Patrick Quinn, Ph.D., Dean
Donald Will, Ph.D., Associate Dean
Ann Gordon, Ph.D, Associate Dean
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences invites you to explore the liberal arts with our vibrant intellectual community where award–winning faculty and students work together to advance their respective fields of knowledge and to make a difference in the world.
Take part in the collaborative student–faculty research, internships, community service, travel courses and study abroad, student clubs and organizations, and several lecture series that extend learning beyond the classroom. We provide a network of advising and support for undeclared majors during this exciting time of discovery. Wilkinson College community welcomes you to explore how we can support your learning and development.
Eric Chimenti, M.F.A., Chair
Professors: Salmond;
Associate Professor: Chimenti;
Assistant Professors: Berens, Halloran, Hebron, Jaenichen, Kiddie, Leopardi, Walsh.
Bachelor of Arts in Art History
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
Admittance to the department and programs is by departmental application and review.
The mission of the department of art is to educate students about the images and objects that influence their perceptions of contemporary life and to prepare them to participate in shaping the world. The curriculum of the art department prepares students for graduate studies in art history and studio art and to work professionally as graphic designers.
Departmental Opportunities
Departmental Honors
The art department faculty awards departmental honors to students who have produced outstanding work in their area. Requirements for consideration are a departmental GPA of 3.500, a proven and sustained investment in creative, intellectual, and scholarly inquiry and demonstration of original and critical thinking in all department academic work culminating in final exhibition of work, final portfolio, or final draft and presentation of a senior thesis.
Grading Policy
All courses in the major must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a "C" or higher, unless specifically noted.
The BA in art history allows students to explore the arts within a broad historical and cultural context. It is an excellent preparation for graduate school and for art–related careers. A minimum of 21 credits must be in upper–division.
requirements (21 credits)
Art and Text |
3 |
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Ancient to Medieval Art* |
3 |
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Renaissance to Modern Art* |
3 |
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Art of India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia |
3 |
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Exchange and Evolution in the Arts of China and Japan |
3 |
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Junior Seminar: Art History |
3 |
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Senior Thesis in Art History |
3 |
*AP placement of 4 or 5 may waive one of the western surveys
seven of the following (21 credits)
Art and Gender in Antiquity: Women's Beauty and Men's Power in Greek and Roman Art |
3 |
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Love and Death in Ancient Egypt |
3 |
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The Age of the Great Gothic Cathedrals: Medieval Art and Culture |
3 |
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Art, Politics and Murder: 15th and 16th Century Florence and the Medici |
3 |
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Art and the Senses: Visual Culture of the Most Serene Republic of Venice in the 15th and 16th Century |
3 |
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Princely Art: Renaissance Court Art and Culture of Mantua, Milan, Ferrara and Rome |
3 |
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Rethinking Renaissance Visual Culture: 15th and 16th Century Florence, Rome and Venice |
3 |
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Baroque Art |
3 |
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Nineteenth Century Art |
3 |
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Modern Art |
3 |
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Northern Renaissance Art |
3 |
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History of Photography |
3 |
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Contemporary Art: 1945 to 1970 |
3 |
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Contemporary Art: 1970 to the Present |
3 |
|
History of Graphic Design |
3 |
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Change and Exchange in the Contemporary Arts of China, Korea and Japan |
3 |
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Change and Exchange in the Contemporary Arts of South Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia |
3 |
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Artists as Leaders: Creating Art, Creating Change |
3 |
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Modern Russian Art |
3 |
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Art |
3 |
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Modernism |
3 |
|
Gender, Art, and Western Culture |
3 |
two studio courses |
6 |
total credits |
|
48 |
The BFA in art prepares students for a professional career in the field of contemporary visual art, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary practice. Graduates will be cultural producers fluent in technical, theoretical and professional components of a 21st century artistic practice. Graduates will be prepared to compete in the field of visual art, where they make their contribution as artists, curators, critics, gallerists, teacher, or fabricators. A minimum of 30 credits must be at the upper-division level.
core requirements (24 credits)
Ceramics: Form and Surface |
3 |
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Photographic Imaging |
3 |
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Digital Imaging |
3 |
|
Objects and Space |
3 |
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Painting and Mark Making |
3 |
|
Drawing and Planning |
3 |
|
Art and Text |
3 |
|
Contemporary Gallery Practices |
3 |
advanced requirements (21 credits)
21st Century Art |
3 |
|
Curatorial Practice |
3 |
|
Interdisciplinary Art Production |
3 |
|
Collaborative Projects |
3 |
|
Concepts in Contemporary Art |
3 |
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Modernism |
3 |
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Advanced Art: Critique and Exhibition |
3 |
four advanced, medium-specific studio courses (in at least two disciplines) |
12 |
elective (3 credits)
one of the following
|
300 level art history course |
3 |
Visual Culture |
3 |
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Language and Power |
3 |
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Images of American History |
3 |
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Technology and the Media in the United States |
3 |
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Independent Internship |
3 |
total credits |
|
60 |
The BFA in graphic design is for students wishing to pursue graphic design in the larger context of professional applications and practices. Rigorous sequence of design studio classes is combined with courses that explore the history and theory of the discipline as well as the necessary techniques and software relevant to the field. The BFA prepares students for professional employment in the various fields of graphic design.
requirements (63 credits)
Objects and Space |
3 |
|
Drawing and Planning |
3 |
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Visualization – Perspective and Rendering |
3 |
|
Art and Text |
3 |
|
Introduction to Graphic Design* |
3 |
|
Typography* |
3 |
|
Color |
3 |
|
Packaging Design |
3 |
|
Introduction to Information Design |
3 |
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Advertising Design |
3 |
|
Graphic Design |
3 |
|
Web Design |
3 |
|
Advanced Typography |
3 |
|
Book Design |
3 |
|
History of Graphic Design |
3 |
|
Junior Seminar: Graphic Design |
3 |
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Advanced Graphic Design |
3 |
|
Motion Design |
3 |
|
Advanced Web Design |
3 |
|
Business Practices/Seminar Internship |
3 |
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Graphic Design Portfolio/Seminar Internship |
3 |
*Students must receive a grade of "B" or higher in ART 230 and 231 before they can enroll in subsequent graphic design courses. |
two art history courses |
6 |
three of the following (9 credits)
Foundation Course in Ceramics |
3 |
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Photographic Imaging |
3 |
|
Painting and Mark Making |
3 |
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Introduction to Book Arts |
3 |
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Introduction to Life Drawing |
3 |
|
Illustration |
3 |
|
Sustainable Design Principles (Travel Course) |
3 |
total credits |
|
78 |
Minor in Art
A minor in art is designed for students seeking an exposure to art as an integral part of their liberal arts degree. The program allows students to explore the practice, history and theory of the arts. A minimum of 24 credits, at least 9 of which must be upper-division, are required for a minor in art. The art minor is available to all students at Chapman University with a departmental application and portfolio review.
two of the following (6 credits)
Drawing and Planning |
3 |
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Art and Text |
3 |
|
Ancient to Medieval Art |
3 |
|
Renaissance to Modern Art |
3 |
|
Art of India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia |
3 |
|
Contemporary Gallery Practices |
3 |
one of the following (3 credits)
Contemporary Art: 1945 to 1970 |
3 |
|
Contemporary Art; 1970 to Present |
3 |
|
Change and Exchange in the Contemporary Arts of China, Korea and Japan |
3 |
|
Change and Exchange in the Contemporary Arts of South Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia |
3 |
|
Modernism |
3 |
|
BA Senior Seminar |
3 |
five of the following (15 credits)
Foundation Course in Ceramics |
3 |
|
Ceramics: Form and Surface |
3 |
|
Photographic Imaging |
3 |
|
Digital Imaging |
3 |
|
Objects and Space |
3 |
|
Painting and Mark Making |
3 |
|
Introduction to Life Drawing |
3 |
|
Intermediate Painting |
3 |
|
Intermediate Ceramics |
3 |
|
Life Drawing |
3 |
|
Advanced Painting |
3 |
|
Advanced Sculpture |
3 |
|
Advanced Ceramics |
3 |
|
Color Photography |
3 |
|
Topics in Photography |
3 |
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Advanced Photography |
3 |
|
Digital Photography |
3 |
|
Video Art |
3 |
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New Genres: Video, Installation and Performance Art |
3 |
total credits |
|
24 |
Minor in Art History
The art history minor is available to all students at Chapman University without departmental application. However, before enrolling in certain courses, students will have to formally declare the associated minor, complete required prerequisites and/or get faculty approval. A minimum of 24 credits, 9 of which must be upper division, are required for a minor in art history. The art history minor is only for students majoring in another discipline outside the Department of Art.
two of the following (6 credits)
Ancient to Medieval Art |
3 |
|
Renaissance to Modern Art |
3 |
|
Art of India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia |
3 |
|
Exchange and Evolution in the Arts of China and Japan |
3 |
six of the following (18 credits)
Art and Text |
3 |
|
Independent Internship |
3 |
|
Contemporary Gallery Practice |
3 |
|
Experimental Course (in Art History) |
3 |
|
Art and Gender in Antiquity: Women's Beauty and Men's Power in Greek and Roman Art |
3 |
|
Love and Death in Ancient Egypt |
3 |
|
The Age of the Great Gothic Cathedrals: Medieval Art and Culture |
3 |
|
Art, Politics and Murder: 15th and 16th Century Florence and the Medici |
3 |
|
Art and the Senses: Visual Culture of the Most Serene Republic of Venice in the 15th and 16th Century |
3 |
|
Princely Art: Renaissance Court Art and Culture of Mantua, Milan, Ferrara, and Rome |
3 |
|
Rethinking Renaissance Visual Culture: 15th and 16th Century Florence, Rome and Venice |
3 |
|
Baroque Art |
3 |
|
Nineteenth Century Art |
3 |
|
Modern Art |
3 |
|
Northern Renaissance Art |
3 |
|
History of Photography |
3 |
|
Contemporary Art: 1945 to 1970 |
3 |
|
Contemporary Art: 1970 to Present |
3 |
|
History of Graphic Design |
3 |
|
Change and Exchange in the Contemporary Arts of China, Korea and Japan |
3 |
|
Change and Exchange in the Contemporary Arts of South Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia |
3 |
|
Artists as Leaders: Creating Art, Creating Change |
3 |
|
Modern Russian Art |
3 |
|
Soviet and Post-Soviet Art |
3 |
|
Junior Seminar: Art History |
3 |
|
Gender, Art, and Western Culture |
3 |
|
Independent Internship |
1-3 |
total credits |
|
24 |
Minor in Graphic Design
The graphic design minor is available to all students at Chapman University with a departmental application and portfolio review. A student must provide eight examples of art and/or design work they have completed and a one-page written rationale describing their interest in a graphic design minor. The full-time graphic design faculty will review the application for approval. Before enrolling in graphic design courses, students have to formally declare the associated minor, complete required prerequisites and/or get faculty approval. A minimum of 24 credits, at least 9 of which must be upper-division, are required for a minor in graphic design. The graphic design minor is only for students majoring in another discipline.
five of the following (15 credits)
Drawing and Planning |
3 |
|
Introduction to Graphic Design |
3 |
|
Typography |
3 |
|
Web Design |
3 |
|
History of Graphic Design |
3 |
three of the following (9 credits)
Objects and Space |
3 |
|
Color |
3 |
|
Packaging Design |
3 |
|
Introduction to Information Design |
3 |
|
Advertising Design |
3 |
|
Graphic Design |
3 |
|
Illustration |
3 |
|
Advanced Typography |
3 |
|
Book Design |
3 |
|
Advanced Graphic Design |
3 |
|
Motion Design |
3 |
|
Advanced Web Design |
3 |
|
Business Practices/Seminar Internship |
3 |
|
Graphic Design Portfolio/Seminar Internship |
3 |
total credits |
|
24 |
Students interested in becoming secondary school teachers in art should contact the College of Educational Studies.
Introduction to the technology, history, and theory of the ceramic arts. Students will learn basic hand building, wheel throwing, glazing, firing, and the vocabulary applicable to the construction of ceramic pottery and sculpture. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
An introduction to the materiality of clay and an array of foundational forming and firing processes pertaining to the ceramics medium. Projects will apply hand-building, wheel throwing, casting, glazing and firing methods in explorations of vessel, figurative, abstract and installation work. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
In this course students acquire the technical skills and learn the formal qualities essential to producing black and white photographs. Emphasis is placed on basic camera and darkroom techniques and the exploration of the history and theory of photography combined with a discussion of the photographic image as it relates to contemporary and historical artistic practice. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
An introduction to digital media as a means of artistic expression and conceptualization. Students will be instructed in digital imaging techniques including compositing and appropriation. Students will work with time-based media, such as video and sound, and learn how to use the web as a means of distribution. This course familiarizes students with the interfaces of commonly used digital media programs, including Photoshop and Final Cut. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
An introduction to fundamentals of design, materiality, and presentation of sculptural objects. Fabrication methods in a variety of materials (wood, metal, plaster, found objects) will be explored. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
An exploration highlighting the of materiality paint and the physicality of mark making. Students are introduced to color theory, glazing, impasto, figuration, and abstraction. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
An examination of the variety of ways drawing is utilized in various mediums (painting, design, sculpture, video) and as a tool for understanding fundamental formal principles. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 110. Students will learn to visualize through such techniques as thumbnails, comping, and spatial rendering. Study units include grids, 1 and 2 point perspective, shading, color, shadows, reflections, rapid indication, the visualization process, graphic expression, and graphic creation. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Required of all freshman art majors this course provides students with the vocabulary for talking and writing about the visual arts, with the goal of making them active viewers and producers of visual culture. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1–6 credits.
This course will give the student an overview of the Book Arts including both sewn and non-sewn book structures. The study of paper and printmaking in the context of books will also be covered. Other techniques such as marbling paper, image-transfers, textual treatments, pop-ups, altered books, and collage will also be introduced as time and interest allows. Emphasis on both concept and structure will allow students to generate ideas in order to design and execute finished book works. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 111, or consent of instructor. Students develop basic drawing skills and visual awareness through drawing from models. Line quality, textural character, proportion, and chiaroscuro are emphasized using such media as charcoal, pencil, powdered graphite, ink, and conte crayon. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 112, or consent of instructor. The course develops increased sophistication in the use of a variety of painting mediums including acrylics, oils, and mixed media. The emphasis is on contemporary painting and strives to move students toward individual directions in form and content via instruction in technique in a variety of painting materials and exposure to the work of influential contemporary painters, art critics, and theoreticians. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 115, or 116, or consent of instructor. Continued exploration in ceramics working in variety of fabrication and glazing methods including wheel throwing, hand building, slip casting, mold making, glaze formulation, and kiln firing. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits.
Prerequisites, Graphic design majors, ART 124, 132, or consent of instructor. Corequisite, ART 231. This course is an introduction to graphic design as a production tool. Course includes instruction in the discipline of graphic design and in Macintosh Adobe computer skills as well as use of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 110, 111, or consent of instructor. Corequisite, ART 230. This course is an introduction to the vocabulary, anatomy, and creation of typography and its history of printing methods. Course projects evolve in progression—for example, initial projects will explore hand-carved lettering and calligraphy working towards computer generated projects. This course begins as a micro investigation of individual type anatomy and progresses to a macro study of continuous text and multi-page layout. Study objectives include “found type” in a vernacular, an introduction to semantics, and foundations specific to typography such as defining a grid, font development, and appropriate use of type styles. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 230. This course explores the application and theory of color in multimedia areas including the visual arts, web, motion graphics, digital photography, and especially graphic design. The perceptual, symbolic, and psychological nature of color in historical and contemporary usage will be explored within the boundaries of technological progression. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 210, 230, 231, or consent of instructor. This is an introductory course exploring 3-dimensional packaging design, including the history of packaging, legislation mandates, production, environmental issues, as well as paper/material selection. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 230, 231, or consent of instructor. This is an introductory course presenting graphic design students with specific terminology, theory, case studies, and projects in information design. Study objectives include a comprehensive introduction to semiotics and icon design, wayfinding, inclusive and participatory design, semantics and the U.S. Plain Language legislation, instructional design, ethnographies and design, seminar and case studies on professional practice, and contemporary research. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
An introduction to the development of the visual arts from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) period to the Middle Ages. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
An introduction to the development of the visual arts in Europe, Britain, and America from the Renaissance to the 20th century. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
An introduction to the sacred arts of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts are studied as works of art and reflections of culture. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Examination of the traditional arts of China and Japan as expressions of their respective cultures. Major themes will include the role of the artist in society, art in the service of religion, and the arts as a vehicle for understanding the natural world. Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of forms and ideas as they migrate between the two cultures. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. For students majoring in art, art history, and graphic design. The internship positions will offer actual working experience in art, art history, graphic studios, and advertising agencies. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) ½ -3 credits.
This class will offer an examination of contemporary curatorial practices, gallery exhibition planning and strategies, portfolio preparation, interpreting contemporary criticism, and navigating the LA and Southern California contemporary galleries and institutions. May be repeated for credit. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1–6 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 211. Working from nude models, students refine visual skills, techniques, and interpretative powers. Media include charcoal, pastels, ink, oil stick, wax, conte crayon, and pencil. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 214, or consent of instructor. Develops an understanding of formal, technical, and conceptual issues. Students are encouraged to pursue personal directions. Individual and group critiques. May be repeated for credit. Fee $75(Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 113. Students refine skills and learn new techniques as they design and construct sculptures in a variety of materials. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 115, or 215. Continued emphasis on wheel throwing, hand building, glaze experimentation, and kiln firing. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 120, or consent of instructor. Laboratory and lecture course in theory, techniques, and esthetics of color fine art photography. Advanced work in photographic technique with emphasis given to color printing. Students must have constant access to a working 35mm camera. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 120, or consent of instructor. Lecture and laboratory course in theory, techniques, and esthetics of photography. Advanced work in photography with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic or approach. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 120, or consent of instructor. Laboratory and lecture course in theory, techniques, and aesthetics of fine art photography. Advanced work in photographic technique with emphasis on expanding beyond basic black and white photographic printing. Students must have access to a working 35mm camera. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 120. An advanced studio course with an emphasis on the theory and production of art utilizing digital photographic processing and printing. Students should have some experience with the Macintosh computer and have access to a digital or 35mm camera. Fee $75 (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 121, or consent of instructor. An advanced studio course with an emphasis on contemporary media theory and the production of art utilizing video. The course will include basic and advanced production techniques. A series of screenings, readings, and discussions will examine video art in relation to contemporary art and culture. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
This is a studio course that examines the production and theory of New Genres art works. New Genres includes ‘non-traditional’ media and processes in the field of contemporary art, such as: performance art, video art, site-specific works, and installation art. Students will be introduced to the techniques and theories of making art in each of these areas through a series of exercises and projects. The course will also look at the history of these types of artmaking, as well as past and current artists working in similar ways. May be repeated for credit. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 113, 325. Installation art presents a physical environment to be experienced through multiple senses. This is a studio course in which students will learn to construct installation art pieces through a variety of approaches. Students will learn to use a combination of sculptural materials, readymade objects, architectural sites, public and private sites, sound, video, and other visual media to create innovative installation art. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 1–3 credits.
Prerequisites, Graphic design major, ART 230, 231, or consent of instructor. This course will challenge students to think critically, socially, politically, and historically in the area of advertising design. Students will gain experience in branding and campaign strategies; green design trends and marketing techniques; propaganda and metaphorical strategies; writing skills for headlines, conceptual copy, and comprehensive design briefs; introduction in narrative, storyboarding, and sequence; and guerrilla advertising tactics. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 230, 231, or consent of instructor. This course will challenge students to think critically, socially, politically, and historically in design practice, writing and professional preparation. Study includes an emphasis in packaging design, cross-culture concerns, and editorial typography. This course integrates visual strategies, research methods, typograph,y and theory in graphic design. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 230, 231, or consent of instructor. Students develop graphic, interactive, and web design projects using HTML and Dreamweaver software. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 111, 211, or consent of instructor. Introduces illustration techniques through conceptually-based projects, demonstrations, discussions, guest artists, and field trips. Students explore ideas and develop a personal language through understanding historical and contemporary illustration. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 230, 231, 331, 332 or consent of instructor. This course explores advanced concepts in typographic design and lettering. Typographic exploration, type aesthetics, and functional typography will be emphasized. Hand and computer graphic skills are reviewed and enhanced. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 230, 231, 332, 338, or consent of instructor. Students explore how the subtleties of typography and layout from the simplest one-column layout to complex grids and free-form typography. Students begin to understand and develop forms appropriate to editorial content and context. This class also tackles the practical aspects of book production, from developing viable projects, to finding a publisher, to understanding production implications of the design. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 325. This course will offer an in depth study of the theory and practice of performance art. With the idea that the body is a medium to be used as a tool for creating contemporary art, students will explore a variety of approaches to making and viewing performance art. This course will look at the history and theory of performance art, as it is distinguished from dance, theater, or other body-related actions. Students will devise their own individual and group performance art pieces, to be performed in the classroom and at site-specific venues. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
This course explores the art of learning and teaching through visual art. Students will be introduced to the styles of learning and how this understanding benefits everyone. Students will begin viewing themselves as artists and slowly that information will be communicated as teacher. All styles of art from drawing to performance and installation will be explored. A portfolio of lessons and lesson plans will be created, preparing students for interviews specifically in education, but valuable for all occupations. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
This course explores the manner in which gender, both male and female, was conceptualized and therefore represented in the art of Ancient Greece and Rome. Though students will first be introduced to a chronological survey of Greek and Roman art, the primary emphasis will remain the analysis of the ideologies used to create, re-create, imagine, represent, and perform gender in ancient cultures. Students will be asked to examine Visual and Textual material to investigate the notion of masculinity and femininity paying particular attention to the genderized gaze. The ultimate goal is to unravel the encoded messages of the visual world of Ancient Greece and Rome. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
This course explores Egyptian paintings and relieves from Temples and Tombs to reveal the strong sensual qualities encoded in symbolism and iconography of funerary art. A careful analysis of artifacts will help us understand how encoded images were seen as a form of power and a means to obtain immortality. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
This course studies the visual arts of the period from approximately 100 BC to AD 1400 through selected examples of painting, architecture, sculpture, and the decorative arts and crafts. The course will explore the religious and social context that gave rise to the great Gothic Cathedral of France, England, and Italy. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
This course will focus on Renaissance Florence paying particular attention to the geographic, social, and political uniqueness of the city that was the cradle of the Italian Renaissance. All media will be taken under consideration - painting, sculpture, and architecture - covering artists from Giotto to Michelangelo. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
This course will focus on Renaissance Venice paying particular attention to the geographic, social, and political uniqueness of the fabled city built on water. All media will be taken under consideration - painting, sculpture, and architecture - covering artists from Bellini to Titian, from Jacopo Sansovino to Andrea Palladio. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
This course will focus on the Renaissance Court Culture of the cities of Milan, Mantua, Ferrara, and Rome. The course is meant to examine art production within the strict confines noble patronage by Italian princes. Particular attention will be paid to female patronage of Italian Duchesses. All media will be taken under consideration - painting, sculpture, and architecture – while paying particular attention to the ways in which artists responded to their patrons and introduced innovations eventually imitated by the merchant middle classes throughout the Italian peninsula. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
(Same as HON 395d.) This travel course explores the complexities, innovations, and magnificence of two centuries of Italian Renaissance history through its visual production. The goal is to challenge the established understanding of the Renaissance as a cohesive and homogenous phenomenon, and search for and construct our notion of an aesthetic language and identity. Course will take place in Florence, Venice, and Rome. Fee: TBD (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
An introduction to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Baroque and Rococo periods in Europe ca. 1600–1750. Artists such as Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Bernini, Vermeer, Velasquez, and Fragonard are studied against a background of political, religious, and social events and ideas. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
An exploration of European art from the French Revolution to Art Nouveau. The visual arts are examined in the context of contemporary developments in society, politics, philosophy, and psychology. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
An introduction to the development of modernism in the visual arts ca. 1871–1945, emphasizing contemporary interests in spirituality, discoveries in science, mathematics, psychology, and new philosophical perspectives on the nature of reality. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
This course studies the flowering of Northern Renaissance art ca. 1375 - 1600, exploring the viewer’s interaction with the devotional image, the visualization of the spiritual and otherworldly, and exchanges with Italian culture. Artists discussed include Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Mathias Grunewald, Hieronymous Bosch, and Peter Brueghel. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
A survey of photography from 1839 to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of photography to other arts and current critical issues in the field. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Surveys the major artistic developments in Europe, America, and Asia between the close of World War II and the emergence of postmodernism, including abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, and site-specific art. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Explores the evolution of art since 1970 in Europe, America, and Asia. Traditional media, performance, video, and installation are discussed in the light of post-modernist theory, Feminist and Marxist criticism, and the impact of mass media and new technologies. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 230, or consent of instructor. Introduces the major epochs in the history of graphic design. Explores how visual communication was designed to fit the needs of pre–modern societies and how it responded to shifting contexts and new technological inventions at three critical moments: the invention of the printing press, the industrial revolution, and the digital revolution. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
An examination of contemporary art and artists from China, Korea, and Japan. The relation between the formal aspects of artworks and the perceived intent of the artist will be a consistent consideration. Artworks will be situated in the context of their respective traditional and contemporary cultures. Issues of Orientalism, colonialism, nationalism, and the effects of globalization on contemporary art will guide this study of post WWII art. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
An examination of contemporary art and artists from South Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. The relation between the formal aspects of artworks and the perceived intent of the artist will be a consistent consideration. Artworks will be situated in the context of their respective traditional and contemporary cultures. Issues of Orientalism, colonialism, nationalism, and the effects of globalization on contemporary art will guide this study of post WWII art. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
The course outlines the role that visual artists have had as leaders within society or as agents who influenced political leaders from the Renaissance to the present day. The course will explore the complex shifting paradigm of power between artists as leaders, and artists and leaders. (Offered spring semester, alternate years) 3 credits.
An introduction to developments in Russian art between 1700 and 1917, this course investigates Russia's relationship with Europe and Asia, the co-existence of elite and vernacular culture, the appeal to Utopian thought and revolution, the search for a distinctive national identity, and the artist's role in society. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Explores the role of art, images, and visual culture in Russia from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Themes include iconoclasm and conservation, elite and popular culture, the cult of the machine and the new man/woman, the place of individuals in the collective, nationalism and internationalism, power and dissent, art’s official/non-official status, nostalgia, the limitations on free expression, and the capitalist art market in the Russian Federation today. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 195. Seminar on visual art of the last decade, considering contemporary art within the trajectories of Modernism and Post-Modernism. Designed to explore the art historical contexts for Guggenheim Gallery exhibitions and the Visiting Artist Lecture Series as well as other and Southern California galleries and museums, this class looks at contemporary art for purposes of study and critique in an active discussion of formal, economic, and social intersections in contemporary artistic production. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 195. Students learn the practice of curating by organizing an exhibition of works drawn from the university’s permanent art collection and/or work by California artists. Students also select and purchase an artwork for the permanent collection. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 195, major, or minor. An advanced studio course that pairs visual art with a different discipline each time it is offered. Possible combinations include science, sociology, literature, gender studies, religion, the performing arts, and philosophy. Reflecting a contemporary mode of project-based art practice, students will produce interdisciplinary art that goes beyond the traditional gallery context. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 195, major, or minor. This is an advanced studio course in which students work together in groups to develop art projects that engage the social sphere. While the themes of this rotating course will change with each offering (including public intervention, play, and transnational networking) the emphasis on collective production fosters an understanding of collaboration as an art form with its own techniques, best practices, and aesthetic criteria. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 195, major, or minor. Advanced studio art course with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic, approach or theme. Students may work in any medium as they engage with rotating topics such as figuration, appropriation, identity, sustainability, mythology, and street art. Themes are designed to familiarize students with topics that have relevance to contemporary art and culture. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 230, 231, graphic design major, or minor, consent of instructor. Students will focus on how sustainable design practices will be worked into design solutions by visiting a variety of professional businesses in London with global clients. Students will be required to do a pre-departure assignment that will be for the benefit of all students traveling to London – based on the background the design offices that we will be visiting. While at each office, students will be assigned two design charrettes to be completed while on site – and juried by senior staff at each office. There will be several off site visits to design studios, or places where sustainable design practices are a strong focus. Upon return the students will be given one week to gather all of what they have learned on put it into book of their design recapping and contextualizing their experience. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered summer.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 296. This course examines the major trends, theories, interpretative methodologies, techniques, and forms of contemporary art writing. Students will learn to develop a critical position in relation to artwork and defend that position in writing. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 195, 332, or consent of instructor. Required of all junior graphic design majors, this seminar deals with aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical issues affecting the practice of contemporary graphic design. Focus is on graphic design in the 20th century and beyond. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 195. Seminar on defining artistic movements from the advent of Modernism in the 1860s, to the Post-Modern Period of the late 20th Century; study of texts by artists, critics, and art historians; critical analysis of artworks and images that define the language of Modern and Contemporary Art. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 295, or consent of instructor. Required of all junior art history majors, this seminar surveys the many methodologies used by art historians to understand works of art. Seminal texts representing the methods of Formalism, Iconography, Connoisseurship, Marxism, Feminism, Structuralism, and Post–Structuralism are discussed and applied. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1–6 credits.
Prerequisites, advanced–level courses in the area of concern, consent of instructor. For advanced students, this class is designed to encourage greater depth and independence in a chosen field. The topic of study must be agreed on with the supervising faculty member. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1–3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 315. This course is designed to promote greater depth and independence in the study and practice relevant to conceptual and technical development of ceramic art at an advanced level. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits.
Prerequisite, ART 324. This course will explore advanced technical and theoretical aspects of contemporary video art making. Students will produce a minimum of 3 significant video art pieces as they develop an individual and artistic voice as video artists. Video art will be produced, critiqued, discussed, and assessed for its specific qualities as art, distinct from narrative filmmaking. Students in this course will submit one work to a contemporary art video festival and will help produce a video art festival/screening for Chapman University at the end of the course. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 1–3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 230, 231, 332, or consent of instructor. Students learn and apply advanced graphic design systems through workshop projects for non-profit clients. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 230, 231, 331, 332. Students will obtain the introductory skill set needed to explore issues of rhythm, space and time animation, and sound and video in motion design. Students will learn different types of movement, keyframe editing and interpolation, masking, effects, basic sound editing, and storyboarding for motion. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, graphic design major, ART 335, or consent of instructor. An exploration of Macromedia Flash as a web design solution, focusing on the use of vector–based multimedia interactivity. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
An exploration of western visual art and culture from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the representation of sexuality and gender and the role of art in reflecting or constructing human identities. Five case studies examine the interaction of gender and visual art, drawing on the central theories of feminism, gender studies, and queer studies as applied to art history. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 397, BFA studio art majors only. This is a seminar class that examines influential and fundamental themes in postmodern and contemporary theory from the 1980s through present, as they pertain to the visual arts and contemporary culture. Topics include: models of criticism and theory that follow modernism such as post-modernism, feminism, identity politics, post-structuralism, and the anti-theory movement. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, junior, or senior standing, consent of instructor. For students majoring in art, art history, and graphic design. The internship positions will offer actual working experience in art, art history, graphic studios, and advertising agencies. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) ½ -3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 396, graduating senior in the BFA graphic design program. This seminar course offers on - and off - campus internship positions in graphic design agencies and advertising agencies. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 396, 492A, senior standing, graphic design major. Students develop an individually focused portfolio that includes pro-bono commissions and competition design projects. Final critique is by an invited panel of graphic design professionals. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, senior standing, art major. Students plan and install their senior group exhibition. In addition, students write an artist's statement and research paper that contextualizes the issues within the larger realms of fine art and/or graphic design. Readings, discussion, fieldtrips, speakers. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 210, 295, 332, 373, or consent of instructor. Only for juniors and seniors in the BFA graphic design program. The student will work in a supervised lab environment to develop new design pieces and/or rework previous design pieces. This artwork will be used in their junior/senior portfolios and their junior B.F.A. gallery shows. (Offered interterm.) 1 credit.
Prerequisites, ART 195, 397, senior standing. This is a course for senior studio majors as they prepare for their capstone exhibition. Students are counseled in installation and presentation of their artwork; writing artist’s statements, resume, and bio; developing a portfolio, preparing for graduate school, and internships in the professional art world. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisites, ART 398, senior standing, art history major. Students in their senior year write a self-directed research paper on a subject of their choice under supervision of a faculty committee. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. (Offered every semester.) ½ –6 credits.