French food and agricultural products are celebrated worldwide for their quality, diversity, and rich cultural history. French chefs have long set the standard for the high-end restaurant world; it was French winemakers, a century ago, who first gave a legal status to the concept of terroir; while French farmers are perhaps best known for their skill in staging effective displays of political force. France is also an agricultural powerhouse, a leading global exporter of agricultural goods and a key player in determining European agricultural policy.

Graduate level advanced ceramics covering mold making, extruded forms, assisted forming, development of body of work, historical and technical research.

Digital media is a key creative tool for artists and designers. Lectures, readings, and tutorials introduce students to contemporary design practice, including: digital typography, page design and layout, vector-based graphics, and design for the screen. Design projects range from purely textual, single and multi-page document design, to problems that require the successful integration of typography, image, and basic interaction. Students explore how context and form affect meaning and message through the creation of conceptual solutions.

This beginning course will focus on analog capture, film development and printing. As you develop the skills needed to create images you will apply them to concepts and projects. In addition to slide lectures and reviews of projects we will also look at a range of historical and contemporary international artists, whose diverse practices conceptually and theoretically situate assigned projects.

The word Collagraph is made up of a union of the words ?collage? and ?graphic??a collagraph plate is made the same way a collage is made, and it?s then printed as an Intaglio or Relief print. A collagraph print is made from a collage of various materials glued together on board, plexiglass, and wooden boards, having a tactile. Students will explore different ways to create plates using mediums, fabrics, sand, and found objects, using essential relief, intaglio, and embossing printing techniques on an etching press, creating dimensional prints.

Students will be introduced to various methodologies of translating design ideas into forms of visual representation, including drawings and models, as part of a design/build studio.

Focus will be on the care and management of the equine athlete, including conditioning and prevention of injury, common areas of breakdown within different sports, diagnosis of injury/lameness, as well as different modalities currently available for treatment and rehabilitation.

This laboratory course is an introduction to both canine mammary cancer and mammalian cell culture techniques in the context of conducting basic research with primary canine tumors and an established canine mammary cell line. Topics include etiology of canine mammary cancers, molecular characterization of canine mammary tumors, development of patient-derived xenografts, and canine mammary cancer as a model for human breast cancer.