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ART231A Drawing II

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  • CRN: 23797
  • Credits: 4
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Textbooks

No textbooks required

Details about this class

Course Description

Builds upon visual language of drawing, basic perceptual drawing techniques, media, and tools. Further explores personal expression and creative problem solving skills of sighting, measuring, composing, and constructing in drawing. Further expands vocabulary to discuss and evaluate drawings within diverse historical and contemporary cultural contexts. Prerequisites: ART 131. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

Hands on studio art class focusing on drawing projects. Includes some written assignments and homework projects. Instructor demonstrations, slides, lectures, video/films or occasional fieldtrips may be included.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  • Create drawings through appropriate application of standards, techniques, and practices at the intermediate level.
  • Utilize intermediate-level vocabulary in critical dialogue about historical and contemporary drawing from personal and diverse cultural perspectives.
  • Express personal experience through drawing, in context of established standards of diverse contemporary and historical works of art.
  • Broaden awareness of cultural contextualization through personal work.
  • Critique one’s own drawings and drawings by others in relation to drawing history, cultural practices and standards.

Technology

Need access to a laptop, computer, or phone to view the course through 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.