Sep 27, 2024  
2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [Archived Catalogue]

Courses


Overview     Course Renumbering     Course Search     Course Prefix Key     

 

Overview

The course catalogue contains information on all active courses offered by the University including: title, course number, credits, contact hours, prerequisites, offering college, priority enrollment, repeatability, and restrictions.  Courses listed in the catalogue are not offered every semester.  To access a listing of course sections being offered during a particular term refer to the Course Section Offerings page on the Office of the Registrar website.

Course Renumbering

Commencing with the 2013-14 academic year the University began a multi-year course renumbering. 

Renumbered Course List  

  • Division of Liberal Arts
    Many courses within the Division of Liberal Arts commencing with the Summer and Fall 2014 terms will be offered under new course numbers. Courses impacted by this change now include a reference to either the new course number or the new subject code. For example “LACR 101 (FYWT*111)” where the number in parenthesis is the new course number. Students registering for Summer 2014 coursework and beyond will do so using the new course numbers.

Course Search 

 
  
  • MUSC 681 Graduate Professional Internship

    College of Performing Arts School of Music

    1 credit 15.0 hours
    600 level graduate course

    Provides hands-on experience in a variety of professional settings: rehearsals, performances, meetings with producers, and in-studio projects such as recording, arranging, or project coordination. The program is developed by the graduate advisor and major teacher in conjunction with the student to select topics and experiences most relevant and beneficial to that particular student’s education.

    Open to Masters in Jazz Studies only.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • MUSC 682 Gradaute Professional Internship

    College of Performing Arts School of Music

    1 credit 15.0 hours
    600 level graduate course

    Provides hands-on experience in a variety of professional settings: rehearsals, performances, meetings with producers, and in-studio projects such as recording, arranging, or project coordination. The program is developed by the graduate advisor and major teacher in conjunction with the student to select topics and experiences most relevant and beneficial to that particular student’s education.

    Open to Masters in Jazz Studies only.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • MUSC 683 Jazz Pedagogy

    College of Performing Arts School of Music

    1 credit 22.5 hours
    600 level graduate course

    This course is designed to prepare students to teach all aspects of a jazz curriculum including arranging, theory, history, improvisation and managing various ensembles, including rehearsal techniques and such. A review of teaching strategies, methods, and available materials is conducted. Basic computer technologies for the creation of teaching materials are included. Each student rehearses with a UArts ensemble. Outreach activities with area public schools are developed.

    Open to majors in the School of Music only. Restricted to graduate students.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • MUSC 684 Graduate Forum

    College of Performing Arts School of Music

    1 credit 15.0 hours
    600 level graduate course

    A graduate seminar in which various aspects of study, including musical development and accomplishment, are correlated with critical, aesthetic, and historical components. Additionally, artistic and professional issues are researched and discussed. Various approaches to the preparation of the graduate recital are explored and progress toward a successful performance is closely monitored. Topic selection, research, and writing of the graduate thesis are evaluated through weekly critiques.

    Open to Masters in Jazz Studies only.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • MUSC 685 Graduate Forum

    College of Performing Arts School of Music

    1 credit 15.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    A graduate seminar in which various aspects of study, including musical development and accomplishment, are correlated with critical, aesthetic, and historical components. Additionally, artistic and professional issues are researched and discussed. Various approaches to the preparation of the graduate recital are explored and progress toward a successful performance is closely monitored. Topic selection, research, and writing of the graduate thesis are evaluated through weekly critiques.

    Open to Masters in Jazz Studies only.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • MUSC 689 Special Topics in Music

    College of Performing Arts School of Music

    0.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
    600 level graduate course

    Topics and studies of current interest in any aspect of music, including theory, performance, improvisation, composition, history, journalism, etc. Courses can be taught in lecture or studio format with contact hours varying accordingly.

    Priority enrollment to School of Music majors.
    This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
    This course requires permission by the offering program office.
  
  • MUSC 690 Graduate Independent Study

    College of Performing Arts School of Music

    1 - 6 credits 0.0 hours
    600 level graduate course

    Independent Study offers a matriculated student the opportunity to initiate individual research or advanced projects that are beyond the limits of the standard curriculum. Enrollment is limited, please see the Independent Study policy in the catalogue for more information.

    Restricted to graduate students.
    This course may be repeated for credit.
    This course requires permission by the offering program office.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • OBJT 101 Object/Environment

    College of Art, Media & Design CAMD Cross-College

    3 credits 90.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    In this course, students use three-dimensional and digital media to explore issues of object and environment. Ideas of found, fabricated and virtual objects are addressed through the lenses of art, film and design. Inquiry-based research aids students in developing project content, an awareness of cultural and historical contexts, and the ability to analyze their art-making methods and the works of artists, designers and filmmakers. The development of common technical skills, critical skills and a conceptual vocabulary provide a framework for future study. Students apply research to their processes and evaluate their work through writing and critique. The course fosters community through collaborative projects and incorporates at least one visit to an off-campus site.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course requires permission by the offering program office.
  
  • OBJT 211 Interactivity: Action, Emotion & Interaction

    College of Art, Media & Design CAMD Cross-College

    3 credits 90.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    How do we know something is interactive? How do we create an interactive experience? Is it a mechanism for change and to create meaning? Is it a way to engage a viewer, user, or audience? This introductory course will explore the different levels and meanings of interactivity within art, film, and design, ranging from the vending machine to Star Trek’s holodeck. Students will gain an understanding of interactivity by looking at artists, filmmakers and designers through readings and seminar discussion. Students will identify how to incorporate interactivity within their own creative practices. Students will apply, realize and activate their knowledge though exercises and projects, such as, but not limited to, objects, environments, narratives, stories and game systems.

    Prerequisites OBJT*101 or FNDP*111, FNDP*151, and FNDP*161

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • OBJT 212 Structures

    College of Art, Media & Design CAMD Cross-College

    3 credits 67.5 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    Structures addresses pragmatic engineering and theoretical concepts as they relate to art, design and film. Using digital and manual techniques, students will investigate how to make a physical structure stand in space, how an underlying support works as a system of parts, and how structures can construct conceptual space. The course will challenge students to expand their existing notions and envision structure as shelter, routine, skin, pattern, support, surface and time. Students will work individually and collaboratively to produce projects ranging from structures that address everyday human need, to structures that transform physical and conceptual space, to structures designed to create meaning for experimental installations which may incorporate photography, film and a variety of other time-based media.

    Prerequisites OBJT*101 or FNDP*111, FNDP*151, and FNDP*161

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • OBJT 213 The Body as Form

    College of Art, Media & Design CAMD Cross-College

    3 credits 67.5 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This studio course considers the body as a three-dimensional form reflecting the broad array of human expression. The course is dedicated to a study of the physical body and the expressive body, respectively. The physical body examines the figure from an anatomical perspective and its structural qualities, such as the skeleton, musculature, proportions and mechanics. Students also examine various artistic canons, both western and non-western. The expressive body addresses the figure as a signifier of the human condition. Students explore its visual presence or absence, reconsider the mind-body question, and contemplate or situate the body in space. Projects incorporate movement, gesture and posture. Various modes of making will be explored, using a range of materials.

    Prerequisites OBJT*101 or FNDP*111, FNDP*151, and FNDP*161

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • OBJT 214 Found & Fabricated

    College of Art, Media & Design CAMD Cross-College

    3 credits 67.5 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course will explore the cultural, historical and symbolic meaning of found objects and how they can be appropriated, reshaped and their meaning altered as the context and times change. This course will offer an introduction to experimental ways of working with found objects as well as with a variety of materials and of fabrication methods, including modeling, mold making, interactivity, metal and wood. The histories and uses of objects for utility, ritual, metaphor and drama will be explored through film, art and design.

    Prerequisites OBJT*101 or FNDP*111, FNDP*151, and FNDP*161

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • OBJT 220 Special Topics in Object/Environment

    College of Art, Media & Design CAMD Cross-College

    3 credits 67.5 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    Special Topics in Object/Environment courses blend studio practice with research, so that studio and seminar contents are fully integrated. The courses are organized around a central theme that serves as an intersection for cross-disciplinary study. Course topics vary each semester and cover areas such as the environment, art history, technology, and cultural studies as these topics relate to art, design and film. In the course projects, students may use a variety of materials to create objects, environments, or performances while investigating historical and cultural contexts.

    Prerequisites OBJT*101 or FNDP*111, FNDP*151 and FNDP*161

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PHIL 211 Topics in Philosophy

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course examines selected topics in Western philosophy. Primary sources comprise most of the readings. The course focuses on developing an understanding of the arguments of selected Western philosophers and attempting to analyze the various ideas they present. To do this, we examine some of the “big questions” that appear in philosophy - questions concerning the nature of reality, the definition of terms such as “justice” and “happiness”, and the meaning of “values.”

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PHIL 212 Chinese Philosophy

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course introduces basic principles in Chinese philosophy, particularly Daoism and Confucianism. Students examine philosophical texts such as the Dao De Jing, the Zhuangzi, and the Analects, working from primary sources. In the process, students will gain an understanding of Chinese thinking in metaphysics, ethics, and other areas of philosophy.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PHIL 213 Greek Philosophy

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    Topics in Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on the works of the pre-Socratics, Plato, and the Stoics. Emphasizes the development of ability to understand the arguments of selected Greek philosophers and analyze the various ideas they present. To do this, some of the “big questions” that appear in Greek philosophy - questions concerning the nature of reality, the definition of terms such as “justice” and “happiness”, and the meaning of “values” is examined. Primary sources comprise most of the readings.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PHIL 214 Introduction to Aesthetics and Art Theory

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    A selective survey of the development of modern aesthetics from the late 18th century to postmodernism with special emphasis whenever possible in the influence of theory and artistic practice (e.g. Jeff Wail, the films of Eric Rohmer, Danto, and Warhol).

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PHIL 215 Ethics

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    The history of ethics and the fundamental ethical problems that have concerned philosophers for the past 2,500 years. The study begins with Plato and Aristotle and extends to the contemporary analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism. Problems include the “is/ought” distinction, the ultimate objective of life, religious issues, human rights, justice, and welfare.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PHIL 216 Nietzsche: An Introduction

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    An examination of the life and thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most foremost modern philosophers. Focus points are his treatments of religion, art, and ethics.

    Prerequisites One HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PHIL 217 Existential Philosophy

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course considers selected concepts in Existential philosophy. These will be discussed in the context of selected works from Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Camus, Nietzsche, and others. The course examines further many of the issues concerning epistemology, ethics, and the search for meaning brought up in LAPR 811.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PHIL 218 Zen Buddhism

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    An examination of the Zen understanding of being human: the problem of human existence Zen seeks to resolve, the liberation it claims to achieve, the meaning of the satori or “Awakening” which Zen claims is the basis of this liberation, the Zen koan as the meaning through which the Awakening is attained, the art that results from Awakening, and the possible contributions of Zen to the contemporary spiritual, philosophic, and artistic situation in the West.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PIPT 301 Art Nouveau and Aestheticism

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Many threads of social, political, cultural, technological, architectural, crafts, and art history are drawn together to explore the foundations of Art Nouveau and Aestheticism and their manifestations in Europe and the United States.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 302 Self and Nature: the Dynamics of Romantic Landscape

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    This course features literature and painting of the Romantic era in England and Germany, with excursions to France and America and into the medium of music. We observe how landscape description in Romanticism developed a new vocabulary for experience of the self and the self’s relation to nature and community.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 303 Rome From Julius Caesar Through Nero

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    This course is a study of the transition of Rome from a Republic to an Empire, focusing on the Julio-Claudian line, which began with Julius Caesar and ended with Nero. This course examines the historical background and the religious, social, and economic issues that facilitated such a transition. Accompanying the transition was a flourishing of poetry, due in part to the patronage system and in part to increased literacy of the Roman people. Economic prosperity among the upper classes led to an increased demand for architecture, visual arts (painting and sculpture), and public entertainment (theater, music and dance, spectacles, gladiatorial combats). At the same time, the division among the social classes became even more dramatic, and government censorship and intrusion into private life emerged as major concerns under Augustus. Through the use of primary sources, class handouts, and independent study, students are encouraged to investigate the transition from Republic to Empire and to explore possible parallels in contemporary U.S. history.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 304 Religion, Art and the Apocalypse: 1850 - 1914

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    An examination of the apocalyptic themes in the context of modern intellectual and artistic developments in the West at the turn of the 20th century. Connections are drawn between religious interpretations of the Apocalypse and the apocalyptic motifs in modern art and literature.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 305 Age of Reason, Age of Satire: 18th Century England

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    The course examines the cultural history of England in the 18th century, focusing on two preoccupations of the day: rationalism and satire. The class introduces the philosophic and political documents that justified the American and French Revolutions, and then turns to satire in fiction in the visual arts. The term closes with a discussion of 20th century satire, our legacy from the Enlightenment and Revolutionary periods.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 306 Victorian England: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    This course is a study of the two faces of Victorian England: 1) the respectable and highly moralistic image reflected in much of the art as well as in social and cultural norms, and 2) the underbelly of violence and perversion, reflected not only in the decadent artists of the 1890s but also in the social underworld of Jack the Ripper and the increasing population of prostitutes. The course also examines the historical background and the political, social, and economic issues that made such a dichotomy virtually inevitable. Artists who understood this dichotomy, in varying terms, are emphasized: Stevenson, Tennyson, Browning, the Pre-Raphaelites, Gilbert and Sullivan, Wilde, and Beardsley. Through reading, lectures, class discussion, and independent study students investigate the two faces of Victorian England and explore possible parallels in contemporary U.S. society.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 307 ‘Orientalism’: 19th Century European Eyes on the Middle E.

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    The ‘Orient’ (the land and its peoples included in the Ottoman Empire in the Near East, North Africa, Egypt, Palestine, and the Arabian peninsula) as seen by 19th century European travelers, artists, poets, adventures, wayfarers, do-gooders, soldiers, and colonial officials; i.e., ‘outsiders’ in cultures they observed, imagined, marveled at, or exploited - sometimes all of them simultaneously - in their art. The history and culture of 19th century colonial expansion is studied as is the modern discourse surrounding it.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 308 Age of Melancholy

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Renaissance models of the self and their assimilation into artistic work. An exploration of how social forces drove individuals toward subjectivity and looks at how the then current medical models coped with this new concern through 16th and 17th century lyric and dramatic poetry. Parallels are also traced among literature, print culture, and music.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 309 Greece: Democracy and Empire

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Greece: Democracy and Empire is an introduction to classical Greece. It explores the historic forces, intellectual currents, and cultural and social phenomena that shaped 5th century Athens and analyzes the tensions between imperialistic aspirations and artistic production. The course investigates the way in which the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars shaped and challenged Greek ideas about humanness and civilization. It analyzes and interprets Greek drama to see the extent to which it attempted to work out the often contradictory values in the culture. Students examine both extant theoretical writings on dance and the vase painting to understand their performative aspect.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 310 Philadelphia in the Age of Enlightenment

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Philadelphia in the Age of Enlightenment considers the history of Philadelphia from 1750 to 1800, and the place of Philadelphia within the history of colonial British North America and the early United States. This multi-disciplinary course focuses on the history, politics, art, literature, science, and philosophy of that place and time. The course emphasizes Philadelphia’s role as the center of Enlightenment thought in America.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 311 19th Century Gothic

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    This course examines the 19th century Gothic Arts Movement in literature, dance, painting, architecture, and music. The irrational, nightmare world of the Gothic revolts against the orderly Enlightenment, immerses us in the darker side of Romanticism, and leads us to the 20th century’s fascination with the subconscious and the shadow self.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 312 Chartres Cathedral: Politics, Society, And the Arts in 12th - 13th Century France

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    A consideration of the architecture, sculpture, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, costume and liturgical vessels, and music that contributed to Chartres Cathedral, the major gothic monument of the 12th-13th century France. At the end of the course, we consider the work presently being done to configure a sacred space in New York to honor the 9/11 site.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 313 Bodily and Spiritual Love in the Middle Ages

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    An investigation of the language of erotic and religious love in the rich art and thought of the late Middle Ages. Resources include painting, book illumination, music, spiritual literature, theology, philosophy.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PIPT 314 Age of the Medici: 1375-1500

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    A study of Florence in the Renaissance in the context of other Italian city-states. Covering the period from the republican regime at the end of the 14th century to the Medici’s assumption of power as dukes, the course examines the pursuit of humanistic studies that sustained the republican ideology of that society; Florence’s political and societal evolution from a republic to an autocratic regime; the flourishing arts and sciences, particularly under the rule of the Medici. It also investigates why, at that time, the city enjoyed an exceptional burst of intellectual and artistic creativity despite the erosion of political freedom. In the course we make use of primary sources and modern scholarship.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 301 Berlin: The 1920s

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    The 20th century saw a cultural shift of nearly seismic proportions from communal sources of identity to an apparent freedom to invent the self, from work ethic to consumer values, from traditional word-based forms of expression to a visual culture. The artists and writers of Weimar, Germany were among the first to register these revolutionary social changes and to articulate the tensions they continue to generate. The course emphasizes film, photographic and graphic arts, and performance from Berlin. Examples include works by Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and John Heartfield. The course connects the past to the present by comparing issue-based art of the 1920s with cultural critiques by contemporary media artists.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 302 The Age of Apartheid

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    By focusing on the apartheid era of South Africa, this interdisciplinary course explores critical issues of the 20th century, such as racism, economic exploitation, urbanization, and political protest. We use South African theater, literature, and music to understand the culture that gave them birth, and read original sources written by leaders such as Gandhi, De Klerk, and Mandela.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 303 Existentialist Paris: 1938-1959

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    An examination of the central ideas and creative works associated with Parisian Existentialism and the way in which they both shaped, and were shaped by, the cultural period in which they emerged: Nazi-occupied Paris, the liberated Paris after World War II, and the Cold War. Other artistic productions not specifically linked with existentialism but which emerged during its period of ascendance are also explored.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 304 New York in the 1950’S

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    An examination of the central ideas and major artistic works and movements associated with the emergence of the American avant-garde in the years after World War II. Likely topics of exploration include Abstract Expressionism; neoclassical ballet and postmodern dance; serialist and aleatory musical composition; free jazz, hard bop, the folk revival, and the early years of rock-and-roll; confessional and ‘New York School’ poets; and the political and social ferment connected to the Red Scare and a growing nuclear arsenal. Postwar innovations in music, literature, dance, and visual art are commonly linked to the downtown Manhattan bohemia of the early years of the Cold War, but the scope of the course is not limited to artists from a single locality or decade: ‘New York in the 1950s’ will serve us more as an evocative touchstone than a strict definition of focus.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 305 Les Amis de Paris: 1920-1929

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    900 level undergraduate course

    This course examines the friendship and work of a select group of artists living in Paris between 1904 and 1913. Studying the biographical and interpersonal layers of their relationships and artwork provides new insight into the legacy of these masters. The literature of Gertrude Stein, Apollinaire, and others, the visual art of Picasso, Matisse and the Cubists, as well as other materials and mediums contribute to understanding how this particular circle of friends cultivated the artistic and intellectual leaps that created Modernism. Interdisciplinary methods for creating cultural models are explored.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 306 Franco’s Spain: An Open Wound

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Spanish history from 1700 to the present, focusing most heavily on the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). Students learn about the War of Spanish Succession (1702-1713), the Bourbon Monarchy and Eighteenth Century Reforms (1700-1808), the Peninsular War (1808-1814), the turbulent 19th century, the First Republic (1873-74), the military dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930), the Second Republic (1831-36), the transition to democracy (1975-1978), and Spain since the death of Franco. Students also discuss Spanish poetry (Miguel de Unamuno), art (Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso), novels and plays (Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ and Lora’s ‘Yerma’), and memoirs about the Spanish Civil War (George Orwell’s ‘Homage to Catalonia’).

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 307 Age of the Masses

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Age of the Masses: From Versailles to September 1, 1939, focuses on the aftermath of WWI and looks at the period as one where the dissolution of old social orders led to the emergence of the crowds as catalysts in the tensions between liberalism, conservativism and socialism. Students will look at essays, poems, films, and listen to music. The most extensive part of the course, however, will consider the work of three poets, Cesar Vallejo, W.H. Auden, and Bertolt Brecht to analyze the ways in which each of these writers commented on central historic events, while exploring the tensions between art and wider social concerns, ultimately testing the humanistic assumptions inherent to all works of art against historical reality.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 308 Age of Consumer Culture 1945 - 1972

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    The course explores the way in which consumer culture redefined America in the post-war period and transformed its culture. This course explores the reconfiguration of space, focusing in particular on the rise of the suburb, television and malls, and the ways in which these redefined the role of public and private, reshaping art, politics and audiences. Students will look at poetry, fiction, and the visual arts and trace their reaction from an initial anti-materialistic critique to gradual incorporation and appropriation.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 309 Thunder At Dusk: Art and Politics in Turn-Of-The-Century Vienna

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    This course examines signature developments in painting, theater, music, poetry, fiction, philosophy, psychology and design in the extraordinary environment of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Figures sure to be covered include Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Kafka, Trakl, Klimt, Schiele, and others.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 310 Race At the End of the 20th Century

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    n the last decade of the 20th century, many writers, politicians, and artists attempted to take stock of race relations in the United States. Bill Clinton’s assertion that Americans still had some “unfinished business’ in this area was demonstrated by events such as the LA riots and the OJ Simpson verdict. By focusing on this period, we will explore the ongoing issues of race and racism in our society, as well as how they intersect with issues like class and gender.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 312 Hard Times: Arts of the Great Depression

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    In 1935, Congress voted a New Deal for artists. This experiment in public arts funding was short-lived (Congress soon had second thoughts), but the writers, actors and photographers of “The Project” left a remarkable testimony to what we were, what we still are - and to what we long become as a nation. Tax dollars for federal theatre wasn’t a vote-getter in Texas, but during The Great Depression everyone went to the movies. Gangster movies, screwball comedies, and musicals gave a everybody a good time during hard times. Furthermore, even the funniest period films take a serious look at our American ambivalence toward success, wealth and power. New cultural forces changed public life; it was in 30s radio that we first see media transforming American politics. Although we will look at traditional mediums - murals, prints, posters, and public sculpture - and read poetry and novels from the period, our emphasis will be on media culture.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 313 Spain After Franco: the Flowering of the Arts Since 1975

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    This course provides a close examination of the visual and performing arts of Spain, from the 1980s to the present day. Through selected readings, in-class discussions, film screenings, field trips, guest speakers, lecture-demonstration, and student presentations, we will develop an in-depth understanding of what this complex culture is like, how it became that way, and how it is likely to develop in the future. Artists to be studied include Basque sculptor Cristina Ignesias, ballet choreographer Nacho Duato, flamenco superstars Paco de Lucia, Estrella Morente, and Sara Baras, plus filmmaker Pedro Almodovar.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 314 Post-World War II Amsterdam

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Amsterdam is known as a place of tolerance. By concentrating on Amsterdam’s history, art, and culture following World War II, this concept of tolerance will be described and analyzed, with the ultimate purpose of seeing if it really exists, and if it does exist, what it is and why it is. Also, given the recent murders of politician Pim Fortuyn and filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by extremists in traditionally non-violent Holland, the course will examine whether this famed tolerance in now under threat. The first part of the course will look at early Dutch history and culture as a prerequisite for understanding contemporary Amsterdam. The great bulk of the course will concentrate on the post-World War II period through a study of history, philosophy, literature, film, architecture, painting and photography. Included in this course will be a reading of Albert Camus’s novel ‘The Fall’, an analysis of art movements like DeStijl and CoBrA, a look at modern Dutch architectural movements such as the Amsterdam School, a viewing of the film ‘Submission’, directed by Theo Van Gogh, and a reading of ‘Infidel’, an autobiographical work by the controversial politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 315 The Jazz Age

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    This course explores The Jazz Age, the years immediately following World War I. Topics include The Roaring 20s, The Jazz Age and Race in New Orleans, The Harlem Renaissance, The Literature of the Period, and The Stock Market Crash of 1929. Course materials include music, pictiom, historical documents, and essays on cultural history.

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PITC 316 N. Ireland and the Troubles

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    An examination of the political, social and cultural history of Northern Ireland from 1965 to 2000 and the responses of poets, dramatists, writers, musicians, and artists to the sectarian calamity in Northern Ireland known as the ‘troubles.’

    Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • PRES 500 Foundations of Museum + Primary Sources in Education

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    What can students learn from museums, artifacts and primary sources? This course enables educators to gain a broad understanding of using these sources to guide inquiry-based learning to discover inspiration for developing K-12 curricula. Consider museum typologies and programming using five diverse contexts through which the possibilities of museum resources will be explored: perceptual, autobiographical, cultural, interdisciplinary and institutional. Projects include researching and evaluating museum web pages, writing a reflection paper, primary source analysis, developing lesson plans, studio art activities and a field trip to a local museum.

    Open to graduate students from the Division of Continuing Studies.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PRES 501 PMA Featured Exhibition - Teacher Resources for the Classroom

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    In partnership with the featured special exhibitions on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this course is one of a continuing series that uses primary museum resources to better understand the works of particular artists in historical context. Participants study the artists’ lives and work, influences within an art history perspective, as well as social and cultural significance represented in the show. Course content is developed with the Education Department at the Museum of Art featuring speakers who discuss the exhibition in depth, plus lectures and demonstrations. From this, participants create and develop a series of activities and lesson plan designed for classroom application into a rage of subject areas and grade levels.

    Open to graduate students from the Division of Continuing Studies.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PRES 502 Michener Art Museum Harry Betoia Mid-Century Design-Teacher Resources for The Classroom

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    Harry Bertoia, born in Italy, created well-known tonal sounding sculptures and designed furniture for Knoll, Inc. His studies began in printmaking and metalworking, which informed his work throughout his career. He designed, among other pieces, the Bertoia Diamond Chair series, which became part of the mid-century modern furniture movement. From 1953 to 1978, Bertoia created over 50 large public commissions, engaged by such architects as Eero Saarinen, Henry Dreyfuss, Roche & Dinkeloo, Minoru Yamasaki, Edward Durell Stone and I. M. Pei. In this course, participants study Bertoia’s work and consider the impact of modern craft and design through an exhibition of his work at the James A. Michener Art Museum and studying other mid-century works that reflect the changing aesthetics of the modern age. Participants explores methods to engage students with object study and brings cross-disciplinary projects to a range of subject areas.

    Open to graduate students from the Division of Continuing Studies.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PRES 504 Exploring the Barnes Foundation - Projects for the Classroom

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    Celebrated for its exceptional breadth, depth and quality, the Barnes Foundation’s art collection, now in its Parkway location, includes works by some of the greatest European and American masters of impressionism, post-impressionist and early modern art, as well as African sculpture, Pennsylvania German decorative arts, Native American textiles, metalwork and more. In addition to understanding these works within a historical and cultural context, the class considers the wall ensembles” approach of Dr. Barnes the intentional combination of works from different time periods geographic areas and styles for the purpose of aesthetic comparison and study. With featured speakers, lectures, and demonstrations participants create and develop a series of activities and lesson plans designed for classroom application into a range of subject areas and grade levels using the arts to enrich learning for all students.”

    Open to graduate students from the Division of Continuing Studies.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PRES 505 Visual Arts as a Source for Teaching (VAST) at Philadelphia Museum of Art

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    Each summer the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Division of Education offers K-12 teachers of all subject areas the chance to renew their spirit of inquiry through VAST: Visual Arts as a Source for Teaching. This program allows teachers to immerse themselves in the museum’s collections and its use as a resource in the classroom, with themes changing each summer. The collections serve as the starting point for lively experiences that stress an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach in looking at and teaching from works of art. Participants take part in lectures, demonstrations, small group discussions, behind-the-scenes meetings with museum curators, writing workshops and field trips to build skills and strategies for teaching humanities-based curriculum. This summer, the theme is ‘The Art of Story.’ Works of art often tell stories. The image or object artists create may relate a myth, a religious story, a historical event, a well-known fable or tale, or a story of their own invention. In turn, viewers weave stories as we look at and respond to works of art. Explore the Museum’s collections and special exhibitions, including Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney to discover the many ways stories can be told through art as well as the variety or ways adults and students can respond through art and writing. Sessions will be led by Museum Educators and invited speakers and artists (including education staff from the Arden Theater Company). Off-site visits will include the newly reopened Rodin Museum. Teachers will be grouped into elementary, middle school and high school teams to facilitate meaningful discussion and brainstorming of curricular connections. All VAST participants will receive a resource guide with background information on artworks, discussion questions, a resource list and writing connections to bring back to the classroom.

    Open to graduate students from the Division of Continuing Studies.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PRES 508 Philadelphia History Through Architecture

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    In this course, architecture is a means to understand Philadelphia’s history from colonial town to industrial powerhouse, into today’s major American urban center. By examining Philadelphia’s built environment from the earliest buildings along the Delaware River to the present makeover of the Center City skyline, an overview of the city’s past is discovered in a visual form that engages teachers and students. Many important architectural styles, buildings, movements and architects are discussed, including the vernacular style evidenced in the Philadelphia row house, buildings of national significance such as the Fairmount Water Works and Eastern State Penitentiary, the redevelopment of Society Hill and Old City in the 20th century, and the importance of parks in Philadelphia’s landscape. Study the contributions of recognized Philadelphia architects such as John Haviland, William Strickland, Frank Furness and Louis Kahn. In addition to lectures, visits sites including Gloria Dei (Old Swede’s Church), Christ Church, the Fairmount Water Works, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS) building and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia-the repository for the history of Philadelphia’s buildings and architects in the region. Through lectures, site visits and walking tours, participants become familiar with Philadelphia history as well as the cultural and sociological significance of works viewed. This course is appropriate for to K-12 teachers in all subject areas. Course content, in addition to exposure to primary source materials, assist teachers in developing engaging classroom experiences that meet academic standards related to historical analysis, sociology, visual literacy and more.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PRES 580 PMA Featured Exhbition: The Surrealists -Teacher’s Resource

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    In partnership with the featured special exhibitions on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this course is one of a continuing series that uses primary museum resources to better understand artworks in cultural and historical context as well as influence. Participants will study works using an art historical and literary perspective, as well as social and cultural significance. Course content is developed with the Education Department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, featuring speakers who discuss the exhibition in depth, plus additional lectures relating to the Museum’s permanent collection. With studio demonstrations and hands-on workshops designed for classroom use, participants create and develop a series of activities and lesson plans for application into a range of subject areas and grade levels. The temporary exhibition The Surrealists provides an account of Surrealism as told through the Museum’s unique collection of great masterpieces and lesser-known works of the movement, the exhibition will highlight the inspired minds and imaginations of the most celebrated Surrealists-including Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró while offering a wide ranging view of the movement. In this course, participants explore the movement’s changing historic and geographic conditions, beginning with Surrealism’s early development in Paris in the 1920s, continue through the 1930s with its rising profile as a dominant force in the European avant-garde, and end with the transatlantic activities that characterized the years during and after World War II. Art and literary masterpieces will inspire writing and studio activities for teachers across the curriculum, as they explore cultural, social, political, and economic factors that were at play in the time period.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PRES 581 PMA Featured Exhibition: the Arts of Asia-Korea, China, Japan

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    In partnership with the featured special exhibitions on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this course is one of a continuing series that uses museum primary sources to better understand artworks in cultural and historical context as well as their influence. Participants study works using an art history perspective, as well as social and cultural significance. Course content is developed with the Education Department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, featuring speakers who discuss the exhibition in depth, plus additional lectures relating to the Museum’s permanent collection. With studio demonstrations and hands-on workshops designed for classroom use, participants create and develop a series of activities and lesson plans for application into a range of subject areas and grade levels. The exhibition Art of the Joseon Dynasty is the first full-scale survey in the United States to be devoted to art of the celebrated Joseon Dynasty (13921910), a period that spanned half a millennium and profoundly shaped the culture and identity of Korea today. Comprised of more than 150 works drawn primarily from the National Museum of Korea’s collection and supplemented by objects from public and private collections in Korea and the United States, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity for American audiences to see some of these artistic masterpieces. In this course, explore the history behind the Korean masterpieces viewed in the context of Asia’s artistic identity and cultural legacy. Further understanding is offered through the examination and comparison of Korean aesthetics with those of China and Japan. A variety of themes — courtly life, society, ancestral rites, Confucianism and Buddhism, the philosophy of the dynasty and the cultural dynamics that shaped life during this time — will be explored. Scrolls, ceramics, textiles, woodblock prints as well as other precious and defining objects will inspire studio activities for teachers across the curriculum.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PRES 582 PMA Featured Exhibition- Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the Twentieth Century - Teacher Resources for the Classroom

    Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

    3 credits 42.0 hours
    500 level graduate course

    Featuring the work of Paul Strand (1890-1976), a critical figure in the history of modern art, photography and filmmaking, this course studies his work in the context of culture, art and history of the early 20th century; particularly as he helped establish photography as an art form. Strand’s work and that of his contemporary artists in the Alfred Stieglitz Circle shows photography’s pivotal role as a means of understanding and describing the modern world. Using the latest exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the Twentieth Century, participants study Strand’s most important projects from the 1910s through the 1960s, including his breakthrough trials in abstraction and candid street portraits, natural and machine forms, and extended explorations during his travels. The course also features works by Strand’s fellow artists from the Stieglitz circle (Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, and Arthur Dove), screenings of films, lectures on the history of photography, and a selection of archival materials. Course content is cross-curricular with projects applicable to all grade levels and subjects; course includes lectures and demonstrations to provide context and understanding.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course may not be audited.
    This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
  
  • PSYC 200 Psychology of Music

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    What makes a phenomenon musical? What is musical behavior? Why do people devote valuable cognitive resources to it? Does music have properties with universal (cross-cultural) significance? Can music be said to convey meaning? These and similar questions represent an effort to understand aspects of music seldom if ever addressed through studies of its history, theory, and practice. Moving from causal explanation to cognitive representation and mediated behavior, the course examines the biological origins of music-making, the psychology of aural awareness and perception, the strategies of musical expression, and the construction of meaning in relation to culture.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 201 Child & Adolescent Psychology

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course is developmentally oriented and focuses on Erikson’s psychosocial stages
    of life from birth to adolescence. Major topics include pregnancy, the birth process,
    and the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development of the child. Family
    life and parent-child relationships are also examined, with particular attention given
    to the impact of our social institutions upon parents and children.

    Prerequisites FYWT*101 or FYWT*112

    Priority enrollment for students with Art Therapy Concentration
    or for students pursuing the Five year BFA/MAT program.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

    This course is equated with the following courses: LASS*871, PSYC*201
  
  • PSYC 202 Adult Psychology

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course provides an overview of adult stages of psychological development throughout early, middle and late adulthood. An eclectic variety of perspectives citing psychoanalytic, cognitive, and humanistic orientations are considered.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    Priority enrollment to Art Therapy concentration.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 203 Personality & Creativity

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    Through readings of works of major theorists on the nature of personality and on creativity, the course poses two major questions: What do major theorists have to say about the human personality?; and What do major theorists have to say about what it means to be a creative person? There are a number of ways of answering these questions and it is not the purpose of the course to choose the “best” answer, but rather, to put the student in a better position to make his or her own decision.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 204 Psychology of Touch

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    In this course students learn about the role the sense of touch plays in early physical development and in the development of perceptual and cognitive skills. The last part of the course is devoted to the aesthetic dimension of touch and the significance of early tactile stimulation for the visual and performing arts.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 205 Group Dynamics

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course is designed to provide undergraduate students with an introduction to understanding group processes and to improve their skills as group members and leaders. Throughout, the aim is to provide an integration of theory, research, and applied methods. Group Dynamics has four major components. The first is an unstructured group experience focusing on interpersonal and group processes. Through the study of their own behavior, students will learn about the nature of authority and responsibility, anxiety, communications, the evolution of norms, and the underlying assumptions that often govern team development. It is our experience that the amount students learn in the course is directly related to the amount of effort they put into making meaning of this experiential component. The second component is a substantial set of readings. Readings include Group Dynamics, by Donelson Forsyth and six articles. Many students find it useful to do the reading as soon as possible. That is a matter of personal style. However, to prepare yourself for the experiential aspect of the course, students are required to read the articles by Bennis & Sheperd; Gemmill; Harvey; Herschhorn & Krantz; Marshak & Katz; McIntosh; Tillich; and Rioch before the course begins. During the course, students are required to keep a journal recording your thoughts and feelings about group events (you can write it in breaks, before or after sessions, and in the evening). The third component of the course involves thematic events. By comparing and contrasting the behavior of participants claiming membership in various social identity groups, participants have an opportunity to learn how these affect team behavior. They also can study intragroup phenomena such as cooperation and competition. The fourth component is membership in a Small Task Group (STG). The purpose of this component is to help you learn how having a specific task with a deadline and collective responsibility for a product affects team dynamics and is affected by them. Membership in these teams will be determined by the members of the small group(s).

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 206 Personality & Adjustment

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    The study of personality, the patterns of behavior and predispositions that determine how a person perceives, thinks, feels, and acts. The inner life of men and women, the quality of their character, their adjustment to their social milieu, and their potentialities for self-fulfillment are all explored. Special attention is given to adjustment problems of artists in work and in love.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 300 Social Psychology

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    A survey of major social problems today and an analysis of society’s resistance to implementing the necessary painful solutions. Students study the current status of major social institutions and their increasing failure to meet and satisfy human needs. Some of the other areas that are studied are mental health and mental illness, human values, love and marriage, dreams, and preventative programs.

    Prerequisites PSYC*201 or PSYC*202;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 301 Psychology of Creativity

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    The course examines the problems involved in defining and attempting to measure creativity. The course is developmentally oriented, focusing on relationships between creativity and normal growth and development, and intelligence and personality. Problems that the artist encounters with productivity are explored, as well as the values of society toward creativity and the artist.

    Prerequisites PSYC*201;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 302 Abnormal Psychology

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    This course focuses on historical perspectives, casual factors, and treatments for types of mental disorders in adults and children including stress, panic, anxiety, mood, and substance, eating, cognitive and personality disorders. Schizophrenia, mental retardation, autism, and behavioral disorders of childhood are also addressed. Theoretical systems relating to psychopathology including psychodynamic, social theories, cognitive as well as biological influences are explored.

    Prerequisites SIFT*111 or PSYC*201 or PSYC*202;

    Priority enrollment to Art Therapy concentration.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 303 Educational Psychology

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    An introduction to educational psychology for potential educators. The basic principles of learning theory and education are presented and critically examined. Using a psychosocial orientation, the developmental stages of the human life cycle are explored, as well as the needs of a variety of special populations, e.g., those with learning disabilities or physical disabilities. Considerable attention is given to increasing awareness and understanding of communication, group dynamics, and organizational behavior.

    Prerequisites PSYC*201 or PSYC*202;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • PSYC 401 Theories of Personality

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    400 level undergraduate course

    Introduces the study of personality and how patterns of behavior, interaction, perception, and response are understood by a broad variety of theorists. Questions of nature vs. nurture, whether the past impacts the present, and what defines mental health are discussed. Psychodynamic, cognitive, humanistic, and behavioral approaches are compared and contrasted.

    Prerequisites PSYC*201 or PSYC*202, and one additional from PSYC*203, PSYC*204, PSYC*300, PSYC*206, PSYC*302, PSYC*301, PSYC*303, or MMDI*353

    Priority enrollment to Art Therapy concentration.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • RELI 231 The Bible

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    The main themes of the Bible are explored from a modern, critical, nondenominational point of view. No knowledge of the Bible is assumed. Using historical and literary analysis, continuities as well as differences between the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are examined.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • RELI 232 World Religions

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    An exploration of world religious traditions originating in Africa, America, China, India, Japan, and the Middle East. Religions are studied in their historical and cultural context, including their development into various forms over the years and in different places, and their beliefs regarding the cosmos, society, the self, and good vs. evil.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • RELI 233 Comparative Religion: Asia

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    A study of the world’s Asian religions through their historical development, beliefs, sacred literature, and the works of contemporary writers. The course discusses Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, and Yin-Yang school of mysticism.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • RELI 234 Christianity

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    A study of the largest world religion - Christianity - through the examination of its sacred scriptures, historical evolution, beliefs, ritualistic and social practices, philosophy and mysticism. The course discusses various forms of the Christian religion, including the early Church, Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism, American Mormonism as well as more recent 20th century developments.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • RELI 235 Kabbalah: Intro to Jewish Mysticism

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    Jewish Mysticism and, more specifically, Kabbalah, has become a highly popularized term in recent years. The course will discuss the teachings of Kabbalah in their proper historical place within the general framework of Judaism, from Biblical times to the present. It will focus on in-depth analysis of Kabbalistic cosmology and explaining the roles of several main expounders of Jewish mysticism in the development and dissemination of Kabbalah throughout the ages.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • SCIE 201 Urban Wildlife

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    An examination of the ways in which humans and other animals interact in shared and contiguous environments based on semi-independent field studies carried out by students on selected species. After an introduction to common species and a short period of directed study, teams of students plan, carry out, and analyze one short-term (4-week) study of one species of their choice that inhabits urban Philadelphia.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • SCIE 202 Perception

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    The structure and function of the senses of vision, audition, olfaction, gustation, touch, temperature, kinesthesis, time, and the brain and nervous system are considered as they relate to perception.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • SCIE 203 Evolution in Modern Perspective

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    Evolution is the unifying theoretical foundation of all the life sciences. This course explores the mechanisms that produce evolution, and their meaning for our current knowledge in biology, conservation, medicine, agriculture, and related sciences. Students also consider the effect(s) that society’s awareness of evolution has had on social institutions such as law, literature, politics, and education.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • SCIE 204 Brain and Behavior

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course is an introduction to the organization of the brain and nervous system and to their interactions with other body systems that produce observable behavior. Topics include brain structure and function, neurological changes over the life cycle, and the effects of malfunctions. Students learn about specific brain structures and how they contribute to or produce specific behavioral characteristics. We explore the neurochemistry of drug addiction, degenerative diseases, and psycho-active drugs, as well as other current topics of interest.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • SCIE 205 Pseudoscience in Contemporary Society

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    The methods and issues of contemporary science. Explores how scientific information is used in society through an examination of scientific, near-scientific and pseudoscientific claims, including strange creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, miracle cures for diseases, and paranormal phenomena. The question of how funding might affect scientific research is also examined.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • SCIE 206 Beachcomber Ecology

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    In this course students explore major topics of marine and estuarine conservation with a focus on the mid-Atlantic coastal ecosystem. Students explore excerpts from contemporary scientific literature and review fundamental concepts relevant to the are of environmental conservation. Students will also learn how to frame questions that can be explored empirically in a short-term study. Students will spend one week conducting field-based research along the estuaries and Delaware Bay in Cape May County, NJ. The course culminates in an in class oral and written presentation and a daily posting of field-based research activities.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • SCIE 207 Technology, Culture and Society

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    This course explores the complex relationship among technology, cultural paradigms, and popular consciousness. We study and analyze such questions as: What is technology?; Does technology necessarily imply progress?; and How does technology define reality?; Students examine these and other related themes through readings and other media.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

    This course is equated with the following courses: LASM*951, SCIE*207
  
  • SIFT 101 Problem Solving

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    This course is one of the options in the Scientific Inquiry Foundation Track (SIFT). It serves as a foundation for future studies in the natural and social sciences, mathematics and life-long learning. Students will explore the basics of scientific method and research. They will learn how to frame questions that can be investigated empirically. The results of these “pilot studies” will be written up as papers and discussed in class presentations. The idea of intimate engagement will be introduced to enhanced the student’s ability to problem solve more efficiently.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 102 Human Adaptability

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    This course examines relationships between environmental resources, technology, and power in production systems ranging from hunter-gatherer to industrial. Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’ forms the core of the course with his discussion of the geographical context of domestication of plants and animals and how they might have ultimately affected the world distribution of power. Various ecosystems (deserts, grasslands, arctic, tropical and temperate forests, and high-altitude) will be considered along with their advantages and disadvantages for domestication and human adaptation. The scientific questions underlying these geographical and ecological investigations will be considered throughout the term.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 103 Life Science Concepts

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    This course introduces learners to issues of critical and contemporary significance in the life sciences. In this context, students will learn about the scientific method, experimental design, data analysis, ethical considerations and critical thinking, particularly in the framework of environment and human health. In addition, the course encourages research and dialogue regarding the role of society in these issues. Several key environmental issues are highlighted in the course, and students are encouraged to research additional topics in more detail through their assignments. Students will keep a journal of relevant articles in recent news as well as learn about aspects of biological sciences that impact their lives. The final two weeks of the course will be dedicated to student led presentations on these topics. Topics covered in the course include: a) historical and ethical perspectives of the environment, b) ecological principles, c) biodiversity and endangered species, d) renewable and nonrenewable environment resources, e) resource management and quality, f) environmental law, g) human health and toxicology, h) waste management, i) air and water pollution, j) and environmental sustainability.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 104 Death and Ritual

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    This course examines death with the tools of physical and cultural anthropology. Students will learn the scientific process of forensics and the utilization of evidence. They will also engage in analytical methods of examining cultural and social practices. The course will be project-based: In the realm of physical anthropology, projects will include analyses of mummified and other human remains, as well as funerary structures; in the cultural anthropological field, projects will focus on critical looks at beliefs about death, burial, reincarnation, eternal recurrence, and other socio-cultural phenomena.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 105 Observing Humans

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    The Scientific Inquiry Foundation Track (SIFT) serves as a foundation for future studies in the natural and social sciences and in mathematics and for life-long learning. Scholarship in these scientific disciplines have influenced our culture in significant ways - both directly as a result of ongoing research and indirectly as new scientific ideas and theories are developed and applied within the context of important issues and concerns in the larger society. This course presents several different social science frameworks and seeks to uncover what can be learned about human behavior by people watching. Students will choose places for brief weekly observation and use their own art skills to document what they see.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 106 Fundamentals of Mathematics

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    The Scientific Inquiry Foundation Track (SIFT) serves as a foundation for future studies in the natural and social sciences and in mathematics and for life-long learning. Scholarship in these scientific disciplines have influenced our culture in significant ways - both directly as a result of ongoing research and indirectly as new scientific ideas and theories are developed and applied within the context of important issues and concerns in the larger society. An introduction to the fundamental mathematical principles and operations used in undergraduate courses in the physical and social sciences. Topics include sets, logic, probability, statistics, number theory, algebra, and geometry. The course includes a module on scientific method which is common to all SIFT courses.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 107 Discovering America

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    Are most Americans middle class? Are college students an elite? Do most Americans believe in God? Are Democrats a majority? Are UArts students strange? The knowledge we have about society typically comes from generalized personal experience and/or media accounts, both of which often suffer from idiosyncrasy, ideological bias, or some other distortion. This course introduces the student to the scientific approach to knowledge by investigating society on several dimensions selected from the following: income, class, education, religion, occupation, political orientation, family structure, sexuality, crime and deviance, and social attitudes and beliefs on a variety of issues. The first half of the course focuses on the nature of science, social science, and sociology and its methods. The second half examines specific examples of sociological research and findings about American society to understand both what the facts are and how they are discovered and validated.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 108 Human Origins & Primates

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    An anthropological perspective on evolution, biology, ecology, and behavior of nonhuman primates from prosimians to great apes. Students are introduced to the principles of evolution and adaptive trends. The course focuses on the successful terrestrial species of Old World monkeys and the apes - the gibbon, orangutan, gorilla, and chimpanzee. Comparisons are made among nonhuman primates and our own species regarding diet, locomotion, tool use and manufacture, modes of communication, social behavior and social systems, motherhood and child care, aggression, ‘cultural’ behavior and recent trends in nonhuman primate behavior studies. Films are an important part of the course.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 109 Case Studies in Sociology

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    This course introduces the nature of scientific sociology by exploring case studies which demonstrate the process of how social-scientific knowledge is discovered and validated. A general examination of the nature of both science and sociology is followed by focusing on sociological research methods illustrated by case studies in various topics such as suicide, relationships, success, happiness, leadership, sexual behavior, and violence. The ability to analyze and draw conclusion from scientific data is emphasized throughout.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*109,LACR*229,LACR*229,LACR*229,SIFT*111,SIFT*101,LACR*221,SIFT*102,SIFT*103,SIFT*104,LACR*224,SIFT*105,SIFT*106,LACR*226,SIFT*107,LACR*227,SIFT*108,SIFT*109,LACR*229,LACR*229,LACR*229,LACR*229,LACR*22X,SIFT*110,LACR*220,LACR*221,LACR*222,LACR*223,LACR*224,LACR*225,LACR*226,LACR*227,LACR*228,LACR*229,LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 110 Visual Physics

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    This course provides a visually-based but rigorous investigation of a range of topics in physics, including mechanics, optics, acoustics, and relativity theory. It is a course specifically designed for art students, but is not a “physics for poets” course - that is, the course involves investigation and analysis, rather than simple discussion of physical concepts. The primary objective of the course is to present students with an understanding of both the methods of physics.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SIFT 111 Observing Children

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    Observing Children is a multidisciplinary social science class that is centered on fieldwork with children. Utilizing ethnographic methods, students will observe, record, and analyze children’s behavior and compare their observations to course readings. Classics in psychology, sociology, and anthropology shed light on the student’s chosen field site, whether it is a day center, museum, city stoop, or playground.

    Requires enrollment in an undergraduate degree program. Completion of FYWT*009 if required by English placement exam. Completion of FYWT 100 if required by English placement exam
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course is equated with the following courses: SIFT*111, SIFT*101, LACR*221, SIFT*102, SIFT*103, SIFT*104, LACR*224, SIFT*105, SIFT*106, LACR*226, SIFT*107, LACR*227, SIFT*108, SIFT*109, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*229, LACR*22X, SIFT*110, LACR*220, LACR*221, LACR*222, LACR*223, LACR*224, LACR*225, LACR*226, LACR*227, LACR*228, LACR*229, LACR*230
  
  • SOAC 101 Studio Practice

    College of Art, Media & Design School of Art

    3 credits 90.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    Studio Practice introduces students to concepts, processes and materials that form the basis of the visual arts, especially in those disciplines taught within the School of Art. Disciplines include Photography and the various concentrations in Crafts and Fine Arts. This course is a studio/seminar hybrid, conflating experiential, hands-on making with readings and research. The studio component consists of theme-based projects supportive of exploration in multiple mediums and formats. The semester capstone project emphasizes cross-disciplinary teamwork and collaboration. Designed for team teaching, the course consists of three faculty members, one from each program within the School of Art.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • SOAC 102 Discipline Fundamentals

    College of Art, Media & Design School of Art

    3 credits 90.0 hours
    100 level undergraduate course

    Discipline Fundamentals introduces students to the shared rudiments of studio and visual arts practice. Designed for team-teaching, this studio/seminar hybrid assumes a workshop format divided into three five-week units. The team of faculty (Crafts, Fine Arts and Photography) work together to identify opportunities for content overlap and project integration, as well as the development of a shared vocabulary. The individual five-week workshops offer students direct experience with disciplinary particulars and culture within the School of Art. Readings and site visits support the interdisciplinary dialogue central to the course design.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • SOAC 300 Junior Projects/Discourse I

    College of Art, Media & Design School of Art

    3 credits 90.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Junior Projects/Discourse I is proposed as a concept driven, studio/criticism course, addressing crossover issues within the unique domains of the disciplines in the School of Art. Through engagement with broadly relevant critical issues, students will cultivate an awareness of the common strategies present in the dynamics of individual studio practice. Emphasis is placed on the significant role that philosophy, art history and cultural studies play in the formation of contemporary idioms, and their subsequent influence on individual creative practice. Assignments combine studio practice with research and writing, readings, trips to galleries, studios and museums, lectures by visiting artists and critiques.

    Prerequisites Complete 1 course from within the College of Art, Media & Design.

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • SOAC 301 Junior Projects/Discourse II

    College of Art, Media & Design School of Art

    3 credits 90.0 hours
    300 level undergraduate course

    Junior Projects/Discourse II is proposed as a continuation of Junior Projects/Discourse I. Students further their exploration of materiality and image making, while examining the artist/craftsperson in a broader social, cultural and economic context. Emphasis is placed on the significant role that philosophy, art history and cultural studies play in the formation of contemporary idioms, and their subsequent influence on individual creative practice. Students continue to develop their emerging studio practice and unique perspectives, within a series of assignments augmented by research and writing, readings, trips to galleries, studios and museums, lectures by visiting artists and critiques. Professional and educational opportunities including employment, entrepreneurship, graduate study, internships, grants and residencies will be discussed.

    Prerequisites SOAC*300

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
  
  • SOCI 220 Individual & Society

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    An examination how the individual person is related to society, considering the ways in which society is a separate reality that regulates and even defines the personality and identity of the individual person. After covering some introductory material on culture, definitions of situations, social location, socialization, and deviance, a few sociological works are examined in depth that discuss such subjects as street gangs, ethnicity, social mobility, suicide, morality instincts, and the nature of the self. How the individual can be free in the context of the constraints of society is a major issue addressed within the course.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    Priority enrollment to Art Education majors, concentrations, and BFA/MAT students.
    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

  
  • SOCI 221 Modern Culture

    Division of Liberal Arts

    3 credits 45.0 hours
    200 level undergraduate course

    An examination of some of the ways in which contemporary society and culture, including the arts and media, are related. For example, which people choose which forms of culture for their use, why do they use them, what effects does the culture have on the people who use them, and what interest does society have in regulating which culture people have access to? The course considers the categories of high and popular culture, the natural of social and cultural hierarchy, the social values transmitted by popular culture and the media, and perspectives on censorship.

    Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;

    This course is not repeatable for credit.
    This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.

 

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