Cleveland Institute of Art 2018–19 Catalog 2 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 3 Table of Contents
4 Accreditation 5 Message from the President 6 About CIA 7 History 9 Section 1: 2018–19 Academic Calendar 13 Section 2: Overview: Curriculum 23 Section 3: Admissions + Financial Aid 31 Section 4: Financial Matters 35 Section 5: Academic Policies, Procedures, and Services 49 Section 6: Support Services 55 Section 7: Student Life 59 Section 8: Degree Requirements 77 Section 9: Course Catalog 149 Section 10: Faculty Listing 153 Section 11: Administration and Board of Directors
Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this Cleveland Institute of Art Catalog; however, the Catalog is not a contract but rather a guide for the convenience of students. The Cleveland Institute of Art reserves the right to change or withdraw courses; to change the fees, rules, and calendar for admission, registration, instruction and graduation; and to change any of its policies or other provisions listed in the Catalog at any time.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 3 Accreditation
Cleveland Institute of Art is an independent college of art and design committed to leadership and vision in all forms of visual arts education. Since 1882, we have been an educational cornerstone in Cleveland, Ohio, and have won widespread acclaim for the quality of our programs and achievements of our alumni. Students are encouraged to explore their vision and develop their skills through an interdisciplinary curriculum.
Accreditation Cleveland Institute of Art is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and the State of Ohio. CIA is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), a consortium of America’s specialized art and design colleges.
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4 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Message from the President
Dear Students:
You bring the artistic talent, the passion and the commitment to learning and growing. CIA provides accomplished faculty members, excellent facilities, well-designed courses, a whole menu of services, and good-sense policies designed to ensure that you receive the best possible education.
In this catalog you’ll learn about the resources that are here for you. Please read through it now and keep it as a reference. It is the product of countless hours of labor by many dedicated faculty and staff members whose focus is your success. Take time also to look through our website, at cia.edu, and learn even more about our people and our programs.
As you discover the richness CIA has to offer, I will appreciate the creative, innovative, courageous, and ambitious artists and designers that you are becoming.
Best,
Grafton J. Nunes President + CEO, Cleveland Institute of Art
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 5 About CIA
Institutional Statement The Cleveland Institute of Art strives to nurture the intellectual, artistic, and professional development of students and community members through rigorous visual arts and design education, and in so doing to advance culture, community, and global quality of life.
Our success is derived from a pursuit of excellence, the fostering of community, a holistic approach to education, a culture of accountability, and freedom of inquiry.
Vision To advance culture, community, and global quality of life.
Mission To nurture the intellectual, artistic, and professional development of students and community members through rigorous visual arts and design education.
Values Excellence: To pursue academic rigor and leadership.
Community: To foster internal and external collaboration, cooperation, and communication.
Holism: To offer a comprehensive personal academic experience.
Accountability: To follow best practices in the management of human, financial, and the earth’s resources.
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6 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog History
Cleveland Institute of Art continues to build on an internationally recognized heritage of excellence and innovation that dates back to 1882. That year the school was chartered as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women. The school’s original name reflects the forward-thinking views of founder Sarah Kimball, who opened her home for the first class meetings, attended by just one teacher and one student. Five years after its opening, there was already a young man attending. By 1891, the co-educational school was renamed the Cleveland School of Art and blossomed under the influence of a dedicated and talented faculty, whose prize- winning art and award-winning commercial designs are known collectively, even today, as the “Cleveland School.”
Over time the school’s success prompted changes in facilities—from Mrs. Kimball’s sitting room to the attic of the Cleveland City Hall Annex, to the Horace Kelley mansion on present-day E. 55th Street. In 1905 the Cleveland School of Art built a brick Italianate building in University Circle (razed as part of a 1960s site redevelopment), which boasted a grand exhibition gallery predating the Cleveland Museum of Art by a decade.
In 1946, the state of Ohio authorized the college to confer the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 1948 the college became officially known as the Cleveland Institute of Art, and in 1956, classes moved into a new building on East Boulevard, named for George Gund, who served as CIA Board President for 24 years.
The college purchased a former Ford Model T automobile assembly plant in 1981 and renovated it for classroom and studio space. The building, which had been added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, was named the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts (JMC), after CIA’s former president of 33 years. The JMC went through another renovation in 2010 and in late 2014, the college finished construction of a new George Gund Building, adjoined to the JMC, and a block away from CIA’s new Table of Contents Uptown Residence Hall.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 7 8 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Section 1: 2017–18 Academic Calendar
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 9 Fall 2018 August 20–24 In-person tuition payment/registration for Fall semester. 20–31 Course drop-add period. Schedule changes. 22 New student move-in. 23–25 New student orientation. 27 Fall semester begins. 27–31 Late registration: $350 late fee assessed.
September 3 Labor Day. College holiday. No classes. Buildings closed. 21 Course proposals for new courses due to Curriculum Committee. 21 Spring 2017 incomplete grade revisions due to Registrar’s Office.
October 16 Major Application Presentations for first-year students. 19 Mid-term grades due. 19–23 CWRU dining halls closed after lunch Fri Oct 21. Reopen for dinner Tue Oct 23.
November 2 Last day to withdraw from a course, Fall 2018. 5–9 Advising for Spring 2019 course prescheduling 12 Online scheduling opens to seniors for Spring 2019 course prescheduling. 17 Contingency make-up day for school closings. TENTATIVE 21 No classes. Offices open. 22–23 Thanksgiving recess. College holiday. No classes. Buildings closed.
December 3–7 Liberal Arts exams/mid-year crits for BFA candidates. Schedule to be determined. 10–14 Final studio critiques. 14 Final grades for weekday classes due by 5pm in Registrar’s Office. 15 Fall semester ends. Residence hall closes. Holiday recess begins. 22–Jan 1 Winter Break. Buildings closed.
10 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Spring 2019 January 7–11 In-person tuition payment/registration for Spring semester. 7–18 Course drop-add period. Schedule changes. 13 Returning students move into residence hall. 14 Spring semester begins. 14–18 Late registration: $350 late fee assessed. 21 Martin Luther King Day. College holiday. Buildings closed.
February 8 Fall 2018 incomplete grade revisions due to Registrar’s Office. 8 Proposals for new courses due to Curriculum Committee .
March 8 Mid-term grades due. 9 Residence hall closes for spring break. 11–15 Spring recess. No classes. Offices open. 17 Residence hall opens at noon. 18–22 Portfolio Review Week for Major Application. 23 Contingency make-up day for school closings. 29 Last day to withdraw from a course, Spring 2019.
April 1–5 Advising for Fall 2019 course prescheduling. 6 Contingency make-up day for school closings. 8 Online scheduling opens to seniors for fall 2018 course prescheduling. TBD Contingency make-up day for school closings. 26 Last day of regular classes, studio and liberal arts. 29–May 3 Academic Exam/Studio Critique Week. Schedule to be determined.
May 6–10 BFA Reviews + Exhibitions. 11 Spring semester ends. Residence hall closes for summer. 11 Final grades for graduating students due. 16 Commencement rehearsal. 17 Commencement, time/location to be announced. 17 Final grades for all students due. 20 Final studio clean out. 27 Memorial Day. College holiday. Buildings closed.
July 4 Independence Day. College holiday. Buildings closed.
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12 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Section 2: Overview: Curriculum
Cores + Connections: The Academic Mission
Bird’s-Eye View of the Curriculum
Engaged Practice
Foundation Studio
Liberal Arts Studies
Professional Practices
Major Programs
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 13 I. The Academic Mission II. Bird’s Eye View of III. Engaged Practice What sets the Cleveland Institute of Art the Curriculum What may best set CIA apart from other apart from other colleges is our academic The BFA Degree art schools across the country is its mission, in which core values, faculty, The Cleveland Institute of Art grants the commitment to Engaged Practice (EP). curriculum and other learning resources Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree. A BFA Engaged Practice is an area of study in all power extensive connections for degree is the standard undergraduate which students have an opportunity to learn students to enter into professionally degree for students seeking a professional through experience by working on real engaged practices in the real world— education in art. The BFA degree differs projects with external partners or clients, or and in so doing, develop skills and from a Bachelor of Arts degree in that a in the public sphere—all before graduation. personal attributes such as collaboration, much higher proportion of the program These EP experiences may be through communication, and professionalism consists of a practical studio component. courses, internships, and/or through a well in advance of graduation. project which you initiate yourself, with your 15 Majors faculty, such as through your BFA thesis in Strengthen your core In its BFA degree program, CIA further your senior year. The word “core” comes from the Latin word distinguishes itself by offering 15 majors in for “heart.” In the heart of your academic craft, design, integrated media, and visual CIA has a long history of Engaged Practices program at CIA, you will develop your core art. If you’re interested in teaching, we also in art and design, in mutual collaboration strengths through: offer a master’s degree program in Art with our vast network of partners in the nn mentorship from world-class faculty Education, in partnership with our neighbor, real world—at last count, well over 600! nn cutting-edge curriculum Case Western Reserve University. Our faculty have developed most of these nn academic and studio rigor partnerships over many years of their own nn abundant access to extensive General Education or Core professional activity in both the creative state-of-the-art facilities Curriculum economy and in the business, nonprofit, Central to the mission of any college or and government sectors. Connect to the real world university, and true here at CIA, a general Made possible by CIA’s tremendous education or core curriculum provides a set These opportunities to put your classroom network of professional connections and of courses required of all undergraduate and studio knowledge and skills to work in educational partnerships, you will put your students, reflecting the standards and the real world are where the rubber meets core strengths to work through externally expectations for the professional BFA the road. That is, it is through these engaged practices in art and design, degree. At CIA, this includes: engaged experiences that students can including: nn Foundation program most effectively develop and practice what nn hands-on learning beyond the nn Liberal Arts studies are now commonly called 21st century classroom nn Professional Practices “Super Skills”—creativity, critical thinking, nn professional projects with real-world nn Engaged Practice in art and design collaboration, and communication—skills partners nn BFA thesis exhibition that are in high demand if you want to be nn collaborating on creative solutions to effective in your career and make a real community needs The courses offered across these five core meaningful difference in this new millennium. nn contributing your artistic voice to the areas are decidedly not a hoop to jump public sphere through before getting to your major or In fact, CIA believes these skills are so your degree. On the contrary, this suite critical to your success in building better Build a better future— of common course requirements not only futures—for yourself and for the world— for yourself and for the world helps you prepare for and deepen your we have distinguished ourselves from other This unparalleled combination of core understanding of your major discipline, but art and design programs across the country strengths and connections to real-world also develop professional writing skills, by committing the resources for an engaged practice best prepares you for the oral communications, interpersonal skills, Engaged Practice graduation requirement 21st century skills you’ll need to make a real leadership capacity, cultural awareness across all academic departments. difference—creativity, critical thinking, and understanding, and empathy—skills collaboration and communication. and attributes that we know are going For more information on both the Engaged to be critical to your ability to build a Practice graduation requirement and on successful future in the 21st century and where to find EP course descriptions, refer participate with a creative, critical voice in to Section 8: Degree Requirements, p. 60. an increasingly complex world.
14 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog IV. Foundation Program Share in a collective setting V. Liberal Arts Studies Newly admitted students begin in our Be prepared for lively debates and the At the Cleveland Institute of Art, we cultivate Foundation program, a year-long camaraderie that develops as you and the intellectual development of our students introduction to forms, methods, media, and your peers work together in studio. as they move through each of their degree concepts crucial to your future academic We balance fundamental approaches with programs. In order to create, you need not and professional success. The program is experimentation to develop your aesthetic only art and design skills, but also the ideas designed to put you on technically equal sensibilities. The Foundation experience behind them. So, woven throughout each footing with your peers—ready to fosters a learning environment that is semester at CIA are courses in the concentrate on the study and practice of responsive to your aspirations, as well as to humanities and social sciences—art history, art and design. innovations in the world of art and design. English, philosophy, anthropology, and For example, our unique Charette courses, psychology. Laying the groundwork for which focus on the themes Self + Other your future Voices and Community + Collaboration, Liberal Arts course offerings are distributed Our Foundation curriculum offers an not only help distinguish CIA from other art across four subject areas: intensive exploration of color, form, design, schools across the country, but they begin nn Art/Craft/Design History + Theory and creative problem solving. You will to prepare you for professionally engaged nn Humanities + Cultural Studies begin with core courses in drawing, design, practice in art and design in the “real world.” nn Literature, Language + Composition color, and digital studies that acquaint you nn Science + Natural Studies with composition, drawing principles, and As part of all of these experiences 2D, 3D and 4D materials and processes. throughout your Foundation year, you The Three C’s: As you work on studio projects, you will will become immersed in the country’s Culture, Creativity, Connection investigate visual dynamics, creative richest concentration of arts, cultural and A singular feature of the college’s Liberal processes, and issues that inform educational resources in University Circle. Arts curriculum is our approach to studying contemporary art, design and culture. Our classes regularly explore the permanent a subject by connecting it to other collections of the Cleveland Museum of disciplines in our program. For example, in To help you transition from Foundation Art, the exhibits of the Cleveland Museum your Foundation year at CIA, you may read studies into our majors, you also will take of Natural History, or the rainforest of the about ancient and medieval philosophy and an elective class. The elective courses Cleveland Botanical Garden. With Case culture in English class while taking Ancient offers an opportunity to explore various Western Reserve University, University and Medieval History of Art. This carefully disciplines in the art, craft, design and Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic located curated educational experience creates a integrated media areas while helping you a quick walk along Euclid Avenue we tap comprehensive perspective on a subject make an informed choice about your major into unmatched science and healthcare that will give you a broad sense of the and future career path. resources that boost our curriculum, trajectory of world history itself. including the Sears think[box] at CWRU, At CIA, all students must apply to and the largest university-based maker space Our Liberal Arts curriculum is designed to be accepted into one of our major areas and innovation center in the world. develop your understanding of world of study before they can proceed to the cultures—both past and present—and to second year of enrollment. This competitive For a complete listing of Foundation year discover the importance of these ideas application process occurs in the spring course requirements, see Section 8: Degree to the growth of your artistic life. semester of your Foundation year. Requirements, page 60. Throughout the fall semester, advisors and Coursework centers on the ideas of culture faculty will offer a series of workshops about For a complete listing of Foundation course as a generator of creative ideas and of the major application process, guidance descriptions, please see Section 9: Course students as makers within their cultures. to help you develop your portfolio, and Catalog, beginning on page 79. At CIA you will graduate with a breadth of information about CIA’s majors and various knowledge that is the hallmark of the career paths. For more information about baccalaureate degree. the Major Application Process, see Section 8: Degree Requirements, page 45.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 15 Foster the expression of ideas VI. Professional Practices VII. Major Programs Research, reading and composition are All students also take a course in What follows is an overview of each of CIA’s crucial to the development of your artistic Professional Practices, which provides an 15 major programs, organized alphabetically. ideas. By completing rigorous assignments overview of the environment surrounding in analytical essays and research papers, the business of art and design, and the For a complete listing of degree you will become a stronger writer, able to practice of the individual. A core lecture requirements by major, see Section 8: convey your point of view in tandem with series covers self-promotion, networking, Degree Requirements, beginning on page understanding diverse perspectives. For ethics, intellectual property, contracts, 60. For a complete listing of course those who excel in these areas, you may professional development. descriptions for each major and learning choose to add concentrated Liberal Arts cluster, please see Section 9: Course coursework to your studies. Complete a Students select among three specialized Catalog, beginning on page 79. Visual Culture Emphasis to enjoy extensive courses, based upon their career goals. training in art history, theory, and criticism. For complete course descriptions, please Or opt for a Creative Writing Concentration see Section 9: Course Catalog, Professional if you want a career advantage in fields like Practices + Engaged Learning (PPEL), on illustration or film (or if you just love to write). page 143.
For information on Liberal Arts course For more information on when the course requirements, the Visual Culture Emphasis, is required to be taken, please refer to and the Creative Writing Concentration, refer the degree audit sheets for your major, to Section 8: Degree Requirements, page available through the Registrar’s Office. 60. For a complete listing of Liberal Arts course descriptions, please see Section 9: Course Catalog, beginning on page 79, and search alphabetically for the four subject headings listed on the previous page, or follow the selectable Liberal Arts studies links throughout this catalog.
16 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Animation Biomedical Art Ceramics Animation is a medium that breathes life One of only a few undergraduate degrees of In the Ceramics program at CIA we build on into concept through movement. As an its kind in the United States, our Biomedical the long-standing tradition of ceramic art by Animation student you’ll discover how the Art program combines applied art, science, teaching both the art and science of its two dialogue of an otherwise stagnant image or and technology to create visual education major traditions: works of sculpture and object changes and evolves when put to materials on scientific and medical topics. works of utility. We expose students to the motion. rich history and contemporary potential of Merging tradition with ceramics as a vehicle for expression of Study the craft of storytelling new technology personal ideas and concepts. As a student in our program, you will create Based on the traditional field of scientific narrative and experimental animation that and medical illustration, our curriculum Develop a wide range of techniques bring both characters and environments to incorporates leading-edge digital media As a Ceramics major you will study all life. Our integrated curriculum focuses on techniques, interactivity, and animation. aspects of ceramic work, including sequential narrative storytelling, conceptual As a Biomedical Art major, we blend your traditional techniques such as hand building development, storyboarding, methods of artistic talent with knowledge of natural and pottery wheel throwing, clay and glaze animation, framing and staging, animatics, science, a biomedical intellect, and strong making, glazing techniques, and loading layers, and motion studies. You will work visual communication skills. You will learn and firing gas, electric, and wood-fired kilns. with innovative production technologies in: about illustration, information design, You will expand your conceptual ideas with nn 2D and 3D digital media and animation; 3D modeling, and animation through the use of 3D modeling, industrial mold- nn film; video production; conventional and digital methods. With a making techniques, and ideation. nn and stop-motion animation. flexible course of study, you can take courses in: Be part of a community To enhance your skills in character nn Computer imaging and animation The Ceramics department offers an development and set design, you will study nn Editorial illustration interactive, open studio environment in the development of: nn Instructional design and multimedia which we encourage collaboration and nn personality in motion; nn Medical sculpture communication among students, peers and nn lighting of small-scale digital nn Surgical and natural science professors. Our curriculum extends to the environments; entire Craft + Design faculty, who are all nn sound related to motion and sync; Benefit from a wealth of resources practicing, professional artists. nn and the broad scope of tactile sculpture Our dedicated, highly trained faculty is one media. of our greatest assets. Each instructor in the We stress conceptualization, technology, Biomedical Art major is a Board Certified entrepreneurship, and career development In addition, we emphasize presentation Medical Illustrator—which requires a written throughout the Ceramics and Craft + and public speaking skills, which help exam and practicum as well as continued Design programs. prepare you for pitching your ideas and education in current biomedical, business, directing a team. and artistic practices. In addition to their expertise, our faculty have established great connections with the region’s extraordinary medical, scientific, and cultural communities. Our professional partnerships with Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and the Cleveland Clinic, as well as the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Cleveland Botanical Garden will provide you with amazing exhibition opportunities and medical illustration projects.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 17 Drawing Game Design Glass As a Drawing major, you will explore As a major in our Game Design program, During the past half century, the studio traditional and unconventional materials, you will acquire skills in 3D modeling, glass movement of the 1960s has bridged tools, and techniques to define your animation, programming, visual design, the gap between individual artists and aesthetic identity as well as challenge your interactive storytelling, audio and game craftsmen creating handmade functional artistic vision and resourcefulness. production. In addition, your coursework glass objects to making one-of-a-kind will examine theory and context of video sculptures. This melding of personal An integrated visual arts curriculum game culture and digital media. expression with the business of being a As part of the Visual Arts (VA) community, working artist has led to the exponential our program in Drawing provides students Prepare for an exciting career growth in private, artist-owned studios, with a broad education in the visual arts Our curriculum emphasizes presentation community studios, and glass programs in while strengthening their conceptual skills such as writing, storyboarding, motion, universities including our BFA degree knowledge of the drawing discipline. and directing—all essential for a successful program at CIA. job in game design. You also will perform Through this integrated curriculum, you will game-specific and player-focused research Train in advanced glass techniques be introduced to historical and cultural and study special effects. As a student in the Glass department, you frameworks of drawing, the individual studio will train in four main methodologies: practice of drawing, style and aesthetics, As a Game Design major, you will: nn Working hot glass which comprises and the idea of communication through nn Improve your character development glass blowing and off-hand, molten drawing. You will master a visual vocabulary abilities glass processes and learn to draw from observation, nn Master the use of rule design, play nn Working cold glass including cutting, ideation, and experimental processes. mechanics, and social game interaction fabricating, grinding, sandblasting, nn Integrate visual, audio, tactile, and engraving, polishing, gluing and the Supportive, collaborative environment textual elements into a total game incorporation of other materials and Our Drawing faculty use a multi-disciplinary experience component approach to teaching, pulling from other nn Create both linear and non-linear media nn Working glass in a kiln environment visual art fields, such as printmaking, by applying post-production techniques which includes casting, slumping, painting, sculpture and time-based work. fusing, silkscreening, and powder Additionally, students will attend lectures by Additionally, you will learn how to create drawing and work individually with artists visiting 3D modeling digital visualizations that nn Working glass in the flame shop, which campus throughout the year. use organic and inorganic modeling, comprises using a torch to manipulate construction of compound objects, 3D glass rods and tubing In addition, you will be tutored in creating a primitive construction and modeling, and professional portfolio, developing grant- resolution and tessellation of 3D objects After you survey the basic methods during writing skills, and proper etiquette for and formats. your introductory classes, you will explore successfully approaching dealers, curators, various techniques and concepts before and collectors. You also will gain an A team-oriented culture performing your own independent study understanding of how to set up your own Collaboration is a vital aspect of the studio and research individually tailored to your professional studio in our professional experience at CIA. As a Game Design major, developing voice, You will do all of this practices program. you will be part of our digital arts community under the guidance of our devoted Glass and take courses with students from other faculty, whose commitment to the art form Each spring, you will have an opportunity majors. This ongoing exchange between has earned them international recognition to visit professional galleries and exhibitions students with differing perspectives and as leading contributors to the medium. in New York City, such as the Whitney techniques helps build team skills integral to Biennial and The Armory Show. brainstorming, character design, narrative ideas, production, and presenting and critiquing project outcomes.
Moreover, you will be mentored by our extremely talented faculty. Accomplished experts in digital media and game design, they will help you build connections and network with other professionals in the field.
18 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Graphic Design Illustration Industrial Design As our methods of communication become Entertain, enlighten and inspire Our Industrial Design program consistently increasingly mobile, we rely more and more As an Illustration major, you will experience ranks as one of the top programs in the on design to communicate in creative and an intensive exploration of figurative and country. In fact, we are known for producing engaging ways. Our Graphic Design object-based drawing from both graduates who work at the top of their field, curriculum incorporates the dramatic observation and imagination, using both solving real-world problems and becoming changes that are transforming the graphic analog and digital approaches. In addition successful entrepreneurs. Our alumni design industry and the increasing to learning the history of illustration, we design consumer electronics, apparel, importance of clear visual communication. challenge you to master your critical and housewares, furniture, toys, automobiles, conceptual thinking, research, problem- medical devices and many other products. Examine a wide array of solving, and presentation skills, all of which Many of these designers become leaders design processes will help you to discover your personal within their organizations, helping to As a Graphic Design major, you will explore vision and sense of storytelling. develop cutting-edge products and both innovative and traditional methods of strategies, while managing teams that graphic design—including typography, Industry professionals will guide you transform the way people work and interact. print and web design, package design, and through market-based projects that are as You use products designed by our signage. You will be introduced to forms, engaging as they are varied: picture books, graduates every day. methods, conventional and experimental graphic novels, greeting cards, licensing, types of media, and concepts crucial to editorial and advertising– along with blue Build a foundation for a lifelong career creative development, self. expression, and sky concept art, visual development and Our rigorous curriculum centers on effective visual communication. character design for entertainment such as research, conceptualization, and refinement, animated feature film, TV and video games. with a focus on critical thinking and applied While we rely on the latest technology to innovation. This approach provides you with build technical skills, our coursework allows By the time you are ready to graduate, you a strong understanding of the creative you to explore and grow beyond these will be versed in the markets and business process, market forces, manufacturing, technologies. Your study will include: of illustration and positioned to become sustainability, and business practices. As an nn Editorial and publication design contributors and leaders in the industry. Not Industrial Design major, you will develop nn Event and exhibition design only will you be able to help bring a client’s skills in visual communication, form nn Interactive and motion graphics vision to life, but as creative entrepreneurs, development and presentation, as well as nn Print, marketing and advertising design you will be prepared to research, invent and strengthen your knowledge of ergonomics, nn Production techniques pitch your own stories and intellectual manufacturing, and marketing. You also will properties to the marketplace. study drawing, modeling, and computer- aided design, which are critical to developing and communicating ideas. Our goal is to balance your growth in fundamental knowledge and skills with your individual areas of interest.
Gain real-world experience in the classroom Collaboration is an integral part of our program, and our faculty use solution- driven methods to teach broad design concepts and problems, and learn how to critically evaluate and refine solutions. You will work with students from other colleges, and other CIA programs, and with professionals from international companies, who will expose you to real-world challenges. Each spring, you will participate in CIA’s annual Spring Design Show. This exhibition of student work will allow you to refine your presentation skills, gain first-hand exposure to industry practices, and network with professional designers.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 19 Interior Architecture Jewelry + Metals Painting Our Interior Architecture program As a Jewelry + Metals major, you will study Our department of Painting has a long emphasizes commercial, retail, architectural, and build a thorough understanding of and illustrious history of producing and spatial design. As a student, you will contemporary jewelry, metal work, and successful artists. As a Painting major, study design processes, sensitivity and design to develop the knowledge, skills, you will acquire a broad knowledge of knowledge of material specification, and and character to become a successful artist the visual arts and in-depth knowledge of ethical problem solving. You also will learn and designer. painting as a studio practice. presentation skills, including traditional rendering, computer-aided design (CAD), Innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum Prepare for life as a professional artist and 3D modeling. The Jewelry + Metals coursework begins At the core of our coursework is an with the fundamentals, techniques, and understanding of what it takes to be a A real-world classroom materials for jewelry and object making. professional artist. With this goal in mind, Partnering with regional design firms is one The curriculum offers an exceptional we provide our students with a solid of our program’s greatest strengths. These breadth of opportunities to learn about foundation in technical and problem- relationships provide Interior Architecture materials, design, and technologies: solving skills, art criticism and theory, and majors with exciting assignments, such as nn Computer-aided design (CAD) contemporary practices in the visual arts. designing trade shows, restaurants, health nn 3D modeling and 3D printing care centers, auto dealerships, and nn Electroforming and plating As a Painting major, you will experience a museum, exhibition and showroom spaces. nn Forming and fabrication wide range of approaches from abstract nn Lost-wax casting and figural painting to alternative media and Additionally, you will participate in materials nn Precious metals installation. Your work will be guided by our workshops offered by leading furniture and nn Stone setting faculty of professional artists through materials manufacturers. Each spring, you nn Material studies + mixed media individual and group studio critiques, will participate in CIA’s annual Spring nn Traditional machining tools workshops, seminars, and special topics Design Show. This exhibition of student courses. In addition, a series of special work will allow you to refine presentation And you will study contemporary attitudes events such as exhibitions, artist visits, and skills, gain first-hand exposure to industry towards jewelry, the history of the field, scholar programs will present you with the practices, and network with professional wearables, and objects of material cultural, issues, challenges, and practices you can designers. You will gain a perspective of the as well as the artists, designers, industries, expect to face during your professional life. industry through lectures and symposia by and their exemplary work. award-winning designers, visits to top You will be tutored in creating a professional design firms in the region, and internships. Practice makes successful artists portfolio, developing grant-writing skills, and To grow as an artist, you will develop new proper etiquette for successfully These experiential learning opportunities will skills, increase your knowledge, and approaching dealers, curators, and strengthen your communication skills, broaden your experiences. Jewelry + collectors. You will learn how to set up your demonstrate industry expectations, and Metals majors accomplish these goals own professional studio in our Professional improve your understanding of designer- through a range of experiences that include Practices program. client relations. They also create a learning studio and research assignments, atmosphere of collaboration, innovation, presentations, exhibitions, interactions with Work in an exciting, collaborative and community. visiting artists, and field trips. Throughout atmosphere each year, majors are encouraged to submit As part of the Visual Arts community, you work to exhibitions and competitions will share in an integrated curriculum including the CIA Student Independent studying other disciplines within the Exhibition, the CIA Spring Show, Society of community. North American Goldsmiths competitions (SNAG), and many others. Each spring, you have the opportunity to visit professional galleries and exhibitions in New York City, such as the Whitney Biennial and The Armory Show.
20 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Printmaking Photography + Video Sculpture + Expanded Media Printmaking is an approach to image CIA offers a unique program for the In Sculpture + Expanded Media, students making that embraces, utilizes, and Photography major to pursue focused explore how to use object-making, challenges technology from traditional studies with a concentration in Video or installation, time-based tools, performance, approaches of printing to online distribution Photographic arts. This program coursework and digital technologies to create innovative of digital products. As a print student you is designed to provide a rich and varied new works. Conceptual development is can push and explore with your drawing, knowledge of techniques and aesthetics combined with hands-on exploration of photographic, and mark-making skills. essential to photography, video and digital materials, fabrication techniques, and You’ll develop a broad base of knowledge cinema through lectures and demonstration, emerging practices in order to support of various print mediums, including relief, assignments, critiques, and group or students to produce work relevant to their intaglio, lithography, screen printing, as well one-on-one discussion with instructors and personal vision. as contemporary digital approaches. visiting artists. Courses in the department are a blend Develop essential skills for Develop a range of photographic of theory and practice. Students are the workplace and video skills encouraged to develop approaches to Within Printmaking, you’ll have access to Photography majors work with an array of making work that are transdisciplinary and etching and lithography presses, as well as photographic and video imaging tools and explore how to work with audiences and book arts, letterpress, and screenprint equipment that includes digital and film communities. In the curriculum, students facilities. As you grow in the major, so too cameras for both still and moving imagery, are encouraged to explore the creative will your ability to produce distinct enlargers and darkroom equipment, optical potential of material, space, interactive impressions and multiples, from hand- scanners, archival and large-format inkjet and time-based forms. Students will printed limited editions to unlimited digital printers, professional studio and lighting explore both traditional, appropriated and prints. Through our studio courses you’ll gear. Courses engage the student in all experimental processes to making art. develop a comprehensive approach to phases of the photographic workflow from understanding, defining, making, and image capture, lighting and editing, to In the program, students will develop a questioning your practice of printmaking. image processing, enhancement, set of constructive and technical skills by You’ll work with a committed group of manipulation, and use of special effects and working in such areas as wood, textile and faculty who are practicing artists widely alternative photo imaging processes. metal fabrication, mold-making, assembling, respected for their knowledge and Crucial too is the student’s exploration of sewing and construction. Students are achievements, including a master printer. media for image output, presentation encouraged to further explore content in They will work with you to hone your skills options and professional standards for time-based art, installation, hybrid media, and define your personal direction. You will photographic and digital media archiving. 3D modeling, and other forms. be supported in creating a professional portfolio, developing grant-writing skills, A supportive, interactive environment Students are encouraged to develop and proper etiquette for successfully As a Photography + Video major, you’ll learn technical skill, concept development, an approaching dealers, curators and to develop a distinct vision, to communicate understanding of emerging forms and collectors. In addition, you will gain an effectively, while immersed in a creative, genres, and to explore contemporary ideas understanding of how to set up a collaborative surrounding. Students benefit and forms in order to develop a practice professional studio in our Professional from the expertise of a diverse, professional, that integrates past forms with the vision Practices program. and committed faculty. Coursework of the future. designed to expand intellectual discovery, Enjoy a synergistic atmosphere creative practice, and technical proficiency On the annual visual arts trip to New York Printmaking majors share in an integrated provides invaluable tools for a professional City, you’ll experience first-hand curriculum that provides a broad knowledge career engaged in the photographic arts. professional galleries and exhibitions in the visual arts while strengthening such as the Whitney Biennial and in-depth conceptual knowledge of the Photography majors are encouraged to The Armory Show. Printmaking discipline. You’ll have participate in exchange programs, opportunities to travel to professional international mobility studies, and pursue conferences and Cleveland’s rich network internships in both fine arts and commercial of printmaking artist studios. On the annual venues such as photographic studios, visual arts trip to New York City, you’ll museums and galleries, video production experience first-hand professional galleries and digital filmmaking industries. We invite and exhibitions such as the Whitney professional artists, critics, writers, Biennial and The Armory Show. collectors, curators, and museum and gallery directors to meet with students and critique portfolios.
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22 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Section 3: Admissions + Financial Aid
The Cleveland Institute of Art offers 15 majors, your own dedicated studio space, and direct access to your professors through a 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio. We bring in artists and exhibitions from around the world and connect you with local and national businesses. And you’ll live, work, and learn in University Circle, an internationally recognized cultural hub.
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 23 First-time freshmen International Students Admissions Application Process CIA is especially pleased to receive 1. Complete the application. You may applications from international students apply online (preferred), or fill out an as we believe you contribute greatly to the First-time freshmen students application form and mail it to our school community. We admit first-time (candidates with no prior Admissions office. college experience) freshmen into degree- As an international student, we recognize seeking status in the fall semester only. 2. Attach the $40 application fee. your concerns about adjusting to cultural, Payable online, or make checks or social, and environmental changes. We strongly encourage you to follow money orders payable to the Therefore, our Office of Student Affairs and application deadlines to ensure admission Cleveland Institute of Art. International Programs staff will help you to CIA and eligibility for the highest amounts adapt to life at CIA and serve as a hub of of merit scholarships and institutional 3. Complete a personal statement, helpful information for you. financial aid. However, you may submit an in which you describe your purpose for application for admission any time before attending a college of art and design, If your native language is not English, the first day of classes on a “rolling basis” what led you to this decision, and why you must demonstrate proof of English and will be considered, provided space is you have chosen to apply to CIA. You language proficiency in addition to available. may either fill out the personal statement satisfying all admissions requirements. prompt outlined in the application form As an international student, you also are As a first-time Foundation candidate, you or include a typed statement. If you send required to submit an International Student will be considered automatically for merit- a typed statement, please sign the Supplemental form and a Certification of based scholarships as long as all of your bottom of the personal statement form Finances form with your application. application materials have been submitted in the application. by March 1. 4. Arrange to have your high school/ Your application should include: college transcript(s) sent to the nn $40 application fee Office of Admissions. nn Personal statement outlining your reason for applying 5. Forward a letter of recommendation nn Official high school/college transcripts to CIA. If you are a high school student, nn Letter of recommendation, preferably we suggest this letter be from an art from an art teacher or counselor teacher. We will also accept this letter nn Official SAT or ACT test scores from a counselor or someone who nn Portfolio of artwork understands your desire to pursue an art education.
6. Request that SAT or ACT test results be sent to CIA. Our identification numbers are SAT-1152 and ACT-3243.
7. Submit your portfolio of artwork. Work can be submitted online or on disc; your CIA admissions counselor will provide details about submitting online. Your portfolio should consist of no fewer than 12 and no more than 20 pieces of work. Please carefully follow our portfolio guidelines, found at: cia.edu/portfolio.
8. Send all application materials to: Office of Admissions Cleveland Institute of Art 11610 Euclid Avenue Cleveland OH 44106
24 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog International student application Transfer Students 2. If you are an international transfer process Students who have attended accredited student and English is not your native International students should adhere to the two- and four-year colleges or universities, language, you must demonstrate same admission procedures, deadlines, and post-secondary professional schools proof of English language proficiency and portfolio guidelines as first-year are encouraged to apply as transfer with one of the following: freshmen or transfer applicants. students. Transfer students applying nn TOEFL (Test of English as a International applicants also must adhere for the fall semester will be reviewed for Foreign Language) score of at least: to the additional guidelines below: scholarships beginning May 1 and will 550 PBT (paper-based test), be considered as long as their complete 213 CBT (computer-based test), or 1. Download and complete an applications are received by June 15. 79 IBT (Internet-based test) International Student Supplemental Students intending to transfer in the spring nn IELTS (International English Language Application form. semester will be reviewed for scholarships Testing System ) band score of 6.0 beginning November 15 and will be or higher 2. Download and complete a considered until January 1. nn SAT or ACT test scores Certification of Finances form. nn Completion of Level 112 ESL Your application should include: coursework 3. If English is not your native language, nn $40 application fee demonstrate proof of English nn Personal statement outlining your *International students with TOEFL scores language proficiency with one of reason for applying lower than those listed above may be the following: nn Official high school/college transcripts admitted conditionally, and will be required nn TOEFL (Test of English as a nn Letter of recommendation, preferably to take additional ESL coursework or Foreign Language) score of at least: from an art teacher or counselor tutoring in order to improve their English 550 PBT (paper-based test), nn Official SAT or ACT test scores skills during their time at CIA. Conditions 213 CBT (computer-based test), or nn Portfolio of artwork for admission of these students will be 79 IBT (Internet-based test) made on a case-by-case basis. nn IELTS (International English Language Transfer Student Application Process 3. One letter of recommendation. Testing System ) band score of 6.0 Transfer candidates are accepted at The letter preferably should come from or higher CIA based upon artistic and academic a faculty member or counselor who nn SAT or ACT test scores qualifications as well as available space. knows your artistic and academic work nn Completion of Level 112 ESL Transfer applicants also should adhere to well and understands your desire to coursework the additional guidelines below: become a working artist.
*International students with TOEFL scores 1. Submit official transcripts from all 4. Submit your portfolio. In addition to lower than those listed above may be colleges, universities, and post- our portfolio guidelines, please make admitted conditionally, and will be required secondary schools attended. sure to provide the specific elements to take additional ESL coursework or nn If you have completed fewer than 24 required of transfer students, found at: tutoring in order to improve their English college credits, you will also need to cia.edu/portfolio. skills during their time at CIA. Conditions for submit official high school transcripts. admission of these students will be made on nn If you have completed more than 24 5. Send all application materials to: a case by case basis. hours or attended a regionally Office of Admissions accredited college or university full time Cleveland Institute of Art 4. Send all application materials to: for a year, you do not need to send your 11610 Euclid Avenue Office of Admissions high school transcripts. Cleveland OH 44106 Cleveland Institute of Art nn If you have completed fewer than 12 11610 Euclid Avenue college credits, please also request your Cleveland OH 44106 SAT or ACT test results are sent to CIA. Our identification numbers are SAT-1152 If you have any questions about our and ACT-3243. application process, please contact our Office of Admissions.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 25 U.S. Veterans Special Admissions Students Pre-College Program The Cleveland Institute of Art encourages At CIA, we recognize that you may have CIA’s annual summer Pre-College Program U.S. veterans to apply. unique circumstances, and we are open is open to all students who will be entering to exploring your options as a potential their sophomore, junior, or senior year of Yellow Ribbon program candidate. Depending on qualifications, high school. These two 2-week long We are participants in the Yellow Ribbon such as an aptitude for art, we will accept residential programs are designed to reflect GI Education Enhancement Program applications from: the life of an art student attending a college (Yellow Ribbon Program) and are fully nn Home-schooled students of art and design. Students who approved. At CIA through the Yellow Ribbon nn Non-degree seeking students successfully complete this program earn Program provision of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, nn Part-time students three undergraduate credits per course eligible U.S. veterans and their dependents nn Re-admissions students (i.e., students from the Cleveland Institute of Art. may qualify for an opportunity to receive who withdrew or took a leave of fully funded tuition. absence from CIA) For more information, visit nn Probationary admissions students cia.edu/precollege. Program benefits (i.e., any applicant judged generally Between the GI Bill, CIA’s contribution, admissible, despite academic or and a matching contribution from the U.S. English deficiencies) Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), our nn Vocational rehabilitation students Yellow Ribbon Program benefits cover four full years of tuition for qualifying students. We are proud to offer the largest benefits Returning Students of any Ohio art school, and one of the best Students wishing to return to CIA after a among America’s specialized art and design leave of absence or withdrawal must colleges (AICAD). complete a returning student application. Generally, a portfolio review is not required How the program works unless the student seeks advanced Signed into law in 2009, the Post-9/11 placement. GI Bill pays for in-state public tuition and fees for eligible U.S. veterans, service Students who applied to CIA within the members, reservists, and National Guard last three years but never enrolled must members, and it may be transferable under complete a reactivation application. certain circumstances to a spouse or dependent. The Yellow Ribbon Program Students who are interested in taking supplements the GI Bill by allowing private classes at CIA but do not wish to pursue a or out-of-state schools with higher tuition to degree must complete a non-degree contribute additional funds that are matched student application. by the VA. The Post-9/11 GI Bill offers the most comprehensive education benefit All other students should follow our package since the original 1944 GI Bill, standard admission procedures and criteria. which funded education or training for For guidance on how to assemble your 7.8 million World War II veterans. application materials, we suggest contacting one of our CIA admissions counselors.
26 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Financial Aid Application Dependency Status Financial Aid Process If federal guidelines determine that you If you are a new applicant for admission to are financially dependent on your parents, CIA, we encourage you to apply for you must include parent information when We understand that paying for college is admission to CIA early. Once a student you file the FAFSA. You are considered to complicated. At the Cleveland Institute of applies for admission and is accepted to be dependent unless you are one of the Art, we pride ourselves in offering a CIA and submits a 2018-19 FAFSA at fafsa following: personal touch to a potentially confusing .gov, a review to determine financial aid nn 24 years of age as of January 1 process. We are ready to clarify tricky eligibility occurs based on the data nn Married topics, answer questions, discuss any submitted on the 2018-19 FAFSA. nn A graduate or professional student concerns regarding your ability to afford nn Responsible for a legal dependent CIA, or consider special financial situations. The first step in applying for financial aid is other than a spouse to create a Federal Student Aid ID nn On active duty or a veteran of the The Office of Financial Aid is committed to (FSA ID) username and password. You (or U.S. Armed Forces helping you find ways to close the gap both you and one of you parents if you nn At any time since you were age 13, both between the cost of attending the college are a dependent student) must have a FSA parents were deceased, and you were and your ability to fund your education. ID username and password. You will in foster care or you were a dependent We will work with you to craft a personalized use this FSA ID username and password to or ward of the court financial aid package that combines any complete the FAFSA each year while nn Determined at any time after July 2014 available CIA-sponsored aid, federal aid, you are a college student. It is also used for to be an unaccompanied youth who scholarships, loans, work-study programs, other government financial aidrelated was homeless or self-supporting and at and more. websites (studentloans.gov and nslds. risk of being homeless as determined ed.gov.). by your high school or district homeless As you begin to make important choices, liaison; the director of an emergency keep in mind: An impressive 94.8 To create your FSA ID, you will need: shelter or transitional housing program percent of CIA students receive nn Your Social Security Number; funded by the U.S. Department of financial assistance. nn You full name (the name must match Housing and Urban Development; or your name on your Social Security the director of a runaway or homeless card); youth basic center or transitional living nn Your date of birth. program.
Visit fsaid.ed.gov to create (or retrieve) your In unique instances, you may be able to FSA ID. An FSA ID can only be demonstrate that you are independent. associated with one email address. Thus For your dependency override appeal to be parents and children cannot share an considered for independent student status, email address. Do not share your FSA ID you must provide specific documentation with anyone. of these circumstances. In such a case, we recommend you meet with a financial The next step is to complete the 2018-19 aid counselor to discuss your situation. FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) at fafsa.gov beginning October 1, 2017. CIA’s FAFSA Code is 003982. Students who have not completed the 2018-2019 FAFSA by the priority deadlines noted in the chart below will not be considered for such programs as Federal Work-Study and CIA Grants.
If you completed the 2017-2018 FAFSA, you should be eligible to complete the 2018- 2019 Renewal FAFSA. The Renewal FAFSA is much easier, faster, and more accurate to complete as many of the fields are already populated with data from the 2017- 2018 FAFSA.
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Admissions FAFSA Priority Admissions and Priority Deposit Application Priority Deadline2 Financial Aid Deadline 3 Deadline 1 Notification On or About
Early Action 1 December 1 December 15 January 15 May 1
Early Action 2 January 1 February 1 February 15 May 1
Regular Decision March 1 March 15 December 1 May 1
Spring Transfer November 15 November 15 Rolling December 1
Fall Transfer June 1 June 1 Rolling August 1
1 CIA’s application fee is waived for candidates who apply before the deadline. Candidates who apply after the deadline will be considered on a rolling basis.
2 Students who wish full consideration for CIA merit and need-based aid should submit their FAFSA by the priority deadline listed. Students will be awarded Federal Work Study based on a fund s available basis with preference given to students who meet the priority deadline.
3 Enrollment deposits received after the Priority Deposit Deadline will only be accepted on a space-available basis.
28 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Estimated Family Contribution CIA’s Office of Financial Aid in order to Cost of Attendance Once your FAFSA is processed by the complete the verification process. You and The Cost of Attendance (COA) is the Department of Education, you will receive your parents can order a tax transcript from combination of direct and indirect costs an email with a link to your Student Aid the IRS by calling 800.908.9946. associated with attending college. It is Report which has your Expected Family used with the calculated Estimated Family Contribution (EFC). Your EFC is based on a Special Circumstances Contribution (EFC) from the data reported standard formula established by Congress, In some instances, you may request a on the FAFSA to determine financial aid and is used as a measure of your family’s re-evaluation of your financial aid eligibility. eligibility. You may receive financial aid, financial strength. including student loans, up to the total Examples of special circumstances include: Cost of Attendance. Financial aid disbursed We award financial aid after reviewing nn unusual medical expenses, loss of to your account in excess of your direct eligibility by subtracting your expected employment, loss of taxable or costs will be refunded to you. family contribution (EFC) from your Cost of non-taxable income; Attendance, or COA. The direct and indirect nn private tuition expenses for primary Direct Costs costs of your education comprise your or secondary schooling; Each semester, all students are provided COA. Once your financial aid eligibility is nn expenses for a parent attending their billing and registration materials at determined, we will create a personalized college that are not reimbursed; their myCIA student email account. financial aid package and send you an nn change in parent’s marital status; These costs include tuition based on award letter. nn unusual dependent care expenses; full-time enrollment and also mandatory nn death of a parent; institutional fees including lab fees, FAFSA Verification nn divorce or legal separation; technology fees, health service fees, In some cases, your FAFSA may be nn natural disaster expenses student activity fees, and an orientation selected by the U.S. Department of not covered by insurance. fee (Fall semester only). These expenses Education or by CIA for a process called To request a re-evaluation of your financial are posted every spring for the upcoming verification, in which the answers submitted aid eligibility due to a special circumstance, academic year at cia.edu/tuition. on your FAFSA will be compared against submit a Special Circumstance Form. requested tax forms and other Obtain this form at cia.edu/forms-resources Additionally, students who choose to documentation to ensure accuracy. Your live on campus (in our residence hall or financial aid award will remain “estimated” apartments) will also have room and board and in a “pending” status until verification expenses. These fees are posted every is completed. Students selected for spring on cia.edu/tuition. verification will be sent a verification form which must be completed and returned to Indirect Costs the Office of Financial Aid. Books and supplies, transportation, and personal expenses are costs that each IRS Data Retrieval Tool student will incur. However, these costs Use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool if you are (expenses) are associated with attending able to do so. This tool is the easiest and CIA but are not billed through CIA. They most accurate way to provide federal tax are included in the Cost of Attendance. return information for your 2018–19 FAFSA. Students who live off campus in an In a few simple steps, you will be able to apartment or other type of rental unit view your tax return information and import and commute to CIA, or students who data from it to your 2018–19 FAFSA. commute from their parent’s or relative’s home also have food and other expenses. In order to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, An estimate of these costs are also included you need to electronically submit your in the Cost of Attendance. federal tax returns. Note: If you do not use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool to provide tax View Cost of Attendance numbers for return information on your 2018–19 FAFSA, your individual enrollment status (incoming your chances of being selected for student, returning student) and residential verification are increased. If you are selected status (commuter, on-campus housing, for verification, submitting copies of the IRS off-campus housing) at cia.edu/admissions/ 1040 forms is no longer permitted. If you’re tuition-fees/cost-of-attendance. selected for verification and you do file a paper tax return, you’ll be required to order a tax transcript from the IRS and submit it to
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 29 Disbursement of Financial Aid Scholarships portion of the CIA merit scholarship for Financial aid awards will not be disbursed or The Cleveland Institute of Art offers many which they are no longer eligible. The CIA posted to your student account until the merit-based scholarships. Scholarships funds awarded will be less than the original Office of Financial Aid receives your signed are awarded through our academic amount of the CIA merit scholarship. Financial Aid award letter confirming departments, the Office of Admissions, acceptance of the award. You can also and the Office of Financial Aid. Some Please note: in all instances where, following accept your financial aid awards online sophomores, juniors, and seniors receive a warning, probation, or suspension status, using NetPartner at netpartner.cia.edu. more than one scholarship. Scholarships students are able to achieve the requisite do not need to be repaid. cumulative GPA for their CIA merit Disbursement will be made to your student scholarship (and they have not exceeded account after the start of each semester CIA merit-based scholarships awarded the allotted timeframe for CIA merit when your financial aid file is complete. to incoming students are based on merit scholarship eligibility), their CIA merit For your financial aid file to be considered (a student’s grades, class rank); test scores; scholarship will be fully reinstated and the complete, you must submit all required and talent and artistic ability, demonstrated CIA funds will be revoked. requested forms to the Office of Financial through your portfolio. Newly admitted Aid, and be registered for classes. Please freshmen and transfer students are Department scholarships and awards follow the instructions and paperwork automatically considered for CIA merit- During the spring semester, individual included with your billing statement to based scholarships when their application academic departments award scholarships deduct all awards from your account for admission and other admission to students currently enrolled at CIA. balance. documents are reviewed. No separate Award winners typically are chosen by scholarship application is required. faculty from each department. Winners are Bill Payment announced at the CIA Awards Ceremony For questions pertaining to your billing CIA merit-based scholarships awarded held every spring semester. statement or about making payments, include: please contact the Office of Student nn Full-tuition CIA Cleveland Metropolitan Some academic departments offer Accounts by calling 216.421.7318. School District and CIA New Bridge scholarships that are both merit and need- Scholarships based. To be considered for department nn CIA Gund Family Scholarships scholarships which are either merit, merit (ranging from $10,000 to $23,000) and need, or need-only students must nn CIA Dean’s Scholarships submit their FAFSA by March 1. (ranging from $6,500 to $11,500). Students are only eligible for any type of CIA Scholarship recipients must be enrolled financial assistance for four years. full-time. CIA merit-based scholarships are renewable, provided recipients maintain the CIA Financial Aid Office minimum cumulative grade point average Promise (GPA) as outlined in each scholarship We promise to assist you in achieving your recipient’s scholarship award letter. educational goals by providing guidance and support in paying for your education. Students who fail to maintain the required Through teamwork, we will promote cumulative grade point average (GPA) for professional and technical enhancements their CIA merit scholarship will be placed on in an effort to be timely and accurate in a warning, probation, or suspended status. the administration of financial aid. Each Students with a warning or probation status employee in the Office of Financial Aid is are still eligible for their CIA merit held to the highest ethical principles as scholarship for the subsequent semester, defined by our code of conduct. despite their not having met the minimum required cumulative GPA. They will be notified in writing of their status and of the GPA target that they need to achieve in the subsequent semester in order to retain their scholarship. Students placed on reduction status are no longer eligible for their CIA merit scholarship. These students are evaluated on a case-by-case basis to Table of Contents receive funds from CIA to help offset a
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 31 Student Accounts Withdrawals Eligiblity and Standards of Student accounts are maintained by the See the academic withdrawal policy Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Student Accounts Office, located in the on page 36 of this document. for Need-based Financial Aid Room 106. Payments for supplies or items To receive financial aid from federal, state purchased on campus, tickets for student Residence Hall Contracts and institutional aid programs at the events, and other activities on campus are If you live in the residence hall or an Cleveland Institute of Art, you must make also taken at the Student Accounts Office. on-campus apartment, your contract is reasonable academic progress toward binding for the entire year. If you terminate your degree. This includes maintaining at Payment of tuition and fees is due at the your contract after the June 15 deadline for least a 2.0 cumulative grade point average time of registration. An updated schedule reservations for the following year, or (GPA) and completing 67% of the classes of all tuition and fees is located at withdraw from CIA after the first semester, attempted each year. cia.edu/tuition you are liable for and will forfeit the $150 room deposit, and will also be charged an Additionally, you must earn your degree A “hold” on the release of grades or early termination fee of $500. within 150% of the standard time to earn a transcripts is placed on any student’s BFA degree at CIA. For example, the account that shows an unpaid tuition If you take a leave of absence, study standard time to earn a degree at CIA is balance or unpaid debts to any college abroad, or are separated from CIA during a eight semesters; 150% of that time frame department or CWRU department from semester, you will not be charged the early would be 12 semesters (six academic which CIA students or the college receives termination fee but will be charged for years). To remain eligible for federal aid, services that are unpaid at the end of housing based on the college’s payment/ you must earn your BFA within six years each semester. For detailed information reimbursement schedule. You will also (includes years attended at other schools). on tuition and fee payments or questions forfeit the $150 deposit. Please note: CIA merit and need-based about your account, please see the aid is limited to up to eight semesters Student Accounts Administrator. Financial Aid (less for transfer students). States like Ohio, Submitting the FAFSA Pennsylvania and others also limit their You may also participate in a plan to spread See the Financial Aid Application funding to eight semesters. your tuition and fee payments throughout information on page 27 of this catalog. the year. See details on this option at Students who fail to maintain the required tuitionpaymentplan.com. Links to all Office of Financial Aid forms cumulative grade point average (GPA) for and helpful information on the types grants, their CIA merit scholarship will be placed on Refunds loans, work-study, etc. are found at: a warning, probation, or reduction status. Full-time and part-time students who cia.edu/financialaid. Students with a warning or probation withdraw from individual courses (not a status are still eligible for their CIA merit complete withdrawal from CIA) will not Notification of Financial Aid Package scholarship for the subsequent semester, receive a prorated refund for that course(s). Financial aid awards will not be posted to despite their not having met the minimum Full-time tuition covers a credit load from 12 your account until all forms, signatures, required cumulative GPA. They will be to 18 credits. certifications and the verification process notified in writing of their status and of the are complete. GPA target that they need to achieve in the You should contact the Office of Financial subsequent semester in order to retain Aid before you withdraw from a course. Be attentive to deadlines and forms that their scholarship. Students placed on a Since the number of credits you earn each need your signature. Be sure to submit reduction status are no longer eligible for semester affects your progress toward your them to the Office of Financial Aid on time. their CIA merit scholarship. These students degree, withdrawing from a course has an are evaluated on a case-by-case basis to effect on your financial aid standing. receive funds from CIA to help offset a Withdrawal from a course may also require portion of the CIA merit scholarship for that you refund aid received to either CIA or which they are no longer eligible. The CIA another funding source, so consultation funds awarded will be less than the original with the Office of Financial Aid is highly amount of the CIA merit scholarship. recommended. Please note: in all instances where, following If you anticipate a refund check for any a warning, probation, or reduction status, reason, contact the Student Accounts students are able to achieve the requisite Office. cumulative GPA for their CIA merit scholarship (and they have not exceeded the allotted timeframe for CIA merit scholarship eligibility), their CIA merit
32 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog scholarship will be fully reinstated and the Federal Work-Study Program (FWS) CIA funds will be revoked. FWS is a campus-based, federally funded program that provides aid awarded to Disbursement of Funds and students who have demonstrated need as Bill Payment determined by the FAFSA. Funding from Awards on your Financial Aid Award letter this award must be earned through will not disburse and post to your student employment and is payable by monthly account until the Office of Financial Aid direct deposit. It cannot be deducted from receives a signed award letter accepting the the student’s billing statement. award(s) or you have accepted your awards online through NetPartner. You must also Most work-study jobs are on campus, but complete all required paperwork and other there are some off-campus jobs that qualify forms, including the Master Promissory for work-study. It is your responsibility to Note (MPN) and Entrance Counseling for apply for on-campus or off-campus Federal Direct loan(s) available at: work-study jobs. Work-study jobs are studentloans.gov. You (and a parent if you posted online in CollegeCentral. Contact the are a dependent student) will need your CIA Career Center for more information FAFSA PIN number to sign into the website. about CollegeCentral.
If you were awarded a Federal Perkins Loan If you secure a FWS job, you must complete you must complete your Perkins Loan and submit a W-4 form and an I-9 form Promissory Note at: signmyloan.com after before working. A copy of a photo ID and a the fall term begins. Social Security card are required. A birth certificate or passport can be substituted. Disbursement of aid to your student These documents must be originals. account occurs after the start of each Paychecks are deposited directly into your semester when your financial aid file is bank account, so a voided check from your complete. The financial aid file is complete bank must also be provided. when all required forms: nn have been completed accurately, Part-time Employment nn submitted to and have been processed Part-time jobs on campus as well as by the Office of Financial Aid, freelance projects are also available. nn and you are registered for classes. Freelance, internship, summer, and other opportunities are posted on the Private loans do not appear on your CollegeCentral. This online site is Student Account billing statement maintained by the CIA Career Center. You as “preliminary aid,” and will appear on your may obtain your login and password billing statement only after the funds are information to access CollegeCentral from received from the lender (bank) and posted the Career Center, located in room 120. to your account. Please follow the instructions included with your billing statement to ensure that you have deducted all of your awards (including loans) from your account balance.
Billing statements are created are obtained through each student’s myCIA account. After logging into your myCIA account, click on the Business Affairs tab; under the “For Students” section, click on “View Your Account Information.” Questions pertaining to your billing statement or about making payments should be directed to the Office of Student Accounts, located in room 106, phone number 216.421.7318.
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 35 Non-Discrimination Policy Assessment looks at student work as part Statement and The Cleveland Institute of Art is committed of the evaluation of the college’s education to providing a learning, working, and living program. Policies environment that promotes personal Assessment in no way affects student integrity, civility, and mutual respect, and is grades, and there is no way to prepare for free of discrimination. assessment tests or reviews. The faculty Statement on Freedom of uses this information to evaluate the Artistic Expression In accordance with the provisions set forth courses they teach and their curricula, and CIA believes in freedom of artistic by Title IX of the Education Act of 1972 (and to make any changes indicated by the expression. Artistic freedom is vital to both its amendments), Section 504 of the assessment information. the cultural and political health of our Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VII of the society. It is essential to a democracy that Civil Rights Act of 1968 (and its Course Expectations values and protects the rights of the amendments), and other federal regulations, Course Syllabi individual to espouse his or her beliefs. The Cleveland Institute of Art does not At the beginning of each course, students college’s responsibility for and dedication to discriminate on the basis of race, color, receive a syllabus that contains attendance securing the conditions in which freedom of creed, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual policies, the course description, schedule of artistic expression can flourish extends to all orientation, age, or disabilities in topics to be covered, assignments, forms of artistic expression, including fine employment practices, administration of expected outcomes, grading guidelines, arts, design, literature, and performance. educational policies, admission, scholarship behavioral expectations, materials needed, and loan programs, and other college- and other information about the faculty The opportunity to display or perform works administered programs and activities. member and course that provide a full of art at CIA is made available through picture of the course and its requirements. several academic processes and Physical Challenges The syllabus may be distributed by paper or procedures in which faculty members, CIA’s buildings and facilities are equipped to electronically and will be conveyed during students, and other duly appointed accommodate students, faculty, staff, and the first meeting of the class. Students individuals exercise their best professional visitors with physical disabilities. However, should expect that faculty will conduct their judgment. Among these procedures are CIA is not a barrier-free campus. Students class in accordance with the published selection of gallery shows by the Gallery with special needs or concerns should course information. In addition, the Office of Committee; selection of artwork for student contact the Office of Academic Services. Academic Affairs maintains a file of all shows by selected appointed outside jurors; Visitors should contact the Facilities course syllabi. and performances/presentations as part of Management and Safety Office. approved curricula. Such authorized Course Attendance displays or performances, no matter how Assessment Students are expected to attend all unpopular the work might be, must be The Cleveland Institute of Art, like other sessions of the classes in which they are unhindered and free from coercion. colleges and universities, is required by its registered and to attend all associated Members of the CIA community and guests accrediting associations to evaluate the lecture programs and meetings. Progress must reflect in their actions a respect for the success of its curriculum on a regular basis; as an artist depends not only on completion right to communicate ideas artistically, and this process is called “assessment.” During of assignments but also on full participation refrain from any act that would cause that a student’s time at CIA, they will participate in dialogue with studio and academic right to be abridged. At the same time, CIA in a variety of assessment activities. classes. Each faculty member is required to recognizes that the right of artists to exhibit Students will likely encounter their first take, and to maintain records of, class or perform does not preclude the right of assessment activity during new student attendance. others to take exception to particular works orientation, and the BFA exhibition will be of art. However, this latter right must be their last assessment point as a student. Students who expect to miss classes or exercised in ways that do not prevent a There are other times in students’ college activities due to religious observances work of art from being seen and must not careers (and as CIA graduates) when they should speak with their faculty members involve any form of intimidation, defacement, will be part of the college’s ongoing well before the expected absence. Students or physical violence. assessment program. Student participation are responsible for the missed work, and it in assessment activities will be very helpful is up to the faculty member to determine The Cleveland Institute of Art rejects the in ensuring that CIA’s programs and how they will “count” that absence. claim of any outside individual or agency of services meet current needs and those of the right to dictate the appropriateness or future students. acceptability of the display or performance of any work of art in its facilities or as part of its educational programs.
36 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Three weeks of class absences may result Coursework and Assignments Course Credit in failure. Four weeks of absences will Course work (including in-class projects, Credit Definition and Accumulation result in failure. Students must notify their homework, and written assignments) is All credit-bearing courses offered by the faculty member if they will miss a class, and assigned by instructors in relation to the Cleveland Institute of Art are offered on a Academic Services if they will miss more requirements and learning objectives for semester credit hour basis. The fall and than one class. If a student has a problem each specific course. Course work spring semesters are each 16 weeks in with missed classes, they should meet with completed for one instructor’s class may duration, including 15 weeks of instruction an Academic Services staff member to not be submitted for credit for another and one week of studio critiques/final discuss options. instructor’s class unless approval has been examinations. In the spring semester, an granted in writing by all instructors involved. additional week of academic activity is Individual faculty members may require Instructors may approve such a written added after critique/examination week to written documentation of a student’s illness request based on the following accommodate the BFA reviews and or injury. Note that University Health considerations: exhibitions. Three-credit studio courses Services (UHS) does not provide 1. The proposed project is interdisciplinary meet once a week for a five-hour clock day. documentation for class excuses. Under in nature and concept, and actively Students spend at least six-to-eight hours certain circumstances, UHS will provide seeks to work across instructional in outside work each week for each studio written verification of the date of a visit to areas in order to integrate a range of course taken. Three-credit liberal arts their office. A student who is hospitalized or media, forms, and/or techniques; classes meet twice a week for a total of 2.5 has an extended illness is asked to give hours a week. Students are expected to HIPPA permission to a specific advisor in 2. The scope of the proposed project is spend two hours in preparation for each Academic Services so they can ambitious and will satisfy learning liberal arts class hour each week. For communicate with UHS and the hospital objectives and requirements in internships, three semester hours are regarding the student’s illness and assist as different but complementary ways earned for a minimum of 120 hours on the needed. Students should contact their for each class; job. For information on specific courses or instructor(s) as soon as possible after an 3. The objectives and requirements must guidance on scheduling, contact Academic unavoidable absence. An unexcused be clarified in writing by the student Services. absence from a final critique or exam will and all instructors involved; result in automatic failure of the course. 4. The student understands that such Completion of the college’s degree Students are required to notify a staff a project will be evaluated separately requirements in four years assumes that a member in the Office of Academic Services by each instructor involved; student consistently carries the normal prior to missing a final exam or critique. 5. The student must also define how and credit load of 15–18 credits per semester. where the different and Students with a GPA of 3.5 or above may Appropriate Dress for Comfort and complementary aspects of their schedule more than 18 credit hours in a Safety proposed project fulfill separate semester, and will be charged the per credit Due to the nature of the work at CIA, requirements for each class. This will rate for the number of credits taken over 18. how students dress each day may vary. define the grading criteria for individual They must see an academic advisor to get Appropriateness of attire is best determined instructors to assign separate grades permission to register for more than 18 by the kind of work involved. For health for the larger project. credits. and safety reasons, shirts and footwear are required. Class Trips The number of credits accumulated toward Faculty may conduct instruction-related the BFA degree is evaluated regularly by the trips or tours that require students to travel Registrar’s Office. Students showing credit away from CIA and be absent from deficiencies on their records are notified in scheduled class times for courses other writing prior to course selection for the next than the one for which the excursion is term and must meet with an academic intended. Students must notify all faculty advisor. It is the student’s responsibility to whose courses will be missed. In addition, maintain standard progress toward the all students must sign an approved release degree and keep track of curriculum form, in advance of the trip, that declares requirements. Degree audits are available that they will not make a claim against the online through myCIA. college or its personnel/representatives for injury or damage sustained while on the trip. Release forms should be returned to the faculty member leading the trip before the event. All CIA policies are in effect during sponsored excursions away from campus.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 37 Credit by Portfolio Review (CPR) Transfer Credit Credit for college courses taken before The intent of the Credit by Portfolio Review Credit for college courses taken before enrollment at CIA is evaluated at the time of (CPR) process is to allow students an enrollment at CIA is evaluated at the time of admission to CIA and accepted credits opportunity to have a body of work admission to CIA and accepted credits become part of the CIA academic record. completed outside of scheduled course become part of the CIA academic record. If you wish to take a course at another requirements reviewed for possible credit college and apply the credit toward your within the CIA curriculum. It is NOT College Board Advanced Placement (AP) CIA degree, you must have the course designed to enable students to avoid taking credit will be awarded as follows: approved by CIA prior to registering at the a required CIA course or to achieve credit nn Liberal Arts Credit (including Art History): alternate school. Start the approval process for a course that they have failed or for A minimum schore of 3 is required for 3 at the Registrar’s Office. If the course which an “Incomplete” has turned to an “F.” liberal arts credits. description has been previously approved, Students interested in CPR should contact nn Studio credit: A minimum score of 4 on the Registrar will give you a Transient Academic Services for information and the the AP examination is required for 3 Student Form which will indicate approval of CPR form. studio credits. Credits are applied the course by CIA and can be presented to toward one studio elective in the the college where you take the course. If the The Chair of the appropriate major will student’s major program of study. AP course must be reviewed by CIA faculty conduct the review and provide written studio credits are never applied toward before it can be approved, you may be documentation of the outcome. If credit is first-year Foundation requirements. required to obtain a syllabus or other awarded, the Registrar will notify the information about the course for faculty student of the application of this credit to International Baccalaureate (IB) credit will review. Once the approval is made, you will the program of study and completion of be awarded as follows: obtain the Transient Student Form and can degree requirements. Students may not nn Credit will be considered only for bring it to the other college you attend. request a review under this process for the subjects taken at the higher level. same course more than once. nn Liberal Arts Credit (including Art History): The evaluation and approval of a course for A minimum score of 4 is required for 3 credit is the responsibility of a faculty Applications for CPR for transfer students liberal arts credits. member from the appropriate major or must be made within the first semester of nn Studio Credit: A minimum score of 6 is discipline. If the course is acceptable as a enrollment at CIA. Work already used to required for 3 studio credits. Credits are substitute for a CIA requirement, then the gain credit for another course or by other applied toward one studio elective in the reviewing faculty member indicates the means may not be used to gain credit student’s major program of study. IB acceptability and how the course credit through CPR. studio credits are never applied toward will be applied toward the student’s first-year Foundation requirements. degree program. All Foundation requirements must be completed before students will be allowed Courses taken through Post-Secondary Actual evaluation of transfer credit requires to begin the final year’s coursework Option will be awarded as follows: that an official transcript be received from associated with preparation for the BFA nn Liberal Arts Credit: A final grade of C the college where the course was taken, culminating project. Thus it is critical that if must be achieved in an appropriate and that the grade achieved is a “C” (2.0 on students wish to apply for CPR for any liberal arts-related course. a 4 point scale) or better. The Registrar is Foundation course, they complete this nn The course and grade achieved must responsible for determining if the transcript process before finishing the third year of the appear on an official college transcript. is official, and for recording the credit degree program. Credit will not be issued with only the toward the degree requirements upon high school transcript. The official recommendation of the faculty. An inventory A fee of $100 per credit awarded will be college transcript must be presented to of approved courses is maintained in the charged for the Credit by Portfolio Review CIA’s Registrar’s Office for evaluation. Registrar’s office. process. nn Studio Credit: Unless the studio course is taken at a member school of the For currently enrolled students, CIA will Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art consider transfer credit toward liberal arts and Design (AICAD), in most instances, courses from any accredited institution in credit will be considered only through the U.S. that has been passed with a “C” or portfolio review by the appropriate CIA better (“Pass” or “Satisfactory” grades will faculty of the work completed in the not transfer) and fulfills a degree post-secondary studio course, no matter requirement (per faculty approval) at CIA. what final grade is achieved. Current students may gain studio or liberal arts credit for courses taken at a NASAD- accredited college if the grade is a “C” or
38 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog better, and the course is pre-approved and The Foundation Program Enrollment and Registration fulfills a degree requirement at CIA. Contact The Foundation (FND) program is designed Enrollment Status the Office of Academic Services for a list of as a basis for advanced study in every Students who have been admitted to study NASAD-accredited programs. major through studio and liberal arts toward the BFA degree are considered courses. Transfer students meet with an “matriculated” students. Individuals in the Exceptions to any of the above methods of advisor and plan a timeline for completion process of meeting admission requirements securing transfer credit must be approved of all Foundation coursework. and those whose objective is not a degree by faculty. The Registrar’s Office is the are classified as “special,” or “non- starting point for this process. Official All students must complete Foundation matriculated.” transcripts for all courses taken external to studio requirements by the end of the CIA must be sent directly to the Registrar’s third year. Those deficient in Foundation Students may enroll as full-time (minimum of Office before transfer credit can be applied studio courses will not be permitted to 12 credit hours per semester), part-time to your record. begin the senior year thesis/BFA (fewer than 12 credit hours in a semester), preparation course(s). or on a special non-degree basis. Any Course Substitution or Waiver desire to change enrollment status should For a variety of reasons, students may wish be discussed with an advisor in the Office of to request a course substitution or waiver of Academic Services. A change from full-time a specific requirement within their program to part-time or non-degree status may of study. A course substitution means that a affect eligibility for scholarships and/or course not specified within the program of financial aid. study is approved in place of a degree requirement. A course waiver means that Certification of Enrollment students do not need to take a specific The Registrar is responsible for certification course but must complete another class of enrollment and verification of degrees carrying the same amount of credit. In both awarded. Documentation needed to prove instances, students need to submit a enrollment status is available at the written petition and be approved by both Registrar’s Office. Requests require two to the department chair of the appropriate three days for processing. department and the Vice President for Faculty Affairs + Chief Academic Officer. Registration Additional information and petitions are Registration at CIA has three components: available in Academic Services. course prescheduling, tuition payment, and completion of required paperwork. These Academic Variance components must be completed each For specific reasons, you may ask to take a semester before students will be considered lighter course load or change/substitute enrolled in each semester at CIA. Failure to courses within your required program of complete these requirements by the end of study. You must submit a course waiver/ the registration period (first week of classes) substitution form with the signature results in students not being permitted to approval of your department chair and the enroll late and cannot attend classes. Vice President of Academic Affairs and submit the form to the Office of Academic All students must register regardless of the Affairs. If you are a first-year student, your financial aid being received or anticipated. request will be reviewed by the Director of Students may not attend classes until Academic Services. Course substitution their financial obligations to CIA have been forms are available from the Registrar or satisfied. Academic Services. Course prescheduling for the upcoming semester for continuing students occurs in April for fall semester and November for spring semester. Advisors and faculty are available to assist in course prescheduling. prescheduling courses means that the tuition bill and other registration materials will be available to students on myCIA. Students who have reserved courses and
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 39 are in good standing may use their CIA Adding, dropping, or withdrawing Withdrawal and library card between semesters. from a course Leave of Absence During in-person registration week and Official Withdrawal New students who are attending college the first five days of each term, students When a student withdraws from any college, for the first time (including those who took may add or drop courses. Courses added the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) college-level courses before graduating during this period are simply added to the has very strict rules that the financial aid from high school) receive their course semester’s course load. Students who wish office must follow to determine the amount schedules during the month before their first to take more than 18 credits in a semester of funding that the student “earns” as of the semester at CIA begins. Those with transfer must see an advisor. Dropped courses will date of his/her withdrawal. Funds that are credit, AP, IB, CLEP, or other college-level not appear on the transcript. Courses from not earned must be returned to the USDOE coursework should consult with an advisor which students withdraw between the end and other sources of funding. These rules in Academic Services during the summer of the drop/add period and the end of the require that the college determine the last to determine if any adjustments should be withdrawal period appear on the transcript date the student attended classes. At CIA, made to their first semester schedule of as a “W”; withdrawals after the specified the date of withdrawal is the last date the classes. Scheduling for first-year students period (see the Academic Calendar) will student attended class as reported by is done by the Registrar, with any transfer appear as an “F.” Students may drop from faculty to the Director of Academic Services. credits awarded taken into consideration. or add a course during the appropriate Students who withdraw from all courses Students who enter CIA as transfer period using myCIA. Either of these and leave any CIA-operated residence will students will have their transcript(s) and activities must be initiated by the student. be charged for tuition, applicable fees, and portfolio evaluated by the Registrar, the It is student’s responsibility to be sure room based on the following schedule: Foundation chair, and the chair of the major that they are meeting their graduation nn 10% of tuition, applicable fees, and room department (if placement beyond the first requirements. Those who are unsure about charges will be billed if the withdrawal year is sought) for determination of transfer dropping or withdrawing from a course are date (last date student attended class) is credits and year placement. Transfer highly encouraged to meet with an advisor during the first or second weeks of the students placed beyond the first year will before taking that action. No refunds semester. meet with an advisor in Academic Services or additional charges will be incurred if nn 50% of tuition, applicable fees, and prior to the start of the semester of entry to students remain within 12–18 credit hours. room charges will be billed if the determine their first schedule of courses. See the refund timeline and policy below. withdrawal date (last date student attended class) is during the third or Students may withdraw from a course fourth weeks of the semester. through the tenth week of the semester. nn 75% of tuition, applicable fees, and room Course withdrawal forms must be charges will be billed if the withdrawal completed and are available from the date (last date student attended class) is Registrar and Academic Services. during the fifth through eighth weeks of The form must be signed by the course the semester. instructor, the Registrar, and an academic nn 100% of tuition, applicable fees, and advisor. Withdrawal after the tenth week room charges will be billed if the will not be permitted unless there are withdrawal date (last date student extenuating circumstances. If the course attended class) is after the eighth week withdrawal takes place after the mid-term of the semester. grades are recorded, a “W” will appear on nn Meal and/or CaseCash charges will be the transcript, and the mid-term grade will calculated by Case Western Reserve be recorded. University.
If the course from which a student The date of withdrawal is provided to withdraws is required in their curriculum, the Office of Financial Aid to determine the course must be repeated. Withdrawing the percentage of the term the student from a course may affect current or future completed. Based on the date the student scholarship and/or financial aid eligibility. last attended class, the Financial Aid office The student should contact a financial aid is required by the USDOE to determine how counselor for guidance on this point. many days of the semester passed when the student stopped attending class. This number is divided into the number of days in the semester in which the student was attending to determine the percentage of the semester that the student completed.
40 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog If the withdrawal occurs after 60% of the Course Withdrawal Leave of Absence term has elapsed, no return of federal funds Because tuition is normally assessed on A Leave of Absence (LOA) is defined as an is required. a comprehensive basis of full-time status, absence from CIA of one semester or less. no refunds are issued when a student Students in good academic and financial If less than 60% of the semester has withdraws from one or more courses while standing may request an LOA and are elapsed at the date of withdrawal, the Office remaining enrolled at CIA. required to meet with an advisor in of Financial Aid calculates the return of Academic Services to complete the funds using a federally-prescribed formula. Unofficial Withdrawal results when a process. In some cases, stipulations may Funds will be returned in the following order: student stops attending classes without be applied for their return to CIA. Students nn Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans official notification to Academic Services. on a Leave of Absence should contact nn Federal Direct Subsidized Loans Unofficially withdrawn students will be Academic Services to arrange for nn Perkins Loans charged 100% of tuition, fees, room, and readmission. nn PLUS Loans board (meals and/or CaseCash) regardless of when the student stopped attending Members of the U.S. armed forces receiving If funds remain after repaying all loan classes. military benefits who are called to active amounts, the remaining funds are repaid duty will be granted an LOA for the duration to the Pell Grant and Supplemental Involuntary Withdrawal In instances of their active service. They should contact Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) where students may be unable to function Academic Services when ready to resume programs. If funds remain after repaying all academically, or their physical or emotional their studies. federal loan and grant funds, the remaining health may endanger themselves or funds are repaid to state aid programs, others, CIA reserves the right to separate Academic implications of a withdrawal private programs, and any CIA-funded them from the college so they may seek or a leave of absence sources of financial aid. appropriate care. In cases where students take an LOA or withdraw before the withdrawal deadline Students and their families should be aware In all cases of withdrawal, stipulations may (end of week 10 of the semester), their that the requirement to return federal, state, be applied for readmission. These may courses will appear on the transcript with a or CIA-funded assistance might result in include, for instance, coursework at another “W” grade designation. There will be no a balance due to the college. The student institution, or documentation from a medical academic credit earned. and/or their family is responsible for paying professional of readiness to resume a full any balance resulting from the return course of study. In cases where a student takes an LOA or of federal, state, private, or CIA-funded withdraws after the withdrawal deadline assistance. Students interested in returning to CIA are (end of week 10 of the semester), their required to complete a formal application courses will appear on the transcript with Questions about refund calculations for readmission; the form is available on “F” grades. Any exception to this policy based upon withdrawal from CIA should the Admissions website. Students who are would occur when a “late withdrawal” is be referred to the Office of Student reinstated will be expected to follow the approved by the Vice President of Faculty Accounts. Any balance due resulting from curriculum in place at the time of their return. Affairs + Chief Academic Officer following a the recalculation of tuition and fees and the successful student petition. Such reduction of aid is due and payable in full. withdrawals are approved only in A revised tuition statement will be sent to exceptional cases. the student once costs and aid are adjusted. Payment options are available. Withdrawal from CIA does not relieve their financial responsibility to the college.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 41 Readmission Independent Study Faculty members must be approved to Students who were in good standing when Students with a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or teach the proposed subject by the Vice they withdrew from CIA and have been higher are eligible to propose a semester- President for Faculty Affairs + Chief gone for more than one semester, or long independent study course, equivalent Academic Officer. attended another college that is not a to three credits of a liberal arts or studio CIA-affiliated program, may apply for elective. Normally, independent study Cross Registration readmission by completing the Application courses are available to enable students to Courses not offered at CIA or not available for Returning Students, available online from pursue a topic of interest that is not at a suitable time may be available at the Admissions Office. Students who wish available in the curriculum. There is a limit of another college in the Cleveland area. to be considered for advanced studio one three-credit independent study per CIA has agreements with local colleges that placement based on work completed at semester; a maximum of six credits of enable matriculated, full-time students in another college, or who withdrew from CIA independent study are permitted in any good standing to take one course during before starting their major are required to major program. In certain circumstances, each fall and/or spring semester at any one contact the Admissions Office to arrange a due to the proposed project scope, a 1.5 of these colleges as part of their full-time portfolio review. Transfer credit toward credit independent study may be load (minimum of 12 credits at CIA and a liberal arts requirements will be considered appropriate, and the accompanying course maximum of 18 total credits including upon submission of an official transcript expectations will be adjusted accordingly. credits at the other college) at no additional from the college where the coursework was Independent study credits are graded and cost. Permission is granted by the college taken. cannot be taken on a Pass/Fail basis. offering the course on a space-available basis. Credits are transferrable to CIA if they Students who were academically dismissed In accordance with accrediting agency meet CIA degree requirements and have a from CIA may apply for reinstatement if guidelines for coursework, the following grade of “C” or better. Credit is transferred they have successfully completed the expectations are in place with respect to but grades for these courses are not requirements included in their dismissal time commitments for independent study: calculated into the CIA GPA. See the letter. These may include, for example, Registrar for cross-registration procedures. coursework completed at another institution Studio credit: One semester hour of credit To date, CIA has agreements with Case or documentation from a medical is earned for a minimum of 1.667 contact Western Reserve University, John Carroll professional of readiness to resume a full hours (100 minutes) of classroom University, Cleveland Institute of Music, course of study. Students should first instruction and 2.0–2.667 (120–160 Cleveland State University, and Cuyahoga contact the Director of Academic Services, minutes) of outside classroom preparation Community College (all three campuses). who will advise them about the readmission per week. process, and then submit the Application Off-Campus Study for Returning Students. Liberal Arts credit: One semester hour of Off-campus experiences are normally credit is earned for a minimum of 50 recommended during sophomore or junior The deadline to apply for readmission for minutes of classroom instruction and 40 years, or during the summers following the fall semester is July 15, and December 1 minutes of outside classroom preparation these same years. for the spring semester. per week. Eligibility: To be eligible for off-campus Normally for a three-credit experience, study, students are required to be in good students should expect to meet with their academic standing at the time of application faculty sponsor for the equivalent of one and have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5. hour weekly throughout the entire semester. They must also be in good social standing Students should initiate the independent with the college, with no outstanding judicial study process by meeting with an advisor in sanctions. Finally, they may have no Academic Services. Proposals must then outstanding Incomplete grades at the time be approved by a faculty sponsor, the of application or departure for off-campus department chair of the area where the study. credit will be applied, and the Vice President for Faculty Affairs + Chief Academic Officer. AICAD Mobility program: An approved proposal is submitted to the CIA is a member of the Association of Registrar so it can be added to students’ Independent Colleges of Art and Design course schedule. (AICAD) and participates in the AICAD Mobility program. Students approved by the Faculty sponsors of independent study host college may spend a semester or courses will mentor students throughout the academic year at another AICAD institution. semester and evaluate their coursework. While on Mobility, students pay tuition to
42 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog CIA (and can use their financial aid awards earned a grade below “C” will not be Grade Value Credit Value and any applicable CIA merit scholarship). considered for transfer toward the CIA Value for GPA A list of all AICAD members and the majors degree. A 4.0 3.0 12.0 offered can be found at aicad.org. Further A- 3.7 3.0 11.1 information and an application may be Grades B+ 3.3 3.0 9.9 B 3.0 3.0 9.0 obtained from Academic Services. Letter Grades B- 2.7 3.0 8.1 Letter grades are a means by which faculty C+ 2.3 3.0 6.9 C 2.0 3.0 6.0 Study Abroad members communicate their professional C- 1.7 3.0 5 .1 Students who wish to take courses at a assessment of students’ work. The primary D+ 1.3 3.0 3.9 D 1.0 3.0 3.0 college or university outside the U.S. may purpose of assigning grades is to provide a D- .7 3.0 2.1 do so over a summer, semester, or a year. realistic standard of reference by which F 0 3.0 0 students can measure their progress while CIA has agreements with several art and enrolled at CIA. Mid-term Grades design colleges outside the U.S. All CIA records mid-term grades for each class. students may participate in programs Grades are reported twice each semester: These grades are available to students offered by other U.S. colleges/universities, mid-term grades after the first eight weeks, online through myCIA, and used for or enroll directly in an overseas college/ and final grades at the close of the term. advising purposes by both faculty and university. In some cases, students will pay The mid-term grade is a preliminary academic advisors. They are not calculated tuition directly to the other institution, while indication of progress to date. in the GPA, nor are they included as part of for others an exchange will be made where the student’s permanent transcript. a student from an overseas school will Semester and cumulative grade point enroll at CIA while a CIA student attends averages are reviewed by Academic “Incomplete” Grade their college. In these exchanges, CIA Services each term to determine each An “Incomplete” grade should be requested students pay the tuition to CIA, and can student’s academic status. Each transcript only for serious extenuating circumstances, utilize their CIA financial aid package. Tuition includes the semester Grade Point Average not simply for failure to complete course and fees associated with direct enrollment (GPA) and the cumulative GPA. Letter requirements on time. at another college, either a U.S.-affiliated grades have the following meaning: program or an independent college/ Requests for “Incomplete” grades must be university, will vary greatly. Availability of U.S. A, A-: Work of consistently outstanding student-initiated by means of completing an financial aid will depend on approval of the quality, which displays originality, and often Incomplete Grade Request Form available overseas college to receive U.S. financial goes beyond course requirements; from the Registrar’s Office. Instructors may aid funds. Generally, CIA scholarships and not issue an “Incomplete” grade without grants cannot be used to pay costs of direct B+, B, B-: Work of consistently good students’ request or permission. enrollment at another college. quality, demonstrating a high level of proficiency, knowledge, and skills in all In circumstances in which students are For information about opportunities, costs, aspects of the course; unable to be present on campus, the course approval, and to begin the study Director of Academic Services or the abroad process, contact the International C+, C, C-: Satisfactory work that meets Registrar may request an “Incomplete” Activities Advisor or the Dean of Student the requirements of the course and grade from an instructor on the student’s Affairs. conforms to the standards for graduation. behalf, but only if the student has first Per the minimum grade policy (below), communicated their agreement to the Summer Study Options a C– or lower grade in a course “Incomplete.” Mid-term Incomplete grades Summer study opportunities are available required for the major will not be are permitted at the discretion of faculty through many programs throughout the U.S. accepted toward the degree, and the members without the student’s request or and overseas. Information on these and all course must be repeated. permission. opportunities may be obtained through the Office of Academic Services. D+, D, D-: Work deficient in concept or Students on Academic Probation are not execution but acceptable for course credit permitted to request Incomplete grades Students who wish to take a summer in all courses with the exception of courses from any of their instructors. course(s) at another college with the intent required for the major; of transferring that course to your CIA Incomplete grade revisions are due by the degree, must contact the Registrar’s Office, F: Work unacceptable for course credit and end of the fourth week of the semester identify the course, and have it reviewed does not meet the standards for graduation. following that in which the Incomplete grade and approved before taking the course. was issued. Incomplete grades not revised Courses at other institutions that have not by the deadline will revert to failures. been approved before enrollment and/or Requests for extensions for Incomplete
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 43 grades will not be permitted. Policy on Minimum Grade in Grading Errors Incomplete grades could affect financial Studio Major Courses: Grade revisions are only permitted to aid for the following academic semester. Consistent with CIA’s long-standing correct errors. They cannot be given for For financial aid purposes, the sooner tradition of excellence in all levels of art additional work submitted. If a student the Incomplete grade is revised, the sooner and design education, effective Fall 2014, believes that there was an error in a grade the financial aid award can be adjusted or all students must earn a minimum grade awarded, they must contact the faculty finalized. of “C” in all studio and core courses member who awarded the grade and the required by the major in which they are faculty must complete an “Error in Grading” If, at the time a student requests an enrolled. This minimum requirement does form, available to faculty from the Registrar. Incomplete grade, the faculty determine not pertain to Liberal Arts, Foundation, or The completed form must be signed by the that the student has missed too much class studio elective courses taken in another faculty member’s department chair. The time such that the course cannot be major. Any student earning a “C-” or lower grade correction must be recorded by the successfully completed by the end of the in a major requirement will be required to end of the semester following the term in end of the fourth week of the following repeat that course at CIA and attain a “C” which the course was taken. semester, an Incomplete may not be or better grade. permitted. If the request is made within the Auditing a Course (AU grade) prescribed period for course withdrawal Course Repeat Students who wish audit (to take a course without penalty, the student will be advised Students who receive an “F” grade may for no credit) will be charged tuition and to withdraw from the course. If the request repeat the same course at CIA. The original fees at the same rate as charged if it were is made after the prescribed period for grade will remain on the record for the taken for credit. A course registered as an course withdrawal has passed, the grade semester in which it was earned, but it will audit cannot be changed to credit after the will be assigned in accordance with the not be included in the GPA. The repeated eighth week of the semester. Similarly, a work completed. In either case, students course and the new grade will be recorded course registered for credit cannot be will be advised of the next opportunity to in the semester in which it was repeated. changed to audit after the eighth week of repeat the course. If a course is repeated more than once, only the semester. the grade achieved in the first attempt will Depending on the course, there may be a be eliminated from the GPA calculation. Academic Grievances fee assessed for access to facilities or if A student who wishes to register a materials are required for completion of the Students who receive a “C-” or lower grade complaint about course instruction or an course. in a required major or core studio class evaluation of their performance in a class must repeat the course at CIA to achieve should first discuss their concern with the Faculty are responsible for informing the the required minimum “C” grade and earn faculty member involved. If the matter Registrar of grade revisions. credit for the course. The higher of the two cannot be resolved in this discussion, the grades will be computed in the student’s student should meet with the Director of Grades Excluded from the GPA. Courses repeated for this requirement Academic Services for advice or to arrange Calculation of the CIA Grade Point are eligible for financial aid funding. Note mediation between the student and the Average (GPA): that if a course is failed at CIA and repeated faculty member. In the event of a dispute nn Grade of “W” due to withdrawal after elsewhere, the credit (upon approval) will over evaluation of performance in a course, the drop/add period; transfer toward the CIA degree. The actual the Director may seek consultation with the nn “Incomplete” grade; value of the grade earned elsewhere is not chair of the department or the Dean of nn “Audit,” “Satisfactory,” or “Pass” grades; included in the calculation of the GPA at CIA Student Affairs to achieve a resolution. nn Grades received in courses that however, and the original “F” grade is not were transferred to CIA from another removed from calculation of the GPA. college toward the CIA degree (see Transfer Credit); Students may repeat a course that they nn “F” grades in courses that were repeated passed for a higher grade. Both grades will and satisfactorily passed. be shown on the transcript, but only the higher of the two grades will be calculated in the GPA. Credit toward graduation for a repeated course may be counted only once. Federal financial aid regulations disallow funding for repeated courses that have been passed; therefore students must carry a minimum of 12 credits of unrepeated courses during the semester in which they repeat a passed course.
44 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Academic Standing and Readmission Following Academic Processes Dismissal Policy Academic Dismissal Major Application Process Standards of Academic Performance: Students who were academically dismissed Students who begin CIA as first-year In order to remain in good academic from CIA may apply for readmission if they students enter the major application standing, students must earn a have successfully met the stipulations process during the spring semester of their minimum semester GPA of 2.0 and a detailed within their dismissal letter. These first year. They cannot be fully accepted into cumulative GPA of 2.0. may include, for instance, coursework at a major unless they have completed, have nn Students who do not achieve a another institution or documentation from a credit for, or are enrolled in the required semester GPA of at least 2.0 will be medical professional of readiness to resume Foundation courses. Students will not be placed on Academic Probation. They will a full course of study. Questions about any allowed to register for their final year (BFA be required to meet regularly with an of these requirements should be directed to thesis preparation) until all required adviser and adhere to a learning the Director of Academic Services. Foundation course requirements are contract. Students on Academic satisfied. Probation may not request an Maintenance of Matriculation/ Incomplete grade in any of their courses. Continuation of Thesis To prepare for major application, students nn Students who do not achieve a Students who finish course requirements are encouraged to meet with the cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 are but need to continue to work on their BFA department chair, faculty, and students in subject to dismissal. Likewise, students thesis using CIA facilities or in consultation the major to which they intend to apply. whose semester GPA is below 2.0 for with CIA faculty and are not registered for Department presentations and open two consecutive semesters are also any courses at CIA are required to remit a houses before and during the major subject to dismissall. Non-Enrolled Candidate fee. This fee selection period offer an opportunity to nn Students who earn a GPA of 1.00 or less continues the student’s association with learn more about each major. Many in their first semester of enrollment CIA and enables use of CIA facilities and departments also have open studio times will be dismissed from the college. access to CIA faculty while not enrolled when non-majors can observe and Further, students who earn a GPA but working toward completion of the participate in major-related studio activities. between 1.1 and 1.9 in their first BFA thesis. The Non-Enrolled Candidate semester of enrollment are subject to fee is listed on the fee schedule at Advising is also available for students who dismissal. cia.edu/tuition. Continuation of work on need assistance in selecting a major. In the the BFA thesis without registration as a major application, students will be asked to Appeal of Dismissal full-time (12 credit minimum) student may indicate their first, second, and third choice Students who are dismissed and who have implications for scheduling of the of major. believe there are extenuating circumstances student’s loan repayments. Contact the affecting their academic standing may Financial Aid Office for further information. Acceptance into a major is dependent on appeal to the Vice President of Faculty portfolio review, academic preparation, and Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, whose an informational interview with faculty of the decision will be final. Appeals must be in major. Notification of major acceptance is writing and be received by the Vice made in writing by Academic Services. President in accordance with the following Completion of Foundation courses does deadlines: June 15 (for fall readmission) not guarantee acceptance into a major. and January 3 (for spring readmission). Students who are not accepted into their It is highly recommended that students first choice major, or who are accepted on consult with the Director of Academic probation, should contact Academic Services before filing an appeal. Services for assistance.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 45 Double Majors Financial aid and scholarship Degree Requirements To double major, students must apply to, implications: Candidates for the BFA degree from and be accepted by both majors. Federal Title IV financial aid programs are Cleveland Institute of Art are required to Completing both programs may take longer intended to assist students in completing have completed between 126 and 135 than four years, depending on the their first bachelor’s degree. If a student semester credit hours, depending on their combination of majors. Extending beyond completes the requirements for one major, major field of study. Approximately one-third four years may have financial implications. applies to graduate and is certified by the of these credits are in liberal arts or general Registrar as having been awarded that studies, with the balance in studio areas A minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA is degree, they will have fulfilled the intent of (including major studio courses). Individual required at the time the student declares the Title IV programs and will no longer be departments (majors) may have specific a double major. eligible for any need-based funding from course requirements among the liberal arts government sources. In this case, the or studio electives. Requirements to Pursuing degree requirements: student will be able to continue enrollment complete a degree in each major can be Students must start the process by at CIA to complete the second major, but obtained from Academic Services and in notifying Academic Services of their intent will not be eligible for any financial aid grants this catalog, Section 8. to double major. An advisor will discuss with from governmental sources (see below). them the process and provide an overview Unless there is a special circumstance that In addition to meeting credit and curriculum of how the two majors will fit together. warrants it, or the student expects to requirements, degree candidates are also self-finance continuing enrollment for the required to present a BFA thesis exhibition If, following this initial meeting, students second major, they should not apply for for evaluation by faculty and peers. choose to continue with the double major graduation until requirements for BOTH Students are eligible to present their process: majors have been completed. BFA if they have nine or fewer credits nn Academic Services will create a outstanding toward their BFA degree. combined program of study for them. Federal and State financial aid (including nn Department chairs of both majors will loans) for which the student is eligible will To qualify for graduation, students must approve the program of study, which continue provided they maintain eligibility in have at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA in their will be a binding document of student’s all ways required (financial and academic) major studio courses, and an overall academic requirements. as long as the student has not been GPA of 2.0. nn Department chairs of both majors will certified as having completed and sign the Declaration of Double Major graduated from one of the majors. Students are informed of their credit form that accompanies the program of standings regularly throughout their course study. As the student nears the completion of at of study, and their status is available online nn Student will submit the signed least one of the majors, they are strongly at myCIA, our online student portal. If it is Declaration of Double Major form and encouraged to meet with a Financial Aid projected that the student will have nine or program of study to the Registrar, who counselor to remind them that the student fewer credits outstanding toward degree will make official record of the action. is pursuing a double major, are nearing completion at the end of the fourth year, the nn If a student decides to discontinue their completion of one major, and discuss what BFA review will be scheduled. Note that any double major at any point, they will need the best action would be as the student student who is projected to be short any to meet with an advisor in Academic plans to complete the second major. number of credits by the end of their fourth Services and complete a Declaration of year (the semester in which the BFA review Single Major (from Double Major) form. Change of Major will take place) will be ineligible for Students who wish to change their major consideration for the Cleveland Institute of Applying for degree certification: are required to file a Change of Major Art President’s Traveling Scholarships. Students with a double major should Request Form with the Registrar. They must consult with the department chairs of both also submit a portfolio of their work to the Students with credit deficiencies may opt majors, the Registrar, and a Financial Aid chair of the department to which they wish to postpone their BFA review until the Counselor before applying for degree to transfer. The Change of Major Request deficiencies are completed so they can be certification. There are financial aid Form may be obtained from Academic eligible to participate in the President’s implications if a student is certified as Services. Traveling Scholarship competition and the graduated from one major and returns to Commencement ceremony. complete the second major. In most Changing majors may have financial aid instances, students should apply for implications, so students are encouraged to concurrent graduation from both majors. discuss with Academic Services and the Office of Financial Aid.
46 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Graduation and Commencement Family Educational Rights and purposes. At the discretion of the college, Students who will complete all degree Privacy Act (FERPA) information regarding abuse of alcohol or requirements by the end of the spring In accordance with the Family Educational drugs not prescribed by a physician may be semester of their last year at CIA and have Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 reported to parents if the student is less satisfied all outstanding obligations to the (amended in 2008) (http://www2.ed.gov/ than 21 years of age. Information college, are eligible to participate in the policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html) considered as “directory” information may Commencement ceremony. CIA holds its students may inspect and challenge school also be released without the student’s prior Commencement ceremony in May. While a educational records maintained in their written consent unless they notify the student may complete degree requirements name. The CIA FERPA policy defines a college in writing, by the end of the fourth at the end of the fall semester, there is no student as a person who attends or has week of classes, that the student does not ceremony in December. attended CIA. Educational records are wish to have the information released. defined as any record in any medium During prescheduling for their final fall maintained by the college which is directly The following is text from the Federal FERPA semester, students should complete the related to a student except for the following: website and indicates the expansion of Application for Graduation, available online nn personal records kept by a staff member information that can be shared in the through myCIA. Completion of this form that are not accessible to other persons; interest of student health and safety: notifies the Registrar to include the student nn records created and maintained by the in all communication concerning college’s operations or security offices “…Although FERPA does not permit preparation for graduation. for law enforcement purposes; disclosures of personally identifiable nn employment records where employment information on a routine, non-emergency Students with more than three credits is not contingent on the fact that the basis, the final regulations afford greater outstanding at the end of their final year individual is a student; flexibility and deference to administrators and those who have not presented their nn records maintained by a physician, so that they can bring appropriate resources BFA Exhibition will not be permitted to psychiatrist, psychologist, or other to bear when there is a threat to the participate in the commencement ceremony. recognized professional used only for health or safety of students. Section 99.36 treatment of a student, in the final regulations makes clear that All students eligible for graduation are nn and alumni records containing educational agencies and institutions may charged a graduation fee as part of their information after the student is no longer disclose information from education records tuition and fees in their last semester of in attendance which does not relate to to appropriate parties, including parents, enrollment. This fee covers various the person as a student. whose knowledge of the information is Commencement expenses, including but necessary to protect the health or safety not limited to cap and gown purchase, Students may inspect and review their of a student or another individual if there and printing of diplomas, announcements, educational records upon written request to is a significant and articulable threat to tickets, and programs. Measurements the Registrar or the appropriate records the health or safety of a student or for caps and gowns and confirmation of custodian. There will be no fee charged for other individual, considering the totality names for diplomas are taken by the photocopying a reasonable number of of the circumstances. Registrar’s Office during course records. CIA has the right to refuse access prescheduling for the spring semester. Caps to a student’s own records under the The final regulations clarify that under and gowns are distributed during following circumstances: §§ 99.5 and 99.36 an educational agency Commencement rehearsal. Graduation nn the student has an unpaid financial or institution may disclose information to an announcements and tickets to the obligation to any College office or eligible student’s parents in a health or Commencement ceremony are distributed department; safety emergency, regardless of whether by the Registrar’s Office to the graduating nn the student owes overdue materials or the student is a dependent for Federal students approximately one month before equipment to the library or other College income tax purposes, and may disclose graduation. office or department; information to parents under any nn there is an unresolved disciplinary action circumstances if the eligible student is a Any student with an outstanding account against the student; or dependent for Federal income tax purpose… balance with any department or office nn the document requested is an exam or will not receive their diploma until all set of standardized test questions. CIA’s complete FERPA policy is available obligations have been satisfied. Graduates from the Registrar’s office, and is distributed with a tuition balance or unreturned library CIA reserves the right to release a student’s annually to all enrolled students. Students materials will not be allowed to participate educational records without their written may change their FERPA designations at in Commencement ceremonies. consent to school officials who have a any time. legitimate educational interest in the records, and to a student’s parents if the student is Student Records claimed as a dependent for income tax
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 47 Transcripts Change of Address or Name Transcripts must be requested in writing A change of address (permanent or college) and must include the student’s signature. or phone number must be filed with the A Transcript Request Form is accessible Registrar. Receipt of financial aid materials at cia.edu/registrar. and other important correspondence from CIA will depend on the our having the Written requests may be mailed or faxed to student’s correct contact information. Some the Registrar’s office (fax: 216.754.3385). information is sent by email, using only the Email requests will only be accepted as a official CIA email address. written attachment that includes the student’s signature. Transcripts are issued If a name has changed, students should if the student’s accounts are in good provide the Registrar with a copy of the standing with all administrative offices and marriage certificate or a copy of a court institutional departments. Transcripts for document that indicates that the name has currently enrolled, degree-seeking students been legally changed. are free-of-charge. Transcripts for former students, alumni, and continuing education Students who wish to be known on campus students carry a fee of $5 per transcript. by a “preferred” name may indicate that Allow one week for transcript processing. name to the Registrar. The preferred name Requests for a “rush” transcript (mailed will be used on internal documents (e.g. within 24 hours) require an additional fee of class rosters), but the legal name will be $15 (plus the cost of Express Mail if that used in all external correspondence and service is requested). Transcript fees apply records (e.g. financial aid) if the name is not whether the transcript is official or unofficial. legally changed.
Students bear full responsibility for any consequences resulting from their failure to report promptly a new address or a name change.
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 49 Academic Support Services New students with documented disabilities fourth-year students who have both Academic Advising should register with LSS through the experience with writing at the college level The Office of Academic Services, located summer StART online program. They will and training in various aspects of how to in room 120, provides academic advising then arrange for a consultation with LSS tutor writing. Faculty and staff supervise the on a walk-in basis and by appointment. staff prior to the Fall Orientation, at which students and work directly with students Students have the opportunity to meet with time appropriate accommodations will be who need help. A member of Learning an academic advisor about curriculum established. Continuing students should Support Services also assists students in planning, course selection, and other contact LSS staff as soon as they complete the Center. The Center also provides academic decisions. Students who are their course prescheduling each semester services in the residence hall; times are deficient with respect to course credits or so as to provide sufficient time for posted each semester. on academic probation will be required to accommodations to be reviewed and meet with an academic advisor before arranged. Career Center prescheduling courses for the The Career Center is dedicated to providing next semester. Students with documented learning students and alumni with the necessary disabilities are accommodated by tools, resources, and strategies that will Students are expected to read and specialized support materials, including assist them in identifying and reaching their understand the academic policies explained the following: personal career goals. For a full description in this Catalog and the Student Handbook nn Text-to-speech software; of the Career Center’s services, go to and to accept ultimate responsibility for the nn Voice recognition software; cia.edu/careercenter. Services include: decisions they make. In no case will a nn Brain-mapping software; and degree requirement be waived or an nn Audio books. nn One-on-one career advising exception granted because individuals nn Assistance with resumé and profess ignorance of regulations or assert Students registered with LSS can also cover letter writing that an advisor or another authority did not receive, as appropriate: nn Coaching on interview techniques inform them of academic policies or nn extended testing time; and job search skills procedures. Students are encouraged to nn oral exams or exams administered in nn Connections to alumni for career meet with an academic advisor whenever controlled surroundings; and exploration and information they have a question or concern, and they nn note-taking assistance nn Assistance in obtaining credit or are expected to review in a timely manner non-credit-bearing internships materials and notices sent to them. Further, the Writing + Learning Center, nn On-campus recruiting program which is available to all students who need nn Lifelong access to services to assist Learning Support Services assistance with writing, also serves as the in career transition Learning Support Services provides main hub for specialized software for accommodations and academic support students with documented learning College Central services that ensure equal access to disabilities. This comprehensive online system offers programs, facilities, and services for listings of opportunities including campus students with documented learning, Writing + Learning Center work-study jobs, internships, freelance, psychological, and/or physical disabilities. Staff of the Writing + Learning Center can competitions, and full-time career positions. In addition, staff members offer study skills assist you with the following: The system allows students and alumni to and time management workshops, provide nn generating ideas and developing upload a resumé and portfolio so that ongoing advising, and arrange for tutoring brainstorming strategies to get started potential employers can view their work and for liberal arts courses. on an assignment; and contact them for possible employment. nn organizing ideas, crafting a thesis collegecentral.com/cia Students who request services due to a statement, restructuring an essay, diagnosed disability must provide relevant clarifying and expanding key points, It is strongly recommended that students and current documentation before following citation guidelines, refining who are looking into freelancing use a accommodations can be provided. grammar and word choices, etc. contract when arranging for the job. The LSS staff works with students and Guidance on creating a contract is available. their faculty members to determine You can use the Center’s resources reasonable accommodations to meet the throughout your CIA career, from developing The Career Center lists on-campus and documented needs. Accommodations your first essays to polishing your BFA approved off-campus work-study jobs, and are reviewed each semester. thesis. Appointments are not necessary, but assists students in completing the forms if the Center staff are busy, you may be that are required before students can qualify asked to wait for help or return at another for employment. time. Most sessions last about 30 minutes. The Center is staffed by second, third, and
50 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Internships Personal Support Services Health Services An internship is a work-related learning Personal Advising All full-time students are required to pay a experience that provides students or recent The college years mark a time when Health Services fee (see cia.edu/tuition). graduates with an opportunity to gain students may face new challenges and This fee entitles students to both health care important knowledge, experience, and skills undergo significant personal and social and professional counseling services in a particular field. Internships can be paid changes that can affect their academic through Case Western Reserve University or unpaid, part- or full-time, credit- or performance, career plans, personal life, or (CWRU). non-credit-bearing. relationships. Understanding and adjusting to these challenges and changes is not The CWRU University Health Services The Career Center can assist students always easy, and students often seek help (UHS) at 2145 Adelbert Road provides in their searches for internships. It’s from others. If students are experiencing comprehensive care for CIA students. For a recommended that the search be started concerns that are affecting their ability to complete list of services, see students.case. at least one semester before the student keep up with classes or maintain a good edu/health. wants to begin the experience. International social balance, help is available from the students are eligible for internships, and Student Affairs staff. Students are welcome CWRU also has a medical insurance plan must meet with the International Student to stop by and discuss their concerns or just available for students who do not have other Advisor to obtain work approval before talk. If additional assistance is needed, or if insurance coverage (students.case.edu/ beginning a job off-campus. All students these professionals feel that they don’t have medicalplan). The charge for this plan is must meet the eligibility requirements of the expertise to meet the student’s needs, automatically added to each CIA student’s class standing and GPA before they can they will refer the student to University account unless proof of other health begin an internship. Contact the Experiential Counseling Services (UCS). CIA staff will insurance coverage is provided at the time Learning Specialist for details. accompany students to UCS if requested. of payment of each semester’s bill. If proof is provided, the charge is withdrawn. A credit-bearing internship is part of the University Counseling Services (UCS) is academic program, and must offer a located in 220 Sears Building in the quad All new students are required to complete learning component which advances the area of Case Western Reserve University medical and immunization histories through student’s skills in their field. It is a formal (CWRU). A counselor is available 24/7 at an online system. Information on this collaboration among the student, employer, 216.368.5872. First-time appointments are process is included with summer orientation CIA faculty, and the Experiential Learning scheduled for about 60 minutes to give time materials. Medical histories are kept on file Specialist. Particulars about how an for the student to explore their concerns, at UHS as a basis for meeting future experience can qualify for academic credit, thoughts, and feelings with a counselor. medical needs. Fulfilling the requirements the number of credits possible, charges These appointments are usually scheduled listed on the medical and immunization for earned credit, and how to set up a within 14 days of the initial request. history forms prior to enrollment is credit-bearing internship are found at Students with immediate needs are seen necessary to file claims against insurance. cia.edu/careercenter. ASAP for a 30-minute assessment meeting. Consultation for emergency situations is UHS is now using an online process to A non-credit-bearing internship is less available without an appointment. update the health history. Information on formal, but the Career Center encourages this process and login procedures are sent interns and employers to follow the general UCS is staffed by psychologists, social to new students before they enroll. credit-bearing internship guidelines to workers, and consulting psychiatrists who students.case.edu/health maximize the success of the experience. specialize in working with college students. The Experiential Learning Specialist is Workshops, seminars, and groups are available to address issues concerning the offered each semester on topics such as specifics of an internship. anxiety management, drug/alcohol education, women’s issues, stress The Career Center exercises reasonable management, and eating disorders. precautions to qualify all internship The cost of most services is included in opportunities, and strongly advises students the mandatory health services fee; to research and screen potential employers some specialty services may require an carefully. Students are welcome to check additional fee. with the Career Center about any employer with which they are not familiar.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 51 Veterans’ Benefits International Students Information Technology CIA is approved for Veterans’ Administration CIA is approved by the U.S. Department of Support (VA) educational benefits and is a “Yellow State to issue documentation that will CIA’s Information Technology department Ribbon” school. VA enrollment certifications enable non-immigrant students to secure an supports technology in the learning for benefits are processed through the F-1 student visa. Questions and problems environment, including computer labs. Registrar. CIA has a maximum enrollment regarding immigration matters Students are responsible for using the limit of ten Yellow Ribbon students each of other international student concerns technology resources on campus in an academic year. New students must be should be directed to the International appropriate manner. The rules and accepted for admission to the BFA program Student Advisor. regulations concerning use of computing and have made an Admissions deposit, resources on campus and the or continuing students must preschedule F-1 students are responsible for ensuring consequences of misuse, including classes for the next semester before that they maintain valid status while enrolled illegal file sharing, are detailed in the CIA enrollment certifications will be forwarded at CIA. Advising concerning academic Student Handbook. to the VA. course loads, travel outside the U.S., employment during and after enrollment All full- and part-time students receive a Certification processing to the VA begins in at CIA, and other visa issues is available CIA email account. Students are expected July for the fall semester and in December from the International Activities Advisor. to use their CIA email in all correspondence for the spring semester. Post-9/11 and All students on an F-1 visa must report to with administrative staff and faculty, and to Yellow Ribbon tuition benefits are sent the Dean of Student Affairs at least once retrieve broadcasts and notifications about directly to CIA and are applied toward the each semester. events, deadlines, activities, and student’s tuition and fees. Benefits to emergencies on campus. Messages from students attending under Chp. 35 are sent International students participate in many CIA will not be sent to other email directly to the student. Benefits are normally activities and are leaders in several student addresses. Failure to read a message in a issued 4–6 weeks after certifications are organizations. The international student timely manner does not absolve students received by the VA. orientation helps students become part of from being responsible for knowing the the CIA community, and the International content of or following the instructions or Students must be certified for VA benefits Club (whose members consist of students timelines indicated in a message. by the Registrar in each semester in which from other countries as well as the U.S.) they are enrolled. Questions regarding VA plans festivals, celebrations, and Students should go to the “Technology” tab benefits should be directed to the Registrar “adventures” throughout the year. at my.cia.edu to find information on software by email ([email protected]) or by phone discounts, links to instructions on how to set (216.421.7321). [email protected] up CIA email, access to equipment available to check out, and other student systems.
The myCIA portal includes access to CIA’s emergency alert system e2Campus, via the alerts tab. All students are automatically enrolled in e2Campus using their CIA email address, but can add their contact points by adding additional email addresses, text, and voice numbers to receive emergency messages.
Requests for technology support can be submitted to [email protected].
52 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Digital Output Center Cleveland Institute of Art available to answer questions and provide The Digital Output Center (DOC) specializes Gund Library personalized assistance. in fine art reproduction and display graphics “Helpful, Awesome, Amazing, Friendly, for artists and designers. It was created by Magical” are some of the expressions used The Gund Library participates in a local artists for artists, and is dedicated to to describe the Gund Library with its consortium that includes all of the libraries producing work that matches the creative collections and services developed of Case Western Reserve University as well vision of its clients. With our expert staff specifically for visual artists, designers, and as the Cleveland Institute of Music and the providing guidance and assistance to craftspeople. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and students in understanding file preparation, Archives. CIA shares an online catalog with color management, and media choices, the The library contains: these libraries, and students may borrow DOC is as much a learning experience as it nn Over 51,000 books, exhibition catalogs, materials from these partner libraries. is a production facility. and bound journals; nn more than 150,000 ebooks; The Gund Library also participates in Patrons can rest assured that their work is nn subscriptions to magazines that provide OhioLINK, a statewide consortium of 121 being printed according to industry insight to current topics in art and Ohio academic libraries owning nearly 50 standards and methods used by artists, design; million items. CIA students may use the museums, and design firms, to produce nn access to over 5 million digital images OhioLINK online catalog to request their own digitally printed material. Archival for study and download; materials from any member library to be prints produced at up to 2400 dpi provide nn sound recordings, videos, DVDs, and delivered, within a few days and at no stunning color and image quality on a wide access to over 25,000 streaming video charge, to the CIA library for their use. variety of papers, films, canvas, and fabrics. titles; Through OhioLINK, CIA students have This service is provided at the cost of nn access to online databases and full text access to over 100 multi-disciplinary digital production to CIA students, faculty and resources covering every imaginable databases and thousands of e-books, staff, and is a wonderful resource for area of study; digital images, videos, and digital music producing and presenting digital work of nn and an extensive collection of over 1,770 files. all types. artists’ books (books made by artists as works of art). Lastly, Cleveland is a very library-rich The status of submitted jobs can be community with award-winning public tracked and managed at papercut.cia.edu, In addition, the library has a pop-up book libraries. CIA is located within walking and work can be submitted online at collection, a board game collection, and distance of the specialized libraries of the my.cia.edu/doc. CIA’s archives. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland Digital Equipment Checkout The library supports the college’s Museum of Natural History, and the Western The Cleveland Institute of Art Equipment accredited degree programs, with a special Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland Public Checkout is the campus resource for all focus on providing materials for studio- Library and Cuyahoga County Public digital art and photo-video needs. intensive instruction, and is international in Library both have nearby branches and We have $300,000+ worth of equipment, scope. The library documents the major provide additional resources. including laptops and ipads, Wacom tablets participants, events, and trends of and Cintiqs, and high-end DSLR cameras international contemporary art, design, The library is attractive, functional, and filled and 4k Video equipment, available, photography, craft, and new media; with art; it has plenty of study tables and library-style, for students to borrow for includes theory and technical information as lounge seating, two group study rooms, as their creative work and assignments. well as visual resources; and makes well as computers, scanners, and printers. available a variety of professional, legal, and The Checkout also offers training on business information for artists. equipment and other educational resources, as well as workstudy and student work The library’s collection of contemporary art opportunities and training. publications ranks with the best American college libraries, and its artists’ books To learn more visit the Equipment Checkout collection is nationally recognized. at my.cia.edu/checkout. The librarians provide instruction on how to do research, select and search databases cite sources, and evaluate websites and information sources, as well as how to locate and borrow materials in other area libraries. Library staff members are always
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 53 Supporting Student Enrichment Galleries at CIA Gund Library Cinematheque The mission of the Reinberger Galleries is to The library is a specialized library for visual Founded in 1986, the Cleveland Institute of serve the Cleveland Institute of Art in artists and supports the college’s Art Cinematheque presents new and classic exhibiting and fostering the understanding accredited degree programs, with a focus motion pictures—foreign films, independent of the finest modern and contemporary art on providing materials for studio-intensive movies, thematic film series, touring at the highest possible scholarly standards. instruction. As such, the library is crucial for retrospectives, second-run films, and special The programs of Reinberger students wanting to keep abreast of guests—50 weekends of the year in the Galleries adhere to the overall mission of the developments and trends in their area Peter B. Lewis Theater. college, embracing its values of academic of study. Beyond classroom and studio excellence, social justice, and freedom of support, the library provides pleasure Approximately 250 different feature films expression. reading materials, comfortable study areas, (or full-length programs of short films) and a group study room. Visit are shown every year in over 450 separate The gallery is dedicated to creating cia.edu/library. screenings. Many offerings are local exhibitions that illuminate and reinforce premieres. Movies are projected from DPC contemporary art, including new media, Public Events and 35mm film. The New York Times has animation, installation and performance, Throughout the year, we host a wide variety called the Cinematheque “one of the video, drawing and painting, sculpture, of events that celebrate the diversity of country’s best repertory movie theatres.” design and craft. The gallery recognizes visual art. You’re invited to join us. For more that the enhancement of the aesthetic information, visit cia.edu. Cinematheque screenings are open to the experience is essential to fostering general public (attracting thousands of understanding of works of art. moviegoers every year) and require an admission fee. But CIA students can attend Ancillary programs furthering its aesthetic any Cinematheque presentation for the role, such as artist lectures, panel discounted member price simply by discussions, gallery tours, films, and showing their CIA ID at the box office. internships have been part of the gallery’s (People age 25 and under also pay the mission since the early 1990s. same price.) The gallery seeks to enrich educational, The Cinematheque publishes a bi-monthly cultural and artistic communities regionally, film schedule. You can find Cinematheque nationally and internationally through listings online at cia.edu/cinematheque. short-term artist residencies, newly commissioned works of art, and institutional Continuing Education collaborations while being accessible Our office of Continuing Education + to a public that ranges from scholars to Community Outreach (CECO) offers art and young children. design classes for adults and children For more information, visit throughout the year. Pay-as-you-go life cia.edu/exhibitions. drawing classes are available to the community throughout the year as well. We offer professional enrichment opportunities for art educators to earn CEUs through teacher workshops and graduate credit through a summer teacher residency. CECO coordinates a summer pre-college program for high school students who want to experience life as an art student. In addition, CECO is the Cuyahoga County regional host of the Scholastic Art + Writing Competition. For more information, visit cia.edu/continuinged.
54 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Section 7: Student Life
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 55 Housing Off-Campus Housing Recreational Facilities On-Campus Housing If you are not required to live in the On-campus residents can use the fitness First- and second-year students live on on-campus housing and want to live facilities in the residence halls. campus in CIA-owned housing. Living on off-campus, Student Life + Housing campus for your first two years eases the maintains a list of available apartments near You can purchase a semester or annual transition of moving away from home while the campus and provides a “roommate membership at CWRU’s physical fitness learning the necessary skills of living on wanted” board to assist you in finding a CIA facilities near campus. (studentaffairs.case. your own. roommate(s). In addition, Student Life + edu/athletics/facilities/membership.html). Housing holds several workshops to assist The Sam Emerson Physical Education Residency requirements students in the transition from living Building, located at 10900 Euclid Avenue, All unmarried, first-time college students on-campus to includes a swimming pool, two weight who are under 20 years of age are required moving off-campus. rooms, squash and racquetball courts, to live in the residence hall for their first two fencing and wrestling rooms, a rifle range, a academic years. Students with parents or Information and forms concerning on- and large gymnasium and the Athletic Office. guardians within Ohio’s Cuyahoga County off-campus housing can be found at Facilities for track, basketball, baseball, are considered to be within commutable cia.edu/housing. volleyball, tennis and intramural sports are distance to the college. also available.
All students living in the residence halls are Another option popular with students (a required to join the Case Western Reserve month-to-month membership available) is University meal plan (a variety of meal plans 1-2-1 Fitness, located on Adelbert Street on are available). Most students select the CWRU campus (onetoone.case.edu). CaseCash, which enables them to use the funds on their student IDcard, like a debit Activities card, in area restaurants and shops. Student Activities Looking for something to do on campus? Students new to CIA who are 20 years of The Office of Student Life + Housing offers age or older are not given priority to live in a variety of events and programs for you to on-campus housing. If students in either of take advantage of. If you want to laugh, we these categories desire to live on campus, host movie nights, improv nights and drag they will be put on a waiting list according to bingo. Do you like Lazer Tag? If you are into the date of their housing deposit. If there is tradition, we have that too. For over 60 housing available after mid-July, those on years, CIA students have planned the the wait list will be assigned housing. Student Independent Exhibition (SIE) and the student Halloween party. Our end-of- First-year students live in the Uptown the-year event, the Pink Pig, is also Residence Hall, located on Euclid Avenue, something that you will not want to miss. within view of the CIA campus, MOCA and the Uptown development. Please see the Student Life + Housing Office for all the offerings. Second-year students live in Euclid 117 Apartments, just across the street from our Athletic Activities academic campus. Need to get out of the studio and stretch those legs? Are you a high school athlete Limited availability to additional upper-class looking to relive the glory days? Stop by the students is also available in these Office of Student Life + Housing for apartments. Any upperclass student who information on how to play intramurals at wishes to live in a CIA apartment can enter CIA. In conjunction with CWRU, sports a lottery in the Spring. ranging from ultimate Frisbee to flag football are at your fingertips.
56 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Kulas Ticket Program CIA Activities Board (CAB) Glass Club How about a little culture in your life? Need a lift? Jump on the CAB wagon and If you are into potlucks and molten hot glass The Kulas Ticket Fund, supported through a help plan or just participate in great acts (at the same time!), then this group is for grant from the Kulas Foundation, allows like comedians, illusionists, musicians, as you. Glass Club not only comes together to students to attend performances from the well as activities like Drag Bingo, Tour de talk about their work, but brings in guest Cleveland Orchestra, Broadway plays, and Thrift (our annual thrifting trip to prepare for artists to talk to students about different opera for free. Look for advertisements Halloween), an annual t-shirt design techniques in glassblowing. Best part: you posted throughout campus of when tickets contest, or a dodgeball tournament. CAB is do not have to be a major to enjoy the fun. will be available. also responsible for the planning of great CIA traditions like the Halloween Party Photo Club and Pink Pig, our annual end-of-year CLICK! Photo club is a group that discusses Student Organizations celebration. the field of photography and critiques each Student Leadership Council (SLC) other’s work, brings in guest artists to talk to Make a difference on campus! Join Student ColorWheel students (majors or not), and sponsors trips Leadership Council! Comprised of Whether you are a GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, to see shows in the area and other cities like representatives from academic bisexual or transgendered) or an ally, this Chicago and New York. departments, student groups, and other group works to support GLBTQ students, concerned students, SLC meets once a while educating the campus about GLBTQ Student Independent Exhibition (SIE) month to discuss issues they face on issues. Over 60 years old, the Student Independent campus. They then serve as a bridge Exhibition is a time-honored tradition and between the student body and the faculty Student Holiday Art Sale Committee one of the exhibitions featured in the and staff. Want to make some money? The Student college’s Reinberger Galleries each year. Holiday Sale in early December is an annual The exhibition is sponsored by the Student All recognized student groups receive event where for $10 you can rent a table Leadership Council and offers students the funding through Student Leadership Council and sell your work. Students from a variety opportunity to introduce their work to the for their individual events. Student of departments come together to sell public for viewing and/or sale. Show rules, Leadership Council also sponsors trips to merchandise the weekend before final jury selection, publicity, exhibition design cities such as New York, Chicago and crits in Fall semester. and installation and the opening reception Washington DC. are organized and coordinated by students. Artists for Christ All majors are encouraged to submit work Student Clubs Artists for Christ is a student group that for exhibition consideration. There are a variety of organizations and gathers weekly to bring together Christian clubs at CIA. If you’re interested in starting a art students. The purpose of Artists for Other clubs include: club or organization that does not yet exist, Christ is to promote the spiritual life of CIA Black Scholars and Artists contact Student Life + Housing to get a club students by providing opportunities for Digital Media Club application form and find out more about Christian spiritual growth through worship, Illustration Club the process. Approved student groups fellowship, training and service. AFC is a Industrial Designers Society of America receive funding from SLC to support their local gathering of the Campus Crusade for (IDSA) student organization activities. Depending on the membership, Christ. Ask about their PB+Js! Video Game Club clubs may be more or less active each year. International Club Community Service Club The International Club provides campus Students at CIA love to serve the events, programming, and an opportunity community. The Community Service Club for students from around the world to share provides opportunities for service in the their culture while buildign friendships. University Circle neighborhood and in the Opportunities to visit cultural sites and enjoy greater Cleveland community. Some of the activities in Cleveland are planned each past activities include Ronald McDonald semester. House, Greater Cleveland AIDS walk, Trunk or Treat at Halloween, and making dinner for the residents of the Hope Lodge. The Community Service Club also hosts an Alternative Spring Break service trip where students do a week’s worth of service in New Orleans.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 57 Supporting Student Enrichment Galleries at CIA Gund Library Cinematheque The mission of the Reinberger Galleries is The Gund library is a special library for Founded in 1986, the Cleveland Institute to serve the Cleveland Institute of Art in visual artists and supports the college’s of Art Cinematheque presents new and exhibiting and fostering the understanding accredited degree programs, with a focus classic motion pictures—foreign films, of the finest modern and contemporary art on providing materials for studio-intensive independent movies, thematic film series, at the highest possible scholarly standards. instruction. As such, the library is crucial for touring retrospectives, second-run films, The programs of Reinberger Galleries students wanting to keep abreast of and special guests—50 weekends of the adhere to the overall mission of the college, developments and trends in their area of year in CIA’s Peter B. Lewis Theater. embracing its values of academic study. Beyond classroom and studio excellence, social justice, and freedom of support, the library provides pleasure Approximately 250 different feature films (or expression. reading materials, comfortable study areas, full-length programs of short films) are and a group study room. shown every year (over 450 separate The gallery is dedicated to creating Visit cia.edu/library. screenings). Many offerings are local exhibitions that illuminate and reinforce premieres. Movies are projected from contemporary art, including new media, Public Events 35mm film and DCP. The New York Times animation, installation and performance, Throughout the year, CIA hosts a wide has called the Cinematheque “one of the video, drawing and painting, sculpture, variety of events that celebrate the diversity country’s best repertory movie theatres.” design and craft. The gallery recognizes of visual art. You’re invited to join us. For that the enhancement of the aesthetic more information, visit cia.edu. Cinematheque screenings are open to the experience is essential to fostering general public (attracting thousands understanding of works of art. of moviegoers every year) and require an admission fee. But CIA students can attend Ancillary programs furthering its aesthetic any Cinematheque presentation for the role, such as artist lectures, panel discounted member price simply by discussions, gallery tours, films, and showing their CIA ID at the box office. internships have been part of the gallery’s mission since the early 1990s. The Cinematheque publishes a bi-monthly film schedule. Online listings are available at The gallery seeks to enrich educational, cia.edu/cinematheque. cultural and artistic communities regionally, nationally and internationally through short-term artist residencies, newly Continuing Education commissioned works of art, and institutional Our office of Continuing Education + collaborations while being accessible Community Outreach (CECO) offers art and to a public that ranges from scholars to design classes for adults and children young children. throughout the year. Pay-as-you-go life drawing classes are available to the community throughout the year as well. We offer professional enrichment opportunities for art educators through teacher workshops and graduate-level classes. CECO coordinates a summer pre-college program for high school students who want to experience life as an art student. In addition, CECO is the Cuyahoga County regional host of the Scholastic Art+Writing Competition. For more information, visit cia.edu/continuinged.
58 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Section 8: Degree Requirements
Overview of BFA Degree Requirements
First-Year Foundation and Liberal Arts Requirement
Engaged Practice Graduation Requirement
Liberal Arts Concentration and Emphasis
BY MAJOR: Industrial Design
Animation Interior Architecture
Biomedical Art Jewelry + Metals
Ceramics Painting
Drawing Photography + Video: Photography Track Game Design Photography + Video: Glass Video Track
Graphic Design Printmaking
Illustration Sculpture + Expanded Media
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 59 I. Overview of BFA A. First-Year Foundation B. Liberal Arts Degree Requirements All students must complete Foundation Liberal arts courses supplement the The BFA degree. studio requirements by the end of the studio curriculum throughout every The Cleveland Institute of Art grants the third academic year. Those deficient in academic program at CIA. Additionally, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree. A BFA Foundation studio courses will not be CIA’s curriculum includes specific liberal degree is the standard undergraduate permitted to begin the senior year thesis/ arts requirements that are “distributed” degree for students seeking a professional BFA preparation course(s). throughout your years in your major education in art. The BFA degree differs program. from a Bachelor of Arts degree in that a Fall Semester Credits much higher proportion of the program FND103D Digital Color Some major programs have specific consists of a studio practice component. (half-semester course) 1.5 courses assigned to specific distributed FND103M Material Color requirements. See the major program At CIA, the BFA degree requires completion (half-semester course) 1.5 course requirements, immediately following of between 120 and 135 semester credit FND107 Design I 3 this section of the catalog. hours depending on your major field of FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 study, see major degree requirement sheets FND117 Drawing I 3 C. BFA Thesis Exhibition beginning on page 62. Approximately FND140A Charette: Collaboration + All students must create a body of work, 1/3 of these credits are in Liberal Arts, with Community (half-semester course) 1.5 install an exhibition of this work, and present approximately 2/3 in studio courses. FND140B Charette: Self + Other it to a BFA faculty advisory committee, at Voices (half-semester course) 1.5 the end of your final year at CIA. Specific Common requirements. LLC101 Writing + Inquiry I: requirements of this body of work vary from To be able to graduate, all students must Basic Composition + Contemp Ideas 3 program to program; your faculty will review fulfill common requirements in: Total Fall Credit Hours 18 specifics with you. This capstone project nn Foundation is built into every program, and a grade is nn Liberal Arts assigned. Spring Semester Credits nn BFA Thesis Exhibition ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C: 3 nn Professional Practices D. Professional Practices FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 nn Engaged Practice All students must successfully complete a FND108 Design II 3 Professional Practices course. Three tracks FND118 Drawing II 3 Emphases and concentrations. of the course are available, based upon FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 Also included in this section is information your career goals. For complete course LLC102 Writing + Inquiry II: related to the completion of Concentrations descriptions for each track, please see Research + Intellectual Traditions 3 (additional 12 semester credits) or Section 9: Course Catalog, Professional Total Spring Credit Hours 18 Emphases (additional 18 semester credits) Practices + Engaged Learning (PPEL), on that students may elect to complete in page 143. specific Liberal Arts areas of study. For information on when Professional Minors/double majors. Practices is required to be taken, please CIA does not currently offer minors in refer to the degree audit sheet for your Liberal Arts or studio disciplines. For major, available through the Registrar’s information on completion of a double Office. studio major, see page 46. For more information, consult your What follows are specific course Academic Advisor. listings and related information to fulfill the above requirements. See pages 46-47 for additional information on degree requirements for graduation and commencement.
60 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog E. Engaged Practice on the student transcript. EP-designated II. Liberal Arts Concentration Definition courses carry the notation (EP) after the and Emphasis Engaged Practice (EP) is a 3-credit course title. Some EP-designated courses Creative Writing Concentration requirement of the BFA degree program are included in the annual Catalog, but for (12 credits) through which students have an opportunity a complete and updated listing, please If you are an artist or designer who also to learn through experience by working consult each semester’s course schedule of writes stories, graphic novels, and poems, on projects with external partners or offerings. our Creative Writing Concentration can clients, or in the public sphere. These keep you on track to grow as a creative experiences provide a distinctive element Internships writer—while you become a stronger visual to the baccalaureate education at CIA, Qualifying internships may be offered communicator. Or if you are planning developing skills and personal attributes through the Career Center, academic a career in illustration, graphic fiction, such as collaboration, communication, departments, or the Engaged Practice hub. game design, or film, and need the career and professionalism well in advance of Only qualifying internships that are taken advantage of excellent writing skills, this graduation. for credit in the sophomore, junior and Concentration allows you to work on your senior years may fulfill the EP graduation writing while you pursue your studio degree. Effective Fall 2016, beginning with incoming requirement. For more information, contact first-year students of the Class of 2020, your faculty advisor, your department chair, The Creative Writing Concentration is all undergraduate students are required and/or the Career Center, see page 50. comprised of 12 total credit hours (four to complete a minimum of three (3) courses), taken in the Liberal Arts. As a final credit hours of Engaged Practice prior to Alternate Pathways requirement of the Concentration, you’ll graduation, through: Other pathways to fulfill the requirement are create a body of written work. nn An EP-designated course at the 200, approved on a case-by-case basis, such as For more information, consult your 300, or 400 level a qualifying independent project or the BFA Academic Advisor. nn A qualifying internship in the sophomore, thesis project. Sophomore, junior or senior junior or senior year, or: students must apply for EP credit by the Visual Culture Emphasis (18 credits) nn Alternate pathways, for example, a pre-scheduling deadline for the semester This course of study will provide you with student-initiated or BFA project they plan to undertake these experiences. the skills to articulate your understanding For more information on how to apply, of theory and history of visual culture and Engaged Practice courses, internships and consult the Registrar or the Academic incorporate those perceptions into your own alternate pathways are those that provide all Director, Cores + Connections. studio work. In the Visual Culture Emphasis of the following requirements: you’ll study 18 credits of designated Liberal nn A structured learning experience Credits and Transcript Arts classes in addition to the Foundation nn A project with an external partner or While the EP graduation requirement Liberal Arts requirements. You’ll become a client, or in the public sphere is 3 credit hours, students may elect to stronger writer and communicator as these nn A project that is informed by the complete additional EP credits, as desired. studies help you reflect on how art and curriculum of the college, i.e., art, All Engaged Practice credit is reflected design are informed by concept, theory, and design, humanities, or the social on student transcripts, documenting history. sciences that students have completed qualifying, nn Faculty guidance and mentorship professionally engaged experiences with Areas of study include new media and film; nn A critical reflection component external partners or clients. non-Western and folk art; contemporary issues in art and design; art criticism; Courses popular and mass culture; philosophy and This graduation requirement may be aesthetics; and critical theory and methods satisfied by a course within a student’s of analysis. required core curriculum, within a student’s For more information, consult your major, or through an elective course. The Academic Advisor. course may be a studio or Liberal Arts course. Major programs, departments or the Professional Practices and Engaged Learning (PPEL) hub may offer designated Engaged Practice courses. Only 200-, 300- and 400-level courses may fulfill the 3-credit hour EP graduation requirement. Although EP-designated courses in Foundation or first-year Liberal Arts do not fulfill the EP graduation requirement, they will be noted
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 61 Animation (ANIM)
Major Requirements* 57 Credits ANIM201 Concept Development 3 ANIM209 Intro to Animation 3 ANIM220 Drawing for Animation 3 ANIM231 Acting & Directing 3 ANIM300 Specialization in Animation Production 3 ANIM307A Intro to 3D Anim 3 ANIM308 Advanced Animation 3 ANIM313 Narrative Production I 3 ANIM313A Narrative Production II 3 ANIM345 Intro to 3D Modeling 3 ANIM347 3D Texture, Mapping & Digital Lighting 3 ANIM350 Community Projects: Anim Production (EP) 3 ANIM401 BFA Research & Preparation 3 ANIM413 Narrative Production III 3 ANIM420 Animation Portfolio Reel & Shorts 3 GDS200 Graphic Design for Non-Majors 3 ILL367 Storyboarding & Sequential Art 3 IME402 BFA Thesis & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 LLC318 Screenwriting (for LLC req) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 24 Credits These courses need to be completed during your Notes: sophomore, junior, or senior year: A minimum of 3 credits designated Optional 3-credit internship to be ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required taken during the summer between ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 for graduation, through courses, Sophomore and Junior year or ACD486 or 487 Media Arts & Visual Culture (post-1960s elective) 3 internships, or independent between Junior and Senior year. LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 pathways. EP courses are noted 3 (three) Open Studio Elective 9 with an (EP) following the title. *These courses require a “C” or One may be fulfilled with ANIM Special Topics higher grade 1 (one) Open Liberal Arts elective 3
62 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Biomedical Art (BMA)
Major Requirements* 54 Credits Additional Major Requirements for BMA114 Principles of Biology 3 Human Gross Anatomy Track* 27 Credits BMA115 Principles of Biology II 3 BMA116 Anatomy & Physiology I (CWRU) 3 BMA250 Anatomy for the Artist 3 or science elective upon Dept. Chair approval) BMA253 Natural Science & Zoological Illus. (EP) 3 BMA411 Human Gross Anatomy** 6 BMA254 Intro to Digital Biomedical Illus. (EP) 3 6 (six) Open Studio Elective 18 BMA260 Line: Information Visualization 3 Three of which may be fulfilled with BMA356 Forensic Modeling, BMA264 Digital Color: Style & Representation in Science 3 and/or any two other BMA Special Topics Courses BMA345 Intro to 3D Modeling 3 BMA346 Intro to 3D Animation 3 BMA352 Surgical Illustration & Media (EP) 3 Additional Major Requirements for BMA353 BMA: Advanced Media Concepts 3 Anatomy + Physiology Track* 27 Credits BMA354 BMA: Advanced Problems, Concepts + Media 3 BMA116 Anatomy & Physiology I (CWRU) 3 BMA359 BMA: Interactive Narratives 3 BMA117 Anatomy & Physiology II (CWRU)** 3 BMA405 BMA BFA Thesis Research 3 **Human Gross Anatomy may replace Anatomy & Physiology II BMA470 Cellular & Molecular Illustration 3 in the junior spring semester. It is recommended that students GDS200 Graphic Design for Non-Majors 3 take only 12 studio credits if they plan on taking Human Gross IME402 BFA Statement & Exhibition 3 Anatomy foregoing a studio elective until senior year. PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3 1 (one) Upper-Level Science Elective 3 Approved by Dept. Chair 6 (six) Open Studio Elective 18 Three of which may be fulfilled with BMA356 Forensic Modeling, BMA407 Micro Narratives, and/or BMA Special Topics Course
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, FND103M Material Color 1.5 junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 (ACD) 3 FND107 Design I 3 ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present (ACD) 3 FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms FND108 Design II 3 or LLC Advanced Writing-Intensive (LLC) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 LLC213W Writing for the Sciences (SNS) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Post-1960s Art & Design History FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 (from selected list) 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Notes: A minimum of 3 credits designated Optional 0-credit Audit summer Engaged Practice (EP) is required internship to be taken either during for graduation, through courses, the summer between Sophomore internships, or independent and Junior year or between Junior pathways. EP courses are noted and Senior year. with an (EP) following the title. *These courses require a “C” or higher grade.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 63 Ceramics (CER)
Major Requirements* 48 Credits CDE200 Creative Process & Materials Studies 3 CDE201 Language of Materials 3 CDE300 Digital Surface & Image (EP) 3 CDE301 Digital Modeling & Making 3 CDE400 BFA Research & Thesis 3 CDE401 BFA Exhibition & Portfolio 3 CER210 Intro Ceramics 3 CER241M Ceramics Major Day/Special Projects 3 CER242M Ceramics Major Day/Special Projects 3 CER341M Ceramics Major Day/Special Projects 3 CER342M Ceramics Major Day/Special Projects 3 CER441M Ceramics Major Day/Special Projects 3 CER442M Ceramics Major Day/Special Projects 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3 2 (two) Craft Studio Elective 6
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 ACD376X American Craft History (ACD) or 3 FND107 Design I 3 ACD462 Design + Craft in Modern Culture (ACD) FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing-Intensive (LLC) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 (from selected list) FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 30 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: Notes: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 for graduation, through courses, Post-1960s Art + Design History Elective (from selected list) 3 internships, or independent 5 (five) Open Studio Elective 15 pathways. EP courses are noted Three credits each of Wheelworking and Mold-Making + Multiples with an (EP) following the title. required for graduation 1 (one) Open Liberal Arts elective 3
64 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Drawing (DRG)
Major Requirements* 39 Credits DRG215M Illusionism: Intro to Drawing 3 DRG216M 100 Drawings 3 DRG321M Drawing Beyond Observation 3 DRG360 Systems Drawing 3 DRG415M Drawing Major Day: Drawing in Context 3 DRG416M Drawing Major Day 3 VAT200 Image & Form 3 VAT202 Image & Form II: Reproducibility: 2D OR 3D 3 VAT300 Aesthetics, Style & Content 3 VAT327 Hybrid Approaches to Drg & Ptg: Digital Media 3 VAT400 The Role of the Artist as Producer (EP) 3 VAT493 BFA: Statement & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 LLC373W Art of the Personal Essay (LLC req) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp (LLC) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 42 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: Notes: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade ACD305 Vis Cltr & Manufact of Meaning (post-1960s elect) 3 for graduation, through courses, LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 internships, or independent 2 (two) VAT Studio Elective (outside of major) 6 pathways. EP courses are noted 5 (five) Open Studio Elective 15 with an (EP) following the title. 3 (three) Open Liberal Arts Elective 9
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 65 Game Design (GAME)
Major Requirements* 60 Credits ANIM201 Concept Development 3 ANIM209 Animation I 3 ANIM220 Drawing for Animation 3 ANIM307A Introduction to 3D Animation 3 GAME215 Introduction to Game Design 3 GAME216 Introduction Video Games 3 GAME318 Level Design 3 GAME320 Game Media Production I (EP) 3 GAME321 Game Media Production II 3 GAME322 Introduction to Game Development 3 GAME345 Intro to 3D Modeling 3 GAME347 Digital Texture & Lighting: Game Design Section 3 GAME401 BFA Preparation 3 GAME420 Game Media Production III 3 GAME421 Game Media Production IV 3 GAME430 Special VFX/Simulation & Virtual Reality 3 GDS200 Graphic Design For Non Majors 3 IME211 Sound Design 3 IME402 BFA Statement & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 LLC318 Screenwriting (for LLC req) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp (LLC) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 24 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 Notes: ACD486 Media Arts & Visual Culture (post-1960s elective) 3 A minimum of 3 credits designated Optional 3-credit internship to be LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required taken during the summer between 3 (three) Open Studio Elective 9 for graduation, through courses, Sophomore and Junior year or One may be fulfilled by internships, or independent between Junior and Senior year. GAME/BMA308 Serious Game Design pathways. EP courses are noted 1 (one) Open Liberal Arts Elective or with an (EP) following the title. *These courses require a “C” or CWRU General Studies Course 3 higher grade
66 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Glass (GLS)
Major Requirements* 42 Credits CDE200 Creative Process & Materials Studies 3 CDE201 Language of Materials 3 CDE300 Digital Surface & Image (EP) 3 CDE301 Digital Modeling & Making 3 CDE400 BFA Research & Thesis 3 CDE401 BFA Exhibition & Portfolio 3 GLS243 Intro Glass 3 GLS243M Glass Major Day 3 GLS244M Glass 3 GLS343M Glass 3 GLS344M Glass 3 GLS443M Glass 3 GLS444M Glass 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 ACD376X American Craft History (ACD) or 3 FND107 Design I 3 ACD462 Design + Craft in Modern Culture (ACD) FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing-Intensive (LLC) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 (from selected list) FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 36 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 Notes: 1 (one) Post-1960s Art + Design History Elective A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or (from selected list) 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade 2 (two) Craft Studio Elective 6 for graduation, through courses, 5 (five) Open Studio Elective 15 internships, or independent 1 (one) Open Liberal Arts Elective 3 pathways. EP courses are noted with an (EP) following the title.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 67 Graphic Design (GDS)
Major Requirements* 45 Credits GDS203 Typography I 3 GDS204 Typography II 3 GDS238 Graphics for Design 3 GDS265 Design for Communication I 3 GDS266 Design for Communication II 3 GDS305 Web Design/Interactive I 3 GDS320 User Exper/User Interface Des (EP) 3 GDS360 Production Seminar 3 GDS365 Design for Communication: Adv Studio I (EP) 3 GDS366 Design for Communication: Adv Studio II ** 3 GDS367 Contemporary Marketing ** (EP) 3 GDS465 Graphic Design : BFA Thesis 3 GDS466 Graphic Design: BFA Seminar 3 PHV295 Intro Photo: Digital & Film 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3 **These two studio classes are required unless student has designed an alternative track with the approval of the department chair.
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND108 Design II 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing Intensive (LLC) FND117 Drawing I 3 (from selected list) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Composition 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 39 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 1 (one) Post-1960s Art + Design History Elective Notes: (from selected list) 3 A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or 7 (seven) Open Studio Elective 21 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade One may be fulfilled with Digital Photo I and two may be fulfilled for graduation, through courses, with an internship during your junior or senior year internships, or independent 2 (two) Open Liberal Arts Elective 6 pathways. EP courses are noted with an (EP) following the title.
68 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Illustration (ILL)
Major Requirements* 48 Credits ANIM201 Concept Development 3 GDS200 Graphic Design for Non-Majors 3 ILL260 Layout Rendering Techniques 3 ILL263 Fundamentals of Illustration 3 ILL264 Principles of Illustration 3 ILL265 Character Design & Development 3 ILL363 Illustration for Publication 3 ILL364 Illustration II 3 ILL367 Storyboarding & Sequential Art 3 ILL370 Professional Standards in Illustration or ILL389 Community Projects: Illus & Prod Workshop (EP) 3 ILL371 Visual Concepts in Illustration 3 ILL463A BFA Preparation 3 ILL463B Advanced Illustration Studio Projects 3 ILL464B Illustration Final Proj: Illus Portfolio/Visual Essay 3 IME402 BFA Thesis & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND108 Design II 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing-Intensive (LLC) FND117 Drawing I 3 (from selected list) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 27 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 Notes: LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 A minimum of 3 credits designated Optional 3-credit internship to be 1 (one) Post-1960s Art + Design History Elective Engaged Practice (EP) is required taken during the summer between (from selected list) 3 for graduation, through courses, Sophomore and Junior year or 4 (four) Open Studio Elective 12 internships, or independent between Junior and Senior year. One may be fulfilled with ILL Special Topics pathways. EP courses are noted 1 (one) Open Liberal Arts Elective 3 with an (EP) following the title. *These courses require a “C” or higher grade
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 69 Industrial Design (IND)
Major Requirements* 36 Credits Additional Major Requirements* 24 Credits GDS237 Graphics for Design 3 IND286 Communication Skills 3 GDS238 Graphics for Design 3 IND336B Industrial Design (EP) 3 IND235 Industrial Design 3 IND336C Industrial Design (EP) 3 IND236 Industrial Design (EP) 3 IND403 ID: 3D Modeling 3 IND239 Materials & Processes 1.5 IND404 ID: 3D Modeling 3 IND240 Materials & Processes 1.5 IND435B Industrial Design 3 IND280** Ergonomics (for SNS req) 3 IND435C Industrial Design 3 IND285 Communication Skills 3 IND436 Industrial Design (BFA Statemen/Exhib) 3 IND303 ID: 3D Modeling 3 IND304 ID: 3D Modeling 3 IND335 Industrial Design 3 IND375 Marketing & Design 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 12 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND108 Design II 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing Intensive (LLC) FND117 Drawing I 3 (from selected list) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Composition 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 27 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Notes: ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 A minimum of 3 credits designated with an (EP) following the title. LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required 1 (one) Post-1960s Art + Design History Elective for graduation, through courses, *These courses require a “C” or (from selected list) 3 internships, or independent higher grade 5 (five) Open Studio Elective 15 pathways. EP courses are noted
70 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Industrial Design: Transportation Track (INDT)
Major Requirements* 36 Credits Additional Requirements for GDS237 Graphics for Design 3 Transportation Track* 36 Credits GDS238 Graphics for Design 3 IND251T Transportation Design 1.2 3 IND235 Industrial Design 3 IND288T Communication Skills: Transportation 3 IND236 Industrial Design (EP) 3 IND350T Transportation Design 2.1 (EP) 3 IND239 Materials & Processes 1.5 IND351T Transportation Design 2.2 (EP) 3 IND240 Materials & Processes 1.5 IND352T Automotive Design Language 1.1 3 IND280** Ergonomics (for SNS req) 3 IND353T Automotive Design Language 1.2 3 IND285 Communication Skills 3 IND450T Transportation Design 3.1 (EP) 3 IND303 ID: 3D Modeling 3 IND451T Transportation Design 3.2: IND304 ID: 3D Modeling 3 BFA Statement & Exhibition (EP) 3 IND335 Industrial Design 3 IND452T Advanced Automotive Design Language 2.1 3 IND375 Marketing & Design 3 IND453T Advanced Automotive Design Language 2.2 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3 IND454T 3D Modeling for Transportation 1.1 3 IND455T 3D Modeling for Transportation 1.2 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 12 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND108 Design II 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing Intensive (LLC) FND117 Drawing I 3 (from selected list) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Composition 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 18 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Notes: ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade 1 (one) Post-1960s Art + Design History Elective for graduation, through courses, (from selected list) 3 internships, or independent 2 (two) Open Studio Elective 6 pathways. EP courses are noted one may be substituted with with an (EP) following the title. IND250 Transportation Design 1.1
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 71 Interior Architecture (INTA)
Major Requirements* 57 Credits GDS237 Graphics for Design 3 GDS238 Graphics for Design 3 INTA231A Space & Planning Fundamentals 3 INTA231B Architectural Drawing & Documentation 3 INTA232A Retail, Restaurant, & Store Design 3 INTA232B Materials, Research, & Space Planning 3 INTA285 INTA Communication Skills 3 INTA286 INTA Communication Skills 3 INTA331 Interior Architecure: Intermed Problems (EP) 3 INTA332 Retail Design & Brand Design (EP) 3 INTA333 INTA Autocad 3 INTA385 Architecture & Communication Skills 3 INTA390 Sustainability: LEED & Detailing 3 INTA431A Interior Architec: Senior Thesis Problem (EP) 6 INTA431B Interior Architec: Senior Thesis Problem (EP) 3 INTA432A Interior Architecture: BFA Survey 3 INTA432B Interior Architecture: Adv Problems (EP) 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND108 Design II 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing-Intensive (LLC) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 (from selected list) FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 30 Credits These courses need to be completed during your Notes: sophomore, junior, or senior year: A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 for graduation, through courses, LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 internships, or independent 1 (one) Post-1960s Art + Design History Elective pathways. EP courses are noted (from selected list) 3 with an (EP) following the title. 4 (four) Open Studio Elective 12 2 (two) Open Liberal Arts Elective 6
72 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Jewelry+Metals (MET)
Major Requirements* 42 Credits CDE200 Creative Process & Materials Studies 3 CDE201 Language of Materials 3 CDE300 Digital Surface & Image (EP) 3 CDE301 Digital Modeling & Making 3 CDE400 BFA Research & Thesis 3 CDE401 BFA Exhibition & Portfolio 3 MET249 Intro Jewelry & Metals 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3 6 (six) Jewelry + Metals Major Days as determined by the semester schedule 18
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 ACD376X American Craft History (ACD) or 3 FND107 Design I 3 ACD462 Design + Craft in Modern Culture (ACD) FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing-Intensive (LLC) 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 (from selected list) FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 36 Credits These courses need to be completed during your Notes: sophomore, junior, or senior year: A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 for graduation, through courses, LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 internships, or independent Post-1960s Art + Design History Elective (from selected list) 3 pathways. EP courses are noted 2 (two) Craft Studio Elective 6 with an (EP) following the title. 5 (five) Open Studio Elective** 15 1 (one) Open Liberal Arts Elective 3
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 73 Painting (PTG)
Major Requirements* 36 Credits PTG221 Intro to Painting History (1828-Present) 3 PTG232 Painting beyond Observation 3 PTG333 Painting after the Photograph 3 PTG335 Constructing Narratives 3 PTG421M Senior Studio: BFA Research 3 PTG422M Painting Seminar 3 VAT200 Image & Form 3 VAT202 Image & Form II: Reproducibility: 2D or 3D 3 VAT300 Aesthetics, Style, & Content 3 VAT400 The Role of Artist as Producer (EP) 3 VAT493 BFA: Statement & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 LLC373W Art of the Personal Essay (LLC req) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 45 Credits These courses need to be completed during your Notes: sophomore, junior, or senior year: A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 for graduation, through courses, ACD305 Vis Cltr & Manufact of Meaning (post-1960s elect) 3 internships, or independent LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 pathways. EP courses are noted 2 (two) VAT Studio Elective (outside of major) 6 with an (EP) following the title. 6 (six) Open Studio Elective 18 one of which must be a digital studio elective 3 (three) Open Liberal Arts Elective 9
74 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Photography (PHV): Photo Track
Major Requirements* 36 Credits Additional Requirements for GDS200 Graphic Design for Non-Majors 3 Photo Track* 12 Credits PHV201M Photo 2: Digital Photo Imaging 3 PHV270 Fine Art of Silver Print 3 PHV267 Photo Major 2.1 Narrative Structures 3 PHV350 Photo Archive, Book & Portfolio 3 PHV268 Photo Major 2.2: Sophomore Seminar 3 PHV395 Photo 3: Advanced Digital Projects 3 PHV292 Studio Lighting 3 1 PHV Studio Elective 3 PHV295 Photo 1: Introduction to Photography 3 PHV297 Video/Digital Cinema I: Screen Grammar 3 PHV325 Photo Major 3.1 Cont.Color:Theory+Practice 3 PHV330 Photo Major 3.2: Visual Thinking 3 PHV495M Photo Major 4.1 BFA Thesis/Research 3 IME402 BFA Statement & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 ACD348 History of Photography (for ACD req) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND108 Design II 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing-Intensive (LLC) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 30 Credits These courses need to be completed during your Notes: sophomore, junior, or senior year: A minimum of 3 credits designated Optional 3-credit internship to be ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required taken during the summer between ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 for graduation, through courses, Sophomore and Junior year or LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 internships, or independent between Junior and Senior year. 1 (one) Post-1960s Art & Design History Elective pathways. EP courses are noted (from selected list) 3 with an (EP) following the title. *These courses require a “C” or 5 (five) Open Studio Elective 15 higher grade up to 3 may be fulfilled by internships and up to 3 may be fulfilled by PHV Studios 1 (one) Open Liberal Arts Elective 3
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 75 Photography (PHV): Video Track
Major Requirements* 36 Credits Additional Requirements for GDS200 Graphic Design for Non-Majors 3 Video + Digital Cinema Track* 15 Credits PHV201M Photo 2: Digital Photo Imaging 3 ANIM310 MotionGraphics 3 PHV267 Photo Major 2.1 Narrative Structures 3 IME211 Sound Design 3 PHV268 Photo Major 2.2: Sophomore Seminar 3 PHV341 Documentary Video 3 PHV292 Studio Lighting 3 PHV397 Video/Digital Cinema II 3 PHV295 Photo 1: Introduction to Photography 3 PHV442 Adv Video & Digital Cinema Projects (EP) 3 PHV297 Video/Digital Cinema I: Screen Grammar 3 PHV325 Photo Major 3.1 Cont.Color:Theory+Practice 3 PHV330 Photo Major 3.2: Visual Thinking 3 PHV495M Photo Major 4.1 BFA Thesis/Research 3 IME402 BFA Statement & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 ACD348 History of Photography (ACD req) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND108 Design II 3 1 (one) Advanced Writing-Intensive (LLC) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 27 Credits These courses need to be completed during your Notes: sophomore, junior, or senior year: A minimum of 3 credits designated Optional 3-credit internship to be ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required taken during the summer between ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 for graduation, through courses, Sophomore and Junior year or LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 internships, or independent between Junior and Senior year. 1 (one) Post-1960s Art & Design History Elective pathways. EP courses are noted (from selected list) 3 with an (EP) following the title. *These courses require a “C” or 4 (four) Open Studio Elective 12 higher grade up to 3 may be fulfilled by internships and up to 3 may be fulfilled by PHV Studios 1 (one) Open Liberal Arts Elective 3
76 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Printmaking (PRI)
Major Requirements* 39 Credits PRI200 Print: Image Construction I: Line & Sequence 3 PRI201 Print: Image Construction II: Form & Color 3 PRI376 Expanded Print: New Media & Imaging 3 PRI377 The Liberated Print: Investig of Alt Methods (EP) 3 PRI440 Propaganda, Media, Dissemination (EP) 3 PRI450 Printmaking: Advanced Topics 3 PRI232/332/432 The Artist’s Book Now 3 VAT200 Image & Form I 3 VAT202 Image & Form II: Reproducibility: 2D OR 3D 3 VAT300 Aesthetics, Style, & Content 3 VAT327 Hybrid Approaches to Drg & Ptg: Dig Media 3 VAT400 The Role of the Artist as Producer (EP) 3 VAT493 BFA: Statement & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 LLC373W Art of the Personal Essay (for LLC req) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 39 Credits These courses need to be completed during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Notes: ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or ACD305 Visual Culture & Manufacture of Meaning 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 for graduation, through courses, 2 (two) VAT Studio Elective (outside of major) 6 internships, or independent 4 (four) Open Studio Elective 15 pathways. EP courses are noted 3 (three) Open Liberal Arts Elective 9 with an (EP) following the title.
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Major Requirements* 36 Credits SEM231 Intro Sculpture + Expanded Media 3 SEM232 Intro Sculpture Fabrication 3 SEM236 Time-Based Strategies 3 SEM333 Topics in Sculpture + Expanded Media 3 SEM429 Sculpture + Expanded Media: BFA Research 3 SEM430 Sculpture + Expanded Media: BFA Research & Exh 3 VAT200 Image & Form I 3 VAT202 Image & Form II: Reproducibility: 3D 3 VAT300 Aesthetics, Style & Content 3 VAT400 The Role of the Artist as Producer (EP) 3 VAT493 BFA: Statement & Exhibition 3 PPEL398A/B/C Professional Practices 3
Foundation Requirements 33 Credits Liberal Arts Distributive Elective ACD103 Art History I: Ancient-18th C 3 Requirements 15 Credits FND103D Digital Color 1.5 These additional elective course requirements need to be completed FND103M Material Color 1.5 during your sophomore, junior, or senior year: FND104 Digital Synthesis 3 LLC373W Art of the Personal Essay (for LLC req) 3 FND107 Design I 3 1 (one) Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND107L Design Woodshop Lab 0 1 (one) Non-Western or Cross-Cultural FND108 Design II 3 Art/Craft/Design History or Theory (ACD) 3 FND117 Drawing I 3 1 (one) Humanities or Lit/Language/Comp 3 FND118 Drawing II 3 1 (one) Social or Natural Science (SNS) 3 FND130 Environmental Studio Elective 3 FND140A Charette: Collaboration & Community 1.5 FND140B Charette: Self & Other Voices 1.5 LLC101 Writing & Inquiry I: Basic Comp & Contemp Ideas 3 LLC102 Writing & Inquiry II: Research & Intellect Traditions 3
Additional Requirements 45 Credits These courses need to be completed during your Notes: sophomore, junior, or senior year: A minimum of 3 credits designated *These courses require a “C” or ACD104 Art History II: 18th C-1945 3 Engaged Practice (EP) is required higher grade ACD203 Art History III: 1945-Present 3 for graduation, through courses, ACD305 Vis Cltr & Manufact of Meaning (post-1960s elect) 3 internships, or independent LLC203 Writing & Inquiry III: Narrative Forms 3 pathways. EP courses are noted 2 (two) SEM Studio Elective (faculty advice required) 6 with an (EP) following the title. 6 (six) Open Studio Elective 18 3 (three) Open Liberal Arts Elective 9
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writings. Required for Visual Culture Kyoto: Cosmology, City, Art/Craft/Design Emphasis. Fulfills post-1960s art history Civilization requirement. 3 credits. ACD 329X History + Theory The enduring city of Kyoto, Japan’s capital Cinematic Time after 1960 for over 1000 years, has been both a locus Art + Design History I: ACD 320X of power and an arbiter of taste linked to Ancient-18th Century What does a cinematic image of time look developments in Japanese art, history, ACD 103 like? Why did this question suddenly seem politics, and religion-among other cultural Intended to introduce students to art history pressing after the Second World War? How spheres. We consider Kyoto from its through the study of major art concepts, has cinematic time been explored by founding in the Heian period to current theories, and historical events from the filmmakers and artists in the past 50 years? trends and contemporary architecture. As ancient Greek and Roman periods to What possibilities does this exploration we are concerned primarily with the city as Europe of the Enlightenment. The approach open up? These questions will guide our a lived environment, this course will focus is both chronological and thematic. investigation of cinematic time since 1960. on the nexus of city and citizen. Students Offered fall. 3 credits. We will consider a wide range of films and explore specialized topics through thematic moving image media in which time takes on group presentations and one individual Art + Design History II: strange qualities--where the emphasis is on research project/presentation, as well as 18th Century-1945 what is happening in the image, rather than three quizzes. This course gives students ACD 104 on what has happened or will happen in the experience in interpreting information about Covers major movements and ideas in next shot. $25 course fee required. Fulfills the city; presenting analysis in groups and European and American art and design post-1960s art history requirement. individually; evaluating peers and history to the mid-20th century. Students 3 credits. incorporating feedback; and attributing and are provided with a firm grounding in the differentiating sources. Fulfills non-Western debates and theories of modernity and Social Cinemas: or Humanities/Cultural Studies requirement. modernism in art. Prerequisite ACD 103. Politics of Representation 3 credits. Offered spring. 3 credits. and Engagement ACD 322 African American Art Art + Design History III: Social is a term used to describe all kinds of ACD 334 1945-Present art and media today including social media, This course covers African American art ACD 203 social practice, and activist media directed from the late 1700s to the present Examines influential artists and related toward “social change.” This course emphasizing the formal qualities of art as concepts of art and design from around examines film and video work that demands well as the social and cultural contexts WWII through the first decade of the new we think carefully about how the social is within which it was created. Lectures and millennium. Discussions focus especially on defined and represented as an idea, an assigned readings are drawn from the critical distinctions and meanings of experience, and a world (or worlds). We will scholarship of art history, literature, modern, postmodern, and contemporary begin by considering Jean Vigo’s call for a anthropology and history. We examine art, design, and visual culture. Prerequisites new “social cinema” in the 1930s. We’ll works by U.S. Artists of African descent and ACD 103 and 104. Offered fall. 3 credits. consider how experimental and avant-garde others who engage aspects of African film functioned as a means for organizing American life and culture. Visual Culture Visual Culture and the social worlds and expressing social critique. Emphasis course. 3 credits. Manufacture of Meaning We’ll ask what Stan VanDerBeek might have ACD 305 meant when he described the rise of a “new This course will introduce students to critical social media consciousness” in 1974. And theories and methods of analysis for finally we’ll look at how contemporary interpreting contemporary visual art and filmmakers and video artists respond to the culture. Topics include: formalism and way the Internet has changed our stylistic analysis; semiotics and relationships to one another and to the structuralism; Marxist theory; biography; events that shape our sense of how the psychoanalytic theory; feminist analysis and larger social world is structured and defined. gender studies; postcolonial theory; post May be applied as an art history elective, structuralism and postmodernity; and Post-1960s art history elective, or media arts studies (electronic/digital humanities/cultural studies elective. Visual technologies). Select interpretive Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits. frameworks employed in the “manufacture of meaning” will be situated historically and discussed fully and critically, using seminal
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History of Photography Survey understand what their legacy to the objects ranging from ancient archeological ACD 348 Americas is today. Apply as social or natural finds, medieval architecture to modern and This is a photo historical survey course. science or non-Western Art History elective. contemporary art. Subjects such as women Lectures are presented on leading 3 credits. artists, performing arts and animation will photographers throughout the history of also be discussed in this course. The photography from its earliest beginnings to Exhibition Theory and the content of this course will be generally the present within a context of cultural, art Culture of Display divided into pre-Modern, Modern & historical, social and political trends. ACD 363X Contemporary eras in which art and visual Students develop skills in critical thinking, While fundamental theories of exhibition culture will be discussed with geographic writing and research through lectures, design are applicable to exhibiting art in a perspectives. As the semester progresses, group discussions, reading and writing variety of public and private places, there some additional readings and films may be assignments along with the production of a are considerations of philosophy and assigned. Each student is encouraged to comprehensive research paper. Required of methodology that are unique to this field. find examples learned in this course and Photography Majors. ACD or open liberal This course is designed to give students apply them to his/her intellectual arts elective. Offered fall. Visual Culture preparing for careers in the arts an development. Visual Culture Emphasis Emphasis course. 3 credits. understanding of those philosophies and course. 3 credits. exposure to the practical techniques that An Introduction to African Art have been proven useful by people in the Art of East Asia ACD 358 field. The required text book title suggest ACD 373X This art history course provides an that the course will focus on contemporary This lecture/discussion-style course is to introduction to the visual art traditions of visual display strategies but consistent explore the art and visual culture of East sub-Saharan Africa from ancient cultures to applications will be made to explore gallery Asia, focusing on Japan and China. Political, the present. Lectures and readings are and museum standards. Visual Culture religious, social, and visual aspects of the drawn from art historical scholarship as well Emphasis course. 3 credits. art will be stressed in class. In order to as from other disciplines (anthropology, understand art and civilization of these two archaeology, visual culture studies) that Art of China countries, we will look at art objects from provide a sense of the social, political and ACD 365 ancient archeological objects, medieval religious contexts within which the art was The primary goal of this course is to explore architecture to modern and contemporary created and used. The study of African art the art and culture of China (including art. Subjects such as women artists, from a Western perspective presents mainland China and Taiwan). Political, performing arts and animation will be also questions that are covered in class: When religious, social, and visual aspects of the discussed in this course. Visual Culture and under what circumstances did “Africa” art will be stressed in class. In order to Emphasis course. 3 credits. as a concept emerge? Did Africans understand Chinese art and civilization, we consider their works “art” in the same sense will look at art objects from terra-cotta World Cinemas that Westerners use that term? How did pottery of the Neolithic period, bronze ACD 374X Western museums acquire African art and vessels, Buddhist murals and sculptures of Writing on film aesthetics in 1930, a year how does that inform the way we the Tang era, literati paintings and imperial marked by global financial crisis and understand African works? In what ways tastes of medieval China up to mounting political conflict, Béla Balázs did did colonialism, the spread of Islam and contemporary art. Subjects such as women not feel it was possible to speak of the Christianity, pan-Africanism and post- artists and performing arts will be also “people of the world.” But if that day were colonial movements affect artistic discussed in this course. As the semester ever to arrive, he predicted, film would be production? How do we understand progresses, some additional readings may there “ready and waiting to provide the modernism in an African context? Fulfills be assigned. Visual Culture Emphasis universal spirit with its corresponding non-Western or cross-cultural art history course. 3 credits. technique of expression.” Today we talk requirement. Visual Culture Emphasis about how technology has altered the world, course. 3 credits. Asian Art Survey making it feel smaller and infinitely ACD 372 expanded at the same time. But can we still Pre-Hispanic Civilizations: The This course serves as a “survey” or a say film holds the promise of universal Aztec, the Maya, the Inca window for the art of multiple cultures. This expression? If not, what does it promise ACD 360 lecture/exercise/discussion-style course now? What, in other words, do film’s This will be a lecture based, Anthropology explores the art and visual culture of Asia, techniques of expression correspond to in course that focuses on the three major focusing on India, Japan and China. our contemporary world? civilizations of Prehispanic Latin America; Political, religious, social, and visual aspects the Aztec, Maya, and Inca. We will study the of the art will be stressed in class. In order In this course, we will spend time looking three civilizations to understand the to understand the art and civilization of carefully at cinematic technique in films complexity of New World cultures, and to these three countries, we will look at art produced all over the world during the
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 81 Course Catalog Art/Craft/Design History + Theory course of the medium’s history. At the same “post-medium condition”). Changing Views: time we will also look carefully at the ideas nn The anxiety of interdisciplinarity (an Perspectives on African Art and fantasies that animate “world cinema” inquiry and examination of the efforts, as ACD 385X as a label for certain kind of films without well as the resistance, towards such Through lectures, readings, and discussions, taking for granted that this phrase always approach). this seminar will explore important means or has meant the same thing. Why Artists, for the most part, no longer define developments in the history of the reception, do some critics and theorists embrace this themselves as medium-specific, but study, and photography of African art, from term while others find it inadequate, a bad primarily as visual artists and researchers. the 15th century to present day. An analysis fit, something in need of qualification or Fluidity among media is currently explored of a number of key publications by replacement? What corrections and in a philosophical and artistic positioning pioneering scholars in the field will illustrate critiques have these writers offered? How that regards indeterminacy, uncertainty, and the multiple approaches that have been do their observations change the way we even ambiguity as positive and productive developed to gain insight into Africa’s see film technique and our own unexamined values. artistic heritage. Special attention will be assumptions about how film makes the devoted to the dialogue between world available to each of us as viewers? Inter/Cross/Trans/Multi are, therefore, anthropological and art-historical May be applied to fulfill the non-Western art welcomed prefixes and defining elements of perspectives on the arts of Africa. This history requirement. an artistic discourse that aims at moving seminar will also address the politics and $25 course fee required. 3 credits. beyond established categories. ethics of the acquisition and representation of African art, as well as the methodological American Crafts History Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of challenges connected to their formal and ACD 376 two or more disciplines into one activity, stylistic diversity, and issues of artistic This course will necessarily focus on and it entails creating something new by production and patronage. 3 credits. American crafts. However, an effort will be crossing or thinking across boundaries. made to incorporate other expressions This might generate a sense of anxiety, Japanese Visual Culture: Where (especially non-Western) into the mix too. which reflects the territorialization quite Modernity Meets Tradition For example, there are readings in Adamson prevalent in academic and artistic arenas. ACD 386X on the Scandinavian slöjd system, Bauhaus This course will explore all aspects of aesthetics, the Japanese concept of mingei, More than specifically or strictly answering Japan’s visual culture, island by island, the Indian notion of svadharma, the Mande these main questions, the course will theme by theme. Special attention will be blacksmiths of West Africa, and subversive attempt to open channels for exchange, devoted to Japan’s major cities, and the (feminist) stitchery, in addition to writings by debate, and discussion, raising awareness most important cultural sites, including Anni Albers, Karl Marx, Frank Lloyd Wright, about the most relevant and pressing temples, shrines, gardens, and parks. We Ellen Gates Starr, George Nakashima, issues in the 21st Century Art.” Fulfills will discuss the history of Japan, traditional Carole Tulloch, Garth Clark, and many more. post-1960s art history requirement. Japanese culture, and current Japanese Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits. 3 credits. pop culture. Student assignments will focus on the history of Japanese illustration, Issues in 20th and 21st Century India: Culture & Society including ukiyo-e, manga, and anime. The Art: Research, Engagement + ACD 380A course lectures will introduce these topics, Politics in Contemporary Art Once the jewel in the crown of the British as well as present an examination of all ACD 380X Empire, India has some 5,000 years of traditional Japanese art forms, from temple This joint course between CIA and CWRU artistic tradition and architectural heritage. architecture to the tea ceremony. 3 credits. will revolve around the main issues and This course focuses on the essential role of questions of late 20th and 21st century art, the visual in India’s ancient and modern From the Front Row namely: cultural and religious traditions. The creation ACD 389 nn What is Contemporary? Possible and nature of visual imagery are explored in Does writing about a film mean something definitions and conceptual revisions. sculpture, temples, palaces, persons, different from writing other things? What is nn Theory versus Praxis, or a more symbols, times and places. From bustling cinematic representation? Cinema is a combined Art + Research model? cities to remote villages and pilgrimage sites, cultural phenomenon but what do we mean nn Art as a thinking process | Thinking from beggar to Brahmin to Hindu gods and when we say such a thing? Is film a as a creative process (following the goddesses, the course explores the “divine language? What is critical theory? The aim contemporary, and truly trans-historical image” in India. Fulfills Non-Western Art of the seminar is to encourage model: “art as research” and “research History requirement. 3 credits. undergraduate students interested in as art”) cinema to develop better written and verbal nn The dynamic inter-relationship of skills within the context of a broader field of different media, and fields of study cinema studies. Students will debate the (as in installation art, and Krauss’s essence of cinema and acquire a
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framework for understanding its formal art, sculpture, photography, television and consumers. In addition to the elements qualities. In the process, they will learn to video. The focus will be on American culture, outlined above, we will discuss several experience film as a visual language, but discussions will also include the cultural recent controversial issues. While this explore its similarities to other arts, and contexts of Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, course will not center on a history of analyze its relation to critical dialogue. and Latin America. In addition to the advertising, it will treat the historical place of FROM THE FRONT ROW; Cinema and An primary focus on the representation of race, print advertising in capitalist consumer Approach to Critical Writing is divided into questions of class, sexuality, and gender culture. Interventionist tactics by various three sections or thematic discussions with will also be considered. Questions to be artists that attempt to subvert the economic each section intended to follow one another addressed include: Is race largely a and ideological function of ads will also be to provide a cumulative sense of the field of biological or cultural phenomenon? How examined. Visual Culture Emphasis course. study. Some cross-reference is required to are “white” and “mixed-race” understood as Fulfills post-1960s art history requirement. initiate debate and discussion. May be racial categories? How have artists of 3 credits. applied as Post 1960s art history course. different races dealt with racial identity and 3 credits. representation? Do popular media such as The Body: Tradition, commercial advertisements and music Transformation, Transgression Art History, Theory, Criticism videos convey prevailing notions of racial ACD 458 Emphasis Senior Research stereotypes? Visual Culture Emphasis This seminar-style course will explore one of Paper course. Fulfills post-1960s art history the most important themes of twentieth- ACD 415 requirement. 3 credits. century visual art: the body (male and Research paper required of seniors female). We will discuss a complex range of pursuing the Visual Culture Emphasis. Not Neo-Expressionism/Neo-Geo ideas and values associated with the nude open as an elective. Offered spring. Pass/ ACD 442 (and naked) body as it has been re- fail. 3 credits. This course will explore neo-expressionism, presented in 20th c. photography; painting; neo-geo and postmodern art (painting, sculpture/installation; performance and Issues in Design: Theory and sculpture, performance, photography) of body art; and video. While the “great Culture of Design Germany, Italy, England, and the United tradition” of the nude will be introduced, the ACD 416 States from 1971 to the present. We will course will focus on art produced since the What exactly is the “culture” of design? We survey two major developments in art 1950s (from the late modern to the will explore the interdisciplinary aspects of making and cultural theory taking place in postmodern era). Among other topics, we contemporary design practice and theory in Europe and America. The first is art as will study the visual body as a relationship to the complexities of culture anti-modern (neo-expressionism) - a return representational site for the self; for erotic and society, especially with respect to to history, to representation, to narrative, to desire; for the political position of women; urban environments. We will move from the figure, and of the artist/self. The second and for formal experimentation. We will look conventional considerations of the history of is art after “the death of the author” at art that presents bodies which are very modern and postmodern art and design, to (postmodernism) - or the end of the much outside tradition: i.e., bodies that are a broader contemporary understanding of individual “author”/artist (as the unique sick, decaying, dying, dead, aging, obese, design with respect to globalization, source of meaning of art) and the birth of androgynous, deformed, etc. Topics and consumerism, technological change, the reader/viewer. In analyzing these terms of analysis will include: the traditional sustainability, infrastructure, city planning, developments, the course will survey the nude; feminist critiques of sexism; urban design and alternative trends. Visual work of a number of artists. Visual Culture voyeurism; “exploitation,” “obscenity,” and Culture Emphasis course. Fulfills post-1960s Emphasis course. Fulfills post-1960s art censorship; objectification (gaze theory) art history requirement. 3 credits. history requirement. 3 credits. sexuality; the nude self-portrait and portrait; parody and quotation; the female nude and Race and Representation in Advertising and modernism; Kenneth Clark’s nude-naked Contemporary Art and Culture Consumer Culture (ideal-real) dichotomy; identity and ACD 420 ACD 448 performance; and formal aestheticizing of This seminar-style course considers the This course will examine advertisements in the body. Visual Culture Emphasis course. relationship between race and the print media with respect to various Fulfills post-1960s art history requirement. representation in visual art and culture elements, including: economic and social 3 credits. during the last three decades using class; race; ethnic identity; age; gender; contemporary methods including multi- and sexuality. The course begins with an culturism and postcolonial theory. We will introduction to the method of analysis called discuss and analyze examples of semiotics, the techniques of which will be contemporary art as well as popular culture used to determine how advertisements drawn from advertisements, animation, film, convey their messages and how they the internet, installation and performance address themselves to particular
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Design and Craft in Conceptual Art Media Arts & Visual Culture: Modern Culture ACD 483X Interactive Zones ACD 462 This theme-based art history course is ACD 487 This course is an introduction to graphic and designed to give students an in-depth, What is “interactivity”? A recent publication three-dimensional design from the Industrial semester-long investigation into the art is titled Total Interaction, but what does that Revolution to the present. We will examine movements and ideas that informed mean? In this course we will look closely at modern and contemporary artists, styles, Conceptual Art’s development in the 1960s the history, theory, and practice of the and objects across the design and craft and 1970s as well as its impact on interactive as a facet of contemporary art, disciplines, including finely crafted furniture contemporary art making in the decades design, and media culture. We will explore and other objects designed for public and that followed. This course will cover, but not thematic zones or territories of the private spaces (architectural details and be limited to, the so-called heyday of interactive both real and imagined, ornamentation, wallpaper, textiles, lamps, Conceptual Art in the 1960s and 1970s, a including: cybernetic systems, sci-fi and kitchenware, etc.); decorative objects such focus on which would otherwise reinforce popular culture, visionary design, interactive as ceramics, metalwork, and glass; objects the traditional modernist art historical animations and massive multi-player games, of mass production and consumer culture framework that defined styles in part by convergent technology, responsive (cars, trains, cameras, corporate and limiting them to a specific time period. environments, and “A.I.” (i.e., artificial residential furnishings, electronic goods, Significant time in the class will be devoted intelligence). A previous course in modern etc.); art posters, private press books and to investigating examples of conceptually- and contemporary art or visual culture is illustrations, and innovative forms of informed art created in the 1980s, 1990s assumed for all participants. Visual Culture communication graphics. Special and the early 21st century, underscoring the Emphasis course. Fulfills post-1960s art consideration will be given to the social and impact of Conceptual Art’s legacy for art, history requirement. 3 credits. cultural meanings of objects, issues related craft and design today. The course will to the design and craft fields as professional investigate the philosophies that informed occupations, and the art historical and conceptual art that allowed artists to theoretical relationships of the various problematize the conditions and encounters design and craft disciplines beyond medium with art; the conventions of its visuality, and (material) specific concerns. Visual Culture the circumstances of its production. Visual Emphasis course. Visual Culture Emphasis Culture Emphasis course. Fulfills post-1960s course. 3 credits. art history requirement. 3 credits.
Media Arts and Visual Culture: Installation ACD 486 This course investigates the emergence, prominence and impact of the installation as a new medium in contemporary art. “Media arts” or “new media” include but are not limited to video and experimental film, performance, interactive art, digital media, and especially the installation, which itself embraces a wide range of media. We will focus on the growth of the installation from “environments” in the 1960s into a distinct artistic medium used widely since the 1980s. We will discuss the work of many recognized artists and some less familiar artists from around the world as well as corresponding theories of media within the broader field of visual culture. Using a wide range of installations as examples, particular attention will be given to the implications that new media, especially digital media, have for the creative process and the critical social issues that they raise. Visual Culture Emphasis course. Fulfills post-1960s art history requirement. 3 credits.
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Drawing for Animation Intro 3D Animation: Character Animation ANIM 220 ANIM 307A Drawing for Animation is an essential This is an introductory course in 3D Concept Development I course for anyone who is interested in visual animation as an art form, with an intensive ANIM 201 storytelling. This course will teach students focus on of the use and development A core requirement to learn digital painting how to draw ideas, actions, and gestures characters in animation. Successful in motion, scene design, character that effectively communicate a story. animation breathes life into motion with development, technical direction, and Students will draw from live models in clear communication of thought, emotion, related animation production pipeline costumes, animals in motion, and create narrative or experience. Any moving object standards for developing animated stories, characters that capture storytelling poses. is a “character” in film or animation. We will shorts, films, and animated cinematography. An emphasis will be placed on exaggeration, hold regular discussions and workshops on This course examines the media production silhouetting, line of action, balance, and how the dialogue of an otherwise stagnant requirements for animation students in gesture: all of which are needed to object changes and evolves when put to applied professional studios. This course communicate a character’s attitude and motion. Methods of instruction will consist serves to develop the animator’s core story. This course is highly recommended of lectures, demonstrations, artist research, mechanics and vocabulary in the broad for animators and illustrators. Offered fall. 3 studio assignments, in-class lab time, and areas of animation integrated workflow credits. group critiques. 3 credits. (story conception, storyboarding, animatics, motion studies, character flow and design, Acting + Directing Advanced 3D Animation scene, set, and props (look artists), ANIM 231 ANIM 308-408 technical direction, and summary of Acting & Directing is an intense production Prerequisites: Intro to 3D Modeling and post-production flow) to meet industry course designed for aspiring art directors, Intro 3D Animation. expectations and professional output. screenwriters, and actors who wish to Offered spring. 3 credits. purse a career in film and/or animation. The Motion Graphics course requires both performance and ANIM 310 Intro to Animation cinematic practice. Directors will create and An advanced project-based course whose ANIM 209 produce short scenes taking on the full goal is to create finished broadcast- or The goal of this class is to gain a basic responsibility of creating clear web-ready animation or motion graphics understanding of the fundamentals of communication using the audio/visual pieces. Emphasis will be on learning After movement, timing and rhythm and how they language of cinema and focusing on the Effects. This course covers contemporary convey mood and character, even in the developing and execution of performance issues in motion graphics and broadcast most abstract sense. Animation is the on screen. Beyond just holding the design. In this class, students will visualize, artificial movement of an otherwise static responsibility of successful execution of a develop, and realize various creative object. By moving that object incrementally project, directors will also switch roles with solutions for tasks in 2D and 2.5D animation - whether by position, color, shape, size, etc., the actor, working from the other side of the projects. Concept development, visual we can create movement. By synching that lens to better understand the acting storytelling, montage theory, typography, movement to sound, we emphasize the process and what kind of specific direction sound design, and principles and meanings movement and create further depth and an actor needs to perform according to of movement will be explores. Ultimately, meaning. Required materials: A 7200 rpm another director’s vision. Open elective. the student will be expected to produce two hard drive. Offered fall. 3 credits. 3 credits. complete pieces. 3 credits
Experimental Animation ANIM 240 This course will introduce students to the history and experimental techniques used in the animation industry. Students will learn how to bring stories to life through stop-motion, charcoal drawings and mixed-media animation. Students will learn how to build sets, rig puppets, and use technology such as the green screen/ lighting studio and cameras. This course serves as a great introduction to non- traditional animation for students who are interested in bringing physical materials to life. Offered spring. 3 credits.
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Narrative Production I Intro to 3D Modeling that express mood, and narrative through ANIM 313 ANIM 345 the materials, and lighting. Projects require This course will focus on students working The course is designed to cover concepts in the student to continually improve upon in teams to create assets in the pre- digital 3D organic and device model conceptual problem solving, time production phase of development for an construction, whereby the virtual models management strategies, communication/ animated short film. This will include story designed are rendered and composited for presentation and technical skills. 3 credits. development, asset development (character 2D illustration purposes to solve specific design, environment design, prop design, conceptual problems. The subject matter Community Projects: Animation color scripting, 3D modeling, rough within the Game Design curriculum reflects Production (EP) animation and 2D and or 3D character the development of characters, game ANIM 350 rigging). environments and specific assets for game Students will animate and provide art and development. Students outside the Game production services for individual clients as Tools students need include: drawing Design Major, are required to work with well as for organizations in a professional materials, working knowledge of Maya, subjects appropriate to their major field of studio setting. The course emphasizes the working knowledge of Adobe Animate, study for concept development and for long student’s development in problem solving, TVPaint or Toon Boom Harmony; working term portfolio objectives. Projects include meeting client demands, communication knowledge of film and cinematic language; concepts and workflow for constructing a skills, organization, effective time working knowledge of digital painting using virtual 3D surface by: (1) defining the visual management and teamwork and Adobe Photoshop. Books and supplies to problem within a concept sketch in collaboration. This course will be an be determined by instructor. 3 credits. pre-production, (2) utilizing specific introduction to real-world projects and introductory modeling methods to build the challenges. Required of junior Animation * While there is not a pre-requisite of course 3D illustration components, (3) the use of majors. Open to electives with instructor’s for this class. Juniors must exhibit basic lighting and rendered materials, (4) permission. Fulfills Engaged Practice knowledge in these areas gleaned from the export methods into Adobe Photoshop for requirement. 3 credits. courses that were taught during their augmentation, finishing and final illustration Sophomore Year. Required for all JR techniques and layout. Projects require the Animation: Internship (EP) ANIMATION majors. student to gain and improve upon ANIM 399-499 conceptual skills, problem-solving in Elective credit can be given on a case-by Narrative Production II specific media situations (digital 2D & 3D) case basis for student internships ANIM 313A and technical proficiency at an introductory developed through the Career Services This course will focus on the production and level in 3D modeling. 3 credits. Office, with advance permission of post production phases of the animated film instructor and department Chair. Fulfills that was begun the previous semester in 3D Texture, Mapping, Digital Engaged Practice requirement. Narrative Production I. This includes 2D or Lighting 3DAnimation, Lighting/Texturing, Editing, ANIM 347 Compositing, Special FX Animation and This course is designed to cover concepts Sound Production. Tools students will need in digital application of texture maps for 3D include: working knowledge of Maya, game models rendered in a real-time 3D working knowledge of Adobe Animate, game engine. Optimization of textures TVPaint or Toon Boom Harmony; working maps, and materials,. Poly count limits, and knowledge of film and how to “bake” extremely high levels of detail cinematic language; working knowledge of into low detail models capable of being Adobe After Effects. Required for all JR rendered in real-time, and the benefits of ANIMATION majors. Prerequisite: ANIM 313. using “Levels of Detail” with static, and Books and supplies to be determined by dynamic lighting concepts, design, and instructor. 3 credits. optimization. The use of toggle-able lighting, and attachment of lighting to game assets and players. The importance of creating immersive environments, capable of being walked through, and/or viewed from multiple, often unspecified angles of view. Projects include concept integration into technical production workflow for describing, and optimizing digital 3D surfaces for rendering in a real-time game engine; creating immersive environments
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2D/3D Compositing for Narrative Production III Animation Portfolio Reel & Animation ANIM 412 Shorts ANIM 400 Students learn how to fully develop a ANIM 420 The course is designed to instruct students narrative based concept for production. In This course is a requirement for Animation in the process and concepts of integrating this class, students will: 1. develop their students but also recommended for any 2D and 3D images from multiple digital ideas, 2. write a script based on those student interested in the entertainment sources into a single, seamless whole ideas, 3. deconstruct their script in order to industry. Students will build and present a composite. The course will be examining fully understand their proposed piece, 4. professional portfolio while learning career tools, techniques and concepts which help rewrite their script, 5. produce, review and search and interviewing skills. Students will to augment and compose digital space for edit storyboards, and finally, 6. produce, have the opportunity to create animated sequences of images (still images, review and edit an animatic based on their shorts and refine their best work. Each animations & video). Digital compositing is storyboards. This is a project based student will leave this course with a the manipulated combination of at least 2 or learning experience designed to help professional portfolio and a demo reel in more sources of images to produce and students develop narrative based work, and their area of expertise. Offered spring. integrated result. The course will use the will be especially helpful for seniors doing 3 credits. process of compositing to demonstrate the BFA project development. Offered fall. following advanced concepts & techniques: 3 credits. digital compositing concepts, motion graphics integration, post production Narrative Production IV special effects, matte painting/masking, ANIM 413 basic 2D rotoscoping and animation of This course will focus on the pre-production different composited layers, depth and 2D phase of the animated film that each space composites, 3D generated render student must complete for their BFA Thesis passes, lighting and color correction for Film. There will be a particular focus on image synthesis and rendering with correct advanced narrative structure, frame rate and aspect ratios. The cinematography and character fundamental concepts, principles and development. While this course is required practices of time based digital compositing for Senior Animation Majors it is open to and rendering in order to establish a elective students who are Seniors working common aesthetic and technical language on Narrative based film projects as space necessary to develop quality professional permits. Tools students will need include: visual communications. Based primarily in drawing materials, advanced knowledge of the software program Adobe After Effects, Maya, advanced knowledge of Adobe students will immerse themselves in the Animate, TVPaint or Toon Boom Harmony; making of integrated 2D works that are advanced knowledge of film and cinematic driven by medical/scientific, socially, language; advanced knowledge of digital culturally and research connected painting using Adobe Photoshop, advanced narratives. Offered spring. 3 credits. knowledge of other film and editing software. Additional knowledge of BFA Research + Preparation ToonBoom Storyboard Pro is suggested but ANIM 401 not required. Required for SR ANIMATION This course is structured to support the majors. Prerequisites: ANIM 312 and ANIM individual in shaping her/his own project 312A. Books and supplies to be determined and the production of all elements of the by instructor. 3 credits. BFA Thesis, strong conceptual skills developed through a professional planning and a good researched idea are core to this process. Offered fall. 3 credits.
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for studio or liberal arts Social + Natural Intro to Digital Biomedical Biomedical Art Science (SNS) credit. The course is Illustration (EP) designed to strengthen the students’ BMA 254 Principles of Biology I understanding and use of figure anatomy This course serves as a continuation of the BMA 114 within their work, reflecting the first iteration Natural Science & Zoological A basic biology course designed for the interdisciplinary nature of biomedical art. Illustration course. In this section, the Biomedical Art majors. Topics include: These components reflect a multidisciplinary student will continue to focus on natural molecules of life, cell structure, respiration approach to muscular anatomy and figure science and anatomically based concepts and photosynthesis, molecular genetics and drawing. Study in this area is designed to and subject matter. Utilizing knowledge gene technology, heredity and human provide the student with a solid grasp of from Principles of Biology I & II and genetics, population genetics and evolution, muscular anatomy as it strongly relates to anatomical references, the student will diversity of life, and function of ecosystems. drawing the figure and its proportions. This continue to develop keen observational Course includes some applications of course will provide the student the skills and apply those concepts through biological principles to agricultural, medical, opportunity to interpret anatomy knowledge digital methods. Course work will include and environmental concerns. Offered fall on by working directly from the human model. visitations to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, the CIA campus. 3 credits. This course is designed to provide the the Cleveland Museum of Natural History student with a solid basic understanding of and CWRU Gross Human Anatomy Principles of Biology II muscular anatomy as it relates to surface department. Students outside the major will BMA 115 anatomy, proportion and movement of the learn techniques in digital illustration and A continuation of the concepts and human figure. The course incorporates concepts in visual communication for principles learned in Principles of Biology I, lectures on anatomy, figure proportion and editorial and narrative based projects. The BMA114. Offered spring on CIA’s campus. drawing techniques linked to direct and integration of digital media using Adobe 3 credits. accurate observation of the figure model. Photoshop and Illustrator will be used in Offered spring. 3 credits. methods unique to scientific illustration to Human Anatomy + Physiology I explore the boundaries of medium and BMA 116 Natural Science + Zoological convention in modern production. The This course is the first course in a two- Illustration (EP) rendering concepts learned will provide a semester sequence that covers most BMA 253 solid foundation for subsequent semesters systems of the human body and covers This course is designed to develop strong and be integrated further into the broader homeostasis, membrane structure and observational skills, and integrate traditional scope of the biomedical art major. Offered function, membrane transport, tissue types, and digital media within the scope of spring. Fulfills Engaged Practice the integumentary system, neurons and monochromatic production. The goal will be requirement. 3 credits. nerves, the central nervous system, the to convey an aesthetically powerful peripheral nervous system, special senses illustration, which effectively provides a Line: Information Visualization (vision, hearing and equilibrium, taste, solution for a specific visual communication BMA 260 smell), and the cardiovascular system. problem. The student will learn a vocabulary This course serves as a comprehensive Pre-requisites: BMA114. Cross-registration for expressing pertinent natural science and investigation of line to communicate at CWRU required. Offered fall. 3 credits. medical art concepts in relation to simplistic to complex informational systems. technique, design, composition, object Both traditional forms of media (graphite, Human Anatomy + Physiology II accuracy/integrity and context. Students pen/ink, charcoal pencil etc..) and digital BMA 117 outside the major of Biomedical Art will be forms of line (vector ink, vector paint, and This course is the second course in a required to apply the concepts and raster ink, raster paint) will be utilized to two-semester sequence that covers most techniques taught in class to observational explore subjects in plant science, animal systems of the human body and covers subjects pertinent to their major of study. science, general biology and micro and respiratory system, endocrine system, The emphasis will be tonal and line base macro processes and human systems. digestive system, lymphatic system, methods in various media, including From gesture, quick sketching in line, immune system, urinary system, acid-base graphite, ink, black/white color pencil, preliminary line concepts, to sequential regulation, and reproductive systems. carbon dust, and introductory digital narrative in line, and fully rendered line Pre-requisite: BMA116. Cross-registration at illustration techniques in Adobe Photoshop. projects; will be central outcomes in the CWRU required. Offered spring. 3 credits. The rendering concepts learned will provide course. All non-majors are encouraged to a solid foundation for subsequent enroll; the course is specifically design as Anatomy for the Artist semesters and be integrated further into the course support for Illustration, Drawing, and BMA 250 broader scope and applications in Animation majors. The subject matter for This course is required for sophomore Biomedical Art. Offered fall. Fulfills Engaged non-majors will NOT be science based but Biomedical Art majors and is also open to Practice requirement. 3 credits. editorial, experimental, and sequential elective students on a space-available basis narrative. Offered fall. 3 credits.
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Digital Color: Style + supplement the knowledge and practiced several veterinary projects addressing Representation in Science gained from studio practice. Projects will topics found in both veterinary (professional BMA 264 involve working with diverse materials, level) and lay audience applications. This course is required for sophomore media, and electronic media. 3 credits. Pre-requisites: Strong drawing skills and an Biomedical Art majors and is open as an interest in understanding biology and elective on a space-available basis to all Serious Game Design: animal science. Open only to junior and students interested in techniques and Theory + Applications senior BMA majors. Others with instructor concepts in traditional and digital color BMA 308-408 permission. 3 credits. media. The course will focus on principles This course introduces the fundamentals of of color theory, light on form, line, texture, serious or educational game development. 3D Bioforms: aesthetic impact, and accuracy of content The course materials and projects will help Intro to 3D Modeling in the illustration of scientific information and students understand how and why games BMA 345 editorial content. Through research, can be used for learning in the fields of The course is designed to cover concepts in planning, and the application of medical health, medicine, science and games for digital 3D organic and device model and scientific knowledge, the students use social change. The course exposes construction, whereby the virtual models color to effectively communicate conceptual students to examples of the current work designed are rendered and composited for and observational problems. Assignments and research in game design mechanics, 2D illustration purposes to solve specific focus on the creative use of color to express game learning mechanics and assessment conceptual problems. The subject matter specific communication objectives to a mechanics; which are integral to within the Game Design curriculum reflects range of audiences for both majors in development of successful educational the development of characters, game Biomedical Art and other majors of study. games. Students will be exposed to environments and specific assets for game This course supplements the integration of industry-specific serious games (games for development. Students outside the Game traditional and digital illustration techniques learning, corporate training, news games, Design Major, are required to work with for non majors, focused on editorial, and games for health, science, exer-games, subjects appropriate to their major field of narrative based course work. Offered military games, and games for social study for concept development and for long spring. 3 credits. change.) These examples along with term portfolio objectives. Projects include specific lecture topics and materials, will concepts and workflow for constructing a Educational Media Installation allow the student to understand how to virtual 3D surface by: (1) defining the visual BMA 306B-406B develop their own serious game projects by problem within a concept sketch in This Educational Media Installation class learning specific research methods for pre-production, (2) utilizing specific serves as an introduction to and the understanding content, players and introductory modeling methods to build the exploration of media installation and engagement strategies. 3 credits. 3D illustration components, (3) the use of exhibition design techniques; including how basic lighting and rendered materials, (4) physical media, and virtual interactive and Veterinary Illustration export methods into Adobe Photoshop for linear media can be applied to educational BMA 340X-440X augmentation, finishing and final illustration and informational settings including Veterinary illustration is expanding as pet techniques and layout. Projects require the Museums, Cultural Institutions and Public owners seek information explaining pet care student to gain and improve upon Education access points. Lectures will cover in their home and/or farm. Once reserved conceptual skills, problem-solving in concepts and presentations of the history of for the veterinarian, articles in magazines, specific media situations (digital 2D & 3D) educational display, museum arts, and how brochures and pharmaceutical pamphlets and technical proficiency at an introductory traditional media intersects with are popular outlets where the lay audience level in 3D modeling. 3 credits. contemporary digital media, to inform and seeks to be better educated about medical educate specific audiences at public and routine care for their pets. This course BMA: Intro to 3D Animation institutions of culture/knowledge. Course will define selected taxonomic groups of the BMA 346 work will be hands-on practice of animal kingdom and how they correlate This course serves as an introductory techniques and concepts presented in anatomically in a veterinary environment. platform to investigate and discover object, lecture, discussion of readings, and critique Drawing assignments will apply techniques environment, human and natural science 3D of student projects. This class will involve to depict anatomic detail of various types of animation to create a narrative with goals to both ideation and proposal development, as animals, particularly those common in communicate a message and/or educate well as producing 1-2 educational media veterinary fields, such as equestrian, canine, and instruct the viewer. The student will use installations in collaboration with the feline, aves. Emphasis on basic anatomy, the concept of narrative to tell animated curators and staff at The Cleveland comparative anatomy, behavior and short stories of the body, environment and/ Museum of Natural History, The Cleveland movement are key elements to describe or natural science through the medium of Botanical Gardens, and The Cleveland and illustrate an accurate image as applied 3D digital animation software. Within the Metroparks Zoo. The course will also to a specific veterinary topic. Using course, strong conceptual skills are incorporate field trips and guest lecturers to appropriate media, students will complete emphasized and developed through
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 89 Course Catalog Biomedical Art professional production techniques, Biomedical Art: Advanced subject matter and simplify it to solve visual workflow and time-based linear media. Media Concepts communication problems effectively for the Successful animation breathes life into BMA 353 target audience. Advanced digital illustration motion with clear communication of thought, This course serves as the first iteration of techniques in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, emotion, narrative or experience. Any media concepts and problems in and the integration of flash will be used as moving object is a “character” in film or Biomedical Art and builds on observational the basis to solve illustration problems. animation. We will hold regular discussions and other skills acquired from preceding Students outside the major will learn and workshops on how the dialogue of an Biomedical Methods courses. The course techniques and concepts in visual otherwise stagnant object changes and focuses on digital illustration and drawing communication to for editorial and narrative evolves when put to motion. Methods of techniques which help to explore editorial, based projects. Offered spring. 3 credits. instruction will consist of lectures, narrative and educational communication demonstrations, art & scientific research, problems. The course is also used for Biomedical Art: Forensic studio assignments, in-class lab time, and non-majors to develop strong skills in digital Imaging/Modeling group critiques. The principles of 3D space illustration / drawing techniques (Adobe BMA 356-456 and motion/timing will be used as the Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) The This course is an introduction to Forensic foundation for understanding how to scope of the course entails developing skills Modeling and Reconstruction methods and communicate a message through animation. and knowledge necessary for effective concepts; which brings materials developed Learning the ideas of simplistic object, visual communication of biomedical in the medical and forensic industry to the environment and body motion accuracy/ concepts and subject matter such as sculpture lab. Materials such as clay, plaster, timing will be taught in 3D and students will human anatomy, veterinary/zoology alginate used in body casting, silicone be expected to create simple to complex subjects, body systems and natural science molding materials, polyurethanes, and clear animations (based on level and individual subject matter. The focus will be on casting materials will be used in projects progress.) The computer will be explored developing advanced visual storytelling that reconstruct facial, and human body like other art media and will serve as a tool skills. Students will learn to take complex elements from skull and environmental for creation. This course is designed to information presented by specific clues. The course will utilize the Cleveland benefit all majors AND non-majors who biomedical art subject matter and Museum of Natural History specimens, and have had a pre-requisite course in 3D selectively simplify it to solve visual possible visits to local Forensic Agencies for modeling. 3 credits. communication problems effectively. additional hands on applications. Students will work exclusively in digital Experimentation and integration of sculpture Surgical Illustration & Media media will to develop practical competence methods to produce body and facial (EP) in the rendering methodologies and learn reconstructions will be explored. The BMA 352 the conventions of modern production. course is open to all majors and non-majors This studio course is an introduction to the When appropriate, project-based learning as an elective; No previous experience illustration of surgical procedures and its and client relationships will be incorporated necessary. 3 credits. fundamental application within the discipline into the course for specific assignments and of biomedical art. It is based on the belief exercises. Students outside the Biomedical Biomedical Art: Interactive that understanding the concepts of medical Art major will not be required to produce Narratives and/or veterinary surgery is essential to illustrations based on biomedical content, BMA 359 creating effective illustrations and other but instead will focus on developing visually This course serves as an introductory media that visually communicates the illustrated narrative projects, of equal platform to investigate and discover object, information. Students will research surgical complexity, pertinent to their own areas of environment, human, and natural science procedures and techniques, sketch interest. Offered fall. 3 credits. 2D/web-based animation, in addition to procedures in the operating room, prepare basic interface design, to create a narrative comprehensive sketches outlining visual Biomedical Art: Advanced with goals to communicate a message and/ narrative of surgical procedures, and render Problems, Concepts, + Media or educate and instruct the viewer. The final illustrations/media presentations using BMA 354 student will use the concept of narrative to a variety of digital media. Special access to In this course the student will continue tell animated short stories of the body, Case Western University Hospitals will be investigating complex concepts and environment and/or natural science through granted and all students must follow ALL techniques in Biomedical media and apply use of modern time-based software and rules during medical observation; and be them to advanced visual communication scripting in conjunction with Adobe conscious of patient-related regulations and problems. The focus will be on developing Illustrator, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver. privacy standards. Required of junior conceptual visual story-telling skills (First in Within the course, strong conceptual skills Biomedical Art majors. No electives. sketch form/storyboarding for client are emphasized and developed through Offered spring. Fulfills Engaged Practice proofing, then rendered digitally for final art) professional production techniques, requirement. 3 credits. Students will learn to take complex workflow and time-based linear media. The information presented by biomedical principles of 2D animation and web-based
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interface design will be used as the BFA Thesis Research Gross Anatomy foundation for understanding how to BMA 405 BMA 411 communicate a message. Learning the This course is designed to act as a This in-depth, cadaver dissection-based, ideas of simplistic object, environment and summative experience for the student. The course covers all aspects of human gross body motion accuracy/timing will be taught final BFA Thesis Project will be defined by anatomy. The course is modeled after a in 2D and students will be expected to the student and work with a level of traditional medical school gross anatomy create simple to complex animations (based professional collaboration. The curriculum and taught by the CWRU School on level and individual progress.) This requirements for the BFA Thesis will be to of Medicine, Department of Anatomy faculty. course is designed to benefit all majors and solve and effectively visually communicate a It is divided into three sections: thorax and non-majors with required pre-requisites. medical or scientific problem. Integration of abdomen; pelvis/perineum and limbs/back; Offered fall. 3 credits. outside resources, research effective and head and neck. One hour of lecture will collaborator/expert communication, precede 3 hours of dissection laboratory Biomedical Art: Internship (EP) professional practices, presentation (oral Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Lectures BMA 399-499 and written) and documentation of the and dissection labs will cover all human This course is designed as a 3 credit process of the specific yearlong project will anatomy, and students should be prepared professional internship in the area of be expected to determine successful BFA to devote more time that the scheduled biomedical art; and in association with an candidacy. The choice of media and hours of 1:00 to 5:00pm. Dissection labs industry specific job (client, company or concept will be evaluated on its are open 24 hours 7 days a week. Spring institution.) Any major seeking to register for appropriateness for communicating the semester only. Cross-registration with the Biomedical Art Internship must seek message and solving the Thesis problem. CWRU required. 6 credits. PRIOR APPROVAL by the Head of the The project visualization will be student Biomedical Art Department. The internship driven; content needs will be determined by Cellular & Molecular Illustration will be graded in accordance with the CIA the student and the research/collaboration. BMA 470 grading standards, and professional review The emphasis in this course will be on the This course will focus on the current with the company and/or client providing conceptual development of the content techniques for visualizing and illustrating the the opportunity. Fulfills Engaged Practice accuracy/relevance and its realization cellular structure and molecules that make requirement. through the design process. The process up living organisms: phospholipid bilayers, will fully address research, expert chemical exchange, carbohydrates, lipids, Applied Portfolio and collaboration, target audience, time spent, proteins, nucleic acids, etc. The ability to Professional Strategies visual communication problem and accurately represent cellular and molecular BMA 404 successful execution of completed structures has become critical with recent The Applied Portfolio and Professional production. The goal will be effective visual advances in microbiology, biotechnology, Strategies course will help the student communication with a strong, aesthetic, genetics, and pharmacology. You will learn develop applied portfolios in offline and fully considered project, which integrates how to locate 3D molecular model files on online media, demo reels, and print-related several layers of media. the Internet and manipulate these models materials relating to professional packages The final work will have the following: on the computer. Working from conceptual (resumes, cover letters, business cards, nn A two sentence (maximum) Thesis drawings, you will use these files to render etc.) Students will learn real-world business Statement, (and possibly animate) molecules in 2D approaches for art and culturally-based nn a designed/written proposal, using Photoshop and/or Illustrator and in 3D professionals within community networks. nn research paper, using a modeling application (such as 3D The understanding of contracts, copyright, nn business-oriented documentation, Studio Max). Required of senior Biomedical budgeting and marketing and presentation nn a digital presentation to explain the work, Art majors. 3 credits. concepts as applied to commercial-based nn artist statement/project scope work and freelance opportunities will be statement, explored. The course is designed to help nn and the final project depicting the the student navigate the professional areas solution for the BFA Exhibition. of art and integrated media, while gaining Offered fall. 3 credits. critical insight into art practice and leadership in the business environment. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 91 Course Catalog Ceramics
Ceramics: The Potter’s Wheel + Ceramics: Ceramics Production Advanced Handbuilding CER 240-340-440 CER 243-343-443 Ceramics: Image, Pattern + Students will work in series and iterations to This course will explore basic and advanced Surface in Clay create sets, vessels, server ware and hand-building techniques to explore CER 202-302-402 presentation pieces in clay. The potters individual investigation of clay for personal This class will concentrate on the integration wheel is an important tool for artists and ideation and concepts. We will make glazes, of form and surface using drawing, painting, designers who want to assemble forms fire kilns and explore ceramic history. We pattern and mark making on ceramics. We using multiple parts. Production techniques will cover all types of work from utility to will use ceramic materials, print processes, will enable students to create multiples, sculpture and its relationship to site and decals and digital imagery on both two and work efficiently and develop a distinct style. place. The class will research and test three dimensional clay objects. We will Glaze making, glazing and kiln firing will be various ceramic materials, clay bodies and research historical and current ceramic incorporated into this course. Lectures on surface treatments. Open to all. 3 credits. works and the technology of image making historical and contemporary ceramic works on clay to invent a personal narrative. will be included to further help students Ceramics: Required of all Ceramic Majors. Open to all. create a personal direction. 1 semester Alchemy of Fire + Clay Prerequisites: Some clay working required of all Ceramic majors for CER 244-344-444 experience is suggested. 3 credits. graduation. Open to all. Books and supplies Students will explore and experiment with to be determined by instructor. 3 credits. ancient and contemporary firing techniques, Intro Ceramics: Cups: An such as raku, pit firing, sawdust and saggar Intimate Object + Expressive Ceramics: Major Day/Special firing. Ceramic history of the vessel and Canvas Projects sculpture traditions will be covered. Work CER 210 CER 241M-341M-441M will be fabricated using the wheel and hand The focus of this course will be the ceramic Ceramics major day. Students will work on building techniques. The class will work on cup’s ability to communicate cultural and assigned and self-proposed projects, which drawing and image making using these historical significance. A cup is the most explore content, meaning and material in primeval traditions to create their own intimate and complex object humans have two and three dimensions. Conceptual and personal idiom and concepts. Open to all. developed for daily use. Their scale and critical thinking will be addressed in “Work 3 credits. surface area demand the artist’s in Progress Reviews”. Research and consideration both two and three- material exploration will be assessed Ceramics: The Narrative Vessel dimensionally. A concept or narrative will through presentations and critique. CER 246-346-446 drive decision making in regards to the Lectures will address historical and The focus of this class will be the ceramic surface techniques and processes covered. contemporary work in art, design and object as a vehicle for two and three- Students will be exposed to a variety of ceramics. Required of Ceramics majors. dimensional expression. We will introduce wheel throwing and hand-building 3 credits. the potter’s wheel, handbuilding/forming techniques. An understanding of kiln firing techniques along with glazing and surface will be developed including electric, gas, Ceramics: Major Day/Special treatments. Kiln firing will be introduced, and wood. Introductory course required of Projects including gas and electric kilns. We will all Ceramics majors. Open to all as an CER 242M-342M-442M discuss artworks made from clay in the elective. Offered fall. 3 credits. Ceramics major day. Students will work on past, present and future. This class is open assigned and self-proposed projects, which to all: take as preparation for other course explore content, meaning and material in work in the Ceramics Department. two and three dimensions. Conceptual and 3 credits. critical thinking will be addressed in “Work in Progress Reviews”. Research and material exploration will be assessed through presentations and critique. Lectures will address historical and contemporary work in art, design and ceramics. Required of Ceramics majors. 3 credits.
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Ceramics: Ceramics: Architectonic Clay + Ceramics: Table for Two: Majolica, The Painted Pot Ceramic Sculpture Evolving Rituals of Food CER 247-347-447 CER 250-350-450 CER 252-352-452 This course will explore the use of the This course will focus on creating works of We will focus on the human experience of painted image and pattern through the tin- ceramic sculpture and ceramic works that eating, and the rituals and modes of glazed Majolica earthenware tradition. This will be presented on the wall, floor or used communication involving community, food is a brightly colored glazing technique as an architectural element or ornament and drink. The potter’s wheel will be our steeped in the ceramic history of the Middle such as public and domestic art projects primary means of fabrication for the East, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. and tile projects. We will cover basic creation of objects, parts and multiples. Wheel based and handbuilt fabrication will ceramic fabrication to include, Large scale Glaze formulation, surface techniques and be taught along with over-glaze brush work in clay, The use of ceramic materials firing of kilns will be incorporated in this techniques. Students will investigate and construction techniques to create class. Required of all Ceramic Majors. Open personal iconography and its connection to sculpture, tile making, press molding, use of to all. 3 credits. form, volume and content. Some clay the extruder, glazing and firing of gas and experience is useful. electric kilns. Lectures will include historical Ceramics Vessel Utility Open to all. 3 credits. and contemporary works. Projects will CER 253-353-453 include architecture based work for This course will investigate the historical and Ceramics: Mold Making + domestic and public formats, experimental contemporary forms of the ceramic vessel/ Multiples unfired solutions and two dimensional pot. The dual nature of works that function, CER 248-348-448 pattern and design work, ceramic surface as receptacles for meaning and narrative as This class will be engaged with the development, and all Ceramic traditions, well as domestic work for the table or concepts of multiples in the making of which address subject matter outside of presentation will be researched. functional, sculptural and design works. domestic utility. Clay is an easily accessible Construction techniques to be covered will Mold making, slip casting, press molds and material that makes it ideal for creating both include hand building and the potter’s other production techniques will be utilized. figurative and abstract works in any scale. wheel along with a variety of surface Emphasis is on design and exploration of The course will include some research and treatments and firing methods. Open to all. form through modeling by hand and testing of sculpture bodies and surfaces. 3 credits. machine. 3D modeling and digital Course requirements: Some clay working fabrication may be explored. There will be experience (high school, college level, or Ceramics: Surface + Form lectures that address technical issues and equivalent) It would be valuable to students CER 255-355-455 artworks made of clay, both historical and in Ceramics, Glass, Metals, Design, Interiors Students will work on assigned and contemporary. Required one time for all and sculpture, painting, and drawing. Some self-proposed projects which explore the ceramics majors. Can be repeated. Open to clay working experience suggested. See ceramic surface in relationship to two and all. 3 credits. Ceramics: 241, 341, 441: Introduction to three-dimensional form. Concepts and three-dimensional plastic media. 3 credits. critical theory will be addressed. Lectures Ceramics: Raw Materials will discuss historical and contemporary art CER 249-349-449 Ceramics: Nature/Structure and design history. Previous clay working This course will combine ceramic fabrication CER 251-351-451 experience required. 3 credits. skills with an emphasis on clay body In this class we will be looking to nature for formulation and glaze testing and inspiration. The natural world and its infinite development. Students will learn press structures, patterns, and phenomena are an molding, tile making, and hand-building inexhaustible source for visual artists. We skills along with clay and glazes for multiple will make use of this vast resource, bringing uses and temperatures. Class will include traces of what can be discovered and lectures, lab work, and instruction in firing integrated into our clay work. Both form and gas and electric kilns. Lectures will address surface will be studied and utilized and we historical and contemporary ceramic works, will learn to fire a variety of kilns. There will along with technical issues. Required of all be lectures on contemporary and historical Ceramic Majors. Open to all. 3 credits. art and design in clay. Required of all Ceramic Majors. Open to all. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 93 Course Catalog Ceramics
Ceramics-Production Monumental Clay Processes CER 260-360-460 CER 257-357-457 This course will explore the physical and This course will explore production as it conceptual aspects of monuments and their pertains to ceramics. Working by hand and place in public spaces. Utilizing hand-built implementing structures, thrown vessels and cast processes such as mold making, jiggering, multiples we will fabricate large-scale tiles, CNC milling, and digital tools, students will murals, installations and objects. Surface produce multiples. considerations both traditional and Our focus will be on designing a “collection” non-traditional will be influenced by for small batch manufacturing. Topics historical or contemporary events. Allowing include design, drawing and mark making to develop a entrepreneurship, pricing and marketing of relationship to mass and volume. The class your work. Open to all. 3 Credits 3 credits. will also address clay in various forms, such Books and supplies to be determined by as fired and unfired. Some previous instructor. 3 credits. ceramics experience is required. 3 credits.
Cer:Dciph Digit Dsgn to Phys Internship-Ceramics (EP) Mtrl CER 399-499 CER 258-358-458 Elective credit can be given on a case-by Participants will obtain a familiarity with the case basis for student internships various fabrication techniques utilized in developed through the career services transforming digital design into ceramics. office, with advance permission of instructor This familiarity will inform their ability to and department Chair. Fulfills Engaged objectively analyze a digital model for its Practice requirement. ability to be translated into ceramics. Additionally, they will obtain an understanding of glaze and clay chemistry, the stages of clay and firing processes. Finally, students will acquire the basic skills necessary for setting up and outputting a model using digital fabrication tools. Books and supplies to be determined by instructor. 3 credits.
94 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Craft + Design
Digital Surface + Image: writing assignments, which vary to Craft + Design Core 3 (EP) recognize the direction of the group and CDE 300 formal issues and conceptual challenges. Creative Process + Material The third year of the Craft + Design core The subject, research, and writing for the Studies: Core 1 explores the integration of digital thesis are developed during the first CDE 200 technologies, imaging and three- semester with the final thesis due before the Students focus on the creative process and dimensional modeling, new materials and BFA Show and critique. The course material studies across the craft majors. processes, and the connections with includes field trips to museums, galleries, From inspiration to the production of ceramics, glass, and jewelry + metals. The and artist studio visits to expose students to multiples, each major explores design and fall semester brings a focus to the historical and contemporary artwork and making through their respective mediums application and integration of 2D digital practice. The mid-year review at the end of as well as other materials. The sophomores imaging on surfaces and forms in clay, the fall semester is an environment-wide in the Craft + Design environment address enamel, glass, and metal. Projects build on presentation and progress review, which common themes while working in their the foundation skill set and encourage the also prepares students for the oral defense respective major: Ceramics, Glass, and use of digital technology for the of the BFA exhibition in the spring. Required Jewelry + Metals. The course affords the development of image, pattern, and texture. of all graduating Craft & Design majors. integration of skills and knowledge from Students utilize and develop their skills with Offered fall. Open to electives. 3 credits. foundation including drawing, design, color, imaging software and explore how it digital synthesis, and collaboration, with the translates into the various materials and BFA Statement + Exhibition: practices related to the full scope of the surfaces. Offered fall. Fulfills Engaged Core 6 Craft + Design major programs. Offered fall. Practice requirement. 3 credits. CDE 401 3 credits. BFA Statement and Exhibition is a hybrid Digital Modeling + Making: seminar/studio course that builds on the Language of Materials: Core 2 Core 4 research and thesis work developed in Core CDE 201 CDE 301 5. Research, exploration, and The second course in the core explores Craft & Design Core 4 explores the experimentation culminate with the commonalities and differences in the integration of computer-aided design (CAD) presentation of the statement and the BFA “language of materials.” Emphasis is placed across the craft disciplines. Building on the exhibition. The seminar includes on visual and conceptual aspects of Core 3 course, Digital Modeling and Making discussions, presentations, readings, and materials, and material process. This makes addresses a range of new materials and writing assignments, which vary to for interesting investigations and technologies toward innovative applications recognize the direction of the group and explorations within and across mediums. across the range of Craft, new skills and formal issues and conceptual challenges. Historically materials and processes are knowledge from 3D modeling to computer The subject, research, and writing for the connected with the evolution of function, aided manufacturing, and rapid prototyping. thesis and BFA statement are further and meaning. The class will explore inherent Projects integrate design and output developed during the spring semester with physical properties that may bring content experiences toward exploration of new the statement and body of work completed and depth to ideas borne of the medium materials, patterns, molds, templates, for the BFA exhibition and review. The itself. Students continue the process of models, and objects. The seminar/studio course includes field trips and artist studio research and ideation using these common course includes weekly seminar visits to offer the students critical, historical, themes, and explore through discussions, presentations, and reviews as and contemporary points of reflection. The experimentation. Each student’s individual well as dedicated work in the studios, labs, course also addresses the planning and voice begins to emerge. Fundamental and major spaces. Laptops are preparation toward career goals including techniques will be explored and practiced, recommended but not required. Offered goals statements, resume review, and stressing the practice of the maker. spring. 3 credits. digital presentations by each senior. Idea-books/sketchbooks will continue to be Required of all graduating Craft & Design worked on as an important part of the BFA Research + Thesis: majors. Offered spring. Open to electives. creative process. Offered spring. 3 credits. Core 5 3 credits. CDE 400 Core 5 is a hybrid seminar/studio courses for seniors with a focus on investigation, growth and verbal intelligibility. Each student develops their own criteria for a thesis and portfolio of work through research, exploration, and experimentation in various materials and media. The seminar includes discussions, presentations, readings, and
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 95 Course Catalog Drawing
100 Drawings Figure Drawing Drawing DRG 216M DRG 225-226/325-326/425-426 In creating 100 drawings within a single Students will develop an individual Collage & Assemblage semester, students will move through many approach to the figure through relevant DRG 212C-312C-412C forms of drawing, from direct observation to historical and contemporary systems of Collage and Assemblage are among the work from photographic sources, from representation. This course emphasizes on most radical innovations of the early 20th abstraction to the idiosyncratic. innovative approach to drawing using the century and these forms remain relevant Assignments are sequenced to encourage figure as a vehicle and primary focus for today as sources for innovation and experimentation and play with a wide range metaphoric or literal interpretations, and as experimentation. Each of these forms of drawing materials and methods. At the a site for conceptual inquiry. Diverse acknowledges the fracture of contemporary conclusion of the course, students will have combinations of traditional and life and the ongoing need for new means of begun to develop their own point of view, unconventional mediums will be introduced. expression. This course will explore the style, and approach to drawing. Required Individual reviews of work in progress and relationship between collage and for Sophomore Drawing Majors. Offered group critiques are an integral part of the assemblage and various disciplines within spring. 3 credits. studio concentration. Museum, gallery the visual arts including Painting, Print, and excursions, and visiting artists are regularly Drawing. Students will learn to discern the Drawing as Image, Process, scheduled to enlighten student pursuits. significantly different effects and content of and Plan 3 credits. the wide range of strategies these DRG 21X-31X-41X approaches encompass. Through Initial projects of the course will focus on the Drawing: Images: Series, classroom discussion, lectures, readings, construction of a drawing utilizing a variety Episodes + Time critiques and studio work students will of sources including: observation, historical DRG 27X-37X-47X explore the possibilities available through reference, photographs, digital images, and Through the many permutations of the collage and assemblage. Emphasis will be the imagination. Discussion will focus on discipline such as drawing as narrative, given to the historical and contemporary contextualizing the drawing as object, drawing as process, and drawing as studio practices associated with collage locating it through the study of pertinent animation, the concept of the sequential will and assemblage. This course is open to all theory and history. In further projects be explored. The course will include students from all majors. Students will be students will consider the drawing as part of readings, in-class discussion and critiques, encouraged to apply their area of expertise a larger process in developing 2-D images as well as an examination of the practices of to the studio work. 3 credits. through a variety of media. Important to this diverse artists including William Kentridge, discussion will be concerns of composition, Matthew Ritchie, Judith Bernstein, William Illusionism: Intro to Drawing scale, and media and their relationship to Anastasi, and Marjane Satrapi. Assignments DRG 215M concept and content. Students will then will be given that address various methods Advancing the illusionistic rendering skills research artists who have utilized drawing of describing time through the medium. This developed in the first year, students will be as a planning tool for film, sculpture, and course is open to all majors an is cross- introduced to a variety of theories related to other media. The focus of these projects will listed with Visual Arts. 3 credits. sight and perception. Students will develop be on how the drawing aids the artist in skills with several traditional mediums and conceptualizing a form in space and time. Drawing Beyond Observation materials as well as experiment concepts of 3 credits. DRG 321M-421 scale, color, and mark-making. Required for This course will explore strategies for Sophomore Drawing Majors. Cross listed representation beyond direct perception, with VAT. Offered fall. 3 credits. moving past the use of the traditional still life, landscape, or model as subject. How can a drawing describe the world that is beyond the range of our common visual observations? Different approaches to drawing, including free-association, metaphor, and mapping are explored to help define and circumvent personal barriers. Required for Junior Drawing Majors. Offered fall. 3 credits.
96 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Drawing
Drawing: Style Context Systems Drawing Drawing Major Day: DRG 323-423 DRG 360-460 Drawing in Context Students explore diverse disciplines in, and This course will investigate the means by DRG 415M develop a wide range of, visual linguistics which various systems of drawing and What provides the context for a and technical skills. Traditional and representation function as methods of contemporary drawing? Is it the graphic unconventional mediums and materials are communication. How do historical, cultural novel or a classical form of figurative explored and verified through application. and social contexts frame an artist’s ability representation? Does it find its place in the An infinite range of resource information is to send messages through their work? And, space of the gallery or on the street? utilized from direct observation, photo like in a game of telephone, in any system of Students will explore the ways in which form documentation, and introspective insights. communication it is inevitable that potential and style contribute to the content of their Projects are student driven with an problems may occur- misunderstandings, work. Projects are student driven with an emphasis on working with the students to errors, and falsehoods. Can these emphasis on working with each student to develop their ideas through research, absorbed into the content of the work? develop his or her ideas through research, exploration, and experimentation with Illusionistic, abstract, allegorical, exploration, and experimentation. Museum different drawing media. Using critique as a diagrammatic, mathematical and and gallery excursions and visiting artists format for class interaction, work will be idiosyncratic systems of drawing and are regularly scheduled to expose students presented for both formal and interpretive representation will be investigated through to historical and contemporary artwork and analysis during several stages in its this course, through studio practice, practice. Required for Senior Drawing production. Museum and gallery excursions readings, critique and in-class discussion. Majors. 3 credits. and visiting artists are regularly scheduled Required of all Junior Drawing Majors. to expose students to historical and 3 credits. Advanced Drawing: Senior contemporary artwork and practice. Major Day 3 credits. 3-Dimensional Drawing: DRG 416M The Psychology of Space Majors explore diverse disciplines in, and Hybrid Approaches to Drawing DRG 38X-39X develop a wide range of, visual linguistics & Painting: Digital Media Through a theoretical understanding of and technical skills. Traditional and DRG 327H drawing as mapping students will be asked unconventional mediums and materials are Emphasis is on integrating digital processes to deal with problems of three- explored and verified through application. into studio practice and production. The dimensionality in relationship to movement An infinite range of resource information is class deals with a spectrum of digital and time through space. Of particular utilized from direct observation, photo applications in a studio practice including interest will be concerns of mapping, spatial documentation, and introspective insights. straight forward digital output, using digital location and relative positioning and the Projects are student driven with an as a means of producing source material as ideas fourth dimensionality or the “hidden”. emphasis on working with the students to well as actually integrating digital processes Students will be asked to consider ideas of develop their ideas through research, into the production of work. Through slide trace, residue, and rhizomatic or non-linear exploration, and experimentation with presentations, viewing actual work, vs. linear progressions. Questions will different drawing media. Using critique as a discussions and readings, students will be include: How does the student navigate format for class interaction, work will be introduced to the place of the digital in both three-dimensional and conceptual presented for both formal and interpretive contemporary studio practice. In studio spaces? How can space be explored, analysis during several stages in its production, students will use varied media mapped, studied both as a physical location production. Museum and gallery excursions and subjects, both traditional and non- and a spatial event. and visiting artists are regularly scheduled traditional, to further develop their analytical 3 credits. to expose students to historical and and expressive means in their creative contemporary artwork and practice. practice. Students are encouraged to draw Drawing - Internship (EP) 3 credits. from many disciplines incorporating them in DRG 399-499 the projects presented to the class for Elective credit can be given on a case-by group critiques. Open to all Students – case basis for student internships required of Print and Drawing Juniors. developed through the Career Services Offered fall. 3 credits. Office, with advance permission of instructor and department Chair. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 97 Course Catalog Foundation
Digital Synthesis drawing and digital skills are fundamental Foundation FND 104 for communicating ideas and are reinforced Explores crucial and far-reaching concepts in Design 1. Offered fall. 3 credits. Digital Color associated with digital art and technology FND 103D as these concepts interface with Design Safety Lab This one-half semester course introduces foundational concepts of aesthetics and FND 107L color in additive synthesis (light). The course visual communications. Design Safety Lab class introduces explores color theory, perception, and Digital synthesis explores: the assembly woodshop safety and basic skills in application, through a series of fundamental and creation of imagery from different machinery use. Students learn the color investigations offering opportunities source materials; time-based images using fundamental characteristics of wood as a for multiple compositional solutions and the various approaches to animation; the versatile medium, as well as appropriate development of digital skills. In tandem with structure and logic of narrative storytelling construction methods for particular its companion course, Foundation Material with digital video; and the structure and applications. Offered fall and spring. Color, students pursue a personal color logic of interactivity through the creation of 0 credits. sensibility, in preparation for any art or work where the structure, sequence and design field. Course structure consists of outcome is influenced by the participation of introductory concept lectures, technical the viewer. Design II instruction, lab time with guidance and FND 108 group critique of finished assignments. Course structure consists of introductory This course builds on the experiences of Offered fall. 1.5 credits. concept lectures, technical instruction, lab Design 1, with compositional and time with guidance and group critique of conceptual problems being explored fully in Material Color finished assignments. Pre-requisites: three dimensions in. Form, mass, volume, FND 103M FND103D Digital Color. Offered spring. spatial interactions, material qualities, and This one-half semester course introduces 3 credits. physical forces are key factors. Students color in subtractive synthesis (pigment). continue to learn to perceive and control This course explores color theory, Design I visual relationships within the design perception, and application, through a FND 107 structures they make. The aesthetic and series of three fundamental color In this fundamental visual composition conceptual potential of materials and investigations offering opportunities for course, students learn the primary elements processes (craft) are also vital aspects of multiple compositional solutions and the and principles of visual language, and are this studio course. Creative processes of development of material skills. In tandem introduced to a range of formal and problem solving through research, with its companion course, Digital Color, conceptual problems which become investigation and ideation, together with an students pursue a personal color sensibility, increasingly complex as the course attitude of discovery, are required for all in preparation for any art or design field. progresses. Students are challenged to concept and project explorations. Ideational Course structure consists of introductory explore core design principles of visual drawing, model making, material studies, concept lectures, technical instruction, organization in unique and challenging ways, and prototypes contribute to developing studio time with guidance, and group and to gain the ability to problem-solve ideas to a high and thoughtful level. Various critique of finished assignments. Offered fall. through ideation processes, group dialogue, methods and approaches to giving form 1.5 credits. perceptual refinement and skill (such as additive, subtractive, assemblage management. Developing analytical skills and joinery) are challenges for every and the ability to effectively engage in an concept explored. Design 2 projects have on-going process of critique are also core the potential to be explored as sculpture, components of the course. functional design, or even as hybrid. Students are challenged to follow their Design1 involves the planning and passions and gain experience in self- organization of the parts within a whole, directing project outcomes. Pre-requisites: through a sense of experimentation, risk FND107 Design I. Offered spring. 3 credits. taking and discovery. This course focuses primarily on two-dimensional forms but also gradually introduces three-dimensional forms. Material exploration and the development of strong manual skills in regard to visual acuity and craft sensitivity are a key aspect of every assignment. Knowledge and skills gained in concurrent Foundation program areas such as color,
98 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Foundation
Drawing I Freshman Elective: Animation + Fresh Elective: Design FND 117 Illustration: Visual Storytelling FND 130D Primary goals of Drawing 1 focus on core FND 130A Collaborate with others, create a unique drawing concepts; basic methods, tools This course introduces students to design, use it! and materials; and an introduction into the techniques and terminology used in the language of mark making. Composition and animation and illustration industry. This course offers an introduction to visual analysis are emphasized through Coursework will include projects such as Graphic Design, Industrial Design and drawing from observation, including character design, layout and storyboarding Interior Architecture. The semester will perspective theories as they relate to with an emphasis on developing focus on a project inspired by Frank Lloyd objects and environments. observation skills along with enhancing Wright and will involve designing, Students utilize observational information to technical and rendering abilities. Students documenting and building ‘overnight develop a broad range of manual and will design for publication while learning to outdoor micro dwellings.’ The project is perceptual skills and to develop an ability to explore, communicate and evaluate basic based on the experience of Wright’s translate the three-dimensional world into concepts, which are essential in the students at Taliesin West in the 1930’s, who two dimensions. Students are challenged to development of critical thinking and built their own living space based on the develop a strong drawing practice through problem solving skills in the applied arts. materials available and environmental in-class work, out of class assignments, Offered spring. 1.5 credits. conditions. Specific course content will and in on-going drawing/sketch books. include knowledge and skill that is Offered fall. 3 credits. Freshman Elective: Crafts: important to each individual discipline, Ideas, Objects, Traditions including conducting research, sketching, Drawing II FND 130C visual documentation & communication, FND 118 This course offers students a hands-on graphic design basics, prototyping and Drawing 2 continues to build on basic studio experience in three major studios. teamwork. drawing concepts, methods, and materials Through a variety of materials and that were introduced in the previous processes used in the Ceramics, Glass, The course faculty intend for a culminating semester. Emphasis for Drawing 2 is on the and Jewelry and Metals department, semester experience to include using the human figure, with observational drawing students can examine the potential for structure during an overnight event. Offered from the live model in the classroom, and two-dimensional image, three-dimensional spring. 3 credits. weekly out-of-class drawing assignments form, and the Cultural importance of craft. which explore various figurative concepts. During this class you will be introduced to Special attention is given to composition, and familiarize yourself with each of these visual analysis, and expression through disciplines while gaining valuable hands-on drawing from observation, including skills in diverse materials and design perspective theories as they relate to approaches. 3 credits. objects and environments. The language of mark making is also introduced in a range of drawing media. Students develop a personal approach through the use of drawing/sketchbooks. Students are challenged to incorporate skills and theories into resolved drawings; to think critically regarding the content and process of drawing; to develop confidence when experimenting with new media; and to develop vocabulary in order to be an active, informed participant in class discussions and critiques. Pre-requisites: FND117 Drawing I. Offered spring. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 99 Course Catalog Foundation
Freshman Elective: Freshman Elective: Charrette: Game Design + Biomedical Art: Visual Arts: Contemporary Self & Other Voices Game for Change: Fun, Play & Art Practice FND 140B Reward FND 130V This one-half semester course is framed by FND 130G Students will be introduced to: the theme of Self and other Voices. As an Games for Change: Fun, Play and Reward nn Basic concepts and skills relating to exploration of one’s self in relation to culture through Art, Science & Games contemporary art practices in Image and society, the course facilitates increased Making self-knowledge and helps students uncover This course is an introduction to both Game nn Aspects of Visual Literacy and the their views of “other.” The students and Design and Biomedical Art, and how these Process of Criticism instructor work collaboratively to define and two areas of specialization can intersect to nn Focus on the vocabulary directly relevant explore “other voices,” cultivate connections create meaningful games. Games which to the field of Image Making within the with those other voices, and develop can help players change and engage in a Contemporary Art Context creative responses. Through sustained world beyond reality. Coursework will exploration of one theme, the Charrette explore concepts & techniques in game Students will explore: gives priority to the development of skills for design and biomedical art; which will nn How to turn Intuitions into Subjects critical and creative thinking, experiential emphasize level design, game character art, nn The Role of experimentation and risk learning, problem-solving, and collaboration. real-time animation and integration of taking in art-making Through materials exploration, making illustrated images in games. Students will nn Traditional and non-traditional materials, processes, and critique, the Charrette learn how to develop the narrative of their processes, and forms forges links with the visual, tactile, and game and learn strategies to engage nn How to formulate critical judgment manual skill sets being taught in other players in the content of the game. A nn The relation between ideation and Foundation classes. Each student’s effort, combination of different media will be realization progress, and work will contribute to a explored to allow students interested in Offered spring. 3 credits. project developed over 7 weeks, to include either game design or biomedical art to both a charrette documentation log and a develop a common vocabulary through their Charrette: 2D, 3D, and/or 4D form. Offered fall. 1.5 specific subject interest and individual Collaboration + Community credits. projects. Offered spring. 1.5 credits. FND 140A This one-half semester course is framed by Freshman Elective: the theme of Community and Collaboration. Photography + Video: Still & The students and instructor work Moving Images: Optics, Form collaboratively to define and explore FND 130P “community” as local place and learning The Still and Moving Image --- Optics, Form environment. They identify and activate and Content connections among charrette members and their specified community in order to This course is an introduction to develop a consensual creative response. photographic “seeing” in close examination Through sustained exploration of one theme, of the dynamic intersection between still the Charrette emphasizes the development and moving images. Coursework of skills for critical and creative thinking, investigates the aesthetic form and visual experiential learning, problem-solving, and language of optical imaging and perception collaboration. Through materials exploration, historically, and in contemporary context. making processes, and critique, the Students learn to question, explore, Charrette forges links with the visual, tactile communicate and evaluate basic and manual skill sets taught in other photographic concepts, essential in the Foundation classes. Each student’s effort, development of critical thinking skills that progress, and work will contribute to a are applicable to many disciplines. Students collaborative project developed over 7 considering a major in photography or video weeks, to include both a charrette are encouraged to take this session. documentation log as well as a collaborative Offered spring. 1.5 credits. 2D, 3D, or 4D form. Offered fall. 1.5 credits.
100 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Game Design
Game Media Production I (EP) Game Media Production II Game Design GAME 320 GAME 321 The course is a project driven course jointly This course serves as a continuation of the Intro Game Design offered between Cleveland Institute of Art fundamentals and theory application of GAME 215 and Case Western Reserve University. game development. The course materials Introduction to Game Design take students Students will form production teams and and projects will help students understand on an exploration of Gaming Theory and its collaborate with using their talents and how to further develop game concepts, practice through the development of expertise to develop a working prototype mechanics, interaction design, and physical games. Investigation includes computer game; having an interactive and prototype the game through the use of game metaphor, story, game mechanics, immersive experience. Students will take on animation and simple interactivity. The and chance factors. Students will also roles of game producers, developers, course will require students to work analyze games and gameplay including the artists, programmers, and designers. You individually to design game narratives, aesthetics of games and the design of their will learn to brainstorm, design concepts, design documents (art assets, instructions. In this project based course documentation, assemble resources, create technical assets and sounds assets) and students will produce fully implemented assets, implement the game design, and demonstrate the playability of the prototype board games and card games. Offered fall. manage their individual tasks and collective game. The course exposes students to 3 credits. project. The course introduces students to examples of the current work and research the contemporary challenges posed by the in game theory and narrative design, which Introduction to Video Games ever-changing technologies used to make are integral to development of successful GAME 216 and deliver video games on today’s polished games. Students will be exposed Game design allows artists to create sophisticated hardware. This course will to industry-specific games with the meaningful play and interactive experiences. bring together an interdisciplinary group of requirement to test, analyze and review. This introductory course, explores games advanced undergraduate students to focus These examples along with specific lecture through the development and creation of 2D on the design and development of a topics and materials, will allow the student video games. The course aims to provide a complete, fully functioning computer game to understand how to continue to develop critical vocabulary and historical context for prototype. The student teams are given their own game projects by learning specific analyzing games and gaming theory and complete autonomy to design their own fully research methods for understanding focuses on the skills and techniques functional games from their original content, players and engagement strategies. necessary to incorporate game design into brainstormed concept and research to a This course does not require programming an ongoing art practice. Offered spring. playable finished prototype, i.e., from the skill or experience per se; however it is 3 credits. initial idea through to the designed game understood that the student usage of Unity brand. The student teams will experience (in the Game Development SP2014 course,) Game Testing + Level Design the entire game development cycle as they and/or UDK may be used for projects with GAME 318 execute their projects. An excerpt of limitations on coded interactions and time Game Testing and Level Design will be example responsibilities include (but not constraints. If you wish to create a digital covered as player elements, the game play limited to): creating a game idea, writing a game but do not have technical experience experience, creating world levels, creating story, developing the artwork, designing to achieve the full results, you will be the game interface and creating the characters, implementing music and sound required to show an animation of the game atmosphere. In addition, students will earn effects, programming and testing the game, concept and prototype in action, with how to create Game Content for and documenting the entire project with a narrative, character/environmental style, commercial game engines and learn how to formal “Design Document” and GUI, HUD, scoring, mechanics, level design, setup origination skills for commercial game demonstration with oral presentation. and instructional prompts. Alternately, you engines. Students, will learn how to create Offered fall. Fulfills Engaged Practice may choose to work on a non-digital game, texturing mapping, brushes, light maps etc. requirement. 3 credits. which notes a similar level of complexity. Offered fall. 3 credits. Please note that this course welcomes both digital and non-digital games, but that the requirements and milestones for each type of game will be somewhat different and require the development of design related documentation, assets and research. Offered spring. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 101 Course Catalog Game Design
Introduction to Game 3D Texture, Mapping, Digital BFA Research + Preparation Development Lighting GAME 401 GAME 322 GAME 347 This course is designed to act as a The course is designed to teach students This course is designed to cover concepts summative experience for the student. The about the various elements of game in digital application of texture maps for 3D final BFA Thesis Project will be defined by development. Students will work to utilize game models rendered in a real-time 3D the student and work with a level of modern tools to develop 2D/3D graphical game engine. Optimization of textures professional collaboration. The assets into an interactive game engine maps, and materials,. Poly count limits, and requirements for the BFA Thesis will be to through the use of programming. A focus how to “bake” extremely high levels of detail solve and effectively visually communicate a will be applied to skill learning while into low detail models capable of being comprehensive game design prototype. additional topics and theory will be covered rendered in real-time, and the benefits of Integration of outside resources, research to provide a well-rounded experience. using “Levels of Detail” with static, and effective collaborator/expert communication, 3 credits. dynamic lighting concepts, design, and professional practices, presentation (oral optimization. The use of toggle-able lighting, and written) and documentation of the Introduction to 3D Modeling and attachment of lighting to game assets process of the specific year-long project will GAME 345 and players. The importance of creating be expected to determine successful BFA The course is designed to cover concepts in immersive environments, capable of being candidacy. The choice of media and digital 3D organic and device model walked through, and/or viewed from concept will be evaluated on its construction, whereby the virtual models multiple, often unspecified angles of view. appropriateness for communicating the designed are rendered and composited for Projects include concept integration into message and solving the Thesis problem 2D illustration purposes to solve specific technical production workflow for appropriate to game design and conceptual problems. The subject matter describing, and optimizing digital 3D development. The project visualization will within the Game Design curriculum reflects surfaces for rendering in a real-time game be student driven; content needs will be the development of characters, game engine; creating immersive environments determined by the student and the research environments and specific assets for game that express mood, and narrative through into content and industry expectations for development. Students outside the Game the materials, and lighting. Projects require successful game design. The emphasis in Design Major, are required to work with the student to continually improve upon this course will be on the conceptual subjects appropriate to their major field of conceptual problem solving, time development of the content accuracy/ study for concept development and for long management strategies, communication/ relevance and its realization through the term portfolio objectives. Projects include presentation and technical skills. 3 credits. design process. The process will fully concepts and workflow for constructing a address research, integration of content, virtual 3D surface by: (1) defining the visual Game Design: Internship (EP) game theory application, target audience, problem within a concept sketch in GAME 399-499 aesthetic and artistic merits, time tracking pre-production, (2) utilizing specific Elective credit can be given on a case-by- and scheduling, and ultimately a successful introductory modeling methods to build the case basis for an internship developed by execution of completed prototype. The final 3D illustration components, (3) the use of the student through the Career Services work will have the following: basic lighting and rendered materials, (4) Office with advance permission of the nn a two Sentence (Maximum) Thesis export methods into Adobe Photoshop for department head. Fulfills Engaged Practice Statement, augmentation, finishing and final illustration requirement. nn a design document process book, techniques and layout. Projects require the nn research paper, student to gain and improve upon nn business-oriented estimates and budget conceptual skills, problem-solving in planning for exhibition and materials, specific media situations (digital 2D & 3D) nn digital presentation to explain the work, and technical proficiency at an introductory nn artist statement/project scope level in 3D modeling. 3 credits. statement, nn and the final project depicting the solution for the BFA Exhibition as a prototype game design. Offered fall. 3 credits.
102 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Game Design
Serious Game Design: brainstormed concept and research to a Special VFX/Simulation + Theory + Application playable finished prototype, i.e., from the Virtual Reality GAME 408 initial idea through to the designed game GAME 430 This course introduces the fundamentals of brand. The student teams will experience This course explores various aspects of serious or educational game development. the entire game development cycle as they special effects/simulation and virtual reality The course materials and projects will help execute their projects. An excerpt of in game design and multimedia. The course students understand how and why games example responsibilities include (but not aims to provide a critical vocabulary and can be used for learning in the fields of limited to): creating a game idea, writing a historical context of the cutting edge of health, medicine, science and games for story, developing the artwork, designing input and output technologies and their social change. The course exposes characters, implementing music and sound application as well as the underlying biology students to examples of the current work effects, programming and testing the game, and psychology. Students will learn how to and research in game design mechanics, and documenting the entire project with a create robust and immersive experiences by game learning mechanics and assessment formal “Design Document” and combining the elements of graphics, mechanics; which are integral to demonstration with oral presentation. animation, video, and audio using leading development of successful educational Offered fall. 3 credits. industry software. Students will complete games. Students will be exposed to various assignments and create projects industry-specific serious games (games for Game Media Production IV that demonstrate their understanding of learning, corporate training, news games, GAME 421 Special VFX, Simulation & Virtual Reality. games for health, science, exer-games, The course is designed to act as a Offered fall. 3 credits. military games, and games for social summative experience, designed to focus change.) These examples along with student attention on the continuing specific lecture topics and materials, will production development of your BFA Thesis allow the student to understand how to game project. Advisement, lectures and develop their own serious game projects by demonstrations to help troubleshoot, solve learning specific research methods for and increase understanding of the game understanding content, players and development and programming process will engagement strategies. 3 credits. support student project outcomes. Game industry standards of debugging, game Game Media Production III testing, risk assessment, and GAME 420 troubleshooting design issues through The course is a project driven course jointly production development will be key for offered between Cleveland Institute of Art student understanding while developing and Case Western Reserve University. their final game thesis project. The game Students will form production teams and project visualization and concept will be collaborate with using their talents and student driven; content needs to be expertise to develop a working prototype determined by the student and research/ computer game; having an interactive and collaboration with all faculty committee immersive experience. Students will take on advisors. The choice of game concept, roles of game producers, developers, style, mechanics, re-playability and overall artists, programmers, and designers. You design/development will be evaluated in the will learn to brainstorm, design course and in the final BFA Thesis exhibition documentation, assemble resources, create and defense. This course serves to help the assets, implement the game design, and student with continued game production manage their individual tasks and collective through advisement with faculty and project. The course introduces students to appropriate demonstrations and game the contemporary challenges posed by the theory lectures as it relates to the ever-changing technologies used to make appropriateness of the student games and deliver video games on today’s being developed. The faculty retains the sophisticated hardware. The course will right to supplement the course with bring together an interdisciplinary group of additional readings, exams, and project advanced undergraduate students to focus exercises to increase understanding and on the design and development of a awareness of game industry standards and complete, fully functioning computer game preparedness. Offered spring. 3 credits. prototype. The student teams are given complete autonomy to design their own fully functional games from their original
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 103 Course Catalog Glass
Glass Forming Survey: Glass Major Day Glass An Introduction GLS 243M-343M-443M GLS 243 Required of all Glass majors. Assignments Advanced Glass Concepts: The focus of this class is in developing an will be given at 200 and 300; independently Casting understanding of how glass as a material guided study at 400 level. Research in GLS 240-340-440 works, and how one might use it to realize developing concepts using glass as a This course aims at advancing students’ ideas of design and sculpture. This class medium for expression, includes work on knowledge and techniques in creative and will be an introduction to the fundamental production practices, one-of-a-kind vessel intellectual ways as well as fostering new techniques of glass working. This includes: making to the use of glass to complete conceptual schemes. Students will be glass blowing and hot shaping, glass fusing sculptural ideas. Assignments will build introduced to such methods as sand and casting, flame working, glue fabrication, individual student’s voice. Team approach casting, Pate-de-verre, cold working and and grinding, polishing and finishing emphasized in hot shop, building on and kiln casting in the course of pursuing their processes. Required of all incoming 2nd from basic working fundamentals. Majors sculptural goals. In the meantime, students year Glass majors. No previous experience learn and are assigned responsibilities in will also practice applying problem-solving necessary. Course may be repeated. studio operation. Safety in the studio. skills to making art. By the end of this 3 credits. Beginning and advanced practice in course, students will have a thorough alternative methods for forming include knowledge and understanding of general Intro/Intermediate Hot casting, mold construction, cold joining, kiln forming and acquire more advanced Glassblowing & Forming and cold glass techniques. Students will be casting techniques. Ultimately, with this Processes involved with practical experience in technical basis, the course will inspire GLS 243H-343H-443H applying to shows and exhibiting works. students to shape and realize an individual Emphasis on understanding how to Enrollment priority to Glass majors, visual voice. Hot glass will be possibly manipulate glass in its molten state. advanced electives with one semester of conducted as complement. Open to all Practice in traditional and nontraditional hot glass. Course fee required. 3 credits. students. No pre-requisites. 3 credits. blowing and hot forming techniques. Instruction on the use of various hand tools Glass Major Day Advance Glass Concepts: and torches. Color application techniques GLS 244M-344M-444M Hot Sculpting and hot glass skill development at your level. Required of all Glass majors. Assignments GLS 242-342-442 Theory and use of annealing kilns, safety in will be given at 200 and 300, Independently This class will emphasize free-hand glass the studio, teamwork in the hot studio. guided study at 400 level. Research in sculpting. We will discuss the similarities Open to any skill level. 3 credits. developing concepts using glass as a and inherent differences between traditional medium for expression, includes work on glass blowing techniques, and those that production practices, one of a kind vessel are used for hot glass sculpting. making to the use of glass to complete Approaches for making finished sculptures sculptural ideas. Assignments will build from sketches and designs will be at the individual students voice. Team approach core of this class. Areas of focus will include emphasized in hot shop, building on and idea development, processes for breaking from basic working fundamentals. down and deconstructing complex forms, Beginning and advanced practice in craftsmanship, and material understanding. alternative methods for forming include Assignments will be given to teach casting, mold construction, cold joining, techniques and processes, but will also and cold glass techniques. Students will be focus on developing the student’s own involved with practical experience in personal vision and narrative. Course may applying to shows and exhibiting works. be repeated. Prerequisite: Intro/ Majors are learn and are assigned Intermediate Hot Glassblowing or Glass responsibilities in studio operation. Safety in Forming Survey or by permission of Glass the studio. Enrollment priority to Glass chair. 3 credits. Majors, advanced electives with one semester of hot glass. Pre-requisites: One semester of hot Glass. 3 credits.
104 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Glass
Intro Warm Glass + Glass: Concept, Theory + Lampworking Processes Practice GLS 255-355-455 GLS 343-443 This course will introduce students to the Assignments given at all levels 300 and possibilities of glass working through an above. Includes research and development investigation of the techniques, tools, of concepts using glass as a media for equipment and materials involved in flame expression. Practice in hot glass working working and kiln working processes. Warm further advancing fundamentals of blowing Glass refers to glass processes conducted off-hand to more advanced techniques with heat, but at temperatures under 1500 surface decoration of vessels and use of hot degrees (casting, fusing, slumping). glass for sculptural ideas. Cold joining using Students will learn to problem solve glass special adhesives; and in cold glass, cutting, construction both at the torch and in the grinding and finishing techniques. Emphasis kiln. This class will allow students to on hot glass in the fall; casting and cold familiarize themselves with glass as a glass in the spring. Safety and General material, while allowing each student to studio operation. Enrollment priority to explore their own artistic voice within the Glass Majors, intermediate and advanced medium. Students will learn to safely electives first. First time beginners if manipulate and sculpt molten glass at the enrollment allows. 3 credits. torch. The kiln-working aspect of the course will explore moldmaking and kiln operations Advanced Hot Glass: Concept, to manipulate glass into two- and three- Theory + Practice dimensional glass objects. 3 credits. GLS 343A-443A Assignments given at all levels 300 Glass as Surface: Drawing & Independent projects at 400. Includes Imagery research and development of concepts GLS 260X-360X-460X using glass as a media for expression. The use of glass as a material for self Practice in advanced hot glass working expression has its roots in the studio glass further building on fundamentals of blowing movement, which is only half a century old. off-hand to more advanced techniques Non traditional methods of creating graphic surface decoration of vessels and use of hot imagery with powder drawing and glass for sculptural ideas. Advanced screenprinting on flat glass are even newer methods for forming, may include hot to the scene. This class is aimed at giving casting, mold blowing, using multiples; cold an overview of the contemporary joining using special adhesives; and cold techniques and processes that use glass as glass, cutting grinding and finishing a surface for creating imagery. There is techniques. Emphasis on Hot Glass. Safety much left to be discovered; and and General studio operation. experimentation is not only encouraged, but necessary. Open to all students above first For Glass Majors and Advanced Electives. year. 3 credits. May be repeated. Pre-requisites: One semester of hot Glass. 3 credits.
Glass: Internship (EP) GLS 399-499 Elective credit can be given on a case by case basis for an internship developed by student through the Career Services Office, with advance permission of instructor and head of department. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 105 Course Catalog Graphic Design
Typography II Graphics for Design Graphic Design GDS 204 GDS 237-238 Through the use of studied, well designed This course is designed to teach graphic Graphic Design for Non-Majors and competently executed design solutions, presentation skills for non-majors in the first GDS 200 we will emphasize the effective and semester, and to help students create an This course is designed to teach the basics sensitive use of typeforms in complex and effective professional presentation package of graphic and communication design to sustained communication projects. The in the second. The first semester focuses non-Graphic Design majors. Students will attributes of rhythm, proportion, hierarchy, on developing an understanding of key be introduced to the key graphic elements and progression will be investigated, graphic elements, including; grid, type and of hierarchy, grid, typography, and emphasized, and practiced to produce hierarchy. The second semester focuses on organizing principles of design. While excellent quality professional solutions. students using these elements to develop students learn these basics, they will also their personal portfolios and professional be introduced to the concepts of User Projects are carried out in varying degrees presentation packages. The emphasis of Focus and User Experience design. The of execution including sketchbook the entire course is to teach effective visual assignments are geared to help the roughs, presentation sketches, laser presentation skills. All assignments are students develop strategic thinking skills as comprehensives, and finished art. geared to help the students develop overall they hone their graphic communication Thoughtful experimentation with the presentation abilities, while building a basic skills. 3 credits. software and imaging equipment is understanding the keys elements of graphic encouraged to extend and challenge and communication design. Offered fall. Typography I the process. The course objectives will 3 credits. GDS 203 be pursued through assigned projects, This is one of the two central classes in the explanations, demonstrations, and Design for Communication I first year of study in Communication Design group critiques. Pre-requisite: GDS203 (EP) (alongside Design for Communication I) In Typography I or equivalent. Offered spring. GDS 265 the first semester, students become familiar 3 credits. This is one of the two central classes in the with the broader discipline of the field first year of study in Graphic Design through the construction of abstract design Limited Edition (alongside Typography). In the first semester, concepts, layout, symbols, and sequential Portfolio Publication students become familiar with the broader systems. Conceptual thinking and the GDS 207-307-407 discipline of the field through the integration of typography with imagery are This course revolves around creation of a construction of abstract design concepts, explored throughout the course. In the 2nd well designed, beautifully executed, printed layout, symbols, and sequential systems. semester, students investigate projects that and bound “leave behind” portfolio. Conceptual thinking and the integration of follow the various sub-fields of the Responsible experimentation with typography with imagery are explored profession; projects include Identity, Web/ production tools and facilities is encouraged throughout the course. In the 2nd semester, Interactive, Information and Wayfinding. to expand and challenge the process. The students investigate projects that follow the course objectives will be pursued through various sub-fields of the profession; projects Students will be assigned multiple projects explanations, demonstrations, and critiques. include Identity, Web/Interactive, throughout the year. Each project begins 3 credits. Information and Wayfinding. with a lecture and demonstration of techniques. Each week, students practice Students will be assigned multiple projects presentation to the larger group in formal throughout the year. Each project begins and informal critique and brainstorming with a lecture and demonstration of sessions. Faculty will work one on one with techniques. Each week, students practice students to answer questions and assist in presentation to the larger group in formal the process. Reviews will be held at key and informal critique and brainstorming points during each project. Offered fall. sessions. Faculty will work one on one with 3 credits. students to answer questions and assist in the process. Reviews will be held at key points during each project. Offered fall. 3 credits.
106 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Graphic Design
Design for Communication II Hand Made Book Publication Design GDS 266 GDS 309-409 GDS 35X-45x This is one of the two central classes in the This course will encompass an introduction This course covers contemporary issues in first year of study in Graphic Design to bookbinding tools and techniques. A Publication Design. The aesthetic of type (alongside Typography). hands-on approach to the school’s and image remains the most widespread In this course, students investigate projects production facilities, giving students the media for graphic designers. Aspects of the that follow the various sub-fields of the opportunity to work with the potentials and printed word and image will be investigated profession; projects include Identity, Web/ limitations of the reproduction process. and considered in this class by focusing on Interactive, Information and Wayfinding. Responsible experimentation with the process by which ideas are developed, production tools and facilities is encouraged conceived, written, edited, and ultimately Students will be assigned multiple projects to expand and challenge the process. The presented. Publication Design will explore throughout the year. Each project begins course objectives will be pursued through projects that will include exercises focused with a lecture and demonstration of explanations, demonstrations, and critiques. on working within a team, within budgets, techniques. Each week, students practice Pre-requisites: None. GDS203 Typography I with other professionals, and with key presentation to the larger group in formal and GDS265 Design for Communication I vendors. The sequence of the idea is and informal critique and brainstorming are strongly recommended. Offered fall and stressed, including how these ideas are sessions. Faculty will work one on one with spring. 3 credits. presented and revealed through a variety of students to answer questions and assist in publishing media. 3 credits. the process. Reviews will be held at key User Experience/User Interface points during each project. Pre-requisites: Design (EP) Production Seminar GDS265 Design for Communication I or GDS 320-420 GDS 360 permission of spring instructor. Offered The technological changes of the past 10 This required course begins with one simple spring. 3 credits. years have expanded the possibilities for question: What do you want to make? The graphic interface design in countless ways. rest of the course is devoted to learning Web Design/Interactive I From devices, to wearables, to the Internet how to “make things” in the vast array of GDS 305 of Things, providing an intuitive and facilities open to today’s designers. The Through this course, students will learn how enjoyable experience via a Graphic process of making things is approached to use different software tools to design, Interface is critical to both attracting and from a practical side (understanding implement, and produce a Graphic User keeping users. User Experience materials and digital tools) and a theoretical Interface. Our efforts will be mostly methodology is central to this design side (social responsibility and sustainability). concentrated on creating web/internet/ revolution. By understanding and employing Students learn to form successful teams to interactive projects, as these will allow for the key tools of UX methodology (empathy define and produce projects. Prerequisites: the exercise of ideas and tools across the maps, journey maps, information sorting Design for Communication and Typography entire design spectrum. Students will have a and architecture, etc) designers are able to or Permission of the Instructor. Offered fall. grasp of the essential technology used for create smart, beautiful and useful solutions 3 credits. web applications: the Hyper-Text Markup to contemporary design problems. Language (including HTML 5) and Employing the core concepts of Graphic Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You will be Design, such as hierarchy, information and introduced to several techniques that will narrative flow, grids, and basic typography allow you to begin making interactive are central to successful designs and applications, which include PHP, JQuery experiences. This class aims to demystify and Javascript, as well as looking at user user experience by having students engage experience and design of apps for smart in rapid prototyping of Interfaces using phone and pads. The course will also contemporary methods and tools. Students include an introduction to designing and will not only create workable prototypes of creating Epub formats. Pre-requisites: their designs and apps, they will rapidly test GDS265 Design for Communication I or them with an audience, gather feedback permission of instructor. Offered fall. and rework their designs based on that 3 credits. feedback. These experiences will give students a practical and simple introduction to what UX is while also explaining some of the core concepts of usability. Open to juniors and seniors with one year of Graphic Design training or by signature of the instructor. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 107 Course Catalog Graphic Design
Graphic Design: Contemporary Marketing + Advanced Studio (EP) Art Direct (EP) GDS 365 GDS 367 This is the core class for the second year Focuses on using graphic design and (junior) of study in the major. The class visualization skills to communicate ideas in works on client-based projects. All students print and in new media. Heavy emphasis on work on the projects, all students present to conceptualization. Classroom discussions clients, and one design is chosen to be along with critiques set up to mimic actual realized. During the course, iterations and creative department environment. Offered presentation skills are stressed as students fall. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. learn how to navigate the crucial 3 credits. relationship with the client. Students work within realistic industry deadlines and Graphic Design: Internship (EP) adhere to specific current production GDS 399-499 requirements. Students will realize a number Elective credit can be given on a case-by- of presentations for clients throughout the case basis for an internship developed by year. They practice and realize both the student through the Career Services hard-copy and digital presentations. Office with advance permission of the Research, empathy, and design skills are department head. Fulfills Engaged Practice stressed. Pre-requisites: GDS203 requirement. Typography I and GDS265 Design for Communication I are strongly Graphic Design: BFA Thesis recommended. Offered fall. Fulfills Engaged GDS 465 Practice requirement. 3 credits. This is the core class for the Senior year of study in the major. The class meets weekly Graphic Design: for presentations and to develop research Advanced Studio skills and strategic practice. This is the GDS 366 research and idea-phase of the BFA thesis This is the core class for the second year presented in the spring. Presentation, (junior) of study in the major. The class research, and ideational skills are stressed. works on client-based projects. All students Offered fall. 3 credits. work on the projects, all students present to clients, and one design is chosen to be Graphic Design: realized. During the course, iterations and BFA Statement + Exhibition presentation skills are stressed as students GDS 466 learn how to navigate the crucial This is the second half of core class for the relationship with the client. Students work Senior year of study in the major. This is the within realistic industry deadlines and realization phase of the BFA thesis adhere to specific current production presented at the end of the semester. requirements. Students will realize a number Prerequisites: Students must be working of presentations for clients throughout the toward a BFA in one of the Design year. They practice and realize both Environment departments. Other students hard-copy and digital presentations. may be admitted with permission of the Research, empathy, and design skills are instructor. Offered spring. 3 credits. stressed. Pre-requisites: GDS203 Typography I and GDS265 Design for Communication I. Offered spring. 3 credits.
108 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Humanities/Cultural Studies
Survey of Contemporary Music Social Cinemas: Humanities/ HCS 309 Politics of Representation This course will give an overview of + Engagement Cultural Studies avant-garde music written in the twentieth HCS 322 (and twenty-first) centuries, with particular Social is a term used to describe all kinds of Nature Poetry emphasis on the relationships between art and media today including social media, Before + After Darwin music and the visual arts. Discussions in social practice, and activist media directed HCS 301X class will focus on composers whose work toward “social change.” This course In a notebook entry dated in the 1940s, helped define contemporary music while examines film and video work that demands Robert Frost wrote, “You have to be careful creating aesthetic parallels to the visual arts. we think carefully about how the social is with the word natural—with all words in fact. Emphasis will be placed on listening to defined and represented as an idea, an You have to play the words close to the avant-garde and experimental music, and experience, and a world (or worlds). We will realities.” So what are the “realities” of the students will be expected to attend several begin by considering Jean Vigo’s call for a natural world? Given that human beings are, recitals of contemporary music and write new “social cinema” in the 1930s. We’ll after Darwin, connected to all living things, about their experiences. Students will also consider how experimental and avant-garde can we ever get far enough outside of have to complete reading and listening film functioned as a means for organizing ourselves to understand the “real,” concrete assignments on a regular basis. May be social worlds and expressing social critique. world of nature? Or are we human beings applied as Visual Culture Emphasis course. We’ll ask what Stan VanDerBeek might have simply creating, through language, a 3 credits. meant when he described the rise of a “new symbolic world and calling it nature? Is the social media consciousness” in 1974. And act of constructing a world using language Cinematic Time after 1960 finally we’ll look at how contemporary in order to understand ourselves and other HCS 320X filmmakers and video artists respond to the things what makes us natural—is at the root What does a cinematic image of time look way the Internet has changed our of what we call “human nature”? like? Why did this question suddenly seem relationships to one another and to the pressing after the Second World War? How events that shape our sense of how the In exploring those questions, this seminar has cinematic time been explored by larger social world is structured and defined. will look at poetry before and after Darwin in filmmakers and artists in the past 50 years? May be applied as an art history elective, an attempt to understand what effects What possibilities does this exploration Post-1960s art history elective, or natural science has had on poetic open up? These questions will guide our humanities/cultural studies elective. Visual depictions of the natural world from the investigation of cinematic time since 1960. Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits. 1830s to the 1930s. The focus of the course We will consider a wide range of films and will tilt toward poetic renderings of the moving image media in which time takes on Avant Garde Film natural world after Darwin, and in particular strange qualities--where the emphasis is on HCS 325 the most well-known American “nature poet” what is happening in the image, rather than Film, the quintessential art form of the 20th of the twentieth century, Robert Frost. Frost on what has happened or will happen in the century, added time and relativity to the grappled with many scientific ideas, both in next shot. $25 course fee required. 3 artist’s palette. This course examines the and out of his poetry, and Frost grappled credits. abstract and non-narrative tradition: films with many scientific ideas, both in and out that focus on manipulation of form, motion, of his poetry, and turned around the and the collage-like collision of images in question of how science has affected time (montage). Topics include early Soviet poetry to ask, how does poetry help us formalists, Dadaist and Surrealist films of understand science? May be applied as a the 1920’s and 1930’s, and American Humanities/Cultural Studies elective or as a underground films of the 1960’s and 1970’s. writing-intensive elective. 3 credits. Students keep a journal of their impressions of each film shown. COURSE FEE REQUIRED. May be applied as Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 109 Course Catalog Humanities/Cultural Studies
Japanese Expressions John Cage: His Life, World Cinemas HCS 328 Work + Influence HCS 374X This course is an introduction to the culture HCS 367X Writing on film aesthetics in 1930, a year of Japan as it is revealed in the Japanese A course on the life and influence of John marked by global financial crisis and literary and religious tradition and in modern Cage. The class will detail his history and mounting political conflict, Béla Balázs did literary and cinematic expression. Readings delve into his musical and artistic output, not feel it was possible to speak of the will include selections from early Japanese ideas, and influence on the creative arts “people of the world.” But if that day were myth and poetry, the diary and early novel today. Significant discussion will be given ever to arrive, he predicted, film would be forms, and the literary and aesthetic on his philosophies, aesthetics, innovations, there “ready and waiting to provide the response to influence from China. and teachings. The course will also focus universal spirit with its corresponding Appropriate attention will be paid to Noh on Cage’s connections to the visual arts, technique of expression.” Today we talk drama and haiku poetry, writings in the and how this connection impacted him about how technology has altered the world, samurai tradition, a modern novel and a artistically, while pushing him to formulate making it feel smaller and infinitely Japanese film. The purpose of this course is ideas that in turn were a significant and expanded at the same time. But can we still not to survey the whole of the Japanese continuous influence on the visual arts say film holds the promise of universal experience, but rather to read and view community. The class will also touch on expression? If not, what does it promise representative examples of Japanese how Cage was able to make a living on now? What, in other words, do film’s expression with understanding and delight. the fringes of a capitalist society while techniques of expression correspond to in May be applied as Creative Writing maintaining the values of anarchy and hard our contemporary world? Concentration course. 3 credits. work. Regular reading, writing, and listening assignments will be given in class, and In this course, we will spend time looking Kyoto: Cosmology, City, students will be expected to create works of carefully at cinematic technique in films Civilization art or musical compositions which embody produced all over the world during the HCS 329X the legacy of John Cage, while pushing the course of the medium’s history. At the same The enduring city of Kyoto, Japan’s capital boundaries of their own artistic processes. time we will also look carefully at the ideas for over 1000 years, has been both a locus Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits. and fantasies that animate “world cinema” of power and an arbiter of taste linked to as a label for certain kind of films without developments in Japanese art, history, Existentialism, Reality, + the taking for granted that this phrase always politics, and religion-among other cultural Artist’s Identity means or has meant the same thing. Why spheres. We consider Kyoto from its HCS 368X do some critics and theorists embrace this founding in the Heian period to current This course investigates existential ideas term while others find it inadequate, a bad trends and contemporary architecture. As explored by 19th, 20th, and 21st century fit, something in need of qualification or we are concerned primarily with the city as philosophers and researchers. replacement? What corrections and a lived environment, this course will focus Existentialism refers to the exploration of critiques have these writers offered? How on the nexus of city and citizen. Students what it is to be human and how to find do their observations change the way we explore specialized topics through thematic meaning when faced with myriad see film technique and our own unexamined group presentations and one individual uncertainties regarding life, death, and the assumptions about how film makes the research project/presentation, as well as actions we take while we are alive. world available to each of us as viewers? three quizzes. This course gives students May be applied as Visual Culture Emphasis experience in interpreting information about Questions arising from texts read, films course. $25 course fee required. 3 credits. the city; presenting analysis in groups and seen, and art explored include: How does individually; evaluating peers and one craft an identity in the 21st century? incorporating feedback; and attributing and How may our ideas about self shift from differentiating sources. Fulfills non-Western youth to adulthood, as we – as creators and or Humanities/Cultural Studies requirement. disseminators of information – trudge 3 credits. through an oversaturation of data, visuals, and the excessive overproduction of goods? How do we confront technology, individuality, relationships, reality, time? How can we discover the self, to find meaning in a world where the possibility for meaningfulness is at times questioned? 3 credits.
110 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Humanities/Cultural Studies
Human Antiquity: Evolution depth the feminist anti-pornography explore its similarities to other arts, and HCS 381 movement, excerpts from Susan Sontag’s analyze its relation to critical dialogue. The anthropological study of human On Photography, and the outcry over music FROM THE FRONT ROW; Cinema and An evolution, from human origins through the lyrics post Columbine. 3 credits. Approach to Critical Writing is divided into formation of major early civilizations. Course three sections or thematic discussions with emphasis is on understanding the changing Literature of the Americas each section intended to follow one another nature of the relationship between human HCS 388 to provide a cumulative sense of the field of biology, the environment and adaptation of This course will survey the concurrent but study. Some cross-reference is required to culture as a way of life. Readings, class separate developments of the literary initiate debate and discussion. May be discussion, slides and films help describe traditions of North and South America. applied as Creative Writing Concentration archaeological sites and the Taking Columbus’ arrival on Hispaniola as course. 3 credits. paleoanthropological theories and methods our point of anchor, we will work backward used in studying human prehistory. Class to the Pre-Columbian original narrative Topics in 20th-C US History will visit the Cleveland Museum of Natural forms, and forward through the written HCS 390X History’s human evolution gallery exhibit. records of the complex colonial contexts of As the title suggests, this is an entry-level Also, if the museum’s physical anthropology the literary art in both Americas. We will also survey course in modern American history, schedule allows, the class will visit the trace the divergent results of the influences covering the period roughly from the end of renowned Hamann-Todd Osteological of European literature, following in each Reconstruction to the late 20th century. In Collection. This is one of the world’s largest, case the developments of such directions this course we will follow a chronological and most thoroughly documented, as we can identify in the prose and poetry continuum. We will emphasize political, collections of primate skeletons, with all of the colonial and postcolonial periods of economic, cultural and social history. We major groups represented, including each America. Reading widely and also will look at those in positions of power and humans, apes, prosimians, and New and closely, we will consider how best to trace those groups in society trying to acquire Old World monkeys. 3 credits. the parallel emergence of these national rights and power. In 15 weeks, we will be literatures, seeking in a juxtaposed study progressing from the period of steam Censorship, Art + the Law what common literary and extra-literary engines and the American frontier to rock ‘n’ HCS 386 antecedents and shaping forces the texts in roll and the Apollo moon landing – a vast This course will cover the history of both traditions may reveal. We will also amount of material. The choice of what to censorship in America. We will begin with inquire into the nature of the distinctions include and what to leave out is entirely the language of the First Amendment. We that must be made between these subjective, and class feedback on those will then study the evolution of the definition traditions, and into the impact the decisions is encouraged. Issues of of obscenity starting with the Comstack differences between these literatures may international importance will be discussed, Laws and moving through the current have of the understanding of what we mean in some cases in depth, but the main Supreme Court test for determining whether by the phrase “American literature.” Fulfills emphasis of the course will be on the an expression is obscene. We will look at Humanities/Cultural Studies distribution domestic transformation. 3 credits. the laws surrounding child pornography as requirement. Creative Writing Concentration well as hate speech and art that incite course. 3 credits. Sound Art & New Media violence. For each of these categories of HCS 411 expression, we will discuss anecdotal From the Front Row: A course on how visual artists (and some applications of the First Amendment using Cinema + Critical Writing composers) use sound in their works. artists such as Mapplethorpe, Serrano, HCS 389 Works discussed in class will include “stand Ligon, Zimmerman, Scott, Diana and Finley. Does writing about a film mean something alone” works of sound art, musique While the primary focus of the class will be different from writing other things? What is concrete, sound sculptures, installation on government action, we will also look at cinematic representation? Cinema is a works (using sound as a main component), examples of self censorship by the cultural phenomenon but what do we mean radio art, film, and internet-based works. entertainment industry and public galleries. when we say such a thing? Is film a Students will be expected to identify Finally, we will finish with an overview of the language? What is critical theory? The aim differing qualities of sound, and there will be Patriot Act, its current applications and its of the seminar is to encourage regular listening and reading assignments implications for our future freedom of undergraduate students interested in for each class. Students will also be given expression. The question underlying all of cinema to develop better written and verbal written assignments, and will have to the historical context, anecdotal skills within the context of a broader field of compose a work of sound art or sound applications and the current law is why do cinema studies. Students will debate the sculpture as a final project. May be applied we censor? Are there ever legitimate essence of cinema and acquire a as Visual Culture Emphasis course. justifications for censorship and if so, how framework for understanding its formal 3 credits. do we, as a society, draw those lines? In qualities. In the process, they will learn to addressing these issues, we will study in experience film as a visual language,
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Tribe vs Nation-State: Political & Cultural Survival HCS 479 A course on how visual artists (and some composers) use sound in their works. Works discussed in class will include “stand alone” works of sound art, musique concrete, sound sculptures, installation works (using sound as a main component), radio art, film, and internet-based works. Students will be expected to identify differing qualities of sound, and there will be regular listening and reading assignments for each class. Students will also be given written assignments, and will have to compose a work of sound art or sound sculpture as a final project. May be applied as Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits.
112 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Illustration
Fundamentals of Illustration Character Design + Illustration ILL 263 Development To prepare illustration students to become ILL 265 Picture Book Illustration working professionals by providing them This course will concentrate on the ILL 220-320-420 with the necessary skills and knowledge to character creation process, focusing on all This course will explore the creation of a advance through the courses provided at aspects of character concept and picture book through historical context, the the Institute to develop a professional level development. Students will learn to evolution of children’s book illustration, and of performance for future employment. The understand character types, body language the methodology of creating art for a picture department of Illustration emphasizes the and production techniques. In the fast book. Picture books continue to expand in understanding of contemporary themes and growing gaming and animation industry, the modern markets through digital applications concepts as a basis for nurturing the ability to create characters is essential. as well as book art, a sculptural narrative student’s ability to translate this acquired Graphic novels/ comics, children’s books object. Students will gain knowledge of the thematic vocabulary into inventive visual and advertising also rely heavily on an publishing industry and the process of solutions. The main objective is to motivate illustrators ability to create characters that submitting a body of work. Students will be the student’s visual awareness to a meet client demands/ needs and make expected to create a personal illustrative professional level. For them to be aware that them part of a cohesive world. Offered narrative by means of gathering reference illustration is an applied art, a business, to spring. 3 credits. and creating consistent and well developed satisfy the client needs, and should be characters that exist in a story. executed in a professional business manner Illustration for Publication by experiencing classroom assignments ILL 363 This course is strongly recommended for prepared in a job like situation. Offered fall. This course will focus on applications of elective students interested in picture books 3 credits. digital and tactile processes, materials, and and visual narratives. Open to all techniques from concept development sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Principles of Illustration through final reproduction. Offered fall. 3 credits. ILL 264 3 credits. This course assures the student the Layout Rendering Techniques opportunity to develop a saleable skill, Illustration II ILL 260 perform in a professional manner and ILL 364 This course is concerned with introducing demonstrate good attitude and work habits This course will prepare illustration students students to techniques and materials used that meet client needs and deadlines. to become working professionals within the by professional illustrators. The emphasis Encounter a strong emphasis on different marketing communications community. It will be on developing critical observation techniques, methods, styles and types of will motivate the student’s visual awareness, skills along with enhancing technical and illustration that will further provide teaching the student to conceptualize, rendering abilities to a professional level. advancement towards future employment. design and execute on a professional level. Also, purpose and application of techniques Students will be introduced to past- and Students learn to produce quality for layout presentation, as well as refining present-day illustrators to get a illustrations and to be responsible for the finished art for reproduction. Emphasis will comprehensive sense of what role an conceptual aspects of a project whenever be on drawing, painting and other tactile illustrator plays when dealing in the necessary. This course encourages techniques, as well as digital rendering solutions of design/illustration problems. students to develop a confident knowledge techniques for the preparation of finished art Students will also acquire an understanding of design in illustration, the thinking process, for the final application of artwork created. of style and techniques used by illustrators and production techniques necessary to Offered fall. 3 credits. to solve these problems they may confront compete in the field of applied arts. in the future as professionals. Offered Pre-requisite: ILL263 Fundamentals of spring. 3 credits. Illustration. Offered spring. 3 credits.
Storyboarding + Sequential Art ILL 367 This course covers the areas of sequencing and storyboard development. This is a growing field within the traditional print illustration discipline. New techniques, ideas and concepts will be threads throughout the class as students explore character development, lighting and perspective and background concepts development. Offered spring. 3 credits.
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Professional Standards in Community Projects (EP) Illustration: BFA Preparation Illustration ILL 389 ILL 463A ILL 370 Students will illustrate and provide art and An independently initiated illustration thesis Introduction for junior students in dealing production services for individual clients as project is defined in a statement detailing with professional standards set by the well as for organizations in a professional the nature and purpose of the project, Illustration market place. Concentration on studio setting. The course emphasizes the medium, and procedural timetable. A the preparation of art work to meet the student’s development of problem-solving, year-long project is created displaying the demands required for successful meeting client demands, communication technical competence, solution-based application for client needs. Students will skills, organization and effective time ideas, responsibility to professional gain an appreciation for deadlines, client management, proper preparation of artwork standards, self-reliance, determination and expectations and business practices in for reproduction, teamwork and perseverance learned throughout a collaboration of real-world scenarios. collaboration - all specific to the student’s years of education. Offered fall. Offered fall and spring. 3 credits. marketplace as an introduction to real-life 3 credits. challenges. For Illustration majors only. Visual Concepts in Illustration Other majors only with instructor’s approval. Illustration: Advanced ILL 371 Offered fall and spring. Fulfills Engaged Illustration Studio Projects This course encourages students to develop Practice requirement. ILL 463B a confident knowledge of design in 3 credits. Students are required to begin thinking of illustration, the thinking process, and their upcoming BFA thesis project over the production techniques necessary to Illustration: Internship (EP) summer. On the first day of class students compete in the field of applied arts and ILL 399-499 will be expected to present their thesis’ prepares illustration students to become Elective credit can be given on a case-by- central idea and have first iterations for working professionals within the marketing case basis for an internship developed by visual expression of that idea. The communications community. It will motivate the student through the Career Services beginning of the thesis project consists of the student’s visual awareness, teaching Office with advance permission of the research, discussion and tightening up of the student to conceptualize, design and department head. Fulfills Engaged Practice the central idea. Offered fall. 3 credits. execute on a professional level. Students requirement. become familiar with several techniques Illustration: Final Project: used in editorial illustrations, book Illustration Portfolio illustrations, advertising illustrations, as well ILL 464B as many others using an extensive range of The illustration department emphasizes the materials. Students learn to produce quality understanding of contemporary themes and illustrations and to be responsible for the concepts as a basis for nurturing the conceptual aspects of a project whenever student’s ability to translate this acquired necessary. Offered fall. 3 credits. thematic vocabulary into inventive visual solutions. The main objective is to motivate student’s visual awareness to a professional level to meet market place needs. Offered spring. 3 credits.
114 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Industrial Design
evaluation of the manufacturing methods Ergonomics + Design Industrial Design used in an electro-mechanical consumer IND 280 device. Each class will include lectures and This course focuses on the process of Industrial Design 1.1 exercises, and will be supplemented with designing for human use. Anthropometrics, IND 235 assigned readings and regular performance task analysis, user experience, research This course will focus on basic processes opportunities. 1.5 credits. and safety are explored. Course content is and principles of industrial design and aligned with projects in Industrial Design 1.2. product development. An emphasis will be Materials + Processes Each class will include lectures and placed on user-centered problem solving, IND 240 exercises, and will be supplemented with and methods for achieving innovative This course is an extension of the Fall assigned readings and regular performance results. Multiple semester projects are Materials + Processes and will focus on opportunities. Offered spring. 3 credits. structured around key design concepts and contemporary manufacturing methods used individual career interests. Projects are in industry, in addition to the material Communication Skills structured to reinforce research, concept selections used to support them. Lectures IND 285 generation and refinement, resulting in will provide an overview of the generally This course will focus on the development of solutions that address functional and accepted design practices for selected effective visual communication for product aesthetic issues. Regular formal reviews manufacturing processes and materials, design. An emphasis will be placed on with enable individuals to develop verbal along with a framework to make cost-based exploring and communicating ideas through and visual presentation skills, and formal decisions for selecting a specific process. manual sketching, rendering, orthographic lectures will be balanced against one-on- Class activities will include disassembly and drawing, modeling and verbal/visual one in-studio instruction. Offered fall. evaluation of the manufacturing methods presentation. Studio time will include 3 credits. used in an electro-mechanical consumer demos, one-day assignments, work time device. Each class will include lectures and and one-on-one instruction. Coursework is Industrial Design 1.2 (EP) exercises, and will be supplemented with designed to align with projects in Industrial IND 236 assigned readings and regular performance Design 1.1. Offered fall. 3 credits. This course is an extension of Industrial opportunities. Offered fall. 1.5 credits. Design 1.1, with a focus on advanced Communication Skills industrial design and product development Transportation Design (EP) IND 286 processes and principles. Emphasis will be IND 250T-251T/350T-351T/450T- This course is an extension of the Fall placed on in-depth analysis and synthesis, 451T Communication Skills and will focus on the in addition to market-driven exploration. This series of courses exposes students to development of effective visual One semester project will focus on problem the basic knowledge, skills and qualities communication for product design. An solving based on systematic ergonomic that are important for a career in emphasis will be placed on exploring and testing, while the other is a sponsored transportation design. CIA faculty and communicating ideas through sketching, project that involves interaction with design, practicing transportation designers will rendering, orthographic drawing, modeling marketing and engineering professionals. demonstrate methods for creating context, and verbal/visual presentation. Digital Regular formal reviews will enable inspiring designs, ideation through communication tools and techniques will be individuals to develop verbal and visual sketching/rendering, physical model introduced, including the use of digital presentation skills, and formal lectures will building and verbal and visual drawing tablets. Studio time will include be balanced against one-on-one in-studio communication. Specific project themes will demos, one-day assignments, work time instruction. Prerequisite: Industrial Design be driven by industry sponsors while and one-on-one instruction. Coursework is 1.1. Offered spring. Fulfills Engaged Practice deliverables will be determined by the designed to align with projects in Industrial requirement. 3 credits. individual aptitude and experience. Regular Design 1.2 Prerequisite: Communications formal reviews will enable individuals to Skills 1.1. Offered spring. Materials + Processes develop verbal and visual presentation skills, 3 credits. IND 239 and formal lectures will be balanced against This course provides an overview of one-on-one in-studio instruction. Communication Skills: contemporary manufacturing methods used Professional designers, both staff level and Transportation in industry, in addition to the material management, in addition to guests with IND 287T selections used to support them. Lectures specialized industry expertise will visit This course runs concurrently with IND285 will provide an overview of the generally throughout the semester. Series of six and includes effective visual communication accepted design practices for selected courses required of Transportation Track for product and transportation design. An manufacturing processes and materials, students. Offered fall and spring. IND 350T, emphasis will be placed on exploring and along with a framework to make cost-based 351T 450T, 451T each fulfills Engaged communicating ideas through manual decisions for selecting a specific process. Practice requirement. Each course in the sketching, rendering, orthographic drawing, Class activities will include disassembly and series carries 3 credits. modeling and verbal/visual presentation.
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Guest instructors will teach specific tools organic forms. Students will acquaint Industrial Design 2.2 (EP) and techniques for transportation-related themselves with the process of preparing IND 336B-336C visual communication. Studio time will and exporting files for output. Rapid This course is an extension of Industrial include demos, one-day assignments, work prototyping will be introduced with and Design 2.1, with a focus on strategic time and one-on-one instruction. opportunity to create physical parts using aspects of design. Further emphasis will be Coursework is designed to align with an on-site three-dimensional printer. placed on research, concept generation projects in Industrial Design 1.1 and Additional methods and resources for rapid and refinement focused on problem solving. Transportation Design. 3 credits. prototyping will also be introduced. Semester projects will focus on design in Prerequisite: 3D Modeling 1.1. Offered the context of business objectives and a Communication Skills: spring. 3 credits. broader product development environment. Transportation Project work will involve teamwork and IND 288T Design Center Based Learning direct interaction with outside design and This course runs concurrently with IND286 (EP) marketing professionals. Regular formal and is an extension of Fall Communication IND 317-417 reviews will enable individuals to develop Skills. Course content will focus on the This course functions as a professional verbal and visual presentation skills, and development of effective visual design studio, placing an emphasis on formal lectures will be balanced against communication for product and client-based projects and interdisciplinary one-on-one in-studio instruction. transportation design. An emphasis will be teamwork. All companies/organizations Prerequisite: Industrial Design 2.1. Offered placed on exploring and communicating who are participating in the course make a spring. 3 credits. Fulfills Engaged Practice ideas through sketching, rendering, financial commitment to CIA and intern requirement. 3 credits. orthographic drawing, modeling and verbal/ team members may be compensated. visual presentation. Digital communication When compensation is available it may vary, Biomimicry Immersion: Design, tools and techniques will be introduced, but is based on the project budget, time Biomimicry & Business (EP) including the use of digital drawing tablets. commitment and individual contributions. IND 350X-450X Studio time will include demos, one-day The faculty, who will oversee the process, This course will be based on collaborative assignments, work time and one-on-one deliverables and schedule for each project, projects with local companies or instruction. Coursework is designed to align will determine studio responsibilities. organizations that have a vested interest in with projects in Industrial Design 1.2 and Prerequisites for Industrial Design majors: using biomimicry in their problem solving Transportation Design. Prerequisite: one year of industrial design training and process. CIA design students, with Communications Skills 1.1. Offered spring. approval of the course faculty. Prerequisite University of Akron Biomimicry PhD fellows 3 credits. for non-Industrial Design majors: approval and local businesses will work together, of the course by the faculty assigned to the creating diverse multifunctional project 3D Modeling 1.1 course. Offered fall and spring. Fulfills teams. The course will incorporate the study IND 303 Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits. of the natural world, with design research This course focuses on introducing students methods to understand the partner/client to 3D digital modeling for the industrial Industrial Design 2.1 problem. Projects will run semester long, design profession. It employs a surface IND 335 including meetings with the partner/client modeling approach using Autodesk Alias This course will focus on in-depth design and offsite meetings to include contextual software to create multiple class-driven exploration, placing an emphasis on problem research. projects. Study consists of a lecture demo high-level research, innovative concept format in a computer lab environment. generation and refinement focused on Group classes with the PhD fellows will be In-class work will emphasize key modeling problem solving and manufacturability. held at both CIA and UA, including a biology concepts and will be supplemented with Semester projects will focus on field station at the Bath Nature Preserve. student-driven projects intended to develop sustainability and furniture, the latter project The goal is to develop team problem solving practical application strategies and skills. requiring a full-size functional prototype. skills based on a client problem, Junior standing is required for registration of Project themes are intended to cover key incorporating biomimicry methodology and this class. Offered fall. 3 credits. critical information, while tailoring material to developing refined team presentation skills. individual interests. Regular formal reviews The diverse group will create conditions for 3D Modeling 1.2 will enable individuals to develop verbal and new learning, bringing together a variety of IND 304 visual presentation skills, and formal skill sets with a common goal. Open to This course is a continuation of the fall 3D lectures will be balanced against one-on- juniors and seniors with instructor approval. Modeling (IND 303) course with an one in-studio instruction Prerequisite: Instructor will consider sophomores. Fulfills emphasis on an expanded knowledge of Industrial Design 1.2. Offered fall. 3 credits. Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits. surface modeling techniques. An emphasis will be placed on surface continuity and transition, in addition to exploration of
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Automotive Design ID: Internship (EP) Industrial Design 3.1 Language 1.1 IND 399-499 IND 435B IND 352T Elective credit can be given on a case-by- This course focuses on the semester-long This course will introduce students to case basis for an internship developed by thesis project. Individuals will define the fundamental processes and approaches of student through the Career Services Office, project theme and work with faculty to vehicle design language development. An with advance permission of instructor and identify key problems and opportunities. emphasis will be place on identification of department chair. Fulfills Engaged Practice In-depth research will inform concept design theme and vehicle overall body requirement. development, ultimately resulting in a construction. Course content runs refined solution that considers functional concurrently with the Transportation Design 3D Modeling 2.1 needs, aesthetics and manufacturing. course, allowing faculty to guide research, IND 403 Additionally, individuals are expected to develop innovative vehicle body This advanced digital modeling course create compelling visual, verbal and written construction, define proportion and define offers the option to continue with surface presentations that create context for the gesture and develop vehicle layout. Class modeling using Autodesk ALIAS Automotive project and effectively communicate the and studio time will include lectures, demos, (for automotive design) or Solid Works for validity of the project and outcomes. In formal reviews, verbal/visual presentations, those interested in gaining exposure to solid order to gain exposure in the design sketching and rendering. Offered fall. modeling (for product design). The ALIAS community, individuals will be required to 3 credits. option will include advanced methods for submit their final design to a design exterior surfacing, while the Solid Works competition. Formal reviews will be Automotive Design option will focus on the user interface and balanced against weekly one-on-one studio Language 1.2 basic solid modeling procedures. discussion. Prerequisite: Industrial Design IND 353T Prerequisite: 3D Modeling 1.2. Offered fall. 2.2. Offered fall. 3 credits. This course is an extension of Automotive 3 credits. Design Language 1.1. An emphasis will be Industrial Design 3.1 place on connecting form languages with 3D Modeling 2.2 IND 435C functional solutions and developing greater IND 404 This course focuses on the semester-long sensitivity to vehicle exterior and/or interior This is a continuation of the fall 3D Modeling thesis project. Individuals will define the surfacing. A semester-long project will run course (IND403) with an option to continue project theme and work with faculty to concurrently with the Transportation Design Autodesk ALIAS Automotive (for automotive identify key problems and opportunities. course. The course is structured to design) or Solid Works (for product design). In-depth research will inform concept reinforce form-giving while refining methods The Autodesk ALIAS Automotive option will development, ultimately resulting in a and skills, resulting in a visual language that focus on advanced rendering techniques for refined solution that considers functional communicates functional needs. Class and automotive design presentations, including needs, aesthetics and manufacturing. studio time will include lectures, demos, Key Shot animation and rendering Additionally, individuals are expected to formal reviews, verbal/visual presentations, procedures. Projects will culminate in fully create compelling visual, verbal and written sketching and rendering. Offered spring. modeled exterior or interior design presentations that create context for the 3 credits. presented as a finished animation of project and effectively communicate the student’s own design. The Solid Works validity of the project and outcomes. In Marketing + Design option will focus on surface modeling order to gain exposure in the design IND 375 techniques and the differences and community, individuals will be required to This course exposes students to the advantages of combining solids with submit their final design to a design relationship between design and marketing, surface modeling techniques. Areas of competition. Formal reviews will be specifically addressing social/ethical study will include surfacing tools loft and balanced against weekly one-on-one studio responsibility, research, strategic marketing, boundary and continuity options for discussion. Prerequisite: Industrial Design branding, distribution, advertising and curvature and 3D sketching. Advanced 2.2. Offered fall. 3 credits. pricing. Each class will include lectures and rendering techniques will be explored. exercises, and will be supplemented with Prerequisite: 3D Modeling 2.1. Offers spring. assigned readings and regular performance 3 credits. opportunities. Individuals will be required to develop a marketing plan for a product created in the Industrial Design studio. Offered fall. 3 credits.
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Industrial Design 3.2 Advanced Automotive 3D Modeling for IND 436 Design Language 2.2 Transportation 1.2 This course will focus on planning and IND 453T IND 455T preparation and execution of work for three This course is a continuation of Fall This course is the second in a two-course primary milestones, including employment Advanced Automotive Design Language. A sequence focused on 3D Modeling for search, BFA and Spring Show. Individuals semester-long project will run concurrently transportation design. Instruction is focused will be responsible for determining what with the Transportation Design course, on advanced 3D modeling specific to the work will be accomplished based on career allowing individuals to work with faculty to transportation industry. Students will learn objectives and for an overall work schedule systematically design a concept vehicle modeling strategies and techniques which will serve as a guide for the semester. from basic structure/vehicle architecture, focused on vehicle exteriors. Studio lab Faculty will be available in studio to provide through form development and color/ time will include lectures, demos, in-class advice on organization, project work, material selection. Students are expected to exercises, outside projects and one-on-one portfolio development and networking. design a vehicle exterior and interior based instruction. Required of senior Offered spring. 3 credits. on meaningful research. The design should Transportation Track students. Offered have a strong theme reflecting user spring. 3 credits. Advanced Automotive emotional and functional needs, brand Design Language 2.1 heritage, a unique body construction base IND 452T on purpose, refined surface/detail treatment This course focuses on advanced vehicle and appropriate color/material choices. design language development with an Class and studio time will include lectures, emphasis on the translation of in-depth demos, formal reviews, verbal/visual brand language and trend research into presentations, sketching and rendering. form and detail development. A semester- Offered spring. 3 credits. long project will run concurrently with the Transportation Design course. The course 3D Modeling for will focus on the refinement of compelling Transportation 1.1 visual languages, the development of brand IND 454T literacy and the resolution of high quality This course is the first in a two-course form and details based on exterior and sequence focused on 3D Modeling for interior functional elements. Class and transportation design. It is essential for studio time will include lectures, demos, transportation designs students to develop formal reviews, verbal/visual presentations, and translate 2D design concepts into sketching and rendering. Offered fall. accurate 3D models. This course is 3 credits. intended to provide a foundation in 3D modeling specific to the transportation industry. Students will learn the basic modeling strategies and techniques focused on vehicle interiors. Studio lab time will include lectures, demos, in-class exercises, outside projects and one-on-one instruction. Required of senior Transportation Track students. Offered fall. 3 credits.
118 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Integrated Media
Integrated Media
Sound Design Fundamentals IME 211 This course will focus on the fundamentals of sound design and foley which relate to the film, television, animation, video games and the entertainment industry. Students will learn how to record, edit, and mix sounds while learning how to use microphones, software, and the recording studio. In this course, we will record and edit sound effects, voiceover work and music to be used in projects that support or enhance moving images. Required of Game Design majors and Photography majors in the Video track. 3 credits.
BFA Thesis + Exhibition IME 402 These courses provide a platform for senior Animation, Biomedical Art, Game Design, Illustration, and Photography majors who are BFA candidates. The course is structured to support the individual in shaping her/his own project and the production of all elements of the BFA thesis. Strong conceptual skills developed through professional planning and research are core to this process. Offered spring. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 119 Course Catalog Interior Architecture
Materials, Research + Interior Architecture: Interior Space Planning (EP) Intermediate Problems (EP) INTA 232B INTA 331 Architecture Space planning projects based on special Intermediate level retail and space design programming and research including including various conceptual and visual Space & Planning furniture design, finishes and furnishings, projects increasing in detail and complexity, Fundamentals material presentations from the such as building exteriors, exhibit, and INTA 231A manufacturing industry and field trips. . museum design as well as local community This course will cover the basic Students will participate in formal critiques project. Introduction of fabrication methods. understanding of space planning and using presentation methods and skills. Final Industry professional input at various documentation, floor planning and project is group collaboration. Mandatory critiques. Mandatory for all Junior Interior elevations material selection, sample and for all Sophomore Interior Architecture Architecture majors. Open to all Juniors and presentation boards, space and lighting majors. Open elective, sophomore and Seniors. Pre-requisites: INTA 232A. Offered relationships, furniture and mechanical above. Pre-requisite: INTA231A Space & fall. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. layouts, flow and movement. Open elective, Planning Fundamentals or instructor’s 3 credits. sophomore and above. This course is a pre- permission. Offered spring. 3 credits. requisite for INTA232B Materials, Research Retail Design + Brand Design & Space Planning. Offered fall. 3 credits. Interior Architecture: (EP) Communication Skills 1 INTA 332 Architectural Drawing + INTA 285 Course includes brand-focused projects Documentation The basics of perspective drawing are including a retail design project hosted at INTA 231B taught in twelve assignment modules client location with the final presentation to This course is an introduction to hand covering all forms of measured perspective their design team and an advance design drafting and documentation including drawing. The final design project will include problem with industry interaction or drawing, lettering and historic referencing drawing and renderings as a requirement. competition with a potential summer as well as ADA topics, historic vernacular, Open elective, sophomore and above. internship. Mandatory for all Junior Interior and space planning. Field trips may be Mandatory for all Sophomore Interior Design Majors. Open elective, sophomore included. Mandatory for all Sophomore Architecture majors. Offered fall. and above. Pre-requisites for Interior Interior Architecture majors. Open elective, 3 credits. Architecture majors: INTA232A and sophomore and above. Offered fall. Books INTA331. No pre-requisites for electives. and supplies to be determined by instructor. Interior Architecture: Offered spring. Fulfills Engaged Practice 3 credits. Communication Skills 2 requirement. 3 credits. INTA 286 Retail, Restaurant + Store Intermediate Level drawing and rendering Interior Architecture: AutoCAD Design including perspective drawing from several INTA 333 INTA 232A viewpoints, rendering techniques in several A series of modules covering the basics of Course includes several retail design styles media and design projects AutoCAD with a final project. problems covering various problem-solving throughout course. Mandatory for all methods including: retail fixture/specialty Sophomores Interior Architecture majors. Mandatory for all Junior Interior Architecture retail project working with a local Cleveland- Open elective, sophomore and above. majors. Open elective, sophomore and based company and retail storefront design. Pre-requisites for Interior Architecture above. Offered fall. 3 credits. Students will participate in formal critiques majors: INTA285. No pre-requisites for using presentation methods and skills. electives. Offered spring. 3 credits. Architecture + Communication Mandatory for all Sophomore Interior Skills Architecture majors. Open elective, INTA 385 sophomore and above. Offered spring. Advanced level drawing and rendering, 3 credits. focusing on traditional and digital media. Mandatory for all Junior Interior Architecture majors. Open elective, sophomore and above. Pre-requisites: INTA285 and INTA286 required for Interior Architecture majors. No pre-requisites for elective students. Offered fall. 3 credits.
120 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Interior Architecture
Sustainability: LEED + Detailing Interior Architecture: Senior INTA 390 Thesis Problem (EP) The first half of the course introduces INTA 431B students to LEED sustainable practices and A semester-long self-defined intense prepares students for the LEED certification problem, involving a research document, process. In the second half of the course, several advisors, and two major students will learn to detail their designs in presentations. The final presentation is preparation for fabrication and given in a gallery environment and is open implementation while taking into to the general public. The thesis consideration ethical and sustainable encompasses all aspects of the student fabrication methods and material selections. previous course work and is their most 3 credits. thorough project. Mandatory for all Senior Interior Architecture majors. Senior Interior Architecture: Internship Students outside Interior Architecture may (EP) petition to take this course with Department INTA 399-499 Head approval. Offered fall. Fulfills Engaged Elective to Interior Architecture juniors who Practice requirement. 6 credits for have an internship opportunity with the Interior Architecture majors; 3 credits approval from the Department Head. Fulfills for electives. Engaged Practice requirement. Interior Architecture: Interior Architecture: Senior BFA Survey Thesis Problem (EP) INTA 432A INTA 431A Final Preparation for Senior BFA. Faculty A semester-long self-defined intense work with seniors to prepare & plan their problem, involving a research document, final BFA Exhibition & Presentation for several advisors, and two major spring. Preparation for career search and presentations. The final presentation is interviewing skills will be a part of the given in a gallery environment and is open course. Pre-requisites: All sophomore and to the general public. The thesis junior major studio courses must be encompasses all aspects of the student completed. Offered spring. 3 credits. previous course work and is their most thorough project. Mandatory for all Senior Interior Architecture: Interior Architecture majors. Senior Advanced Problems (EP) Students outside Interior Architecture may INTA 432B petition to take this course with Department A Senior level advanced Design problem will Head approval. Offered fall. Fulfills Engaged be assigned to the students with a final Practice requirement. 6 credits for review with an industry professional. Interior Architecture majors; 3 credits Pre-requisites: All sophomore and junior for electives. major studio courses must be completed. Senior students from outside the department may petition to enroll in the course with major department chair’s approval. Offered spring. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 121 Course Catalog Jewelry + Metals
Beginning enameling skills required for Enamel in the Public Realm Jewelry + three-dimensional forms will be covered. MET 250-350-450 3 credits. The use of enamel for public, community Metals based, collaborative, or interactive art is the The Printed Image in Enamel focus of this course. Demonstrations will Jewelry + Metals: Fabrication MET 248-348-448 support beginning to advanced level MET 206-306-406 The focus of this course will be on the use of students and will vary based on needs to Emphasis in the studio is placed on the printed image with the medium of complete individual projects. The emphasis fabrication techniques, from pattern work to enamel. Photographs, photocopies and for beginning students will be on the use of cold connection, soldering on larger scale digitally produced and enhanced images enamel on the two-dimensional surface. and hollow construction. Independent work will be transferred to the medium through Students with metal forming experience is encouraged. Visiting artists, field trips, acid etching, silk-screening, decals and may explore three-dimensional forms in and slide presentations supplement the photographic transfers. The emphasis will combination with enamel. 3 credits. class. Open to sophomore Jewelry + Metals be on the use of enamel on the two- majors and all electives. Prerequisites: dimensional surface, although those with Jewelry + Metals: Mechanisms MET249 Introduction to Jewelry + Metals. metal forming experience may explore MET 251-351-451 3 credits. three-dimensional forms in combination Throughout the history of jewelry and with the processes above. 3 credits. metalwork mechanisms have served Enamel: Image, Surface, Relief physical, aesthetic, and conceptual MET 245 Intro to Jewelry + Metals functions, from movement to closure, Fused glass (enamel) to metal is the focus MET 249 ornament to interaction. This course is of this course. Drawing and painting skills Work in this studio involves the field of designed as a project-based curriculum to will transcend graphite, paper, oil and jewelry and metalsmithing, its history, offer experiences to learn to design and canvas to molten glass on metal. contemporary issues and activities, and the make mechanisms, catches, latches, and Transparent, opaque, liquid and dry use and understanding of materials and hinges for movement and closure of jewelry enamels will be introduced. Experimental to processes. As a medium, metal presents and objects, as well as linkage systems, traditional processes in the medium will be more variables and potential than any other findings for jewelry, and mechanical objects. covered. Photographic and digitally material. It can serve to produce sound, Each student has the opportunity to produced images are options for resists for light, heat, motion, to present color, texture, complete technical exercises, samples, and the acid etching process. The linear aspects and form, to store and release energy, and finished work for your portfolio. Slides, of cloisonné will be considered through the provide strength, and durability, all of which demonstrations and samples supplement fusion of formed silver and copper wires increase the options in your work. An the course. Open to sophomore Jewelry + into the enamel surface. 3 credits. introduction to the field of jewelry and Metals majors and all electives. metals includes the foundation techniques, Prerequisites: MET249 Introduction to Multiples in Enamel skills, and technologies necessary to create Jewelry + Metals. 3 credits. MET 246-346-446 jewelry and objects of material culture. The This course will focus on the use of enamel course includes extensive presentations, Jewelry + Metals: Advanced through the use of multiples: series, limited demonstrations, technical exercises and Projects edition and production. Beginning through assignments, discussions, and critiques. MET 253-353-453 advanced level students will explore the Throughout the semester we explore the The course is designed to examine concepts medium through these models of studio use of metal as a medium for artistic and technologies of the field, and pursue production. Processes covered will be expression. A strong emphasis is placed on work of individual direction. Various those easily adapted to working in multiples your ability to address and apply design advanced studio practices and techniques and not exclude any techniques. ENA245 principles, aesthetic considerations, and will supplement the course to challenge Enamel: Image, Surface, Relief. 3 credits. conceptual content to achieve a visual conceptual growth, facilitate design, and statement. Required of first semester present new means of fabrication. Subjects Three-Dimensional Forms in Jewelry + Metals majors. Open to all are presented to direct students to conduct Enamel electives. Offered fall. 3 credits. research and examine their own position. MET 247-347-447 The course includes demonstrations and The emphasis of this course will be presentations to support individual applications of enamel on the three- directions. Ongoing discussions and dimensional form. Enamel used in functional, readings are an integral part of the course. decorative, jewelry or sculptural context Open to sophomore Jewelry + Metals may be explored. Metal forming and majors and electives with instructor’s fabrication techniques that apply specifically permission. 3 credits. to the use of enamel will be introduced.
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Jewelry + Metals: Jewelry Jewelry + Metals: Modeling part of the weekly dialog. Slides and Concepts MET 256-356-456 samples will supplement the course. MET 254-354-454 Modeling explores the changing role of 3D Demonstrations will be provided as needed. Why is jewelry worn? How is jewelry worn? modeling and 3D printing in art and design. Open to sophomore Jewelry + Metals This course will focus on the motivations A rapidly expanding range of technologies majors and all electives. No previous behind why we make jewelry, and how and materials provides new and exciting metalworking skills are needed. 3 credits. jewelry functions in our contemporary possibilities for models, molds, and parts for culture, and others. The question of the jewelry and object making. The course will Jewelry + Metals: Surface boundaries of what defines jewelry, and the address and apply concepts and MET 258-358-458 exploration of concepts guide the work. Self technologies of 3D modeling, CAD/CAM + This course explores various techniques for initiated projects as well as assignments RP (computer aided design / computer affecting and embellishing the surface of relating to jewelry concepts are presented aided manufacturing / rapid prototyping), non-ferrous metals. An emphasis on throughout the semester. Readings, 3D printing, and fabrication processes. technical exercises throughout the semester research, and dialogue are an integral part Through a project-based curriculum, the runs concurrently with self directed work. of the class. Slides and actual course will challenge each student to apply Experimentation is encouraged and contemporary and historic pieces these technologies to create work that students complete the course with finished supplement the course. Open to remains unique to their individual vision. 3D works. Slides, videos, demonstrations, sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors and all modeling and rendering with Rhino, and samples and actual exemplary pieces electives. 3 credits. output to the CNC (computer numerical supplement the course. Open to control) milling machine, Solidscape 3D wax sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors and all Jewelry + Metals: printer, FDM fused deposition modeling electives. Prerequisites: MET249 Art + Machine – 3D printing) and printing through service Introduction to Jewelry + Metals. 3 credits. MET 255-355-455 bureaus provide new opportunities in the An intermediate and advanced level course presentation and creation of new work right Jewelry + Metals: designed to provide new opportunities to here in our studio. Readings, essays, and Forming + Fabrication discuss and explore the historical and discussion offer the integrated seminar MET 259-359-459 contemporary roll of tools, machines, and experience. Visiting artists, field trips, and This course is designed to develop skills in technology in art and design. New presentations supplement the activity in the forming nonferrous metal through the technologies and materials provide an department. Open to sophomore Jewelry + various metalsmithing processes of raising, exciting range of possibilities in models, Metals majors. Recommended as an stretching, seaming, snarling, crimping, and molds, and parts for jewelry and object elective for Craft + Design majors, sculpture, pitch work used to create volumetric forms making. The course will address the ID, Interior Design, biomedical art, and other for functional and nonfunctional objects as practices, concepts and technologies of students with 3D modeling interest. well as jewelry. Problems are presented to tool making, machine tool processes, 3D 3 credits. challenge all levels of students, recognize modeling and 3D printing. Students develop the direction of the group and include and apply new skill sets to develop and Jewelry + Metals: singular object-driven problems, along with create work of individual direction. The Recycling + Renovation discussion of formal and conceptual issues. course includes 3D modeling, rendering, MET 257-357-457 Presentations, visiting artists, slides, and and output to the department’s (2) devices, This course is more relevant in the world actual objects supplement the course. (CNC - computer numerical control) milling today than ever before. We explore the Open to sophomore Jewelry + Metals machine and the Solidscape 3D “wax concepts of recycling and up-cycling as majors and all electives. 3 credits. printer”, as well as the Institute’s FDM (fused means of design development and deposition modeling – 3D printer) and expression through artwork. Various Jewelry + Metals: Color service bureaus. Readings, essays, and discarded materials, used or found objects MET 260-360-460 discussion offer the integrated seminar that have been previously created to serve The use of color in jewelry and metals experience. Visiting artists, a field trip to a some other purpose will be reused to create presents great possibilities. This course will service bureau, and presentations work. Students will also revisit ideas explore a range of approaches to the use of supplement the course. Open to through existing objects within our culture color and colored materials in the creation sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors and all and re-address an individual’s previous of jewelry, functional objects, and small electives. 3 credits. work. Formats of the work in this course sculpture. Beyond the classic greens and may take the shape of jewelry, wearables, or browns, we will develop and apply chemical objects. Students must come prepared patinas to produce a range of effects in during the semester with found objects, colors and patterns. In aluminum, the thrift store or flea market finds, thrown away electro-chemical process of anodization will materials and be willing to alter them. allow pigment dyes to be deposited in the Research and concept development are surface of the metal. Plastics will be
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 123 Course Catalog Jewelry + Metals presented to allow for fabrication with stock remake materials. Self-directed work and Jewelry + Metals: Flatware materials, casting of resins and polymers, projects relating to the topic are presented MET 266-366-466 and laminations. Other pigments such as throughout the semester. Reading, research, Flatware is an exploration of utensils for colored-pencils, paints, and powder coating and critiques are an integral part of the preparing, serving, and eating food. are also addressed. Extensive samples and class. Slides, images, and actual works Emphasis is placed on function, related slides supplement the course. Open to supplement the course. Open to concepts, and use of materials. sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors and all sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors and all Independent work is also encouraged. This electives. 3 credits. electives. 3 credits. is an intermediate and advanced level course designed to challenge students’ Jewelry + Metals: Jewelry + Metals: Production conceptual and design skills. The Ceremony + Ritual MET 264-364-464 exploration of advanced studio processes MET 261-361-461 Jewelry and object production is a complex will be encouraged to help facilitate the Consider the importance of the objects we and demanding avenue that can be projects’ design and fabrication. Problems use in specialized events, ceremonies, and navigated by many strategies. We explore a are presented to challenge all levels of our daily rituals. How does ceremony and full range of production design, concepts, students. Visiting artists, field trips, and ritual fit into the context of the 21st century and technologies with a focus on wearable slide presentations supplement the class. and our society? We explore historic and jewelry and functional objects. We address Open to sophomore Jewelry + Metals worldwide references to ceremonial and research, trends and concepts, ideation, majors all electives. Prerequisites: MET249 ritual objects through the slide design & redesign, production techniques & Introduction to Jewelry + Metals. 3 credits. presentations, videos, and actual works. technologies, marketing, presentation, Students create objects based on individual packaging, time management, pricing, and Jewelry + Metals: exploration and interest relevant to the artist/gallery relationships. Challenges Casting + Modeling subject. Additional independent work is also include short and long term projects based MET 267-367-467 required. Open to sophomore Jewelry + on demonstrations, research, and readings. Casting and Modeling is a hybrid course Metals majors and all electives. 3 credits. The course is supplemented with designed to address the connection of presentations, examples of actual works, modeling and casting. As a basic Jewelry + Metals: Settings and visiting artists who make their living as technology in the jewelry and metals field, MET 262-362-462 production artists/designers. Ultimately you casting provides the opportunity to explore This course will examine the subject and will conceptualize, design, and create one or complex form, surface and texture, dynamic techniques of settings. Exploration of basic more lines. The course includes preparation change of plane and line, and everything stone setting procedures are addressed. for shows and galleries, and participation in from organic to geometric aesthetic. The ‘stones’ being set during the course of the Student Art Sale in December. Open to Modeling ranges from carving, sculpting, the semester will be precious or semi- sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors and all fabrication, and direct casting of organic precious gems, minerals, found or electives. One course in Jewelry + Metals objects and materials, to CAD models and handmade objects created from a variety of recommended. 3 credits. molds made in the department through materials. Individual investigations result in machining and 3D printing. Students several pieces of jewelry or objects created Jewelry + Metals: Settings experience three different casting methods: as they are addressed by assignments in MET 265-365-465 gravity, centrifugal, and vacuum, all of which the class. The course addresses multiple This course extends the subject as well as provide unique opportunities to create sources for gems, and includes assistance the processes of setting by revisiting some jewelry, objects, and small sculpture. with acquisitions. Demonstrations, samples of the basics and presenting more Jewelry and metalworking techniques are and a visiting artist will supplement the advanced setting techniques including presented to complement the current level course. Open to sophomore Jewelry + bead, reverse, flush, and tension. Basic- and experience of the group. Independent Metals majors, intermediate and advanced level techniques and materials are work is encouraged. Readings, essays, and electives. Prerequisites: MET249 presented for novices. Individual discussion offer the integrated seminar Introduction to Jewelry + Metals. 3 credits. investigations result in several pieces of experience. Visiting artists, historical and jewelry or objects. The course addresses contemporary examples, field trips, and Jewelry + Metals: multiple sources for gems, and includes presentations supplement the class. Open Alternative Materials assistance with acquisitions. to sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors and MET 263-363-463 Demonstrations, samples and a visiting all electives. 3 credits. The limitless possibilities of materials are artist supplement the course. Open to investigated and applied to create wearable sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors all objects. These materials are explored for electives. Prerequisite: MET249 Intro to their conceptual potential and the capacity Jewelry & Metals. 3 credits. they hold as related to design elements for production. Students reinterpret and
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Jewelry + Metals: Casting Jewelry + Metals majors and all electives. conduct research and explore their own MET 268-368-468 3 credits. direction. Discussions and presentations As a basic technology in the jewelry and recognize the direction of the group. The metals field, casting provides the Fashion-Jewelry-Accessories course includes group discussions, visiting opportunity to explore complex and MET 271-371-471 artists/designers, a field trip, presentations, dynamic form, surface and texture, the Fashion has the power to transcend the and demonstrations to support individual organic and geometric language. mundane, to offer new and novel directions. 3 credits. Technologies and materials from ancient to experiences, to transform the wearer, to the cutting edge provide new and exciting empower and provoke, and to reflect and Advanced Enamel Processes possibilities for models, molds, parts. The record the times in which we live. As artists MET 352-452 course will address concepts and and designers we live in a culture of This course will focus on advanced and technologies of basic waxwork and model unprecedented access to information, new experimental processes with enamel. making, CAD/CAM, and casting processes ideas, materials, and technologies. Processes may include but are not limited to challenge students to apply new Fashion-Jewelry-Accessories is designed to to: torchfiring, electroforming, grissaille, techniques and technologies to create work focus on the changing landscape of art and plique-a-jour, enameling on silver and gold. that remains unique to their direction. From design, where we will examine history, Advanced students are expected to fundamental wax carving and found objects concepts, design practices, materials and continue their exploration of the medium, to 3D modeling and output to the technologies toward fashion jewelry and focusing on enamel techniques not covered Solidscape™ 3D wax printer and the CNC accessories. Varied materials and in the beginning course. Students are milling machine, the course will cultivate techniques from self-directed exploration to encouraged to explore 3-dimensional new skills and opportunities for the creation advanced studio technologies will formats and large-scale applications at the of new work. Vacuum, centrifugal, gravity, supplement the course to challenge same time as mastering their skills in the and rubber mold casting are addressed to conceptual growth, facilitate design, and processes previously learned. Graduating provide a range of opportunities for tangible present new means of fabrication. students are generally working objects. A wide variety of metals, plastic “Challenges” are presented to afford independently on research and production resins, and rubber provide endless students the opportunity to conduct of work for the BFA exhibit. Technical possibilities. Readings, essays, and research and explore their own directions. demonstrations will be based on the skill discussion offer the integrated seminar Readings, essays, and discussion offer the level of the students enrolled each semester. experience. Visiting artists, field trips, and integrated seminar experience. The course Pre-requisites: ENA245 Enamel: Image, presentations will supplement the activity in includes visiting artists/ designers, a field Surface, Relief. the department. Open to sophomore trip, presentations, and demonstrations to 3 credits. Jewelry + Metals majors and all electives. support individual directions. Open to 3 credits. sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors and all Jewelry + Metals: Internship electives. 3 credits. (EP) Jewelry + Metals: Pewter MET 399-499 MET 270-370-470 Accessories Majors are encouraged to have an Pewter is a material that lies somewhere MET 272X-372X-472X internship in the jewelry, metals, and related between metal and clay. It is an extremely As an element of fashion, accessories may fields. They may carry up to 3 elective versatile metal, beautiful for functional serve to punctuate a statement, create a credits. Majors have interned with Liz objects, jewelry, and sculpture. Pewter persona, and at their best, serve to reflect Claiborne, Juicy Couture, Kraftmaid, Nine affords dynamic, intuitive, and direct work in and record the times in which we live. West, Albert Paley Studios, Thomas Mann, metal. The course includes pattern making, Jewelry + Metals is an expansive discipline Heather B. Moore, and others. Available to fabrication, casting, slumping, forging, that plays an important role in fashion, and junior Jewelry + Metals majors. Fulfills spinning, and other forming methods. accessories design. Accessories is Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits. Additional materials and techniques from designed to extend our opportunities to self-directed applications to advanced explore new frontiers of art and design studio technologies, including CAD for where we will examine history, concepts pattern making and design will supplement and design practices, materials, and the course to provide new challenges, technologies toward men’s and women’s facilitate design, and present new means of accessories. Varied materials and fabrication. Readings, essays, and techniques from self-directed exploration to discussion offer the integrated seminar advanced studio technologies will experience. Projects recognize the direction supplement the course to challenge of the group and include singular object- conceptual growth, facilitate design, and driven problems, formal issues, and present new means of fabrication. Projects conceptual challenges. Open to sophomore are presented to challenge students to
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 125 Course Catalog Literature, Language + Composition
Writing for the Art + Design shaped for publication. Prerequisites: Literature, Career LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. LLC 204W Language + This course offers students the opportunity Hybrid Writing to develop strong writing skills for the types LLC 206WX Composition of writing involved in art and design careers. Sophomore level writing seminar focusing The first and biggest part of this course is on inter-genre hybrid writing, with an Writing & Inquiry I: devoted to these career-related forms and emphasis on the New Narrative movement, Basic Composition + is predicated on an exploration of the open to all students, of special interest to Contemporary Ideas relationship between the rhetorical and the students interested in writing adventurously LLC 101 design arts. The culminating project for this and creatively about their chosen art and A composition-intensive course that section of the course, therefore, will be a design forms. The method of instruction for emphasizes basic composition skills, while portfolio containing the final versions of this class will combine short lectures with introducing basic research and each of the writing assignments, designed class discussion, workshops, and in-class documentation skills. Along with cultivating to showcase visually the collected written writing experiments. The class will be the concomitant skills in critical reading and works, and thus also to demonstrate the structured around the idea of creative thinking, this course also introduces an extent to which the student has pursued the research, and will potentially involve explicitly theoretical approach to relationship between rhetoric and design. research days utilizing the museum or the contemporary culture. Twenty pages of Each student’s portfolio will contain the library. Peer feedback sessions and a final student expository writing will be required. types of career documents relevant to her/ short critical paper are designed to assist Offered fall. 3 credits. his own particular emphases or goals within students in developing a constructive, the art/design fields represented by the original vocabulary to critically assess both Writing & Inquiry II: Research + particular group of students in the class. A their own creative work and that of others. Intellectual Traditions later, smaller part of the course will explore (H/CS) CWC). LLC 102 the theories and argument strategies of art An intermediate writing and research course critical essays and reviews as models for Science Fiction + Fantasy based in readings on the western the students’ own assignments in critical LLC 210W intellectual and cultural heritage and their writing. These assignments will include one The genre (or sub-genre) of science fiction global contexts. The course will emphasize art or design show review and one critical may, on one level, be seen as a variety of the basic research skills involved in both essay on an art or design subject selected Romanticism, as an extended collective academic writing and studio processes. by the student for the relevance of its response to features of modernity, Twenty pages of student expository writing subject to his/her own studio work. Class specifically scientific discoveries and will be required. Prerequisite LLC 101. work will focus on writing, tutorials, and peer innovations, as well as elements of the Offered spring. 3 credits. editing/critique, allowing students ample Industrial and technological revolutions. opportunity to become comfortable with, Science fiction, in its astonishing number of Writing & Inquiry III: and even accomplished in, the kinds of permutations, has filled a vast canvas of Narrative Forms writing necessary for self-presentation and imaginative possibility, discovering a range LLC 203 critical engagement in visual arts careers. of responses and forms that range from the This course continues to build students’ Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies dystopian, pessimistic, even nihilistic, to the skills in writing, research, critical thinking, distribution requirement. Creative Writing utopian. and argument, while introducing a survey of Concentration course. Prerequisites: narrative forms and critical methods based LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. We hear and see, in the voices and in narratology to be used in the analysis and imaginations of different science fiction understanding of narrative. Offered fall and Arts Journalism writers and artists, warnings and spring. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. LLC 205W celebrations, but at the bottom, 3 credits. In this elective course, students will study questionings of what it means to be human various forms and stages of writing about and of what kinds of possibilities may lay art for publication. In addition to reading before us. Science fiction is also a and discussing effective examples of remarkably popular genre; it’s vitally published writings on art, students will manifested in books, television shows, films, produce a total of 20 pages of writing toys, games. In this class we will investigate throughout the semester in the form of some of the space(s), both literal and reviews, interviews, profiles, and feature metaphorical, that science fiction (and stories. Students will alternately function as popular ideas of science) offer to the writers and editors as they produce written imagination. work that is expressly conceived and
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The course’s center, however, is the Writing for the Sciences Borges’s “The Garden of Forking Paths,” students’ own writing and their own ideas, LLC 213W Coover’s “Heart Suite,” and Shelley and will be conducted in workshop format, This course introduces the basic written Jackson’s “Patchwork Girl.” 3 credits with relatively brief lectures by the instructor discourse forms of the sciences. It gives an presenting relevant literary, historical, overview and rationale of scientific reports Creative Writing theoretical and biographical backgrounds describing the results of original research. It LLC 215W and contexts. During the semester, provides students with an opportunity to Courses with the Creative Writing students will present two to three original develop competency in the discourse designation will cover a specific kind, or works-in-progress (either creative or critical) model that has evolved over centuries of genre, of creative writing. Examples might to the class, distributing photocopies of their scientific practice. Students will learn the include travel writing, interactive fiction, work a week in advance to the members of specific lexical, grammatical, and stylistic writing Young Adult (YA) fiction, memoir, the class and to the instructor. Prerequisites: conventions that comprise the accepted nature writing, novel writing, and emerging LLC101 and LLC102. written format, in addition to the and experimental forms. The topic covered components of a scientific report; i.e., the in specific courses designated as such will Poetry Writing Workshop Introduction (including the Literature be listed when students register. At the LLC 211W Review), the Methods, the Results beginning of the course, students will read This class will focus on the creation, revision, (including their display and documentation), published examples in the area, read craft oral and visual presentation of poems. the Discussion, and the References. The essays to understand vocabulary and Because good writing requires deep term project for each student will be technique, and complete writing exercises reading, we’ll also be reading and focused on the preparation of a full written to learn and practice. After the first, responding to poems from an anthology report of that student’s individual inquiry reading-intensive phase of the semester, throughout the semester. Students will be into an area of scientific research relevant to the class will workshop student writing. required to keep a journal that responds to their particular studio work and/or interests. “Workshop” means that everyone in the anthology poems in the form of imitation Class meetings will center on discussion of class will read drafts by all students, provide poems, commentary, letters to the poets, or readings, research, and on class critique of each writer with written feedback, and illustrations. Class time will be spent doing written drafts that students prepare as they discuss the work thoroughly in class. The writing and revision exercises, small-group work toward the final versions of their main goal of the class is for all students to work, discussing poems from the anthology, reports. Offered yearly. Open only to BMA write their own original work. Other playing with various aspects of poetry, and seniors; juniors may request written assignments include reading responses, workshopping poems written in class. The permission from instructor. Fulfills writing writing exercises, and feedback to peers. final project will entail creating a chapbook intensive requirement. Prerequisites: Prerequisites: LLC 101, LLC 102. 3 credits of poems written during the semester. LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies Creative Writing: Text As Object- distribution requirement. Creative Writing Interactive Fiction Writers are often inspired by objects. And Concentration course. Writing-intensive LLC 214W when writing goes into a book, a poster, or course. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. This class focuses on writing branching a scroll, that text becomes an object too. In 3 credits. narratives and other nonlinear stories, and this course we’ll read essays and poems it’s ideal for students who want to write about objects like the hoodie, the egg, and Writing about Material Culture digital or tabletop games. This is a the button. We’ll look at illuminated LLC 212W workshop class, which means that— after manuscripts and sculptural texts that have How is the material world understood in an introduction to interactive stories and an objectness. We’ll write about the human culture? What do “things” mean techniques—the course will focus on heirlooms, mundane objects, and digital -- and why? Students will investigate various reading and critiquing stories made by artifacts that populate our lives. This course disciplinary approaches to material culture, students in the class. Texts will vary by is a writing workshop in which each student through Freudian, semiotic, sociological, semester, but students should expect to will research, write, and design their own Marxist, and archaeological studies. read and analyze analog games like Text as Object. Interdisciplinary approaches will be Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, emphasized. In addition, the course will Tales of the Arabian Nights, Legacy of Creative Writing: Poetry- illuminate our personal attachments, the Dragonholt, and Gloomhaven. We’ll also This class will begin by looking briefly at hidden history of things, our experience of explore digital narratives like those made in some traditional fixed forms—the sonnet, material consciousness (as artists and Twine, ChoiceScript, and other formats. the villanelle, the ghazal, the ballad—and designers), and the scholarly “packaging” of Students will also read essays and books then focus at greater length on writing that objects in support of cultural/art history. like Koster’s A Theory of Fun for Game has moved away from those requirements. 3 credits. Design and Crawford’s On Interactive What thought structures, broken bits, ghost Storytelling. We’ll also explore some classic notions, and half-devices are still useful/ nonlinear and experimental narratives like used? Although we’ll be reading past and
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present, this is a workshop class. We’ll be LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. On the Same Page writing alongside our discoveries, LLC 351X incorporating and revamping for our own Screenwriting This course will allow students to develop trajectories. LLC 318 the skills and understanding necessary for What is a spec script, a slugline, a smash literacy in our information-saturated times. Creative Writing: Mystery and cut? What’s the difference between Facilitated by growth in electronic Suspense- montage and a series of shots, and why technologies, more and more types of Will the crowded lifeboat make it to shore? does the screenwriter need to know? One written texts, in both print and online media, Will the killer among the snowbound guests script page averages how many minutes of have fused with images and other graphics. at a mountain lodge be revealed before she onscreen film time? In addition to the Literature producers and consumers of strikes again? When an exciting unknown is demands of just plain good storytelling, these emerging hybrid texts will need at the heart of your story, you are writing writing for film entails expressing everything awareness of and competence in the mystery or suspense. In this writing about the story visually, which gives visual complex communicative strategies that they workshop, we will discuss ways of creating, artists an advantage in adapting to the engage. heightening, and sustaining those elements demands of the form. It is the screenwriter’s throughout your story. job to put all of the sights, sounds and While this course offers valuable knowledge speeches on the page, while still leaving to any developing artist, it is particularly Nature Poetry room for interpretation by the filmmakers. In suitable for students studying in the visual Before + After Darwin this course we will discuss the elements of communications majors; i.e., LLC 301X good storytelling, study the screenplays of Communication Design, Illustration, In a notebook entry dated in the 1940s, Pulp Fiction and Chocolat, and write a short Biomedical Art, Film, Video and Robert Frost wrote, “You have to be careful screenplay formatted to conform to industry Photographic Arts, Digital Arts. Fulfills with the word natural—with all words in fact. standards. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Humanities/Cultural Studies distribution You have to play the words close to the Studies distribution requirement. Creative requirement. Creative Writing Concentration realities.” So what are the “realities” of the Writing Concentration course. Prerequisites: course. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. natural world? Given that human beings are, LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. 3 credits. after Darwin, connected to all living things, can we ever get far enough outside of Story Hour: Editing & Contemporary African + ourselves to understand the “real,” concrete Publishing a Literary Magazine African-American Literature world of nature? Or are we human beings (EP) LLC 359 simply creating, through language, a LLC 330X Today a good deal of Third-World literature symbolic world and calling it nature? Is the Students in this class will work as the in particular expressed in many vital act of constructing a world using language editors of CIA’s annual online literary respects postmodern historical awareness in order to understand ourselves and other magazine, Story Hour, which publishes of the paramountcy of the power relations things what makes us natural—is at the root original short stories, sci-fi, fantasy, graphic hidden behind political, economic and of what we call “human nature”? narratives (comics), nonfiction essays, social institutions and structures both visual and illustrated essays, and nationally and internationally. With particular In exploring those questions, this seminar experimental work by emerging and emphasis on political economy, this course will look at poetry before and after Darwin in established writers from around the country. will examine how this literature re- an attempt to understand what effects Student editors will learn to evaluate work contextualizes such critical sociological natural science has had on poetic submitted for publication, accept work, questions as: What’s traditionalism? What’s depictions of the natural world from the reject work, and correspond with writers. modernization? The African-American texts 1830s to the 1930s. The focus of the course Student editors will learn to proofread and highlight African-American socio-economic will tilt toward poetic renderings of the copyedit accepted work (using the Chicago challenges today, dating back to natural world after Darwin, and in particular Manual of Style), prepare manuscripts for Emancipation/Reconstruction, alongside the most well-known American “nature poet” design and production, and work with art their efforts at socio-cultural self-definitions. of the twentieth century, Robert Frost. Frost directors to pair writing with illustrations, Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies grappled with many scientific ideas, both in photography, and other visual art images by distribution requirement. Creative Writing and out of his poetry, and Frost grappled CIA students, faculty, and staff. The class is Concentration course. Prerequisites: with many scientific ideas, both in and out ideal for students who want to sharpen their LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. of his poetry, and turned around the storytelling skills from an editorial question of how science has affected perspective, as well as for any students who poetry to ask, how does poetry help us are considering careers that combine image understand science? May be applied as a and text. Books & supplies to be Humanities/Cultural Studies elective or as a determined by instructor. Fulfills Engaged writing-intensive elective. Prerequisites: Practice requirement. 3 credits.
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Art of the Personal Essay Literature of Americas Fiction Writing LLC 373W LLC 388 LLC 392 In this workshop course we will work This course will survey the concurrent but Fiction is the sustained application of the on developing an understanding of the separate developments of the literary literary artist’s imagination to the personal essay as a distinct yet flexible traditions of North and South America. observation of life, and writing it well nonfictional genre, one possessing its own Taking Columbus’ arrival on Hispaniola as requires a vision of what’s true in the story characteristics and contours that distinguish our point of anchor, we will work backward before it ever reaches the page. Fiction it from other literary forms. You will also to the Pre-Columbian original narrative Writing provides the student with the work in this course on the craft of writing forms, and forward through the written opportunity to write short fiction, discuss and revising your own personal essays. To records of the complex colonial contexts of technique, study master storytellers, and these ends, we will be reading a number of the literary art in both Americas. We will also critique one another’s work. Some weekly works that demonstrate the essay’s protean trace the divergent results of the influences topics in writing technique take up the adaptability. Texts will be drawn from Phillip of European literature, following in each issues of narrative structure, clear meaning, Lopate’s anthology The Art of the Personal case the developments of such directions turning story into plot, scene content and Essay, as well as from other sources, as we can identify in the prose and poetry scene break, dialogue, conflict and tension, including selected blogs, nonfictional texts of the colonial and postcolonial periods of the power of point of view, the revelation of by visual artists, as well as the online each America. Reading widely and also character, and rewriting. Over the course of compilation Quotidiana. (H/CS)(CWC). closely, we will consider how best to trace the term, students work on three pieces of Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. the parallel emergence of these national fiction. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies 3 credits. literatures, seeking in a juxtaposed study distribution requirement. Creative Writing what common literary and extra-literary Concentration course. Prerequisites: Jazz: Contemporary African- antecedents and shaping forces the texts in LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. American Writers both traditions may reveal. We will also LLC 374X inquire into the nature of the distinctions Creative Writing This course will deal with a very select that must be made between these LLC 393 number of contemporary female and male traditions, and into the impact the This course will give students the African-American writers who have won differences between these literatures may opportunity to explore the three essential outstanding awards from various national have of the understanding of what we mean genres of creative writing in a practicum literary awards to The Nobel Prize. The by the phrase “American literature.” Fulfills setting. Study and practice will center on selected authors are Toni Morrison, Patricia Humanities/Cultural Studies distribution basic analytic methods for reading and Raybon, John Edward Wideman and requirement. Creative Writing Concentration basic inventive methods for writing short Edward P. Jones. The central drift of this course. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. fiction, poetry, and dramatic narratives. course will be concerned with today’s 3 credits. Course assignments will include exercises multifarious significance of the complex in writing the short story, including the short black experience. It will therefore look into Children’s Literature graphic narrative; various poetic forms such how all these writers combine a keen LLC 390X as the sonnet, the villanelle, and the free historical sense with a discerning aesthetic Many adults feel they are familiar with the verse poem; and variants of the short sensibility to explore afresh in a classic children’s books covered in this dramatic narrative such as the screen postmodernist sense the intriguing black course, but actually know only sanitized treatment, the story board, and the short experience with deep intellectual reflections. versions, most produced for the movie film script. Creative Writing can be taken to It will also examine how in relation to their screen. This class will examine the original satisfy either required Junior/Senior individual subject-matters they all artistically texts of several well-known titles as Writing-Intensive credit or Open Elective problematize the aesthetic and literature and the fascinating and sometimes Liberal Arts credit. It will allow students who philosophical questions about the thin line disturbing stories behind them. Critical are planning visual arts careers involving between fact and fiction, historical veracity reading, thought, research and writing on writing (i.e., illustration, film, and video) to and imaginative truth, and art and artifice. these texts will be among the key skills develop the basic critical and writing Our class selection will consist of four covered. Students will read extensively and performance skills necessary for their books published between 1984 and 2003. discuss what they have read in class, create professional advancement. Students who A number of videos will be shown for visual and deliver peer-evaluated presentations, may be considering the Creative Writing elucidation of the books’ underlying and write a semester research paper related Concentration program are strongly urged concerns. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural to the topics of the course. They will view to take this course during their Sophomore Studies distribution requirement. Creative several related films during the semester as year. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies Writing Concentration course. Prerequisites: well. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. 3 distribution requirement. Creative Writing LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. credits. Concentration course. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits.
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Intro to African and African- Graphic Narratives Woman’s Words American Literature LLC 419 LLC 424 LLC 411 Are you fascinated by the graphic novel (or This course is designed to outline the This course will focus on traditional Africa up nonfiction)? In this class, we will investigate contributions of women to the origins and to the threshold of the European a variety of ways that texts and images development of the novel genre in English colonization of the continent. The African (specifically illustrations and photographs) and American literature from 1688 to the texts as a whole offer a brief introduction to interact to tell stories: how the visual and present time. It will focus on discovery of traditional African thoughts and ways of life the verbal engage and catalyze each other, the relationships between the earliest and also to the growing incursion of how they can reflect and inflect, reinforce, women’s literary production and the colonialism. The course highlights the strengthen and gesture to each other in literature written by the women of this paramountcy of kinship care, communal life, compelling, powerful and meaningful ways. moment. It will inquire into the areas of race and individual fulfillment in harmony with To this end, the class will examine and and social class as they are directly relevant society. It also stresses a social thinking practice different methods used in telling to (or feature as tropes within) the literature underlain by a collective unconscious of the both personal and fictional stories. The comprising our reading list. It also inseparableness of the living and the dead, course will also involve working at introduces some of the basic theoretical the physical and the metaphysical. The understanding different ways that graphic questions that feminist scholarship has African-American texts taken all together narratives have been, and may be, raised in connection with women’s writing highlight, notably from Harlem Renaissance, theorized. Assignments will include critical during these periods. Through selected significant stages of the African-American responses to our readings and a creative readings, research, and critical discussion, cultural-literary expressions of their project involving an integration of writing members of this class will become familiar socio-historical experience and an and visual media. Primary readings are likely with modern women’s literature, its social/ attendant sense of religion manifested to include, but are not limited to, work by: historical contexts, and some of the feminist particularly through the Black Church. The Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, Alan critical approaches through which it has subtext of this course is to see if traditional Moore, Craig Thompson, and others. Films been considered. Fulfills Humanities/ life, an example of which is traditional Africa, we watch may include Spirited Away, The Cultural Studies distribution requirement. still has any value for the technological Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, and Creative Writing Concentration course. world of today. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Rashomon. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. Studies distribution requirement or Studies distribution requirement. Creative 3 credits. non-Wesern requirement. Creative Writing Writing Concentration course or Visual Concentration course. Prerequisites: Culture Emphasis course. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits.
Creative Writing Concentration: Body of Work LLC 415-415C Required of seniors pursuing the Creative Writing Concentration. Not open as an elective. Fall and spring semesters required. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. 1.5 credits each semester.
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Culture/Conflict/Syncretism Narrative Art + Mythic Patterns LLC 441 in African and African- This course is primarily concerned with the American Literature dialectic of multiculturality and LLC 471 multidimensionality. Africans under This course will focus on the various artistic colonialism, like most of the Third World at ways African and African-American one time or the other, were confronted with imaginative writers create a narrative the overwhelming encroachment of interlock of mythic and contemporary European/Western/Christian ways of life materials to formulate in postcolonial and and thought alien to them. Yet Africa still postmodernist terms an essentialist struggles up till today to preserve its condition of their people’s experience, while integrity, its intrinsic identity, notably in the a number of them explore the interface of form of neotraditionalism. This vortex of classical and African myths for an informed cultural interplay in Africa has led to global vision. Their works are largely socio-cultural phenomenon described as structured with images and symbols deracination or “the crisis in the soul” endowed with dynamic moral and spiritual (Achebe) or “triple heritage/cultural significance. They problematize the African accommodation” (Ali Mazrui). In thinking underlain by the inseparableness of postmodernist terms, it has led to the natural world and the supernatural syncretism. The course will also explore realm, the human and the divine, the analogies from the multidimensional art, animate and the inanimate, just as this mainly from the interchange between visual inseparableness also aesthetically underlies and literary arts. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural the relationship between the naturalistic and Studies distribution requirement. Creative the abstract in both African visual art and Writing Concentration course. Prerequisites: Harlem Renaissance. There is in LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits. postcolonial African literature, and in many ‘Third World’ countries, a new narrative art-form which can be called ‘animist realism.’ It is critically regarded as contesting the dominant protocol of conventional (Western) realist narrative which is predicated on knowability and linearity. We will also look at how the interface between oral art (free text) and written art (fixed text) mediates between fiction and history in this new form of narrative realism. And there will be an ample number of videos for visual elucidation. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies distribution requirement. Creative Writing Concentration course. Prerequisites: LLC101 and LLC102. 3 credits.
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Intro to Painting: Painting course is open to all students with the Painting History: 1828-Present pre-requisite of PTG221 Intro to Painting or PTG 221 PTG232 Painting Beyond Observation or The Tactile + The Digital: This is a beginning painting course. It is a with the permission of the instructor. Painting in the New Century prerequisite for painting electives and all 3 credits. PTG 21X advanced painting courses. This course The focus of this course is the role of introduces students to painting through Popular Culture + Imagery Painting in the digital age. Students will use historic painting practices and conventions PTG 227-327-427 varied media and subjects, traditional and using oil-based paint as the primary This course will explore the symbiotic non-traditional, to further develop analytical material. Students are asked to approach relationship of art and culture, and the and expressive means in their painting and painting pre-photographically (as if the year particular ways in which popular and creative practices. Students are were 1828). Students are introduced to the material culture influence the visual arts and encouraged to draw from personal interests fundamentals of a traditional painting vice versa NOW (if there are indeed any and from many disciplines to develop practice with an emphasis on observational particular ways that stand out in this projects that will be presented to the class rendering and applied color theory particular time as opposed to a different for group critiques. Through slide beginning with Newton. Students will learn time in history). Students will learn to presentations, gallery visits museum shows, about color mixing, brush types, support discern both the overt and covert affects/ and readings, information will be presented construction and general canvas effects of culture on contemporary artists relating to the current art scene in order to preparation. Students will paint from life as well as on their own work and that of further the student’s personal vision, help learning how to capture the three- their peers. Students in order to take part in clarify directions, and explore a variety of dimensional world on a two-dimensional relevant class room conversation/ formal, conceptual, and technical surface as well as how to use material discussion need a working knowledge of approaches to painting and image-making. working through shape, form, texture, and current events/ history/popular culture and Projects will address, among others, ideas mark to create an illusion of space and will need to be ready to read and do and forms of light and space, color mass. Through critiques, discussions, research, etc. Open to all Students. relationships, means and meanings of readings, slide presentations, and museum 3 credits. representation, text and texture, and gender, visits, students will develop vocabulary and social and political issues. This course is critical thinking skills essential to their studio Painting Beyond Observation open to all students with the pre-requisite of practice as well as a sense of the history of PTG 232-332-432 PTG221 Intro to Painting or PTG232 painting leading to contemporary practices. Continued emphasis on material, color, and Painting Beyond Observation or with the Offered fall. 3 credits. skill-building. Students will work with permission of the instructor. 3 credits. primarily with acrylic paint. This class moves Painting as System, Method, beyond observational rendering and Painted Bodies: The Organism + Concept focuses on other approaches to developing Contemporary Figure PTG 226-326-426 content for work. PTG 220-320-420 This course examines the nature of Painting Class topics focus on contemporary issues This course deals with the position of the as it relates to other visual arts media. The in Painting including: “What makes a figure within contemporary painting and a creation of systems as a way to generate, Contemporary Painter? What is Painting? studio practice extending from that position. organize, compose, pattern, plan, fashion, What is a studio practice? What does it Figurative painting represents the model, design, execute, and possibly mean to be a professional?” Some of the continuation of a tradition that extends back destroy art work will be explored. Artists topics to be considered: abstraction, before history and is yet poised to reach such as Sol Lewitt, Marcel Duchamp, representation, perception, mimesis, into any foreseeable future. Class Survival Research Laboratories, Vito conceptual, subject, reality, expressive, discussions will be based on readings that Acconci, Fischli & Weiss, Chuck Close, authorship, and interpretation. deal with critical and historical issues Alfred Jensen, Jackson Pollock, and Mel surrounding the figure in painting and on the Bochner will be examined within the context A few of the artists that will be looked at: work of contemporary artists dealing with of how systems function within their work. Kandinsky, Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, the figure from a painting perspective. By Reading relevant texts, looking at work, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard the end of the semester students will be research/special projects, studio work, Richter, Jack Whitten, Peter Saul, Agnes expected to develop a cohesive body of group and individual critiques are an integral Martin, Pipilotti Rist, Lisa Hoke, Jessica work dealing with the figure as its subject. part of this course. Students may work in Stockholder, Jenny Saville, et. al. This The student will also be required to the area of their expertise. Goals & course is open to all non-Painting major articulate a statement that situates their Objectives: Students should understand the students as an elective with the pre- work within a contemporary practice of nature of the decision-making process in requisite of Intro to Painting or with the figurative painting. This course is open to all the creation of work, and establishing permission of the faculty. It is required of all students. 3 credits. analyzing and evaluating criteria. This Painting Major Sophomores. 3 credits.
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Painting After the Photograph: Painting: Constructing Painting Lab: Explorations in Painting in the Age of Narratives Representation + Figuration Mechanical Reproduction PTG 235-335-435 PTG 23X-33X-43X PTG 233-333-433 Every painting implies a narrative, whether it This course identifies the components of Painters going back as far as the is a story being told through the images or traditional figurative painting such as space, Renaissance have been using devices such the story of how the painting itself was composition, point of view, color, and scale. as the camera obscura to produce a made. This class is focused on what Using this as a platform each of these will two-dimensional verisimilitude. With the constitutes a narrative and the creation of serve as the subject of a sustained invention of photography in 1839, artists content and strategies in painting. Students investigation. This approach will function to were liberated from the demands of will consider implied, explicit, rhizomatic establish an understanding of these reproducing naturalistic appearances. This and linear narratives. Through studio elements in a conventional context as well course will explore the relationship between practice, lecture and discussion students as the object of experimentation. This the photographic and painting; the effect will engage in producing visual and course will be useful to students in all areas that the birth of photography has had on the conceptual narratives within their work. who are interested in working figuratively in history and current state of painting. A Through investing narrative students will two-dimensions.This course is open to all primary question to be considered will be: move beyond the fundamentals of Painting students with the pre-requisite of PTG221 What are the strategies of Painting in the and focus on the development of a personal Intro to Painting or PTG232 Painting Beyond Age of Mechanical Reproduction? How has practice as framed by contemporary Observation or with the permission of the photography and mechanical reproduction standards. Students will be expected to do instructor. Prerequisite: PTG221 Intro to influenced painting functions? We will look research and generate a project reflecting Painting or PTG232 Painting Beyond at artists as varied as Delacroix, Courbet, their personal interests. By the end of the Observation. 3 credits. Warhol, Rosen Quist, Tuyman’s, and Richter semester students will have identified a among others. Readings will include Walter subject and created a group of works Watercolor Plus: An Exploration Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical focused on this subject. Further students of Water-Based Media Reproduction.” Prerequisite: PTG221 Intro will be asked to work toward an artist PTG 240-340-440 to Painting or PTG232 Painting Beyond statement to accompany their work. This This course explores the different materials Observation. 3 credits. course is open to all students with the and processes used in various water-based pre-requisite of PTG221 Intro to Painting or media such as acrylic, gouache, watercolor, Painting: The Medium Is the PTG232 Painting Beyond Observation or ink, and other natural substances that can Message with the permission of the instructor. be used to make colors/washes. Various PTG 234-334-434 Required for Junior Painting Majors. historical models will be examined such as Careful selection and control of the medium 3 credits. Chinese scroll painting and watercolor from enables us to express ideas clearly. In this the Song dynasty to Renaissance class students will explore and consider Painting: Mechanics of architecture and figure studies to post- how various materials, methods, and Meaning: Subject, Form, impressionist use of color and mark which processes operate, function, and ultimately Content will put contemporary use of water-based how they impact meaning. Class PTG 236-336-436 media into focus. The work of artists as demonstrations and lectures will introduce The goal of this course is to develop an varied as William Blake, Vincent Van Gogh, students to basic traditional and understanding of the criteria, standards, Charles Burchfield, and Paul Klee to more nontraditional painting materials and and values promoted by artists and how recent artists such as Francesco Clemente, processes including safe handling and use. these come to be understood by their Marlene Dumas, Amy Cutler, Shazia The class will function as a lab where audience through exploring the Sikander, and Franz Ackermann, will be through the process of trial and error, relationships that exist between subject, examined within the context of the student’s students will conduct ‘tests’, keep notes, form and content. Through discussion, personal practice. This course is open to all and ultimately catalogue their findings in an assignments and studio critiques the class students with the pre-requisite of PTG221 archive. Students are expected to explore will attempt to make explicit the role that our Intro to Painting or PTG232 Painting Beyond these ‘findings’ in their own studio practice, assumptions about the component parts of Observation or with the permission of the as they further develop the practical and an art work plays in the construction of a instructor. 3 credits. conceptual skills necessary for their work. work and how it is understood by its This course is open to all students with the audience. Prerequisite: PTG221 Intro to pre-requisite of PTG221 Intro to Painting or Painting or PTG232 Painting Beyond PTG232 Painting Beyond Observation or Observation. 3 credits. with the permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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Painting: Color, Scale, Working Collaboratively: Art + Painting: Internship (EP) Mark + Form the Group Dynamic PTG 399-499 PTG 241-341-441 PTG 25X-35X-45X Students will submit a written proposal for a “Figurative”, “abstract”, “conceptual”, Though the image of the artist is that of the semester’s long course of work. This work “non-objective”, “romantic landscape”, solitary individual striving to express their should have three primary components: a “post-modern”, “Bob Ross-ian”, paintings all vision – the contemporary practice of art is written paper, studio work, and work in the have an underlying structure. This studio peppered with numerous examples of field (eg.: working for a gallery or artist). A course examines how the specificity of artists collaborating. These extend form timeline for the completion and review of color, scale, mark and shape form and something as simple as organizing a group these components are also required. The affect a painting’s content. Students will be exhibition, to the type of social interventions proposal must be sponsored by the encouraged to focus on their own body of practiced by the Guerrilla Girls or the work supervising faculty meaning that the work while exploring issues of content of such entities as Gilbert and George, or proposal must be vetted and accepted by within the themes of the class through the the collective N55. This course through the faculty who will oversee the project investigation of their own studio practice, projects, readings, and critiques will explore before it is submitted to the department and by looking at and analyzing the work of the dynamic of working collaboratively. head. This course is open to all Painting other painters and artists throughout history. Each exercise will address different majors. Prerequisite: PTG221 Intro to This course will be of particular interest to processes, skill-sets and interpersonal Painting or PTG232 Painting Beyond students in painting, drawing, & printmaking. relationships. This course is open to Observation. Fulfills Engaged Practice This course is open to all students with the students from all disciplines and is not requirement. 3 credits. pre-requisite of PTG221 Intro to Painting or media specific.3 credits. PTG232 Painting Beyond Observation or Senior Studio: BFA Research with the permission of the instructor. Hybrid Approaches Drawing & PTG 421M 3 credits. Painting: Digital Media Required for all 4th year Painting majors and PTG 327H open as an elective to any senior-level On Painters + Painting: Emphasis is on integrating digital processes student with a prerequisite of Intro to Aura, Author into studio practice and production. The Painting, painting beyond Observation, or PTG 251-351-451 class deals with a spectrum of digital permission of the instructor or Painting With an emphasis on the practice of applications in a studio practice including Chair. This course focuses on developing Painting, this class examines the role straight forward digital output, using digital the student’s individual work as it relates to subjectivity plays in contemporary art. The as a means of producing source material as their subject and their means of making position of the artist and the frame of the well as actually integrating digital processes work. Emphasis will be on the strategies for canvas will be traced from the modernist into the production of work. Through slide constructing the meaning of the work in notion of individual expressiveness, to presentations, viewing actual work, terms of materials and the way the work is post-modernist practices characterized by discussions and readings, students will be read by a viewer. Students will read work, the end of the author’s authority and finally introduced to the place of the digital in develop and discuss intention through to contemporary practices in which the contemporary studio practice. In studio critiques and discourse. The goal is to artist’s hand reemerges in dialogue with production, students will use varied media develop an understanding of the criteria, mechanized and digital processes. and subjects, both traditional and non- standards and values promoted by the artist Students will be asked to grapple with these traditional, to further develop their analytical and how these come to be understood by complex issues in relationship to what they and expressive means in their creative their audience by exploring the relationship paint and how they paint. Class discussions practice. Students are encouraged to draw between subject, form, material and will address a variety of critical essays from many disciplines incorporating them in process as they relate to content. Offered dealing with these topics and the practice of the projects presented to the class for fall. 3 credits. painting as treated by artists and critics. group critiques. Open to all Students – This course is open to all students with the required of Print and Drawing Juniors. pre-requisite of PTG221 Intro to Painting or Offered fall. 3 credits. PTG232 Painting Beyond Observation or with the permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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Painting Seminar: Painting: Image + Process Contemporary Issues in PTG 428 Painting Figurative’, ‘abstract’, ‘conceptual’, PTG 422M ‘non-objective’, ‘romantic landscape”, In preparation for the student’s final BFA “post-modern”, “Bob Ross-ian”, paintings all defense and for working beyond an have an underlying structure. This studio undergraduate level, this course focuses in course examines how the specificity of an advanced manner on the seminal issues color, scale, mark and shape form and covered over the course of the student’s effect a painting’s content. Students will be visual arts education. Questions of style, encouraged to focus on their own body of aesthetics, concept, meaning, and context work while exploring issues of content are addressed. Particular emphasis is given within the themes of the class through the to issues concerned with presentation, investigation of their own studio practice, as “framing,” audience and reception. Students well as looking at and analyzing the work of are expected to engage in critical discourse other painters and artists throughout history. surrounding the work of fellow students, Prerequisite: PTG221 Intro to Painting or established artists and their own work. By PTG232 Painting Beyond Observation or the end of the term students are expected permission of instructor. 3 credits. to have developed a professional body of work to be presented in their BFA Thesis Painting: Image + Narrative Exhibition, continued to maintain and PTG 430 develop their studio practice, clearly identify This course examines the nature of Painting the subject of their work, defend their as it relates to other visual arts media. The choices in relation to this subject as well as source of the “image” and the narrative it discuss reasonable expectations of suggests will be closely examined. Students audience reception. Course readings will be will be asked to examine the way an artist given in relation to these topics as well as goes about making work influences our the maintenance of a professional studio understanding the read of that work. practice. Required for all 4th year Painting Alternative painting practices will be majors and open as an elective to any examined as well as the approaches of senior or with the permission of the many non-painters. Such artists include: instructor or Painting Head. Offered spring. Sol Lewitt, Marcel Duchamp, Survival 3 credits. Research Laboratories, Vito Acconci, Fischli & Weiss, Chuck Close, Alfred Jensen, Jackson Pollock, and Mel Bochner just to name a few. Reading relevant texts, looking at work, research/special projects, studio work, group and individual critiques are an integral part of this course. Open to all students above the freshman level. Prerequisite: PTG221 Intro to Painting or PTG232 Painting Beyond Observation or permission of instructor. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 135 Course Catalog Photography + Video
Photo Major 3.1: Contemporary investigated. Photographic assignments, Photography + Color Photography Theory + readings and discussions lead to a better Practice understanding of the student’s individual Video PHV 225-325-425 approach to the portrait and their unique This course is designed to investigate the relationship with the subject. Practical Digital Photo Imaging I for contemporary applications of color in applications of Photographic portraiture will Non-Majors photography while developing a working also be discussed. Prerequisites: PHV 295 PHV 201 knowledge of color theory in relationship to Photo I: Intro to Photography; PHV 292 This course is an introduction to the photographic practice. The course includes Fundamentals of Studio Lighting, or technical and aesthetic fundamentals of a wide range of color-based techniques and Instructor signature. Open studio elective. digital photographic imaging for creative an exploration of subtractive and additive 3 credits. application. Students use the computer to color as they pertain to digital and chemical modify, manipulate, or to enhance photographic processes. The interaction Publication Photography (EP) photographic images. Emphasis is placed between light, pigmentation, and PHV 229-329-429 on consideration of the hardware and photographic materials will also be covered This course introduces students to careers software tools required for successfully and realized in production of an in-depth as photographers in the advertising and capturing, manipulating, and exporting color technical notebook. Required for editorial fields. Students will learn images, as well as an understanding of the photography majors in the photo track. approaches for meeting the expectations of technical issues involved in each step of the Open Elective. 3 credits. art directors and photo editors while production process. Students gain providing creative input of their own. proficiency in the use of Adobe Photoshop Installation + Constructed Emphasis is placed on networking, CC, Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw and Objects negotiating, understanding and producing Lightroom and are made aware of creative PHV 226-326-426 contracts and invoices, as well as building a options this software facilitates. Open This course is a special topic course professional portfolio and developing Studio elective. Pre-requisites: FND103D designed to cover the design, construction professional marketing strategies. Field trips Digital Color and FND104 Digital Synthesis and lighting of installations, stage sets, and will be taken to professional photography or instructor signature. 3 credits. performance spaces. Students will studios and businesses. Assignments are investigate contemporary applications and designed to simulate practical work Photo Major2.2 Digital Photo approaches to subjects specifically experiences. Open elective. Prerequisites: Imaging I composed for the camera and document PHV 295 Photo I: Intro to Photography; PHV PHV 201M installations that exist outside of the studio 292 Fundamentals of Studio Lighting, or This is an advanced studio course directed environment, with an emphasis on the Instructor signature. Open studio elective. for the photography major that provides the genre’s relationship to historical and Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. technical and aesthetic fundamentals of contemporary theatre. Workshops include 3 credits. digital photographic imaging for creative cameras, studio lighting, basic electricity application. Students gain experience and and carpentry, with an emphasis on Acting + Directing skill working through each step of the scenery design. Students will plan and PHV 231 production process, from image capture to create small-scale models of stage designs; Acting & Directing is an intense production computer modification, manipulations, and scale up these designs, and document their course designed for aspiring art directors, enhancement of images. This course design. This course is designed for the screenwriters, and actors who wish to fosters an engagement in a comprehensive photography major and any students purse a career in film and/or animation. The digital workflow focused toward the working in installation or industrial design course requires both performance and production and presentation of professional but is open to all majors. This course is cinematic practice. Directors will create and quality work for portfolio and exhibition. cross-listed with Visual Arts. Open Studio produce short scenes taking on the full Students gain proficiency in the use of Elective. Pre-requisite: PHV 295 Photo I: responsibility of creating clear Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Bridge, Introduction to Photography or instructor’s communication using the audio/visual Camera Raw and Lightroom 5 to make use signature. Open studio elective. 3 credits. language of cinema and focusing on the of the creative options this software developing and execution of performance facilitates. Required for sophomore The Contemporary Portrait on screen. Beyond just holding the Photography majors. Offered spring. PHV 228-328-428 responsibility of successful execution of a 3 credits. This course is an exploration of project, directors will also switch roles with contemporary approaches to portraiture the actor, working from the other side of the and its relation to the historical lens to better understand the acting photographic portrait. Analysis of both process and what kind of specific direction simple and complex photographic identities an actor needs to perform according to and real and invented realities are another director’s vision. Recommended for
136 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Photography + Video
Photography-Video Track students. art-making. Prerequisite: PHV267 Video/ Cinematography: Cross-listed with Animation. Open elective. Digital Cinema I or signature of instructor. 16mm Filmmaking 3 credits. Open studio elective. 3 credits. PHV 261-361-461 This course is an introduction to the craft of Landscape Photography (EP) Documentary Video filmmaking and appreciation of film as a PHV 232X-332X-432X PHV 241-341-441 pioneering medium of communication, This course will provide an exploration of This is an advanced elective video course: entertainment, and art. The course historical and contemporary approaches to This course is designed to improve introduces technical and aesthetic landscape photography. Students will gain observational, analytical, organizational, fundamentals of 16mm filmmaking where a better understanding of their approach to creative and production skills. Students will students work on individual and group landscape photography within the broader explore the ways in which digital technology projects. Students learn the camera, context of contemporary art and society. can transform contemporary visual culture, support systems, lighting techniques, Included in this course are visual and and fracture the predictable. Students will metering systems and sound recording. written investigations of the aesthetic, social, be encouraged to experiment with new Students are introduced to equipment used cultural and environmental philosophies presentation methods, and develop for production and post-production. relating to the landscape. Open studio innovative techniques for combining sight Coursework includes visualization, elective. Recommended for Photography and sound, light and word. Required of pre-production planning, operation of majors. Pre requisite: PHV295 Photo 1: Intro Photo Majors in the Video track. equipment, and group collaboration. to Photography. Open studio elective. Fulfills Prerequisite: PHV 297Video/Digital Cinema Students are exposed to the major Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits. I or permission of the faculty. Open studio movements in film history and important elective. 3 credits. aesthetic approaches to film art. Students Introduction to Photojournalism execute several exercises in 16mm film. PHV 235-335-435 Advanced Video & Digital They are responsible to purchase and This course investigates photojournalism’s Cinema Projects (EP) process a minimum of three 100ft rolls history and significance in contemporary PHV 242-342-442 (approximately 3.5minutes each) of 16mm culture. Concepts covered include In this advanced video/digital cinema film stock. Pre-requisite: PHV 295 Photo I: vocabulary and components of visual course, students will conduct individual Intro to Photography or instructor’s expression, avenues for dissemination, and research and investigation under the signature. Open studio elective. issues of communication through guidance of faculty. Students focus on 3 credits. publication. Investigation techniques and strategic conceptualization and production editorial practices are explored. An in completion of a professional, self-directed Photo Major 2.1: introduction to photojournalistic techniques video/digital cinema project. An additional Narrative Structures and tools, is included in the course work. aspect of this course examines closely the PHV 267 Prerequisites: PHv 295 Photo I: Intro to function of the individualized work within a Narrative Structures is an intensive study in Photography or instructor signature. Open broader community context and requires visual thinking for the photography major Studio Elective. 3 credits. students to complete and implement a designed to utilize the creative potentials for community-based component as part of both single and multiple image narrative. In Experimental Film + Video Art their finished project. This course this course, students investigate visual PHV 240-340-440 encourages students to consider their work narrative constructs for linear and nonlinear This is an advanced video course, in relation to exhibition, audience, and storytelling with both digital and film-based investigating the scope of symbolic and community. Prerequisite: PHV240 Video/ media. The course encourages improvisatory cinematic storytelling. Digital Cinema I: Screen Grammar. Fulfills interdisciplinary experimentation to examine Students will explore unconventional Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits. methods of production for traditional, digital methods of video acquisition, manipulation, and diverse media to communicate both processing, editing and display. Students idea and process. Required for sophomore will be able to delve into media hybrids, and Photography majors. Offered fall. 3 credits. rather than established narrative forms, underscoring metaphorical poetic styles that inform the structure of the work. Emphasis is on the development of acute observational skills and innovative visualization techniques and encourages divergent thinking and cognitive flexibility. This course is for students who have a sustained interest in using video and digital cinema’s technologies as part of their
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 137 Course Catalog Photography + Video
Photo Major 2.2: Fundamentals of Studio Photo 1: Sophomore Seminar Lighting Introduction to Photography PHV 268 PHV 292-392-492 PHV 295 This course serves as an introduction to the This course is designed to cover This course covers the fundamentals of rigors of studio practice, fundamentals of fundamentals of Studio Lighting, equipment digital and film SLR cameras, optics, critical theory and development of an and techniques for Fine Art and Commercial exposure ratio, digital and B&W printing individualized and cohesive portfolio. This Photography and Video. Faculty provides a techniques. Lectures and demonstrations course engages the student in research, balance of assignments, demonstrations address digital workflow, file archiving, writing, creative content, and project lectures, critiques, visiting artist lectures output for various applications and digital development. Students gain an ability to and workshops. Students are provided image development and film processing. visualize and verbally articulate their ideas, access to the Photography + Video Introductory lighting tools and understanding the semantics of visual Department’s Lighting Studio and Digital documentation of artwork for professional communication, augmented through a Print Lab. Materials required are based on applications is covered. Required for schedule of directed readings and range of processes pertaining to projects. Projects sophomore Photography majors. Open critique strategies. This active and include: Technical and conceptual skills, studio elective. Offered fall. 3 credits. immersed practice positions the student’s and problem solving for tabletop, product, work in relation to the larger arena of location, and large-scale studio Photo 2: historical and contemporary art in a social photography. Required for sophomore Digital Imaging context. Required of sophomore Photo photography majors. Prerequisites: PHV PHV 296 majors. Offered spring. 3 credits. 295 Photo I: Intro to Photography or This is an advanced studio course directed instructor signature. Open studio elective. for the photography major that provides the The Fine Art of Silver Print Offered spring. 3 credits. technical and aesthetic fundamentals of PHV 270-370-470 digital photographic imaging for creative This is an advanced level black and white Advanced Studio Lighting application. Students gain experience and silver printing class. We will investigate PHV 293X-393X-493X skill working through each step of the advanced film exposure and archival This is an advanced-level course that production process, from image capture to printing techniques, fine art printing papers, facilitates discussion of the visual language computer modification, manipulations, and developer combinations and toning of lighting for photographic processes in the enhancement of images. This course procedures to produce full tonal range larger context of contemporary art, fosters an engagement in a comprehensive darkroom prints. Medium and large format photography, cinema, and digital media. digital workflow focused toward the cameras will be demonstrated and utilized. Building on skills learned in Fundamentals production and presentation of professional Projects for this class include an in-depth of Studio Lighting, Advanced Studio quality work for portfolio and exhibition. self-assignment finalized in a portfolio of Lighting expands the student’s knowledge Students gain proficiency in the use of archival silver prints. We will also view of controlled artificial light. This course Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Bridge, master fine art prints at local galleries, emphasizes the process involved to Camera Raw and Lightroom 5 to make use museums and collections. Required for produce a portfolio of both portrait and of the creative options this software sophomore photography majors. product images, in a coherent body of work facilitates. Required for sophomore Prerequisites: PHV 295 Photo I: Intro to based on a theme, concept, or selected Photography majors. Pre-requisite of Photography or instructor’s signature. Open subject matter. The course focuses on how PHV295 Photo I: Intro to Photography. studio elective. Offered spring. 3 credits. photographers and filmmakers use lighting Open studio elective. Offered spring. as an element of storytelling. Students 3 credits. investigate the theory and practice of lighting within the history of photography and cinema lighting design. A component of the course engages students collaboratively to develop and execute lighting for a variety of scenes, presented for peer critique. Coursework also includes regular screenings and discussions of films, written papers and lab exercises. Pre-requisite: PHV292 Fundamentals of Studio Lighting. 3 credits.
138 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Photography + Video
Video/Digital Cinema I: Documentary Video Alternative Photographic Screen Grammar PHV 341-441 Processes PHV 297 This is an advanced elective video course: PHV 391-491 This course is designed as an introduction, This course is designed to improve This course investigates the historical both to the craft of digital filmmaking and to observational, analytical, organizational, processes, contemporary practices, and the appreciation of film as a premiere creative and production skills. Students will concepts of alternative photography. This medium of communication, entertainment, explore the ways in which digital technology includes non-silver techniques, hand- and art. Using the tools of digital cinema, can transform contemporary visual culture, applied emulsions, chemical, digital and computer graphics, audio and other and fracture the predictable. Students will hybrid processes for photographic imaging. electronic media, this course focuses on be encouraged to experiment with new Processes demonstrated may include the design elements and thought processes presentation methods, and develop Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Wet Plate inherent in effective audio/visual innovative techniques for combining sight Collodion, Platinum-Palladium, Liquid communications. Hands-on features work and sound, light and word. Required of Emulsion and silver and non-silver toning in digital cinematography, lighting, audio Photo Majors in the Video track. options. Large format negatives for production and mixing, and non-linear Prerequisite: PHV 297Video/Digital Cinema non-silver processes are generated using editing, as well as support activities such as I or permission of the faculty. Open studio conventional film cameras, paper and digital scripting, research, brainstorming and elective. Offered spring. negatives as well as photogram and pinhole storyboarding. Emphasis is placed on 3 credits. photography. This course is project-based, creative thinking and problem solving, with involves research and experimentation, and both group and individual projects required. Photo Archive, Book + Portfolio is conducted through hands-on demos and This course is intended to be an introduction PHV 350 instructional workshops. Open Studio to a very broad area, rather than an This course advances the student’s Elective. Recommended for Photography in-depth concentration in one subject. knowledge of professional practice majors. Prerequisites: PHV 295 Photo I: Required of Photography majors. Open standards for archival media, emphasizing Intro to Photography or ; PHV201 Digital Elective. Offered fall and spring. 3 credits. the photographic book and photographic Photo Imaging I, or instructor signature. portfolio. Work is project-based, focused on Open studio elective. 3 credits. Photo Major 3.2: production of portfolios and books that Visual Thinking in incorporate the photographic image as an Contemporary Photography essential element. The photographic image PHV 330 is considered in context relevant to its In this course, photographic theories, function as primary artwork, documentation, modes and structures will be examined as record of process or used in reference to through the issues of narrative and concepts. Portfolios and photographic aesthetics. Students will examine books are explored as an individualized contemporary practices, which have expression of one’s professional work. emerged with respect toward photography, Required for Photography majors in the and hybrid digital media that transmute Photo track. Pre-requisite: PHV296 or photographic theories, concepts, forms, PHV201 Digital Photo Imaging or and processes. The course will investigate instructor’s signature. Open elective. the ways in which photography continues to Offered spring. 3 credits. affect (visual) culture and the way one perceives and understands. The work of selected photographers will provide a framework for comparing photographic philosophies. Required for Photography majors. Open studio elective with instructor’s signature. Offered spring. 3 credits.
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Photo 3: Advanced Digital Video/Digital Cinema II: Photo Major 4.1: Projects Sculpting in Time BFA Thesis + Research PHV 395 PHV 397-497 PHV 495M Advanced Digital Projects is an advanced This advanced studio course expands upon In the fall semester, seniors produce their studio art course in digital image-making the knowledge of students who have written BFA Thesis paper, required of all concepts and techniques, allowing in-depth successfully completed the Video/Digital degree candidates. Students first establish exploration of extended computer-based Cinema I and Studio Lighting Fundamentals a thesis topic, formulate an abstract and photo, large format and compositing coursework. A working knowledge of Final conduct research that leads to a thesis projects. Digital imaging skills are advanced Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere is requisite. This proposal. Research and production are working with Adobe Creative Cloud’s latest class is designed for further exploring the finalized in the thesis paper. Throughout the advancements to Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, use of digital cinema as a cinematic tool, semester students engage in critiques of Camera Raw, and Lightroom. Aesthetic method of artistic expression and work underway for the BFA exhibit and issues are balanced with technical aspects communication. Topics include continuity, portfolio. Students hone critical and of production, promoted through research discontinuity, montage style editing, color theoretical skills in photography by into both artistic concerns and specific skill grading, compositing, special effects and examining historical and contemporary sets tailored to individual projects. Class composition within the frame. Emphasizing practices that have emerged with respect to structure combines demonstration and the relationship between image and sound, concepts and processes relevant to thesis tutorials with hands-on, project-based students examine the concept of sound as topics, class discussion, and individual activities applying acquired techniques, and a material with basic structural properties artistic pursuits. Students investigate these provides opportunity for in-class discussion, that may be manipulated, layered and ideas through research, critical observation, critiques and presentations. Students are edited. Students explore methods of discourse and writing. Course format expected to demonstrate time management composition using various sound materials maximizes the potential for dynamic group skills, work independently and meet in assigned projects. Required of interaction and facilitates essential deadlines. Required for photography majors photography majors in the video track. one-on-one exchange with faculty, BFA in the photo track. Prerequisites: PHV295 Open Elective. Prerequisites: PHV267 advisors and peers. In the senior year, Photo I: Intro to Photography; PHV296 Video/Dig Cinema I or signature of the Photography majors are expected to Photo 2: Digital Imaging or PHV201 Digital faculty. Open studio elective. Offered fall. participate in professional opportunities to Photo Imaging or instructor signature. Open 3 credits. submit and present work in order to gain studio elective. Offered fall. 3 credits. the confidence and skills necessary to Photography - Internship (EP) communicate effectively to a broad range of PHV 399-499 audiences. Required for senior Photography Elective credit can be given on a case-by majors. Offered fall. 3 credits. case basis for student internships developed through the career services office, with advance permission of instructor and department Chair. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement.
140 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Printmaking
Intro Printmaking: Image Artist’s Book: Narrative + Form Printmaking Construction II: Color + Form PRI 232-332-432 PRI 201 This studio course is for students interested Intro Printmaking: Drawing connects art and design; it is the in producing sequentially developed Image Construction I: Line + oldest of all arts. This course will provide imagery via linear book structures. Sequence students a thorough introduction to the Historical examples and contemporary PRI 200 printmaking processes of lithography, developments regarding the evolution of the Printmaking grows out of an experimental silkscreen, and monoprint techniques. artist book are examined through texts, approach to image construction closely Students will be required to investigate color through the use of our library’s artist book aligned to both the kinetic practice of and form to generate multiple and unique collection, in discussion, and during drawing and the mechanical possibilities impressions. Layering, color relationships, critiques. Due to technological inherent in the crafting of a matrix for and principles of design serves as a starting advancements over the last century artists reproduction. Students participating in this point for image construction leading now have a variety of media with which to course will interrogate what defines a students to discoveries of complex solutions. explore output of book projects. The class “”print,”” using line and sequence as the While addressing conceptual and technical will expose students to the nature and visual language allowing introspection and challenges related to printmaking, students potential of different book structures as well clarification of ideological concepts. Course will develop a body of work relative to the as a variety of materials. The course will exploration includes intaglio and relief covered topics. Matrices will be built through heighten the student’s ability to utilize the processes, an introduction to the history of drawing, painting, stencil making and toner interaction of sequenced content -- the act the field, printing of a matrix supporting transfers. These various methods will be of turning pages-- to express the continuity discoveries of the limited edition and investigated as both singular process prints of an idea flowing through a continuum. narrative aspects of multiple impressions. as well as elements in multi-layered works. Students realize the potential of narrative, The body of work students produce in this Required for all Sophomore Print Majors, sequence, and pacing, together with the course will be informed by the history of Open Elective for all students above the importance of combining word and image. printmaking, the critical dialogue freshman level. Offered spring. 3 credits. Open Elective. One semester required for surrounding contemporary art and print Print majors for graduation. 3 credits. media in particular, and should reveal Artist’s Book Now: students’ development of skill and Artist’s Book as Image Propaganda: Media, sensitivity to the printed impression quality PRI 231-331-431 Dissemination, Technique (EP) visually articulating the individual’s aesthetic This studio course focuses on boundaries of PRI 240-340-440 voice. Open to all students as an book form, emphasis on image and From punk bands to political rallies, different introductory level course. Encouraged for concept, and selection of appropriate form techniques have been used to create Second and Third year students with a (output) to content. Students will be attention- grabbing graphics. Through a drawing emphasis as an Elective Studio. encouraged to view the book as a variety of projects in this course, students Required for Second Year Print Majors. conceptual space. Deeper development of will explore a range of techniques including Offered fall. 3 credits. sequencing and narrative in traditional and approaches to screen-printing from simple nontraditional formats. Forms covered on stencil making methods; direct drawing on individual project basis as dictated by idea/ the screens; to a variety of ways to use concept for appropriate output/ photo emulsion, including the integration of manifestation. Considerations include digital imaging software. The emphasis of sculptural, installation, digital output, etc. this class is the development of rich Examples and contemporary developments personal imagery and the relationship of regarding the evolution of the artist book form working with content to effectively are examined through texts, through the communicate ideas. This course is for use of our library’s artist book collection, in students from all levels and majors. Notes: discussion, and during critiques. Notes: Open Elective. Encouraged for Third/Fourth This course is open to all, and fulfills an year students as an Elective Studio. introductory, intermediate and advanced Required for Fourth Year Print Majors. level elective course. 3 credits. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 141 Course Catalog Printmaking
Silkscreen The Liberated Print: required of Print and Drawing Juniors. PRI 270-370-470 Investigation of Alternative Offered fall. 3 credits. Students will investigate surface, mark, and Methods (EP) materiality from both a technical and PRI 277-377-477 Printmaking: Advanced Topics conceptual point of view. The silkscreen can This course creates a context for students PRI 350-450 accept a wide variety of printing substances to negotiate the challenging and complex This is an advanced studio supporting the (pigments, inks, dyes, mud, talc, honey, issues embedded in the making of student in the refinement of their visual etcetera...), and can be applied to an equally contemporary printed images. Projects and voice and skill level as realized in the diverse range of surfaces. Lectures, techniques complement and extend production of prints and supporting studio readings, and critiques will help students methods of traditional processes, allowing work. Faculty and students develop the understand the historical role of screen print students room to invent, arrange, analyze outline of course work for the semester and how it relates to their own work. Open and create connections through more through individual and group critiques Elective for all students above the freshman immediate printmaking methods to their encouraging the cultivation of their visual level. 3 credits. major fields of study. This class will erudition and assisting in the student’s concentrate on the intuitive, spontaneous development Possible combinations of the Expanded Print: New Imaging and fluid approaches in printmaking such various techniques for single or multiple PRI 276-376-476 as; monoprint, collagraph, transfer drawing, impressions are addressed. The student This intermediate/advanced studio course Xerox litho, and wood intaglio, instigating develops the ability to discern qualities offers an exploration in printmaking, the dialog between the limited edition vs. unique to the field through material considering the digital matrix for computer singular print, and the original vs. a copy. presented in lectures and hands-on aided and hand pulled prints through We will consider formats that bridge other demonstrations of technical processes and processes redefined in the digital age, disciplines working with color, installation procedures. As the student engages in the scrutinizing decisions for information in and and three-dimensional/sculptural production of a body of work, they become information out, and the relationship to constructions with considerations to work informed of the particular characteristics those decisions. Students will be on paper. The course will offer experiences and advantages of print as a medium and challenged to work in the territory of digital that provide the tools to understand print develop the ability to critically respond to media in relationship to and combination media within a contemporary framework. aesthetics and concepts both within and with traditional print medium. Students have Open elective. Encouraged for third and beyond the field. Encouraged for third and the opportunity to create files for output fourth year students with a painting and fourth year students. Required for Senior which are hand drawn, digitally generated, drawing emphasis as an Elective Studio. Print Majors. Offered fall. 3 credits. of a photographic nature, or a combination Required for Third Year Print Majors. Fulfills of all three. Topics include; transfer Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits. Printmaking: Internship (EP) methods, digital production of plates, color PRI 399-499 management for a wide-format digital Hybrid Approaches Drawing & Elective credit can be given on a case-by- printer, photolithography and exploration of Painting: Digital Media case basis for an internship developed by media choices to project ideas. Technical PRI 327H the student through the Career Services and critical discussion in this course will be Emphasis is on integrating digital processes Office with advance permission of the informed by the presentation of processes into studio practice and production. The department head. Fulfills Engaged Practice that have been developed over the past few class deals with a spectrum of digital requirement. decades, and how these developments applications in a studio practice including relate and affect print culture today. Open straight forward digital output, using digital Elective. Encouraged for Third/Fourth year as a means of producing source material as students as an elective studio. Required for well as actually integrating digital processes Third Year Print Majors. 3 credits. into the production of work. Through slide presentations, viewing actual work, discussions and readings, students will be introduced to the place of the digital in contemporary studio practice. In studio production, students will use varied media and subjects, both traditional and non- traditional, to further develop their analytical and expressive means in their creative practice. Students are encouraged to draw from many disciplines incorporating them in the projects presented to the class for group critiques. Open to all Students –
142 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Professional Practices + Engaged Learning (PPEL)
Socially Engaged Art for Environment, Art & Engaged Professional Change: projectFIND (EP) Practice (EP) PPEL 200X.02-201X.02/300X.02- PPEL 210X-310X-410X Practices 301X.02/400X.02-401X.02 How can artists and designers engage As artists and designers, how do we the natural environment to expand + Engaged engage complex social issues? Under their studio practices? What can artists the direction of a faculty member, this do to help people powerfully connect to Learning (PPEL) two-semester, field-based practicum nature through art, in a day and age when engages student artists and designers with we have become out of tune with the Socially Engaged Art for community partners and individuals environment? Students from any major Change: Drawn to Care (EP) exploring and addressing the issues of work with CIA faculty and Metroparks PPEL 200X.01-201X.01/300X.01- displaced people, while responding content experts in this interdisciplinary 301X.01/400X.01-401X.01 creatively and critically through the lens of studio elective, which often takes place in How can portraiture affect both a placemaking. During their first semester in the field at several Metroparks Reservations. patient’s wellbeing and an artist’s the course, students spend 2-3 hours per The class also meets periodically in a studio connection to others? Supervised by a week in the field working to understand the classroom on campus. faculty member, this field-based practicum experience and context of displaced people and seminar course provides interested, and the organizations that serve this A series of intensive, on-site experiences qualified students from all majors an population. During their second semester in provides unique opportunities to investigate opportunity to engage as artists “in the course, students integrate those the natural world and current ecological residence” in a Cleveland Clinic treatment experiences and understandings, issues through the unique visual language unit. Students spend 2–5 hours per week producing work of various types and scales of artists and designers. Students’ on-site, drawing and/or painting portraits of at various locations. These student projects outcomes are shared with the public patients, in material and/or digital media. are shaped and calibrated by factors such through an end-of-semester public open Equipment is provided on-site. Students as students’ creative interests, art and house event. also meet periodically in seminar on design skills, and own perspectives, as well campus, and maintain a reflection blog/ as by the community partners’ input and Students also work together to develop two portfolio. Both patient scheduling and collaboration. Students also meet natural history or ecology-based interpretive seminar meeting times are customized to periodically in seminar on campus, and programs (such as workshops, art making each student’s overall class schedule. The maintain a reflection blog/portfolio. Both instruction, guided walks) that will take end of the project year usually includes a field work and seminar meeting times are place at one or more Nature Centers. culminating exhibit of all work produced in customized to each student’s overall class Students determine themes, medium, the course, and includes the gifting of the schedule. Course faculty provide guidance process, and methods of program original work and framed prints back to the and support regarding transportation to interaction. patients. Course faculty provide guidance community sites. Prerequisite: Discussion and support regarding transportation to with instructor. Open studio elective. Fulfills Finally, students work to develop potential community sites. NOTE: Students enrolled Engaged Practice requirement. 1.5 or 3 solutions to a Metroparks’ concern, in the course will be required to produce credits per semester. Two consecutive determined and presented by park staff. documentation of immunizations and have a semesters required, but students may begin Students consult with park experts BCI and FBI background check, under the their sequence in either Fall or Spring. throughout this project, making site visits. guidance of the instructor. Prerequisite: Students’ outcomes are also included in the Discussion with instructor and portrait end-of-semester open house. portfolio. Open studio elective. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. May be Appropriate dress for seasonal weather and taken for 1.5 or 3 credits per semester. If outdoor hiking is expected – when in the taken for 1.5 credits, then Fall and Spring field, the class takes place outdoors all day. enrollment required for 3 credits. Students are responsible for their own transportation or carpooling. Open studio elective. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits.
(EP) – indicates a course that may fulfill, or help fulfill, the 3-credit hour Engaged Practice graduation requirement see page 60.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 143 Course Catalog Professional Practices + Engaged Learning (PPEL)
Engage the Community: Hybridity: Interaction between Applying Art & Anthropology Inspiring Others with Your Art Art & Engineering (EP) (EP) (EP) PPEL 333X PPEL 385X PPEL 320X-420X Offered as an interdisciplinary seminar/ Applying Art + Anthropology combines Students will research the vital role they play studio, Hybridity is designed to provide applied anthropology and social practices in as artists and designers in contemporary opportunities to discuss and explore art and design to explore and address society. They will research their specific field emerging frontiers shared by art and urban landscapes, specifically the problem of study and its impact within our society engineering, from new materials and of abandoned buildings and vacant lots. It’s – historically, presently, and in the future. technologies, to collaboration and design a 6-credit course, with 3 cr. of Liberal Arts Class lectures, discussions, articles and thinking. Students from the Cleveland and 3 cr. of studio, offered jointly by Liberal research paper(s) will focus on the Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve Arts and Professional Practices + Engaged significance of visual art and design in University School of Engineering work Learning. As artists, we investigate cities society. Students will learn specific skills together to discuss, reveal, and explore through visual means and creative and strategies to present on and speak ways of thinking and working, through this place-making. As applied anthropologists, about their work to community groups. Prior seminar and project-based studio. The we used ethnographic fieldwork to situate to speaking to community groups, students influence of collaboration and the hybrid on our inquiry in collaboration with a will research the demographics and research, creativity, ideation, design, community to meet community-identified challenges faced by underserved segments innovation, and making will be explored. needs. By combining art and anthropology, of the Cleveland community. this unique course engages students in New technologies and materials provide an both community-wide research and artistic Following the research component of the exciting range of possibilities for prototypes, response through collaboration with our course, students will present their artwork models, molds, and parts toward a wide urban neighbors in East Cleveland and the and creative practice to four community range of “making.” This course addresses city of Cleveland. The course begins with groups or organizations, including one the concepts, practices, and technologies the applied anthropology component, which youth, one adult, and one senior citizen of contemporary hybrid activity as meets weekly for a three- hour block of time group. Three of the presentations will occur interactions between art and engineering, for the entire Spring semester. The objective in the community, while the fourth and includes work at the think[box] and the is to build a foundation in basic presentation will occur at CIA, hosting a studios of CIA, and service bureaus. A anthropological field research methods. community group for a studio visit and tour. series of short essays complete the hybrid. Students develop and collaborate on a As appropriate, the students will also lead Prerequisite: Discussion with instructor. course-specific research agenda in brief, interactive components along with Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. partnership with a local community. After their presentations to each group. A priority 3 credits. mid-semester, the course proceeds with is placed on underserved community the studio component. As informed by their populations or geographic areas in the anthropological field research, students greater Cleveland area. continue to work with course partners, and develop and manage a community-based Through this process, students will promote art or design project, for example, the value and appreciation of contemporary building of a pop-up porch where visual art and design, and their related community gatherings may be hosted. The careers, to the larger community. This studio component meets “by arrangement model creates a platform for students to with instructor,” generally from April through connect and even collaborate with a early June, customized to student specified audience while gaining feedback availability and community needs, and about their own artwork and practice. This therefore, varies by week. Some weeks in course will instill students with added May, the studio component may suspend confidence and pride in their practice and operations due to BFA week and career path. Commencement. Course end date exceeding term end date will not interfere Juniors and seniors only. Open studio with ability to graduate. Course faculty elective. Fulfills Engaged Practice provide guidance and support regarding requirement. 3 credits. transportation to community sites. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. 6 credits (3 credits SNS or open Liberal Arts elective; 3 credits open studio elective).
144 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Professional Practices + Engaged Learning (PPEL)
Professional Practices: Professional Practices: Studio Engaged Practice Entrepreneurial Ventures to Gallery Internship (EP) PPEL 398A PPEL 398C PPEL 399-499 This course provides an overview of the This course provides an overview of the To fulfill the Engaged Practice (EP) environment surrounding the business of art environment surrounding the business of art graduation requirement qualifying and design, and the practice of the and design, and the practice of the internships may be offered through the individual. One of the two class meeting per individual. One of the two class meeting per Career Center, major departments, or the week is a core lecture series that covers week is a core lecture series that covers Professional Practices + Engaged Learning self-promotion, networking, ethics, self-promotion, networking, ethics, hub. Only qualifying internships that are intellectual property, contracts, professional intellectual property, contracts, professional taken for credit in the sophomore, junior development, and guidance by practicing development, and guidance by practicing and senior years may fulfill the EP professionals. During the other weekly professionals. During the other weekly graduation requirement. For more meeting, students attend a breakout meeting, students attend a breakout information, contact your faculty advisor, session for the specific course in which they session for the specific course in which they your department chair, and/or the Career are enrolled. The breakout session for this are enrolled. The breakout session for this Center. course, Professional Practices: course, Professional Practices: Studio to Entrepreneurial Ventures, transports the Gallery focuses on the complexities of a Putting Artists in the student through the key decisions required professional artist’s studio practice by Classroom: Introduction to to establish a successful art/design examining interactions with gallery directors, Art Education (EP) business. Books and supplies to be museum curators, preparators, PPEL 400-400A determined by instructor. 3 credits. conservators, and marketing professionals. As artists, how can we give back to our Books and supplies to be determined by communities through K-12 education in Professional Practices: instructor. 3 credits. the arts? This field-based practicum and Industry seminar course provides students from any PPEL 398B major with an introduction to the world of This course provides an overview of the Art Education. Students are placed in environment surrounding the business of art schools in the Cleveland area, and work and design, and the practice of the with a cooperating teacher or professional individual. One of the two class meeting per mentor there, providing first-hand teaching week is a core lecture series that covers experience in the studio arts. Through the self-promotion, networking, ethics, course, students are taught the principles intellectual property, contracts, professional and practices of Art Education and development, and guidance by practicing curriculum/ lesson planning to be used professionals. During the other weekly during their teaching experience. Students meeting, students attend a breakout also learn to document their students’ work session for the specific course in which they and may curate public exhibitions of the are enrolled. The breakout session for this work. Students are responsible for their own course, Professional Practices: Industry transportation. Open studio or Liberal Arts supports student preparation to become an elective. NOTE: Students enrolled in the integral part of a commercial organization course will be required to have a BCI and by providing an understanding of corporate FBI background check, under the guidance methods and practices. Books and supplies of the instructor. Prerequisite: Discussion to be determined by instructor. 3 credits. with instructor. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement. 3 credits.
(EP) – indicates a course that may fulfill, or help fulfill, the 3-credit hour Engaged Practice graduation requirement see page 60.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 145 Course Catalog Science + Natural Studies
Visual Anthropology Anthropology of Gender Roles Science + SNS 321 SNS 350X Visual anthropology is an important growing In this course students will examine the Natural Studies subfield of cultural anthropology. The various forms of gender roles, stereotypes, course focuses on how anthropologists stratification, and attitudes from a cross- Basic Theories of Psychology have used visual media of various kinds, cultural, anthropological perspective. We SNS 308 especially ethnographic film, to record, will look at different cultural notions and This course will offer an overview of the document and study human cultural and assignments of gender, and how men’s and basic theories of psychology and how they social diversity worldwide. A series of women’s activities vary in different types of apply to human development. We will ethnographic films, readings and class cultures. We will also consider gender explore the questions of what motivates discussion will explore this method of related topics in our own culture. This people to do what they do. How and why anthropological data collecting and analysis. course will be conducted in a seminar do people change as they grow from infants As a counterpoint to earlier, popular, format, with a smaller class size, and an to adults? How do we develop in our ability western cultural biases in visually emphasis on student-led discussion around to play, to work, to love and to be ethical “representing” non-western, non-industrial the topics presented. May be applied as human beings? The course will cover the peoples as “romantic,” “noble,” “savage,” social/natural science credit or as non- major personality theories of Freud and his “enigmatic,” “curiosity,” anthropology’s film Western credit. 3 credits. understanding of the unconscious, Erickson, studies sought a stronger objectivity. Did Jung with his description of the shadows they succeed? Worldwide, indigenous Traditional Tribal Art and archetypes in the human mind and peoples now make extensive use of visual SNS 357 Rogers’ humanistic psychology as well as media/communication to reflect on their Specific cultures of sub-Saharan Africa are learning theories and systems of moral “contested identities.” How has visual reviewed through their visual arts and ritual. development. The course will also cover the anthropology helped in that effort? From the The goal is to understand how each group’s major feminist critiques of these systems. 19th century’s still photographs to today’s history and cultural context influence the There will be a brief overview of cyberspace, visible culture and visual media creative process (use of symbols, style, psychological problems such as major interface. The course reviews ethnographic media, and technique) and shape the depression, schizophrenia, phobias, etc., as film as part of that communication process. aesthetic response. Some comparative well as some methods of treatment. $15 course fee required. 3 credits. materials from Oceania, India, and North 3 credits. America are also examined. 3 credits. Social Science & Aesthetic Abnormal Psychology Practice: An Introduction Prehispanic Civilizations: SNS 309 SNS 340X The Aztec, the Maya + the Inca How does the psychological community, This course explores two interrelated SNS 360 the legal community and society at large questions: how is social life analyzed and This will be a lecture based, Anthropology determine what is abnormal? How do we as theorized by social scientists, and how is it course that focuses on the three major individuals make decisions about what is engaged by artists? The course will thus civilizations of Prehispanic Latin America; acceptable and unacceptable behavior? proceed by identifying a set of concepts the Aztec, Maya, and Inca. We will study the How do culture, religion and geographical that are at the heart of the social sciences in three civilizations to understand the location influence the definitions of normal general, and then illuminate how a variety of complexity of New World cultures, and to behavior? It is these questions and others social science theories employ the understand what their legacy to the we will explore in this class examining the concepts. As each concept is examined, Americas is today. Apply as social or natural diagnosing, treatment and experimental students will also consider the work of science or non-Western Art History elective. study of psychopathology. Through lectures, different artists who engage this feature of 3 credits. case presentation, videos and required the social. readings, you will develop an appreciation, understanding, and knowledge of behavior Each week, as we move through specific labeled as “abnormal.” You will also theoretical areas, students will be given the enhance critical thinking skills, utilize opportunity to explore the work and writing methods of naturalistic observation and of twelve artists and/or group exhibitions gain a sense of compassion and sensitivity engaged with the social concept under for those who live with mental health discussion. Artists working with the media disorders. 3 credits. of electronics, cinema, sculpture, painting, performance and photography will form the case study basis of the course. The course will end with a consideration of benefit- oriented socially engaged art. 3 credits.
146 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Science + Natural Studies
Introduction to Archaeology Human Antiquity: Evolution Tribe vs. Nation-State: Political SNS 370 SNS 381 & Cultural Survival Archaeology is a branch of the wider field of The anthropological study of human SNS 479 Anthropology that seeks to understand past evolution, from human origins through the The course is an anthropological human cultures and life-ways. This course formation of major early civilizations. Course examination of the impact of technology will introduce students to archaeological emphasis is on understanding the changing and “western” industrial development on concepts, methods, techniques, and nature of the relationship between human indigenous populations worldwide. theoretical approaches. It will be based on a biology, the environment and adaptation of Assumptions posed in the concepts scientific, materials studies grounding of the culture as a way of life. Readings, class “progress” and “development” are examined field of archaeology, to understand how discussion, slides and films help describe by in-depth review of traditional society and archaeologists approach the past. Pre- archaeological sites and the culture change among, for instance, the requisite: SNS378 Anthropology. 3 credits. paleoanthropological theories and methods Balinese, ethnic groups in Mali, West Africa used in studying human prehistory. Class and Native American in the United States. Anthropology will visit the Cleveland Museum of Natural Bali’s traditional arts, rituals and water SNS 378 History’s human evolution gallery exhibit. temple system of irrigation, Bambara The course is an introduction to the nature Also, if the museum’s physical anthropology society in Mali and Native American of culture and a comparison of schedule allows, the class will visit the traditional cultures are juxtaposed against contemporary western and non-western renowned Hamann-Todd Osteological the culture change these groups experience cultures worldwide. Readings, films, slides Collection. This is one of the world’s largest, with increased global, commercial and class discussion help review cultural and most thoroughly documented, interdependence. In the 21st century, similarities and differences in subsistence collections of primate skeletons, with all humankind continues to experience technology, language, social organization, major groups represented, including problems of world hunger, population politics, religion and art. An analysis that humans, apes, prosimians, and New and growth, resource depletion, pollution and views culture as humankind’s most Old World monkeys. 3 credits. war. Films, slides and reading review these important adaptive tool, a strategy for issues, and peoples, worldwide, to try to survival, also suggests anthropology’s Topics in Environmental consider potential solutions which relevance for appreciating modern world Science acknowledge human cultural diversity within social, economic and ecological problems. SNS 390X the modernization process. An emphasis in The course addresses contemporary issues This course explores a broad range of the course is a consideration of of human choices and culture change. topics that come under the heading of technological determinism and social 3 credits. Environmental Science. It will focus on choices. May be applied as a social/natural humans and the environment, taking in science or humanities/cultural studies India: Culture + Society populations and health, earth resources, liberal arts distribution elective. 3 credits. SNS 380 water management, food and hunger, Once the jewel in the crown of the British biodiversity and sustainable living systems. Jung + Creativity Empire, India has some 5,000 years of Applications of these topics to various SNS 484 artistic tradition and architectural heritage. problems in design such as the design of This course will combine a theoretical This course focuses on the essential role of sustainable cities will be emphasized introduction to Jung with experiential the visual in India’s ancient and modern through term research projects. Fulfills participation in a dream workshop/small cultural and religious traditions. The creation Social or Natural Science liberal arts group. The theoretical component of the and nature of visual imagery are explored in distribution elective. No pre-requisites. course will provide an overview of Jung’s sculpture, temples, palaces, persons, 3 credits. understanding of the human psyche with an symbols, times and places. From bustling emphasis on use of symbols and dreams as cities to remote villages and pilgrimage sites, the “royal road to the unconscious.” Work from beggar to Brahmin to Hindu gods and from the dream workshops is intended to goddesses, the course explores the “divine inform the artist’s work. Students will be image” in India. 3 credits. expected (in addition to the usual preparatory reading) to bring dreams weekly and to be willing to apply material from those dreams to their own creative process. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 147 Course Catalog Sculpture + Expanded Media
and other tools to support elements in Installation + Constructed Sculpture + installations that use images, text and Objects sound. 3 credits. SEM 226-326-426 Expanded This course is a special topic course Performance & Theater: designed to cover the design, construction Media Ensemble Creation (EP) and lighting of installations, stage sets, and SEM 220X-320X-420X performance spaces. Students will Mapping + Memory: Spatial This class is focused on aspects of theater, investigate contemporary applications and Construction installation, and performance art. This is a approaches to subjects specifically SEM 204-304-404 collaborative class in which the students will composed for the camera and document This course will focus on various properties be guided through training techniques that installations that exist outside of the studio of memory as they are informed by will lead to the creation of an original piece environment, with an emphasis on the contemporary science and philosophy via of theatre. The work will be performed at genre’s relationship to historical and the transformation of “information, thoughts Station Hope, Cleveland Public Theater’s contemporary theatre. Workshops include and experiences” as a process of mapping annual immersive multi-arts community cameras, studio lighting, basic electricity and as a condition of recording into works event centered at the historic St. John’s and carpentry, with an emphasis on of art. Mapping (recording) for this course Church in Ohio City. The students will work scenery design. Students will plan and should be understood as a process of with members of the Cleveland Public create small-scale models of stage designs; revelation, a translation of fact (reality) or Theater to learn storytelling and ensemble scale up these designs, and document their imagination (memory) into dimensional building techniques, as well as explore the design. This course is designed for the representations. Mapping implies numerous dynamism of physical forms and space in photography major and any students spatial relationships, framing positions such their connection with poetic inner life. This is working in installation or industrial design as scale and physical proximity, the a unique opportunity to enter into a but is open to all majors.This course is passage of time and the probabilistic dynamic, creative environment where cross-listed with Visual Arts. Open Studio qualities of space-time. In addition to participants will explore the process of Elective. Pre-requisite: PHV 295 Photo I: significance of proximity when exploring devising new work in relationship, response Mechanics of Digital & Film Photography or and understanding space the process of and collaboration with Cleveland instructor’s signature. 3 credits. mapping is also associated with journey in community. Open to sophomores, juniors, space or as the length of a durational event. and seniors. Fulfills Engaged Practice Installation: Light + Sound In order to accomplish these requirement. 3 credits. SEM 230A-330A-430A transformations students will be able to Sculptural installation is a condition of engage and examine both physical and On the Body space that is neither object bound nor virtual approaches to spatial construction SEM 221-321-421 object-centric in its existence but rather will be encouraged. Open to all students. Experimental fashion, object-generated presents a condition that is often identified 3 credits. performance and costume. This course will as immersive and intentionally organized to teach pattern making and a variety of produce a spatially dependent experience Media Installation fabrication processes relevant to building beyond that of the “Everyday”. This course SEM 206-306-406 three-dimensional forms from pliant and will investigate various applications and This class serves as an introduction to and mutable materials, including but not approaches to subject of Installation with an exploration of media installation including restricted to cloth. It will also include casting emphasis on contemporary practices using the use of video, sound, light, and electronic methods that are useful for designing light and sound as a means of constructing media when combined with space and patterns to cover a body or act as the skin space and form. Primary to this course are various media. Lectures will cover concepts of an object The techniques have a wide the understandings of light (lighting) as both and presentations of artists working in range of applications. In the past students a material and structural element with various capacities with installation and have applied these skills to experimental regard to organization and presentation and electronic media. Course work will be fashion, sculpture, social sculpture and the combined relationship of sound as an hands-on practice of techniques and performance. In addition class material will immersive component in the production of concepts presented in lecture, discussion of address our social and cultural installation-based works. 3 credits. readings, and critique of student projects. understanding of the body as a source for This class will involve doing media/ making work. We will draw on theory and electronic media assignments centered contemporary research from the fields of around the idea of the ‘media as a message’ fashion, the hard sciences and the social and ‘interactivity’. Students will work with sciences. 3 credits. different material and media and use video, sound and light to prepare installations. We will use FinalCut Pro, GarageBand, Flash,
148 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Sculpture + Expanded Media
Intro Sculpture + Expanded Installation: Empire of the String, Felt, and Thread Media Senses SEM 267-367-467 SEM 231 SEM 250-350-450 This is an introduction to Fiber and Material This course provides an introduction to Working with materials and methods not Studies. Students will follow materials from Sculpture and Expanded Media by traditionally associated with the visual arts, the raw state to the finished form, learning examining the methodologies, materials, installation breaks away from the singular how to manipulate them at every stage. history, traditions, and cultural context of object, the pedestal, the detached viewer. Material and process are often bound sculpture and expanded media in Visual lectures and presentations on recent together…so a wide variety of techniques of contemporary art.. The class will include work will include discussion on the nature of making form from string, thread and fiber wood construction and textile-based the work and its context. Studio work and will be covered. Students will learn to make fabrication processes, moldmaking and additional presentations will focus on informed material choices based on an casting relevant to a range of materials, perception - how we understand the world understanding of the history and basic metalworking techniques such as through touch, sight, smell/taste, the sense associations of each material. Students will cutting and welding, and will introduce the of hearing and kinesthetic cues from be introduced to contemporary criticism, student to the use of time-based media muscles of the body. The information and questions surrounding craft and the present in contemporary sculpture. presented, student research and studio history of art. Open elective. 3 credits. Required for sophomore Sculpture & research will provide an environment of Expanded Media majors. Open to all concepts and ideas to support and Sewing + Fabrication students as an elective. Offered spring. challenge each student’s work. Students SEM 268-368-468 3 credits. will develop installations in line with their This is a sewing and patternmaking class. interests. 3 credits. The class will emphasize skills in machine Intro Sculpture Fabrication sewing and related systems for fabrication SEM 232 Performance Art using flexible materials. Constructing a The goal of this course is to expose SEM 255-355-455 garment will be the first project. students to the qualitative nature of Performance art is and has been an open Understanding the construction of a shirt materiality at a fundamental level and to genre, a place to experiment with ideas, and acquiring skills to assemble it is an provide them with a formative materials and time. For this course, the ideal way to acquire hands on skills and understanding of the various aesthetic working definition of “performance art” is – also to understand the shape of a surface or qualities that materials possess. In other a piece which uses a live body, exists in skin of any volumetric form. The class will words this course introduces how materials time, and is non-linear. This class is an then move on to patternmaking and the influence the meaning of a work of art. This introduction to performance art designed techniques of expanding, adding to, course addresses how the qualities of for students who are shy and apprehensive subtracting from and morphing a pre- material act as determine aesthetic about performing and students who are existing pattern. These processes can then organization and conditions of conveyance extroverted and at ease in front of groups. be used for constructing skins or shell within a work. The course focuses on both Workshops include: developing a language structures for sculpture, clothing or the physicality of material condition(s) of of movement, gesture, and stance; costume. The emphasis will be on skills and state-change, intensive material exploration developing a range of low-tech sound, practical information supplemented by and experimentation as a function of lighting and video; juxtaposing activity, images taken from the worlds of fashion, structure, and its affect on aesthetic image, sound and text; structuring or costume design, performance, and production. Required at the sophomore building a piece; and documentation. We sculpture. 3 credits. level for all Sculpture majors and open to all will consider singular actions, interventions other students. Offered fall. 3 credits. and other strategies for generating and developing ideas for performance work. Time-Based Strategies Student work for this class has been SEM 236 diverse and has included costume-based This course will provide students with an work, work using endurance as a central opportunity to investigate the concepts and tactic, collaborative work, public practices of various time-based media arts. intervention, interactive and site-specific A basic introduction to the processes of work. Skills in editing video and sound, video art, sound art, and media installation installation, animation are useful, but not will serve as the basis for the production of required. 3 credits. several projects. Assignments will be grounded in the development of media literacy, media ethics, dissemination techniques, and teamwork. Offered fall. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 149 Course Catalog Sculpture + Expanded Media
Fiber: Digital Images, The Artist + Social Practice Sonic Arts Patterns + Structures SEM 280-380-480 SEM 318 SEM 271-371-471 This course explores a realm of artistic This class is focused on aspects of sound In this class students will learn to design endeavor usually apart from the gallery related to the practice of sonic arts. Sound repeat patterns and structures for weaving, system and the art market, where the artist art is flourishing in museums and galleries, printing, and other digitally controlled output applies his/her talents to questions directly on media networks, and performed at systems. Participants will be introduced to related to community, social responsibility, festivals and performance venues around methods of analog and digital repeat and political activism. the world. Like many genres of generation while gaining fluency in contemporary art, sound art is ProWeave, and furthering their knowledge While looking critically at recent interdisciplinary. This course will reflect that of Illustrator and Photoshop. Arrangements manifestations in relational and participatory hybridity with investigations in: digital with affiliated institutions will allow students practices - as well as learning about their manipulations of sound, sound synthesis, to have their designs digitally printed, historical context and interdependence with sound installation, sound sculpture, die-cut, or industrially woven, expanding the other fields - students will work within a psychoacoustics, field recording, noise opportunity for fulfillment of their concepts greater social context, applying their skills to composition, integrated sound and image on a scale and complexity previously pressing issues (such as ecology, urban works for pre-recorded presentation or unrealized. Classroom discussion will decay, poverty, discrimination, violence, and performed live, popular music, and examine the impact of historical, cultural, global abuses of the military-industrial cinematic scores. 3 credits. industrial, and contemporary factors on complex, to name a few). pattern design. No Prerequisites. 3 credits. Topics in Sculpture + Expanded The pedagogical approach will be to present Media Weaving Patterns: projects realized by other artists who have SEM 333 Collective Activity worked in these areas, and to be able to This course focuses on student intent with SEM 275-375-475 contextualize these practices as the result/ regard to artistic production and their ability Students will learn to weave and explore the reflection of our current economic, political, to allow for audience entry into a dialogue possibilities of the process on traditional and cultural situation(s) - both nationally concerning the conceptual issues floor looms (floor, tapestry, Computer- and internationally. forwarded by their work. Students are assisted Dobby) and alternative weaving expected to identify the content of the work devices (constructed from found objects or Students will research issues that are of they would like to explore via a rhetorical using architectural influences). Technical greater concern to them individually, and method that embraces an interconnected vocabulary and conceptual focus will be present them to the whole class. This will relationship between practice and theory as developed through an investigation of be followed by in-depth discussion around part of a project-based approach for the process, material, tools and the many and problem-solving, efficacy of action, and production of self-directed work. Required varied histories of weaving. The intersection aesthetic materialization. Projects will then at the junior level for all Sculpture & between weaving and collaboration will be be developed and implemented throughout Expanded Media majors and open to all explored in discussions on the development the semester. Fulfills Engaged Practice junior and senior level students. 3 credits. of pattern/structure as a form of requirement. 3 credits. communication; looms built in situ; Creative Resistance: Media Art implication of globalization on craft Experiments in Electronic Arts in the Social Sphere (EP) production; traditional and contemporary SEM 316 SEM 340-440 practice of gifting; and social participation. This is a seminar class that guides students This studio course will introduce students to 3 credits. in the development and realization of a the process and strategies of integrating semester long research project in electronic social activism with media art. Through arts. Projects can be in a wide range of reading and discussion, the course will areas, hybrid thinking and intermedia establish the historical and theoretical approaches are strongly encouraged. context of tactical media, hacktivism, and Topics in the theory and history of other media-based protest arts. We’ll look contemporary art related to current and at artists’ use of a variety of media-- emerging practices will also be discussed. including the news media, the internet, The class is designed to allow for synthesis locative media, surveillance technologies, of content from earlier studies into genetic modification, gaming and more — significant finished work that will be shown to implement social commentary and in an exhibition planned, managed and criticism. Offered fall. Fulfills Engaged coordinated by the students under the Practice requirement. 3 credits. direction of the instructor. 3 credits.
150 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Course Catalog Sculpture + Expanded Media
Sculpture + Expanded Media: Internship (EP) SEM 399-499 Elective credit can be given on a case-by- case basis for an internship developed by the student through the Career Services Office with advance permission of the department head. Fulfills Engaged Practice requirement.
Sculpture + Expanded Media: BFA Research SEM 429 As an extension of the Visual Arts and Technology Environment’s goal that students develop the ability to generate self-directed work, the Department of Sculpture seeks to provide each student with opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge to identify and sustain an independent practice. This course is designed to increase student awareness of the current art discourse and the ability to use that knowledge as a means of awareness within the production of their own work. This educational process embraces a variety of approaches to basic problem-solving skills measured against the contemporary practices of the discipline. In cooperation with a major-day faculty, students are expected to develop what is often their first significant independent work. For BFA students the focus of this course centers on artistic production, conditions of conveyance and Presentation. Required at the senior level for all sculpture majors for BFA development. Offered fall. 3 credits.
Sculpture + Expanded Media: BFA Research + Exhibition SEM 430 Required for all senior Sculpture + Expanded Media majors. Offered spring. 3 credits.
CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 151 Course Catalog Visual Arts
Image + Form II: Reproducibility to the studio work. 3 credits. Visual Arts VAT 202 Reproducibility (offered with an emphasis Installation + the Constructed Image + Form I on either 2D or 3D production) introduces Object VAT 200 the student to the idea that the uniqueness VAT 226-326-426 Image/Form promotes a general of the work of art is not an intrinsic or This course is a special topic course understanding how images work and are inherent quality of the work itself, but the designed to cover the design, construction developed, which is a fundamental aspect result of the choice of media. Consequently and lighting of installations, stage sets, and of the Visual Arts. The course introduces since the Renaissance and the advent of performance spaces. Students will the students to the various means by which Printmaking, the printing press, and bronze investigate contemporary applications and images can be rendered, such as by casting, multiplicity and reproduction have approaches to subjects specifically drawing, painting, carving, embroidering, been a part of western culture. The machine composed for the camera and document etching, etc., as well as by digital means, by age, photo-reproduction, lithography, installations that exist outside of the studio appropriation, and by the use of ready- industrial standardization, modularity, environment, with an emphasis on the mades. The students are also introduced to fabrication, and multiplicity became part of genre’s relationship to historical and the diverse ways in which images and forms artistic practice. Prints, posters, ready- contemporary theatre. Workshops include can be manipulated, or manifested mades, objects, books, commix, and cameras, studio lighting, basic electricity conceptually and materially by exploring the designed utilitarian objects editions, and carpentry, with an emphasis on inter-relation between 2 and 3 dimensions, multiples, modules, and reproductions are scenery design. Students will plan and as well as in time-based media by the use now a significant aspect of contemporary create small-scale models of stage designs; of collage or assemblage. In doing this, we art making which abandons the notion of scale up these designs, and document their introduce them to the concept that an the unique work Making works of this kind design. This course is designed for the image’s “form,” consisting of its physical requires the artist to take into consideration photography major and any students and spatial qualities, as well as the technical the how the act of reproduction, or working in installation or industrial design qualities of their chosen mode of production, replication constitutes part their work’s form but is open to all majors.This course is is part of its content. By these means they and content. Open as elective to all majors. cross-listed with Visual Arts. Open Studio are introduced to practical and semiotic This course is required for all sophomore Elective. 3 credits. nature of images and their production in the students in Visual Arts. Offered spring. context of the contemporary by means of 3 credits. Popular Culture + Imagery assignments, readings, discussions, and VAT 227P-327P-427P studio critiques. Open as elective to all Collage + Assemblage This course will explore the symbiotic majors. This course is required for all VAT 212-312-412 relationship of art and culture, and the sophomore students in Visual Arts. Offered Collage and Assemblage are among the particular ways in which popular and fall. 3 credits. most radical innovations of the early 20th material culture influence the visual arts and century and these forms remain relevant vice versa NOW (if there are indeed any The Artist’s Practice in Context today as sources for innovation and particular ways that stand out in this VAT 200X-300X-400X experimentation. Each of these forms particular time as opposed to a different As a complement to the Professional acknowledges the fracture of contemporary time in history). Students will learn to Practices course, “The Artist’s Practice in life and the ongoing need for new means of discern both the overt and covert affects/ Context” is specifically designed for Visual expression. This course will explore the effects of culture on contemporary artists Arts Students. The course takes an intimate relationship between collage and as well as on their own work and that of look at the professional practices of artists assemblage and various disciplines within their peers. Students in order to take part in working in major metropolitan areas such as the visual arts including Painting, Print, and relevant class room conversation/ New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles or Drawing. Students will learn to discern the discussion need a working knowledge of Berlin. As part of the course students significantly different effects and content of current events/ history/popular culture and examine the realities of maintaining a the wide range of strategies these will need to be ready to read and do professional practice within the context of approaches encompass. Through research, etc. Open to all Students. this focus community. Students, guided and classroom discussion, lectures, readings, 3 credits. directed by faculty, are immersed in that critiques and studio work students will community through such activities as studio explore the possibilities available through visits; meetings area arts professionals and collage and assemblage. Emphasis will be art venues. Open to all. Students must be given to the historical and contemporary 18 years old or over and must sign a waiver studio practices associated with collage to travel with the group. Course may be and assemblage. This course is open to all taken more than once for additional credit. students from all majors. Students will be 1.5 credits. encouraged to apply their area of expertise
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Criticism as Studio Practice Aesthetics, Style + Content discussions and readings, students will be VAT 241-341-441 VAT 300 introduced to the place of the digital in This course will be of interest to all students Aesthetics Style and Content focuses contemporary studio practice. In studio maintaining a studio practice and focuses primarily, on the acquisition of creative and production, students will use varied media on the role of critical dialogue in forming technical skills in the context of the and subjects, both traditional and non- and informing studio production. Through development of original ideas and personal traditional, to further develop their analytical modern and contemporary models, style. Studio work will consist of the and expressive means in their creative students will be asked to consider the practical exploration of the relationship practice. Students are encouraged to draw relationship between what is critically said between formal, technical, aesthetic, and from many disciplines incorporating them in about a work of art and how that frame stylistic issues relative to the personal, and the projects presented to the class for effects the work’s standing in the world. thematic subjects of the students own group critiques. Open to all Students – Examples to be considered will include: choosing. Relative to this, in the seminar required of Print and Drawing Juniors. Apollinaire and Picasso; Pollock and portion of the course the students are given Offered fall. 3 credits. Greenberg; Andy Warhol’s practice; Andre critical, theoretical, philosophical Serrano’s Piss Christ; Robert background to issues surrounding the Working Collaboratively + Mapplethorpe’s work; Chris Ofili and the subjects of style, aesthetics and content. In Group Dynamics Young British Artists; and the television the studio the students are encouraged to VAT 354-454 show “Work of Art.” Students will develop think of their work as an integrative whole Though the image of the artist is that of the and participate in projects extending from consisting of these various components. In solitary individual striving to express their these models as well as giving an intensive this context they are required to engage in vision – the contemporary practice of art is look at their own practices and how what independent critical research on topics peppered with numerous examples of they make is changed by the critical relevant to their work. Their research takes artists collaborating. This course will focus dialogue which surrounds making in an the form of both archival and studio work on how the presentations of images, and academic environment. and is presented in both visual and written objects have been effected by changing This course is open to all students. form. This course is required for all senior social and cultural perspectives and the 3 credits. students in Visual Arts. Offered fall. technologies of reproduction. These extend 3 credits. form something as simple as organizing a Silkscreen group exhibition, to the type of social VAT 270-370-470 Critical Issues in Art in interventions practiced by the Guerrilla Girls Students will investigate surface, mark, and Theory + Practice or the work of such entities as Gilbert and materiality from both a technical and VAT 316 George, or the collective N55. This course conceptual point of view. The silkscreen can This class will focus on how the relationship through projects, readings, and critiques accept a wide variety of printing substances between the visual and the verbal, images, will explore the dynamic of working (pigments, inks, dyes, mud, talc, honey, and ideas play out in artist’s work. collaboratively. etcetera...), and can be applied to an equally Emphasis will be placed on artist diverse range of surfaces. Lectures, statements, writings by artists, student peer Each exercise will address different readings, and critiques will help students reviews, and written statements. Students processes, skill-sets and interpersonal understand the historical role of screen print will be expected to hone their abilities to relationships. Through classroom and how it relates to their own work. Open think critically about visual art through discussion, lectures, and studio Elective for all students above the freshman weekly readings and writing assignments. assignments the social, historical, cultural, level. 3 credits. This course is open to majors from all technological context that gave rise to the disciplines and students will be encouraged current practices of collage, assemblage to work in their area of expertise. 3 credits. and installation will be elaborated. This course is open to majors from all disciplines Hybrid Approaches to Drawing and students will be encouraged to apply + Painting: Digital Media their area of expertise to assignments and VAT 327 classroom readings and discussion. This Emphasis is on integrating digital processes course is open to students from all into studio practice and production. The disciplines and is not media specific. class deals with a spectrum of digital 3 credits. applications in a studio practice including straight forward digital output, using digital as a means of producing source material as well as actually integrating digital processes into the production of work. Through slide presentations, viewing actual work,
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Role of the Artist as BFA Statement + Exhibition Producer (EP) VAT 493 VAT 400 This course is meant to supplement the Contemporary artists have a multitude of work done in the student’s major studio ways they can engage with the larger world, classes. It focuses on preparing the BFA beyond the realm of the gallery or museum. candidate for their exhibition, BFA Thesis Students enrolled in this course will explore Paper, Short Artist’s Statement and BFA various models of artistic production Thesis Examination. The BFA Review including, but not limited to, performer, process is comprised of four components: activist, curator and provocateur. The nn Documentation relationship between method of creation nn Exhibition and idea, or the handmade versus the nn BFA thesis paper and short artist’s industrial, will be investigated. Additionally, statement (Abstract) assignments will challenge students to nn BFA thesis Examination analyze the content of their artwork within (Oral defense/review) local, national, and global contexts. As part of the course these requirements Coursework will include studio work, will be reviewed in technical terms as well as readings, discussion, and critiques. in the context of professional practices in Required for Visual Art juniors in all majors. general. Open as an elective with approval of instructor. Offered spring. Fulfills Engaged The BFA Thesis Paper is meant to prepare Practice requirement. 3 credits. the student for their BFA Thesis Examination and to provide the foundation for Performance Art professional practices beyond graduation. It VAT 480 is an opportunity for an in-depth Performance art is and has been an open consideration of work and studio practice. genre, a place to experiment with ideas, Within the paper and among other materials and time. For this course, the questions, students are expected to working definition of “performance art” is – address: “What is the work? What is the a piece which uses a live body, exists in reasonable expectation for how it will be time, and is non-linear. This class is an received by a given audience? What is the introduction to performance art designed work’s historical and contemporary for students who are shy and apprehensive context? What are the sources for the about performing and students who are work? What choices were made in realizing extroverted and at ease in front of groups. the work and how do they contribute to the Workshops include: developing a language reception of the work?” This course is open of movement, gesture, and stance; to all seniors regardless of major and is developing a range of low-tech sound, required by all Visual Arts seniors. Offered lighting and video; juxtaposing activity, spring. 3 credits image, sound and text; structuring or building a piece; and documentation. We will consider singular actions, interventions and other strategies for generating and developing ideas for performance work. Student work for this class has been diverse and has included costume-based work, work using endurance as a central tactic, collaborative work, public intervention, interactive and site-specific work. Skills in editing video and sound, installation, animation are useful, but not required. 3 credits.
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 155 Department Chairs, 2017–18 Foundation Liberal Arts Animation Buszkiewicz, Kathy Bassett, Mark Anthony Scalamato Cassara, Tina Bloomfield, Shelley Clark, Terry Checefsky, Bruce Biomedical Art Condon-Shih, Nicole Cooper, Lane Thomas Nowacki Cooper, Lane Davidson, Adina Denk-Leigh, Margaret Geaghan, Timothy Ceramics Goss, Gretchen Goodman, Rita Seth Nagelberg Goss, Scott Grimm, Susan Gutierrez, Steven Hart, David Drawing Ingrisano, Tony Hoag, Elizabeth Sarah Kabot Kabot, Sarah Kessler, Joyce Kautenburger, Kevin Lichtenstein, Diane Foundation Kuehnle, Jimmy McEntee, Nancy Petra Soesmann Ligon, Scott McGrae, Cynthia Meier, Mike Modica, Donald Game Design O’Brien, Kelley Moody, Christian Robert Brown, Co-Chair Pinsky, Jessica Ogunsanwo, Olatubosun Sanderson, Douglas Risner, Kevin Glass Soesemann, Petra, Chair Rosati, Jonathan Marc Petrovic Wulffen, Christian Sammons, Michelle Sampson, Gary, Chair Graphic Design Stitt, Amber Larry O’Neal
Illustration Jeff Harter
Industrial Design Daniel Cuffaro
Interior Architecture Michael Gollini
Jewelry + Metals Gretchen Goss
Liberal Arts Gary Sampson
Painting Lane Cooper
Photography + Video Nancy McEntee
Printmaking Maggie Denk-Leigh Tony Ingrisano (will assume acting chair in the fall when Maggie goes on sabbatical.)
Sculpture + Expanded Media Sarah Paul Tina Cassara (will assume acting chair in the fall when Sarah goes on sabbatical)
156 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Animation Illustration Photography+Video Adams, Lincoln Adams, Lincoln Birchfield, Jr., Jerry Harter, Jeff Chuldenko, John McEntee, Nancy Lewis, Hal Harter, Jeff, Chair Minek, Joseph Maric, Pete LoPriore, David Toles, Mary Jo Scalmato, Anthony, Chair McGinness, Suzanne Underwood, Barry, Chair Walsh, Harrison Vlosich, George Printmaking Biomedical Art Industrial Design Craun, Jen Halasz, Beth Blackman, Carla Denk-Leigh, Margaret, Chair Harris, Deborah Covert, D. Edward Maugans, Liz Lewis, Hal Cuffaro, Daniel, Chair Slawson, Corrie Nowacki, Thomas, Chair Deng, Haishan Pangrace, Joseph Futo, Dennis Sculpture+Expanded Media Schumick, David Martinez, Bob Cassara, Tina McEachen, Pete Kuehnle, Jimmy Ceramics Paige, Douglas Lorton, Bill Nagelberg, Seth, Chair Slattery, Adrian Paul, Sarah, Chair Warnick, Anthony Drawing Integrated Media Wulffen, Christian Cooper, Lane Adams, Lincoln Ingrisano, Tony Halasz, Beth Engaged Practice Kabot, Sarah, Chair Paul, Sarah Chira, Barbara Meier, Mike Scalmato, Anthony Hollern, Matthew Toles, Mary Jo Kautenberger, Kevin Game Design Paul, Sarah Brown, Robert, Co-Chair Interior Architecture Thompson-Smith, Kristin Bendis, Jared Appleton, Sherri Scalmato, Anthony, Co-Chair Finegan, Pat General Studies Gatta, George Hollern, Matthew Glass Gollini, Michael, Chair Kabot, Sarah Demagall, Lisa Maric, Pete Kautenburger, Kevin Petrovic, Marc, Chair Wolf, Laura Slattery, Adrian Thompson-Smith, Kristin Graphic Design Jewelry+Metals Belt, Deborah Buszkiewicz, Kathy Visual Arts Lally, Pat Goss, Gretchen, Chair Casara, Tina O’Neal, Larry, Chair Hollern, Matthew Kempthorn, Amber Pawlowski, Eugene Minek, Joseph Painting Underwood, Barry Cooper, Lane Wulffen, Christian Ingrisano, Tony, Chair Meier, Mike Richards, Katherine
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158 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Section 11: Administration and Board of Directors
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CIA 2018–19 College Catalog 159 Executive Administration Staff Directors Julie Melvin Grafton J. Nunes Tom Berger Associate Vice President, Business Affairs President + Chief Executive Officer Director, Continuing Education + Community Outreach Sally Palmer Almut Zvosec Controller Senior Vice President, Business Affairs+ Martin Carney Chief Financial Officer Director, Financial Aid Laura Ponikvar Director, CIA Library Chris Whittey Bruce Checefsky Senior Vice President, Faculty Affairs+ Director, Reinberger Gallery TBA Chief Academic Officer Director, Leadership + Board Giving Barbara Chira Mat Felthousen Academic Director, Cores+Connections Karen Sandstrom Vice President, Office of Support Services+ Director, Communications Chief Information Officer John Ewing Director, Cinematheque Richard Sarian Mark Inglis Art Director Vice President, Marketing+Communications Joe Ferritto Director, Facilities Management+Safety Matthew Smith Malou Monago Director, Student Life + Housing Vice President, Institutional Advancement Jenn Grasso Director, Grants + Special Projects Freeland Southard Nancy Neville Director, Fabrication Studios Dean, Student Affairs TBA Director, Academic Services Raymond Scragg Vice President, Human Resources+Inclusion Heather Golden Director, Career Center Jonathon Wehner Vice President, Enrollment Management Karen Hudy Dean, Admissions+Financial Aid Registrar
Kylie Eyre Director, Annual Giving + Alumni Relations
Scott Ligon Academic Director, Distance Learning
160 CIA 2018–19 College Catalog Board of Directors Board of Directors cont. Cynthia Prior Gascoigne Marianne Bernadotte Board Chair Deborah Blades, M.D. William Busta Frederick W. Clarke Steven M. Cencula Vice Chair Frederick W. Clarke Robin Davenport Barbara L. Hawley Julian M. Earls, Ph.D. Vice Chair Marsha B. Everett ’81 Chann Fowler-Spellman Donald Insul Margaret Fulton-Mueller Vice Chair Hugh J. Garvey III Matthew L. Greene Michael Schwartz, Ph.D. Howard M. Groedel Vice Chair Joseph F. Hahn, M.D. Barbara L. Hawley Janet A. Spreen Donald Insul Vice Chair Jennifer M. Langer Toby Devan Lewis Fran Belkin James D. Lincoln Secretary Yan Maschke Warren L. Morris Almut Zvosec Bill Nottingham Treasurer + Assistant Secretary Paul Pesses René Polin ’94 Grafton J. Nunes Barbara D. Richter, Ph.D. President + Chief Executive Officer John B. Schulze Michael Schwartz, Ph.D. Robert M. Siewert, CFA Daniel I. Simon, M.D. Karen A. Skunta ‘74 Judson E. Smith Mark Smith Carey L. Spencer Janet A. Spreen Cathy L. Stamler Elizabeth F. Stueber Joy E. Sweeney ‘58 Russell Trusso Peter van Dijk Tracey F. Weaver Jeffrey M. Weiss
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