ARTS 100 Foundations in Visual Arts

This course is designed to provide a practical and theoretical introduction to the study of the visual arts, primarily for visual arts majors. This course should be taken at the beginning of the art program. Students will identify aesthetic approaches and the academic study of, and career paths within, drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography, time-based media, graphic design, and interactive design. Students will discuss ethical issues within the arts, develop the analytical strategies essential to the critiquing process, explore the creative process from initial idea to final piece, and review transfer portfolio requirements for admission to arts programs at local universities.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Eligible to enroll in ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

1

Course Objectives

1. Research and discuss the variety of professional options that are available through the study of drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography, time-based media, graphic design, and interactive design disciplines.
2. Illustrate the importance of the artist’s statement and its role in the context of historic and contemporary artistic practices.
3. Identify a range of discipline-specific portfolio platforms appropriate to meeting academic and professional standards.
4. Discuss the application of process books, sketchbooks, research, idea generation, critique, refinement, and audience to the creative process.
5. Analyze and apply important ethical issues inherent within the arts.
6. Describe, interpret, and evaluate the content and construction of a work of art through critique.

Course Objectives

1. Research and discuss the variety of professional options that are available through the study of drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography, time-based media, graphic design, and interactive design disciplines.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

2. Illustrate the importance of the artist’s statement and its role in the context of historic and contemporary artistic practices.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

3. Identify a range of discipline-specific portfolio platforms appropriate to meeting academic and professional standards.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

4. Discuss the application of process books, sketchbooks, research, idea generation, critique, refinement, and audience to the creative process.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

5. Analyze and apply important ethical issues inherent within the arts.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

6. Describe, interpret, and evaluate the content and construction of a work of art through critique.

   This objective is a course Goal Only