This course explores a rotating selection of themes in the built environment, with strong emphasis on interdisciplinary work. Topics may include the role of technology within the built environment, vernacular architecture and landscapes, the role of context in its many forms, urban design and planning, architectural theory and practice, material culture methods or other themes. Prerequisites: ARS 283, ARS 285 (or equivalent LSS studio) and two art history courses, or permission of the instructor. This course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.

This advanced course is organized around a rotating selection of topics that engage contemporary approaches to photography. This course can be repeated once for credit with a different topic. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Prerequisites: ARS 282 and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12. This advanced course is organized around a rotating selection of topics that engage contemporary approaches to photography.

Printmaking using the flat-bed offset press with emphasis on color monoprinting. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Students may require additional supplies as well and are responsible for purchasing them directly. Prerequisite: ARS 163, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

This course is limited to junior and senior art majors from the five colleges. Particular emphasis is placed on thematic development within student work. Sketch book, written self-analysis and participation in critique sessions is expected. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials and/or printing is charged at the time of registration. Prerequisites: selection by faculty; junior and senior art majors, advanced-level ability. Enrollment limited to 15, three students from each of the five colleges. Offered in rotation within the Five-Colleges.

An intensive examination of a theme in studio work. Students will work within the medium of their area of concentration. Each class will include students working in different media. Group discussion of readings, short papers and oral presentations will be expected. The course will culminate in a group exhibition. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Enrollment limited to 15 upper-level studio majors. Prerequisites: Two or more courses in the student’s chosen sequence of concentration and permission of the instructor.

Topics course.: In this course we create and critically interrogate socially engaged art. The focus is the subset of those practices that originate and gain power from remembering events of the past. Formats include site interventions, community collaborations, performance, traditional studio practices or intersections of these. The processes and physical forms of the (art) works complicate boundaries between art and education, art and sociology, art and activism). The course is organized as a laboratory/workshop to experiment with ideas and forms of socially engaged art.

Painting from models, still life and landscape using varied techniques and conceptual frameworks. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Prerequisites: ARS 266 and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

The primary goal of this studio is to engage in discourse about the inhabitation of the built environment, which is explored through the architectural design process. Students create projects to represent their ideas and observations in response to challenging questions about the art and craft of space-making. This course asks students to take risks, intellectually and creatively, to foster a keener sensitivity to the built environment as something that can be analyzed and manipulated.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of photography as an expressive medium. Prerequisite: ARS 162, 172 or permission of the instructor. Each section involves either black and white or a combination of darkroom and digital processes. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Enrollment limited to 15.

Investigates (1) the structure and history of the Latin alphabet, augmenting those studies with brief lessons in the practice of calligraphy, (2) a study of typography that includes the composing of type by hand and learning the rudiments of printing type and (3) an introduction to digital typography. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Students may require additional supplies as well and are responsible for purchasing them directly. Enrollment limited to 12.