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Introduces the language and sounds of jazz through listening, analysis, and compositional exercises. Students apply the fundamentals of music theory to the study of jazz. Prerequisite: 19 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Nadel, J. (PI)
ARTHIST 105B: Medieval Journeys: Tales of Devotion and Discovery (DLCL 123)
This course explores the experience and imagination of medieval journeys through interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and skills-based approaches. As a foundations class, this survey of medieval culture engages with an array of written texts from the period. Narratives of medieval journeys are studied across a wide range of categories, including pilgrimages, crusades, quests, and sagas. The journey as metaphor, along with the resulting and very real cultural interactions, will provide a main focus for examining this rich tradition of literature. Students will have the opportunity to produce a creative project that brings medieval ideas about travel into dialogue with modern conceptions. The course will satisfy the Ways-Creative Expression requirement as well as one of the following two: Ways-Analytical Interpretive or Ways-Engaging Difference.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-CE, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Whobrey, B. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 131: Sound Art I (MUSIC 154A)
Acoustic, digital and analog approaches to sound art. Familiarization with techniques of listening, recording, digital processing and production. Required listening and readings in the history and contemporary practice of sound art. (lower level)
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
DeMarinis, P. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 140: Drawing I
Functional anatomy and perspective as they apply to problems of drawing the form in space. Individual and group instruction as students work from still life set-ups, nature, and the model. Emphasis is on the development of critical skills and perceptual drawing techniques for those with little or no previous experience with pastels, inks, charcoal, conte, and pencil. Lectures alternate with studio work. (lower level)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Borruso, M. (PI)
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Chagoya, E. (PI)
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Deas, Y. (PI)
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Taylor-Tobin, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Borruso, M. (PI)
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Chagoya, E. (PI)
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Deas, Y. (PI)
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Taylor-Tobin, J. (PI)
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Toomer, L. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 141: Plein Air Painting Now
Surrounded by so many technologies for image production, why choose to take a course based on a style of painting developed over a hundred years ago? The standard answer to this question has changed remarkably little. Rather than answering that the camera cannot capture what the eye sees, we might instead respond that neither the computer, nor the camera, nor video, can reproduce in paint the subjective gaze of the contemporary viewer. Contained within this answer lies the trajectory for the class "PLEIN AIR PAINTING NOW!"nnIn this course students will be introduced to various water based media appropriate for plein air painting and learn various techniques and strategies for making paintings outdoors. The course will include the traditional discussions of brushes, paints, the different types of supports as well as easels, umbrellas and chairs. A broad variety of painting techniques will be demonstrated. We will set up in various locations around campus, paying particular attention to the specifics of the siteas this will serve as the jumping off point for discussion of the readings that form the second component of the class.nnPlease note that this class takes place outdoors. Plan accordingly, as we will be meeting in various locations around campus, and will be subject to inclement weather.Freshmen and Sophomores receive priority for enrollment. This is a designated CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS course.
Terms: Aut, Spr
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Peterson, B. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 145: Painting I
Introduction to techniques, materials, and vocabulary in oil painting. Still life, landscape, and figure used as subject matter. Emphasis is on painting and drawing from life. (lower level)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
ARTSTUDI 147: Artist's Book
Explores contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object while invigorating traditional artistic practices of the art of the book. Through the medium of drawing, collage, and mixed media students produce their own artist's book. The course familiarizes students with bookbinding and the various techniques used, as well as exploring the narrative, text and image, and the book as a sculptural object.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Ebtekar, A. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 148B: Introduction to Printmaking Techniques
Techniques such as monotype, monoprint, photocopy transfers, linocut and woodcut, intaglio etching. Demonstrations of these techniques. Field trips to local print collections or print exhibitions. (lower level)
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Yeh, I. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 160: Intro to Digital / Physical Design
Contemporary production processes ¿ both manufacturing and media processes ¿ often span the digital and the physical. 3D Depth cameras can scan real world models or movements, which can be manipulated or adjusted digitally, then re-output to the physical world via a myriad of 2D and 3D printing and laser cutting technologies. Crowd sourced information is uploaded to social media, which in turn guides our physical meeting places. Google street-view maps our physical world, and augmented reality displays overlay it. How as artists or designers to we grapple with and use this digital / physical permeability to create new experiences and meaning for our current time? This introductory studio course explores various tool sets as well as artists working across these genres. This course is a good baseline exploration for anyone interested in designing or making art with emerging contemporary tools.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
O'Dell, J. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 162: Embodied Interfaces
Our computers, phones and devices ¿see¿ us predominately as fingers and single eyes staring at screens. What would happen if our technology acknowledged more of our rich physical presence and capabilities in its design? How have artists and designers used different sensing technologies to account for more of our embodied selves in their works? In this studio course we will explore various sensing technologies and design pieces that engage our whole selves. Interfaces explored will range from the practical to the poetic. Sensors may involve flex sensors, heat sensors, microphones and simple camera tracking technology. We will analyze different tools for their appropriateness for different tasks and extend them through our designs.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Fantauzza, J. (PI)
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