Art (ART)

ART 1301. Core I: Collaboration.

This course introduces students to both practical and theoretical frameworks within disciplinary and interdisciplinary art and design practices. Designed for majors and minors across the School of Art and Design, students explore and gain insight into methodologies, issues, and concerns foundational to art and design disciplines. Through thematic, project-based experiences, students engage a range of two-, three-, and four-dimensional materials, tools, processes, and conceptual strategies. Emphasizing dialogue, shared problem-solving, and collaborative production, students discover how these areas function independently while also intersecting through shared visual languages, critical inquiry, and contemporary cultural contexts.

ART 1303. Core II: Archive.

This course introduces strategies for building and sustaining creative practices through research, collection, and critical reflection. Designed for majors and minors across the School of Art and Design, the course centers on the archive as both method and conceptual framework. Students investigate where ideas originate by creating, organizing, and interpreting personal and cultural archives that include visual references, texts, objects, digital materials, and field research. Through varied research methodologies and working processes, students develop a structured body of source material. They then translate their archive into a series of interdisciplinary creative outcomes that synthesize research, concept development, and material exploration.

ART 2313. Introduction to Fine Arts.

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of creation and analysis of modes of expression through the visual arts. Through exposure to a wide range of artistic traditions, students learn to identify formal elements, interpret meaning, and consider the cultural significance of creative works. Emphasis is placed on analyzing aesthetic expression and critically examining the role of the arts across different cultures and societies.