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ART131A Drawing I

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  • CRN: 23796
  • Credits: 4
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Class materials

Textbooks

No textbooks required

Details about this class

Course Description

Introduces visual language of drawing, basic perceptual drawing techniques, media, and tools. Explores personal expression and creative problem-solving skills of sighting, measuring, composing, and constructing in drawing. Presents foundational vocabulary to discuss and evaluate drawings within diverse historical and contemporary cultural contexts. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

Hands on studio art class focusing on drawing projects. Includes some written assignments. Instructor demonstrations, slides, lectures, video/films or occasional fieldtrips may be included. Homework will be assigned in the form of individual exploration of the concepts and processes introduced in class.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  • Apply a variety of beginning-level creative strategies for solving visual and conceptual problems.
  • Utilize appropriate vocabulary in critical dialogue about historical and contemporary drawing from personal and diverse cultural perspectives.
  • Express connections to personal and cultural experience through drawing.
  • Compare and contextualize personal artwork to another artist’s artwork. 
  • Critique one’s own drawings and drawings by others in relation to drawing history, cultural practices and standards.

Technology

Need a laptop, phone, or computer to have access to D2L. 

No show policy

Your instructor can mark you as a "no show" if you do not participate in your class during the first week. This will remove you from the class.

Students with disabilities

Students with disabilities should notify their instructor if accommodations are needed to take this class. For information about technologies that help people with disabilities taking Online based classes please visit the Disability Services website.