Curriculum
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| Required Courses |
| Consult the Undergraduate Catalog and Time Schedule of Classes for course offerings and times. For sample schedules, click here. |
| WRT 105 Writing Studio I (3 credits) Develops abilities to use writing for learning, thinking, and critical reading of complex texts. Workshop discussions and practice in basic elements of the writing process. Some sections may require additional laboratory hours. |
One of the following two art and design lecture courses: |
| ART 113 20th-21st Century Design in Context (3 credits) is an introductory academic course which investigates design from 1900 to the present. Through lecture, discussion and assignments, the students learn to understand design within its historical, social and cultural context. |
| FND 111 Time Arts (3 credits) is a studio course that provides students with the opportunity to explore art forms that involve the element of time. Students will investigate processes, conduct research and develop critical thinking abilities in order to create projects in both linear formats, such as books, sound, video and film, and non-linear formats, such as performance, net.art, interactive works and installation. |
| FND 113 Foundation Drawing (3 credits) is a basic drawing course. It will require students to acquire specific manual and thinking skills. Process will be emphasized over product. The process will be based on drawing from observation, using drawing as a form of investigation of the visual world. |
| FND 115 Two-Dimensional Creative Processes (3 credits) is a studio course designed to acquaint students with the processes of developing their ideas into a two dimensional format. Student will perform, in depth, a series of processes that will emphasize the creative possibilities of their ideas. Through the use of design, narrative and image, students will have the opportunity to explore their personal vision within a problem solving structure. The five-hour classes are devoted to work time, demonstrations and presentations and critiques. |
| FND 117 Dimensional Arts (3 credits) is a studio course which will introduce students to a broad range of thought and material processes relevant to the understanding, organization, invention, and creation of three-dimensional objects as well as the transformation of space. The course will also increase each student’s awareness of how three-dimensional objects affect, and are affected by, their surroundings. |
| Foundation Electives | Other Studio Electives |
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