2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

86 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
ART 130
Drawing I
This course is an introductory level foundation course in
drawing. A variety of media and subject matter including
still life will be a focus in this course. Demonstration,
discussion and formal critiques will augment studio work.
Upon successful completion of this course students
should be able to:
• Demonstrate ability to draw utilizing perceptual means
incorporating the basic properties of line, value, scale,
proportion, figure-ground relationship and texture.
• Demonstrate the ability to activate the concept of the
picture plane.
• Produce cohesive composition.
• Diagram perspective.
• Create the illusion of three-dimensional forms and
space on a two-dimensional plane.
• Integrate critical thinking skills through completed
artworks and formal critiques.
Prerequisite: None
May be repeated with Dept approval
3 Credits 2 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
ART 140
Painting I
This is a foundation level studio course in acrylic painting
with instruction of the use of brush and palette knife. Still
life subject matter will be the predominant source of
visual imagery in this course. Demonstration, discussion
and formal critiques will augment studio work.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Prepare the materials for the process of painting.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the
12-hue color wheel.
• Produce cohesive composition.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze how light creates
form with the interplay of hue, value and chroma.
• Create the illusion of three-dimensional forms and
space on a two-dimensional plane.
• Integrate critical thinking skills through completed
artworks and critiques.
Prereq. ART 130
3 Credits 2 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
ART 141 Painting II Special Studies
This course will continue to stress general foundation
painting skills in the acrylic and or mixed media. Subject
matter will expand from the still-life to more conceptual
based integration of various imagery. Demonstration
discussion and formal critiques will augment studio work.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Prepare the materials for the process of painting
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the 12-
hue color wheel
• Demonstrate the ability to activate the concept of the
picture plane using traditional and non-traditional means.
• Produce cohesive composition.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze how light creates
form with the interplay of hue, value and chroma.
• Manipulate the illusion of three-dimensional forms
and space.
• Integrate critical thinking skills through completed
artworks and critiques.
Prereq. ART 140
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ART 143
Life Drawing and Painting
This course will emphasize life drawing and painting
from the nude and draped model considering both
objective and non-objective responses. Drawing with a
variety of wet and dry media will be stressed in the
course with a progression into acrylic painting on canvas.
Demonstration, discussion and formal critiques will
augment studio work.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Demonstrate the ability to draw the human figure
utilizing perceptual means incorporating bold, gestural
and quick mark-making skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to draw and paint the human
figure utilizing perceptual means within a sustained
pose incorporating the basic properties of line, value,
scale and proportion, figure-ground relationship, texture
and color.
• Demonstrate the ability to draw and paint the human
figure incorporating basic rules of anatomy and art
historical connections.
• Demonstrate the ability to activate the concept of the
picture plane.
• Produce cohesive composition.
• Integrate critical thinking skills through completed
artworks and formal critiques.
Prereq. ART 140
3 Credits 2 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
ART 145
Watercolor Painting
This course is an introduction to the basic tools and
techniques of the watercolor painter. Emphasis is placed
upon transparent watercolor within the Western tradition in
still life, landscape, figurative and non-objective subject
matter. Demonstration, discussion and formal critiques will
augment studio work.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Prepare the materials for the process of painting.
• Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the
12-hue color wheel.
• Demonstrate the ability to activate the concept of the
picture plane.
• Produce cohesive composition.
• Apply the wash, glazing, variegated wash, wet into wet,
lifting, scraping, resist, drops and splatter, and dry brush
techniques within a watercolor painting.
• Integrate critical thinking skills through complete
artworks and formal critiques.
3 Credits 2 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
ART 160
Black and White Photography I
This course is designed to introduce students to the
basics of picture taking and picture making. Topics
include use of 35mm camera and lens, film processing,
printing and photochemistry. Two-hour photolabs will
provide practical darkroom experience.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify and apply camera handling and cleaning
techniques.
• Define and describe characteristics of black and white
films and print papers.
• Calculate correct photographic exposures under a variety
of lighting conditions.
• Describe and apply basic principles of photographic
composition.
• Apply principles governing use of contrast filters.
• Describe and apply the technical and aesthetic criteria by
which photographs are evaluated.
• Prepare a portfolio of black and white enlargement prints
that exhibit effective focus, depth of field, contrast,
cropping and display.
Need 35mm camera with adjustable settings
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ART 161 Black and White
Photography II
This course is a continuation of Black and White Photography
I. Students learn more about the art of photography
by exploring advanced approaches to composition,
lighting and printing. Using photochemistry and setting
up a home darkroom are among the topics presented.
Upon successful completion of the course, students
should be able to:
• Use a light meter and gray card to calculate scene
brightness ratios.
• Adjust film-speed ratings to compensate for camera or
lighting exposure factors.
• Prepare commonly used photochemicals and describe
their contents.
• Print "problem" negatives by altering local and overall
density and contrast in the print.
• Adjust film development times to compensate for
lighting conditions.
• Produce a portfolio of fully toned black and white prints
that exhibit strong technical and aesthetic values.
Prereq. ART 160 or instructor's permission
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ART 162 Black and White Photography III
This is a lab-intensive course for students with one year
of previous course work in photography. The use of
photography as an expressive tool is approached by study
and application of advanced methods of working with
camera and processing film and prints with specialized
photochemistry. Student learn to select print papers that
enhance image quality. The limits of the 35mm negative
format are explored.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Previsualize subject matter for black and white photographs.
• Determine personal film speed.
• Adjust film processing to compensate for scene brightness.
• Produce their own gray scales and meter cards.
• Control the tonal ranges in prints from negatives made
under a variety of lighting conditions.
• Prepare a portfolio of exhibition quality, archivally
matted prints.
Prereq. ART 161 or equiv.
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ART 166
Black and White Digital
Negative
This course is a continuation of Black and White
Photography, which incorporates the use of digital
darkroom techniques. Students will learn the art of
conventional printing using enlarged digital negatives.
Students will have the opportunity to learn the advanced
changes offered to them through the use of digital
photography, bridging the technological gap between
traditional methods and rapidly changing digital methods
in photography. The course is not intended to abandon
traditional methods of photography, but to incorporate the
technology. This course will not involve the use of digital
cameras. The course will use computers to enlarge black
and white negatives for contact printing.
Upon successful completion of the course, the student
should be able to:
• Integrate knowledge of conventional analog into digital
photography techniques.
• Monitor calibration for digital negative production.
• Apply the various methods of scanning for digital
negative resolution.
• Practice with the digital negatives to enhance images for
fine printing (dodging, burning, sharpening, masking,
and contrast controls).
• Use storage and transfer media for file compression.
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