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2018-2019 University Catalog 
    
2018-2019 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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Art and Design

  
  • AD 33200 - Visual Communications Design I


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A course designed to introduce the student to projects that will develop an understanding of basic problem-solving techniques in the areas of publication and promotional graphics. Acceptance into professional VCD sequence via mandatory portfolio review. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 33300 - Photo Silk Screen


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced study of the techniques of photo silkscreen and light-sensitive stencils. Emphasis on fine art conceptual issues, creativity, matting and framing art, and professional practices. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 33400 - New Media Culture


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This lecture course provides a historical overview of the development of new media art. In their research, project papers, and practical assignments, students explore issues of media criticism, technology’s impact on culture and society and visions of media utopias. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 33700 - Commercial And Professional Practice In Photography


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces students the skills necessary to attain entry-level employment in the photographic field and familiarizes students with the vocabulary, procedures, and working realities specific to occupations in the field of photography in the areas of photo-journalism, magazine illustration, advertising/web design, and fine arts. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 33800 - Advanced Interior Design Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of graphic design fundamentals and application of interior design visual presentation. To provide a foundation for developing proficiency in the use visual communication design in interior design presentation. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 33900 - Women Artists In The 20th Century


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course offers a critical yet comprehensive overview of the creative achievements of women artists in the 20th century. It focuses on major female artists, whose works and contributions are considered in both their specific socio-cultural context and in a larger art-historical perspective. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 34000 - Furniture Development


    Credit Hours: 3.00.  This course is an introduction to furniture design. The focus of this course is information relevant to furniture design including: basic ergonomics, structural techniques and materials and processes. Additional pertinent information regarding new and ongoing design trends will be explored. A mid semester field trip to a major furniture manufacturer and/or design studio is offered. Students will design and build two of the following objects: a small freestanding shelving unit, small table, bench, table top object or stool. Students must pass mandatory portfolio review for this course. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 34200 - Ceramics II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A continuation of AD 24200 ; according to student needs in creating ceramic forms, a variety of in-depth experiences: experimental kiln building and firing techniques, methods of ceramic construction, surface treatment, and clay and glaze formulation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 34300 - Northern Renaissance Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00.  The development of a mature North European art originating in the International Gothic tradition and culminating in the works of Albrecht Durer, Jerome Bosch, and Pieter Bruegel, the Elder. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 34400 - Latin American Art In The 20th Century


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course offers a critical yet comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art from Latin America. It focuses on major artists, whose works and contributions are considered in both their specific socio-cultural context and in a larger art historical perspective. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 34600 - Italian Renaissance Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00.  A study of the development of the major and minor themes and forms in Italy from 1300 A.D. until 1525 A.D., emphasizing the achievements of masters and analyzing the theories of contemporaries. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 34700 - Lighting For Interior Environments


    Credit Hours: 3.00.  The study of illuminating principles, design criteria, specifications and environmental systems applied to architectural interiors in public and private spaces. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 34800 - History Of Islamic Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Islamic art, one of the world’s richest artistic traditions, is surveyed from its origins in the 7th century AD to the modern day. All types of artistic media, from large to small-scale, are included and seen against the background of the Islamic religion and history. Offered on a two-year rotation. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 35000 - Interior Design IV


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of large-scale public and social spaces, emphasizing interior systems and components. Application of design for historic preservation, renovation, or adaptive reuse will be considered. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 35900 - Medieval European Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A comprehensive study of the varied art forms in Western Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire until the beginnings of the Italian Renaissance: 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 36101 - The Constructed Image


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intermediate level course focusing on the production of creative images constructed both in the studio and the field. Readings and discussions investigate both historical and contemporary trends in the art of the photographically-constructed images. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 36200 - Jewelry And Metalwork


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Lost wax casting and mold making, mechanisms and stone setting for jewelry and metalwork. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 36300 - Documentary Photography


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to the great tradition of documentary photography. Students learn to see the world around them in a new way and produce a documentary project. The course requires reading and writing about photography, as well as making photography on a regular basis. The class emphasis is on thinking about why people photograph, what photographs do and do not mean to us, and on doing documentary work, on telling stories with photographs. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 36500 - Intermediate Painting


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A studio course concentrating on the development of conceptual and technical skills of painting. This course is designed to help individual students gain a greater awareness of their personal creative goals and to foster means of expression. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 36600 - Visual Communications Design II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Field trips may be required. The study of corporate graphics and visual identity programs. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 36800 - Etching And Intaglio Printmaking


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the techniques of etching, engraving, aquatint, drypoint, collagraph, monoprint, and related processes. Emphasis on fine art conceptual issues, creativity, matting and framing art, and professional practices. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 36900 - Lithographic Printmaking


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the techniques of stone and plate lithography. Emphasis on fine art conceptual issues, creativity, matting and framing art, and professional practices. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 37000 - Woven Textiles


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A beginning course in loom-woven textiles and pattern drafting. Emphasis on two- and three-dimensional design in fiber, using historical textile structures as the basis for contemporary interpretations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 38000 - Baroque Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of European art and architecture during the 17th century, focused on Italy and the Netherlands, and emphasizing some of their leading painters. Works of art are seen in a broad social and cultural context, including the Counter-Reformation and the rise of capitalism. Typically offered every other Spring.
  
  • AD 38100 - Fine Art Photographic Printmaking And Artist’s Book


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to explore methods and concepts for creating fine art prints and books as an art medium. Through technical workshops and assigned projects students will become well-versed in medium and large format cameras, various 19th century processes such as platinum prints, toned silver prints, kallitypes, and digital capture and printing. The craft and production of handmade traditional and contemporary books become a vehicle with which to share the images. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 38200 - A Global History Of Art, Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of artistic exchanges and circulations between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East from the 18th to the 19th century. Movements such as Chinoiseries, Turqueries, Orientalism, and Japonisme are examined within their historical context and as part of a globalizing tendency. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 38300 - Modern Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A comprehensive overview of the visual arts from impressionism to Surrealism, designed to help students understand the cultural, social, and historical dynamics that influence artistic creation, and reflect upon the meanings of modernism. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 38400 - Contemporary Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A comprehensive overview of the visual arts from the 1940’s to the present, designed to help students understand the cultural, social, and historical dynamics that influence artistic creation, and reflect upon the artists’ role in contemporary societies. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 38500 - History Of Interior Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00.  This course will focus on the history of interior design from the 18th century to the present. In addition to an overview of the major stylistic, material, and spatial changes, this course will examine the social, cultural, and political context of interior design practice from the perspective of architects and designers as well as users and consumers. Drawing on diverse primary, scholarly, and theoretical texts, students will: learn about historical changes in architecture and design practice; discuss the historical development and use of new materials, processes, and technologies in architecture and design; examine changing social and cultural behaviors that relate to interior design; and analyze important historical debates within the field. Must be enrolled in one of the following programs: Design Studies - BA, Visual Arts - BFA, Art Studies - BA Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 39100 - History Of Chinese Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A historical survey of the visual arts and architecture of China from antiquity to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the relation of a broad range of art forms to their social and cultural contexts. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 39500 - History Of Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the development of design ideas and structures and the influence of technology upon their direction. The course will cover a cross section of ideas developed from the late nineteenth century to the present. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 39600 - Art Museum Practices


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines art museums as cultural institutions with varied collections, serving an important social role. Museum administration and operation are discussed, as are exhibition preparation and museum architecture; a few field trips are required. Museum careers also are explored. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 39700 - Sustainability In The Built Environment


    Credit Hours: 3.00.  The study of philosophical concepts, principles, and theories of sustainability as they pertain to building methods, materials, systems, and occupants. To provide a foundation for evaluation of materials, processes, and applications of design components for environmentally responsible. Field trips will be required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 40000 - Advanced Painting


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A studio course concentrating on the development of an advanced body of work built upon the conceptual and technical skills of painting. This course is designed to help individual students gain a greater awareness of their personal creative goals and to foster means of expression. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 40200 - Art In Secondary School


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theory and practice of art education for adolescent and young adult students in the secondary school. Required prior to professional semester. . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 40400 - Moldmaking And/Or Wheel-Throwing Production Techniques In Ceramics


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. This course will teach mold-making or wheel-throwing (depending on the individual student’s interest) with a view to creating ceramic objects suitable for commercial mass-production. Both tableware and/or sculptural objects will be explored. For the wheel-throwing option the students must have at least one year of high school throwing or AD 24200  with a grade of at least “B” or permission of instructor. For the mold making and casting option only, students must be an Art and Design student or have permission of instructor. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 40500 - Industrial Design III


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design projects emphasizing sophisticated problem-solving methods. Design projects will stress diversity of industrial design and will trace the development of products from initial concept, research, and development through production. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 40600 - Industrial Design IV


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design of products in their relation to economic, physiological, psychological, and behavioral patterns of the consumer. Emphasis upon total thought processes to allow environmental considerations as well as technological realities. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 41500 - Professional Techniques


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Research development for product design, with emphasis on socioeconomic concerns and documentation techniques. Portfolio refinement, including verbal, written, and other visual documentation and presentation skills in various media, such as drawing. Photography and computer-generated graphics will be stressed. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 41600 - Seminar On Ideas In Industrial Design II: Design And Creative Problem Solving Methods


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of creative problem solving methods as used by the designer in his or her work. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 41700 - Variable Topics In Electronic And Time-Based Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of thematic or specialized topics reflecting the most recent developments and contemporary artistic practices in Electronic and Time-Based Art. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 42100 - Advanced Studies In Photography And Related Media I


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The first of two advanced level courses in photography/related media focusing on production of a formally and conceptually coherent body of work. Course emphasizes development of studio and critical thinking skills, and initiates investigation of the creative process. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 42200 - Advanced Studies In Photography And Related Media II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An advanced level course in photography and related media focusing on production of a formally and conceptually coherent body of work, articulated within an appropriate, informed critical context. Culminates in curation of formal exhibition. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 42600 - Robotic Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The Robotic Art Studio is an experimental and interdisciplinary class that explores the aesthetics, technologies, ideologies and cultural impact of robotics. Students build robots that beep, blink, bounce and walk. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 43000 - Interior Design V


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design of multi-use complex environments, emphasizing program and problem solving, facility planning, building systems, and materials technology. Application of alternative presentation technologies will be explored. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 43100 - Visual Communications Design III


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The advanced study of communication concepts of poster and poster application in current media. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 43200 - Visual Communications Design IV


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The study of product identity, packaging. and branding. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 43400 - Professional Practice For Visual Communication Designers


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Specific professional practice topics for the visual communications designer. Subjects range from contracts, professional associations, ethics, to portfolio and resume preparation, the job market and the future of the profession. Field trips may be required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 44000 - Interior Detailing And Construction


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The process of designing, detailing, specifying, and constructing interior environments. Emphasis on teams, building systems, architectural drawing, and building codes. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 44200 - Ceramics III


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A continuation of AD 34200 ; according to student needs in creating ceramic forms, a variety of in-depth experiences: experimental kiln building and firing techniques, methods of ceramic construction, surface treatment, and clay and glaze formulation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 45400 - Modern Architecture


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 46200 - Metalsmithing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Metal forming and metalsmithing processes for small metal objects and jewlery. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 46500 - Professional Practice


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The study of professional office and business procedures for the practice of interior design. Includes project administration, contracts, forms, and documents as used in the marketplace. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 46800 - Printmaking III


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the techniques of photo plate lithography and photo etching, with continued advanced studies in lithography and etching/intaglio. Emphasis on color printmaking, fine art conceptual issues, creativity, matting and framing art, and professional practices. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 47000 - Advanced Studies In Textiles


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A textile seminar and studio course in advanced textile design, with the purpose of developing a personal direction and competence in textiles as fiber art. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 47800 - Internship In Art And Design


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 8.00. Intensive exposure to professional experience through supervised internship in art-and-design-related firms, departments, or studios. Consent to enroll, amount of credit, placement, and evaluation to be approved and coordinated by department. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 49000 - Special Problems In Art And Design


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Individual problems in art and design. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 49200 - Advanced Seminar In Art History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study in depth of a period or movement in the history of art. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 49900 - Studio Arts Professional Practice/Senior Exhibition


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of professional practice in the contemporary art world: ethics, gallery, exhibition, studio practice, writing, visual documentation, and business of art. Seniors meet throughout spring semester to organize, install, and de-install Fine Arts Senior Exhibition. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 50200 - Curriculum Studies In Art Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EDCI 52000) Study of selected theories of curriculum conception as they apply to constructing arts education curricula in the schools. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 50400 - Philosophical Studies In Art Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EDCI 52100) To introduce students to philosophy as a mode of disciplined inquiry in art education. Students will critically examine the literature of art education and identify problems requiring philosophical resolution. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 51200 - Interaction Design Studies


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines concepts and methods for interaction design (IXD). It emphasizes a human-centered perspective and explores fundamental components involved in IXD research. Students will explore a wide range of literature and implement IXD theories in multi-disciplinary collaborative projects. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 52000 - Student Visual Design Service


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The course will simulate the operation of a professional design studio affording the opportunity for hands-on experience in the development of a total graphic product from concept to finish and will include contact with clients, typesetters, and printers. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 52200 - Interaction Design Evaluation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course builds a foundation for interaction designers to conduct evaluation research. Students start from analyzing evaluation cases on interactive designs and systems to employing evaluation in design projects using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods of inquiry. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 53200 - Cognition In Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on understanding cognitive issues and theories in design. Students are exposed to different cognitive models and phases while they are designing interactive systems. They will develop the cognitive perspective, analyze user experience, and develop an interaction design. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 53500 - Furniture Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of furniture design trends and designers. Explore materials and manufacturing processes. Design and build a full-size seating unit. Shop skills required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 54200 - Information Visualization Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course starts from exploring visual perception and attention theories, studying modern visualization technologies and toolkits, and reviewing evolving visualization research. Students work on small exercises, and then accomplish complicated virtual and physical visualization projects for information representation and communication. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 55000 - Research Methods In Art And Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive course in research methods to assist students in developing a topic for directed study. Introduction to various research tools; exercises exploring issues of style, content, and organization; research methods and how they pertain to art and design. Permission of department required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 55800 - Directed Project Research In Studio Arts


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Initial M.F.A. project research and production in studio arts. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 56800 - Directed Project Research In Design


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Initial M.F.A. project research and production in design. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 59000 - Special Art Problems


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Individual problems in art history, appreciation, design, crafts, drawing, and painting. Credit dependent upon amount of work done. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 59100 - Practicum For Art And Design Teaching Assistants


    Credit Hours: 0.00. Seminar to train new Art and Design teaching assistants in the content, policies, and format of the courses they teach. Topics include problem/project presentation, critique techniques, grading, and discipline. Subsequent semesters focus on improving and refining teaching skills. Open only to Art Design teaching assistants each semester they teach. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 60000 - Painting


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Painting. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 60100 - MFA Orientation


    Credit Hours: 0.00. Required for and open only to M.F.A graduate students in art and design. An introduction to the M.F.A. graduate degree program in art and design: policies, procedures, and requirements for successful completion of the M.F.A. degree. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • AD 60300 - Theory In Art Seminar


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of critical issues in modern and postmodern art and relevant methodologies: formalism, iconography, biography and autobiography. Marxism (cultural studies), semiotics, and psychoanalyses. Elements of contemporary professional art practice discussed, including writing of artists’ and designers’ statements, biographies, and resumes. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of department required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • AD 60500 - Problems In Industrial Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Problems in product innovation, product design, product development, and environmental design. Emphasis is placed on the development of working prototypes. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 60600 - Problems In Visual Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Problems relating to printing technology, videotape, film design, computer graphics, perception, and the development of visual communications prototypes. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 60700 - Graduate Seminar In Photography And Related Media


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Study and discussion of the aesthetics, theory, and criticism of photography and related media. Applications include historical and contemporary research and/or the development and critical analysis of a body of work. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of department required. Typically offered Spring Fall Summer.
  
  • AD 60800 - Advanced Typography


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores the communicative and structural aspects of traditional and nontraditional typography, its current and past practitioners, and its evolving presence in the computer age. Independent research and group projects will supplement lectures, assigned readings, and field trips. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 60900 - Information Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course aims to teach specific principles and methods pertaining to information design, an emerging discipline within visual communications design (graphic design) involving the selection, organization and presentation of information to a given audience, covering a wide and varied group of delivery mediums. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 61000 - Advanced Poster Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Specific principles and methods pertaining to poster design. Explores the historical and social implications of poster design. Practical and theoretical exercise will aid students in creative thinking and concept generation. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of department required. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  
  • AD 61100 - Advanced Web Design For Visual Communications Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores experimental interface design issues and surveys emerging and advanced theories of interface design for the Web. Application of motion graphics design principles and design experimentation is part of the curriculum. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 61200 - Color Aesthetic And Research


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores color aesthetic based on the works of color masters (e.g., Albers, Itten, Chevreul, Birren, Munsell, and Ostwald) and contemporary color research issues applied to art and design. Color research methodology will be addressed. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 61300 - Drawing


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Drawing. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 61400 - Graduate Installation And Critique


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A seminar for all graduate students in the studio arts incorporating the process of installation art to facilitate the exchange of ideas and professional criticism. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 61500 - Social Issues In Industrial Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of mass-production materials and processes used by designers. Students will focus on the limitations and benefits of various manufacturing methods. Special attention will be given to injection molding, casting, and stamping. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 61600 - Electronic And Time-Based Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. This seminar explores contemporary artistic practices in Electronic and Time-Based Art, including emerging fields such as: generative and interactive art, audio-visual installation, and new media performance. The format of the course is a mixture of critique, workshops, research, presentations, and discussion. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 62500 - Applied Ornamental Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of past and present ornamental design applications and of the cultures that created them. Students will generate their own individual visual iconography to be transformed into designs for consumer products, architectural elements, or furniture. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 63500 - Advanced Materials And Processes


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of mass-production materials and processes used by designers. Students will focus on the limitations and benefits of various manufacturing methods. Special attention will be given to injection molding, casting, and stamping. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 64000 - Special Topics In Interior Design


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Special topics and theoretical approaches to individual projects within the built environment will be investigated, such as urban environments, existing and new structures, and interior environments. Topics could include either residential or non-residential projects. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 65800 - MFA Project Research In Studio Arts


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Intensive M.F.A. project production and thesis research in studio arts. Prerequisite: Three credit hours of AD 55800  with a minimum B- grade. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 66100 - Jewelry and Metalsmithing


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Jewelry and Metalsmithing. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 66500 - Printmaking


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Printmaking. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 66800 - MFA Project Research In Design


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Intensive M.F.A. project production and thesis research in design. Prerequisite: Three credit hours of AD 56800  with a minimum B- grade. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 66900 - Ceramics


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Ceramics. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 67000 - Textile Art


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Textile Art. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 67500 - Sculpture


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Sculpture. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 67800 - Graduate Internship


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Intensive exposure to professional experience through supervised internship in art or design firms, departments, or studios. The internship will consist of work to enhance the development of future professionals. The internship experience will help students integrate theory and practice and confirm career choices. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • AD 69000 - Advanced Problems In Art And Design


    Arrange Hours and Credit. Credit and hours to be arranged. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • AD 69100 - Directed Readings In Art History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of specialized publications for in-depth study in an area of special interest. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
 

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