Upper division Fall 2009
Art Practice 102 (4 units)
Approaches to Painting
Course may be repeated for credit. Six hours of instructional studio and three hours open studio per week. Inquiry into concepts of order, process, and content as related to human experience. While faculty contact with students is highly individualized, the course involves group critiques and lectures as well as assigned field trips.
Prerequisites
10, 12, and 14 or equivalents.
Art Practice 118 (4 units)
Figure Drawing
Course may be repeated for credit. Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. Emphasis on the human figure seen in the context of pictorial space, dark and light and color. Various media. Art 118 or 117 is required of all art majors.
Course requirements
Required.
Prerequisites
12, 13, 14 or equivalents.
Art Practice 122 (4 units)
Approaches to Printmaking: Lithography
Course may be repeated for credit. Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. In the course of making lithographs, you will be encouraged to find an esthetic direction of your own. Your instructor will also help you develop skill in using both stone and metal plates.
Prerequisites
12, 13, 14 or equivalents.
Art Practice 132 (4 units)
Approaches to Sculpture: Ceramics
Course may be repeated for credit. Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. An opportunity to learn the many ways of shaping and giving form to wet clay, then making it permanent by firing it Illustrated talks will examine the ideas that have engaged ceramic sculptors in many traditions and the processes that they have used to expand them.
Prerequisites
12, 13, 14 or equivalents.
Art Practice 133 (4 units)
Approaches to Sculpture: Meaning in Material
Course may be repeated for credit. Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. Further experience with three-dimensional form in real space. The term "mixed media" refers to combining two or more materials to make an image, often ones not normally associated with sculpture making. This will be made clear through both the projects and illustrated talks on such sculpture as found in many cultures.
Prerequisites
12, 13, 14 or equivalent.
Art Practice 137 (4 units)
Advanced Projects in Ceramic Sculpture
Course may be repeated for credit. Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. Students who are experienced in clay may enroll in this course to continue developing their ideas and their technical command of ceramic materials and processes.
Prerequisites
12, 13, 14, 132 or equivalents.
Art Practice 141 (4 units)
Temporal Structures: Video and Performance Art
Course may be repeated for credit. Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. Projects are aimed at understanding and inventing ways in which time and change can become key elements in an artwork. Regular screenings of professional tapes will illustrate uses of the mediums and provide a historical context.
Prerequisites
10, 12, 13, 14 or equivalents.
Art Practice 160/1 (4 units)
Art & Meditation
Course may be repeated for credit. Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. Topics of concern to the instructor, usually related to current research, which may fall outside of the normal curriculum or be of more restricted content than regular studio courses. An opportunity to investigate topics and mediums on an ad hoc basis when there is a compelling reason to do so, providing there is no other course that deals with these concerns. Primarily intended for advanced undergraduates and graduates in Art Practice but open to others. For special topics and enrollment see listings on the bulletin board outside of 345 Kroeber.
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor.
Art Practice 160/2 (4 units)
Social Practice
Art Practice 171 (4 units)
Beginning Video
Nine hours of studio per week. This hands-on studio course is designed to present students with a foundation-level introduction to the skills, theories and concepts used in digital video production. Non-linear and non-destructive editing methods used in digital video are defining new "archtectures of time" for cinematic creation and experience, and offer new and innovative possibilities for authoring new forms of the moving image. This course will expose students to a broad range of industry standard equipment, film and video history, theory, terminology, field and post-production skills. Students will be required to technically master the digital media tools introduced in the course.
Prerequisites
23 AC
Art Practice C171 (4 units)
Digital Video
Art Practice 173 (4 units)
Sound Art
Art Practice 185
Senior Projects