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ART-130 Photography I (3 credit hours)

Introduces the use of the camera, lighting, and composition; darkroom techniques for developing black and white film, making contact prints and enlargements; print finishing and presentation. Emphasisupon the use of the photographic process as an artistic medium. Students must have a 35mm or 120 film size camera with adjustable focusing, shutter speeds and lens openings. Studio fee assessed. 

ART-350 Printmaking (3 credit hours)Emphasis on non-toxic intaglio and relief processes, which may include etching, woodcut, linoleum, and experiments in monoprint and monotype. May be repeated for credit with permission from the instructor. Studio fee assessed. Prerequisite: ART-206. 

ART-221 Survey Western Art: Ancient-Early Renaissance (3 credit hours) A survey of the history of western architecture, sculpture, and painting from circa 2400 B.C. to 1500 A.D. In addition to examining art within its historical context and exploring human cultural diversity, students will gain fundamental skills of visual analysis, acquiring the vocabulary and concepts needed to discuss works of art orally and in writing.  

ART-222 Survey Western Art: High Renaissance-Modern (3 credit hours) A survey of the history of western architecture, sculpture, and painting from circa 1450 to the post-modern present. In addition to examining art within its historical context and exploring human cultural diversity, students will gain fundamental skills of visual analysis, acquiring the vocabulary and concepts needed to discuss works of art orally and in writing. 

ART 949- Who Let the Dogs Out? Photographing for the Web (3 credit hours)

A 6-week summer hybrid course where students will create and prepare digital images for the Internet while volunteering as photographers for Wake County Animal Shelter in Raleigh, NC.  The photographs students create in this course will be used to help get dogs, cats and rabbits adopted.

 

Term

Section

Name

Title Faculty Cred. Bldg. Rm. Days

Start

Time

End

Time

First Six Week

ART-130-A

Photography I Johnstone 3 GHA 122 MTWH 12:30PM 1:50PM
First Six Week ART-350-A

Printmaking

(Hybrid Course)

Johnson 3          
First Six Week ART-949-A

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Photographng for the Web

Johnstone 3 GHA 114 MTWH 2:00 PM 3:20 PM
Second Three Week ART-221-A Srv. W. Art to Early Ren Mulvaney 3 GHA 137 MTWHF 8:30 AM 11:20 AM
Third Three Week ART-222-A Srv. W Art to High Ren-Mod Mulvaney 3 GHA 137 MTWHF 8:30 AM 11:20 AM

 

 

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