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