ARED 6100: Exploration of Visual Arts

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the MA in Art & Design.
This course is designed to give art educators the opportunity to build on past instruction, experience, and practice with various medium/media with the expressed goal of further developing creativity, honing technical skills, diverging into areas of experimentation with studio practice and building pedagogy for classroom practices. Fundamental to this course, and augmenting the instructor’s role, must be a dedicated and consistent conversation between all the participating students. Due to the limitation a web-based format places on a studio art course dedicated to various media, this course must rely as much on written accounts, descriptions, and appraisals as it would have on the viewing of actual artworks. This course should be considered as much seminar about media as a studio class.