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DAR 140 Digital Arts Illustration Studio: Illustration Technique and Media
4 cr. hrs. 5 periods (3 lec., 2 lab)
Basic principles, techniques and media applied to digital and traditional illustration styles, subject matter used in print
illustration. Includes subject, media, technique, composition, and professional environment.
Prerequisite(s): DAR 101.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
DAR 145 Digital Arts Illustration Studio: Character Development for Animation and Print
4 cr. hrs. 5 periods (3 lec., 2 lab)
Principles and techniques applied to character development used for animation, products and print material. Includes
drawing in a loose manner, designing characters, materials, techniques and construction, various applications, and
professional environment.
Prerequisite(s): DAR 140.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
DAR 146 Lighting for Photography I
4 cr. hrs. 6 periods (2 lec., 4 lab)
Introduction to creative professional lighting concepts and techniques for commercial and fine art photography. Includes
lighting and studio equipment, light qualities, lighting for form, lighting for surface qualities, still-life photography, portrait
photography, image composition, critical analysis, and portfolio.
Prerequisite(s): ART/DAR 128.
Information: Students are strongly recommended to own or have access to a digital camera with manual exposure
control and a computer with image processing software. Professional quality cameras, computers and software, printers,
lighting equipment and studio will be provided for specific assignments. There may be additional supply costs in addition
to course fees. Same as ART 146.
Offered: Fall.
DAR 173 History of American Cinema
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
American cinematic film making as an art form, economic force, and system of representation and communication. Includes
history of American cinema, development of the significant films and directors, film studios, and image, cinema genres,
history of narrative film and film sounds, alternative American films, analysis and criticism, and American cinema team.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
DAR 174 Business of Audio
3 cr. hrs. 4 periods (2 lec., 2 lab)
Economic, legal, and financial aspects of the music and recording industry. Includes recording artist contracts; foreign
record deals; copyright in sound recordings; independent record producers; record clubs and premiums; labor
agreements; music videos; record covers, label, and liner notes; and agents and managers. Also includes licensing of
recordings for motion pictures; counterfeiting, piracy, and bootlegging; trade practice regulation; copyright in the United
States; songwriter contracts; copyright infringement; and music and the movies.
Prerequisite(s): DAR 103, 124.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
DAR 175 Cinematography
3 cr. hrs. 4 periods (2 lec., 2 lab)
Basic techniques of motion picture production. Includes operation and application of all basic film tools, equipment, and
techniques used in cinema production. Also includes practical experience as part of the production team, pre-production,
light and image, analysis of film technique, and post-production.
Prerequisite(s): DAR 124 or concurrent enrollment.
Information: This course will require additional expenses for supplies in addition to course and lab fees.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
DIGITAL ARTS
DAR 176 Film Animation
3 cr. hrs. 5 periods (2 lec., 3 lab)
Introduction to film animation techniques. Includes the history of art animation, procedures in animated films, tools of
animation, producing drawings, movements, realistic touches, technical information, and exaggerated action. Also includes
the animal kingdom, dialogue, animated effects, and new technologies.
Information: This course will require additional expenses for supplies in addition to course and lab fees.
Offered: Fall.
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