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COURSES FOR ART AND ART HISTORY

ARH352 Early Christian Byzantine Art Art History Courses Hours 3 ARH151 Intro to Visual Arts FA This course focuses on major monuments of painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as wider visual culture, produced in the Early Hours 3 Christian West and the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 CE. Attention will Not applicable to the studio or art history majors or minors. Introduction be paid to major styles/developments with reference to relevant social, to the appreciation of art through an examination of the nature, themes, political, religious, historical and technical issues. and purposes of art, the exploration of visual arts media and methods; Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 and a survey of art history and artistic masterpieces. ARH354 Art of South and Southeast Asia Fine Arts Hours 3 ARH252 Survey of Art I This course examines the vibrant and diverse art and visual culture of FA South and Southeast Asia through the art, architecture, and material Hours 3 culture associated with the current geopolitical states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, and Survey of major examples of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Philippines. the prehistoric through the medieval periods. Prerequisite(s): 3 Hours of 200-level Art History courses Fine Arts ARH355 The Art of Imperial China ARH253 Survey Of Art II W FA Hours 3 Hours 3 This course will examine the varied traditions and genres of art and Survey of major examples of painting, sculpture, and architecture from architecture produced in China during its important imperial era from the Renaissance through the modern periods. the Tang to Qing dynasties (7th century to late 19th century). Writing Fine Arts proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper-division ARH254 Survey Of Art III student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student FA performs in other areas of the course. Hours 3 Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 or 300 level Art History courses Survey of major examples of painting, sculpture, and the applied arts of Writing India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. ARH356 Art of Japan Fine Arts Hours 3 ARH291 Special Projects This course will examine the varied traditions and genres of Japanese art Hours 3 from the Asuka period to the Meiji period (6th to early 20th century). This number is used for special projects determined by the instructor Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of 200/300 level Art History courses or by or for independent research projects proposed by students. In the latter permission of the instructor. case, the project must be approved by a sponsoring faculty member and the department chairperson. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours. ARH357 Prints and Print Culture of East Asia W ARH350 Roman Art Hours 3 Hours 3 This course surveys the architecture, painting, and sculpture of Ancient This course will examine the rich traditions and varied genres of prints Italy and the lands of the Roman Empire from the earliest record of the and print production in East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) from around Etruscans to the death of Constantine the Great in 337 CE. Lectures, the ninth century to the present time. Writing proficiency is required for a readings, and classroom discussion focus on the socio-political, passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill technological, and religious contexts of Etruscan and Roman material normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a passing culture. grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course. Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200-level Art History courses ARH351 Ancient Art Hours 3 Writing A survey of the contributions of Egypt, Greece, and Rome to the development of Western architecture, sculpture, and painting. Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 2 Courses for Art and Art History

ARH360 Early Medieval Art ARH368 Early Renaissance Art Hours 3 Hours 3 This course focuses on major monuments of painting, sculpture, and This course provides students with a survey of painting, sculpture architecture, as well as wider visual culture, produced in Western Europe and architecture during the early Italian Renaissance in major city between 500-1150 CE. Beginning with backward glances at Roman centers, concentrating on knowledge of major monuments and artists. traditions, special attention is focused on works of art representative Attention will be focused on fourteenth-century traditions, fifteenth- of major styles/developments during the focus period with reference to century developments, and major themes important to study of the period relevant social, political, religious, historical and technical issues. (technical innovations, the inheritance and influence of antiquity, the status of the artist, religious and political symbolism, the requirements of Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 patrons and the market, and the impact of social conditions and historical ARH361 Late Medieval Art events). W Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 Hours 3 ARH369 Later Italian Renaissance Art This course examines the wealth of visual and material cultures of Hours 3 Europe and the broader Mediterranean from roughly 1200-1450. Materials This course provides students with a survey of painting, sculpture and considered will include sculpture, architecture, painting and manuscripts, architecture in the later Italian Renaissance (c. 1480-1580) in major city as well as metal work and enamels, ivories, textiles, and portable objects centers, concentrating on knowledge of major monuments and artists. from both European and non-Western cultures. Objects and monuments Beginning with backward glances at the fifteenth century, attention will be explored within their relevant social, political, religious, cultural and will be focused on sixteenth-century developments and major themes historical contexts. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in important to study of the period (including Mannerism, the status of this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required the artist, and the impact of religious change on works of art), thus of an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how encouraging students to have a long-range view of the traditions behind well the student performs in other areas of the course. the focus works. Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of the instructor. the instructor. Writing ARH371 Baroque Art South Europe ARH363 Masterpieces Of Spanish Art W Hours 3 Hours 3 Selected monuments of peninsular Spanish art from the prehistoric This course provides a survey of Southern Baroque painting, architecture, period to the contemporary period. and sculpture, focusing primarily on Italian and Spanish art produced ARH365 Northern Renaissance Art between 1600-1700. A variety of genres are addressed including Christian Hours 3 and mythological works, portraiture, still-life, and landscape. Issues This course provides students with a survey of painting, sculpture and considered include the impact of the Counter Reformation on artistic architecture produced in Northern Europe (France, Flanders, Germany, production; patronage; gender; classicism and naturalism; and the status England) between 1350 and 1600, concentrating on knowledge of of artists. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this major monuments and artists. Beginning with backward glances at the course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of fourteenth century, attention will be focused on developments and major an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how themes important to study of the period (including relations between well the student performs in other areas of the course. North and South, the status of the artist, and the impact of religious Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of change on works of art), thus encouraging students to have a long-range the instructor view of the traditions behind the focus works. Writing Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of ARH373 Baroque Art North Europe the instructor Hours 3 ARH367 Art Patronage Florence Survey of the art of 17th-century Belgium, Holland, and France. Hours 3 Prerequisite(s): 6 Hours of 200 Level Art History Classes Survey of the art of Florence emphasizing the artists and the patrons, such as the religious orders, guilds, and private families who created the ARH374 Art of the American South Renaissance style in painting, sculpture, and architecture. Hours 3 Painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from the colonial period to the twentieth century. Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 Courses for Art and Art History 3

ARH375 Nineteenth Century Art ARH385 Early 20th Century Art Hours 3 W Painting and sculpture from the Neoclassical through the Post- Hours 3 Impressionist periods. This course examines many different examples of painting, architecture, Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 photography and sculpture that served to define modernism in European and American art. We will follow the development of those aesthetics ARH376 American Architecture associated with modernity from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth Hours 3 century (c. 1939). This course is meant to familiarize students with major American architecture from the colonial period to the 20th century. movements, concepts, and styles, and also to help them develop an ARH377 American Art before 1815 understanding of how these movements relate to one another within W a larger cultural and historical context. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with Hours 3 the skill normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a A study of American Art and visual and material culture before 1815. passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A of the course. Students will produce two, individual written assignments student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper- (one submitted and returned before the mid-term and one after) that division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the demonstrate coherent, logical, and carefully edited prose. In these student performs in other areas of the course. assignments, students must demonstrate higher-level critical thinking skills, such as analysis and synthesis. Writing Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 ARH378 Art of the African Diaspora W Writing Hours 3 ARH387 Southern Architecture Hours 3 This course examines the artistic, material, and visual cultures of the African diaspora. Various geographic regions and historical periods will Survey of the history of building in the American South with an emphasis be covered. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this on the antebellum South. course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course. ARH388 African American Art W Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of the instructor. Hours 3 Writing This class will focus on the creative production, contemporary reception, and critical interpretation of African American art from the colonial period ARH379 American Art: 1815-1880 to the present—an examination that intersects inexorably with studies in W American art, material culture, Modernism, and post-colonialism (among Hours 3 a host of other fields and disciplines.) So, while visual representations of and by African Americans provide the content for this course, the A study of American Art and visual and material culture from the 1815 to broader methodological and theoretical issues they raise are applicable 1880. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A to images, objects, and structures from a variety of cultures and student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper- civilizations. Indeed, this course will engage at least three general themes division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the central to art historical and visual cultural studies generally: 1. Cultural student performs in other areas of the course. encounters within colonial contexts; 2. Constructions of “race” and Prerequisite(s): 6 Hours of ARH 200 level courses or by permission of the “blackness” within the African diaspora; and 3. Conceptualizations of instructor “Modernism” in 20th-21st centuries. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill Writing normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a passing ARH380 American Art: 1880-1945 grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the Hours 3 course. A study of American Art and visual and material culture from the 1880 to Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 1945. Writing Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 ARH381 Art Since World War II Hours 3 Modernist and postmodernist art and architecture from the mid-20th century to the present. Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 4 Courses for Art and Art History

ARH389 Harlem Renaissance Art ARH455 Topics In Asian Art W W Hours 3 Hours 3 Throughout the 20th century, African Americans employed a variety This seminar course examines a special topic of the art, architecture, and of strategies toward the attainment of social, political, and economic material culture of East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Writing equality. At different historical moments, specific agenda, tactics, and proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student participants have come to the forefront, yet the overall objectives remain who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper-division the same. During the 1920s and 1930s, many African Americans put student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student forth a fusion of cultural and political activism as the vanguard of the performs in other areas of the course. movement. While exploring the rich art of the era, this course looks Prerequisite(s): 9 hours of 200 and/or 300 level Art History courses beyond traditional artistic models and delves into the work of literary and performing artists to present students with a deeper and more Writing complete understanding of the complex and dynamic social, cultural, and ARH461 Topics in Medieval Art political phenomenon known as the New Negro or Harlem Renaissance. W We will explore the intersection between culture and politics during a specific moment in African American history and examine its place within Hours 3 the larger quest for equality. Readings will include works by Langston Selected topics in the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. Writing Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Augusta Savage, Alain Locke, Carl Van proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student Vechton, Fannie Hurst, and Aaron Douglass, among others. Writing who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper-division proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper-division performs in other areas of the course. student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course. Prerequisite(s): 9 hours of 200 or 300 level Art History courses or permission of the instructor Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200-level art history courses or permission of the instructor. Writing Writing ARH467 Topics Renaissance and Baroque Art W ARH400 Photographic Discourse W Hours 3 Hours 3 This course provides students with an in-depth study of a specific issue or theme in Renaissance or Baroque Art. Writing proficiency is required Study of the history of photography, with a particular emphasis on for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with photographic culture and reproduction. Writing proficiency is required the skill normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the skill normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a the course. passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course. Prerequisite(s): 9 hours of 200 or 300 level Art History courses or permission of the instructor. Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200-level and 3 hours of 300-level Art History courses. Total 9 hours Art History required. Writing Writing ARH477 Topics in American Art W ARH402 Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art K-12 Program Hours 3 Hours 3 This program is designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students Study of a selected theme in American art or architecture. May be the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary community engagement repeated for a maximum of 9 hours. Writing proficiency is required for a activities via with the College of Arts and Sciences’s Paul R. Jones passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill Collection of American Art (PRJCAA). Central to this course is student normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a passing use of the PRJCAA to engage K-12 pupils and their teachers in the grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the Tuscaloosa area. Students will learn about the PRJCAA including course. its content, mission, and goals. They will also begin investigating Prerequisite(s): One of the following courses: ARH 374 or 375 or 376 or foundational readings in community engagement scholarship. To join 377 or 378 or 379 or 380 or 388 and 6 additional hours of 200 or 300-level this class, students must complete an application and interview process. art history courses or permission of the instructor. This course does not meet at regularly scheduled class times during the day and much of course itself is conducted off-site at a school within the Writing Tuscaloosa City School system. Students must undergo a mandatory (state required) background check before starting the program. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Instructor Courses for Art and Art History 5

ARH481 Topics 20th Century Art ARH490 Theories and Methods of Art History W W Hours 3 Hours 3 This course surveys various aesthetic theories that have informed art This seminar examines the disciplinary foundations, historiography, production from the early 1980s to the present day. We will approach and major issues of art history and explores the various methodological this wide array of material through attention to specific themes and/or approaches used in the field. It investigates the ways in which the various critically defined paradigms and apply these themes/paradigms methods and theories of art history contribute to our understanding of to various subjects and media areas including institutional critique, history, aesthetics, and social practices through art objects. Students popular culture, painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and video. will explore the methodologies employed by art historians and evaluate Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A – as scholars, readers, and writers – complex issues and a range of student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper- scholarship. Class time will center on verbal communications, including division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student-led discussions of assigned readings and oral presentations. student performs in other areas of the course. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper- Prerequisite(s): 9 hours of 200 or 300 level Art History courses or division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the permission of the instructor student performs in other areas of the course. Writing Prerequisite(s): 15 hours of ARH courses or permission of the instructor ARH488 Topics in African American Art Writing W ARH491 Independent Studies Hours 3 Hours 3 In this course we will study the politics of representation (and the This number is used for special projects determined by the instructor relationship between the image and ideology) in African American or for independent research projects proposed by students. In the latter photography from the 1840s to the present. Aesthetics, gender, case, the project must be approved by a sponsoring faculty member and class, the impact of slavery, lynching, colonialism, neocolonialism, the department chairperson. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours. and globalization on the arts, as well as issues of memory, identity, subjectivity, historical “truth,” and race, will be explored in relation to Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor is required. African American photographers. We will consider the production, ARH501 Interdisciplinary Seminar distribution, consumption, and archiving of these visual texts, as well Hours 3 as the materiality and mass replication of the photographic artifact, and examine various genres of visual texts, from the social documentary to The primary goal of this course is to explore contemporary visual culture portraiture to art photography. As we analyze the photography of Jules through theory, history, and studio practice. Lion, A.P. Bedou, Louis Agasisz, James VanDerZee, Gordan Parks, Carrie ARH502 Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art K-12 Program Mae Weems, and Latoya Ruby Frazier, among others, we will consider to Hours 3 what extent photographs comment upon or subvert racial identities and social hierarchies, what role the camera plays in protest movements, and This program is designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students whether one, as Audre Lorde asks, can ever dismantle the master’s house the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary community engagement with the master’s tools. Writing proficiency is required for a passing activities via with the College of Arts and Sciences’s Paul R. Jones grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally Collection of American Art (PRJCAA). Central to this course is student required of an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no use of the PRJCAA to engage K-12 pupils and their teachers in the matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course. Tuscaloosa area. Students will learn about the PRJCAA including its content, mission, and goals. They will also begin investigating Prerequisite(s): One of the following courses: ARH 374 or 375 or 376 or foundational readings in community engagement scholarship. To join 377 or 378 or 379 or 380 or 388 and 6 additional hours of 200 or 300 level this class, students must complete an application and interview process. art history courses or permission of the instructor. This course does not meet at regularly scheduled class times during the Writing day and much of course itself is conducted off-site at a school within the Tuscaloosa City School system. Students must undergo a mandatory (state required) background check before starting the program. Prerequisite(s): By Instructor Permission Only ARH550 Literature Of Art Hours 3 Principles and methodology of the discipline as described in the writing of its founders and chief makers; bibliographical research method and mastery. Required of all art history MA students. 6 Courses for Art and Art History

ARH552 Advanced Research Seminar ARH588 Topics in African American Art Graduate Seminar Hours 3 Hours 3 This advanced seminar focuses on the development and application of This course considers a broad range of issues, objects, and themes discipline-specific research skills. Students will broaden their knowledge relevant to the study of African American art. Class sessions will be of art historical methodologies and themes generally, as well as construct organized around readings selected to introduce existing scholarship a research program specific to their area of study (Medieval, Early and methods while stimulating new questions for future research. Topics Modern, Modern/Contemporary, etc.). Each class session will address may include African American Photography, American Spectacles and a different theme or topic that students will discuss in relation/apply Race, African American Film, African American Portraiture, and Race and to individual topics or questions. Generally, these sessions will focus American Mythologies. on historiographic issues, ideas, and trends, as well as professional ARH598 Independent Study expectations with regard to scholarship and academic practice. As part Hours 3 of this course, students are expected to work closely not only with the instructor and their peers in the class, but also with their major (faculty) Independent study allows students to pursue academic interests outside advisor. This seminar is intended to be taken after students complete the formal classroom setting under the supervision of a faculty member ARH 550 (Literature of Art) since it demands the further study and of the department. The activities may include reading, research, or application of the methods and theoretical approaches learned in that a special project. Independent study is not a substitute for courses course. regularly available in the department curriculum and is only available to students who are ready to conduct in-depth and largely self-directed ARH555 Asian Seminar research on a specific topic. Enrollment is subject to approval by the Hours 3 Graduate Program Director and a supervising faculty member. A proposal This seminar course considers a broad range of issues, objects, and of the topic, and program of work must be submitted to the instructor for themes relevant to the study of Asian art. approval. ARH560 Medieval Seminar Prerequisite(s): Graduate student status and permission of the instructor Hours 3 ARH599 Thesis Research This course considers a broad range of issues, objects, and themes Hours 1-12 relevant to the study of art and architecture in medieval Europe. Class This independent research course partially fulfills required master’s- sessions will be organized around readings selected to introduce existing level research thesis hours toward the master’s degree in art history. scholarship and methods while stimulating new questions for future The course is conducted under the guidance of the thesis advisor. research. Discussion and advisor guidance will be directed towards readings of ARH565 Topics in Renaissance Art/Renaissance Seminar research articles and development of research methodology, with the Hours 3 aim of producing a unique research contribution that represents a novel development in the field, or a novel perspective on a pre-existing topic in This graduate-level seminar will explore a variety of critical themes and the field. issues in the study of Early Modern/Renaissance art. ARH570 Baroque & Rococo Seminar Art Studio Courses Hours 3 ART110 Drawing I This seminar course considers a broad range of issues, objects, and Hours 3 themes relevant to the study of Baroque or Rococo art. Basic studio course concerned with comprehension of visual concepts ARH575 Nineteenth-Century Seminar and development of skills through exposure to drawing media. Hours 3 ART130 2D Design This seminar course considers a broad range of issues, objects, and Hours 3 themes relevant to the study of nineteenth-century art. Introductory course that explores two-dimensional concepts in a variety ARH577 American Art Seminar of processes and media. Hours 3 ART131 3D Design This seminar course considers a broad range of issues, objects, and Hours 3 themes relevant to the study of American art in a historical context. Introductory course that explores three-dimensional concepts in a variety ARH580 Twentieth-Century Seminar of processes and media. Hours 3 ART208 Special Projects This seminar course considers a broad range of issues, objects, and Hours 3 themes relevant to the study of modern or contemporary art. Topics not taught in the regular curriculum. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 hours. Courses for Art and Art History 7

ART210 Drawing II ART302 Color Theory & Application Hours 3 Hours 3 Continuation of Drawing I with emphasis on creative development of Course focuses on both analytical and intuitive understanding and visual ideas using traditional and experimental techniques and media. application of color. Prerequisite(s): ART 110 Prerequisite(s): ART 110 or ART 130

ART212 Ceramics ART305 Aqueous Media Hours 3 Hours 3 Completion of ART 110, ART 130, and ART 131 is recommended before Course focuses on contemporary styles, concepts, and ideas regarding taking this course. Exploration of ceramics media and processes with the use of wet media. emphasis on the development of individual concepts. Prerequisite(s): ART 210 or ART 216 or ART 220 ART214 Introduction to Graphic Design ART309 Navigating The Art World Hours 3 W An introduction to skills and techniques used in graphic design, problems Hours 3 in visual priorities, and development of idea generation skills. The theory and history of the art institutions that shape artists' careers Prerequisite(s): ART 130 and practical strategies for sustainable creative opportunities beyond the Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: ART 210 degree. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper- ART216 Painting division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the Hours 3 student performs in other areas of the course. An introductory course designed to strengthen the individual student's Prerequisite(s): ART 110 and ART 210 and ART 130 and ART 131 Plus any awareness of the history and techniques of the craft of painting while two from the following list: ART 212 or ART 216 or ART 218 or ART 220 or exposing the student to contemporary styles and ideas of painting. ART 222 or ART 224 C- or higher required Prerequisite(s): ART 110 or ART 130 Writing ART218 Introduction to Digital Photography ART310 Life Drawing Hours 3 Hours 3 Study of digital photography as a creative medium. Introduction to Individual exploration of figurative forms in a variety of drawing media technical, conceptual, and aesthetic concerns, as well as individual and processes. approaches to media, methods, and activities. Prerequisite(s): ART 110, ART 130, and ART 210 or permission of the ART220 Introduction to Printmaking instructor. Hours 3 ART311 Figurative Modeling An introduction to creative practice using the visual language and Hours 3 technical processes of printmaking. Students will explore their ideas through a variety of traditional and experimental methods. Course offers students a chance to explore figurative ceramic modeling and sculpting as it relates to representing a likeness. Topics will vary as Prerequisite(s): ART 110 or ART 130 course is repeated for credit. ART222 Sculpture ART312 Ceramics Hours 3 Hours 3 This course is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to Emphasis is on individual approaches to media, methods, and activities. conduct an in-depth investigation of his/her sculptural ideas and abilities based on a variety of material assignments. Projects will make use Prerequisite(s): ART 212 of specific materials and techniques which combined with individual ART313 Ceramics concept generation by the student will develop ability in the field of Hours 3 sculpture. Students will choose a semester focus of either welding & casting, woodworking, or digital fabrication. Emphasis is on individual approaches to media, methods, and activities. Topics will vary as course is repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): ART 131 Prerequisite(s): ART 312 ART224 Introduction To Digital Art I Hours 3 ART314 Typography Hours 3 An introduction to computer-based art making, digital literacy, image processing, and digital printing. Further development of design methods and processes including typography, image processing, visual communication, and digital design Prerequisite(s): ART 110 or ART 130 production. Prerequisite(s): ART 214 or ART 224 8 Courses for Art and Art History

ART315 Digital Layout and Production ART322 Sculpture Hours 3 Hours 3 Further development of design methods and processes including grids, Introduction to advanced sculptural thinking and problem solving with page layout, visual communication, and digital design production. assignments geared toward the development of skills and abilities in working with a range of materials and techniques. Emphasis is focused Prerequisite(s): ART 214 on developing craftsmanship and content as applied to the making of ART316 Painting Composition objects. Hours 3 Prerequisite(s): ART 222 The applied study of pictorial manipulation through color and design ART323 Sculpture principles. Hours 3 Prerequisite(s): ART 216 Continued development of 3-D thinking and technical skills through ART317 Painting Concepts assignments addressing a variety of materials and processes, including Hours 3 physics in three dimensions, the illustration of intangible thoughts with A course designed to increase understanding of subject, meaning and physical objects, the relevance of self to sculpture, and an examination of context with the objective of making the transition between guided personal aesthetic. Topics will vary as course is repeated for credit. assignments and personal pursuits. Prerequisite(s): ART 131 and ART 222 and ART 322 Prerequisite(s): ART 316 ART324 Intermediate Digital Art ART318 Intermediate Digital Photography Hours 3 Hours 3 Projects allow for individual approaches and further development of Study of intermediate digital photographic art practices. Emphasis digital art methods and processes. on technical, conceptual and aesthetic concerns, as well as individual Prerequisite(s): ART 224 approaches to media, methods, and activities. There will be a survey of ART325 Printmaking: Monoprint/Monotype contemporary photo / digital artists to stimulate ideas, discussion and Hours 3 practice across numerous conceptual themes. Students will learn best practices for building and managing files that will drive top-quality output. This course examines printmaking through the lens of painting, including Aesthetically, these skills will be put into practice through the creation the vocabulary, materials, and techniques of painting with acrylics or of refined and realized artworks. There will be critiques to facilitate the oils. Students will use drawing and brushwork techniques to establish creative process. The semester will culminate in the production of a final images on a variety of printable matrices, using a variety of printmaking portfolio. processes. Assignments emphasize experimentation, collaboration, and exploring the creative process. Topics will vary as course is repeated for Prerequisite(s): ART 218 or ART 224 credit. ART319 Darkroom Photography Prerequisite(s): ART 220 or ART 216 or permission of the instructor Hours 3 ART326 Video Art and Animation Study of black-and-white, darkroom-based photography as a creative Hours 3 medium. Emphasis on technical, conceptual, and aesthetic concerns, as well as individual approaches to media, methods, and activities. Students will explore contemporary structure of narrative (and conversely the non-narrative) by creating, producing, and sharing stories using Prerequisite(s): ART 110 or ART 130 computer-based tools. ART320 Printmaking: Intaglio & Relief Prerequisite(s): ART 214 or ART 224 Hours 3 ART328 Digital Photography Further exploration of intaglio and relief processes, including a review Hours 3 of basic techniques, grounds, printing in color, printing multiple plates or blocks, and medium/large format printing. Assignments emphasize This course will cover all aspects of digital photography from picture- both technical and conceptual development. Topics will vary as course is making to output. There will be a survey of contemporary photo / digital repeated for credit. artists to stimulate ideas, discussion and practice across numerous conceptual themes. Students will learn best practices for building Prerequisite(s): ART 220 or ART 210 or permission of the instructor and managing files that will drive top-quality output. All elements ART321 Printmaking: Lithography of traditional (scanning) and RAW workflow will be considered from Hours 3 acquisition through editing and output. Aesthetically, these skills will be This course explores traditional and experimental approaches to stone put into practice in through the creation of refined and realized artworks. and plate lithography. Students will make a series of lithographs using There will be critiques to facilitate the creative process. The semester will a variety of approaches, matrices, and drawing materials. Assignments culminate in the production of a final portfolio. emphasize both technical and conceptual development. Topics will vary Prerequisite(s): ART 218 or ART 224 as course is repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): ART 220 or ART 210 or permission of the instructor Courses for Art and Art History 9

ART329 Printmaking: Photo-based Processes ART408 Special Projects Hours 3 Hours 3-6 This course examines printmaking through the lens of photography, This course is designed to focus on a variety of topics in Studio Art that including the vocabulary, materials, and techniques of the analog and are not regularly offered within the Studio Arts curriculum. Topics will digital photograph. Students will create work using a variety of light vary on media chosen form ceramics, digital media, drawing, painting, sensitive printmaking processes. Assignments emphasize both technical photography, printmaking, and sculpture. The course can be taken for a and conceptual development. Topics will vary as course is repeated for maximum of 6 hours. credit. ART410 Drawing Seminar Prerequisite(s): ART 220 or ART 218 or ART 224 or permission of the Hours 3 instructor Self-directed studio practice overseen by the instructor. The student ART334 Branding & Identity Systems works toward creating a consistent and conceptually sound body of work Hours 3 that investigates contemporary and traditional definitions of drawing. Topics will vary as course is repeated for credit. An intermediate course developing design skills used in the creation and production of printed materials for visual communications with an Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: ART 444 emphasis on logos, identity systems, stationery sets, advertising, and ART412 Ceramics promotional materials. Hours 3-6 Prerequisite(s): ART 214 and ART 314 Directed studio practices overseen by the instructor and designed to ART335 Publication Design enhance the student's understanding of advanced ceramics concepts Hours 3 and techniques. An intermediate course developing design skills used in the production Prerequisite(s): ART 212 and ART 312 and ART 313 of printed materials for visual communications with an emphasis on both ART414 Graphic Design Portfolio digital and printed newsletters, magazines, and annual reports. W Prerequisite(s): ART 214, ART 314, and ART 315 Hours 3-6 ART338 Photographic Studio Lighting An advanced level course that prepares students for pursuing a career in Hours 3 graphic design. Students organize and refine past projects into a printed The course will present essential skills in photographic studio lighting. and digital portfolio. Students apply written communication skills to draft Both natural and artificial light sources will be explored for producing resumes, cover letters and invoices. All of the professional materials are aesthetically and conceptually engaging artworks. A wide range of unified through a systematic self-identity system. Writing proficiency is applications will be explored including still life, portraiture, classic lighting required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write problems, and open creative projects. Experimentation and improvisation with the skill normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a is highly encouraged. Topics will reference both historical precedents passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of and contemporary practices. The course will culminate with a portfolio of the course. work. Prerequisite(s): ART 334 and ART 335 Prerequisite(s): ART 218 or ART 319 Writing ART344 Concepts in Drawing ART415 Graphic Design Internship Hours 3 Hours 3 This course covers drawing at the intermediate level, including media, This course provides students with a valuable opportunity to gain form, content, and theory. This course emphasizes personal direction. firsthand experience working with creative professionals in the industry. This course is designed to encourage student investigation into Internships must be approved beforehand with all required documents experimental drawing and contemporary art practices. All topics will be completed and submitted to the internship faculty supervisor. Students devoted to promoting individual student creativity, mastery of drawing must work no less than 135 hours during the semester to earn 3 credit means and techniques, and a further understanding of graphic concerns. hours. The Department of Art and Art History offers support in identifying Prerequisite(s): ART 110, and ART 210 OR by permission of the instructor. potential positions, but it remains the obligation of the student to obtain the position. ART406 Independent Studies Hours 1-6 Prerequisite(s): ART 334 & ART 335 Students may make proposals for projects not taught in the regular ART416 Advanced Painting Seminar curriculum. Proposals must be approved by a sponsoring faculty member Hours 3-6 and the department chairperson. Self-directed studio practice overseen by the instructor. The student is expected to work toward creating a consistent and conceptually sound body of work. Enrollment for 4, 5, or 6 hours requires permission of the instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite(s): ART 317 10 Courses for Art and Art History

ART418 Advanced Photography ART428 Advanced Digital Photography Hours 3 Hours 3 Study of alternative, experimental, and extended approaches to The course will expand upon digital skills for the photographer / digital photography. Emphasis on technical, conceptual and aesthetic concerns, artist presented in Art 328. This course presents technical, aesthetic as well as individual approaches to advanced photographic practice and conceptual concerns at an advanced level. Content will be delivered resulting in a cohesive body of work suitable for exhibition. through lecture, demonstrations, workshops, and experiential learning. The primary emphasis is on student-driven production of fully realized Prerequisite(s): ART 318 artworks. There will be regular critiques to facilitate the creative process. ART420 Printmaking There will be a survey of contemporary photo / digital artists to stimulate Hours 3-6 ideas, discussion and practices across numerous conceptual themes. Emphasis on individual approaches resulting in a cohesive body of work The semester will culminate in the production of a final portfolio and suitable for exhibition. Enrollment for 4, 5, or 6 hours requires permission works presented for exhibition. Topics will vary as course is repeated for of the instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours. credit. Prerequisite(s): ART 320 and ART 321 Prerequisite(s): ART 328 ART421 Printmaking Practicum ART433 Package Design Hours 3 Hours 3 Provides students with a practical experience in the printmaking field by An intermediate course to package design, this course covers the working on-site with artists, designers, or other visual arts professionals. history, science and process of package design. Students will explore 3D templates, typography, color and imagery to design and assemble an Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 300-level printmaking courses from ART 320, array of structures that follow the strategy of a creative brief. ART 321, ART 325, ART 329 Prerequisite(s): ART 315 ART422 Sculpture Hours 3-6 ART434 Illustration Hours 3 Development of work and thought at an advanced level in preparation for completion of the BA or BFA degree. Graduating semester includes a BA Conceptual approaches, materials and techniques used to solve or BFA thesis exhibition accompanied by a written thesis requirement. problems in illustration, emphasizing developing rendering skills in both traditional and digital mediums. Prerequisite(s): ART 222 and ART 322 and ART 323 Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: ART 315 ART423 Public Sculpture Hours 3 ART435 Web Design Hours 3 This course is designed to introduce and familiarize the student to the fundamental issues involving both making and thinking in three An introduction to interactive applications. This course provides dimensions as applied to making art in the public realm. Assignments instruction in innovative, artistic design and development of visual are formed to familiarize the student with a variety of materials and communication skills related to interactive applications. techniques that make up the foundations with which to address public Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: ART 335 sculpture. We will be developing proposals for public art to be placed and ART444 Advanced Concepts in Drawing installed around Tuscaloosa. Classes will take place in the form of class Hours 3 discussions, guest lecturers, and studio work days. This course covers drawing at the advanced level, including media, form, ART424 Advanced Digital Media content, and theory. This course emphasizes personal direction. This Hours 3 course is designed to encourage student investigation into experimental Special topics in digital media. Enrollment for 4, 5, or 6 hours requires drawing and contemporary art practices. All topics will be devoted to permission of the instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours. promoting individual student creativity, mastery of drawing means and Prerequisite(s): ART 324 or ART 326 techniques, and a further understanding of graphic concerns. Prerequisite(s): ART 344 Courses for Art and Art History 11

ART496 BA Studio Capstone ART506 Independent Studies W Hours 1-6 Hours 3 Students may make proposals for projects not taught in the regular curriculum. These must be approved by a faculty sponsor and the This is an interdisciplinary capstone course that represents the chairperson of the department. culmination of the BA in Studio Art degree. Focusing on issues pertaining to professional practices, this course is designed to assist students as ART508 Special Projects they prepare for the next step in their education and/or in their work as Hours 3 professional studio artists or work as professionals in art related fields Special projects course titles include Alternative Photographic Process, after they leave the University. To this end, students will develop a written Photo-based Printmaking, Water Media on Paper, Figurative Modeling and final paper, produce promotional materials, refine verbal communication Sculpture, Experimental Drawing and The Photographic Artist's Book. in the discussion of their work, and hone various other skills in the development of professional practices. Writing proficiency is required ART510 Advanced Drawing Seminar for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with Hours 3 skill normally required of upper-division students will not earn a passing The focus of this course will be the study and production of drawings grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the as an activity that documents our memories, examines and explains the course. world around us, transforms our perceptions of time and space, and helps Prerequisite(s): Students must have completed a minimum of 21 hours in us invent new ways of seeing and thinking. ART and ARH course work. ART511 Graduate Seminar Writing Hours 3 ART498 BFA Studio Capstone A critical examination of contemporary issues, philosophies, criteria, and W ideas in art. Hours 3 ART512 Ceramics Hours 2-6 The BFA Capstone is an interdisciplinary course that represents the culmination of the BFA Studio Art program at The University of Alabama. The ceramics program has a fully equipped facility with a complete Focusing on issues pertaining professional practices, this course is inventory of clay and glaze materials. Facilities include equipment for designed to assist students as they leave the university and prepare clay mixing and preparation; workstations for forming and throwing; for the next step in their education and/or in their lives as professional gas, wood fire, raku, and electric kilns; and materials for experimental artists and producers of culture. The course would focus on development kiln construction. Personal instruction is given in all forming techniques, of a written statement, production of promotional materials, refining glaze calculations, and firings. Students are encouraged to experiment of verbal skills in the discussion of work and various other skills in the with the medium and explore new processes. Emphasis is placed on the development of professional practices. Writing proficiency is required student's development of concepts and forms. for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with ART516 Painting the skill normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a Hours 2-6 passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course. The primary goal of the painting program is to enhance the student's ability in conceiving of a strong personal vision. The program defines Prerequisite(s): 60 hours in Art and Art History course work. painting as a complex and vital art form that exists in a state of constant Writing flux, a tradition that is both mired in history and capable of regularly redefining itself. It equally embraces students who define painting as ART499 Senior Thesis a practice that goes far beyond the brush, and those who employ more Hours 3,6 traditional methodologies. This course focuses on the development of an independent thesis project ART518 Photography of a body of creative work in the area of the primary concentration and is Hours 2-6 restricted to BFA studio art majors with senior standing. The thesis must be publicly exhibited. The course can be taken for a maximum of 6 hours. Photography is viewed as a means of personal expression and exploration, emphasizing development of the student's vision. Instruction Prerequisite(s): Students must have permission from the Instructor and is individually tailored and, although the facilities are designed for have completed a minimum of 60 hours in ART and/or ARH course work. black and white printing, the exploration of alternative applications is Senior Thesis is designed to be taken during the final semester of study encouraged. Graduate students are expected to increase their knowledge for the B.F.A. degree. of the history of photography and contemporary art, and participate in ART502 Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art K-12 Program teaching undergraduates. Facilities include a film developing area, two Hours 3 darkrooms, and a critique space. Computers are accessed through the digital media area. Prerequisites: Twelve undergraduate hours in the specific studio field requested, review of portfolio, and permission of the department chairperson. This course is open only to graduate students who are not enrolled in a graduate program in the Department of Art. 12 Courses for Art and Art History

ART520 Printmaking ART618 Photography Hours 2-6 Hours 2-6 Graduate printmaking is conducted in a workshop situation, including Photography is viewed as a means of personal expression and group critiques and technical demonstrations. The program philosophy exploration, emphasizing development of the student's vision. Instruction embraces a broad spectrum of activities relating to the idea of the is individually tailored and, although the facilities are designed for multiple and the history of printed material. Students are expected black and white printing, the exploration of alternative applications is to master traditional techniques and encouraged to work in an encouraged. Graduate students are expected to increase their knowledge interdisciplinary manner, exploring the boundaries of the media area. The of the history of photography and contemporary art, and participate in facility comprises equipment for intaglio and relief printing, stone and teaching undergraduates. Facilities include a film developing area, two plate lithography, screen printing, and photo-based/digital printmaking. darkrooms, and a critique space. Computers are accessed through the digital media area. ART522 Sculpture Hours 3-6 ART620 Printmaking Hours 2-6 The sculpture program allows students to work with an extensive range of media and processes while emphasizing conceptual development Graduate printmaking is conducted in a workshop situation, including and refined technical ability. Sculpture encompasses traditional media, group critiques and technical demonstrations. The program philosophy methods, and processes as well as technologies that can be adapted embraces a broad spectrum of activities relating to the idea of the to sculptural activities, idioms, and forms. Facilities include a full wood multiple and the history of printed material. Students are expected shop, metal fabrication shop, foundry, critique/installation room, and to master traditional techniques and encouraged to work in an graduate studio space. interdisciplinary manner, exploring the boundaries of the media area. The facility comprises equipment for intaglio and relief printing, stone and ART525 Graduate Critiques plate lithography, screen printing, and photo-based/digital printmaking. Hours 3 ART622 Sculpture This course examines the studio practice through critical discourse, Hours 3-6 defending and discussing aesthetic philosophy and its application to research in the visual arts. The sculpture program allows students to work with an extensive range of media and processes while emphasizing conceptual development ART530 Problems and Techniques for Teaching Studio Foundations and refined technical ability. Sculpture encompasses traditional media, Hours 3 methods, and processes as well as technologies that can be adapted Graduate students will acquire expertise with teaching concepts and to sculptural activities, idioms, and forms. Facilities include a full wood techniques relative to studio foundations teaching. shop, metal fabrication shop, foundry, critique/installation room, and Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in Art or Art History graduate studio space. ART612 Ceramics ART625 Graduate Critiques Hours 2-6 Hours 3 The ceramics program has a fully equipped facility with a complete This course examines the studio practice through critical discourse, inventory of clay and glaze materials. Facilities include equipment for defending and discussing aesthetic philosophy and its application to clay mixing and preparation; workstations for forming and throwing; research in the visual arts. gas, wood fire, raku, and electric kilns; and materials for experimental kiln construction. Personal instruction is given in all forming techniques, glaze calculations, and firings. Students are encouraged to experiment with the medium and explore new processes. Emphasis is placed on the student's development of concepts and forms. ART616 Painting Hours 2-6

The primary goal of the painting program is to enhance the student's ability in conceiving of a strong personal vision. The program defines painting as a complex and vital art form that exists in a state of constant flux, a tradition that is both mired in history and capable of regularly redefining itself. It equally embraces students who define painting as a practice that goes far beyond the brush, and those who employ more traditional methodologies.