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Continuing development of a strongly personal means of aesthetic expression in three dimensions.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

This studio course focuses on the planning and implementation of site-specific work. Students personal interests will be paramount in the development of works that address site and audience. Professional practices necessary to carry out installations will be emphasized, including proposal development, project planning, and documentation. Environmental impact, health, and safety will be addressed. The course will cover a variety of installation artists and related readings. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Lecture/discussion/studio course on a selected area of discourse relating to the study of Art History, Art Criticism, Art Education or Art Studio. May focus on a specific artist, style period, cultural group or technical or methodological problem.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Advanced graduate level graphic design and graphic communication problems. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Introduction to the modes of research appropriate to art including creative research studies and investigative thesis research.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Art (MA)

Continued exploration of drawing techniques and concepts at the graduate level. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Graduate painting, emphasizing development of individual vision. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

A graduate course emphasizing further development and refinement of a body of work in preparation for a thesis and examination. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Graduate level printmaking. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Refinement of technical skills, seeing, and critical abilities while producing a significant body of work. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Creative and technical problems or research in selected areas. All students must file a special form in department office at time of registration.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Continuing development of a strongly personal means of aesthetic expression in three dimensions. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

This studio course focuses on the planning and implementation of advanced site-specific work. Students personal interests will be paramount in the development of works that address site and audience. Professional practices necessary to carry out installations will be emphasized, including proposal development, project planning, and documentation. Environmental impact, health, and safety will be addressed. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Focusing on verbal and written articulation of critiquing skills, the Graduate Review will hold a Portfolio Review critique each semester. Critiques will provide a structured forum with faculty, fellow students, visiting artists, and curators to identify and articulate what they want to express. In each of the four semesters of the MA program, students participate in the Graduate Review course. Learning to express concerns, issues, and motivations, as well as the best strategies to do so, will form the basis of their research and practice. Analytical and evaluative skills develop as students gain experience critiquing and questioning their peers.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Art (MA)

Field experience in professional setting relating to the specialization: graphic design, museum or arts administration, etc.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Required of all candidates of the MA degree, this course is culmination of the previous sequential graduate studio blocks and reviews. Concepts developed will result in a body of work that constitutes the graduate exhibition or presentation. An oral defense of the ideas presented in the exhibition or presentation is required. Documentation will be submitted by the MA candidate and will become part of the Department of Art & Design¿s files. The candidate will also create and submit appropriate announcements, posters, and descriptions for public relations.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Art (MA)

Broad survey of astronomy: the night sky, seasons, moon phases, eclipses, light, telescopes, stars, stellar evolution, galaxies, cosmology, the solar system.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 3 - Natural Sciences

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Programs:

Earth Science (BS) | Earth Science Minor | Earth Science Teaching (5-12) (BS) | Physics Teaching (BS)

Survey of our solar system: the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids; history of the discovery and exploration of the solar system.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 3 - Natural Sciences

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Programs:

Earth Science Minor

The probability of extraterrestrial intelligent life; the chemical basis of life; planetary environments; habitable zones; the Drake equation; UFOs; space travel; interstellar communication; limits on technical civilizations. General Education Categories 2 and 3.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 3 - Natural Sciences

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

The probability of extraterrestrial intelligent life; the chemical basis of life; planetary environments; habitable zones; the Drake equation; UFOs; space travel; interstellar communication; limits on technical civilizations.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 3 - Natural Sciences | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Techniques for observing with the naked eye, binoculars and small telescopes; constellation and star identification; use of star atlases and handbooks; observations of stars, binaries, clusters, nebulae, planets and the sun and moon, etc. Students will also learn how astronomical theories are formulated and tested by observing phenomena in the sky. Evening observing labs required.

Prerequisites:

AST 101

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 3 - Natural Sciences

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Programs:

Astronomy Minor | Earth Science (BS) | Earth Science Teaching (5-12) (BS)

The celestial sphere; coordinate systems; sidereal and solar time; diurnal motion; precession; proper motion; refraction; aberration; parallax. Requires a background in trigonometry.

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Programs:

Astronomy Minor

Celestial mechanics; gravitational and tidal forces; stellar motions and parallax; radiation and matter; magnitudes and stellar spectra; binary stars and stellar masses; stellar structure and evolution.

Prerequisites:

MATH 121 and PHYS 221

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Programs:

Astronomy Minor

Stellar endpoints; close binary systems; variable stars; the Milky Way; normal galaxies; galactic evolution; active galaxies and quasars; cosmology.

Prerequisites:

AST 215, MATH 122, PHYS 222

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Programs:

Astronomy Minor

Operating the 0.5 meter telescope; operating the BRC 250 astrograph; learning to install and operate ancillary equipment for both telescopes.

Prerequisites:

AST 201 and AST 215, Consent

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Programs:

Astronomy Minor | Physics (BS)