2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Undergraduate Courses
000 to 499 subdivided as follows:
000 to 099 designate courses which normally are not counted towards a student’s baccalaureate.
100 to 299 designate Lower Division courses. This category is further subdivided as follows:
100 to 199 designate undergraduate Lower Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at a freshman or sophomore level. Such courses generally do not require any prerequisite course work for fully matriculated students.
200 to 299 designate undergraduate Lower Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at sophomore level. Courses in this category require specific or general prerequisites which are usually completed at the freshman level.
300 to 499 designate Upper Division courses. This category of courses is further subdivided as follows:
300 to 399 designate undergraduate Upper Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at a junior or senior level. These courses presume specific or general prerequisite course work at the Lower Division level.
400 to 499 designate undergraduate Upper Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at the senior level. Courses in this category have prerequisites which students have usually completed at the junior level.
Graduate Courses
500 to 899 subdivided as follows:
500 to 599 designate courses offered at the graduate level which prepare students for a graduate degree program or designate professional teacher-training courses.
600 to 699 designate courses at the master’s and credential level.
700 to 799 designate courses at the doctoral level.
800 to 899 designate courses at the School of Law.
5000 to 6999 designate courses at the MBA level.
7000 to 7999 designate courses at the doctoral Nursing level.
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ART 207 - Asian Art
Unit(s): 4
This lecture course examines periods and monuments of Asian art from India, China, and Japan, and offers an introduction to the methods of art-historical analysis. Emphasis will be placed on the understanding of works of art in their original religious, intellectual, political, and social contexts, with particular attention to the ways each developed characteristics appropriate to these contexts. Among the topics to be explored are ritual arts, Buddhist art (painting, sculpture, and architecture), secular painting, and garden architecture.
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ART 208 - African Art
Unit(s): 4
This introductory class helps students gain knowledge and appreciation of the plastic and kinetic arts of sub-Saharan Africa. Mythology, masking traditions, ritual and spirituality, gender and cultural issues of traditional and contemporary African cultures are examined through slide lectures, videos, and museum visits.
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ART 209 - Art of the Americas
Unit(s): 4
This course surveys the arts of the Americas from pre-Columbian North and South America through the present. The course emphasizes the native arts of the Americas in the broadest sense by examining the work of native and immigrant cultures with special attention to Latino art.
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ART 214 - Islamic Art
Unit(s): 4
This course is an introduction to Muslim visual culture from its origins on the Arabian Peninsula and the conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries across the Near East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, through the end of the Middle Ages and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the beginning of the Mughal Empire in India.
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ART 216 - Filipino American Arts
Unit(s): 4
This combined studio and cultural history course offers a survey of Filipino American artistic production, looking at visual art, literature, music, and performance. The goal of the course is for students to develop their own artistic voice in response to histories of colonization, transnationalism, and globalization.
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ART 220 - Painting I
Unit(s): 4
This introductory class will provide students with experience in acrylic, gouache, and watercolor as means for the exploration into the visual language of color, light, shape, and mass as they are embodied in paint. Painting support and the preparation of various surfaces will be studied.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design Major, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design Minor
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ART 225 - The Museum, Society & Culture
Unit(s): 4
This course explores the role museums (especially history and natural history museums) play in society and the range of issues they face in conserving and presenting cultural and historical materials to the public. Topics include the politics of representation, collecting practices, intellectual property rights and repatriation, displaying culture, and working with diverse publics. Will include visits to area museums.
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ART 230 - Sculpture I
Unit(s): 4
This course develops the student’s creative and technical skills in sculpture. Specific problems are given to explore and utilize the elements of form, space, line and mass. Emphasis is placed on problem solving and the physical means of realizing an idea three-dimensionally. Various media and techniques are explored, and students are encouraged to develop their own unique styles and visual language.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Major, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Minor
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ART 240 - Art + Arch Lecture Series
Unit(s): 1
The Art + Architecture lecture series brings artists, designers, architects, and curators together with students to discuss their current practices and undertakings. Each year, the course’s speakers are organized around a theme determined by the department in conjunction with the Thacher Gallery, and uses this theme to consider the fruitful intersections between the programs represented within the department as a whole. This course broadens students’ horizons of intellectual, artistic, and career-oriented possibilities, with a specific focus on social justice and community engagement.
Prerequisite: ART 120 or VA 120 or VA 130 or ART 130 or VA 210 or ARCD 110
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Museum Studies, Art History & Museum Studies Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Museum Studies Minor
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ART 241 - Art of the Book
Unit(s): 4
This course will expose students to the history and development of the book as an art form unto itself, from text to illustration to fine art, while teaching them a variety of techniques and materials with which to make their own books.
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ART 245 - Visual Theology
Unit(s): 4
Visual Theology explores humanity’s experience of the transcendent and sacred by learning to ‘read’ the visual texts of religious myth, symbol, iconography and architecture from the Western and other traditions. Lecture course combines slide shows, reading and discussions, fieldtrips and creative projects.
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ART 252 - Publication Design
Unit(s): 4
This course utilizes the concepts and skills introduced in previous graphic design courses and builds upon these skills to further expand the palette and vocabulary of design. Students will develop a stronger understanding of typography and the integration of information into a publication format. Projects expand in complexity and focus on the challenges of design publication.
Prerequisite: ART 205
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 260 - Thacher Gallery Practicum
Unit(s): 2 to 4
This art exhibition practicum offers hands-on experience organizing the spring Thacher Annual: a juried exhibition featuring USF’s junior and senior Art Architecture majors and minors. Students will work individually and collaboratively in small groups on all aspects of the exhibition. The course will also address related issues such as collaborative exhibition planning, visitor outreach, and exhibition display through weekly readings and discussions.
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ART 270 - Ceramics I
Unit(s): 4
Ceramics 1 presents a working knowledge of the world’s ceramic tradition from a functional, sculptural, and historical point of view. The goal of the class is for each student to develop basic hand building and sculptural techniques for the production of fine art and craft ceramics. These goals will be achieved through the creation of projects that utilize the construction methods of pinch, slab, coil, and combined techniques.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design Major, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design Minor
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ART 272 - Visual Communication II
Unit(s): 4
In Vis Com II students investigate methodologies of process and research, production, and experimentation, with emphasis on web development using HTML / CSS, systems of organization and hierarchy, and internet / screen-based design history.
Prerequisite: ART 155
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 280 - Digital Photography I
Unit(s): 4
This course is designed to develop your skills in pixel based photographic manipulation and printing. The class will use Adobe Photoshop as the primary image-editing tool. Students will attend presentations, exhibitions and group critiques, and create a portfolio of digital photographic work.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Major, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Minor
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ART 290 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Exploration of one or more selected topics in the field.
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ART 295 - TYS: Transfer Year Seminars
Unit(s): 4
Transfer Year Seminars (TYS) are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All TYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many TYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. TYSeminars are only open to transfer students who are in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one TYSeminar, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other TYSeminars offered this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Prerequisite: TRNS 1XX
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ART 298 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Directed study of a subject in the visual arts. The written permission of the instructor and the dean is required. Offered every semester.
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ART 301 - Design & Social Change
Unit(s): 4
This course will demonstrate to students the power of design to leverage their sense of humanity and ability to fashion a more humane and just world. The course will survey an array of visual styles, communications and design projects that date from the turn of the century to the present in the form of artistic posters, non-commercial advertisements, web sites, outreach and political propaganda.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 302 - Renaissance Art
Unit(s): 4
This upper-division seminar explores issues and moments in European art and visual culture, circa 1400-1600, with an emphasis on the early modern visual traditions in Italy and the Lowlands. Weekly class meetings focus on individual topics such as: Humanist Art and Republican Values in Early Renaissance Florence, the Medici and the Age of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Botticelli as Visual Poet, Leonardo da Vinci: Drawing and Visual Knowledge, Papal Power and Visual Propaganda in Early 16th-Century Rome, Michelangelo and the Robust Male Nude, Gender, Virtue(s) and Social Status in Renaissance Portraiture and Courtly Art in the Burgundian Netherlands.
Prerequisite: (VA 101 or ART 101) and (VA 102 or ART 102)
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ART 303 - Baroque Art:Rome to Versailles
Unit(s): 4
This upper-division seminar examines topics in Baroque painting, sculpture and architecture, with special attention to the varied visual, cultural and religious traditions that flourished in and around some of the major urban areas of 17th-century Europe, including Rome, Antwerp, Amsterdam and Paris. Focusing on the works of Caravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Poussin, the course trains a special eye on issues such as the rise of the famed, international artist in the 17th-century, church and court patronage in the post-Tridentine period, the impact of the devastating Thirty Years’ War and the expansion of global exploration and trade on European artistic practice, and shifting conceptions of painting in the new Dutch Republic and the French court of Louis XIV.
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ART 304 - Sustainable Systems In Design
Unit(s): 4
Sustainable Design Seminar will examine theories and practices that encourage the development of ecological consciousness as applied to design practice and production. This course will ask students to think critically about what sustainability actually means, and to examine the complexities in our choices of materials, processes, locations, quantities, production and consumption.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design, Environmental Studies Major, Design, Environmental Studies Minor
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ART 305 - Global Contemporary Art
Unit(s): 4
This upper-division seminar takes into account new approaches to the study of visual culture - including painting, sculpture, photography, performance, video, architecture - produced in a global context from 1945 to the present. Through thematic and monographic case studies, students investigate questions about artistic identity, the status and function of art in the post-World War II period, and the changing nature of avant-garde practices in the wake of the social, cultural, and economic changes of the 1960s and 1970s. Moving along a clear timeline, the course looks at key movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Art informel, Gutai, Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Concrete Art, Conceptualism, Fluxus, Feminist Art, Postmodernism, performance, street art, video and new media art to explore the political, theoretical and issue-based debates that have inspired the art and criticism since 1945. Throughout the course, students examine the political and social context for contemporary art practice and criticism, including the civil rights movement, feminism, environmentalism, the anti-war movement, postmodernism and globalization.
Prerequisite: ART 100 or ART 101 or ART 102 or ART 105
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ART 306 - Women & Art
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the history of female artists from the Middle Ages to the present, with an emphasis on artists working in Europe and the United States for the first half of the course, and a global perspective on modern and contemporary art for the second. Students explore how the identity of the “woman artist” has been socially constructed over time, with particular emphasis upon how gender and sexual-identity, social class, race, and ethnicity have informed both artistic creation and reception. The course addresses how art history and institutions (educational and exhibition forums) have accounted for-or failed to account for-women’s artistic production in a global context.
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ART 310 - Drawing II
Unit(s): 4
This course investigates at a more advanced level the complex representation of space on the two dimensional drawing plane. The focus is on issues such as figure and still life as well as personal and conceptual questions in aesthetics and in the larger culture. The student will work in a range of scales and with a range of drawing materials.
Prerequisite: ART 130 or VA 130 or VA 210
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ART 311 - Medieval Art & Society
Unit(s): 4
Contemporary thinking about the art of the Middle Ages is often dominated by a long-standing prejudice and propensity to see it as somehow ‘backward,’ “simplistic,” or lacking in intrinsic interest or value. However, a wealth of art historical scholarship over the past few decades has begun to recapture the ways a vast array of medieval art and architecture reflects the unique cultural and intellectual concerns, compelling religious, economic and political circumstances, and complex social challenges of a lengthy and fascinating stretch of European history. This seminar highlights significant “moments” and monuments of the long Middle Ages, with an eye to underscoring some of the incredible richness and sophistication of medieval artistic production from the beginnings of Christian art through the late Gothic period.
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ART 312 - Modern Japanese Art
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the visual culture of modern Japan and the role of art in modern Japanese society from ca. 1850 through the late 20th century, a dynamic period covering Japan’s rapid modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century through the devastation of World War II and postwar rebuilding. The arts of this period are intricately linked to issues of national and cultural identity, issues that will form the core focus of our study. In addition, course themes emphasize in particular Japan’s reaction to and engagement with the West as part of negotiating these issues of cultural identity. Topics are organized both thematically and chronologically, and include paintings, architecture, prints, photography, and exhibitions. The class is designed to foster active learning and cooperative inquiry, examination, and analysis of a range of written and visual materials.
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ART 313 - Early Christian Art
Unit(s): 4
This seminar studies the origins of Christian art and architecture in the Roman world from the 3rd-6th centuries. Students study the emergence of Early Christian art throughout the Mediterranean and Near East, including its relationship with Greco-Roman, Jewish, and indigenous visual cultures.
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ART 314 - History of Design
Unit(s): 4
This course will present a historical study of the material world, focusing on designed objects. It will challenge students to think critically about the rhetoric of design and examine the ways in which objects are both reflective of the culture that produced them while also serving as devices for cultural change. The course will examine design in an interdisciplinary sense, looking at case studies in industrial design, decorative arts, graphic design, fashion, and architecture in order to equip students with an understanding of the ways in which design practices, technologies, and cultural meaning have changed through time.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of Study restricted to Art History/Arts Management, Design Major, Art History/Arts Management, Design Minor
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ART 315 - Digital Media Design
Unit(s): 4
Digital Literacy will introduce students to the practice and history of screen-based interactive design and web publishing using Dreamweaver, Flash, and introductory program languages. Course work will cover topics of interaction design, networked culture, and critical analysis of the use of technology in design and our everyday lives.
Prerequisite: ART 272 or ART 175
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 317 - Multicultural Middle Ages
Unit(s): 4
Analysis of cross-cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, Muslims, and polytheists in the medieval world through works of art and architecture, including multicultural artistic exchanges, cultural appropriation and assimilation, and areas of conflict that shaped medieval cultural boundaries.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Art History/Arts Management Major, Art History/Arts Management Minor
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ART 318 - Roman Art
Unit(s): 4
Survey of ancient Roman art and architecture from the archaic foundations of Rome and beginning of the Republic to the end of the Roman Empire.
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ART 319 - Modern European Art
Unit(s): 4
This seminar focuses on modernist artistic practices in Europe between 1880 and 1945. We look carefully at a wide range of practices, including painting, sculpture, photography, film and architecture. Coursework includes readings, discussions, and lectures about modernism and its margins, the rise of the avant-garde, and the role of exhibitions in the transformation of modern art. We engage issues of gender, sexuality, race, class, and ethnicity; the scholarship we read encompasses diverse approaches to analyzing and interpreting modern art.
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ART 320 - Painting II
Unit(s): 4
This intermediate studio class will build upon previous experience gained from Painting 1. The course will provide students with the introduction to personal subject matter while still providing expertise with technical issues in acrylic painting. Personal expression will be emphasized within the context of painting’s history and contemporary issues with society and culture.
Prerequisite: ART 220 or VA 220
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ART 321 - Early Modern Art & Science
Unit(s): 4
This course explores the shifting relationship between the visual arts and early modern attitudes towards scientific and philosophical knowledge in Europe, c. 1450-1700. The recurring intersections of art, aesthetics, and scientific observation are the vehicle for considering a variety of questions including: What constituted early modern ‘science’? What did knowledge have to do with evolving notions of scientia in this period? How and why did various types of knowledge manifest themselves in the visual arts in early modern Europe? How might the history of science and the arts help inform today’s science-based disciplines about the STEM to STEAM movement today?
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ART 325 - Color Theory
Unit(s): 4
COLOR THEORY is an intermediate course for students in the four majors of the Department of Art Architecture. This class is designed to meet the needs of students to prepare them for aesthetic and theoretical color use in their respective disciplines. Each student will attend presentations, workshops and group critiques, and create a portfolio of studio work individually and collaboratively.
Prerequisite: ART 120 or ART 155 or ART 130 or ARCD 110
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ART 330 - Sculpture II
Unit(s): 4
This course builds upon the student’s creative and technical skills developed in Introduction to Sculpture. As a continuing exploration of the physical means of realizing an idea three-dimensionally, students make molds of their own original clay sculptures and then cast them in a variety of media. Emphasis is placed on quality and craftsmanship, while students are encouraged to develop their own unique styles and visual language.
Prerequisite: (ART 230 or VA 230) or (ART 120 or VA 120)
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ART 335 - Information Visualization
Unit(s): 4
This course will introduce students to the study of information visualization as a wide-ranging practice for the creation of complex visual messages. Through sustained project work, students will investigate the ways that illustration, text, photography, sound, and the moving image can, in different ways, participate in the process of communicating multi-faceted and multi-dimensional systems of information. Lectures, readings, and student research will supplement project work, introducing students to the concentrated disciplines of mapping, timelines, and the history of information representation.
Prerequisite: ART 272 or ART 175
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 345 - Exhibition Design Practicum
Unit(s): 4
Exhibition Design Practicum will provide students working experience with the professional practice of exhibition design. Through research and collaborative project work, students will curate, design, and mount an exhibition for the university’s Thacher Gallery.
Prerequisite: ART 205
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design, Museum Studies Major, Design, Museum Studies Minor
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ART 350 - Advanced Typography
Unit(s): 4
Advanced typographic systems is an upper-level graphic design course that focuses on issues concerning typography and strategies for working with large amounts of text in the profession of graphic design.
Prerequisite: ART 205
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 351 - Stained Glass II
Unit(s): 4
Stained Glass 2 builds on skills developed in the introductory class. Course includes flat glass painting, kiln work, fusing, slumping, and glass casting techniques.
Prerequisite: ART 250 or VA 250
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ART 352 - East-West Encounters in Art
Unit(s): 4
This seminar examines cross-cultural artistic contacts between the West and Asia, c. 1500 - 1950. Topics include the impact of Western realism on Asian art forms; the role of empire and trade in artistic production; early photography in Asia; and the impacts of the West on Asian modernism.
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ART 353 - Photography and Modern Asia
Unit(s): 4
This class offers a thematic exploration of photography in Asia, examining some key ways in which the medium has been a central part of modern Asian culture since its introduction in the mid-nineteenth century.
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ART 360 - Mural Painting
Unit(s): 4
This is a studio course in mural painting that will contextualize the studio activities within the history and theories of mural painting and art activism. The field of cultural studies will be used to raise issues and questions fundamental to creating collaborative, public and activist art.
Prerequisite: (ART 120 or VA 120) or (ART 130 or VA 130) or (ART 220 or VA 220)
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design Major, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design Minor
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ART 362 - Art for Educators
Unit(s): 4
Arts for Educators is an interdisciplinary course for future elementary classroom teachers and students desiring an overview of the visual and performing arts. This course will offer students critical perspectives on arts education and hands-on experience in music, theater, dance/movement and visual art, with the goal of preparing them for reflective, culturally inclusive integration of the arts into the academic curriculum. The guiding framework for students’ examination of arts education theory and practice originates from the California Visual and Performing Arts (CA VAPA) Content Standards and the professor’s experience in the education and arts disciplines. The CA VAPA Standards include: 1) artistic perception, 2) creative expression, 3) understanding the cultural and historical origins of the arts, 4) pursuing meaning in the arts, and 5) making informed judgments about the arts. The course will culminate in student presentations of integrated arts units.
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ART 365 - Design Activism
Unit(s): 4
By critically examining pressing issues, designers have the potential to become positive agents of change. Students will choose a social issue and work through a critical design process to serve partner organizations, engage with the community, and advocate awareness for it.
Prerequisite: ART 155 and (ART 175 or ART 272)
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 366 - Woodworking
Unit(s): 4
Woodworking examines the fundamentals of the craft, covering wood science and technology, joinery, finishing and various fabrication techniques. Through readings, class exercises, field trips, group and individual projects students learn about the history of the craft and its social, ecological and technological impact. Final projects typically include the creation of an original design produces solely by the student, and a group project, such as a bench, table or storage solution, produced for a local non-profit.
Prerequisite: ART 104 or ARCD 104 or ART 230
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ART 367 - Illustration I
Unit(s): 4
Illustration I is an upper-division elective in the Fine Arts program. Building on historic and contemporary traditions in drawing, this course introduces students to the skills, materials, history and language of illustration. They will problem-solve for challenges that are technical, thematic and contextual, by creating studio-based artwork. Students will employ a research and development creative process, which will include research, writing and professional practices surrounding the development of a traditional and digital portfolio.
Prerequisite: (ART 103 with a minimum grade of C or ART 130 with a minimum grade of C or ART 120 with a minimum grade of C or ARCD 110 with a minimum grade of C)
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ART 368 - Scientific Illustration
Unit(s): 4
This class provides an introduction to Scientific Illustration starting from fundamental drawing techniques such as chiaroscuro, shading techniques, and contour drawing as well as digital techniques and conceptual models. Students will use graphite, ink, and watercolor to draw from subjects. They will research and write about the history of the field with special attention to the scientific revolution when art and science were particularly intertwined through innovations such as dissection, understanding of anatomy, experimentation, realism and direct observation. Field trip to the Academy of Sciences.
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ART 369 - Comics in the Margins
Unit(s): 4
This course looks beyond mainstream genres into the unexpected, acclaimed ways comics are used to tell stories at the margins and to address politics, history, identity and place in creative ways. Incorporates discussions, lectures, research projects, guest artist lectures, field trips.
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ART 370 - Installation/Public Art
Unit(s): 4
This course investigates a visual art making through a multi-disciplinary approach. Students will utilize the potential of landscape, environmental, social and aesthetic phenomena for initiating group and/or individual actions. Students will experience the full public art process (collaboration with communities/local agencies, preliminary presentation, permitting process, fundraising, publicity, and preparation and implementation of an installation piece).
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ART 371 - Copy Culture
Unit(s): 4
Copy Culture explores contemporary remix practices and complicates notions of authorship, originality, creativity, and fair use. Copying has always been key to cultural production, and expands with the web. Students become well-versed in appropriation while establishing theoretical contexts.
Prerequisite: ART 272
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ART 372 - Rubens vs. Rembrandt
Unit(s): 4
This seminar compares the art of the 17th-century northern Baroque titans, Rubens and Rembrandt, “head to head” in light of historical notions of artistic competition. Topics include: biography, personal style, self-portraiture, history painting, patronage, and the expression of the passions.
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ART 374 - Modern Art & Trauma
Unit(s): 4
This seminar examines aesthetic responses to both individual and collective traumas in the work of modern and contemporary artists from diverse geographic regions since World War II. Topics include aesthetic responses to war; slavery; racial violence; gender and sexual violence; global health crises (AIDS, drug addiction). We study how psychoanalytic, literary, cultural and philosophical theories about trauma, memory, and representation inform critical examination of this work. The course includes exploration of debates about the function and form of memorials and site-specific works. We focus on a selection of case studies of specific artists, events, issues and geo-political regions. Note: course content includes some graphic imagery.
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ART 375 - Printmaking I
Unit(s): 4
This intermediate level course introduces students to traditional printmaking practices. Wood relief and copper intaglio methods will be used to create original multiples of art. Environmentally sensitive chemicals and safe processes will be used.
Prerequisite: ART 120 or ART 130 or ARCD 110 or ARCD 120
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ART 377 - Critical Brand/Package Design
Unit(s): 4
This course introduces students to the study of critical package and brand identity design-how abstract and concrete ideas are attached to objects, organizations, and movements. Through the lens of history, contemporary research, and informed forecasting, students explore brand and packaging design solutions. Course work focuses on ways to design consistent yet flexible written and visual messaging systems to be carried out in 2-D, 3-D, print, and digital contexts. Lectures, readings, and case studies supplement project work, introducing students to the larger impact that branding and packaging has on society, politics, economics, psychology, and technology-both positive and negative.
Prerequisite: ART 205 and ART 155 and (ART 175 or ART 272)
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 380 - Stained Glass I
Unit(s): 4
This course introduces students to the history of stained and leaded glass design and technique through background and slide lectures and site visits to Bay Area churches and installations (‘Glass Traditions’). The bulk of the class is in studio format in which the students learn to design and construct stained glass panels.
Prerequisite: ART 120 or VA 120 or ART 130 or VA 130 or VA 120 or ARCD 110
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design, Fine Arts Major, Design, Fine Arts Minor
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ART 385 - Interaction Design
Unit(s): 4
Interaction Design will advance students’ technical and conceptual skills in interaction design within the digital environment. Coursework emphasizes immersive and engaging user experience, site optimization, data visualization, and networked databases, along with readings that examine the history of human-machine interaction.
Prerequisite: ART 272 or ART 175 or CS 107 or CS 110
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Computer Science, Design Major, Computer Science, Design Minor
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ART 390 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 1 to 4
One-time offerings of special interest courses in art history.
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ART 398 - Directed Study/Research
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Directed study of a subject. The written permission of the instructor and the dean is required. Offered every semester.
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ART 405 - Drawing III
Unit(s): 4
In this course, students of Drawing will build upon their general knowledge of the field of study while making an in-depth investigation of this particular focus.
Prerequisite: ART 310 or VA 310
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ART 415 - Painting III
Unit(s): 4
In this course, students of Painting will build upon their general knowledge of the field of study while making an in-depth investigation of this particular focus.
Prerequisite: ART 220 or VA 220 or ART 320 or VA 320
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ART 421 - Intern/Museum
Unit(s): 1 to 4
This internship places students in a museum setting where they learn the skills of community outreach, educational programming, fund raising, curating of exhibitions, among other skills. Partner organizations include: the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (De Young Museum and Legion of Honor), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Exploratorium, the Museum of Craft and Design, among others.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of study restricted to Art History & Museum Studies, Art History/Arts Management Major
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ART 422 - Intern/Commercial Gallery
Unit(s): 1 to 4
This internship serves as an opportunity for students to develop patterns of professional behavior in the commercial art world setting. Students will be placed in a Bay Area art gallery where they will learn skills such as client interaction, cataloguing of works of art, shipping and insuring art, sales techniques, curating exhibitions, planning receptions, art fairs, and other public events, etc. Partner art galleries in San Francisco include: Franklin Bowles, Braunstein/Quay, Catharine Clark, Christopher Clark, Frey Norris, Haines Gallery, Hespe Gallery, Robert Koch, and Toomey Tourrell Fine Art.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of study restricted to Art History & Museum Studies, Art History/Arts Management Major
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ART 423 - Intern/Arts Non-Profit
Unit(s): 1 to 4
This internship places students in a non-profit arts organization where they learn the skills of community outreach, fund raising, and curating of exhibitions in an alternative arts setting. Partner organizations include: Creativity Explored, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, New Langton Arts, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of study restricted to Art History & Museum Studies, Art History/Arts Management Major
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ART 425 - Sculpture III
Unit(s): 4
In this studio/practicum course students will learn how sculptors working in such areas as the film industry and medical and forensic science apply their art in creative and innovative ways.
Prerequisite: ART 330 or VA 330
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ART 450 - Design Internship
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Design Internship provides students a supervised work experience within a professional Bay Area design setting that complements the theoretical, methodological and practical instruction received in the Design major. Additional course work will contextualize the students’ work experience and will helps them to prepare for future work within the field.
Prerequisite: ART 205
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 460 - Senior Design Project
Unit(s): 4
This course will allow students the opportunity to design a comprehensive project that synthesizes what they have learned throughout their tenure in the Design Program. Using quantitative and qualitative design research methods, students will develop and produce a project that responds to specific cultural, social, and political changes in the worlds around them.
Prerequisite: ART 315
Restriction: Class restricted to Senior; Field of study restricted to Design Major
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ART 460L - Senior Design Project Lab
Unit(s): 0
Corequisite: ART 460 Senior Design Project studio.
Corequisite: ART-460
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ART 465 - Fine Art Internship
Unit(s): 1 to 4
The course Fine Arts Internship offers students supervised pre-professional internship experiences designed to complement the conceptual, theoretical and practical instruction received in the Fine Arts major in the Department of Art Architecture.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior
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ART 470 - Senior Studio
Unit(s): 4
Senior Studio is a capstone course in the Fine Arts major in the department of Visual Arts that is designed to meet the professional needs of students whose concentration is studio art. The goal of the course is to prepare students for lives as working visual artists. Each student will complete a studio internship with a professional artist, attend presentations, workshops and group critiques, and create a solo senior exhibition and accompanying slide or CD portfolio.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of study restricted to Fine Arts Major
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ART 480 - Professional Practice in Design
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Professional Practice in Design will bring students greater awareness of the career options that will be available to them following graduation and will provide them with the skills that will enable them to successfully enter the profession.
Prerequisite: ART 205
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 487 - Art OR: Artist as Citizen
Unit(s): 4
First part of a year-long sequence. Artist as Citizen A is primarily conceptual and theoretical. The class is composed of lectures/discussions with guests from various communities, readings, slides, journal keeping and a full scale proposal for a community-based art project.
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ART 488 - Artist as Citizen
Unit(s): 4
Artist as Citizen B, Artist in the Community, is the outreach portion of the year-long sequence, (the ‘street’ component). This includes work on site, collaborations, designing visual narratives and survival strategies that focus on marginalized communities. Possible communities could be those concerned with environmental issues, health, homelessness, teens at risk, racism, educational institutions, among others.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Art History & Museum Studies Major, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Minor
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APS 600 - Research Methods
Unit(s): 4
This required first-semester course offers a practical, hands-on approach in developing a student’s research and communication skills in the context of major theories, methods, and debates within Asia Pacific Studies. It includes both academic writing as well as communication styles appropriate for public presentations, business communications, inquiries, and other professional communications.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 601 - Asia Pac History & Modernities
Unit(s): 4
This required gateway seminar focuses on the historical process of political and social modernization in East Asia. Emphasis is on the evolution of traditional societies in the classical and medieval periods and their transformation in the modern era.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 603 - Early Global History
Unit(s): 4
This history seminar and methodology elective course explores the creative encounters as well as turbulent clashes that took place between explorers, merchants, and missionaries of the European Maritime Empires (Portugal, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands) and the peoples and the indigenous cultures and civilizations of the Asian “Pacific Rim.”
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 605 - Asia Pacific Rel. and Phil.
Unit(s): 4
The religious and philosophical traditions of East Asia-especially as they affect the lives of contemporary Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans-are emphasized in this core survey course.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 606 - Quantitative Methods
Unit(s): 2
This 2-unit course is designed for students to develop quantitative research skills applied to topics of the Asia Pacific with an emphasis on statistical techniques and data analysis for academic research.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 607 - Asian Business Environments
Unit(s): 2
This course utilizes rational decision-making and critical thinking principles to equip students with analytical skills relevant to global business settings. Students encounter a range of complex case studies from the Asia Pacific region, and they will learn to identify, analyze, and solve organizational problems. Through these situations, written work, and in-class discussions, they will develop an ability to provide strategic direction based on critical thinking appropriate to sociocultural contexts in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
Prerequisite: APS 600
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 610 - Japanese Language 1
Unit(s): 4
Intended to lay a firm foundation for further learning in the target language, or to solidify language competency previously acquired. Students who come to the program with some Asian language competence will be accommodated in a class at the appropriate level wherever possible.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 611 - Japanese Language 2
Unit(s): 4
This class builds on the language competence developed in the first semester.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 612 - Asian Lang Int Summ Sess/Japan
Unit(s): 4
Free of the demands of a seminar, students in this class concentrate on improving basic skills in their target language in weekly evening sessions over eight weeks.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 620 - Int’l Politics of the Asia Pacific
Unit(s): 4
Comparative analysis of the modern international politics of Japan, Korea, ‘Greater’ China, Southeast and South Asia. Emphasis is on regional and international political developments, examining national policies and strategies used to compete and cooperate while assuring security.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 621 - Chinese Language 1
Unit(s): 4
This class is intended to lay a firm foundation for further learning in the target language, or to solidify language competency previously acquired. Students who come to the program with some language competence will be accommodated in a class at the appropriate level.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 622 - Chinese Language 2
Unit(s): 4
This course builds on the language competence developed in the first semester.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 623 - Asian Lang Int Summ Ses/Man/Ch
Unit(s): 4
Free of the demands of a seminar, students concentrate on improving basic skills in their target language in weekly evening sessions over eight weeks.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 635 - Asia Pacific Literature/Film
Unit(s): 4
This core seminar surveys influential traditional and modern literary works from China, Japan and Korea as well as Southeast Asia. Emphasis is on utilizing literature as a lens to examine social and cultural patterns, and on understanding the role literary arts play in each culture.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 636 - Society/Culture of Asia Pac
Unit(s): 4
This required core seminar takes a comparative approach in studying the impact of social, cultural, and economic changes in the contemporary Asia Pacific. Emphasis is on the industrialization, modernization, and democratization along with cultural, social, and business practices.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 646 - Political Economies of Asia
Unit(s): 4
This core seminar investigates the economic systems of the Asia Pacific with a focus on comparative economic development and the rise of Japan, South Korea, and China. Case material will also reference key economies in Southeast Asia.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 647 - Development Management in Asia
Unit(s): 4
The course prepares students to work in international development fields by providing a relevant and comprehensive institutional and policy background. Asian development issues will be studied and compared to other regions as part of the global story of development. Among the many themes to be covered are development theories, implementation strategies, poverty reduction, key actors in development policy, aid effectiveness, democracy and good governance, gender and development, as well as influential environmental issues. The course concludes with an exploration of the future of development and potential careers in international development.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 650 - Capstone Project
Unit(s): 4
The Capstone seminar is the culminating experience for students in the MAPS program. The seminar synthesizes, integrates, applies, and extends previously acquired knowledge and analytical skills. Students collaborate to develop advanced research proposals and papers focused on the Asia Pacific.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 690 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Course topics and themes vary by semester.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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APS 698 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 6
In conjunction with the program and under the supervision of individual faculty, students may arrange to do a research project, internship, or Asian language study.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Certificate and Graduate
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ANST 102 - Second Semester Chinese
Unit(s): 4
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ANST 103 - First Semester Japanese
Unit(s): 4
This course will introduce basic Japanese grammar, vocabulary, and writing systems (katakana and hiragana), together with some relevant aspects of Japanese culture. Emphasis on developing communicative conversational skills. Offered every Fall.
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ANST 104 - Second Semester Japanese
Unit(s): 4
Some basic kanji will be introduced. The course will focus on developing conversational skills and reading/writing skills. Offered every Spring.
Prerequisite: JAPN 101 or Placement-Japanese with a minimum score of 44
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ANST 105 - Third Semester Japanese
Unit(s): 4
This course will develop communicative conversational skills and reading and writing skills and will familiarize the student with Japanese grammar, vocabulary, and kanji. Offered every Fall.
Prerequisite: JAPN 102 or Placement-Japanese with a minimum score of 68
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ANST 106 - Intermediate Japanese
Unit(s): 4
This course will provide extensive practice for conversation, reading, and writing to consolidate the student’s language skills. Offered every Fall.
Prerequisite: JAPN 202
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