Art

Description for ART100:
The course teaches students to begin to understand the processes of artistic creation. It enables the student to grasp the expressive content of works of art in a wide variety of media and to analyze how the artist creates his/her effect. It is not an historical survey. Through lectures, discussions, field trips, and museum visits, the student studies paintings, sculptures, and buildings; examples are chosen as often as possible from the Boston area. The course addresses such concepts as elements of composition, rhythm, symmetry, and space; and the possibilities of differing interpretations of subject matter. It offers a solid introduction to the arts by developing the student’s ability to see and analyze forms as the result of aesthetic and interpretive decisions. (Course offered in CCDE.)

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ART101:
The course offers an historical survey of art and architecture of the ancient world, giving particular emphasis to Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures. Students are also introduced to the arts in Medieval Europe, with a special focus on the Romanesque and Gothic styles. (Course offered in the fall only.)

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ART102:
An historical survey of Western art and architecture from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. The course deals with different aspects of the art of the Renaissance in Italy and the North, the Baroque and Rococo, Neoclassicism and Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism. (Course offered in the spring only.)

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ART210:
This course surveys the art and architecture of societies where Muslims were dominant or where they formed significant minorities from the 7th through the 20th centuries. It examines the form and function of architecture and works of art as well as the social, historical and cultural contexts, patterns of use, and evolving meanings attributed to art by the users. The course follows a chronological order, where selected visual materials are treated along chosen themes. Themes include the creation of a distinctive visual culture in the emerging Islamic polity; the development of urban institutions; key architectural types such as the mosque, madrasa, caravanserai, palace and mausoleum; art objects and the arts of the illustrated book; cultural interconnections along trade and pilgrimage routes; westernization and modernization in art and architecture.

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Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ART252:
A historical survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Boston from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Emphasis is given to the principal theories and intellectual currents that shaped American art. Topics include an analysis of Puritan aesthetics, the search for an American style, eclecticism and diversity in the nineteenth century, and Boston Impressionism. (Course offered in the summer only.)

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ART281:
A comprehensive introduction to basic materials and techniques, with emphasis on drawing as a primary means for the description and interpretation of people and their environment. Problems in still life, landscape, and life drawing. Fundamentals of visual language are also addressed.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $20
Total: $980

Description for ART281:
A comprehensive introduction to basic materials and techniques, with emphasis on drawing as a primary means for the description and interpretation of people and their environment. Problems in still life, landscape, and life drawing. Fundamentals of visual language are also addressed.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $20
Total: $980

Description for ART281:
A comprehensive introduction to basic materials and techniques, with emphasis on drawing as a primary means for the description and interpretation of people and their environment. Problems in still life, landscape, and life drawing. Fundamentals of visual language are also addressed.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $20
Total: $980

Description for ART286:
Intro to Sculpture introduces the concepts, processes, and materials that form the foundation and evolving definition of sculpture. It will explore the autobiographical, aesthetic, conceptual, and formal possibilities through the sculpture making practice, including video, installation, public art, object based works, and performance. It involves the practice of learning to see through the activity of making sculpture. This class will act as an introductory forum for students engaged in the exploration of possibilities in sculpture and will push students to question conventional ideas about contemporary art and sculpture and define it for themselves. It will challenge every student to develop a critical self-awareness about this or her own work and better understand the issues and contexts that inform artmaking in todays world.

Academic Information:
Credits: 4
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $1280
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1280

Description for ART293:
An introduction to basic issues in photography. The mechanics of the camera, the techniques of the darkroom, and matters of creative and personal import are addressed through illustrated lectures, class critiques, and assigned lab hours. Some attention is given to the history of photography.

Prerequisite: ART majors, or students with less than 90 degree credits.

Academic Information:
Credits: 4
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $1280
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1280

Description for ART293:
An introduction to basic issues in photography. The mechanics of the camera, the techniques of the darkroom, and matters of creative and personal import are addressed through illustrated lectures, class critiques, and assigned lab hours. Some attention is given to the history of photography.

Prerequisite: ART majors, or students with less than 90 degree credits.

Academic Information:
Credits: 0
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $0
Lab Fee: $60
Total: $60