Art, Art History, and Design

Chair:
Jim Collins

Professors:
Rev. Austin Collins, C.S.C.; Heather Minor; Martina Lopez; Michael Schreffler; Scott Shim

Associate Professors:
Clinton Carlson; Ann-Marie Conrado; Jason Lahr; Rev. Martin Lam Nguyen, C.S.C.

Assistant Professors:
Jason Carley; Marius Hauknes; Sarah Edmands Martin; Rachel Patt; Tatiana Reinoza; James Rudolph; Rodrigo Lara Zendajas

Professor of the Practice:
Elyse Speaks

Associate Professors of the Practice:
Justin Barfield; Emily Beck

Assistant Professor of the Practice:
Emily Harris

Website: http://artdept.nd.edu/

The Department

The Department of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of Notre Dame, is a multidisciplinary department offering programs of study in studio art, art history, and design. The mission of the department is to provide students with intellectually informed, hands-on instruction in creative studies within the context of a liberal arts university. An active lecture and visiting artist series and the extensive collections of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art strengthen and broaden the work in the classroom and studio. The South Bend and Chicago areas provide additional cultural activities and experiences.

The department has fourteen studio art and design faculty, and six art history faculty. Undergraduate students may pursue coursework leading to one of two degrees: the bachelor of arts (BA) in studio art, art history or design; or the bachelor of fine arts (BFA) in studio art or design. A minor in studio art, collaborative innovation or art history is also offered to those students who wish to add experience in visual art to their undergraduate studies.

The departmental office is located in Riley Hall along with all studio art facilities, classrooms, and studio faculty offices. The art history classrooms are on the first floor of O’Shaughnessy Hall and the art history faculty offices are in Decio Faculty Hall. The design classrooms, studios, and design faculty offices are located in West Lake Hall. Skilled teaching scholars and support facilities are available as appropriate for each medium that is offered. The Center for Creative Computing operates five specialized computing labs for studio and design work including a professional digital printing studio in Riley Hall.

Students with a degree in creative studies are uniquely competitive among job-seeking graduates today. It is well recognized that creative study fosters methods of scholarship and production that employers and research institutions alike find compelling. A creative person draws on innovative approaches to solve problems; is willing to take initiatives in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty; is able to accept critical feedback to revise or expand an idea; can successfully communicate the value of their approach to others; and has the ability to mobilize resources to realize their ideas in an original form. In short, creative study is essential to the educational preparation needed to compete in the complex world culture we work and live in today.

The Department of Art, Art History, and Design offers their courses under these subject codes: Art History (ARHI), Art Studio (ARST) and Design (DESN). Courses associated with their academic programs may be found below. The scheduled classes for a given semester may be found at classearch.nd.edu.

Art History (ARHI)

ARHI 10211 Global History of Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers a broad overview of the history of architecture and urbanism from antiquity to the present day. Global in its perspective, the course proceeds chronologically through a series of important historical moments and monuments. Lectures examine works as experiential wholes and within their specific contexts. In this way, the emphasis of the course is not on a history of styles but on buildings as complex cultural artifacts. To link examples across time, place, and culture, the course emphasizes themes like ritual and belief, the patron-client relationship, architecture's relationship to power, materials and construction techniques, the authority of historical models, the architect as artist and professional, and the rise of modern cities. In addition to developing a broad knowledge of major monuments, theoretical ideas, and figures in architectural history, the class will also develop skills for engaging more critically with the built environment. Through readings, writing assignments, and class discussions, students will learn how to analyze visual forms of evidence and to read, think, and communicate about architecture through a critical lens.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKHI - Core History

ARHI 13182 Fine Arts University Seminar (3 Credit Hours)

University seminars will address a variety of topics in the history of art depending on the interests of the professor. These courses require several short papers as well as a final written exercise appropriate to the material.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: USEM - University Seminar, WKAL - Core Art & Literature

Students in the Holy Cross College or St. Mary's College colleges may not enroll.

ARHI 20100 Introduction to Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine the origins of western art and architecture, beginning with a brief look at the Bronze Age cultures of the Near East and Egypt, then focusing in detail on Greece and Rome, from the Minoan and Mycenaean world of the second millennium B.C.E. to the rule of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century C.E. Among the monuments to be considered are ziggurats, palaces, and the luxuriously furnished royal graves of Mesopotamia; the pyramids at Giza in Egypt and their funerary sculpture; the immense processional temple of Amon at Luxor; the Bronze Age palaces of Minos on Crete--the home of the monstrous Minotaur--and Agamemnon at Aycanae, with their colorful frescoes and processional approaches; the great funerary pots of early Athens and the subsequent traditions of red and black figure vase painting; architectural and freestanding sculpture of the Archaic and Classical periods; the Periclean Acropolis in Athens, with its monumental gateway and shining centerpiece, the Parthenon; and finally, among the cultural riches of Rome, the painted houses and villas of Pompeii; the tradition of republican and Imperial portraiture; the Imperial fora; the exquisitely carved Altar of Peace of Augustus; the Colosseum; and the Pantheon of the Philhellene Emperor Hadrian.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20101 Introduction to the Art of Ancient Rome: Power, Pleasure, and Faith (3 Credit Hours)

This course will introduce you to the material culture of the ancient Roman world, from spectacular and familiar public monuments like the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine to more intimately-scaled, private objects like silver dining services, jewelry, and family portraits. Breakthroughs in engineering, the invention of new materials (like concrete), and the Roman genius for marrying cultural assimilation with innovation resulted in an art that has left a formative legacy in artistic production to this day. We will investigate the ways in which major achievements in modes of making such as sculpting, painting, gem-carving, and building dialogued with contemporary developments in Roman politics, society, and religion. In addition to developing your skills in visual analysis, this course will focus on training you to be critical readers and writers. This class includes visits to campus collections and area museums. No prerequisites or prior knowledge of Art History are required for this course.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20103 Only Connect Chemistry & Art (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores how the disciplines of chemistry and the history of art are connected. Experience in either of these discipline is not required to register. Students will engage in interactive solo and group activities in the classroom, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, and the chemistry laboratories in Jordan Hall of Science.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKIN - Core Integration

ARHI 20211 History of Architecture I (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides a comprehensive survey of architectural history from the fourth through the fourteenth centuries. Global in scope, its purpose is to introduce students to the formative ideas, major monuments, and characteristic experiences of different building cultures that emerged during this time-span across several continents.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20230 Medieval Art and Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

This course will survey the major objects, images, and monuments from Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East between circa 300 AD and circa 1400 AD. It will begin with the first examples of Christian art in the Early Christian period and end with the precursors of the Renaissance. The course will cover a fascinating variety of art historical, theological, and cultural topics relevant to medieval art: the origins of modern painting; politics and monumental art; pilgrimage, relics, and the cult of the Saints; manuscript making and the origins of the book; Iconoclasm; and the Crusades, among others. By the end of the course, students will gain concrete knowledge of the vibrant and varied artworks, figures, and concepts that have shaped the visual imagination of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East. Students will further acquire "visual literacy" skills that will allow them to interpret images and "read" visual objects and texts together.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20231 Art & Architecture of the Medieval World (3 Credit Hours)

This class explores the development of art and architecture in the medieval Mediterranean world (ca. 300 to 1300). In this survey, our goal will be to expand the conventional understanding of medieval art by studying moments and sites of artistic interaction between Western European, Byzantine, and Islamic cultures. In the course of the semester, we will explore artworks and monuments in places such as Dura Europos, Palermo, Rome, Baghdad, Damascus, Venice, Jerusalem, Cordoba, Constantinople, Thessaloniki, and Ravenna. Our discussions will cover a variety of themes, including the circulation of artifacts; the relationship between Christian basilicas and Islamic mosques; the problem of religious imagery; the rise of the cult of saints; and questions of cultural appropriation. Readings will include both primary sources in translation and secondary literature, and the class will introduce students to a variety of methodological approaches. The class will include visits to the Snite Museum, the Hesburgh Library Special Collections.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20263 Picturing the Bible: Visual Scripture in Christian and Jewish Art (3 Credit Hours)

A study of the ways Christians and Jews represented their sacred stories in visual art throughout history. Examples include the decoration of worship spaces (churches and synagogues), tomb chambers and sarcophagi, liturgical vessels, pottery bowls and plates, gold glasses, and early illuminated books. Students will examine the differences and similarities between Jewish and Christian sacred art, noting the modes by which these two communities expressed their faith and reinforced their distinct religious identities, initially within the broader context of a pre-existing and polytheistic Roman culture and later in a dominantly Christian one.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKDT-Core Devlopment. Theology

ARHI 20300 Introduction to Renaissance Art (3 Credit Hours)

This course will survey the major trends in the art of Italy and northern Europe from roughly 1300 to 1575. It will concentrate on such major figures as Giotto, Donatello, Masaccio, Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian in Italy, and the Limbourg Brothers, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Durer, Mathias Grunewald, and Pieter Brueghel in the north. It will consider such themes as artistic production and technique, public and private spirituality, naturalism, narrative, and the changing status of the artist.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20310 Introduction to Western Art from Leonardo to Warhol (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides an introduction to key works and themes in Western art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Focusing on a selection of key monuments, artists, and examples of art historical scholarship, and by looking back to classical values and models as well as forward to contemporary debates, we will explore various ways in which Western art has been made, used, and interpreted. The course will concentrate on building fundamental analytic skills necessary to the study of art, and will consider works of art both from an aesthetic perspective and in the context of the individual, cultural, social, and economic conditions of their production and reception. Topics will include an investigation of the history of the discipline, the use of objects, and a consideration of how the various practices and processes known as "art" have engaged society and the world. By looking at - and talking about - specific aesthetic phenomena, the course will survey the general history of modern representation and its alternatives.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20420 19th-Century European Art & Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

This introductory course focuses on crucial developments in European art and architecture of the “long” nineteenth century. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies—including painting, sculpture, architecture, print and the decorative arts—it will explore intersections between art and political upheaval, industrialisation and colonialism, changing attitudes toward religion and the natural world, the changing role of the artist in society and the emergence of art institutions (academies, museums, universities). We will also engage in conversations about the ways in which art has constituted and challenged ideas surrounding gender, sexuality, race, class and the environment. Students will examine major movements of the period through the work of renowned artists—such as Vigée Le Brun, Caspar David Friedrich, William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Camille Claudel—as well as artists traditionally excluded from the canon. Although focused on European centres of artistic production, a particular emphasis will be placed on transcultural interactions between Europe and the wider world. Finally, the course will introduce students to the discipline of art history and its knowledge-making techniques including formal analysis, comparative analysis and critical contextualisation. This course includes visits to the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art and will be exam based.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20451 Renaissance Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

In 1419, a Florentine goldsmith designed a building that changed the history of Western architecture. It was the first structure since antiquity to systematically apply the formal vocabulary of ancient Greco-Roman architecture. This new experiment with old ideas took Florence and then Europe by storm. In this course, we will investigate the revival—and transformation—of the classical architectural language, the emerging ideas about architectural authorship, the ability of architectural forms and materials to convey particular meanings to particular audiences, and the deployment of architecture as an instrument of power.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20506 The Fine Line Between Death & the Devil (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the evolution of intaglio printmaking, a technique used to create original works of art, reproductions, and illustrations beginning in the fifteenth century and continuing to today. Using the collection of prints from the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, students will become acquainted with master printmakers, such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Manet, Mary Cassatt, Whistler, and others to serve as inspiration and instruction of their own work. After an introduction to engraving (Albrecht Dürer's Knight, Death and the Devil), the focus will be on the development of etching in the seventeenth century exemplified by Rembrandt's prints; innovations of the medium (color) and its subsequent decline in the eighteenth century; its revival in the nineteenth century emulating Rembrandt as an emblem of the avant-garde; followed by a period of boundary-busting experimentation in the twentieth century. Informed by these historical examples, students will explore traditional intaglio approaches and end with more contemporary photographic techniques in the development of their own portfolio expressing their own artistic vision.

ARHI 20535 History of Art in 25 Objects (3 Credit Hours)

What is a work of art? And how can we use works of art to illuminate themes vital to the complex, messy, and profoundly joyful experience of being human? This introductory class examines 25 artworks spanning the breadth of the globe’s cultures as prisms to explore the fullness of the human experience in worlds past and present. We will learn how to think through art to probe big questions relating to themes like power and social justice, the relationship between art and science, cross-cultural encounters and exchanges, and the nature of identity. This class features multiple visits to the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art to foster skills in close observation, description, and visual analysis explored in class using real works of art. Fulfills WKAL; no prerequisites or prior knowledge of Art History are required for this course.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20540 Rome: The Eternal City (3 Credit Hours)

In this class, we will explore the urban topography of the city of Rome from the first century BC to the year 2000 AD, or roughly the period from the emperor Augustus to the projects by Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid, and others to celebrate the Jubilee at the end of the second millennium. In our discussion of how buildings shape and are shaped to form the city, we will consider contemporary drawings, prints, texts, maps, and a range of other evidence. Special focus will be placed on critical strategies for understanding urban sites. In addition to the city of Rome, this course will focus on developing your skills as critical readers and writers.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20560 Gateway to Global Art History (3 Credit Hours)

This course surveys the art of the world from prehistory to the present. It centers on a sequence of art objects from the Snite Museum, the Hesburgh Libraries' Special Collections, and elsewhere on the Notre Dame campus, linking them to well-known monuments of art history from the University's Global Gateways in Beijing, Chicago, Dublin, Jerusalem, London, and Rome. Students in the course will gain a familiarity with the history of art and develop skills in visual literacy and critical thinking.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20600 Intro to South Asian Art (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers a survey of South Asian art and architecture from prehistory to the contemporary moment. Students will examine both canonical and lesser-known works of art including examples of early Buddhist stupas and sculpture, Hindu cave temples, monumental architecture and miniature painting of the Mughal era, “Company” painting, art and architecture under the British Raj, modernism, and contemporary art. Special attention will be given to intersections between art and religion (Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and Islam), art and conquest, gender and sexuality, transcultural exchange and hybridity, the impacts of colonialism and postcolonialism, and South Asian art in museums. Through a combination of close looking, critical reading, and class discussion, students will gain an understanding of the religious ideas, political events, and socio-cultural forces that have shaped the visual culture of South Asia across time. Finally, the course is designed to prepare students for more advanced courses in the department. Students will become familiar with the discipline of art history and its knowledge-making techniques including formal analysis, comparative analysis, and critical contextualisation.

ARHI 20703 Introduction to the Arts of Asia: Materials, Processes, Contexts (3 Credit Hours)

Silk embroidery. Jade carving. Stone sculpture. Woodblock printing. Ink painting. Brush calligraphy. This course offers an introduction to the broad field of Asian art through its key artistic techniques, artworks, and historical contexts. The semester is organized into units covering fundamental art processes that reveal the closely intertwined development of arts and culture across Asia. Through hands-on making activities, classroom discussion, and close examination of objects, we will explore a span of nearly three thousand years in China, Korea, and Japan. Over the course of the semester, we will also discover the surprising ways in which the study of Asian art can be brought into meaningful dialogue with approaches to contemporary art and with broader debates throughout the fields of art history, Asian studies, and the history of religion.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20704 From Djenne to Jay-Z: Introduction to African Art and Visual Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course will introduce students to the visual arts and expressive cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. We will examine objects up-close at the Snite museum and use slides, videos, and musical recordings in class to root works more deeply in the historical and geographical context(s) of their production, display, and circulation. We will analyze canonical examples of monumental architecture, danced sculpture, and leadership regalia that define the field, while engaging with equal interest in the stuff of everyday life such as hairstyles, street fashion, even the music-blaring boom boxes of those often left at the margins of art history. Through the semester-long practice of looking at "African things" with curiosity and intention, this course will build students' skills in visual analysis, critical thinking, and comparative writing with the goal of increasing their awareness as global citizens and inspiring further engagement in cross-cultural experience no matter the context.

ARHI 20800 Inca and Colonial Peru (3 Credit Hours)

This course studies the art and architecture of Peru during the time of Inca dominance in the fifteenth century through the period of Spanish colonial rule in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. It examines the ways in which the visual culture of the Inca was transformed in the wake of the Spanish invasion and conquest of Peru. It considers the persistence and transformation of indigenous American materials, techniques, object types and iconographies; the emergence of new iconographies and genres; and the foundation and development of Spanish colonial towns.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20801 Ancient Mexico: Art and Architecture. (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the art and architecture of the Aztecs, the Maya, and their predecessors in Mesoamerica -- a region that encompassed the territories of the modern nations of Mexico and Central America. It begins with an examination of the art of the Olmec, a culture that flourished around 1500 BC, and ends with a study of the built environment of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, in the early-sixteenth century. The course foregrounds the rich collection of pre-Columbian art from Mesoamerica in the Snite Museum.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 20805 Art of the Aztecs and Colonial Mexico (3 Credit Hours)

This course studies painting, sculpture, and architecture produced in Mexico during the period of Spanish colonial rule, ca. 1520-1820. It begins with the art of the Aztecs, the indigenous culture whose powerful empire was centered in Tenochtitlan (today, Mexico City), and examines the ways in which visual culture was transformed in the wake of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early-sixteenth century. Among topics to be considered are the art and architecture of Spanish colonial missions, the persistence and transformation of indigenous American materials, techniques, object types, and iconographies; the emergence of new iconographies and genres; the visual culture of colonial governance, and the foundation and development of new towns.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 21000 Stories of Power and Diversity: Inside Museums, Archives, and Collecting (1 Credit Hour)

What do the paintings and sculptures in museums and the manuscripts and antique books in archives tell us about our collective past? What do they tell us about how value, importance, and worth have been ascribed across time? As users of these cultural collections, how might we address inequities and silences within them? The first half of this 1-credit course provides a lightning introduction to the history of cultural collecting and its many issues. Through the Zoom window students will apply a critical gaze to the collections held in our campus repositories - the Snite Museum of Art, Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives - and in museums and archives beyond the Notre Dame campus. In the second half of the course, students will create a single online exhibition around the theme of diversity using our campus collections. This exhibition will be published on the Hesburgh Library's Digital Exhibitions and Collections page and students will be given curatorial credit for their work. The course schedule will begin with seminar-style meetings and move to individual work, one-on-one sessions with instructors, peer review and project evaluation.

ARHI 23303 Wisdom in Art: How Art and Artifacts Educate (1 Credit Hour)

How does art educate? What knowledge, ancient or new, is available to us in artifacts? This course is aimed at introducing practices of close-looking at art and artifacts in order to further understand them, individually and within their wider context, and unlock their wisdom. We will invite a broad understanding of pedagogical sources to consider how art and artifacts might "instruct" us as well as how we learn from them. Various art objects – paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs – will be experienced and examined across the rich array of campus collections and archives. Through close-looking and visual and comparative analysis we will expand our learning and develop our practices of devotion to art in ways applicable to other mediums of wisdom as well as art.

ARHI 24315 European Capitals: The Prince and the Artist (3 Credit Hours)

The course will focus on the relationship between artists and princely courts in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries. Placed at the top of national organization networks in the political, economic, and cultural domains, European capitals offer a privileged place of observation to grasp the dynamics of this relationship. From their capitals, princes organized their political power through the implementation of a symbolic power that relied in particular on artistic production. Artists had the power to represent through images, to organize the spaces of power through architecture and to demonstrate rank through the pomp of the arts. The aim is to examine, through a series of case studies selected according to the period, the institutional context of the artists' attachment to the court and to show how they summon, in their art, the life and glory of their patron.

ARHI 30120 Greek Art and Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

This course analyzes and traces the development of Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture in the historical period, from the eighth through the second centuries B.C., with some consideration of prehistoric Greek forebears of the Mycenaean Age. Particular emphasis is placed upon monumental art, its historical and cultural contexts, and how it reflects changing attitudes towards the gods, human achievement, and the relationship between the divine and the human.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30132 Irish Modern Art: Identity and Representation (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the history of Irish art from the Great Famine to today. We’ll consider the major art movements in Ireland across the “modern” period, beginning with 19th century landscape painting and print culture and moving through the display of craft and industry at International Exhibitions in Ireland, Britain, and America. A major consideration will be the relationship between aesthetics and politics before and after the establishment of the Irish Free State. As we consider key questions of identity and representation across the last two hundred years of Irish history, our course will examine issues of historicism and revival, the notion of the west of Ireland in national myth building, and questions of stereotype, religion, environment, and technology. Our modules will cover major Irish artists and art movements—including figures such as Jack B. Yeats, Mainie Jellett, Sean Scully, Mary Swanzy, and Francis Bacon among others—but we will also have chance to question the formulation of a national canon for ourselves. This course will utilize collections in Chicago as well as Notre Dame’s Raclin Murphy Museum of Art and will teach core skills in visual analysis and historical critique. No background in Irish Studies or Art History is required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30140 Art and Ideas in Motion: New Perspectives on the British Empire (3 Credit Hours)

Building on crucial insights of the “global turn” in art history, this course examines how the circulation of art and ideas, propelled by British expansionism, shaped cultural identities, artistic traditions, knowledge systems and arts institutions in Britain and its colonies from 1750 to 1950. Topics will include colonial collecting, period and contemporary debates around spoliation, cultural heritage, the formation of the British Museum and restitution, intersections between military conquest and landscape painting, relationships between colonial natural history, ecology and art, questions concerning race, representation and identity and the ways in which artists, including major figures like William Blake and J.M.W. Turner, grappled with empire and its deleterious effects. Although geographically and temporally focused on the British Empire, the course seeks to introduce methodologies that can be applied to different contexts and periods. Students are thus encouraged to think outside of the parameters of the course for their final projects (of which there is a choice between a formal research paper, a mock exhibition, or a creative work). This course includes visits to the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30204 Medieval Murals and Mosaics (3 Credit Hours)

This class explores the development of monumental mosaic and fresco in the Middle Ages through key monuments in places like Rome, Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Palermo, and Venice. A central goal for the course will be to understand the ways in which mural paintings and mosaics distinguish themselves from other visual media in the medieval world. We will consider the relationship between murals and their architectural setting and how the relative size of wall paintings and mosaics impacts the way beholders relate to and understand them. We will also examine the many different functions of medieval murals, as media for story-telling, as liturgical instruments, and as vehicles for the transmission of knowledge, theological doctrines, or political propaganda.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30313 Art of the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome (3 Credit Hours)

Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bramante, and Raphael provide the basis for a study of one of the most impressive periods of artistic activity in Italy - the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome. It was Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary example that imposed extraordinary artistic and intellectual changes on an entire generation of painters, sculptors, and architects. Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, the new Republic of Florence, and the imperial papacy of Julius II recognized that the genius of Leonardo, Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, and others, could be brought into the service of the State. Under Julius, the Papal State became the supreme state in Italy, and for the first time in centuries, the papacy ranked as a great European power. With the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's (redesigned on a colossal scale by Bramante), the Vatican Palace (its city facade and Belvedere by Bramante, and papal apartments decorated by Raphael), and the Papal tomb (designed by Michelangelo), Rome, for the first time since the time of the Caesars, became the center of Western art.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30349 Early Modern Italian Art at the Snite (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the considerable collection of Early Modern Italian art at Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art. Taking a global view of the period, its content will be organized around three main topics: the ideal of lifelike (naturalistic) representation, the material and technical expertise required of artists, and the systematic emulation of ancient Greek and Roman culture. Roughly half our meetings will be held in the galleries where students will practice careful looking and consider issues related to the facture, conservation, storage, and display of the artworks in question. Given its focus on the Snite collection, this course offers a selective but varied introduction to Italian art of the period, including subjects such as female portraiture, devotional paintings and sculptures, print culture, and small bronze statuettes.

ARHI 30351 Avant-Garde Art and Film (3 Credit Hours)

This survey course will take a critical studies approach to the aesthetic, historical and ideological issues in avant-garde art, film, and media. This course will be structured around major phases of experimental, independent and radical non-narrative/non-commercial cinema from the 1920s to the present. In addition to considering new modes of production, we will address alternative forms of distribution and exhibition. We will also examine how these historical moments speak to contemporary calls to provide more diverse and inclusive modes of representation. Students will be required to attend weekly class lectures and discussions as well as weekly lab screenings.

Corequisites: ARHI 31351

ARHI 30360 Stories of Power and Diversity: Inside Museums, Archives, and Collecting (3 Credit Hours)

What do the paintings and sculptures in museums and the manuscripts and antique books in archives tell us about our collective past? What do they tell us about how value, importance, and worth have been ascribed across time? As users of these cultural collections, how might we address inequities and silences within them? This course provides an introduction to the history of cultural heritage collecting and addresses major issues and questions in the field. Students will apply a critical gaze to the collections held in our campus repositories - the Snite Museum of Art, Rare Books and Special Collections, and University Archives - and in museums and archives beyond the Notre Dame campus. Students will reflect on what they read and discuss and collaboratively will build an online exhibition around themes of diversity in our campus collections. This exhibition will be published on the Hesburgh Library's Digital Exhibitions and Collections page and students will be given curatorial credit for their work. Note: This course will include a full day of site visits tentatively scheduled for September 30, 2022.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30361 The Art of Democracy: Museums and Monuments in Washington, D.C. (3 Credit Hours)

Washington, D.C., is not only the seat of U.S. politics but also an extraordinary city for art, and this course will explore the relationship between the two. Through site visits to selected artworks, exhibitions, and monuments, we will examine the interplay of art and democracy, considering how artists have represented and challenged concepts such as citizenship, the nation, and social equality. Our objects of focus will range from presidential portraits and official memorials to contemporary video and installation art, and will touch on topics from westward expansion in the 19th century to recent social and political movements such as Black Lives Matter. The course will consider key questions: What makes a work of art, a monument, or an exhibition effective? How do artworks and monuments shape our understanding of history, and how do they influence our perspective on the present? Which stories and whose stories have been included in narratives of the nation? How do artists and works of art represent and put pressure on concepts of race, class, gender, religion, sexuality, and ethnicity? What is the role of a national museum or a national monument? And what role should a government play in relation to the arts? We will make regular class and independent visits to a range of museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

ARHI 30373 Art in America (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines American visual and material cultures from the pre-colonial era to the present day. Providing a broad, historical account and considering a variety of media from paintings and sculptures to quilts, photographs, world's fairs, and fashion styles, this survey explores American art within the context of cultural, social, economic, political, and philosophical developments. In particular, it considers the role that American art has played in the formation of national identity and understandings of class, race, gender, and ethnicity.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30374 Art and Belief in Spanish America, c. 1500-1650 (3 Credit Hours)

Paintings, sculptures, books, and buildings were instrumental in evangelization the Americas in the wake of the Spanish invasion - and conquests of Aztec Mexico and Inca Peru. In addition to introducing new kinds of objects and images to the native peoples of the Americas, evangelization in early-colonial Spanish America set forth new conceptualizations of how objects and images operated. Students in this course will study Aztec, Inca, and Spanish colonial visual culture, exploring the ways in which works of art and architecture gave shape to systems of religious belief.

ARHI 30375 Building Europe: 1600-1750 (3 Credit Hours)

This class examines architecture and urban planning in one of Europe's most dynamic eras. During that time, capital cities like Paris, London, St. Petersburg, and Madrid were created. Elites used palaces, country houses, and gardens to project their power and status. Astounding churches and monasteries were created to heighten the intensity of religious experience. Architecture in the form of theaters and observatories, libraries and universities, served the secular activities of the urban public.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30423 Global Modern & Contemporary Art (3 Credit Hours)

This course will explore the history of art in the 20th century from a global perspective, focusing on several locations and movements that were crucial to the development of an avant-garde and its legacies including places such as Paris, Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Zurich, London, Rome, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, New York City, and Mexico City. The course will examine a wide variety of figures, movements, and practices within the visual arts, situating them within the social, political, and historical contexts in which they arose. The history of these artistic developments (e.g., abstraction, the readymade, conceptual art, feminist art) will be traced through the rise of mass-media technologies (such as photography and print media) alongside the aesthetic accomplishments of the avant-garde. Exploring the forces of feminism, capitalism, and urbanism, we will attempt to understand how artistic innovations fundamentally altered, negotiated, and framed the ways in which we understand and represent the world. Artists we will look at include Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, Dorothea Lange, Frida Kahlo, Jacob Lawrence, Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, and Andy Warhol. The curriculum will also include visits to the university museum. This course is largely taught in a lecture format and assessment is exam-based.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30480 Introduction to 20th Century Art (3 Credit Hours)

This survey course will introduce students to major developments in 20th-century art, primarily in Europe and the Americas. Emphasis will be placed on modernist and avant-garde practices and their tenets. The first half of the course will trace Modernism's unfolding in the avant-garde practices of the late- nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The second half of the course will address art production as the neo-avant-garde attempted to construct continuity and repetitions of the heroic modernist legacies of the past. We will consider issues such as the self-criticism of art, the myth of the artist-genius, the reign of abstraction, spirituality in art, race and gender, art and class, and art's intersections with mass culture. Artists we will study include Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Jacob Lawrence, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol. This course is a lecture format and grading is largely exam-based. The curriculum will also include visits to the university museum.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30481 Earth, Water, Air, Fire: Art, Ecology, and the Environment (3 Credit Hours)

Building on recent ecocritical approaches to the discipline of art history, this course will explore human-environmental relations and changing ideas about the natural world from the industrial revolution to the present. Structured around four elemental modules and drawing on a diverse range of visual media including scientific ‘specimen’ prints, Romantic landscape paintings, contemporary photography, and installation art (with works by J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Cole, and Edward Burtynsky), we will discuss natural history, landscape gardening, and land art (earth), global maritime trade, colonial expansion, and its visual culture (water), climate and disease (air), and the impacts of industrialisation and the burning of fossil fuels (fire). Major themes will include interactions between science and art, the global movement of people, ideas, flora, and fauna through colonial networks, developments in environmental theory, indigenous perspectives, materiality (especially as it relates to natural resources), and art as a form of critical intervention. This course will include visits to the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, the Museum of Biodiversity, and Rare Books and Special Collections. Finally, the course will introduce students to the discipline of art history and its knowledge-making techniques.

ARHI 30482 Contemporary Art: Art Now (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers students an introduction to the theories and practices of contemporary art with a focus on artwork since 1980. We will investigate its varied, multi-faceted terrain, and examine key themes and ideas that have been explored in recent years. These include such topics as the artist as curator, the museum reconsidered, art and politics, the emergence of DIY approaches, and the rise of interest in new media and materials. Special attention will be paid to the way that new media and formats, like digital photography, sound, and installation, have changed the scope and reception of art now.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.), Art History, Art Studio or Design.

ARHI 30484 Off the Wall: Post WWII American Art (3 Credit Hours)

The 1950s, we're told, were America's "best" years: an idyllic era of suburban family togetherness, television shows like Leave it to Beaver, Disneyland (which opened in Anaheim in 1955), and really big cars. Magazine publisher Henry Luce and other mid-century American power-brokers promoted the postwar US on hegemonic terms: as a unified nation defined by a liberal political economy and by the expectations and desires of middle-class citizens united by the shared goals of upward social mobility and consumerism (white collar jobs, home ownership), college educations, family/suburban lifestyles, etc. This was called the "consensus model" of American identity. Not surprisingly, this ideal of America and these normative expectations about "being" American created a number of tensions in post-World War II America. First, the goals themselves were unattainable for some Americans due to the nation's persistent habits of racism, sexism, class preference, and homophobia. Second, some Americans felt restricted and restrained by expectations of middle-class conformity, among other things. This led to a number of counter-hegemonic cultural expressions: from art that came off the wall to artists who went on the road. This course examines those American artists and their rebellions, from artists like Jackson Pollock—who took his paintings "off the wall" and made them on the floor—to writers like Jack Kerouac, whose novel On the Road was published in 1957. It surveys American art from the Great Depression of the 1930s through the early 1970s, looking at art styles and movements including Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Beat, Funk, Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual art, Psychedelia, Earthworks, Feminist art, and the Black Art Movement. Themes include the "triumph of American painting" after World War II, links between art and politics, the development of postwar art theory, and intersections between the avant-garde, popular culture, and consumer culture. A special "Elvis Day" examines post-World War II youth culture and counter-hegemonic rebellion.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

ARHI 30485 Protest: American Cultures of Dissent (3 Credit Hours)

What roles do protest and dissent play in the making of America? Focusing especially on cultures of dissent including activist art, civil disobedience, radical action, and various cultures of struggle, dissent, and refusal, this course examines the practices, politics, technologies, and theories guiding America's foundational history of protest. Class includes lectures, discussion, essay assignments, and field trips.

ARHI 30486 American Ruins (3 Credit Hours)

American ruins are increasingly visible today, from images of urban decay and piles of debris in Detroit and Gary to movies and novels (The Book of Eli, The Road) depicting post-apocalyptic "ruinscapes" of abandoned towns, derelict factories, crumbling monuments, and deserted shopping malls, variously populated by zombies, vampires, and survivalists. Ruins typical signify "disaster," "failure," "defeat," and "the past." Why, then, in a nation that has repeatedly defined itself in terms of promise, progress, and success-the American Dream-are visions of ruin, real and imagined, so prevalent today? This class explores the history and meaning of American ruins, relating contemporary fascination with ruins ("ruin porn") to currently held attitudes about modernity, technology, citizenship, consumerism, the rule of law, and the environment. Course materials include novels, films, and photographs; coursework includes fieldtrips (to Detroit and Gary), essays, and discussion.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

ARHI 30488 Public Art & Memory in America (3 Credit Hours)

Public art is a major facet of modern and contemporary American culture and is often controversial: in the 1980s, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was criticized by some for being anti-American, in the 1990s, the Smithsonian cancelled an exhibit on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima after certain members of Congress said it was not patriotically correct, in the 2000s, the design and construction of the national September 11 Memorial (dedicated in New York in 2011) was beset by protests. This course examines the politics and aesthetics of public art in American from the perspectives of its producers and audience. What is public art? Why is it made? Who is it for? How and why does it embody tensions in American culture and society regarding identity, authority, and taste? Specific topics to be explored include American memorials and remembrance rituals, the development of the public art industry, community art projects (such as murals), national arts programs and policies, landscape architecture, tourism, museums, and national fairs. Our objectives are to recognize how public art shapes and directs local and national understanding of history and memory, self and society, in the United States. Course includes field trips; students will develop their own Wiki Public Art pages.

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Art History (Supp.), Art History, Art Studio, Design or Art History.

ARHI 30489 Art in Chicago (3 Credit Hours)

This course will take as its starting point nearby art collections and exhibitions in Chicago and the surrounding areas. This semester we will look primarily at paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations at the Art Institute of Chicago. Drawing heavily on its strong holdings in modern and contemporary European and American art, each class session will be devoted to the careful research and analysis of one or two objects in the collection. We will read art historical texts that contextualize each work, allowing us to practice engagement at the visual, critical, and art historical levels. We will focus on looking at and writing on visual subjects, so discussion, writing, and participation will be essential components of the course. Some of the artists on whom we will focus include Monet, Cassatt, Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, O'Keeffe, Pollock, Warhol, and Sherman. At least one trip to Chicago will be a required part of the course.

Prerequisites: ALHN 13950

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ARHI 30491 Art History of Chicago (3 Credit Hours)

This course surveys art made in Chicago from the nineteenth century to the present. We will examine the rise of Chicago as an art capital through the founding of art academies and museums, the hosting of World Fairs, and the era of modern architecture after the Great Fire of 1871. We will analyze iconic artworks from Chicago’s diverse art scene which became home to the Black Arts Movement, Chicano Art Movement, Feminist Art Movement, and one of the country’s most ambitious public art programs. Students will develop skills in research, writing, and visual literacy. At least one trip to Chicago will be a required part of the course.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30510 Notre Dame and Its Artifacts (3 Credit Hours)

For more than 170 years, Notre Dame has been collecting objects. Paintings, footballs, geological specimens, religious relics, stuffed birds, and Native American clothing can all be found on our campus. By looking closely at an object - who made it, how it was made, who bought it, how it was used, and how it ended up at Notre Dame -- we will seek to understand the history of knowledge. This class will work intensively with objects from the Snite Museum and the Hesburgh Library, among other campus repositories.

ARHI 30531 Art, Vision, and Difference (3 Credit Hours)

Art and visual culture have shaped our conceptions of ourselves and others. This course examines contemporary art in a variety of media in order to understand how art contributes to, reflects, affirms, or critiques specific stereotypes of roles and values. It will feature work and theoretical writing that is engaged with issues related to identity in all of its various forms. Some topics include standards of beauty; gender and sexuality; race and identity; performance and multiculturalism; and class, social justice, and ethics. Many of the objects that are examined explicitly challenge conventional notions of "good" art, so aesthetic standards of value will be a key topic as well. No specific prerequisites are necessary, but it is useful to have some background in cultural studies, art, or visual culture. Assignments include exams and short papers.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30540 PhotoFutures: Collecting Art for Notre Dame (0 Credit Hours)

PhotoFutures is a collaborative collecting group at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art that acquires contemporary photography for the University of Notre Dame. This is a zero-credit course. Designed for students of any major, this five-session co-curricular program combines issues related to museum collecting, contemporary photography, and socially-engaged artistic practice. Students will critique individual photographs and evaluate artists' portfolios, and also engage in critical discussions with the artists themselves, Raclin Murphy curators, and select faculty whose expertise provides different lenses through which to consider the photographs. Ultimately, students will develop their own collecting criteria to choose a photograph for acquisition that adds value to the permanent collection of the Raclin Murphy Museum and supports the mission of the University. The topic for PhotoFutures will be announced and more spots in the program will open up at the beginning of the fall semester. 0 credits

Course may be repeated.

ARHI 30610 From Wonder Cabinets to Wakanda: Africa on Display (3 Credit Hours)

Have you ever put together a collection? Sea shells, Pokemon cards, or something of more value? What drives our desire to accumulate, order, and display objects in a systematic way? This course examines the social phenomenon of collecting objects in broad terms, but centers on the particularly complex European and American practice of collecting and exhibiting Africa—its objects, peoples, and animals—in a variety of exhibitionary complexes across time and space including: wonder cabinets, ethnology museums, art museums, World's Fairs, zoos, theme parks, and Hollywood films.

ARHI 30731 Introduction to Japanese Civilization & Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides an overview of the historical development of Japanese civilization and culture from the prehistoric era up through the 19th Century. Students will acquire a basic knowledge of Japanese geography, historical periods, changing class structure and political organization. The main emphasis, however, is on the development of the fine arts, such as painting, architecture, gardens, and sculpture. The course also introduces students to the important and continuous influence of Chinese art, literature, Buddhism and Confucianism. Through readings of selected literary works (prose fiction, poetry, essays on aesthetics), students will learn how shared aesthetic values changed over time in relation to their social and political context.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30805 Borderlands Art and Theory (3 Credit Hours)

This course traces the developments of contemporary art practice in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and subsequently expands beyond this physical location to include global borders and artworks that reflect on living in between cultures, races, and languages. Students will develop a toolkit for analyzing the way borders shape culture and identity (race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, and ethnicity) in transnational points of contact. With an emphasis on printmaking, performance, photography, and film, the course will dwell on borders that respond to paradigms of fear and desire, contagion and containment, utopia and dystopia. Students will enhance their skills in visual analysis and writing, and refine their ability to conduct original research. No pre-requisites or prior knowledge of Art History and Latinx Studies is required for the course.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ARHI 30810 20th Century Latin American Art (3 Credit Hours)

This course surveys works of art produced by artists in Latin America during the 20th century. We will trace the development of the field through major figures and movements in the cosmopolitan centers of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, among others. One of the objectives of the course is to debate the geopolitical construct of Latin America, but also to understand the productive use of a category like Latin American art. Throughout the course we will be attentive the different national and colonial histories that have shaped artistic production in this region. We will examine painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance through various social lenses including identity, racial formation, class difference, gender inequality, state violence, and U.S. intervention.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 30820 Latin American Photography (3 Credit Hours)

This survey traces the developments of photographic practices in Latin America and its US-based diasporas. We will look at the origins of photography in the region (from early explorers to portraitists and artists) and how the medium helped shape ideas on nationalism, modernity, cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and migration. Students will develop a toolkit for analyzing photographs from various social lenses attentive to the workings of race, class, and gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Students will enhance their skills in visual analysis and writing, and refine their ability to conduct original research. No prerequisites or prior knowledge of Art History is required for the course.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 31351 Avant-Garde Art and Film Lab (0 Credit Hours)

This lab is the required corequisite to the course ARHI 30351: Avant-Garde Art and Film. In this lab, students will view weekly screenings of films associated with the curriculum in ARHI 30351.

Corequisites: ARHI 30351

ARHI 33111 Archaeology and Material Culture (3 Credit Hours)

We usually think of field work and excavation as being the essence of archaeology, but much of what we know about the past is learned in the laboratory, where we study the artifacts brought in from the field. A rough rule of thumb states that two hours of lab time are needed for every hour spent in the field, so in reality, lab work may be even more important than field work in archaeology. This course is a laboratory class that will use many different activities to teach you about how archaeologists organize, preserve, and study archaeological artifacts to learn about the past. This class provides an in-depth introduction to basic laboratory methods for the organization, curation, and analysis of pottery, stone tools, metals, soil samples, and floral and faunal remains. By the end of the semester, you will engage in a hands-on application of course principles by conducting a research project on materials from Notre Dame's archaeological collections.

ARHI 33151 Museums and Cultural Politics (3 Credit Hours)

Museums are not only caretakers of cultural artifacts; they are also microcosms that reflect a society’s beliefs about the order of the world and, in turn, teach us about our place within it. This seminar considers the museum from its origins in individual collections and cabinets of curiosity to the rise of the modern public museum and its role in the present day. We will investigate how these institutions—including art, ethnography, natural history, and local history museums—have preserved, constructed, and erased cultural memory, identity, and knowledge. We will pay particular attention to recent efforts to reckon with the imperialist legacy of museums, including repatriation, artists’ interventions, and the inclusion of narratives, objects, and voices traditionally excluded from museum spaces. This course includes visits to campus and area museums and discussions with museum professionals.

ARHI 33211 Sherds for Nerds: Pottery in Archaeology (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on archaeological and ethnographic ceramic collections and studies to explore how people make, use, discard, and understand ceramic objects in their lives. Ceramics offer tactile and material expressions of culture, and signify and embody complex intersectional ideas about what it means to be human. Through hands-on projects with archaeological and ethnographic ceramic collections from ND professors’ research projects, students will engage in experiential learning about gender, race, class, sexuality, political power structures, and identity. All peoples’ identities are grounded in intersectional axes of difference, and ceramics offer a tangible tool for exploring how people use material culture and technology to be themselves, interact with others, and build personhood in the past and present. Because ceramic remains are abundant in many archaeological sites, the study of pottery has a long history in archaeology. Analysis and interpretation of ceramics allows archaeologists to accomplish varied ends: to establish a time scale, to document interconnections between different areas, sites, or groups of people, and to suggest what activities were carried out at particular sites. How archaeologists study the connection between ceramics and people, today and in the past, is the focus of this course, and we will be using contemporary, prehistoric and historic archaeological collections from Jordan, Ghana, and the United States to enable students to explore the linkage between people and their ceramic material culture.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 33851 Manga and the Picture Book of Edo Japan, 1770-1830 (3 Credit Hours)

Japan is renowned for its modern comic book genre "manga," but humorous and action-packed visual-verbal stories populate its literary history. This course examines a specific period where the urban culture of Edo (modern Tokyo) is colorfully expressed in playful literature and woodblock-prints. We will examine questions of status and class, sexuality, materialism, and the role of technology in shaping the book. As a hands-on project, we will learn Edo period woodblock carving techniques and, as a class, publish our own comic book!

ARHI 34423 Global Modern and Contemporary (3 Credit Hours)

This seminar course offers an introduction to the history of contemporary artistic movements, practices, and experiences in Europe and North America from the post-World War II period to the 2000s, exploring their diverse forms and mediums. Following a chronological perspective and based on a selection of works considered turning points in the history of "contemporary" art, this seminar will examine the period through a set of key questions that reflect the major transformations affecting these movements, practices, and experiences, as well as the developments in art history and theory. In doing so, we will question the function of art in our societies; the stakes of contemporary creation in its diverse manifestations; and the role of artists confronted with the brutality of war, the violence of a fractured world, revolutionary events, rising protests, feminist struggles, civil rights movements, rapid modernization, consumer society, and the culture of spectacle, among others. This seminar course offers an introduction to the history of contemporary artistic movements, practices, and experiences in Europe and North America from the post-World War II period to the 2000s, exploring their diverse forms and mediums. Following a chronological perspective and based on a selection of works considered turning points in the history of "contemporary" art, this seminar will examine the period through a set of key questions that reflect the major transformations affecting these movements, practices, and experiences, as well as the developments in art history and theory. In doing so, we will question the function of art in our societies; the stakes of contemporary creation in its diverse manifestations; and the role of artists confronted with the brutality of war, the violence of a fractured world, revolutionary events, rising protests, feminist struggles, civil rights movements, rapid modernization, consumer society, and the culture of spectacle, among others. This seminar course offers an introduction to the history of contemporary artistic movements, practices, and experiences in Europe and North America from the post-World War II period to the 2000s, exploring their diverse forms and mediums. Following a chronological perspective and based on a selection of works considered turning points in the history of "contemporary" art, this seminar will examine the period through a set of key questions that reflect the major transformations affecting these movements, practices, and experiences, as well as the developments in art history and theory. In doing so, we will question the function of art in our societies; the stakes of contemporary creation in its diverse manifestations; and the role of artists confronted with the brutality of war, the violence of a fractured world, revolutionary events, rising protests, feminist struggles, civil rights movements, rapid modernization, consumer society, and the culture of spectacle, among others.

ARHI 40121 Greek Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

Open to all students. In this course the development of Greek monumental architecture, and the major problems that define it, will be traced from the 8th to the 2nd centuries BC, from the late Geometric through the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. Among themes to be examined are the relationship between landscape and religious architecture, the humanization of temple divinities, the architectural expression of religious tradition and specific history, architectural procession and hieratic direction, emblem and narration in architectural sculpture, symbolism and allusion through architectural order, religious revival and archaism, and the breaking of architectural and religious canon.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 40231 Art, Science and Myth in the Middle Ages (3 Credit Hours)

This class explores medieval representations of scientific ideas and mythological stories.

ARHI 40253 Introduction to Early Christian and Byzantine Art (3 Credit Hours)

This course will introduce students to Christian visual art from its evident beginnings (ca. 200), attend to its transformation under imperial patronage, and consider the aftermath of controversies regarding the veneration of icons during the eighth and ninth centuries. Working with both objects and texts, core themes include the continuity between Christian and pagan art of Late Antiquity, the influence of imperial ceremonies and style, the emergence of holy icons, the development of Passion iconography, and the divergent styles, motifs, and theological perspectives on the validity and role of images from the Byzantine East to the early Medieval West.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 40255 The World at 1200 (3 Credit Hours)

Our species is unique because it is the only species that deliberately buries its dead. Mortuary analysis (the study of burial patterns) is a powerful approach that archaeologists use for the study of prehistoric social organization and ideology. This course explores the significance of prehistoric human mortuary behavior, from the first evidence of deliberate burial by Neanderthals as an indicator of the evolution of symbolic thought, to the analysis of the sometimes spectacular burial patterns found in complex societies such as ancient Egypt and Megalithic Europe. We will also examine the theoretical and practical aspects of the archaeology of death, including the applications of various techniques ranging from statistics to ethnography, and the legal and ethical issues associated with the excavation and scientific study of human remains.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

ARHI 40374 Images, Idols, and Evangelists (3 Credit Hours)

ARHI 40404 Archaeology of Early Rome: Etruscans to Augustus (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the archaeology of early Rome, from the Etruscans to the reign of Augustus. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the analysis and interpretation of Roman archaeological sites, monuments, art, and artifacts, related to prehistoric Italy, the Roman Republic, and the early Roman Empire. On the basis of material evidence, the course will trace the changing culture of the Roman people and attempt to reconstruct what life might have been like in the Roman Regal and Republican periods and during the "Golden Age" of Augustus. In addition to exploring a wide range of material evidence from both Italy and the provinces, including architecture, coins, inscriptions, sculpture, paintings, ceramics, and other artifacts, the course also considers the methods, results, and theory of archaeological research, particularly in the areas of field excavation and intensive surface survey. Major themes to be discussed in the course include Roman imperialism, acculturation (especially so-called "Romanization"), ethnicity, urbanism, engineering, paganism, the imperial cult (emperor worship), death and burial, politics, economics, and the discrepant identities of women, children, slaves, freedmen, and freeborn in early Rome.

ARHI 40424 History of Christian Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

A broad survey of purpose-built spaces for Christian worship, from the beginnings to the present. The course will attend to questions of form and aesthetics and the functionality of these spaces for liturgy or other church activities. Finally, the course will consider the social, economic, and political dimensions of church building projects. The class project will be a collaborative one: to build a website that includes various kinds of data (plans, photos, drawings, texts, etc.) that describe a set of twelve ancient buildings and their function.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ARHI 40434 Idols and Icons: The Sacred Image in Christian Thought and Practice (3 Credit Hours)

A study of the place of the image in religious practice, beginning with pre-Christian critique of images and continuing through the broad Christian tradition. Topics include the role of images in Greco-Roman religion, philosophical censure of representational art, Jewish attitudes toward pictorial art, Christian repudiation of idolatry, the emergence of portrait icons, the iconoclastic controversies in the 8th and 9th centuries (both East and West), the theological defense of image veneration, and the various Reformation perspectives on the role of visual art in Christian worship and devotional practice.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 40510 Digital/Art/History (3 Credit Hours)

Students in this course study digital art as a category of artistic production, digital art history as a set of research methods and modes of disseminating research outcomes, and the tools that offer new possibilities for creative practice and visual engagement with visual culture.

ARHI 40705 Digital Devices (3 Credit Hours)

In this course we'll explore how smart-phones, ereaders, tablets, and laptops have changed the ways we engage films, television series, books, music, museums, and videos. We'll focus on how the production of art and entertainment is now shaped by the omnipresence of devices which can function, at any given moment, as personal stereos, movie screens, bookstores, TV sets, cameras, or photo-archives. How does that media adjacency within the box impact the relationship between what used to be distinct media but are now transmediated endlessly, for fun and profit. How has curation - practiced by artists, conglomerates, and amateur fans -- become a supra-medium which subsumes watching, reading, listening, and taking pictures into one of the most widely practiced forms of popular entertainment in the twenty-first century? How do we sort out the complicated interplay between media technology, consumerism, and identity formation in those devices? Featured phenomena: Recommendation mania and the listverse, The Song of Achilles and BookTok, the photos in your smart-phone, Wes Anderson and Accidentally Wes Anderson, Lost Children Archive, Questlove, algorithm culture, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, COVID and the "Make Yourself a Masterpiece" craze, WandaVision, playlisting as a way of life (not just a list of songs), The Carters "Apeshit" video, JR's La Ferita...

ARHI 40910 Research Methods and Theories in Art History (3 Credit Hours)

This course is intended for undergraduate majors in art history, but it is also open to other interested students by permission of the instructor. It focuses on the principal research methods and theoretical bases of art history, including connoisseurship, formalism, iconography and iconology, cultural and social history, and gender and race studies.

ARHI 43110 The Arts of Roman Luxury (3 Credit Hours)

Coco Chanel once claimed that “Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” This seminar explores the nature of that necessity through the ancient Roman world’s many material expressions of luxury. Examining works ranging from gem-studded jewelry to ivory furniture adornments, from shimmering silver dining services to pleasure gardens planted with exotic species, we will consider a breadth of visual culture that both expands our understanding of Roman art beyond the canon of architecture, painting, and sculpture and raises important ethical questions. How could material luxuries express imperialist ideologies? Were the Romans concerned by the environmental costs of acquiring the latest status symbol? These questions will be explored alongside themes such as identity construction and spatializing power. Class sessions will be devoted to exploring case studies while developing skills in visual analysis and critical reading and writing. Fulfills WKAL; no prerequisites or prior knowledge of Art History are required for this course.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 43205 Topics in Medieval Art: Art & Science in the Middle Ages (3 Credit Hours)

This class will explore the relationship between art and science in the Middle Ages. In particular, we will examine the ways in which medieval painters, sculptors, and architects engaged with the cultural phenomenon of "encyclopedism" by creating artworks that sought to capture all the world's knowledge in a single visual program. In our exploration of this topic we will consider a wide range of works, from medieval maps and scientific manuscripts to large-scale tapestries and the architectural programs of the great Gothic cathedrals. Central themes include text-image relationships and the role of pictorial techniques, such as allegory, personification, and analogy for visualizing complex ideas. We will also examine the representation of knowledge in medieval poetry and see how medieval authors employed ekphrasis to create visual artworks within their texts to serve as placeholders for encyclopedic learning. 3 credits

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.), Art History, Art Studio or Design.

ARHI 43207 The Historical Avant-Garde, 1907-1940 (3 Credit Hours)

This upper-division seminar examines the emergence of the historical avant-garde in Europe in the early-mid twentieth century, roughly 1907-1940. Providing both a general thematic overview and a series of specific case studies, we will consider a set of figures, movements, and practices in the arts—including Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, Bauhaus, and Surrealism—situating them within the social, political, and historical contexts in which they arose. We will explore the changing relationship of avant-gardism to bourgeois society, concepts of democracy, art institutions, and non-art forms of culture, such as mass culture, non-Western cultures, the forces of industrialization, urbanization, colonialism, and the rise of Fascism (and its aesthetics), among other forms of political radicalism. Paying special attention to the artistic accomplishments of painting, sculpture, photography, experimental cinema, and design, three questions will drive our analysis: What impact did dramatic geopolitical changes have on existing concepts of representation? What challenges did they pose for artists? What in turn did artists contribute to an understanding of the full consequences of new conceptions of time, space, identity, and community? The course will require visits to The Snite Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Browning Cinema at DPAC. Robust critical discussion and writing will form the core praxis of the class.

ARHI 43211 Late Modernism and the (Neo)Avant-Garde (3 Credit Hours)

After a period dominated by radical experimentation among the historical avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century, the 1950s and 60s saw a resurgence, in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Latin America of provocative and multifaceted (neo)avant-garde movements. Providing a general art historical and thematic overview, this upper-division seminar will consider a wide variety of figures, movements, and practices within the visual arts-- from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, to Fluxus to Minimalism, to Performance Art to Installations, and more-- situating them within the social, political, economic, and historical contexts in which they arose. The history of these developments will be traced through the mutual interaction of two predominant strains of artistic culture: the modernist and the avant-garde, examining in particular their social and political presuppositions (from the old Left to the New Left, to the late modernist development of intersectional feminist theory and identity politics), and discussing their relation to pre-War counterparts and models. As such, central to these developments was the revival and renewed understanding of the radical legacy of European Dada, particularly that of Marcel Duchamp, as well as the ideas of the composer John Cage. One of the implications of the collective, heterogenous work that emerged in their wake, was a widespread challenge to the notion of medium specificity and of modernism in general, which gave rise to the very genesis of postmodernism and associated theoretical ideas.

ARHI 43212 Vitruvius & the Liberal Arts (3 Credit Hours)

The Roman architect Vitruvius Pollio dedicated his ten papyrus scrolls on architecture to the emperor Augustus in the late first century B.C.E., confident that his work furnished all the information an attentive reader needed to make competent decisions about building, from choosing a site to the fine points of interior decor. In addition, the form and structure of his treatise made a second, and no less ambitious, claim: that architecture should be considered a liberal art, requiring intellectual acuity above and beyond any technical skill. This course will investigate Vitruvius both as a man of ancient Rome and as one of the most influential writers of all time, showing how his aesthetic systems are rooted in ancient rhetoric - that is, in oratory and literature -, and how his pioneering treatise, thanks to its broad philosophical framework, innovative vocabulary, and systematic reasoning, became one of the most influential books of all time, including its role in shaping the curricula of the first universities. We will also investigate the ways in which readers from different centuries and different cultures have adapted (and often distorted) interpretation of the ancient text to fit different circumstances and views of the world, aiming to read him as clearly as possible, for his own time and for ours. We will be using the illustrated translation published by Cambridge University Press. Students who want to follow the text in Latin are encouraged to do so.

ARHI 43213 The Renaissance City and the Natural World: Architectural History and the Environmental Humanities (3 Credit Hours)

Conversations about environmental disaster, sustainability, and resilience that are everywhere in our news feeds today also shaped the buildings and cities from the Renaissance period in profound ways. How was nature conceptualized in the early modern world? And how did architects, engineers, and city-planners confront environmental forces like floods, earthquakes, and viral plagues? With a focus on Italy, this elective course explores how cities like Rome, Florence, Ferrara, and Venice historically dealt with its natural environments. We will begin by asking how "nature" was understood in the Renaissance period in relation to art and architectural history. Looking at primary sources like period texts, drawings, prints, buildings, and cities, we will trace themes like sustainability, environmental justice, and resource management. The goal for this course is to provide a framework for understanding how early modern societies faced environmental stresses, managed their natural resources, and addressed issues like sustainability.

ARHI 43321 Architectural Treatises (3 Credit Hours)

Consideration of the theoretical and practical background of traditional architecture through a careful reading both of primary theoretical sources (including Vitruvius, Alberti, Serlio, Palladio, Vignola, Claude Perrault, and others) as well as influential pattern books; and the pertinence of both to contemporary architectural discourse and practice.

ARHI 43405 Seminar: Topics in Modern Art (3 Credit Hours)

This is a topics course on special areas of modern art. The specific areas of study vary from section to section and from semester to semester.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.), Art History, Art Studio, Design or Art History.

ARHI 43406 Topics in Contemporary Art: Art and the Everyday (3 Credit Hours)

This seminar concentrates on art made within the last forty years and looks at the everyday as it relates theoretically, materially, and historically to such practices. By examining artwork that takes the everyday as its source, subject, or material point of departure, we will consider how that realm is useful for its position as a place outside of the sphere of professional artistic practices. Looking at the use of amateur and domestic materials and objects in art, as well as works that mimic daily routines (eating, housekeeping, childrearing, playing, etc.) will play a large role in our investigations. Additionally, we will examine theories of the everyday and those problems that accompany attempts to concretize abstract ideas such as routines and habits. In so doing, we will aim to question those biases that conventionally accompany everyday experience that often deem it to be altogether mundane and apolitical, and look at how artists counter such notions by mining its common experiences for its politicized potential. Some of the artists we will look at include Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Anna Maria Maolino, Amalia Mesa-Baines, Ree Morton, Martha Rosler, Do Ho Suh, and Rikrit Tiravanija.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARHI 43420 Nineteenth-Century European Art (3 Credit Hours)

This seminar reconsiders 19th-century Western European painting within the context of the social, political, and intellectual ferment that shaped the continent - primarily, the political revolutions and the rise of industrial capitalism and the middle class in France, England, and Germany. Each week we will examine a specific set of concepts, historical ruptures, and major figures whose work ushered in the modernist era. These include artists associated with Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism. The themes of the course will thus address the relationships between tradition and formal innovation; gender and representation; the public and private spheres; and notions of the center and the periphery. Course requirements include a museum visit to The Art Institute of Chicago and the DVT Planetarium on campus.

ARHI 43481 Topics in Contemporary Art - Slackers, Critics, and Makers: Art in the 1990s (3 Credit Hours)

In the wake of post-modern, theory heavy days of 1980s art production, artists took a pointed turn toward finding materially-driven ways to challenge and disrupt the conventions of art and its institutions. This seminar investigates three developments and diverging trends that take hold in the art of the 1990s: the loaded embrace of failure and resignation; the casting of a critical eye on the institutions of art; and the impulse to reintroduce handcraft into the process of making. A consideration of the Gen X context and social movements of the decade will frame our exploration, and aid in our thinking about how such different impulses could coincide to drive a new form of investigation of the parameters and politics of fine art. While amateurism uses the language of hobby culture and fandom to invade the professional territory of the museum, institutional critique transforms the artist into a curator and critic who turns the museum against itself. Meanwhile, the adoption of traditional forms of craft and skill, such as embroidery, beadwork, and weaving, fuels feminist-driven confrontations to the hierarchy of values of fine art traditions and renders the makers movement a charged and activist program. Looking across these different approaches will allow us to revise our understanding of art as a political act and vehicle for change. Some artists we will study include Mike Kelly, Cady Noland, David Hammons, Fred Wilson, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Elaine Reichek, Ann Hamilton, Anna Maria Maiolino, Shazia Sikhander, Do Ho Suh, and Sarah Sze.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.), Art History, Art Studio or Design.

ARHI 43613 Cuba's Cultural Heritage: The Magic and Poetry of its Architecture and Urbanism (3 Credit Hours)

The Elective Course introduces students to Cuba's cultural heritage and the magic and poetry of its Architecture and Urbanism and its cross-cultural, European influence, and immediate regional background. The course explores the formation of a multiracial nation, and particularly the history and urban evolution of Havana, the country's capital city, and considers the key role of architecture in its ever-changing construction. Through a holistic approach, the students will learn and understand the distinct features, similarities, differences, and synchronicities? in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism in Cuba, and examine how cultural identity has been a central organizing paradigm. A series of presentations will allow students to identify, recognize and discern the main features of Cuban architecture and urbanism and relate them to the universal culture. The Course will introduce students to the concept of cultural landscapes. Critical thinking will allow the students to relate research and theoretical content with historic preservation themes as well as practical design knowledge. The Course will focus on the study of Havana, Cuba's capital city and it will encompass the study of its past, its present and will even provide a vision for the future of Havana. The chronological study of Havana and its history and urban evolution will provide a comprehensive understanding of its rich heritage and cultural identity.

ARHI 43810 Latinx Art & Activism (3 Credit Hours)

This seminar examines the relationship between art and social movements in Latinx communities from the civil rights era to the present. The course will focus on graphic art media that negotiates relations of power, constructs multiple publics, and fuels many of the debates around the politics of identity. We will consider notions of authorship (collective/individual), activism, display, dissemination, consumption, collecting, and technology. Students will learn to think critically and empathetically about how these collective modes of art-making foreground the politics of representation: what we see, how we see, who gets to control our image, and how can printed multiples challenge those narratives. Students will enhance their skills in visual analysis and writing, gain experience in collaborative printmaking, and refine their ability to conduct original research.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ARHI 43850 Art History Thesis Workshop (1 Credit Hour)

This optional, one-credit class is intended for junior and senior art history majors who are writing or considering (though not yet committed to) writing a senior thesis. This seminar-style workshop will feature a systematic approach to the various processes involved in writing a long research paper; this principally includes developing a topic, collating and sharing research, and comparing and critiquing writing methods and techniques. It will offer a variety of opportunities based on the individual's stage of development, which range from initiating a project and applying for funding for research to drafting a project outline and completing a chapter. Assignments will revolve around presentations and papers.

ARHI 45000 Art History Research Assistantship (0-3 Credit Hours)

This course is intended for students in the art history program who assist professors with their research.

ARHI 46272 Directed Readings - Medieval (3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the study of Medieval art history under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARHI 46472 Directed Readings - Modern (3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the study of modern art history under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARHI 47000 Art Conservation Capstone (1 Credit Hour)

This project, to be coordinated with and approved by the DUS, is intended to demonstrate some evidence of in-depth engagement with conservation or associated fields such as: collections care, registrar, curatorial, exhibition design, gallery management, artist’s assistant, or materials analysis.

ARHI 47171 Special Studies--Ancient Art History (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in ancient art history under the direction of an individual faculty member.

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.) or Art History.

ARHI 47671 Special Studies - Latin America (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in Latin American art history under the direction of an individual faculty member.

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Art History (Supp.) or Art History.

ARHI 48573 Honors Thesis Direction (3 Credit Hours)

The honors thesis, normally between 20 and 30 pages in length, is done under the direction of one of the regular art history faculty, who serves as an advisor. It is expected to demonstrate the student's ability to treat an important historical topic in a manner that shows his or her writing skills and methodological training. It is expected that the thesis will be suitable for submission as a writing sample for those students intending to apply to art history graduate programs.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WRIT - Writing Intensive

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.) or Art History.

ARHI 48574 Honors Thesis (1-3 Credit Hours)

The Senior Thesis, normally between 20 and 30 pages in length, is done under the direction of one of the regular art history faculty, who serves as an advisor. It is expected to demonstrate the student's ability to treat an important art historical topic in a manner which shows her/his writing skills and methodological training. It is expected that the thesis will be suitable for submission as a writing sample for those students intending to apply to art history graduate programs.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.) or Art History.

ARHI 48577 Honors Thesis (1-3 Credit Hours)

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.) or Art History.

ARHI 48578 Honors Thesis (1-3 Credit Hours)

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.) or Art History.

ARHI 48579 Honors Thesis (1-3 Credit Hours)

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History (Supp.) or Art History.

Art Studio (ARST)

ARST 10100 2-D Foundations (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. The fundamentals of two-dimensional design consist of the strategies and tools an artist or designer uses to organize visual images, colors, and content into a unified and dynamic composition. Students will identify design strategies and visual vocabularies, research the history of their usage and recognize their contemporary applications. Through project-based work using traditional and digital mediums and techniques, students will explore contemporary approaches to idea conception, critical thinking, and problem solving. 2D Foundations is for students entering the art and design programs to provide the foundation of personal creative practices for visual communication, conceptualization, process and technique that will continue to evolve and refine in upper level studio and design courses.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 10201 Drawing I (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This course deals with form depiction in its many aspects and modes and is intended for beginning students as well as advanced students who need additional experience in drawing.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 10601 3-D Foundations (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. The fundamentals of three-dimensional design consist of the strategies and tools an artist or designer uses to generate ideas for and execution of form in space. Through research, conceptualization and production students discover the power of making sculptural objects- how they function or change function, how they make a viewer move through and engage a space, how they transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary, and transform perception and environment. Students will create projects using a variety of traditional and contemporary sculptural mediums, techniques, and tools and be exposed to industrial applications and visual vocabularies. 3D Foundations is for students entering the art and design program to provide the foundation of personal creative practices for visual communication, conceptualization, process and technique that will continue to evolve and refine in upper level studio and design courses.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 11201 Drawing I (3 Credit Hours)

This course deals with form depiction in its many aspects and modes and is intended for beginning students as well as advanced students who need additional experience in drawing. Materials fee.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 13182 Fine Arts University Seminar (3 Credit Hours)

University seminars will address a variety of topics in the practice of studio art, depending on the interests of the professor. These courses require several short reflections in combination with or in response to individual creative works as well as a final written exercise appropriate to the material.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: USEM - University Seminar, WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20101 Ceramics I (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This course examines basic techniques of wheel-thrown and hand-built clay structures for sculpture and pottery.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20103 Animals and Creatures (3 Credit Hours)

This class is ideal for individuals with prior experience working with clay. This course will help students to push their work to a more advanced level in the creation of sculptural pieces referencing animals and/or creatures. Those pieces could become realistic and figurative or whimsical and abstract. The class will provide a more in-depth exploration of how to understand the anatomy, proportion, texture and details on the figures, using clay and embellishment with various materials, to translate ideas into three-dimensional form. Students will be encouraged to draw and/or build three dimensional sketches/maquettes on a regular basis to assist in the conceptualization their final works.

ARST 20201 Multilevel Ceramics (3 Credit Hours)

This class will require serious commitment and the student’s desire to push their artistic comfort zone to a higher level. The class will help students to push their conceptual work to a more advanced level, trusting themselves to work from observation, as well as memory and imagination. You will work and understand 2-D and 3-D mass and form. The class will provide a more in-depth exploration of how to understand space, proportion, texture, and details of sculpture in clay. This class explores various techniques in clay, such as solid building, slab building, coil building, etc. In addition, we will work on preparatory drawings, sculptural sketches, and understanding anatomy. While sculpting in clay, our main focus is on the structural understanding of weight, balance, gravity, and symmetry.

ARST 20301 Painting I (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This course is an introduction to oil painting techniques and to stretcher and canvas preparation. The emphasis is on finding a personal direction.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20303 Watercolor I (3 Credit Hours)

Open to all students. MATERIALS FEE. This course is an introduction to the watercolor medium and deals with a variety of methods, materials, and techniques (both realistic and abstract) with special emphasis on color and composition.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20401 Photography I (3 Credit Hours)

BA Core Option/BFA Core. MATERIALS FEE. This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of still photography. It is designed for all students interested in developing their photographic skills and also serves as the entry-level sequence for the photo major in studio art. The course is based on the use of digital cameras. Adobe Lightroom software and professional quality inkjet printing. Creative assignments introduce students to various thematic approaches including documentary work and portraits. Presentations cover both historical and contemporary approaches to the medium. A digital SLR camera with manual controls is highly recommended; or students may check out departmental cameras to complete assignments. A portable hard drive compatible with the Apple OS platform is required for storing personal files.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20501 Drop It Like It’s Hot: Pop Art through Screen Printing (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an introduction to screen printing and will focus on the emergence and development of the Pop Art Movement. The Pop Art movement brought forward a critique of popular culture, consumerism, mass-production, and the deconstruction of images in everyday life. The class will explore predominant silkscreen artists and their contribution to the Pop Art movement. Students will create projects using photographic stencil-making techniques with an encouragement experiment, explore color, and develop individual ideas.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20502 Peace, Prints & Protest (3 Credit Hours)

This introductory course, open to non-majors and majors, will show students how the reproduction of images has created social change for better or for worse. In doing so, the course will survey a variety of basic traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques including relief, etching, lithography, and silkscreen. Through global conversations about printmaking, demonstrations, lectures, and readings, students will become actively involved in specific social justice issues while understanding how printmaking can function as a relevant voice in the context of the modern world.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20505 Ink & Identity: Exploring Identity and Narrative through Etching and Bookmaking (3 Credit Hours)

Personal expression and storytelling have been linked to images since the beginning of mark making itself. This course aims to explore how the multiple has created a conduit to enrich expression and widen the reach of storytelling through etching and bookmaking. Etching, a form of printmaking, along with various bookmaking techniques will allow students to explore and develop their own ideas and methodologies. Accompanied with relative readings and experimentation, students will learn fundamental printmaking and bookmaking techniques to create unique prints and handmade books that reflect their identities through narrative. Open to majors and non-majors.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20506 The Fine Line Between Death & the Devil (3 Credit Hours)

ARST 20601 Sculpture I (3 Credit Hours)

Creative work in wood, metal, plaster, and mixed media. This course is an introductory exploration of how to think creatively through the use of space and material. Students will be introduced to basic techniques in traditional materials such as wood, metal, and plaster. In addition, students will be introduced to use non-traditional materials such as the body and found objects. We will explore materials, methods, concepts, and history. Emphasizes correlation between concepts and materials. Students will chart their own path of discovery largely shaped by material/conceptual research that takes place in the studio as well as outside research of artists, non-art related topics, and techniques. With guidance, students will learn to investigate, formulate and present their own interests with the knowledge of how their work relates to the artistic field at large.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20602 Wood Sculpture (3 Credit Hours)

Open to all students. MATERIALS FEE. This course uses wood as a primary medium. You will become familiarized with a range of hand tools, from knives, chisels to gouges, as well as power tools. As you learn to produce sculptures (e.g. relief carvings) and functional objects (e.g. spoons and cutting boards), you will be introduced to beginning and advanced techniques, such as joining, laminating and finishing. Individual concepts and designs will be emphasized and facilitated. The goal of this course is for you to become familiar with the elements of art and the principles of design, to use these consciously in an attempt to refine your aesthetic sensibilities, and further your understanding of art. The major benefit in taking our summer course lies in the intensive nature of its structure. Meeting four days in a row each week for six weeks affords a momentum and focus not easily realized in regular semesters. Hand tools, Personal Protective Equipment and woods are included in the materials fee.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20603 Metal Foundry (3 Credit Hours)

Are you interested in participating in a human tradition over 6,000 years old? Open to all students. MATERIALS FEE. In this hands-on course, you’ll collaborate with the elements—earth, water, wind, and fire—to create artwork using sand mold techniques for casting bronze and aluminum. Through studio practice, you’ll learn the fundamentals of metal casting, with potential opportunities to participate in an intercollegiate iron pour. We’ll explore historical, contemporary, and emerging digital methods of mold making and metal casting, while emphasizing the inherently social nature of the process. Be prepared to engage not only with the materials, but with each other—sharing ideas, preparing materials, cleaning up, and lending a hand are all part of the making process and our collective experience in the foundry.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 20604 Metal Sculpture I (3 Credit Hours)

Open to all students. MATERIALS FEE. Metal is the medium of choice in this course designed to explore three-dimensional design with a variety of projects grounded in historical precedents. Students become familiar with as many metalworking techniques as time and safety allow, such as gas and arc welding, basic forge work, and several methods of piercing, cutting and alternative joinery.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ARST 23001 Performance / Art / Politics (1 Credit Hour)

This immersive, one-credit course connects students with an internationally recognized artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Based in Chicago, Brendan Fernandes’ projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and other forms of collective movement. Students will collaborate directly with the artist across five class meetings that will include performance workshops, guided film screenings, lectures, and discussions. Students will also travel to Chicago on a group trip co-led by Michael Schreffler and Rebecca Struch of the Notre Dame Arts Initiative.

ARST 30101 Multilevel Ceramics (3 Credit Hours)

In this multi-level class, you will become involved with the creative process of art through the medium of clay. Beginning and advanced techniques will be explored as you learn to produce pottery and sculptural forms in a variety of methods including hand building and wheel throwing. A basic understanding of clay and glaze composition along with firing methods will also be addressed. The goal of this course is for you to become familiar with the elements of art and the principles of design, to use these consciously in an attempt to refine your aesthetic sensibilities, and further your understanding of art. The major benefit in taking our summer course lies in the intensive nature of its structure. Meeting four days in a row each week for six weeks affords a momentum and focus not easily realized in regular semesters. Tools, clay & glazes are included in the lab fee.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 30102 Ceramics II (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. The primary objective of this course is to involve you in an ongoing ceramic studio workshop experience on an advanced level. To be in the Ceramics II studio workshop students must have had ceramics I, or equivalent experience from high school ceramics classes. Students are expected to choose a direction of work and evolve their ability and success through the course of the semester. In addition, clay making, glaze testing and formulation and kiln loading and firing will be introduced during the semester. Students will learn to be independent in a ceramic studio at the end of the class.

Prerequisites: ARST 21101 or ARST 20101

ARST 30103 Advanced Ceramics (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides an atmosphere for detailed conversation and exploration of students' individual work within the contemporary context of sculpture. Quite often artists work for several years with different series, while not having a clear compartmentalization of the works in their mind, or what is the work about. This course will help students to push their conceptual work to a more advanced level with the creation of a proposal for an exhibition, the development of a website, referencing their own interest and studio practice, while in consultation with the instructor. The class will provide an in-depth exploration of how to categorize and describe their various bodies of work into different series according to subject matter, formal aspect, and materials. Sculpture seminars may include topics such as discussions of contemporary issues, exhibitions, professional practice, or methods and directions. The class meets regularly for lectures, visiting artists, and/or field trips.

ARST 30110 Experiments in Narrative (3 Credit Hours)

This course will explore the narrative potential of photographic media as well as the role of sequencing in the creative process. Projects will use both still photography and video as vehicles for storytelling and conceptual expression. Students will gain competency in image and video editing software and techniques while taking inspiration from cinema, video art, and photography. A combination of production, critique, and readings will advance student understandings of narrative structure and experimental approaches to time-based media.

ARST 30405 Photography II: Digital Workshop (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This is a level II course in the photography sequence and builds upon the experiences gained in Photography I. Digital constructions, Photoshop software techniques, studio lighting and time-based projects are explored. Presentations, assignments and critiques promote visual and technical skill building, helping students continue defining their creative interest and technical expertise. A digital SLR with manual focus and exposure controls is required; or, students may check out departmental cameras to complete assignments A portable hard drive compatible with the Apple OS platform is required for storing personal files. Course is taught on the Apple OS platform.

Prerequisites: ARST 21401 or ARST 20401

ARST 30421 Video Art Installation (3 Credit Hours)

This course will approach the digital medium of video art to consider spatial possibilities of installation. We will explore how to create an experiential presence for video art, both virtually and physically. Looking at contemporary examples of video artwork that have global significance, we will develop the language to critically analyze their effect. There are largely two components—understanding video art and its social impact, and the technical skills of projection mapping, After Effects, 360 camera, working with the realities of gallery installation. The course will end with a collective project installation. Over the semester we will acquire awareness as makers who have a close relationship to our surrounding society.

ARST 30428 Video Art Production (3 Credit Hours)

This course will use digital video and computer imaging as tools of artistic exploration and critical expression. Projects will engage creative and unconventional methods of moving image production, involving techniques and concepts in sound, animation, projection mapping, and personal storytelling. Students will be introduced to a range of video artists and artworks, using these as examples of the wide range of processes and conceptual framework in video art.

ARST 30606 Mixed Media Sculpture (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This course is designed for independent research. There will be four sculptural projects. Each completed project will be followed with group critiques. One of the following courses will be a prerequisite for this course; metal sculpture, foundry, wood sculpture 3-D foundation studies.

Prerequisites: ARST 11601 or ARST 10601 or ARST 21602 or ARST 20602 or ARST 21603 or ARST 21604 or ARST 20603 or ARST 20604

ARST 30608 Laser Beams and AI Dreams: Digital Methods for Shaping Space (3 Credit Hours)

In this course we will combine traditional sculptural methods with a range of digital technologies. Artists have never shied away from using any and every tool available to them at the time. So…let’s embrace the moment and learn how to utilize current technology with our long standing tools and techniques! Using the Adobe Creative Suite, along with open source software and digital fabrication tools- we will explore laser cutting, 3D printing, digital video projection/projection mapping, as well as experimenting with a range of AI tools. Be ready to push boundaries, combine methods, and propel our thinking and making strategies. All are welcome to join, but having some art or technology background will help!

Prerequisites: ARST 10601 or ARST 20602 or ARST 20603 or ARST 20604 or ARST 30606 or DESN 10101 or DESN 20201

ARST 40103 Multilevel Ceramics (3 Credit Hours)

This class will require serious commitment and the student's desire to push their artistic comfort zone to a higher level. The class will help students to push their conceptual work to a more advanced level, trusting themselves to work from observation, as well as memory and imagination. You will work and understand 2-D and 3-D mass and form. The class will provide a more in-depth exploration of how to understand space, proportion, texture, and details of sculpture in clay. This class explores various techniques in clay, such as solid building, slab building, coil building, etc. In addition, we will work on preparatory drawings, sculptural sketches, and understanding anatomy. While sculpting in clay, our main focus is on the structural understanding of weight, balance, gravity, and symmetry.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 40201 Drawing I (3 Credit Hours)

This course deals with form depiction in its many aspects and modes and is intended for beginning students as well as advanced students who need additional experience in drawing.

ARST 40203 Figure Drawing, Multilevel (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. The emphasis is on drawing in all its aspects: materials, methods, techniques, composition, design, and personal expression. The human figure is the subject matter. While anatomy is studied, the course is not an anatomy class. Male and female models, clothed and nude, are used.

Prerequisites: ARST 11201 or ARST 10201

Course may be repeated.

ARST 40204 Multilevel Drawing (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This course builds upon the technical and conceptual skills developed in Drawing 1. Alongside traditional approaches and media, the course will explore drawing as an expanded field including collage, installation, process and other methods to encourage students to develop work related to their own interests and concerns.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 40307 Multilevel Painting (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. Painting is one of the most direct means of visual expression that contemporary artists employ to articulate their concerns. This course extends and develops the skills and concepts initiated in Painting 1. Students are engaged in projects that allow them to hone their technical skills while they define and develop their individual concerns as well as the formal means through which to communicate them.

Prerequisites: ARST 20301 or ARST 10201 or ARST 11201 or ARST 21301

Course may be repeated.

ARST 40408 Souls and Bodies: Exploring the Human Image (3 Credit Hours)

Souls and Bodies is a portrait photography course that explores both conventional and alternative modes of this popular genre of image making. The contemporary portrait is a complex and diverse subject that expresses much more than an idealized symbol of one's likeness. Course presentations examine numerous visual themes and methods of representing identity, social structures, and human experience in photographs. Assignments encourage students to seek their own creative solutions in support of personal vision. Students will learn advanced skills in camera and lighting techniques for indoor and outdoor situations that build upon their previous photography experiences.

Prerequisites: ARST 21401 or ARST 20401

ARST 40410 Multilevel Photography: Experimental Image Making (3 Credit Hours)

Students will advance their creative work while exploring tools, materials, and alternative methods of making, including darkroom, digital manipulations and AI. This course will develop conceptual and technical skills while enriching understanding of the photographic medium. The class will incorporate presentations, directed readings, collaborative and independent projects. Offered periodically.

Prerequisites: ARST 20401

Course may be repeated.

ARST 40460 Video & Contemporary Media Art (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores how video has evolved over time. Starting with the magic lantern, we will study the early models preceding the slide and digital projector, and survey the history of video art since its birth. From the 1960s to now, video art has flourished over its relatively short history. We will look at prominent works from the span of six decades, including contemporary examples of video art and multimedia works by artists who traverse mediums of moving image, photography, and installation. The class includes a hands-on component to make versions of the early “projectors” and video responses. There will also be visiting presentations over the semester from media artists working in the contemporary field.

ARST 40610 Installation Art: Space and Environment (3 Credit Hours)

This course is open to undergraduate students who minor or major in studio art or design and have taken one art or design course. It is also open to all other majors and graduate students who have taken one art or design course. We will learn the history of contemporary installation, environment and site-specific practice. Students will explore the intersectionality between art and their majors to create and design installations with the medium of their choice such as game, projection, photo, sound, lighting, video, sculpture, design and painting.

Prerequisites: ARST 10601 or ARST 11601 or ARST 20602 or ARST 21602 or ARST 20603 or ARST 21603 or ARST 20604 or ARST 21604

ARST 41408 The Photographic Portrait (3 Credit Hours)

The human portrait has been one of the most significant and sustaining subjects within the history of all images. This course examines the various styles and thematic approaches to the photographic portrait from historical forms to contemporary and conceptual artworks. Students will produce portraits in the lighting studio and on location. Commercial lighting techniques will be covered.

ARST 43669 Camp (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines theories and practices of camp. Camp has been described as a sensibility, an aesthetics, a mode of performance, and a mode of spectatorship and consumption. Camp embraces artifice, exaggeration, theatricality, and irony. Initially described as exclusively a gay male practice, theorists have since analyzed forms of “straight” camp, feminist camp, lesbian camp, Black camp, and more. What is camp? To whom does camp belong, and how do different demographics use it? Does camp have a politics? How has the meaning and import of camp changed over time? Is camp still necessary? This interdisciplinary seminar will read essays and books on camp by Susan Sontag, Jack Babuscio, Richard Dyer, Pamela Robertson, Barbara Brickman, Quinn Miller, AJ Christian, and many others. We will consider camp in literary texts by Oscar Wilde, Christopher Isherwood, and Jacqueline Susann. We will consider camp in painting and photography, including historical styles such as Mannerism, and contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barkley Hendricks, and others. We will consider camp in relation to drag. We will consider camp films by Douglas Sirk and Busby Berkeley, films starring Mae West and Joan Crawford; and certain genres such as the musical and horror; camp TV such as Bewitched; and camp stars such as Lady Gaga and Beyonce. Students from all disciplines are welcome; no prior knowledge of camp is expected.

ARST 43703 Senior Seminar (3 Credit Hours)

This course is required for senior BFA students and open to BA Honors students completing a senior thesis project. The senior seminar course will provide guidance and preparation for senior BFA students to develop the research, ideation, writing, presentation, and creation of their thesis projects. This class is intended to provide the crucial opportunity for students to develop their projects as a cohort in collaboration, as well as to provide additional support and continuity week-to-week in the progress of individual thesis projects. There will be a specific focus on rigorous inquiry into the critical dialogue surrounding the topics that each thesis project touches upon, exploration of cross-disciplinary dialogue, and introduction to contemporary issues and practices in art, art criticism, and design that are relevant. A focus on research approaches, exhibitions, and curatorial practices will be central to our approach to the various areas. Additionally, this course will provide resources for thinking beyond graduation: students will have the opportunity to hear from and interview working artists and designers, graduate students in studio art and design, and other professionals.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art History, Art Studio or Design.

ARST 46171 Special Studies - Ceramics (1-2 Credits Only) (1-2 Credit Hours)

Independent study in ceramics under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 46271 Special Studies - Painting/Drawing (1-2 Credits Only) (1-2 Credit Hours)

Independent study in painting/drawing under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 46371 Special Studies - Foundations (1 - 2 Credits Only) (1-2 Credit Hours)

Independent study in foundations under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 46471 Special Studies - Photography (1-2 Credits Only) (1-2 Credit Hours)

Independent study in photography under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 46571 Special Studies - Printmaking (1 - 2 Credits Only) (1-2 Credit Hours)

Independent study in printmaking: research or creative projects under the direction of a faculty member.

ARST 46671 Special Studies - Sculpture (1 - 2 Credits Only) (1-2 Credit Hours)

Independent study in sculpture under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 47171 Special Studies - Ceramics (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in ceramics: research or creative projects.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 47271 Special Studies--Painting/Drawing (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in painting/drawing under the direction of an individual faculty member.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 47272 Special Studies - Painting/Drawing (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in painting/drawing under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 47273 Special Studies - Painting/Drawing (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in painting/drawing under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 47371 Special Studies-Foundations (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in foundations under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 47471 Special Studies - Photography (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in photography: research or creative projects. Open to upper level students with permission of the instructor.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 47472 Special Studies - Photography (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in photography under the direction of an individual faculty member.

ARST 47571 Special Studies - Printmaking (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in printmaking: research or creative projects.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 47671 Special Studies-Sculpture (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in sculpture: research or creative projects.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 47871 BA Thesis Project (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides the framework in which seniors in the department prepare a substantial creative project, as the culmination of their three years in the BA program. Faculty members working with individuals or small groups of students help them define their topics and guide them, usually on a one-to-one basis, in the preparation and execution of their projects. Students will be expected to participate in the Annual Student Exhibition spring semester and draft a short essay about their creative research. Fall, Spring.

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art Studio or Design.

ARST 48103 BFA Thesis - Ceramics (3 Credit Hours)

The BFA thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The BFA thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a BFA thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in ceramics, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 48203 BFA Thesis--Painting/Drawing (3 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a BFA thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in painting or drawing, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 48204 BFA Thesis - Painting/Drawing (6 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The BFA Thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department. The BFA Thesis can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a BFA Thesis Exhibition. The BFA Thesis student signs up with a faculty member working in the student's area of interest, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 48403 BFA Thesis - Photography (3 Credit Hours)

The BFA thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in photography, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 48404 BFA Thesis - Photography (6 Credit Hours)

Course may be repeated.

ARST 48603 BFA Thesis--Sculpture (3 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in sculpture, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

Course may be repeated.

ARST 48604 BFA Thesis - Sculpture (6 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in sculpture, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

Design (DESN)

DESN 20000 Design History (3 Credit Hours)

Design is one of the most pervasive and influential forms of human communication, shaping everything from ancient symbols carved in stone to the digital interfaces that define modern life. This course offers a survey of design’s history, examining design’s evolution across cultural, artistic, and technological revolutions. This course traces the ways in which design has functioned as a critical tool for information exchange, artistic expression, and ideological influence. Beginning with the origins of writing systems and illuminated manuscripts, we will progress through the development of typography and printing during the Renaissance, the industrialization of design in the 19th century, the radical experimentation of modernist movements, and the global impact of digital media in the 21st century. This course examines both the dominant cultural ideas embodied by design, as well as the counter-narratives it generates to express diverse cultural identities.

DESN 20101 Introduction to Visual Communication Design (3 Credit Hours)

Introduction to Visual Communication Design is an introductory course that focuses on design principles, methods, application, and technology. The course explores historic and contemporary applications of design in 2D, 3D, and time-based media. Students will develop a foundational understanding of visual communication design primarily through assigned studio cases, creative problem-solving, and studio work. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work. The class is a prerequisite for all other courses in the major.

Prerequisites: ARST 11100 or ARST 10100

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

DESN 20115 Typography (3 Credit Hours)

Typography is an introductory course that focuses on typography, its history, and its use as a critical element in design. Students will learn about the origins and constructions of typography, gain experience in utilizing and applying typography in diverse contexts, and develop an awareness of how type influences human perception and understanding. This class is primarily structured around assigned studio problems. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work. The class is a prerequisite for many intermediate and advanced courses in the major.

Prerequisites: ARST 10100 (may be taken concurrently) or ARST 11100 (may be taken concurrently)

DESN 20118 Visual Communication Design Studio (3 Credit Hours)

Visual Communication Design Studio is an introductory course that explores the practice and processes of design through applied projects that will develop the student's compositional, conceptual, and technical skills. Students will gain a deeper understanding of color, composition, and image making across a variety of design contexts and media. This class is primarily structured around assigned studio problems. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work. The class is a prerequisite for many intermediate and advanced courses in the major.

DESN 20120 Visual Communication Design 3: Web-based interactivity for desktop and mobile (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This course explores the application of design principles and methods in digital media. The course will look at time-based experiential design in the context of web-enabled media including web, mobile, social, motion, and emerging digital contexts such as augmented reality. Students will gain a deeper understanding of design processes, digital design principles, time-based design principals, and current design/prototyping tools. This studio-based design course is structured around hands-on exercises that guide students through the design process and introduce them to the broad landscape of digital media design.

Prerequisites: DESN 21101 or DESN 20101 or DESN 21201 or DESN 20201

DESN 20200 Rapid Ideation and Visualization (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. Rapid Visualization is a cross-disciplinary course in contemporary illustration and rendering techniques that serve studio art, design, engineering, marketing, and architecture. A gateway course for the Industrial Design major, it introduces students to the techniques and methodologies for designing products, gear, furnishings, packaging, and spaces. Through collaborative brainstorming, class discussion, and critique, students develop a vocabulary and critical framework for describing a product’s formal attributes, materiality, and market positioning. The course is intended for students entering studio practice for the first time as well as for advanced students who wish to deepen their visualization and illustration skills.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

DESN 20201 ID1: Industrial Design Process and Prototyping (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This introductory industrial design studio emphasizes the fundamental principles and practices of industrial design, including design process, form development, and prototyping craftsmanship. Students will learn to utilize a wide range of resources, including shop prototyping tools, to translate ideas into three-dimensional interactive prototypes. A series of fundamental design problems are introduced during the course of the semester, encouraging students to think and work in three-dimensional media. Emphasis is placed on the accurate transformation of imagination from mind to 2D and 3D representations and design solutions.

Prerequisites: ARST 10601 (may be taken concurrently) and DESN 20200 (may be taken concurrently) and DESN 21202 (may be taken concurrently)

DESN 20203 Design Matters: Introduction to Design Thinking (3 Credit Hours)

Design thinking has emerged as a powerful methodology to catalyze breakthrough innovation for an array of complex business, social and humanitarian challenges. Business and industry have embraced design thinking as one of the most potent drivers of innovation, growth and prosperity for its’ deeply human-centered approach to problem solving. During this fast paced, hybrid, hands-on journey through the design thinking process, students will immerse themselves in a series of overlapping modules that introduce the various phases in the design thinking process and familiarize students with the tools and techniques. This course will unleash your creativity and ingenuity in addressing problems through a human centered framework and mindset, applying this methodology to a vast array of human-centered problems, and complementing disciplines from science and engineering to business and the liberal arts. This course fulfills a Core Curriculum Liberal Arts 4 Way of Knowing (Arts) as well as the gateway to the Collaborative Innovation minor and cross-listed with other minors including: Sustainability, Computing & Digital Technologies, Education, Schooling & Society, Entrepreneurship and Anthropology.

Prerequisites: ALHN 13950 (may be taken concurrently)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

DESN 20204 Design Research Practices (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an introduction to various digital design techniques and workflows used by industrial designers. Students will explore design processes integrating digital tablet sketching and computer-aided design (CAD) in order to develop and effectively communicate design concepts. The course is aimed at students seeking to expand their 3-D visualization skills into a digital medium. Software introduced will include Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and SolidWorks 3D.

Prerequisites: DESN 20203 (may be taken concurrently)

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Collaborative Innovation.

DESN 20205 The Anthropology of Your Stuff (3 Credit Hours)

Have you ever pondered how people live(d) in a world without television, YouTube, smartphones, and automobiles? Why have bellbottoms come and gone twice in the last 50 years? Will we be forced to relive the fashion mistakes of the 1970s and 1980s? What new stuff will people invent and sell next? In asking and answering these questions, we must focus on one underlying query: What does our stuff really say about who we are and who we want to be? This course combines lectures, discussions, and interactive small group activities to explore the nature and breadth of peoples' relationships with their things. We will investigate why and how people make and use different types of objects, and how the use of these material goods resonates with peoples' identities in the deep past, recent history, and today. Since everyone in the class will already be an expert user and consumer of things, we will consider how people today use material objects to assert, remake, reclaim, and create identities, and compare today's practices to those of people who lived long ago. Class members will learn about how anthropologists, including ethnographers (studying people today) and archaeologists (studying past peoples) think about and approach the material nature of our social, economic, and political lives. We will discuss why styles and technologies change through time, and why, in the end, there is very little new under the sun in terms of human behaviors and the way people produce and consume goods. The topical breadth of this workshop encompasses most social science disciplines, including history, economics, psychology, and anthropology, and resonates with classics, art history, and gender studies.

DESN 20206 Furniture Design (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an introduction to the skills, techniques and history of furniture design. The focus will be on the process of designing and building furniture from the conceptual design, to the making of the final piece. Students will be introduced to hand tool techniques, woodworking machinery and traditional instruction in wood preparation, joinery and finishing. Sketching, model-making and various design strategies will help to develop an understanding of materials and processes, culminating in two projects. The history of modern furniture design will be explored as a means to investigate contemporary form development. Through presentations, hands-on lectures, technical demonstrations, and project assignments, students will explore the relationship between their conceptual vision, traditional furniture making techniques and the final built objects.

DESN 20210 Digital Solid Modeling (3 Credit Hours)

DESN 21102 VCD Software Tutorial: Computing software and technology for designers (1 Credit Hour)

This one-credit course will focus on Adobe Creative Suite software. The class will meet once per week throughout the course of the semester. Programs and topics to be covered will be Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, proper file preparation, and font access and usage.

DESN 21202 ID: Digital Visualization Lab (1 Credit Hour)

This one-credit course will focus on Adobe Creative Suite software. The class will meet one evening per week throughout the course of the semester. Programs and topics to be covered will be Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, proper file preparation, font access and usage as well as others.

Corequisites: DESN 20200

DESN 21203 D Think Lab (0 Credit Hours)

This once weekly lab session is a mandatory requirement for students enrolled in the Design Thinking course. These sessions focus on practical application of the topics and materials presented in class with students working in teams to employ techniques and methodology on assigned projects. This hands-on lab will having students exploring the research, brainstorming, ideation, iterative prototyping and presentation techniques that lead to creative innovation and disruptive breakthroughs applicable to students of any discipline.

Corequisites: DESN 20203

DESN 30100 Visualizing Global Change (3 Credit Hours)

The goal of the course is to compare the processes by which social scientists and filmmakers/photographers engage in social documentation. Students explore how global social problems such as rural and urban poverty, race and gender inequalities, immigration, and violence are analyzed across the social sciences and depicted in a variety of documentary film and photography genres. The course also explores the role that documentary photography and film play in promoting rights and advocating for social change, particularly in the realm of human rights and global inequality. It examines the history of documentary film and photography in relationship to politics and the development of concerns across the social sciences with inequality and social justice. It also looks at how individual documentarians, non-profit organizations, and social movements use film and photography to further their goals and causes as well as issues of representation their choices raise. The course is unique because it requires students to engage in the process of visual documentation themselves by incorporating an activity-based learning component. For their final project, students choose a human rights or social problem that concerns or interests them (and which they can document locally - no travel is required), prepare a documentary exhibit on the chosen topic (10-12 photographs), and write an essay analyzing how social scientists construct and frame the given problem. Students also have the option to produce a short documentary film.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

DESN 30101 Brand & Identity Systems (3 Credit Hours)

Brand and Identity is an intermediate course that focuses on the design of cohesive brand and identity systems. The course builds on the use of color, typography, imagemaking, and design principles gained in previous design courses to establish consistent, identifiable, and meaningful brand/identity systems. Students will gain a deep understanding of the process and principles used to design logos and assemble typography, color, illustration, imagery, and graphic elements into powerful brand systems. This studio-based course is structured around hands-on projects and exercises that guide students through the design process and introduce them to the strategy and ethics of brand and identity systems.

DESN 30110 UI/UX Design (User-Interface/User-Experience) (3 Credit Hours)

UI/UX Design is an intermediate course that explores the design of interfaces for traditional and emerging interactive media. Students will gain an understanding of design principles and methods that are critical to the performance of these interfaces. The class will focus on applying color, typography, scale, imagery, and design patterns across a variety of platforms that might, include mobile, web, environmental, augmented, or virtual media. This class is primarily structured around assigned studio problems. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work.

DESN 30111 VCD 5: Scale Graphics: Narrative Environments (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This studio course focuses on development of environmental graphics and design systems in urban environments for three-dimensional spaces. It explores large-scale graphic renditions that ergonomically relate to the human body. The students work collaboratively to adapt design skills for the built environment, connecting people to the spaces they navigate and inhabit through visual messaging and building of narratives with an emphasis on transformation. Projects explore signage, large scale graphics, and environmental experiences.The design process explores messaging, story-telling and understanding the use of multi-sensory tools and technology to create and deliver poignant, effective and transformative stories and experiences.

Prerequisites: DESN 20115 or DESN 20120

DESN 30120 Information Design (3 Credit Hours)

Information Design is an intermediate course that focuses on the design of information for a variety of purposes and context. Students will utilize previous knowledge of typography, composition, imagemaking, and concept development to solve problems that are informationally driven. Outcomes may include the design of instructions, data visualizations, warnings, forms, and curriculum that are used to inform, persuade, or collect information from users. Through user-centered methods students will discover how to test and improve performance of designed artifacts. This class is primarily structured around assigned studio problems. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work.

DESN 30131 Motion Design (3 Credit Hours)

Motion design is an intermediate course that explores the design of time-based media. Students will utilize previous knowledge of typography, composition, color, imagemaking, and concept development in order to solve problems across the 4th dimension of time. Students will develop an understanding of how to apply narrative, visual, and aural principles to convey powerful messages in a variety of contexts and scales—including web, film, augmented reality, or projection-based outcomes. This class is primarily structured around assigned studio problems. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work.

Prerequisites: DESN 21101 or DESN 20101 or DESN 21201 or DESN 20201

DESN 30133 Applied MultiMedia for Journalists (3 Credit Hours)

Applied Multimedia for Journalists - The main focus of this course is that students will learn how to shoot and edit videos. It will briefly touch on how to produce audio stories and podcasts. Students will also study the legal and ethical issues surrounding the use, creation and publication of digital media. The use of drones and the legal issues surrounding them will also be discussed.

DESN 30140 Data Visualization and Information Design (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This studio course focuses on the design of interactive products and the context of their use in larger systems. The course will explore methods and principles for planning, researching, and designing user-centered interactive products such as, but not limited to, mobile apps. Students will gain a deeper understanding of design research methodologies, the potential of connected technologies (IoT) and Big Data, prototyping for mobile and small screens, and the effective presentation of interactive design interventions. This studio-based course is structured around projects and exercises that guide students to better understand complex human problems and how interaction design might be used to turn existing experiences into preferred.

Prerequisites: DESN 21101 or DESN 20101 or DESN 21201 or DESN 20201

DESN 30157 Queer Mediascapes (3 Credit Hours)

From early silent films to contemporary video games, media have not only been informed by but have actively shaped our culture, including how we think about sexual and gender minorities, who have always been present in screen cultures. This course examines GLBT/Queer representational practices across a wide variety of media forms. It will cover foundational understandings of both queer studies and media studies in order to provide students with the necessary tools to engage with a diverse array of media texts, including texts such as Life is Strange, The Last of Us series, The L Word, and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Students will discuss and write about both primary sources and theoretical works that ask them to consider the politics of representation as well as the promises and perils of self-representation. This class will feature blog posts, lectures, class discussion, class activities, presentations, and frequent writing assignments to develop critical thinking and compositional skills.

DESN 30200 Digital Visualization (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This upper-level Industrial Design Studio delves deeply into the styling and branding of products and spaces. Using a variety of contemporary and emerging industry methods, students will leverage digital visualization tools to generate professional-level design concepts and collateral. The class is structured to give ample opportunity to practice various workflows for concept generation and realization, with specific emphasis on the Adobe Suite, Sketchbook, Solidworks, Keyshot, and generative AI Tools. Modules are designed around the technical instruction to expose students to major movements in manufacturing and product design history, contemporary studio practice, and the branding of new merchandise. Through studio exercises and self-directed projects, students develop proposals for soft goods, tech, apparel, exhibits, attractions, environments, sporting equipment, tools, lifestyle accessories, furniture, and more.

Prerequisites: DESN 20200

DESN 30204 ID 2: Human Centered Design (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This intermediate-level studio in industrial design is structured to provide a comprehensive introduction to the foundational principles of the product development process. Its primary objective is to cultivate and enhance students' expertise in human-centered design methodologies and the rigorous validation cycles essential for successful implementation. Throughout the course, a significant emphasis will be placed on exploring and mastering the distinct phases of the design process that are currently standard in the industrial design field.

Prerequisites: DESN 31205 (may be taken concurrently) or DESN 30205 (may be taken concurrently) or DESN 31209 (may be taken concurrently) or DESN 30209 (may be taken concurrently)

Course may be repeated.

DESN 30205 ID3: Advanced Product Development (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This intermediate-level studio in industrial design continues a student’s immersion in the product development process with an emphasis on mastery of the core skills of our discipline through a series of shorter projects. The goal of the course is for students to develop fluency in their sketching, form development, 3D modeling, storytelling and presentation skills. The course will emphasize visual brand language, CMF( color, materials and finishes) product semantics, and modern form development while building a strong portfolio of work.

Prerequisites: DESN 21201 or DESN 20201

DESN 30208 3D Digital Production (3 Credit Hours)

Interested in pursuing a career in feature animation, special effects, or video games? This class will be your first step in learning the tools and techniques of 3D digital content creation for the entertainment industry. Students will learn the basics of modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, and rendering using the industry-standard program, Autodesk Maya. Through video tutorials and production lessons, students will get hands-on, practical experience in the major areas of digital content creation in Maya. Students will also learn foundational principles of animation and 3D design through weekly lectures, screenings of feature animated films, and interactive play-throughs of modern console video games. This class will require a significant amount of individual work in the DPAC 3D Animation Lab outside of class time.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art Studio or Design.

DESN 30209 Digital Modeling: 3D Form and Fabrication (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. Digital Surface Modeling is a beginner-to-intermediate level course focused on fundamental approaches to creating 3-dimensional geometry in CAD (Computer Aided Design) software for communicating design intent. The course explores essential elements of design, such as ergonomics, material selection, and manufacturing approaches, while practicing foundational skills in creating surface geometry. While core CAD skills will be the primary focus throughout the semester, we’ll also explore and discuss the value that surfacing brings to product development through a series of lectures, course discussions, and minor assignments.

DESN 30210 Design Research: From Insight to Innovation (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. Research for Impact is an engaging and dynamic course that investigates wicked problems through creative research methods that provide insights and opportunities for project stakeholders to produce lasting change. Students are equipped with essential quantitative and qualitative research skills and methodologies, empowering them to explore, analyze, and help confront complex design challenges. Students will craft inventive research toolkits, which they will utilize in real-world scenarios to uncover deep needs and foster opportunities for a more inclusive design and research process.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKSS - Core Social Science

DESN 30211 Modern Materials: The Sustainability of Designed Objects (3 Credit Hours)

This interdisciplinary course explores the relationship between the production of material goods and their environmental impacts. Modules are designed around specific industries, such as fashion, electronics, furniture, construction, and packaging, allowing students to examine the unique technical, economic, and social conditions in each category. Students will trace products back to raw materials and forward to their "end-of-life" (whether that be re-manufacture, regeneration, or landfill), while employing various techniques for assessing impact. Students will hear from sustainability professionals about their approaches and visit production facilities to see firsthand how goods are made. Significant time in the course is given to an independent project in the West Lake Design Studio, allowing individuals to apply their unique backgrounds and skills to the teardown and redesign of a particular product or service.

DESN 30300 Design for Play (3 Credit Hours)

This interactive course immerses students in the world of analog game design, providing foundational skills applicable across various platforms—from simple preschool card games to kids skill and action, family board and party games, even digital games. Students will learn to think and work within multiple disciplines to design engaging, well-balanced games that extend beyond entertainment into real-world problem-solving. Through a hands-on, play-based approach, students will engage in game-playing and game-testing sessions while exploring key topics such as brainstorming, target market research, narrative development, game mechanics, sketching, and prototyping. The course includes curated readings from established designers, authors, and inventors to supplement learning. Working both independently and collaboratively, students will refine their designs while balancing gameplay mechanics. Students will present their own playable game prototypes which will be showcased at the course’s conclusion.

DESN 30420 Sound and Music Design for Digital Media (3 Credit Hours)

Sound and music for digital media is an often overlooked art form that is critical to the effective telling of a story. Writer-director George Lucas famously said that "sound is 50 percent of the movie-going experience." Director Danny Boyle mentioned in a n interview that "the truth is, for me, it's obvious that 70, 80 percent of a movie is sound. You don't realize it because you can't see it." At its root, sonic design creates mood and setting - it engages the audience on a primal, emotional level, in ways that imagery alone can not achieve. A cleanly recorded and creatively edited sound effects track can immerse an audience in a fictional world. Music, whether used sparingly or in grandiose fashion, can enhance or subvert the visual component of a film or video game to create cinematic magic. Through feature film screenings, video game play-through sessions, and hands-on production assignments using Adobe Audition CC, students will learn how to direct the emotions of an audience through creative recording, mixing, and editing of sound effects and music.

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Art Studio or Design.

DESN 30811 Draping the Design (3 Credit Hours)

Akin to the popular TV show "Project Runway" this class will challenge the students with various costume making projects which they will design, drape the patterns, and create the garments. Sewing experience is recommended, but not required

Corequisites: DESN 31811

DESN 30910 VCD: Advanced Topics: Foundry Field (3 Credit Hours)

This advanced topics course in visual communication design explores identity through the lens of design, community, history, and sport. The class will build on historical research conducted by students in the Baseball In America course in the fall of '22. The class will collaborate with the Centers for Social Concerns, Foundry Field (foundryfield.org), and community partners to examine the history of appropriation, representation, and access in sports and design. Students will implement participatory and co-creative design methods to understand how community involvement in the design process might stimulate dialogue, create a greater sense of community ownership, and empower local advocates in their work toward inclusion, representation, and access.

DESN 31190 Programming for Video Game Development (3 Credit Hours)

The purpose of this course is to provide students with experience in various aspects of programming for video game development. No prior programming experience is necessary and students will proceed at their own pace. In addition to several programming projects that utilize gaming APIs or frameworks, students will also be exposed to level design (map creation), 3D construction techniques, custom textures, sound design, and lighting effects. 3D game development will utilize the Hammer Editor, part of the Half-Life 2 video game modding Software Development Kit (Source SDK) and its associated tools. Additional third-party (and often free) utilities will also be necessary. Students will work on their own or in teams on a final project agreed upon with the instructor. Students will need to provide their own Windows compatible computer or laptop or a Mac running windows under BootCamp.

Prerequisites: DESN 20115 (may be taken concurrently)

DESN 31811 Lab: Draping the Design (0 Credit Hours)

Required lab for DESN 30811: Draping the Design

Corequisites: DESN 30811

DESN 33208 Global Visual Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Visual anthropology involves the cross-cultural study of images in communication and the use of images as a method for doing anthropology. This course proceeds through a non-linear integration of visual themes including water, earth, light, fire, flesh and blood with analytical themes including aesthetics, poetics, violence, history, materiality and subjectivity. We explore still photography, film, and popular media in domains from ethnography, social documentary, war photojournalism, to high art. Students watch, read and write about, and generate visual products of their own in multiple media.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Design.

DESN 33333 Design Anthropology (3 Credit Hours)

As an emergent field of ethnographic theory and methods, design anthropology involves talking to people, figuring out what they want, and creating ways to improve our shared lives. These practices are focused on developing ideas and forms based on people’s needs while anticipating conscious practice and considerate use. Design anthropologists create potentials for future selves, anticipating projected needs and transcending potential limitations. This seminar introduces the emerging phenomenon and ongoing merger of the anthropology of design. It integrates sources in design anthropology, ethnographic design, cultural marketing, and other applied methodologies. We will engage with theoretical discussions, analytical approaches, practicing exercises, and portfolio development to explore the holistic depths of this nascent field.

DESN 40100 Community-Based Design (3 Credit Hours)

Community-Based Design is an advanced Visual Communication Design course that focuses on the design of socially-driven interventions that impact communities at large and small-scale. Students will learn how design might work for, with, and through communities in a way that is empowering and sustainable for existing community advocates and organizations. Students will consider the impacts of extractive, top-down, externally driven interventions that fail to identify or activate local expertise. This course is structured as a hands-on, interdisciplinary studio that might be taken as the capstone for the Collaborative Innovation minor. Complimentary majors such as anthropology, sociology, peace studies or others are invited to join the class. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, stakeholder research, presentations, and in-class work.

DESN 40101 Packaging Design (3 Credit Hours)

Packaging Design is an advanced course that focuses on the design of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional packaging solutions. The course builds on the use of color, typography, imagemaking, and design principles gained in previous courses. Through a rigorous design process, students will explore the role of packaging in consumer markets and society more broadly—including cultural, environmental, and functional impacts. This class is primarily structured around assigned studio problems. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work.

Prerequisites: DESN 21115 or DESN 20115 or DESN 20120 or DESN 21120

DESN 40110 Professional Practice: Visual Communication Design (3 Credit Hours)

Professional Practice is an advanced course and serves as the capstone for all Visual Communication Design majors. The course allows students to explore career paths and develop a cohesive personal brand and portfolio. Students will design several significant, independent projects that exhibit their growing knowledge of design practice, as well as guide students towards relevant career pathways in the design industry. This studio-based course is structured around hands-on projects and exercises, and students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work.

DESN 40120 Visual Communication Design 10: Visualization of Data (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. The course develops an understanding of what data means to humans and how does its visualization helps communicate ideas in the fields of medicine, technology and social sciences. The course touches upon measurement, collection and reporting, analysis but ultimately focuses on visualization. Visualization is when the data comes alive and is ready to be used to communicate a complex concept be it numeric, spatial, process or temporal. Types of data covered in this course include but are not limited to: geographical, cultural, scientific, financial, statistical, meteorological, natural, and transportation data. The goal of the exercises within this course is to understand how data can be used to tell a story as opposed to merely packaging and plotting a set of numbers on a page. The design process is therefore exploring the static, dynamic, interactive or 3-dimensional and performance formats of representation and understand why a certain format is more or less suitable for the nature of data, its analysis and therefore its representation. Students develop an understanding of how the graphics being used must correlate completely with the data and numbers that are being represented. The course traverses through these considerations to understand the various approaches that can be used to bring data to life and allow the viewer to understand a story that is being packaged within the representation. Is there revelation or a deeper understanding of a pattern once your data has been visualized and presented that had not been discovered earlier?

DESN 40121 Interaction Design (3 Credit Hours)

Interaction Design is an advanced course that focuses on the design of interactive systems that might include digital, physical, social, and political factors. Students will gain a deeper understanding of design research methodologies, processes, and prototyping methods for using design to address "wicked problems." This class is primarily structured around assigned studio problems. Interdisciplinary majors are invited to join the class as a means to develop diverse problem-solving perspectives. Collaborative Innovation Minors may take this class to fulfill their capstone requirements. Students will divide their time between lecture, critique, demonstration, presentations and in-class work.

DESN 40200 ID4: Design Strategy and User Experience (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. Design problems are quickly becoming more complex, often extending well beyond “performance” challenges found in traditional design education projects. ID4 will bring together all the elements, principles, and practices of design introduced to you throughout your time here at Notre Dame, from early user research methods through final design refinement. Throughout the semester we’ll explore, practice, and call into question some of the core tenets of Design Thinking. In addition, we’ll introduce elements of design critical for product success, including business planning, leadership through design, and project management. This course is intended to provide a platform to explore two fundamental challenges: 1) Identify problems worth solving, and 2) Envision compelling solutions that add value to the world.

Prerequisites: DESN 20201

Course may be repeated.

DESN 40201 Service Design: Strategies for Social Systems (3 Credit Hours)

Service Design is an interdisciplinary course that explores the theories, methods, and practices involved in designing effective and human centered services. Students will be introduced to key concepts and frameworks used in service design, with a focus on creating seamless and customer-centric experiences at critical touch points. As a capstone course, it combines elements from design thinking, design research, visual communication, and industrial design to develop solutions that meet customer needs and create value for organizations.

DESN 40202 Professional Practices (3 Credit Hours)

MATERIALS FEE. This advanced course offers students an immersive exploration of the industrial design industry, equipping them with the tools they need to successfully navigate their journey into the world of design employment. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to refine their previous design projects, craft a high-caliber professional portfolio, and develop self-promotional materials that are both effective and compelling.

DESN 40207 Strong Suits: The Art, Philosophy and Business of Thom Browne (1 Credit Hour)

This is a one-credit pop-up seminar for students in the College of Arts and Letters and Mendoza College of Business. Admission to the course will be based on a competitive application. We seek a small cohort of students who are interested in a deep interdisciplinary study of a major luxury brand: Thom Browne. Attendance at some evening events will be required, corresponding to campus events with Browne. Over six seminar sessions, we will speak with experts from different aspects of the enterprise. Potential topics include: - Craft: The history of suiting, how suits are designed and manufactured, and what differentiates mass market, high-end, and haute couture suiting. - "Reading" haute couture fashion and understanding innovation in haute couture. - Gender, capitalism, and the office "uniform" - philosophical questions raised by Thom Browne's suits. - The business strategy of artist-owned luxury brands. - Fashion writing and criticism, and the role it plays in shaping popular culture. - Dressing athletes - the connection between sports, fashion, and American ideals. Students will be expected to work through a collection of readings and media on Thom Browne's design to familiarize themselves with the work and key questions before the seminar. Work will involve preparation for discussions with experts during each of the seminar sessions, culminating in a visit with Thom Browne to the course. Students will also write a short critical, creative, or appreciative piece on some aspect of luxury fashion using a concept learned in the seminar.

DESN 40655 Technical Concepts of Visual Effects (3 Credit Hours)

This class seeks to introduce students to some basic concepts of computer-generated imagery as it is used in the field of visual effects, and to delve into some of the technical underpinnings of the field. While some focus will rely on artistic critique and evaluation, most of the emphasis of the class will be placed on understanding fundamental concepts of 3d modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, and compositing. Those who excel in the visual effects industry are those who have both a strong aesthetic sense coupled with a solid understanding of what the software being used is doing "under the hood." This class, therefore, will seek to stress both aspects of the industry. From a methodology standpoint, the class will consist of lectures, several projects that will be worked on both in-class and out of class, scripting, many tutorials, and open discussion.

Prerequisites: DESN 31205

DESN 41208 Advanced 3D Digital Production (3 Credit Hours)

You have learned the basics of 3D digital production in Maya, and your insatiable thirst for digital content creation cannot be quenched. Welcome to the next level---Advanced 3D Digital Production! In this class, you will move beyond the fundamentals of 3D production and tackle advanced concepts such as complex object and character creation, digital sculpting, high dynamic range (HDRI) image-based lighting, key frame and motion captured character animation, and more. You will create a portfolio of high quality #D assets which you can use for graduate school and job applications. You will dig deeper into the Maya toolset as well as learn new programs such as Mudbox and Motion Builder. Students will be treated as professional 3D artists, and expectations for timely, quality final deliverables will be high.

DESN 45310 Design Internship (1-3 Credit Hours)

Permission required. This course provides an opportunity for the design student to earn credit at an approved design office.

Course may be repeated.

DESN 46173 Special Studies - Visual Comm. Design (1 -2 Credits Only) (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in visual communication design under the direction of an individual faculty member.

DESN 46271 Special Studies - Industrial Design (1 -2 Credits Only) (1-2 Credit Hours)

Independent study in industrial design under the direction of an individual faculty member.

DESN 47171 Visual Communication Design 14: Undergraduate special studies (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in graphic design: research or creative projects.

Course may be repeated.

DESN 47173 Special Studies-Graphic Design (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in graphic design: research or creative projects.

Course may be repeated.

DESN 47174 Special Studies - Graphic Design (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in graphic design: research or creative projects.

DESN 47203 Design Matters: Intro to Design Thinking (3 Credit Hours)

For non-degree international students only. Design has come more and more to describe not only the development of objects but the process by which one shapes the interactions and experiences of people with the systems, services, and organizations around us. A deeply human-centered approach to problem-solving, design thinking is centered around identifying and reframing complex problems, and solving them through a more creative, iterative, and hands-on approach. This course will follow a series of overlapping modules that will introduce the student to the various steps employed in the design thinking process and becoming familiar with the tools and methodologies used. The course will feature a hybrid seminar format with lectures and case studies followed by hands-on exercises and practical applications of the theories in the form of team projects. Students will be able to apply this methodology to problems of a variety of disciplines from science and engineering to business and the liberal arts. This course will be taught as a hybrid of synchronous online live meetings and asynchronous coursework

DESN 47271 Special Studies--Product Design (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in product design: research or creative projects.

Course may be repeated.

DESN 47272 Special Studies-Product Design (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in product design under the direction of an individual faculty member.

DESN 47273 Special Studies-Product Design (1-3 Credit Hours)

Independent study in product design under the direction of an individual faculty member.

DESN 47871 BA Thesis Project (3 Credit Hours)

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Art Studio or Design.

DESN 48101 BFA Thesis - Visual Communication Design (3 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in graphic design, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

DESN 48103 Visual Communication Design 15: BFA thesis research and concept development (6 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in graphic design, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

Course may be repeated.

DESN 48201 BFA Thesis - Product Design (3 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in industrial design, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

DESN 48203 BFA Thesis - Product Design (6 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is defined by an independent thesis project, continuing for two semesters during the senior year. The thesis is a personal visual statement that is the culmination of a student's collective development within the department and can be the extension of an ongoing body of work or a defining project. A written statement defining the project, which is due at the end of the first senior semester, supports the thesis project. The thesis project culminates in the second senior semester with a thesis exhibition. The student signs up with a faculty member working in graphic design, who serves as an advisor for the thesis project.

Course may be repeated.

DESN 48204 BFA Thesis - Product Design (6 Credit Hours)

The BFA Thesis is the culmination of the honors program in design, with candidates completing a 6 credit independent thesis project under a faculty advisor’s supervision in their senior year. The thesis represents an opportunity for the student to conduct independent research on a topic of their choice, identifying the research questions, establishing the methodology, and executing a design project that meets the highest standards of the degree program. Students select and must be accepted by a faculty advisor working in the student’s area of interest to meet regularly with throughout the year. The thesis concludes in the spring semester with the BFA Thesis Exhibition for which students must mount an exhibit of their project.

Course may be repeated.