270 courses
PRNT/Printmaking
Art and the Computer I
PRNT-561 | 2 CR Students learn basic computer
skills using Photoshop and PaintBrush software to
generate artwork for printmaking and book art classes.
The course is offered as an elective to all graduate and
undergraduate students. For undergraduate printmak-
ing majors, the course is required with a prerequisite of
one semester of printmaking.
Art and the Computer II
PRNT-562 | 2 CR Students learn basic computer
skills using Photoshop and PaintBrush software to
generate artwork for printmaking and book art classes.
The course is offered as an elective to all graduate and
undergraduate students. For undergraduate printmak-
ing majors, the course is required with a prerequisite
of one semester of printmaking. Prerequisites: take
PRNT-561.
Letterpress: Text & Image
PRNT- 563 | 2 CR This introductory course will
explore two of the oldest forms of printmaking: let-
terpress and relief. Students will use hand set type, print
in relief, and make photo-polymer plates to investigate
the unique possibilities offered by combining text and
image as visual language.
SCJ/Sculpture
Metal Sculpture II
SCJ-503 | 2 CR Students explore metal as a
sculptural material and the techniques available to
its working and experience the material in its varying
states ranging from rock hardness through plasticity
to fluid, molten conditions. This ability to assume many
forms along with the immediacy, power, and versatility
of the oxy-acetylene torch, electric arch, forge, and
a myriad of other metal smithing tools provide a rich
and varied context for exploring sculptural concepts.
Prerequisites: take SCJ-501.
TECH/Technics
Companion Forms: Artist’s Book
TECH-500 | 3 CR This studio course, offered jointly
through the School of Liberal Arts and Science and
the School of Art and Design, explores the relationship
between visual and literary art forms through the arts of
the book. Students are exposed to historical precedents
for collaborations between artists and writers of vari-
ous cultures. Taught jointly by faculty from visual and
literary disciplines, students will themselves produce
books and shorter forms with their visual and literary
counterpoints.Anatomy I
TECH-501 | 2 CR The structure of the human form
in movement, equilibrium, and motion is studied in
TECH-501. Motion, expression, and body language are
observed and explored through the study of skeletal
and kinetic muscular masses in TECH-502. Drawings
from anatomical dissections for artists at a well-known
medical school are encouraged.Anatomy II
TECH-502 | 2 CR The structure of the human form
in movement, equilibrium, and motion is studied in
TECH-501. Motion, expression, and body language are
observed and explored through the study of skeletal
and kinetic muscular masses in TECH-502. Drawings
from anatomical dissections for artists at a well-known
medical school are encouraged. Prerequisites: take
TECH-501.Painting Processes
TECH-507 | 2 CR Covers the technical aspects of
painting, including a study of the chemistry of paints,
pigments, and finishes and their applications through
discussions, lectures, demonstrations, and research
assignments. This is a required class for painting majors.
Prerequisites: take 4 credits; from Subject PTG; from
Level 200.Introduction to Glass
TECH-513P | 2 CR A broad survey of glass tech-
niques designed to introduce the beginning student
to the major areas of glass fabrication; kiln-forming,
kiln-casting, cold-working, flame-working, and glass-
blowing. Students are expected to complete a series
of projects utilizing techniques from each of the areas
taught. Prerequisites: take SCJ-305 SCJ-315 (SCJ_315)
FAU-342 FAU-347P IND-311 IND-507 FA-671 IND-612A
or IND-610.Clay & Glazes
TECH-515 | 2 CR Course description pending.
Prerequisites: take 2 credits; from courses SCJ-207
SCJ-208 FA-641.Pop-Up Paper Engineering
TECH-516 | 2 CR This course covers the fundamen-
tals of paper structure and movements as a 3-D and 4-D
way to illustrate images or ideas. Pop-ups, or movables
as they are historically called, have remained popular
since the 18th century because the viewer is required
to be an active participant in the process. Because the
artwork develops as the viewer opens the card or book
in which the construction has been placed, the viewer
feels that he/she takes part in the creation of art.Woodworking I
TECH-519 | 2 CR Students are introduced to an
array of woodworking and related fabrication tech-
niques and processes. The use of hand, power, and
machine tools is taught through lectures, demonstra-
tions, and hands-on experience. Topics include basic
woodworking techniques, safety procedures, wood
identification, joinery, construction methods, shaping,
turning, and finishing. Assigned and independent proj-
ects allow exploration while applying specific processes
and techniques. Whether functional or sculptural, the
goal of this course is to give students the knowledge to
conceive and realize ideas in wood. Supplies: material
fee required.Woodworking II
TECH-520 | 2 CR Building upon the experience of
Woodworking I, this course provides students with the
continued opportunity to improve their skills in an array
of woodworking and related fabrication techniques
and processes. Through lectures, demonstrations,
and hands-on direct experience students will learn
advanced techniques in the use of hand, power, and
machine tools, as well as joinery, construction methods,
shaping, turning, and finishing. Assigned and indepen-
dent projects will allow students to explore and apply
specific and more advance processes and techniques.
Whether functional or sculptural, the goal of this course
is to give students the knowledge to conceive and
realize highly developed ideas in wood. Prerequisites:
take TECH-519.Plastics I
TECH-525 | 2 CR This course covers thermoplastics:
orientation; cutting and joining; forming; vacuum, drape,
blow, and injection; foams; thermosetting plastics; and
casting are required to produce a document of work for
departmental evaluation.Plastics II
TECH-526 | 2 CR A continuation of TECH-525.
Students explore advanced work in synthetics for
application in painting, graphics, sculpture, and design.
Light, color, texture, and form in a wide variety of
plastics and composites also are studied. Prerequisites:
take TECH-525.