Senior Practicum functions as a capstone course that prepares students to present their artwork formally in the professional world. The course emphasizes the development of presentation skills through group critiques. Students will also be acquainted with procedures for application and admission to residency, internship, and graduate programs. The practicum may include how to document artwork through photography, build a digital portfolio/website, give presentations, write artist's statements, and pursue professional opportunities in art.

Concentration on individual artistic development. Emphasis will be placed on experimentation, thematic development, and critical review. Students may elect to take this course more than once.

Introduction to fundamental sculptural techniques and three-dimensional thinking. Various media are explored, with an emphasis on understanding the language of sculpture through material.

An introduction to the basic pictorial issues of color and composition in painting.

This course explores the basics of photography using digital technologies with emphasis placed on three objectives: first, the acquisition of photographic skills, including composition, digital capture, scanning, Photoshop, and printing; second, an introduction to contexts, such as historical, critical, theoretical, and contemporary movements in photography to advance visual literacy; third, the deepening and expanding of a personal way of seeing. Students will have directed and self-initiated shooting and printing assignments.

This course traces the different paths of painting, sculpture, and photography in the United States and, less so, Western Europe since World War II. Initially, most of these paths traced a relationship with the crisis of modernism, but increasingly, they have taken on a different vitality, drawing energy from a wide variety of postmodern and postcolonial subjects and debates. Among the major movements: abstract expressionism, pop, minimalism, earthworks, new wave feminist art, happenings, performance, and more.

This course traces major developments in European art during the periods traditionally designated by the terms neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, and impressionism. Focusing primarily on French art, but branching out to consider the art of England and Spain, it explores the key artistic themes of the century: the engagement with history, the rise of nationhood, the experience of the urban, the Marxist proposal, the grappling with modernity, the dealing in individual temperaments.

This course focuses on architecture in Italy--including churches, palaces, villas, and fortifications, as well as city planning--from 1400 to 1680. In this period, architects took their cues from the classical tradition even as they carved out their own territory, developing new techniques and perfecting old ones to realize their designs. We will trace shifting architectural practice through key figures from Brunelleschi to Bernini, and through the lens of larger cultural forces.

This multicultural course introduces students to the visual arts of Asia from the earliest times to the present. In a writing- and speaking-intensive environment, students will develop skills in visual analysis and art historical interpretation. Illustrated class lectures, group discussions, museum visits, and a variety of writing exercises will allow students to explore architecture, sculpture, painting, and other artifacts in relation to the history and culture of such diverse countries as India, China, Cambodia, Korea, and Japan.

Combines a thorough review of Latin grammar and syntax with an introduction to the life and literature of ancient Rome, based on the reading of selected passages of Roman prose and poetry.