2008-2009 Catalog - Virginia Wesleyan College

56ART/ART HISTORY319 Studio Art Teaching Assistant (1)Allows qualified students to assist art instructors in theteaching of their classes. May be repeated. Pass/fail grading.Prerequisite: consent. Offered each semester.320 Photography II (3)Intermediate course exploring digital photography.Emphasis is placed on aesthetics and developing personallymeaningful content for portfolios. Additional topicsinclude digital photo retouch, color correction, digitalprinting and creative computer techniques. Students mustsupply their own digital camera with manual controls.Students are responsible for the commercial development ofprints. Prerequisite: ART 225. Offered each spring.321 Advanced Ceramics: Technical (3)An advanced course designed around basic glazechemistry and reduction firing techniques, where studentsdevelop their own glazes and fire their own ware. Emphasisis on the technical aspects as they apply to the students’creative work. Prerequisites: ART 117 and 318 or consent.Studio class. Lab fee.323/423 Advanced Ceramics:Individual Interpretation (3)Designed around the students’ selection of projectswhich have particular meaning and challenge to them.Research and work outside class is expected. Emphasis isplaced on the students’ development. Prerequisites: ART 117and 318 or consent. Studio class. Lab fee.411, 412 Advanced Paint: IndividualInterpretation I, II (3,3)Provides painting experiences that lead to anunderstanding of composing in two-dimensional pictorialspace. An important part of this course is the students’selection of certain projects which have a special meaningand challenge to them. Research and work outside classis expected of all class members. Prerequisites: ART 111and 112 or consent. Studio class.418 Painting the Human Figure (3)Working from life, students render and interpret thehuman figure using the traditional painting media of oil,acrylic, and watercolor. An understanding of body structureis emphasized and how to represent it using variouspainting techniques. Basic elements of portraiture will alsobe touched upon. Prerequisites: ART 111, 112 or 317, orconsent. Studio class.424 Advanced Ceramics: Production (3)Designed for continued growth and exploration in thismedia with special emphasis on production techniques. Animportant part of this course is producing, showing, andsurviving in the potter’s craft. Prerequisites: ART 117 and318 or consent. Studio class. Lab fee.450 Studio Art Seminar (3)Advanced studio art course based on the developmentand presentation of a research project, created withguidance from faculty, and the acquisition of professionalskills appropriate to arts-related careers. As evidence ofartistic accomplishment each student develops athematically focused body of work. The exhibition of thisbody of work along with a gallery talk and an explanatoryresearch paper fulfill the exit requirement for the studio artmajor. Prerequisite: consent. Offered each spring.ART HISTORY COURSES (ARTH)201 Music & Art in Western World (3) (A)Identical to MUS 201.225 The Photograph (3)A history of photography from its invention in 1839to the present. The course investigates within theirhistorical context the major categories of photography, suchas portraiture, documentation, photo-journalism, and artphotography.231 Ancient & Medieval Art (3) (H)A survey of the visual arts and how the arts functionedin culture from Prehistoric cave paintings to the art andarchitecture of late Medieval Europe. The courseconcentrates on the Western tradition of painting,sculpture, and architecture. Offered each fall.232 Renaissance to 20th-Century Art (3) (H)A survey of the visual arts, and the relationship of thevisual arts to social, cultural, and political history from theRenaissance period to the Modern era. The courseconcentrates on the European tradition of painting,sculpture, and architecture, and pays particular attention tothe changing social role of artists and the development ofthe modern definitions of “fine art.” This course is achronological continuation of ARTH 231, but the latter isnot a prerequisite. Offered each spring.233 Art of Africa, Asia, Americas (3)Surveys the long-lived art traditions of diverse globalcultures, including Africa, India, China, Japan, the Pacific,and Pre-Columbian and Native America.341 American Art (3) (H)A history of the visual arts in America from pre-colonialto modern times. Particular attention is paid to therelationship of the visual arts to social and political history,and the issue of “American identity” in the arts.351 19th-Century Art History (3) (H)A history of European and American art from the era ofthe French Revolution to the end of the 19th century. Theworks of major artists, such as David, Goya, Turner, Manet,Monet, Van Gogh, Munch, etc., are investigated withintheir historical contexts.