thinking.
Formerly known as 8A-8B.
ART 12 The Language of Drawing 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8.
A study of drawing as a tool for articulating what the eyes, hand, and mind discover and investigate when coordinated. Some sessions will be devoted to drawing the human figure. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
ART N12 The Language of Drawing 3 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of instructional studio and 3 hours of open studio per week.
Prerequisites: 8A or 8B.
A study of drawing as a tool for articulating what the eyes, hand, and mind discover and investigate when coordinated. Some sessions will be devoted to drawing the human figure.
ART 13 Language of Painting 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8.
A concentrated investigation of what painting on a two-dimensional surface can elicit from what is both observed and felt. Illustrated talks will help familiarize you with issues that have concerned painters in the 20th century. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
ART N13 Language of Painting 3 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of instructional studio and 3 hours of open studio per week.
Prerequisites: 8A or 8B.
A concentrated investigation of what painting on a two-dimensional surface can elicit from what is both observed and felt. Illustrated talks will help familiarize you with issues that have concerned painters in the 20th century.
ART 14 The Language of Sculpture 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8.
This course is the study of the interaction between physical form and space. We will focus on building a strong conceptual foundation while developing the practical studio skills needed to translate your ideas into three dimensions. Shop practices will include hand, machine, and computer-aided fabrications. Field trips and illustrated talks will help acquaint students with the ideas sculptors have explored through history and in contemporary sculptural practices.
ART 16 Introduction to Printmaking 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
This course examines and explores various print disciplines. Students study and create traditional forms of fine art printmaking including woodcut, lithography, intaglio, and screenprinting as well as newer approaches which include transfer and digital printmaking. This course is a prerequisite for upper division print courses. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
ART 21 Digital Photography: The Image and the Hive Mind 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 7 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 16.5 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
This class provides a basic foundation for digital photography with hands-on instruction in the use of digital cameras and online image dissemination. Topics include image capture, composition, image syntax, image analysis, image manipulation, metatext production, and image sequencing for visual narratives. We also study image dissemination through online networks including social networks, blogs, news, storage, search, and print services. Rather than limiting the discussion of photography to the production of the photographic image itself, we explore in written assignments how the reception of images can change based on context, usage, and network dynamics. While we rely on required DSLR digital cameras to produce images for weekly photographic assignments, we also experiment with alternate digital image generation techniques from telescopes to microscopes. All coursework will be posted and discussed online as well as in weekly lectures, workshops, and critiques. Course readings cover the history of photography, the theory of photographic reproduction and the theory of networked and memetic dissemination.
Instructor: Niemeyer
ART 23AC Foundations of American Cyber-Culture 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of lecture/studio per week. 16 hours of lecture/studio per week for 6 weeks. 11 hours of lecture/studio per week for 8 weeks. 9 hours of lecture/studio per week for 10 weeks.
This new course will enable students to think critically about, and engage in practical experiments in, the complex interactions between new media and perceptions and performances of embodiment, agency, citizenship, collective action, individual identity, time and spatiality. We will pay particular attention to the categories of personhood that make up the UC Berkeley American Cultures rubric (race and ethnicity), as well as to gender, nation, and disability. The argument threading through the course will be the ways in which new media both reinforce pre-existing social hierarchies, and yet offer possibilities for the transcendence of those very categories. The new media -- and we will leave the precise definition of the new media as something to be argued about over the course of the semester -- can be yet another means for dividing and disenfranchising, and can be the conduit of violence and transnational dominance.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
ART N23 Digital Media Foundation 3 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 9 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Server-based art course introduces principles of digital media creation from program to poetry through a combination of lectures, creative projects, and studio seminars. Topics: basic units of digital media, video, audio, and interactivity authoring, digital cinema, scripting, interactive art, web cam and net art. Final project is a web-based ambient/dramatic performance. All course resources, projects, and reviews are web-based. Students must own networked computer.
ART W23AC American Cybercultures: Principles of Internet Citizenship 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of web lecture and 1.5 hours of online video conferencing group discussions per week for 15 weeks. 20-3 hours of web lecture and 3.5 hours of online video conferencing group discussions per week for 6 weeks. This is an online course.
This online course establishes internet citizenship as the process of forming online communities through participation. The course itself seeks to establish a community of learners, innovators, and explorers who engage with 23 principles of internet culture through missions. The missions include topics aggregation, networking, identity, amplification, and subversion. Students work in small groups with about five members and complete learning missions through research and creative assignments using photography, writing, video, and user interaction design.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Instructor: Niemeyer
ART 26 Moving Image Media Production 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 7 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 16.5 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
This course provides students with the technological and conceptual groundwork for advanced courses in video art and filmmaking including the use of digital cameras, sound recording, basic lighting techniques, digital editing, compression, and online dissemination. We will focus on what makes compelling moving images that elicit powerful intellectual and emotional responses. The course also explores the range of techniques and languages of creative video making from traditional story genres to more contemporary experimental forms.
The course consists of weekly lectures, screenings, discussions and a lab section. The lab is a production workshop in which students will produce a series of short exercises and a final project.
Course Objectives: master the basic elements of video making and editing
Instructors: Niemeyer, Walsh
ART 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 3 hours of studio work per unit per week.
Prerequisites: Open to freshmen and sophomores. Open to freshmen and sophomores.
This is a student-initiated course to be offered for academic credit. The subject matter will vary from semester to semester and will be taught by the student facilitator under the supervision of the faculty sponsor. Topics to be related to art practice.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 99 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 2 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 2 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
This course will be a rubric for all one and two credit Independent Study courses in Art Practice that concentrate on the practical aspects of art production. Some students will study gallery work by participating in every phase of producing art exhibitions--from selecting works to hanging and insuring them. Other students will learn concepts, skills and information they can use in their major courses. All students gaining credit from these courses will have to produce at least three short term papers analyzing their experiences and reflecting on the principles involved in their work.
ART 102 Approaches to Painting 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 13 or equivalents.
Inquiry into concepts of order, process, and content as related to human experience. While faculty contact with students is highly individualized, the course involves group critiques and lectures as well as assigned field trips. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART N102 Approaches to Painting 3 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of instructional studio and 3 hours open studio per week.
Prerequisites: 10, 12, and 14 or equivalents.
Inquiry into concepts of order, process, and content as related to human experience. While faculty contact with students is highly individualized, the course involves group critiques and lectures as well as assigned field trips.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 117 Drawing and Composition 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8 and 12; and one from 13, 14, 16, 23 or equivalents.
Advanced drawing and composition, color and black-and-white, primarily on paper. 117 or 118 is required of all art majors. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART N117 Drawing and Composition 3 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of instructional studio and 3 hours of open studio per week.
Prerequisites: 12, 13, 14, and 15 or equivalents.
Advanced drawing and composition, color and black-and-white, primarily on paper. ART 117 or 118 is required of all art majors.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 118 Figure Drawing 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8 and 12; and one from 13, 14, 16 and 23 or equivalents.
Emphasis on the human figure seen in the context of pictorial space, dark and light and color. Various media. 118 or 117 is required of all art majors. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 119 Global Perspectives in Contemporary Art 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: for declared Art Practice majors.
This course is designed to explore a range of contemporary art movements around the globe, through a closer look at their central ideas, artists, and artworks, as well as the preconditions and broader social context in which the work is being produced. Topics covered will range from the emergence of localized avant-garde movements in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to the implicit globalism of the international biennial circuit.
ART 120 Approaches to Printmaking: Intaglio 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 16, or equivalents.
An opportunity to discover what an artist can do with an etching press and a familiarity with such processes as etching, drypoint, aquatint, color, and monotype printing. The difference in the ways that these mediums enhance and condition your ideas will be made clear through individual and group critiques. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 122 Approaches to Printmaking: Lithography 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 16, or equivalents.
In the course of making lithographs, you will be encouraged to find an aesthetic direction of your own. Your instructor will also help you develop skill in using both stone and metal plates. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 123 The Language of Printmaking-Screenprinting 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Open to upper division art majors or by consent of instructor.
The process of screenprinting images onto paper and other surfaces will be explored in a variety of image producing techniques. Hand drawn, photographic, and digitally manipulated images are combined to produce multiple works of limited edition fine art prints. Image content and development is examined through drawings, studies, slide lectures, group critiques, and direct assistance. Each student is required to attend all class periods and participate in group discussions and critique. It is the responsibility of the student to maintain a portfolio of all works executed during the semester and to turn in all assignments on time. The grade is determined by attendance, completion of projects and participation in critiques. Personal improvement will also be taken into account.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Hussong
ART 124 Advanced Projects in Printmaking 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 16, or equivalents.
Non-traditional projects in printmaking. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 130 Approaches to Sculpture: Concept and Construction 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 14, or equivalents.
Course is geared toward constructing objects, forms, and particular structures to reveal concept. This class will have more advanced instruction in fabrications, emphasizing the use of wood and metal shops. Architectural considerations, physical experience of space, and innovative sculptural practices will be explored. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 132 Approaches to Sculpture: Ceramics 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of instructional studio and 3 hours of open studio per week.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 14, or equivalents.
An opportunity to learn the many ways of shaping and giving form to wet clay, then making it permanent by firing it. Illustrated talks will examine the ideas that have engaged ceramic sculptors in many traditions and the processes that they have used to expand them. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 133 Approaches to Sculpture: Meaning in Material 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 14, or equivalents.
This class will investigate the possibilities and potentials of sculptural material, both physically and conceptually. We will focus on a deeper exploration of the current state of art practice while questioning what methods and materials are considered non-traditional. We will discuss multiple applications as a means of mediating ideas in space, including sculpture, installation, video, photography and public exchanges. This class will have more advanced instruction in fabrications, including the wood and metal shops. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 137 Advanced Projects in Ceramic Sculpture 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 14, or equivalents.
Students who are experienced in clay may enroll in this course to continue developing their ideas and their technical command of ceramic materials and processes. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 138 Approaches to Sculpture: Installations 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, 14, or equivalents.
In this class we will consider sculptural issues of (and beyond) the object itself, notions of "site specific," and of whether an object is distinct from its environment or is part of it. We will also question issues of space, placement, installation, context, and public interaction. Students will engage with a variety of sites, both on and off campus, with drawings and written proposals being an intergral part of all projects. Lectures and demonstrations will introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 141 Temporal Structures: Video and Performance Art 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, and 12; and one from 13, 14, 16, 23, or equivalents.
Projects are aimed at understanding and inventing ways in which time and change can become key elements in an artwork. Regular screenings of professional tapes will illustrate uses of the mediums and provide a historical context. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 142 New Genres 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8 and 12; and one from 13, 14, 16, 23, or equivalents.
A survey intended to expose you to the nature and potential of such non-traditional tools for artmaking as performance, video, and audiotape. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to techniques and varied applications.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 160 Special Topics in Visual Studies 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 20-2.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Topics of concern to the instructor, usually related to current research, which may fall outside of the normal curriculum or be of more restricted content than regular studio courses. An opportunity to investigate topics and mediums on an ad hoc basis when there is a compelling reason to do so, providing there is no other course that deals with these concerns. Primarily intended for advanced undergraduates and graduates in Art Practice but open to others. For special topics and enrollment see listings outside of 345 Kroeber.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART N160 Foundations of Digital Photography 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 16 hours of lecture/studio per week for 6 weeks.
While digital photography has simplified the process of taking and sharing pictures, the challenges of image composition, visual storytelling, and image sequencing remain at the center serious photography. In this course, students who have a working knowledge of photography and who have access to a digital camera learn to compose and sequence images beyond the stereotypes of popular photography. The course covers essential topics such as lighting, timing, composition, image sequencing, history of photography, potential and limitations of mechanical reproduction, photography and fine art, alternative tradition and digital image processes. All student work will be shared and reviewed online; classes are 33% lecture, 33% studio work, and 33% group critique.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 162 Issues in Cultural Display: Studio and Post-Studio Art Practices 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8.
This is a seminar class designed to engage in "close readings" of contemporary art-making and curatorial practices. Through weekly studio visits with artists and/or curators, the course examines the practical methods, historical origins, philosophical roots, and political and aesthetic implications of each maker's practice. Readings and discussions will focus on (though not be limited to) issues concerning the interaction of aesthetics and ethics; culture and capital; copyright law; art and craft; singular vs. collective authorship.
Instructor: Walsh
ART 163 Social Practice: The Artist in Body & Site 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Social Practice broadly refers to work produced through various forms of direct engagement with a site, social system or collaborator. Interdisciplinary in nature, such work often takes the form of guerilla interventions, performance, institutional critique, community based public art and political activity, all sharing the premise that art created in the public sphere can help alter public perception and work toward social transformation.
ART 164 Art and Meditation 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Completion of all lower division requirements for the major.
Meditation is arguably the most ancient, powerful, and yet simple spiritual practice in the world. It is known in various forms in nearly all times and cultures, and plays a part in every religious tradition. We will examine how meditation can affect your art both in terms of practice and content. The class will be structured with slide presentations, museum visits, discussion of reading, and reviews of art work. Art from various contemplative traditions will be examined.
Instructor: Sherwood
ART 165 Art, Medicine, and Disabilities 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 6 hours of studio and/or supervised research and/or internship per week. 7.5 hours of lecture and 15 hours of studio and/or supervised research and/or internship per week for 6 weeks.
This course will examine how visual artists have responded to illness and disability. We will consider visual representations of disability and healing, as well as the expressive work of visual artists working from within the personal experience of disability; in other words, we will look at disability as both a subject and a source of artistic creation. Several topics, historical and contemporary, will be explored. Students will complete either a semester-long internship with an arts and disability organization, a research paper, or a creative project.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Sherwood
ART 171 Digital Video: The Architecture of Time 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 23; or equivalents.
This hands-on studio course is designed to present students with a foundation-level introduction to the skills, theories and concepts used in digital video production. Non-linear and non-destructive editing methods used in digital video are defining new "architectures of time" for cinematic creation and experience, and offer new and innovative possibilities for authoring new forms of the moving image. This course will expose students to a broad range of industry standard equipment, film and video history, theory, terminology, field and post-production skills. Students will be required to techinically master the digital media tools introduced in the course. Each week will include relevant readings, class discussions, guest speakers, demonstration of examples, and studio time for training and working on student assignments.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART C171/FILM C185 Digital Video: The Architecture of Time 4 Units
Department: Art Practice; Film and Media; Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 9 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
This hands-on studio course is designed to present students with a foundation-level introduction to the skills, theories, and concepts used in digital video production. As digital technologies continue to expand our notion of time and space, value and meaning, artists are using these tools to envision the impossible. Nonlinear and nondestructive editing methods used in digital video are defining new "architectures of time" for cinematic creation and experience, and offer new and innovative possibilities for authoring new forms of the moving image. Through direct experimentation, this course will expose students to a broad range of industry-standard equipment, film and video history, theory, terminology, field, and post-production skills. Students will be required to technically master the digital media tools introduced in the course, and personalize the new possibilities digital video brings to time-based art forms.
ART N171 Digital Video: The Architecture of Time 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 9 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 9 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 23.
This hands-on studio course is designed to present students with a foundation-level introduction to the skills, theories, and concepts used in digital video production. Non linear and non destructive editing methods used in digital video are defining new "architectures of time" for cinematic creation and experience and offer new and innovative possibilities for authoring new forms of the moving image. This course will expose students to a broad range of industry-standard equipment, film and video history, theory, terminology, field, and post production skills. Students will be required to gain techinical mastery of the digital media tools introduced in the course.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 172 CGI Animation Studies 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture and 11 hours of Studio per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 15 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 23; or equivalents.
Motion is a ubiquitous element of human experience, yet attempts to explain it remain incomplete. The representation of motion with technical means is in continuous development, starting perhaps with sculptural representations of celestial movements in antiquity and leading to dynamic computer graphics simulations of molecular processes today. In this production-intensive studio course, we will study computer graphics for motion simulations, or animations. We will also probe these tools for their use in creative expression and analyze their impact on our own perception of motion. Software used: Maya. Each week will include relevant readings, class discussions, guest speakers, demonstration of examples, and studio time for training and working on student assignments .
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 173 Sound Art 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
This is a studio class designed to introduce artists to the medium of sound. Students will learn the basic skills necessary to work with audio, including microphones, digital recording, editing and processing, speaker and installation design, and circuit-bending. In addition, students will learn about the history of sound art and the ways in which visual art and experimental sound practice inform and expand upon each other.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 174 Advanced Digital Video 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 8, 12, and 23; or equivalents.
This advanced studio course is designed for students who have mastered basic skills and concepts involved in digital video production, and are interested in further investigating critical, theoretical, and creative research topics in digital video production. Each week will include relevant readings, class discussions, guest speakers, demonstrat ion of examples, and studio time for training and working on student assignments .
ART C174/FILM C187 Advanced Digital Video 4 Units
Department: Art Practice; Film and Media; Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 9 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
This advanced studio course is designed for students who have mastered basic skills and concepts involved in digital video production and are interested in further investigating critical, theoretical, and creative research topics in digital video production.
ART 178 Game Design Methods 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 4 hours of Studio per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture and 7.5 hours of Studio per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Studio per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 23AC.
This course offers an introduction to game design and game studies. Game studies has five core elements: the study of games as transmitters of culture, the study of play and interactivity, the study of games as symbolic systems; the study of games as artifacts; and methods for creating games. We will study these core elements through play, play tests, play analysis, and comparative studies. Our reading list includes classic game studies theory and texts which support game design methods. After weekly writing and design exercises, our coursework will culminate in the design and evaluation of an original code-based game with a tangible interface.
Instructor: Niemeyer
ART C178/FILM C181 Game Design Methods 4 Units
Department: Art Practice; Film and Media; Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 2 to 4 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 25A.
This course offers an introduction to game design and game studies. Game studies has five core elements: the study of games as culture generators, the study of play and interactivity, the study of games as symbolic systems, the study of games as artifacts, and the design of games. One process which is crucial to all these elements is to play. We will study the core elements of game studies through play, play tests, and the study of people playing. There will also be a close examination of classical game studies as well as practice-oriented texts. The final exam for this course is to design, test, and evaluate a playable game.
ART C179/ANTHRO C146 Mobile City Chronicles: Gaming with New Technologies of Detection and Security 5 Units
Department: Art Practice; Anthropology; Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Studio per week for 15 weeks.
This course studies the city through cases of 19th and 21st century urban detection, including detective fiction, epidemiology, urban planning, surveillance, ethnography, and related technologies. Students develop and playtest cellphone games that in turn require players to investigate cities. This "gaming the city" uses smart phones not only to read existing databases but also to write to them, producing new urban practice and knowledge. The course is organized as a research and game lab.
ART 180 Advanced Digital Photography 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of studio and 1 hour of lecture per week. 20 hours of studio and 2.5 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: ART 26 - Beginning Digital Photography<BR/>or equivalent
This course will cover a range of digital media and practices, with a view towards exploring current and future possibilities for photography. Inclusive of multiple approaches to scale, execution, and technique, the course enables students to examine and push the limits of photographic practices. This course will help students advance their digital shooting and Photoshop skills from a beginning to a more advanced level, and will cover the workflow of digital photography: camera usage, scanning, image editing, management, and printing.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 185 Senior Projects/Professional Practices 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of studio critique per week.
Prerequisites: Senior level students only.
This course provides students with a foundation for understanding their work within a cross-disciplinary critical context. Through class and individual critique, readings, guest artists, and field trips, students will explore the practical and conceptual components of their own media and practice within a broader discussion of artistic production. In addition to this focused attention on the critique process, the class with address the ongoing needs of supporting one's work within a community of artists, arts professionals, and arts organizations. Each student will work towards developing the most effective tools for communicating their work to these broader audiences using strategies that are appropriate/effective for their ideas, media, and audience.
ART H195A Special Study for Honors Candidates in the Practice of Art 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Eligibility for admission to the Honors Program.
Honors students are required to take three units of H195A. They may elect to take an additional three units (H195B) the following semester.
Course may be applied toward major requirements.
ART H195B Special Study for Honors Candidates in the Practice of Art 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Eligibility for admission to the Honors Program.
Honors students are required to take three units of H195A. They may elect to take an additional three units (H195B) the following semester.
Course may be applied toward major requirements.
ART 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 3 hours of group study per unit per week.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
This is a student-initiated course to be offered for academic credit. The subject matter will vary from semester to semester and will be taught by the student facilitator under the supervision of the faculty sponsor. Topics to be related to art practice.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 199 Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course does not satisfy major requirement for art.
ART N199 Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates 1 - 3 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, major adviser, and department chair.
This course is for students wishing to pursue an interest not represented in the curriculum by developing an individual program of study supervised by a faculty member. Study may involve creative projects, research.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 218 Seminar: Theory and Criticism 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Weekly meetings will provide a forum for the discussion of issues related to assigned readings in the fields of esthetics, theory and art criticism.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 290 Independent Study 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Individual projects by first-year graduate students with one assigned instructor.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 294 Seminar for M.F.A. Students 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Admission to the M.F.A. program.
Studio work emphasizing various aspects of form. Group criticism. Intended especially for M.F.A. candidates.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 295 Independent Study for M.F.A. Students 4 - 12 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Admission to the M.F.A. program.
M.F.A. candidates, special study--M.F.A. Committee members as well as other faculty.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 298 Directed Group Study 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Directed group study in special problems, group research, and/or interdisciplinary topics.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 299 Supervised Independent Study for Graduate Students 1 - 4 Units
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor, graduate adviser, and Department Chair.
Special projects by graduate students undertaken with a specific member of the faculty.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ART 301 The Teaching of Art: Practice 1 Unit
Department: Practice of Art
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Utilizing aspects of pedagogical and andragogical teaching, the interactive lecture, collaborative learning, simulations, and brainstorming-freewriting, this semester-long seminar will focus on these various intergrative teaching approaches, to facilitate communication in the diverse and wide-ranging arena which is fine arts today. Discussion of course aims, instructional methods, grading standards, and special problems in the teaching of art practice.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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