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Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. The focus of this course is learning to draw from observation and developing close looking skills; to that end this course will expand your capacity to see and represent what you see by inviting you to explore an array of methods, materials, and techniques. 

Encounters: Drawing On-Site — DRW4119.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

In this course we will engage drawing鈥檚 portable and responsive nature by working outside of the studio art classroom, opening the possibility of encounters that influence your subject matter and approaches to drawing. Students will practice and expand their skills of drawing from direct observation (not from photographs or other images) by working on-site in different indoor (non-classroom) locations on campus and working outdoors, or plein air. 

Statistics for Social Science — SOC4103.01

Instructor: Emily Waterman
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

In this course students will learn to use social science statistics to test their own research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Students will employ various inferential statistics techniques commonly used in social science, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi-square testing, correlation, ANOVA, and regression. Students will manage and analyze data using the Stata statistical software package.

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars of global environmental politics 鈥 a heterodox field that draws insights from international relations theory, international political economy, ecological economics, and environmental sociology (among others).

Introduction to Relief Printing — PRI2105.01

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course is an introductory level print media and drawing class. Students will learn about relief printmaking through demonstrations of techniques, hands-on experience, and critiques. Techniques include but are not limited to wood cut and linoleum cut. With this simple process, we will be able to explore color printing in depth. This course is also an introduction to making 2D images and the study of visual language. Students who have experience beyond the introductory level are welcome.

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged.

Drawing Excess: the Gesamtkunstwerk — DRW4407.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

The German term Gesamtkunstwerk roughly translates as a 鈥渢otal work of art鈥 and refers to an artistic endeavor wherein various art forms are melded together to form a unified whole. Through the amalgamation of art, craft, music, and performance, Gesamtkunstwerk evokes a realm distinct from our everyday experience.