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LA400: Seminar Thesis [3 CREDITS] FINAL SEMESTER
This is a capstone class in which students use their own artwork as a starting point for a semester of intellectual inquiry, culminating in a written paper and a public oral presentation. This process involves critical reflection on the content, medium, process, purpose, and significance of the work; the exploration and analysis of its symbolic language; and, finally, the contextualization of the work in terms of theory and the artistic, historical, and cultural tradition. Students are expected to use sound research methodology for acquiring and using relevant information from many sources and to collectively discuss each other’s work.
Mathematics Courses
Sciences Courses
Social Sciences Courses
NS210: Science of Art Conservation [3 CREDITS]
SS301a: Teaching Artist: Theory and Methods
Introduction to the scientific processes related to
[3 CREDITS]
conservation, maintenance, and repair of art works
This course engages students in the theory and
in various media, including painting, works on paper,
practice of the Teaching Artist in the schools and
photography, textiles, and other objects. Topics
community. Students explore teaching and learning
include the chemical composition of materials, effects
in a historical and contemporary context, applying
of light and the environment, and analysis of fakes
theory in both arts-infused peer presentations and
and forgeries.
direct team teaching in the classroom. Teaching artists, arts administrators, and leaders in the art
NS320: Botany Through Art
education community present models of teacher artist
[3 CREDITS]
collaborations, inquiry based learning, arts-infused
Examination of the diversity of form, structure,
curriculum, classroom management strategies, and
and function in plants and fungi, with emphasis
school culture. The course provides the opportunity
on flowering plants. Plants from a variety of plant
for classroom observation and participation and
MA214: Visual Geometry
groups are examined in detail, emphasizing their
introduces students to teaching artist residency
[3 CREDITS]
basic structures and adaptations for survival and
opportunities.
A general introduction to mathematical modeling,
reproduction. Biogeography and the connection
abstraction, and generalization. Drawing and
to humans are discussed. Drawing is used for
SS310: Cultural Anthropology
three-dimensional models are used to simulate the
documentation and analysis of plant structures.
[3 CREDITS]
language and structure of mathematical systems
This course deals in depth with the fundamental
used in the visual arts. The interrelationship between
elements of culture, including subsistence strategies,
mathematics, art, and culture is explored. The
kinship, marriage and gender, social stratification,
course explores such topics as linear perspective, an
politics and law, religion, and ritual. Case studies of
introduction to the principles of geometry through
cultures existing in the modern world are the primary
drawing, and both traditional and non-traditional
focus for the course.
methods of representation.