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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

Art
  

  • ART 3400:Digital Photography

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2550  
    This course introduces digital photography and its basic practices for fine art applications. It explores various methods of photographic image-making in contemporary art and its interpretations. Assignments and class critiques will emphasize the development of a visual vocabulary and explore the possibilities of photography as a visual arts medium.
  

  • ART 3410:Film Photography

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1100  and acceptance into the art major.
    This course introduces students to the basic manual functions of film cameras and darkroom processing and printing techniques. Students will use black-and-white film and darkroom paper to produce traditional photographic prints. The course teaches a refinement of photographic techniques and visual skills with an emphasis on aesthetics.
  

  • ART 3420:Lighting for Photography and Video

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3410  and ART 3400  
    This course teaches students photographic studio and location lighting techniques and introduces the large-format 4x5 camera. Students will apply increasing understanding of darkroom and digital practices to large-format analog and digital printing. Knowledge of contemporary theory and criticism and its application to contemporary photography is incorporated.
  

  • ART 3430:Introduction to Video

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Acceptance into Art Program, ART 2550  and ART 3410  
    This course covers selected topics in video art, which include the use of video shooting and editing practices for the advancement of students own personal artwork and style.
  

  • ART 3500:Printmaking I

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2150  
    Students learn basic printmaking processes, techniques, and professional craftsmanship.
  

  • ART 3510:Printmaking II

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3500 ; ART 2990  (may also be taken concurrently).
    Advanced exploration of conventional and experimental printmaking techniques including but not limited to the relief, intaglio and stencil processes.
  

  • ART 3520:Planographic Techniques I

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3510 
    This course examines techniques and contemporary applications of planographic printmaking in silkscreen printing and lithography. The emphasis is on experimentation, design, drawing, and multicolor printing. Topics include hand-cut paper, and film and photographic stencils in silkscreen and hand-drawn aluminum and digital polyester lithographic techniques. Classes include discussion and critique of print content and concept together with the technical skills involved in each phase of the planographic processes.
  

  • ART 3550:Bookarts, Letterpress and Papermaking

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2150  
    This course introduces the history, materials, and techniques associated with book arts, letterpress and paper making.
  

  • ART 3600:Illustration I

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1100 , ART 1150 , ART 1200 , ART 2550 , ART 2990 , and ART 2150  
    This course will focus on sketches, revisions, research and final image development. Subjects covered will be methods and sources for research and the sketch as a research and presentation tool.
  

  • ART 3610:Illustration II

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3600  
    The course focuses on the Principles of Visual Communication: choice of subjects, procedures, and the practice of illustration. Visualizing the text will be the primary emphasis for this course, in addition to exploration of ideas, events, and personalities. This will involve creating illustrations for various publishing forms.
  

  • ART 3705:Sequential Art I

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1100 , ART 1150 , ART 1200 , ART 2550 , ART 2990 , and ART 2150  
    An introduction to the art of comics. The art of making effective, strong and original layouts is emphasized in this course. Students acquire a basic understanding of the history of the medium current trends, orthodox and experimental narrative techniques that are possible.
  

  • ART 3715:Sequential Art II

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3150  and ART 3705  
    This class explores the formal underpinnings of comics and provides an overview of tools and techniques utilized in the creation of sequential art.
  

  • ART 3800:Sewing & Construction Techniques

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ATT or ART major
    This course is an introduction to textiles sewing/construction techniques for apparel and costume, home and accessories. Topics include machine components, machine set-up and maintenance, basic sewing construction and finishing techniques.
  

  • ART 3990:Art As a Public Profession

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2990  
    This course introduces the art student to a variety of artistic fields and endeavors which provide a range of income-generating possibilities for the professional artist. With a special focus on art in public places, the course will guide the student through the specifics of preparing, locating, and applying for public art commissions. The course will also look at the establishing artistic relationships with art galleries, museums, and art centers, as well as preparation for the realm of self-employment.
  

  • ART 4021:Advertising and Packaging

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3021 
    The focus of this course is to explore the role of advertising and packaging as part of the graphic design discipline. Emphasis will be on advertising campaign strategies and tactics from a historical perspective, package design solutions targeted to marketing objectives, media realities and display aesthetics. The history and the unique positioning of advertising and packaging will be stressed.
  

  • ART 4022:Web Design for Artists

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2550  
    This course provides students with the foundations for website design using industry standard web-editing applications. The emphasis will be on student-centered digital portfolio projects of professional quality. The students will learn methods for conceptualizing, designing, producing, and web publishing. Effective visual design, usability, web content organization and the processes of website development will also be covered.

    Notes: Admission to the Art Program required.
  

  • ART 4023:Interactive Media Design

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2550 
    This course provides students with the foundations for interactive media design using current industry software applications. It emphasizes the creation and delivery of basic interactive content for current interactive environments, while exploring the features and capabilities of various software applications. Students are expected to demonstrate a high level of technical and creative mastery in their final projects, along with creating successful user experiences.
  

  • ART 4024:Motion Graphics

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course provides the student with the foundations for motion graphics and digital video using current industry applications. The emphasis is on learning the history, theory, principles, and elements of motion graphic design and the process of motion graphic creation. A broad range of themes, concepts, digital animation, and current technologies are discussed.
  

  • ART 4030:Design Practicum

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3022  and ART 4022 ; ART 4021  (may also be taken concurrently).
    This course focuses on the integration of the accumulated skills and knowledge obtained and cultivated while in the graphic communication concentration. Emphasis is on strategic accuracy, the compelling power of the concept, and the refinement of the art direction, along with the ability to create persuasive and effective design presentations. The course includes site visits and guest speakers from the industry geared towards students’ exposure to the professional workplace.
  

  • ART 4035:Concept Art

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3150  and ART 3160  
    This course examines the unique considerations involved in the creation of concept art. Character and environment design will be explored. Traditional and digital mediums will be considered.
  

  • ART 4150:Advanced Drawing

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3160  and admission to the Painting and Drawing Concentration
    Selected topics in drawing of an advanced nature which may include independent student research.

    Notes: Repeatable four times for credit.
  

  • ART 4255:Advanced Study of the Figure

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3150  and ART 3160  
    Detailed study of the human figure as a subject in art, including drawing and painting from the live model. Portraiture will be considered in addition to the structure and design potential of the figure.

    Notes: May be repeated up to four times for credit.
  

  • ART 4265:Advanced Study in Painting

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3260  and admission to the painting and drawing concentration.
    Selected topics in painting of an advanced nature which may include independent student research.

    Notes: Repeatable four times for credit.
  

  • ART 4310:Advanced Study in Sculpture

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3310  and admission to the sculpture concentration.
    Selected topics in sculpture of an advanced nature, which may include independent student research.

    Notes: Repeatable for credit four times.
  

  • ART 4360:Advanced Study in Ceramics

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3360  and admission to the ceramics concentration.
    Selected topics in ceramics of an advanced nature, which may include independent student research.

    Notes: Repeatable for credit four times.
  

  • ART 4400:Directed Study in Art

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
    Selected topics of an advanced nature, which may include original research projects.

    Notes: Can be used in upper-level course requirements only twice with no more than 3 hours credit given each time
  

  • ART 4410:Advanced Study in Photography

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3410  and admission to the photography concentration.
    Selected topics in photography of an advanced nature, which may include independent student research.

    Notes: Repeatable for credit four times.
  

  • ART 4420:Alternative Photographic Processes

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3400   and ART 3410   
    This course covers advanced level course designed around selected topics in traditional and historic photographic techniques.
  

  • ART 4430:Digital Post-Production Processes

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2550 , ART 3400 , ART 3410 , and ART 3430   
    This advanced level course furthers students’ understandings and capabilities in post-production workflows, software, techniques, and technical applications with regard to photography and video.
  

  • ART 4440:Large Format Photography

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3400 , ART 3410  
    This course teaches students the fundamentals about photographic techniques in relation to the use of the large format camera types. This class further develops students’ understanding of darkroom and digital practices and their application to large format analog and digital printing.
  

  • ART 4490:Special Topics and Art Seminar

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
    Selected special topics and seminars of interest to faculty and upper-level students interested in art.
  

  • ART 4510:Advanced Study in Printmaking

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3510  and admission to the printmaking concentration.
    Selected topics in printmaking of an advanced nature, which may include independent student research.

    Notes: Repeatable for credit four times.
  

  • ART 4520:Planographic Techniques II

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3520 
    This course examines techniques and contemporary applications of planographic printmaking in silkscreen printing and lithography. The emphasis is on experimentation, design, drawing, and multicolor printing. Topics include hand-cut paper, and film and photographic stencils in silkscreen and hand-drawn aluminum and digital polyester lithographic techniques. Classes include discussion and critique of print content and concept together with the technical skills involved in each phase of the planographic processes.
  

  • ART 4530:Advanced Bookarts, Letterpress and Papermaking

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2150  and ART 3550 
    This course covers advanced letterpress and letterpress-printed book techniques. Students will make handmade paper, expand on their exploration of book design, and learn advanced letterpress printing. Students will continue to explore a variety of printing, papermaking and bookarts techniques as they apply to letterpress printing. Image-making processes will include advanced multi-color linoleum prints, woodcut, collagraph, pressure printing, monoprinting, photopolymer, pulp painting, paper inclusions, and other techniques.
  

  • ART 4600:Advanced Illustration

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3610  
    The ability to bring a creative project to a full and successful level of finish is often neglected in the academic environment, but is an essential professional skill. This course requires that students meet goals they set for themselves through individualized projects, but that they meet them fully with the highest degree of resolution and polish.
  

  • ART 4610:The Visual Essay

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3610 , ART 3150 , ART 3160 , and ART 4255  
    This course is an introduction to the artist as a visual journalist, documenting the world that surrounds us through on-the-spot drawings and paintings.
  

  • ART 4620:Storytelling and Myth-Making

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3610 , ART 3150 , and ART 3160  
    This course is a discussion and related narrative projects course that will help the student discover the value of the artist’s role in society as a story-teller and myth-maker.
  

  • ART 4630:Sketchbook Narrative

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3600 , ART 3150  and ART 3160  
    This course exercises all of the skills that lead to successful visual communication in a setting where the students feel comfortable. The sketchbook is an environment where students can work on idea development that fulfills strict objectives, but allows for risk. The projects help students become confident in developing their process and to apply it to very specific commercial and editorial concerns. The projects, along with class discussion, allow students to play with media and exercise modes of problem solving while being encouraged to be visually self-indulgent.
  

  • ART 4700:Advanced Sequential Art

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3715  
    Students are expected to demonstrate knowledge of all the basic facets of visual storytelling. This class explores advanced aspects of drawing one’s own narratives in long-form sequential art.
  

  • ART 4710:Narrative Arts

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3150  and ART 3705  
    This course will explore the form of visual literature known as “comics” or “comic art”. Studying comics and their relationship to popular culture will be a focus within the realm of artistic and literary criticism.
  

  • ART 4720:Comic Storytelling

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3150  and ANIM 3620  
    This class focuses on helping students develop their comic storytelling techniques by illuminating the relationship between text and image on the comic page, ideas of plot versus theme, the use of composition and symbolism in the comic panel, and how all of these correlations work together to serve the goal of the artist in communicating their personal narrative vision in the comic form.
  

  • ART 4735:Experimental Comics

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3150  and ART 3705  
    This course rigorously combines theory and practice, exploring how different genres (e.g. poem, short story, novel, journalism, film) can be adapted into a sequential art format.
  

  • ART 4980:Senior Portfolio and Applied Project

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of the advisor and instructor.
    This graduating senior capstone course focuses on the development of a student resume and professional portfolio showcasing work designed for varied platforms. There is also a research component for current job market demands & requirements, as well as graduate school options. The design pieces will demonstrate work that represents an individual style and a high level of conceptual abilities and professionalism.
  

  • ART 4990:Senior Art Seminar and Exhibition

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of the advisor and instructor.
    This graduating senior capstone course focuses on the development of a professional graduation exhibition, resume and professional portfolios. Career and graduate school research are course components. Selected topics dealing with professional artists and exhibition practices, culminating with the exhibition of participants’ work. The exhibition pieces will demonstrate work that represents an individual style and a high level of conceptual abilities and professionalism.

Art Education
  

  • ARED 3155:Art Education Life Drawing

    2 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Art majors: ART 2150  and ART 2990  
    This course is an advanced study of drawing concentrating on the subject matter of the human figure. Each of the approximately 30 sessions will consist of lectures on anatomy with in-class studio work, group critiques and tests of knowledge of subject matter. Media used in this class will progress from graphite and chalks to other media as chosen by the student.
  

  • ARED 3302:Teaching, Learning and Development in Visual Arts

    2 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Art and Design.
    This course is designed to help students gain an understanding of the current teaching issues in the field of art education and to understand development and learning in the P-12 art room. Creative, artistic, and perceptual development will be presented through an examination of the characteristics of diverse learners and an emphasis on the physical, psychosocial-emotional, and cognitive development of P-12 learners.

    Notes: This course will include 40 field placement hours.
  

  • ARED 3304:Teaching Art History, Criticism and Aesthetics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  and ART 2550  
    This course is designed to prepare students to develop strategies for teaching art history, art criticism, and aesthetics in the P-12 art classroom. Students will develop materials appropriate for classroom instruction that stimulate and assess art learning. In addition, this course meets the required learning for Fine Arts Georgia Performance Standards and National Standards for Visual Arts.
  

  • ARED 3306:Materials, Methods and Management for Teaching Art (P-12)

    2 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2550 
    This course is an intensive laboratory experience using the media and materials for teaching art. Intended for prospective art specialists teaching grades P through 12. Methods and strategies for teaching various art media and processes will be covered. Classroom management strategies are integrated into teaching methods.

    Notes: This course will include 40 field placement hours. Proof of professional liability insurance required prior to receiving a school placement.
  

  • ARED 3308:Special Populations in Art Education

    2 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARED 3306  and admission to Teacher Education.
    This course focuses on content knowledge and applications for art educators teaching students with exceptionalities. Content includes current legal, educational, and therapeutic issues as they relate to teaching art to special populations. Distinctions between art education and art therapy are discussed.

    Notes: This course includes 48 field experience hours. Proof of professional liability insurance is required prior to receiving a school placement.
  

  • ARED 3309:Visual Art for Early & Middle Grades

    2 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education.
    A course designed for preparing elementary school educators to integrate meaningful art experiences into the classroom. Prospective elementary classroom educators develop basic concepts, skills, methods of instruction, and teaching competencies in the specific area of the visual arts.
  

  • ARED 3310:Multiculturalism & Crossculturalism in Art Education

    1 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EDUC 2201 , EDUC 2204  Corequisite: ARED 3302.
    This course involves an exposure to art education literature that focuses on diversity issues in historical and contemporary contexts (including ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender, exceptionalities, language, religion, sexual orientation and geography). Theories and models of contemporary art education practice are explored, which strengthen the respect proper to all classroom diversities. Students participate in field experience activities in schools, museums and other community settings.
  

  • ARED 3398:Internship

    1-12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
    A supervised, credit-earning work experience of one academic semester with an approved school, museum or educational organization involved in the visual arts.
  

  • ARED 4400:Directed Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
    Selected topics of an advanced nature, which may include original research projects. The content of the directed study will be determined jointly by the instructor and the student.
  

  • ARED 4410:Intercultural Curriculum Model

    2 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Art and Design.
    This course is designed to prepare prospective art teachers to be able to plan and organize effective art programs and curricula, to explore innovative and exemplary art programs and materials, to assess art learning, and to develop a rationale and strategy for articulating and promoting a quality art program. In addition, this course involves an exposure to art education literature that focuses on diversity issues in historical and contemporary contexts (including ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender, exceptionalities, language, religion, sexual orientation, and geography). Theories and models of contemporary art education practice are explored. Students also participate in a clinical practice activity in a partner school, involving the cooperative creation, delivery and assessment of an original art curriculum unit.

    Notes: Proof of liability insurance is required prior to school placement.
  

  • ARED 4425:Teaching of Art: Practicum

    0 Class Hours 6 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARED 4410  or ARED 3306 
    A comprehensive art education model-based course combining curriculum design and instructional methods with in-depth field experience in the public schools. Students will both observe and teach in a classroom setting. Campus seminars will relate the field experiences to current instructional theory. Admission to Teacher Education. Proof of liability insurance required prior to receiving a school placement.
  

  • ARED 4490:Special Topics in Art Education

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
    Selected special topics and seminars of interest to faculty and upper-level students interested in art education.
  

  • ARED 4650:Yearlong Placement I

    0 Class Hours 12 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Pre-service certificate, admission to Yearlong Experience Corequisite: EDUC 4610
    This course is the first semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in art education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities as English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars.

    Notes: Proof of liability insurance is required.
  

  • ARED 4660:Yearlong Clinical Experience II

    0 Class Hours 36 Laboratory Hours 9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GACE eligibility, ARED 4650  
    This course is the second semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in art education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars and the completion of content pedagogy assessment.

    Notes: Proof of liability insurance is required.

Art History
  

  • ARH 2750:Ancient through Medieval Art

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This lecture/discussion course surveys the art and architecture of the western world from prehistory through the middle ages. It includes an introduction to parallel developments in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
  

  • ARH 2850:Renaissance through Modern Art

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This is a lecture/discussion course in which students study major developments and trends in world art from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries CE. It includes an introduction to parallel developments in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
  

  • ARH 3000:Asian Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: (ARH 2750  or ARH 2850 ) and ENGL 1102  
    This lecture/discussion course surveys the art of India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the present. Students study the chronological developments of the major styles of painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts from these regions. The course discusses artistic achievements and aesthetics, and it explores how cultural, political, religious, and social climates have shaped the visual arts in Asia from the beginnings of its civilization to the 21st century.
  

  • ARH 3100:African Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750  and ENGL 1102 
    This course surveys select tradition-based African arts from the pre-colonial period up until the present day. Emphasis is placed on the study of key monuments and media within a regional and chronological framework, but also on the cultural principles and concepts reflected in canonical African art. The interrelation of art with ritual, religious belief, gender, politics, and history will be continuing themes. Primary media discussed include architecture, sculpture, masquerade, body adornments, and textiles.
  

  • ARH 3150:Islamic Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750  and ENGL 1102  
    This course is a survey of visual culture from the Islamic world, beginning with its origins in the seventh century. It examines a range of media, including ceramics, metalwork, textiles, arts of the book, sculpture, and architecture. It considers artistic production and consumption in a variety of regions and social contexts in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia. And it explores issues such as the definition of Islamic art, its study in the West, and Orientalism.
  

  • ARH 3200:Ancient American Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750  and ENGL 1102 
    This course surveys the arts of select Mesoamerica and Andean cultures up to the colonial period. Monuments are studied in a chronological framework with emphasis on the principles and concepts that underlie the art. Style, technique, and media are considered, as well as the varied contexts of art production and reception and the interrelation of art with religion, statecraft, gender, and nature. Sculpture, architecture, textiles, earthworks, metals, and ceramics are the principal art media under consideration.
  

  • ARH 3240:Native North American Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750  and ENGL 1102 
    This course surveys key monuments and cultural principles in the arts of select native North American cultures from the pre-contact period until the present day. Architecture, earthworks, terracotta and stone sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and body arts are studied within a regional and chronological framework. The interrelations of art with ritual, religious belief, myth, nature, gender, politics, and history will be continuing themes.
  

  • ARH 3250:Latin American Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750  and ENGL 1102 
    A study of Latin-American art from the colonial period to the present. Students in this course study art of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial period, art of the nineteenth century following independence, and major developments and trends in modern painting, sculpture, and architecture since 1900.
  

  • ARH 3300:Ancient Egyptian and Nubian Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750  
    This course surveys the art and architecture of ancient Egypt and Nubia. Monuments are studied in a chronological framework with emphasis on the principles and concepts that underlie art. Style, technique and media are considered, as well as the varied contexts of art production and reception and the interrelation of art with religion, myth, social life, and history. Architecture, sculpture, and body modification and adornments are the principle media considered.
  

  • ARH 3320:Ancient Near Eastern Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750  and ENGL 1102 
    This course is a survey of the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East (now the Middle East), from the 4th millennium BCE through the 7th century CE. It examines a range of media in their social, political, and intellectual contexts. It also explores issues such as cultural interaction; political art of ancient empires; gender, ethnicity, and identity; the definition of the “Near East”; Biblical archaeology; and heritage management (especially in times of conflict).
  

  • ARH 3350:Greek Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750  and ENGL 1102 
    This course is a survey of ancient Greek visual culture through the Hellenistic period. It examines a range of media in their social, political, and intellectual contexts, exploring such issues as connoisseurship; portraiture; commemorative art; architecture and urban development; cross-cultural exchange; gender, ethnicity, and identity; and ancient art history and criticism. It incorporates new archaeological discoveries as much as possible, and it encourages students to visit museums.
  

  • ARH 3370:Roman Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750 
    This course is a survey of the art and architecture of Republican and Imperial Rome, from the first century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. It examines a range of media (e.g., coins, pottery, mosaics, sculpture, painting, and architecture) within their social contexts, dealing with such issues as the viewer and viewing; portraiture; gender; ethnicity; social status; domestic space; and urban development. This course incorporates new archaeological discoveries as much as possible, and it encourages students to visit museums.
  

  • ARH 3398:Internship

    1-12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.5 GPA and permission of the department chair.
    A supervised work experience of one academic semester with a previously approved gallery, museum, or private government agency.
  

  • ARH 3400:Medieval Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2750 
    This course is a survey of medieval art and architecture in Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, from the fourth through fourteenth centuries. It examines a range of media within their social, political, and intellectual contexts, and it discusses such issues as the interaction among the visual cultures of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; the art of the Crusades; the relationship between word and image; pilgrimage and monasticism; urban development; and gender, ethnicity, and social status.
  

  • ARH 3500:Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  and ENGL 1102 
    A survey of art and architecture in Italy from the early fourteenth century to the mid-sixteenth century. The veneration of classical antiquity and the development of naturalistic representation are examined. Issues of patronage, artists’ training, and technology are also addressed.
  

  • ARH 3600:Baroque Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  and ENGL 1102 
    A survey of major movements, artists and themes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and architecture in Europe and the Americas.
  

  • ARH 3700:Nineteenth-Century Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  and ENGL 1102 
    This course is a survey of major developments and trends in nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, and architecture. It reviews major aesthetic theories and non-western art forms that shaped nineteenth-century art.
  

  • ARH 3750:History of American Art and Architecture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  and ENGL 1102 
    This course is a survey of the styles and movements of art and architecture in the United States from colonial times to present.
  

  • ARH 3840:History of Illustration

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102   and ARH 2850  
    This is a lecture/discussion course in which students study major developments and trends in the art of illustration as a vehicle for telling of stories from the Paleolithic period to the present.
  

  • ARH 3850:Art Since 1900

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Art majors: ARH 2850  and ENGL 1102 . Non art majors: ENGL 1102  and permission of the instructor.
    This is a lecture/discussion course in which students study major developments and trends in visual arts since 1900. Students become familiar with the dominant artistic practices and critical theories that defined “modernism,” and with the social, political, and cultural changes that initiated the shift in visual art from modernism to post-modernism.
  

  • ARH 3990:Research Methods in Art History

    3 Class Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  and ARH 2750  and ARH 2850 
    This is a lecture/discussion course in which students are introduced to the main methodologies of art historical research and learn to apply them to the analysis of artistic practice. Lectures and discussions focus on how works and styles of art are looked at and studied, rather than the meaning/significance of the works or styles of art themselves. Students become familiar with the contributions of the most important art historians who have shaped the discipline of art history. During the semester we examine traditional as well as postmodern methodologies including formalism, biography, iconology, Marxism and feminist deconstruction, psychoanalytic and semiotic approaches (including structuralism and post-structuralism).
  

  • ARH 4000:Historical Studio Practices

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  and (ART 1100  or ART 1150 )
    This course examines one of four art historical periods by combining lecture/discussion with practical applications. The first week explores the character of the period as it developed according to historical, social, cultural and artistic trends, while the second week involves the practical application of painting techniques that were developed in the Italian Renaissance and applied by academics of art until the beginning of the twentieth century.

    Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary; BFA students may use this course for only one of their 3000-4000 level art history requirements.
  

  • ARH 4150:African-American Art

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  
    An introduction to African-American art designed to explore the diverse aesthetic expressions of African-American artists from colonial times to the present. Through an examination of aspects of the religious, social, cultural and creative history of Black Americans, students will develop an understanding of the wealth of contributions made by people of African descent to the development of American art and culture.
  

  • ARH 4400:Directed Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor and department chair.
    Selected topics of an advanced nature, which may include original research projects.

    Notes: Can be used in upper-level course requirements only twice with no more than 3 hours credit given each time.
  

  • ARH 4490:Special Topics in Art History

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850 , ENGL 1102 , and approval of the instructor and department chair.
    Selected special topics and seminars of interest to faculty and upper-level students interested in art history.
  

  • ARH 4500:Women in Art

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850 
    This course introduces students to the history of women in the visual arts, particularly as artists, but also as subjects, focusing on western Europe and the Americas. It also considers the evolution of feminism and its applications in art history.
  

  • ARH 4700:Victorian Art and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  and ENGL 1102 
    This course is in a seminar format. Unlike the straightforward lecture approach of survey courses, a seminar is a forum for open discussion of pertinent topics. The Victorian Period covers the reign of Queen Victoria of England, who sat on the throne from 1837 to 1901. An initial overview will touch on several different topics that define the Victorian era, and subsequent classes will consist of student presentations and in-depth class discussions based on assigned readings.
  

  • ARH 4750:American Landscape Painting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850  and ENGL 1102 
    This course consists of an in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of American landscape painting. It traces the development of this discipline in the United States and explores the artistic, social, political and historical implications of the images within the context of American Romanticism, Impressionism and Realism from its beginnings in the early eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.
  

  • ARH 4820:History of Printmaking

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  and ARH 2850  
    This course introduces students to the rich and varied art history of prints in relief, intaglio, serigraphy, lithography and other graphic media. From the early Renaissance in Europe, to Edo Japan, to the 21st century, a variety of major artists have engaged in this challenging art form. This course covers the evolution of print processes and meanings through the centuries.
  

  • ARH 4840:History of Graphic Design

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This is a lecture/discussion course in which students will study the major developments in graphic design from the Industrial Revolution to the present. This course will familiarize students with major trends in European and American design, with a particular focus on graphic design in the context of art history and the history of material culture. Organized as a survey course, the class will focus on key examples of styles and innovations in graphic design, as they developed in relationship to their times and places. Students will recognize similarities and differences between the work of significant designers, and contemporary developments in modernist visual art, and the theoretical underpinnings of major design movements.
  

  • ARH 4870:History of Photography

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850 
    A selective survey of nineteenth and twentieth century photography, primarily in Europe and America, emphasizing photography’s development as an artistic medium. Focus is on major practitioners of the medium, and on photography’s relationship to historical events, psychology, sociology and the development of art and architecture.
  

  • ARH 4900:Contemporary Art

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 2850 
    This course begins with a consideration of the general reaction to Western Modernism that began in visual art after the 1950s and has come to be known as the period of “Postmodernism,” and proceeds to examine issues that define art and challenge artists today. Themes include but are not limited to originality, appropriation, deconstruction, identity politics, post-feminism, commodity critique, installation and performance, digital media, activism and globalism. Students become familiar with the key artists and critics whose ideas informed postmodernism and continue to inform artistic practice today, and the class examines art and critical theory associated with major themes that have emerged in recent art locally, nationally, and globally.
  

  • ARH 4990:Senior Capstone Project

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ARH 3990  and ENGL 1102 ; declared major in art history; senior status.
    This senior capstone course completes the curriculum of the art history major by requiring students to write a substantial paper and to give a presentation.

Asian Studies
  

  • ASIA 1102:Introduction to Asian Cultures

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course provides an overview of key concepts, themes, strategies, and methods in Asian Studies. This course focuses on traditional and contemporary cultures of East and South Asia, especially those of Greater China, Japan, Korea and India. The cultural investigation of Asia is infused with the historical, geographical, economical, political, and religious study of this region. This course also explores the identities of people in Asia and Asian Americans.
  

  • ASIA 3001:Understanding Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This is the introductory course to KSU’s Asian Studies Program. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand Asia’s ever-changing contexts. With emphasis on greater China, India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, the course provides the foundation for further studies of Asia including an overview of the region, connecting past influences to the present. Students examine the origins and development of Asian civilizations from the aspects of geography, people, society, history, philosophy, religion, politics, economy, literature and arts.
  

  • ASIA 3309:Survey of Chinese Literature and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    ASIA 3309, cross-listed as FL 3309, is a survey of Chinese literature and culture, examining major works and literary and artistic movements as well as cultural issues. Readings and discussion in English; some readings in the original for Chinese language students.
  

  • ASIA 3340:Contemporary South Asian Literature

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2110 
    This course explores South Asian experiences by examining diverse aesthetic and cultural perspectives from 20th and 21st century diasporic South Asian literature. In order to familiarize students with the diverse South Asian population, this course introduces students to a variety of South Asian experiences through literary works from diasporic writers in this demographic. Through critical reading and analysis, reflection, discussion, and research, students discover how similar the South Asian experience is to other familiar communities.
  

  • ASIA 3355:Cultures and Capitalisms in Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  and ENGL 1102 
    This course compares and contrasts various forms of capitalisms and cultures in Asia to understand the dynamics of society and political life. This course enables students to develop a global perspective on critical issues that concern policymakers, business-strategists, development-workers, and academics from an anthropological perspective. Students compare and contrast various forms of capitalism in Asia from an anthropological vantage point for understanding dynamics of society and political life in Asia.
  

  • ASIA 3670:Survey of Asian Art

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course is a lecture/discussion course to survey the art of India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the present. Students in this course study the chronological developments of the major styles of painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts from these regions. This course highlights important examples of works of art to discuss the artistic achievements and the aesthetics of these regions, and to explore how cultural, political, religious, and social climates have shaped the visual arts in Asia from the beginnings of its civilization to the 21st century.
  

  • ASIA 3760:Asian American Cultural Identities

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This interdisciplinary course provides students opportunities to examine cultural identity issues of Asian Americans, the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the US. Through a variety of interdisciplinary learning materials and activities, students will gain understanding and appreciation of the complex concept “Asian Americans.”
  

  • ASIA 3780:Trends in Asian Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course focuses on current issues and trends in the field of Asian Studies. Some topics include Popular Culture in Asia, Pan-Asian Cinema, Gender in Asia, and Environmental Issues in Asia. This course is interdisciplinary and includes Asian content in English. Course may be repeated with a change in content.
  

  • ASIA 3950:Technology Strategy in Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This is a case study course that looks at organizational approaches to the integration of technology in multiple cultures. In this course, students will look at the international high-tech mindset, from business, social, financial markets, and personal life.
 

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