<p class="text5"><strong>1A Visual Literacy (5 Units)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Large lecture course. Overview of art movements, and representational and conceptual theories relevant to contemporary art making. The emphasis will be a broader understanding of reasons for certain types of imagery presented in the media, museums, publications, galleries etc. Lectures will include presentations by contemporary artists who will present, and contextually discuss their work.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br />1C Introduction to Contemporary Art (2)<br /> </strong></p>
<p class="text5">This symposium format course presents contemporary artist's creative projects in relation to recent developments in art and cross-disciplinary practices. Lectures by faculty from UCSB's Art Department as well as distinguished guests invited to expand on art, theory and cultural production.<strong><br /><br /> <br />7A The Intersections of Art and Life (5)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">This course explores art in relation to time-based activity and integration with everyday life. Conceptual introduction to authorship, authenticity, and narrative through exercises and examples of performance, video, film, book arts, sound, digital media and interactive/chance derived work.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br />7B Introduction to Contemporary Practice I: Image Studies (5)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">The study of visual perception and image-making across visual art disciplines, both material and digital. Studio assignments are combined with related critical theory, historical practice, current strategies and new evolutions.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br />7C Introduction to Contemporary Practice II: Spatial Studies (5)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">The study of spatial arts in all forms, including material, interactive and dynamic digital. Studio assignments are combined with related critical theory, historical practice, current strategies and new evolutions.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br />7D Introduction to Contemporary Practice III: Art, Science and Technologies (5)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">The study of the foundations of digital and technological arts in all forms, including the history, theory and practice of optical, kinetic, interactive, interdisciplinary and systems-oriented art. Lectures and assignments introduce concepts, methods, movements and practitioners that have shaped the fields.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br />10 Introduction to Contemporary Painting Practices (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A broad range of projects designed to provide strong foundations in fundamental 2D image making, utilizing a variety of media, including acrylic and oil painting. Further supplemented with slide lectures and demonstrations. Both contemporary and historical practices are employed and discussed.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br />12 Lower-Division Sculpture (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Introduction to sculptural problems and techniques dealing with the expanding field of traditional sculpture and contemporary terms.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br />14 Lower-Division Print (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Introduction to making prints. Emphasis on technical fundamentals and conceptual aspects of graphic arts. āPrintā incorporates hand produced, and electronically replicated media.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 18 Lower-Division Drawing (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Introductory problems in two-dimensional representation with various drawing media, including structural and symbolic implications of human form. Emphasis on organization of vision and thought in terms of drawing techniques and materials.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 19 Lower-Division Photography (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Examines photography as a means of artistic expression through a variety of media based on, but not limited to, photos. Conceptually-based projects explore how we view, interpret, and manipulate visual information. Lectures cover major historical and contemporary artists. Lab work in digital.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 22 Visual Thinking and Application of Computer Images (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A class focusing on digital media approaches specific to fine arts practice; exploring conceptual, technical and artistic methods of digital media arts. Techniques covered include digital graphics, video, sound and HTML.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 100 Intermediate Contemporary Painting Issues (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Problems in emphasizing the development of personal expression in various media. Consideration given to historical painting as well as trends in contemporary painting. The relationship between drawing and painting will be explored.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 101 Advanced Contemporary Painting Issues (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Advanced studies in painting utilizing particular faculty interests, media collaborations, and/or special departmental facilities. The exact nature of the course will be specified in the Department of Art Studio syllabus.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 102 Digital Media Tool Box: Concepts and Skills (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A project based course with a technological skills emphasis within the digital media arts context. Topics may include telecommunications, wireless, database aesthetics, networks, interactivity, digital 3D, virtual reality, immersive environments, algorithmic aesthetics, visualization, media theory and others. Topic to be determined by instructor.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 105 Intermediate Spatial Practices (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Designed to develop student knowledge and proficiency of material and method, cultivating both manual and conceptual skill-levels in three-dimensional practices. Course focus varies by quarter, but may include mold-making, casting, metal fabrication, foundry and related kiln practices.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 106 Advanced Spatial Practices (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Advanced study of new forms and spatial practices. Individual projects may encompass formal sculptural practices as well as investigations that engage new and alternative technologies such as data-driven dorms, alternative architectures, interactive media, cyber/nano/nuero/bio forms and virtual environments. Course content detailed in syllabus each quarter.</p>
<p class="text5"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> 106W Introduction to 2D/3D Visualizations in Architecture<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span></span> The course develops skills in reading, interpreting, and visualizing 3D objects and spaces by offering exercises in sketching, perspective, orthographic projections, isometric drawings, and manual rendering practices. Relevant for those interested in history of architecture, sculpture, and such spatial practices as installations and public art.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span></span></p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 110 Intermediate Print (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">With its concern for the individual print, the sequential use of pictorial information, the intermedia aspects of image and text, and the book as an expressive form, āprintā focuses not only on how prints are made, but also on when and why they are used. Assigned projects and supervised group and independent study are required.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong>111 Digital Intermedia I (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">The investigation of imagination and visual communication. Students create image and/or text based projects using digital and hybrid tools, including digital drawing, photography, vector imaging. Project themes and methodologies include site-responsive public space art, and distributed multiples.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 112 Artistsā Books (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">An investigation of the book as an art form. Based on conventional media, artistsā books encompass a variety of methods, techniques, and ideas. Assigned and self-directed projects using traditional and innovative practices, combining reading with pictorial and tactile experience.</p>
<p class="text5"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> 113 Digital Intermedia II (4)</span></p>
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<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 117 Intermediate Drawing (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A continuing investigation into the challenges of two-dimensional representation . Course focus to depend on instructor, but may include structural and symbolic implications of the human form, historical and contemporary strategies of visual analysis, and exploration into experimental media.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 118 Advanced Drawing (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Problems emphasizing development of personal expression in drawing, utilizing various media. Consideration given to historical as well as contemporary trends in drawing.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 120 Intermediate Photography (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Continued refinement of digital and traditional photographic technique, and development of photography as an art making tool. Course to range by instructor, but may include photo narrative, journalism, fashion, artists' books, desktop publishing, web design, time-based work, and intermedia collaborations.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 121 Advanced Photography (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Advanced studies in photography utilizing particular faculty interests and/or special departmental facilities. Exact nature of course will be specified in the Department of Art syllabus.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 122 Advanced Topics in Digital Media (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">An advanced project-based course in digital media arts. Students are expected to have relevant conceptual, aesthetic, and technological grounding in digital media. Topic to be determined by instructor.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 123 Papermaking (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Introduction to historical and contemporary methods of handmade papermaking leading to innovative uses of handmade paper as an integral part of art forms.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 125 American Art Since 1950 (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Developments in American and European art since 1950 with an emphasis on the most recent decades. Focus ranges from the post-war impact of the New York School, Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism to more recent, āpostmodernā trends.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 126 Introduction to Contemporary Theory (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A basic beginning survey of contemporary art, film and media theory, focusing specifically on: realism, formalism, semiotics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, gender/queer studies, post-structuralism, and broader issues of authorship, narratology, postmodernism and multiculturalism.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 130 Visual Art As Culture (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Exploration of the visual arts in a wide range of socio-cultural and economic contexts. Topics include artās changing institutional role in relation to the shifting parameters of ideology and the state apparatus, history, revolution, nationalism, Orientalism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, high and low culture and new technologies.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 132 Video (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">The use of video as an artmaking tool in relation to its increasing prominence and pervasiveness in American culture. Hands on production and postproduction are combined with viewing, discussion, and criticism. Integration with other artistic media is encouraged.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 134 Performance (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A workshop introduction to the forms, styles, and strategies relating to the use of the body as both a physical and psychological basis for making art. Method, space, narrative, audience, object, games, chance and rituals are explored.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 136 Personal Narrative (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A writing based workshop designed for formulating and producing artwork based on oneās own personal experiences and histories. Experimentation and expansion into other artistic media are encouraged.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 137 Spoken Word (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A workshop introduction to the use of voice as an artistic medium, with emphasis on improvisation, personal monologue, and slam poetry.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 192 Internship in Art (1-4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Opportunities in applied learning related to visual art through local business, government, or institutional organizations, working under faculty direction with periodic and final written reports and supporting portfolio.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 194 Special Group Studies (2-4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">A means of making special studies or meeting special curricular problems.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 196 Honors Seminar (4)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Open to qualified art studio majors with at least a 3.5 grade-point-average in the major and at least a 3.0 grade-point-average overall; upper-division standing; and acceptance into the departments honors program.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 199 Independent Study (1-5)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Advanced study in a variety of media. To be determined by the professor and the student. Student must have upper-division standing and a minimum of a 3.0 grade-point-average.</p>
<p class="text5"><strong><br /> 199RA Independent Research Assistant (1-5)</strong></p>
<p class="text5">Coursework shall consist of faculty supervised research assistant. Student must have upper-division standing.</p>
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