Liberal Arts & Cultural Studies
Academic Policies, Procedures, and Regulations
Note: Course offerings vary by semester, students should check for course availability on the schedule of classes posted on the SRISA web-site. http://www.santareparata.org
Note: All photography courses require that student bring a 35mm camera that has a manual setting. In addition students will be responsible for purchasing film and photographic paper. Students bringing digital cameras should also bring a card reader for downloading images. It is recommended that students purchase a jump drive (mini hard drive) for saving files and images.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-2651 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: Students will explore the history and craft of photography
using the beautiful and historic backdrop of Florence and Tuscany as
inspiration. The course will
examine such topics as urban and rural landscape, portraiture and digital
techniques and is structured to take full advantage of the experience of being
in Florence. Class time will
include visits to museums and galleries, field trips, technical demonstrations,
darkroom work, individual and group critiques. This course is open to students with all levels of photo
experience. Beginners will master
the basics of camera usage, film development, and black and white printing.
More advanced students will be encouraged to expand their personal photographic
vision and skills. The digital component of the class will be explored on an
individual basis according to the interest and previous experience of the
student.
Credit hours: 3-- Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-1105 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: Students will learn basic photographic principles and techniques along with darkroom and laboratory procedures. Aimed at encouraging creativity, emphasis is given to developing a critical sense of the visual language that modern photography uses so expressively. An understanding of technical and critical skills in photography enables students to translate their ideas from other areas of art into the medium of photography. This course is for beginning photo students.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-1106 SR
Dept: Photography
Offered: Spring & Fall
Course Description: Designed for students who already have a strong foundation in black and white darkroom practices, this course will present detailed information on advanced techniques. These will include pinhole photography; studio lighting; use of techniques such as solarization; still life and portrait photography; use of the medium format camera; and a complete description of the uses of different papers, developers and films. Classes meet twice a week, 3 hours per class. Students have generous use of the photo lab Outside of class time. Prerequisite: Black & White Photography I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-2105 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: This course is intended for students wishing to add the element of color to their work in photography. Early projects will be designed to help students make the transition from shooting images for black and white to seeing with color film in mind. Slide presentations and discussions will be offered to help students recognize the multitude of possibilities the use of color provides for making exciting photographs.
Prerequisites: Black & White Photo I and Black and White Photo II
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-3520 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: The social and aesthetic aspects of this vital and evolving photographic tradition are explored through and examination of methods, concepts, and history. Projects are designed to use the students everyday experiences in Florence as a focus for understanding the medium and practice of documentary photography.
Prerequisites: Black and White Photo
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course# 23-3700
Dept: Photography
Course Description: This course is a systematic exploration of alternative photographic processes, including Cyanotype, Kallitype, Gum Bichromate, and a variety of photo processes that are typically classified as alternative or experimental. In addition to mastering the technical side of these mostly unconventional processes, students will work on projects that extend beyond traditional means of presenting their photo work. This could mean printing imagery on unconventional materials such as fabric, glass or wood, or presenting the photos in a more sculptural form. Students will learn to manipulate their images using graphic arts film; creation of clich verre negatives; digital techniques; and photographic prints. The class will require students to make new imagery with conventional and less conventional cameras (pinhole cameras, for example), but will also encourage students to work with found and collected imagery which can be collaged together with other materials, photos, drawings, prints, etc. to create mixed media pieces. Prerequisites: Black and White Photo II or equivalent
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3798 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: An independent project takes place outside the regular classroom environment and is the advanced study of a topic of particular interest to the student. It requires a faculty advisor who will periodically consult with the student, evaluate the result of the project and submit the grade.. An independent project must not be equivalent in content to courses offered at Santa Reparata. It is expected that students create and develop a study or production schedule for their projects and that they are prepared to devote at least 3 clock hours of work per week (45 clock hours per semester) for each credit award to be awarded. Students are required to begin developing their project ideas and completing their independent project form before the add/drop period ends. The faculty advisor must approve the proposed project by signing the form. The completed form must be presented to the Director.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 23-2652 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: Since its beginnings in the mid-19th century, photography has dramatically changed our world and how we see that world. In this course, students will develop familiarity with the complex and contradictory genres of photographic images: between documentary and discourse; between mass culture and avant-garde. This course covers work from Europe and the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to present. Particular emphasis will be given to Italian photography.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course #24-1030 SR
Dept: Film and Video
Course Description: This is a course designed for beginning film students and art students interested in exploring digital filmmaking as an art form. As a beginning workshop in film expression, this course deals with the grammar and construction of digital film through editing programs, learning simple scripting, and story boarding. Students will develop a short digital film project over the course of the semester.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course #24-1040
Dept: Film and Video
Course Description: This course is designed for intermediate and advanced students wishing to further develop their digital video skills. During the course of the semester, each student will develop their own short film .
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 24-2512 SR
Dept: Film and Video
Course Description: This course focuses on the world of Italian Cinema It is a general analysis of post-war cinema and a parallel social history of this period using film as "decoded historical evidence". In the first part of the class, discussion will focus on Neo-realism, a cinematic phenomenon that deeply influenced the ideological and aesthetic rules of film art. The second part of the course will concentrate on the films that mark the decline of Neo-realism and the talent of "new" auteurs such as Fellini and Antonioni . The last part of the course is devoted to the cinema from the 1970's to the present. The class will also analyze the different aspects of Film Making both in Italian and the U.S. industry.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2260 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Color Strategies will examine the study of traditional color theory in depth, along with modernist color applications. The basic text sources for the course are Johannes Ittens The Elements of Color, and Joseph Albers The Interaction of Color. Many of the color exercises taught at the Bauhaus will be a foundation of the course. The students will be able to orient their color thinking towards their major area of study throughout the semester. This course or its equivalent is a prerequisite for Beginning Painting
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2220 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: In this introductory oil painting course, students will learn the basic techniques of pictorial representation: color mixing; color composition; the depiction of light and form through painterly means; alla prima painting; under-painting and glazing. Through studio assignments, students will explore a variety of approaches to oil painting and gain competence using these techniques and materials. Studio assignments will be augmented by discussions, critiques, illustrated lectures, museum visits and the analysis of historic and contemporary paintings. Prerequisites: Drawing I and Color Strategies
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2221 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This intermediate painting course builds upon the formal skills learned in Beginning Painting and cultivates further conceptual understanding. Through a series of studio projects based upon a variety of historical approaches to painting, students will strengthen their mastery of materials and techniques while developing an increased understanding of the relationship between form, subject and content. Museum visits, illustrated lectures, critical readings and critiques will supplement studio projects. Prerequisites: Drawing I, Beginning Painting
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2223 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description:
Using both
nude and costumed models, the compositional context of the figure and
individual form development are studied. Various media and techniques are discussed and
demonstrated and the instruction is approached on an individualized basis. Materials used in the course are acrylics,
oils, pastels, watercolors, canvas, and paper.
Prerequisites: Figure Drawing I, Beginning painting
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2226 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course will focus on the validity of portraiture within contemporary painting as well as referencing the vast history of portraiture in all mediums. Readings from critics and artists on portraiture will be provided for discussion throughout the course. Students paint the figure from direct observation and discuss formal issues such as composition, handling of materials and color and reinforce issues of form, proportion and gesture. In addition to discussion and lectures, critiques are offered on both an individual and group basis. Students paint in oil and should have a basic understanding of oil painting as a prerequisite to the course.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3222 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Painting III is an advanced painting course that provides students with a loosely structured sequence of conceptual painting problems based upon modern and contemporary artistic practices. Through studio projects that engage broad topics in painting, students will begin to define their own personal interests and develop an informed individual aesthetic. This course leads students to develop a greater level of conceptual knowledge and technical skill, which prepares them for the self-generated problems of Advanced Studio and independent professional practice. Studio projects will be augmented by critical readings, illustrated lectures and visits to contemporary art exhibitions. Prerequisites: Drawing II, Painting II
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3223 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Students will be encouraged to choose subject matter and materials that relate to their individual visual concerns and interests. Students will work on developing their own body of work that deals with the issues of content, process, and technique. Classes will include discussions of painting, slides, videos, and visits to museums and contemporary galleries. Prerequisites: Drawing II, Painting III
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2217 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Beginning and advanced students will be introduced to the formal and technical issues of on-site drawing. Students will learn to accurately and creatively render from life. The class will address the challenges and benefits posed from working on-site. Taking advantage of the city of Florence and its environs students will work primarily on location in museums, gardens and other historic locations of interest. Student will be encourage to use a wide range of mark making tools including pencils, pens, markers, charcoal, conte, pastels, brushes and ink.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2218 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Beginning and advanced students will be introduced to the formal and technical issues of on-site drawing and painting. Students will learn to accurately and creatively render from life. The class will address the challenges and benefits posed from working on site. Taking advantage of the city of Florence and its environs students will work primarily on location in museums, gardens and other historic locations of interest. For practical reasons students will be encouraged to use only water based colors though more advanced students may choose to further develop work done on location in other mediums outside of class time.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2219 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description:
This course introduces beginning and advanced students to the formal and technical issues of on-site painting. Students will learn to accurately and creatively render from life. The class will address the challenges and benefits posed from working on-site. Taking advantage of the city of Florence and its environs students will work primarily on location in museums, gardens and other historic locations of interest to the instructor and students. For practical reasons students will be encouraged to use only water based colors though more advanced students may choose to further develop work done on location in other medium outside of class time.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2226 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: In the Landscape Painting class students will develop critical thinking skills about thematic issues in art by exploring the subject of landscape through drawing, painting, discussion and readings. The class will consider the issues surrounding the use of landscape in art by examining different cultures attitudes about space and place.
Using Florence and the surrounding countryside, the class will consist of several sessions of on-sight sketching and painting. Students will also have studio time to develop a long-term project using landscape as the subject.
Credit hours: 1-3--Contact hours: n/a
Course # 22-3998SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: An independent project takes place outside the regular classroom environment and is the advanced study of a topic of particular interest to the student. It requires a faculty advisor who will periodically consult with the student, evaluate the result of the project and submit the grade.. An independent project must not be equivalent in content to courses offered at Santa Reparata. It is expected that students create and develop a study or production schedule for their projects and that they are prepared to devote at least 3 clock hours of work per week (45 clock hours per semester) for each credit award to be awarded. Students are required to begin developing their project ideas and completing their independent project form before the add/drop period ends. The faculty advisor must approve the proposed project by signing the form. The completed form must be presented to the Director.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-1210 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Through observational drawing, using black and white media, students learn the skills needed to realistically render 3-dimensional objects on a 2-dimensional surface. Renaissance systems of perspective and chiaroscuro drawing are explored along with the formal aspects of drawing such as line, tone, shape, rhythm, composition, space and proportion.
Credit hours 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-1211 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: While the emphasis remains on accuracy, clarity, observation and realistic rendering, individual creative solutions are encouraged in this class. Throughout the semester, students will be challenged to find their own creative means to eloquently express their ideas in drawing. In this class, there is a choice of various drawing media and color. Prerequisite: Drawing I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2214 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Using live nude and costumed models, on-site visits to draw from sculptures, and street life in Florence, students will study the anatomical and structural dynamics of the human figure. This course will emphasize the role of the human figure in both traditional and contemporary art. Materials used include pencil, charcoal, conte and wash drawing. Prerequisite: Drawing I
Printmaking Lab is open from 9am to 11pm most days and students have access outside of scheduled class-time. Many supplies such as inks, blotting paper, etching supplies tools are provided by the school and included in the course lab fee. Students will be responsible for purchasing paper and personal etching tools.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2224 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Students explore the expressive forms and history of printmaking while learning various printmaking techniques. Projects will start with simple one-color relief prints and graduate to multi-color relief, intaglio, monotype and photomechanical processes. The inter-relationships of these media to other art disciplines and ideas are stressed.
Pre-requisite: Drawing I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22- 2225 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: The approach to printmaking at Santa Reparata includes low-tech processes such as relief prints, intaglio and monotype, combined with the most advanced digital and photomechanical processes. Students will be encouraged to build on their prior experience in printmaking and learn new processes in order to develop their personal approach to image making. Pre-requisites: Drawing I and Printmaking I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2227 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course will introduce the student to simple black and white woodcut printing and more complex methods of printing with color. Reduction printing, multiple blocks, chine-colle, and the use of the jigsaw to divide the block for separate, multi-colored inking will be demonstrated, as will various methods of registration and printing, both by hand and using the presses.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22- 2226 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Serigraphy or Silk Screen is a printmaking technique that can be applied to fine art prints, graphic design and photographic experimentation. The course covers various stencil making techniques; paper and cut stencils; and direct block out. The main emphasis is on photographic emulsion techniques using hand drawn acetates, photocopies, computer printouts and photographs with litho film or diffusion transfer film. Instruction in darkroom procedures, ink mixing, registration; and printing methods will be given.
The Book Arts Lab located in the Printmaking facilities is open from 9am to 11pm most days and students have access outside of scheduled class-time. Many supplies such as inks, glue, mat- board, and general book arts tools are provided by the school in a kit provided to each student. which is covered by the course fee charged to students. Students will be responsible for purchasing paper and other personal supplies not provided in the book arts kit.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3347 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This intensive course will introduce students to the traditions and methods of the handmade book, as well as the expressive possibilities available with book making. The course will begin with simple foundational structures such as pamphlet-stitched and accordion style books and progress through more complex historical structures such as books sewn on supports, long-stitch and coptic bindings. Exploration with materials is encouraged and students can combine other media that they are familiar with (such as photography, printmaking, painting, etc.) in creating their book-works. In addition students will be introduced to traditional methods of typesetting. To help acquaint the student with the long and on-going tradition of book arts in Italy, selected fieldtrips will be organized to visit contemporary artists (bookbinders, papermakers) in their studios as well as visits to museums and institutions in the area which maintain collections relevant to the art of the book. Slide presentations, sample works and lectures, will give an overview of the history of the book and its development in Western art.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3348 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course is intended for intermediate and advanced book arts students. In addition to learning three to four new book structures students will be given more complex projects and variations of structures learned in past semesters. More emphasis will be given to craftsmanship and creativity in completed projects. In the second half of the course students will project a book or series of books that will be completed by the end of the semester. In addition to the final book project students must complete research in an area of book arts to integrate into their final project. This research may be on ancient manuscripts studying calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, ancient binding structures, typographic research or other areas relating to book arts.
The course fee for these courses covers some of the general supplies provided to each student including printing inks and paper for printing.
Digital Cameras: Though there are digital cameras available for students to check-out. students are encouraged to bring their own digital camera. Students bringing a digital camera should also bring a card reader for downloading images.
Jump Drive. Students are encouraged to bring a jump drive (mini hard drive) to save images and work done on the computer. These can be purchased for about $50.
Lap Top computers. Students with lap top computers are encouraged to bring them. Students will be able to connect to the inter-net though wire-less airport or through Ethernet connection.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-2201 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: Using Adobe Photoshop, a scanner and digital cameras, beginning students learn to create images using the computer. Step by step tutorials guide students progress from simple color corrections and digital painting to complex collage projects that offer unlimited possibilities for the creative artist. Students may also be introduced to Adobe InDesign or Adobe Illustrator programs to compliment work done with Photoshop. Projects will be diverse, sometimes requiring students to shoot or collect photographic images while, at other times, they may use the program as a tool for painting and beginning from scratch. Some projects will be based on artistic and creative expression, while others will be based on the principles of graphic design.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-3202 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: The goal of this class is to broaden students understanding of digital media through slide presentations, critical and theoretical readings, CD-ROM viewing, gallery visits, and class discussions. Using Adobe Photoshop, students cover advanced image manipulation techniques including layers, levels, curves, paths, masks and channels, and filters and models. Assignments are given in this class, but emphasis is placed on project development using digital tools. Supplementary programs such as Fractal Design Painter and Adobe Illustrator are introduced as complementary creative tools. The class helps students strengthen and expand their competence and knowledge of digital techniques, research, verbal, and conceptualization skills within realm of digital imaging. Prerequisite: Digital Imaging I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-3670 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Using the Italian fashion industry as a model, students are introduced to the different workings and interrelationships of various industries and services that compose the fashion business. From textiles design and accessories to haut-couture and prt-a-porter, students will explore the many aspects of the Italian fashion industry. Visits to design studios, fashion exhibits and textile factories introduce students to the industry first hand. The course looks at how trends are evaluated, fabrics are selected and final products find their way from the drawing board to the runway and clothing racks. Prerequisites: Introduction to Fashion Design
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course #28-1930 SR
Dept: Fashion Retail and Management
Course Description: The first part of this course focuses on the socio-cultural significance of dress. Course offers students a framework for interpreting the meaning and use of dress in their personal lives as well as in the lives of others. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze dress as a communication system. Special emphasis will be on the socio-cultural differences between Italian dress culture and that of the United States.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2603 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: A thorough foundation in fashion illustration is established in this course, which covers fashion figure, and garment interpretation. Students study and develop the basic structure unique to fashion figure and its characteristics, history, stylization, influence, and use in fashion illustration. Students will learn to interpret draping quality and surface texture of fabric. Individual interpretation and creative drawing skills are emphasized.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3603 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course introduces advanced application of fashion illustration in forms of communication such as advertising, marketing, and designing of clothing. Students explore further development of individual interpretation and stylization of fashion illustration in various problem-solving assignments. Refinement of drawing and conceptual skills is stressed.
Prerequisite:
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-1600 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course is an introduction to basic sewing and construction skills. Fabric definition, construction, and function are studied. Students learn hand sewing and finishing, body measurements, pattern use, fabric layout and cutting, and machine operation. Students are required to create and complete garments.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2600 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course presents more complex and specialized manufacturing techniques in clothing construction. Applications of skills, organization, and evaluation of the manufacturing process, and acquired methodology are developed, discussed, and demonstrated. Emphasis is on the development of a quality product. Prerequisites: Garment Construction I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2621 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course introduces students to the design and construction of hats. 3D design principles and hat-making techniques are studied and applied to wearable and non-wearable creations. Students learn basic skills of millinery construction through the methods of patterned and blocked forms.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2620 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: The word batik (pronounced ba-teek) is Indonesian word meaning wax writing. This process involves brushing or applying melted beeswax to fabric. The waxed fabric is then submerged in wet dyes. The waxed areas resist the dyes creating designs in the fabric. These fabrics are recognized for their crackle or veining that appears in the design. This course covers the dyeing techniques of wax resist, silk painting, and the tied and shaped resist processes of Shibori. Projects are designed to teach ways of controlling the image making process through solving color and design problems with the manipulation of the resists and dye bath sequences. The course also includes emphasis on dyes and fiber techniques for the finishing and embellishment of fabrics such as quilting and sewing.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2622 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Silkscreen-textile printing and design is an introduction to the various techniques and processes of silkscreen printing as well as textile design course. Silkscreen techniques cover, paper, and lacquer cut stencils, direct block out; and an emphasis on photographic emulsion techniques using both hand drawn acetates and photographs with lithfilm or diffusion transfer film and photocopy collage. Instruction is given in procedures and equipment use; darkroom procedures, color theory and ink mixing, registration techniques for printing on fabrics. Assignments are oriented toward textile surface design problems; covering various systems for design repetition. Weekly homework assignments are given on different design themes, all put into repetition and, from these, the designs for actual printing will be selected. A notebook of design resource is kept.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2623
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course is an introduction of the traditional art of weaving fabrics. In this beginning weaving course students work on four harness weaving looms. The basic loom techniques include: weaving terminology; textile analysis and pattern drafting; preparation of wrap; dressing and operating the loom. Weaving techniques covered are: twills, basket, satin rep, double weave. Hand manipulated techniques studied are: tapestry, inlay, pick-up, brocade, rug knots, leno and lace, and belt weave. This course is intended for fashion design and textile design students.
Credit hours:3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2242 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Offered: Spring & Fall
Course Description: Through hands-on experience, students will be introduced to all of the basic elements of design and fabrication of contemporary and traditional jewelry. This course will give a solid foundation in workshop practices while placing emphasis on both the quality of design and craftsmanship.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # missing
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course is designed to give beginning jewelry students direct practical experience in the design and fabrication of contemporary and traditional jewelry. Students are introduced to workshop safety, use of tools and materials, and aims to provide a solid foundation in workshop practice. Emphasis is placed on both design and craftsmanship.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # missing
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course is designed to give intermediate jewelry students further direct practical experience in the design and fabrication of contemporary and traditional jewelry. Students are introduced to workshop safety, use of tools and materials, and a solid foundation in workshop practice. Emphasis is placed on both design and craftsmanship.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2803
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: In this course intermediate jewelry students learn how to work and carve types of wax to create jewelry pieces. After casting is complete students lean how to finish, fill and polish pieces.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-1810
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Architectural drawing provides a means to obtaining a deeper understanding of the intricacies and subtleties that characterize outstanding buildings. Students will gain the ability to dissect buildings in numerous ways, thereby allowing them to appreciate a building in terms of formal elements -- scale, shape, proportion, colors, and materials -- and in terms of the problem solving reflected in the overall design. In this course, students utilize fast-paced freehand drawing techniques to record sequential experiences of moving through architectural spaces. By constructing conventional architectural drawings, such as plans, elevations, and perspectives, students will enrich their perception of the architects design process. This course is not just for students "destined to become architects," but for all who are keen on learning to express themselves visually using a variety of media, including pencil, felt tip pens, watercolor, and digital photo collage.
Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2803
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course will explore the history of Italian Interior and product Design over the last century and the influence and importance that the made in Italy label has had in Europe, the United States and the world. Students will explore the history of Italian Design over the last century through slide lecture, reading assignments and on-site visits to show rooms and museums. Attention will be given to the major artistic, socio-political and technological events and their influence on Italian Design
Credit hours:-- Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-1103 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Beginning with the frescoes of the late 1200s from the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, this course covers the most important artists of the 1300s, 1400s, and early 1500s. Students are guided through the major artistic developments of these centuries from the spatial discoveries of Giotto, to the mathematical discovery of perspective, and on to the rebirth of interest in the classical world. The course covers historical and political events and analyzes their influence on the artistic production. Many class sessions are held on-site in museums and churches to enhance the in-class slide lectures.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-3100 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This Special Topics course offers the opportunity for specialized study in the area of Art History not normally available as part of the course offerings. Possible courses that may be offered include Futurism; The High Mannerists; History of Printmaking and the Book; Roman and Etruscan Art and Archeology; Realism, Modernism and Post-Modernsim; Il Quattrocento; and Il Cinquecento.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-3150 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course will introduce students to Early Renaissance Italian Art, focusing mainly on Florence and Venice. The course will explore the relationship between art history and history, and the relationship between art objects and important episodes in political , social and intellectual history. Students will learn a new way to see a work of art as a product and a production of its time. Beginning with the competition for Baptistery doors we will follow the evolution of the discovery of perspective, the rediscovery of classical elements in architecture, painting and sculpture. While the contribution of artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Ghiberti, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Michelangelo will be discussed in detail, the course will also cover lesser known artists such as Lippi.Pollaiolo, Verrocchio, Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, Luca della Robbia, Beato Angelico, Andrea del Castagno, Rossellino.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-3160 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: The art, history, and culture in Florence ,Rome and Venice between Late XV century and the beginning of the XVII century are explored in this course. This historical period marked a shift in political, religious and artistic life of Italy. During this time many of the values acquired in the previous periods were under debate. The works of writers and artists were deeply affected by the social and political climate. It is during this period in History that we begin to see the roots of modern individualism.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-2120 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: The end of the 1950s brought new directions in artistic practices and beliefs. With the advent of Happenings, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Earthworks, Installations and many other investigations, the role of the artist in society changed significantly. Starting with a review of the formative artistic ideas, which led up to these new directions, this course will take a close look at the art of today. This inquiry is of absolute importance for artists wishing to understand the challenges faced as the 21st century begins.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-2652 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Since its beginnings in the mid-19th century, photography has dramatically changed our world and how we see that world. In this course, students will develop familiarity with the complex and contradictory genres of photographic images: between documentary and discourse; between mass culture and avant-garde. This course covers work from Europe and the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to present. Particular emphasis will be given to Italian photography.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22- 1131
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course is a basic survey of the history of architecture, from antiquity through the twentieth century, using the city of Florence and Italy as a case study of major movements and issues in architectural and urban design It will examine the city from its earliest foundations as a Roman military colony through its great Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance monuments that still define the city today. The course will conclude by looking at the interventions of Poggi and Michelucci in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-3140 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course will focus on the major art movements in Italy over the last
century. The course begins with an
exploration of the roots of the avant-garde trends in the Nineteenth century
and topics covered will range from the Divisionism to Macchiaioli; Futurism to
Metaphysical painting; the abstract movement of the 30s to the materials of
Burri; the Arte Povera in the 70s
to present. Attention will be given to
social, political and technological influences. Important will be the
discussion of the relationship of the artist to the art movement.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 22-3130 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course introduces students to the theory and principals of art conservation by focusing on the restoration of four world-class masterpieces, including the Brancacci Chapel, Botticellis Primavera, the Sistine Chapel, and the Last Supper by Da Vinci in Milan. Through slides and site visits, the student is exposed to this complex and rewarding field. In addition, graduate school requirements for admission to art conservation programs in Europe and the United States are discussed.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 51-2684 SR
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: This course will broaden students Italian experience through a wide range of cultural activities and lectures on a variety of subjects. A local Instructor will coordinate and lead various field trips such as: visits to artist and artisan studios; a night at the Opera; a visit to Pietrasanta to see the marble-carving and bronze-casting studios; visits to museums, concerts and nearby towns. The course will also include lectures on topics ranging from the history of Italian Opera to Contemporary Italian Politics. One of the first classroom activities (lead by a professional book artist) is to create an original sketchbook or journal using traditional book-making techniques. Students will be asked to record their experiences by collecting materials, writing and sketching. Classes are held once a week with several guest visits and five additional field trips or workshops, as well as local excursions. Students are given a schedule at the beginning of the semester so that they may coordinate their weekend travels. The Italian Journal course is designed to help students maximize their stay in Florence. It seeks to provide a general framework into which students own experiences may be more contextually placed, while at the same time offering insights into various areas of Italian, and more particularly Tuscan, culture and society. There is an additional lab fee for this course that covers transportation, museum entry fees, and other activities. This fee must be paid in addition to tuition fees or the student will not be enrolled in course.
Credit hours:3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 24-2512 SR
Dept: Film and Video
Course Description: This course focuses on the world of Italian Cinema It is a general analysis of post-war cinema and a parallel social history of this period using film as "decoded historical evidence". In the first part of the class, discussion will focus on Neo-realism, a cinematic phenomenon that deeply influenced the ideological and aesthetic rules of film art. The second part of the course will concentrate on the films that mark the decline of Neo-realism and the talent of "new" auteurs such as Fellini and Antonioni . The last part of the course is devoted to the cinema from the 1970's to the present. The class will also analyze the different aspects of Film Making both in Italian and the U.S. industry.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 49-3320
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: This course will study the history of Modern Italy from the Risorgimento and continue on through the development and decline of the liberal Italian state, Mussolini and Italian Fascism, World War II, and post World War II Italy, up through recent historical events. Introduction to major literary, cinematographic, design, and artistic movements are covered as well as social aspects of Italian life including topics such as the development of the Italian educational system, the roots and influence of the Italian Mafia, the feminist movement and the changing roll of the woman in Italian society.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 49-3321
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: Students will be presented with an interdisciplinary overview of the history of the city from its origins in antiquity to the late fifteenth century. Although the course emphasizes the artistic achievements of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries still visible in todays Florence, it will lead up to these works through a consideration of their cultural context. Throughout the course, visits to local sites of relevant interest will be scheduled.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course #49-2303 SR
Dept: Liberal Education
The Roman Empire was one of the few great world states--one that unified a large area around the Mediterranean Sea, from the borders of the Sahara desert in the south to Scotland in the north, from the Atlantic coast of Morocco in the west to Mesopotamia in the east. The Romans, triumphed in warfare, conquest, administration and law making. As a consequence, their greatest achievements were in the pragmatic spheres of ruling and controlling numerous disparate subject peoples and integrating them under a vast imperial state. After a brief survey of Rome's origins as a central Italian city state, students will trace the course of Roman conquests, from their inception in fourth-century BC Italy, to the formation of Rome's Mediterranean empire over the last three centuries BC. The social, economic and political consequences of this great achievement, especially the great political transition from the Republic (rule by the Senate) to the Principate (rule by emperors) will be studied. The period going back to the beginning of the fifth century AD, limitations to Roman power and various types of challenges (military, cultural, religious) to the hegemony of the Roman state will be examined as well as the development of a distinctive Roman culture, from the creation of new forms of literature (like satire) to the gladiatorial arena.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 50-2301
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: This course will concentrate on Greek and Roman mythology. Students will learn to interpret the many examples of mythical themes that occur in art and in literature. In addition students will discuss the evolution of the myths themselves and learn to interpret the meaning of each myth and what it reveals about the people that created them, their history and their in-site into the human condition.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 50-2515
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: This course is designed for both sociology and Italian studies students and will be divided into two parts. The first part will give background to the historical development of the Italian family from Roman Times to present. The Patriarchal system that began in Roman times and endured into the twentieth century will be explored. The second part of the course will focus on the modern Italian family. The roll of each member of the family will be explored in-depth. Topics of discussion will include the roll of the mother and how it has changed over the last century; the roll that grandparents play in child rearing; the change from extended family to nuclear family; the declining birth rate and the effect it is having on family dynamic; regional as well as socio-economic influences on the structure of the family nucleus will be studied. The course will give students the opportunity to have a greater understanding of the Italian people. In addition, students compare and discuss how their family dynamics and structures differ from those of the Italian family. Students will interview native Italians to gain a greater more personal understanding of the subject.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 50-2301
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: This political science course will introduce students to the Italian political system. Students will study the Italian constitution, parliamentary system, political parties, electoral process and systems of administration. Historical background to political parties and governmental structures are studied. A daily discussion of current events is incorporated into lessons. Special attention will be given to the relationship that Italy has with Europe and the United States.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course# 55-1101 SR
Dept: Fiction Writing
Course Description: Emphasizing the positive, interactive relationship among student, instructor, and class, students will explore the different genres of creative writing. Students will move at their own pace developing perceptual, technical, and imaginative abilities in several forms of creative writing. This is a writing workshop with a strong literature component. In each meeting there will be a close reading of one or two short pieces of fiction or poetry by well known British or American authors and a discussion of two or three pieces of student writing. The literature gives students a good introduction to British and American authors from the Romantics to the present, provides students with excellent examples of different genres and styles that will inspire students to try fresh approaches in their own writing.
Credit hours:3--Contact hours: 45
Course# 52-3607 SR
Dept: English
Course Description: This literature course introduces the main literary movements and writers of the 19th& 20thcentury in Italy. All readings will be in translation. Students will have assigned readings from, Ginzburg, Buzzati, Eco, Levi, Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino, Pratolini, Pavese. Assignments will include four full novels, a selection of short stories, and reading excerpts. Class will be organized around the discussion of readings.
Pre-requisites: College level English composition course
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 52-3606 SR
Dept: English
Course Description: Students will read and study portions of the major literary works of three of the most influential and important poets in Italian Literature, Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarca. These works will be read in translation. Main readings will be taken from Dantes Divine Comedy, Boccaccios Decameron and Petrarcas Canzoniere. The historical, political and philosophic influences will be discussed in-depth.
Pre-requisites: College level English composition course
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course #53-2545 SR
Dept: Journalism
Course Description: What better place to learn the genre of travel writing than in Florence! Class excursions will be planned in and around Florence where students will learn to observe and report on these trips by using highly detailed and personal style characteristics of travel writing. With the goal of publishing a piece of writing in a local American periodical students will complete a series of writing assignments based on class outing and personal travels. In class and outside reading assignments will augment classroom discussion.
Pre-requisite: College level English composition equivalent
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course #32-2613
Dept: Music
Course Description: The origins of opera can be traced all the way back to the Greek, Latin and Elizabethan drama. This course follows the evolution of opera as a "public" entertainment with the rise of the popular culture and the Commedia dell'Arte in the 17th and 18th century. Finally, it centers on the development of the Italian Opera from the early 19th Century (Rossini) to the early 20th Century (Puccini) and on how Italian history is reflected in the operatic melodramas from the heroic epic of the Risorgimento to the social anguish of Verismo.
Credit hours: 4--Contact hours: 60
Course # 51-1320 SR
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: Designed for students who have never studied the language before, this is an entry level Italian language course. The goal of the course is a basic but solid understanding of the Italian language through listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. After completing this course students will have the basic communications skills needed for day-to-day activities.
Credit hours: 4--Contact hours: 60
Course # 51-2305 SR
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: This Italian Language course is intended for students who have attended at least one beginning level Italian language course. Emphasis will be on building on the grammar and vocabulary learned in the first semester.
Prerequisite: Beginning Italian
Credit hours: 4-- Contact hours: 60
Course # 51-2320 SR
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: Students who have completed two semesters of Italian Language will develop further grammatical proficiency, pronunciation and reading comprehension.
Prerequisites: Italian II or the successful completion of an entrance exam given at the beginning of the semester.
Credit hours: 4--Contact hours: 60
Course # 51-2321 SR
Dept: Liberal Education
Course Description: This is a course for students who have completed at least three semesters of Italian Language: Emphasis will be placed on comprehensive reading skills, oral communication, and an extensive grammar review. The student is provided with authentic, unabridged reading materials that are both interesting and relevant. Authentic texts provide the language learner with an invaluable source of culture and a rich source of vocabulary. All exercises and activities focus on the development of reading skills and will stimulate the students' ability to interact through meaningful and creative communication.
Prerequisites: Italian III or the successful completion of an entrance exam given at the beginning of the semester.
Credit hours: 8--Contact hours: 120
Course # 51-1330 SR
Course Description: Super-Intensive Italian is an entry level Italian language course designed for students who have never studied the language before. The course offers students the opportunity to focus a greater amount of time on the acquisition of the Italian language. After completing this course students will have the basic communications skills needed for day-to-day activities, along with basic writing and reading skills.
This focus on practical topics will give students the tools to interact immediately in their new environment. As students develop their language skills, new and more complex topics of conversation are introduced. Emphasis is given to the introduction of Italian culture (politics, history, art, traditions, social customs, literature, cinema, daily life, etc.) Many conversation topics are taken from local newspapers, television and Italian magazines. The goal of the course is to gain a basic but solid understanding of the Italian language through learning listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Credit hours: 6-- Contact hours: 90
Course # 51-1329 SR
Course Description: Students who have never studied the Italian language before will learn the basic communications skills needed for day-to-day activities, along with basic writing and reading skills in this course. The intensive level offers students the opportunity to focus a greater amount of time on the acquisition of the Italian language. There will be a focus on practical topics will give students the tools to interact immediately in their new environment. As students develop their language skills, new and more complex topics of conversation are introduced. Emphasis is given to the introduction of Italian culture (politics, history, art, traditions, social customs, literature, cinema, daily life, etc.) Many conversation topics are taken from local newspapers, television and Italian magazines. The goal of the course is a basic but solid understanding of the Italian language through listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Credit hours: 6-- Contact hours: 90
Course # 51-2306 SR
This is an
intermediate level Italian Language course for students who have successfully
completed a beginning level course.
Students will further develop grammar and vocabulary learned in
Intensive Italian I. Emphasis will continue to be placed on the acquisition of
the Italian language, with an added emphasis on grammatical rules and building
vocabulary. Students will develop a solid understanding of the language so that
they will be able to express themselves in everyday situations. A intermediate
knowledge of Italian will be developed through listening, reading, writing and
speaking skills. Classes will be taught primarily in Italian with only
supplemental explanations in English.
About Santa Reparata International School of Art
(SRISA)
SRISA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit American art school located
in Florence, Italy. SRISA is a
non-degree granting program for study abroad students. Students have the option
to pay a transcript fee in order to receive college credit from Columbia
College Chicago for classes taken at SRISA
Student Responsibilities and Expectations
Attendance Policy:
All students attending courses at SRISA are required to
attend classes regularly.
Attendance is daily in every course and reported weekly to the schools
administration. Students missing
more than 20% in a course will receive an automatic F, failing grade for that
course on their transcript.
Exceptions will be made for excused absences. For an absence to be excused a student must present a valid
doctors note signed by the Director and presented to the instructor. Students with excused
absence will be required to complete all work, exams an extra projects to make
up for missed classes. Field trips
scheduled by instructors if indicated as such on the syllabus require
attendance and are consider part of the course curriculum. Attendance on these outings and events
is mandatory. Students will be
informed in advance of the dates, meeting times and costs associated with these
activities.
(Example: Course N. 23- 3620 SR)
Department Code: 23
Level: 3
Subject category: 6
Sequencing Independent Projects Internship: 20
School code: SR
Departments:
Dept 22: Art and Design
Subject Category Code: 1= Art History; 2=Fine Art; 3=Graphics; 6= Fashion Design; 7= Product Design; 8= Interior Design
Dept 23: Photography
Subject Category Code: 1=Foundation; 2= Digital; 3= General/ Commercial Orientation; 4= Specific Focus- Commercial; 5= Documentary/ Photojournalism; 6= History/ Criticism; 7= Art; 8= Business; 9= Capstones.
Dept 49, 50, 51: Liberal Education
(49= History; 50= Social Sciences, 51= Humanities)
Dept 55: Fiction Writing.
Course
Levels:
1000= Introductory courses that usually do not require prerequisites
2000= Intermediate courses that may require prerequisites
3000= Advanced courses that normally require prerequisites
Credit Hours: One-credit hour indicates a minimum of 50 minutes of class time per week. Most academic offerings are 3-credit hour courses, requiring 45 contact hours per semester. Studio Art courses are 3-credit hour courses that require 2 contact hours per credit hour, per week, for a total of 90 contact hours per semester.
Contact Hours: Academic courses meet for a total of 45 contact hours. Most academic courses require field trips and on-site visits. These are mandatory and may be considered part of the total contact hours. Attendance in ALL courses is mandatory. Students with more than 20% of un-excused absences receive an automatic F for the course.
Semesters:
Fall & Spring, 14 weeks full time load=15-16 credit hours
Summer (three sessions)=3-4 weeks full-time load=6 credit hours per session.
Hours
attempted are the number of hours
for which student has received a grade of A, A-, B+. B, B-, C+,
C, C-, D, OR CR has been given.
Grades and
Symbols:
Course work
completed or incomplete is recorded on transcripts using the following codes:
A = 4.0
grade points (Outstanding)
A- = 3.7
grade points
B+ = 3.3 grade points
B = 3.0 grade points (Above
Average)
B- = 2.7
grade points
C+ = 2.3 grade points (Average)
C = 2.0
grade points
C- = 1.7grade
points
D = 1 grade point (Below
Average)
F = 0 grade points (Failure)
IN = 0
grade points (Incomplete)
is given at the discretion of the instructor. Incompletes must be made up by
the end of the successive semester.
CR = 0
grade points Successful completion of all
course work under the credit/no credit option.
W = 0
grade points (Withdrawal) indicates that
the student was passing at the time of withdrawal.
EX = (Expelled)
SRISA
transcripts and other student records are released by the Directors office
located in Florence Italy or the Registrars office in San Antonio, TX, by
written request from the student or persons authorized to do so.