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FS 246 Scene Painting I (Fall: 3) Crystal Tiala FS 248 Computer Aided Drafting (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with CT 248, CO 248 See course description in the Theater Department. Crystal Tiala FS 261 Photography II (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: FS 161 or permission of the instructor Lab fee required. This course is for students with a strong commitment to photography as a creative discipline. The class will emphasize understanding and mastering the aesthetic and technical relationships among light, film, and camera, as well as the development of a personal photographic vision. The class will serve as a forum for critiquing work, for presenting historical and contemporary movements in photography and the development of a visual literacy, and for demonstrating photographic processes and equipment. Students are expected to produce work in a series and to present a final portfolio. Charles Meyer FS 267 Experimental Photography (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: FS 161 or permission of the instructor Lab fee required. This will be a one-semester course for those interested in photography as a personally expressive medium. Encouragement will be given to the student artist through non-standard application of photographic principles. Topics available for discussion include Sabettier effect, high contrast, hand-applied color, toning, photogram, multiple printing, and reticulation. Significant work outside class will be expected. Karl Baden FS 276 Art and Digital Technology (Fall/Spring: 3) Cross Listed with CO 204 Lab fee required. This introductory course will offer students the opportunity to develop their visual imagination and their artistic skills through the use of digital technology. Adobe Photoshop and preliminary work with Illustrator will offer the principles of composition and two- dimensional design. Computer-aided drawing and design, as well as photo imaging, will be an integral part of the course. The various skills of graphic expression learned in the course will have an Internet application. Karl Baden FS 303 Drawing and New Media (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Two studio art courses, one of which should be a drawing course, or permission of the instructor Lab fee required. Advanced-intermediate level class. Traditional drawing approaches will be transformed by exploring varieties of technical and material choices available to twenty first-century artists. Emphasis is placed on art making as synthesis of media, subject, concept, where technology is viewed as a means for manisfesting individual artistic vision. Projects incorporate hand on mark-making and introduction to programs Adobe photoshop and Dreamweaver. While surveying possibilities of web art, digital manipulation and printing techniques, students are encouraged to seek non-conventional approaches and tools for artistic problem solving. Gallery visits, web assignments, readings, slide lectures, expose students to contempory artist who use new media technologies. Sheila Gallagher FS 304 The Figure in Context (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Two of the following: FS 101, FS 203, FS 204 or permission of instructor This drawing course uses the human figure to expand the students abilities in the direction of more conceptual and more anaytical drawing skills. It is only recommended for the student with previous experience drawing the figure. Students will use a variety of media to examine the human form through traditional and non-traditional approaches. Studio work will include finished drawings from observing the model, as well as studies from reproductions of art, memory and imagination. Specific attention is placed on examining the figure through a broad variety of art historical and cultural resources. Sheila Gallagher FS 305 Collage and Mixed Media (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: At least two art courses at the 200 level or above or permission of instructor Lab fee required. Through a series of exercises and projects that use a variety of non-traditional materials and alternative techniques (photocopy, transfers, stamping, etc.), students will explore the history and techniques of collage and mixed media assemblage. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the meaning of materials. Students will have regular exposure to artists processes and imagery since 1945. Sheila Gallagher FS 323 Painting IV: Landscape (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: FS 223 and FS 224 Lab fee required. Designed for advanced level student who is familiar with the fundamentals of painting, this course will encourage students to strengthen their technical and conceptual skills to achieve an increasingly sophisticated level of mastery. Landscape, still life and photographic source material, students will work to achieve a clear and unique representations of their ideas. Through slide lectures, readings and field trips, students will become aquainted with ideologies and practices important to contemporary artists. Emphasis will be placed on the development of personal imagery. Mary Armstrong FS 324 Painting V: The Figure (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: FS 223-224 or permission of the instructor Lab fee required. Upper level class assumes the student has working knowledge of painting techniques and a growing understanding of contempory and historical issues. Explores the body as a source for image making and a vehicle for improving technical skills, seeing and most importantly, as subject matter for developing personal vision. Although models are available for 2/3 of the studio time, this is not a course in anatomical figure painting. We will explore political, gender issues, formal problems and personal expression with the figure/body as the starting point. Students are expected to work from observation and other means to develop their own interests. Andrew Tavarelli FS 325 Studio/Critical Issues (Spring: 3) Requirement for Studio Art minors. This course comprises hands on studio work and readings that address contemporary issues in the visual arts. It is an upper level class for those with a serious interest in art making and visual thinking. Students are expected to work in a medium of their choice with which they are familiar. Studio assignments will be developed out of the issues ARTS AND SCIENCES The Boston College Catalog 2006-2007 133

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