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Course Descriptions
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AR 5200 Survey of Arts Projects, Programs and Technology - 3 credits
An overview of art projects, programs and technologies, this survey course acquaints the student with a wide variety of integrated arts experiences that have been successfully implemented into a wide range of educational, cultural and recreational settings. Commonalties between projects and programs will be examined, as will the qualities that make them unique. The latest in art technologies will also be surveyed in order to expose students to new possibilities in arts integration through technology.
AR 5300 The Arts in Society - 3 credits
An exploration of the relationship of the creative artist and the arts (visual arts, theatre, music) to society is addressed. The changing role of the arts will be considered within the context of the socioeconomic, historical, political and cultural forces that shape them. Particular attention will be given to the societal values that mold and are expressed by the arts in a range of cultures, both East and West. The role of the artist as a force in cultural change also will be studied. Summers.
AR 5400 Papermaking as an Expressive Art Form - 3 credits
Explores the many possibilities of combining paper pulps and fibers to be used as expressive 2-D and 3-D art mediums and utilizes the traditional processes and materials of hand papermaking. Considers paper-making as a component of the visual arts language system while exploring the many roles the visual arts play in the design and implementation of an integrated arts curriculum. Summers.
AR 5560 Special Topics in Art - 3 credits
This course provides a specialized offering by an off-campus specialist in a specific studio method. Students will participate in an intensive hands-on studio experience running for six days and five evenings. A departmental faculty supervisor and technician will be assisting the specialist in guiding the students in a focused environment. Students may repeat this course when offered under a different topic title. Summers.
AR 5700 Curriculum Development and Assessment in the Arts - 3 credits
Curriculum design, implementation and assessment for curriculum developers, supervisors, educators and students in the arts will be addressed. The course provides an introduction to the goals, history, content, theory and practice of arts curriculum in public education as an independent discipline and an integrated component of a child’s education. Participants will develop a working knowledge of the field through the development of balanced, discipline-based curriculum and assessment models for the arts which may be adapted to specific school sites. Summers.
AR 5910 Independent Study in Art - 1–3 credits
Advanced work in a limited area of studio art, art history or art education, selected and carried on in consultation with an Art faculty advisor. Consent of a faculty supervisor, the department chair and the Associate Vice President is required.
EP 7090 Critical Perspectives for Arts Advocacy - 3 credits
To be an advocate of the arts must mean in some degree to have given thought to the very nature of the arts and their function in human development and culture. This course attempts through reading, discussion, writing and forms of “doing art” to broadly circumscribe the nature of the arts and their function within the human experience. The readings will help facilitate seminar discussions designed to explore a variety of views about how the arts, once identified and defined within human experience and culture, contribute to human flourishing by opening up a more encompassing range of choices and possibilities. To be an advocate for the arts in this sense is to realize the intimate connections that the arts evoke, as well as to encourage the expansion of social vision through public forms of conduct and communication.
