Art: Visual Arts (ARTZ)

ARTZ 101 Art Fundamentals

Credits: 3

Term: (F, S, Su- based on sufficient demand)

Core Class: Fine Arts

This course is an exploration of visual concepts through studio projects supplemented by lecture, discussion, and writing assignments. Art fundamentals will be investigated through drawing, color theory, and 3-dimensional processes.

ARTZ 105 Visual Language-Drawing

Credits: 3

Term: (F, S, Su- based on sufficient demand)

Core Class: Fine Arts

This course introduces the fundamentals of drawing with consideration for line, form, space and perspective in rendering from three-dimensional shapes, still life, landscape or the human form utilizing a variety of drawing materials. Emphasis will be placed on learning to see and render basic shapes, line quality, value, light and shadow, texture, mass, perspective and composition. Students will be encouraged to apply these skills to develop a personal style of drawing.

ARTZ 106 Visual Language -2-D Foundations

Credits: 3

Term: (F)

Core Class: Fine Arts

A course investigating basic design elements: line, shape, texture, value. The elements considered in the context of compositional principles.

ARTZ 224 Watercolor I

Credits: 3

Term: (S)

Core Class: Fine Arts

A beginning course in watercolor painting. Research of the medium and observed material toward appropriate use of the transparent medium.