2023-24 Academic Courses
Art: Art History (ARTH)
This class is a survey of the history of painting, architecture, sculpture, and other arts of Western Civilization - Ancient to Middle Ages. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Create a time line of cultures, empires, and individuals that have made significant contributions to this emergent Western culture.
- Compare and contrast differing aspects of these, noting similarities and the continuity of ideas and concepts.
- Discuss your findings and theories, both in writing and in group exchanges.
- Recognize and know a number of photographic slides which correspond to the illustrations in the text and handouts.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of multicultural global community.
This class is a survey of the history of painting, architecture, sculpture, and other arts of Western Civilization - Renaissance to Modern. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Create a time line of cultures, empires, and individuals that have made significant contributions to this emergent Western culture.
- Compare and contrast differing aspects of these, noting similarities and the continuity of ideas and concepts.
- Discuss your findings and theories, both in writing and in group exchanges.
- Recognize and know a number of photographic slides which correspond to the illustrations in the text and handouts.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of multicultural global community.
This course examines the art and architecture of Italy. Students will explore the works of the artists and architects of Italy with specific attention given to Venice from the 4th century onward. The class will consist of a series of excursions to historic sites, important architectural structures, and museums. Emphasis will be on the recognition of the unique character that is found in the Italian style. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Recognize specific works by Italian artists and know their place in the chronology of Italian art history.
- Write a series of papers that reveal a process of investigation that has led the student to hold a particular opinion about a particular piece of work.
- Prepare a presentation on a selected artist that will be delivered to fellow classmates.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of multicultural global community.
This course is a study of Italian theatrical history as it relates to Venice and the surrounding area. It will trace drama from its origins in Greek Dionysian religious festivals and consequent usurpation by the Romans through the development of the very specifically Italian forms, commedia del arte and grand opera. The location and timing of this course will provide students with a unique, first-hand experience in Italian theatrical culture. Ruins of the ancient Roman amphitheatre at Concordia Sagittaria and the exquisitely preserved Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, the oldest extant indoor theatre in the world, with its lovingly maintained original scenery in forced perspective from its initial performance of Oedipus Rex in 1584, will give students physical contact with historical theatrical practices. And access to La Fenice, the recently renovated Venetian opera house originally completed in 1792, as well as performances there, offers the opportunity to expose students to an art form that has uniquely Italian origins. Also, the dates of the course encompass the traditional Italian pre-Lenten celebration of carnevale when visitors and residents alike don elaborate and historically authentic costumes and masks, when squares and alleys are filled with street performers of all stripes, including commedia del arte troupes performing works by the masters of 16th century comedy on rude stages with no amplification and historically accurate costumes and props, culminating in an elaborately staged pageant, all of which will immerse the students in a three-dimensional world of theatre that no solely academic curriculum could hope to provide. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Trace the evolution of drama from ancient Greece to the origination of opera as a popular form of entertainment in 18th century Europe.
- Identify and explain the function of each of the commedia del arte stock characters.
- Identify the various architectural and technical elements of ancient and Renaissance theatrical practice.
- Present a brief, original commedia del arte piece based on his or her experiences in Italy.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of multicultural global community examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course aims to introduce students to the development of style and meaning in Italian 14th century art. Painting, sculpture and architecture will be the main disciplines explored. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Understand the pivotal part that Florence played in the birth of the Renaissance.
- Compare and contrast different artists, noting revolutionary trends in styles and movements.
- Understand the chronological order of Italian Renaissance Art.
- Recognize and know a number of photographic slides which correspond to the illustrations in the text.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of multicultural global community.
Art: Jewelry (ARTJ)
This course is an introduction to the tools, techniques, and materials of the professional jeweler/metalsmith with emphasis on the design and production of jewelry objects. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Use basic tools of the professional jeweler properly and safely.
- Examine surface embellishment.
- Use cold connections and silver soldering for jewelry fabrication.
- Use basic stone setting techniques for non-faceted stones.
- Design and fabricate jewelry based projects.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
A continuation of ARTJ 210, this course provides further introduction of the tools, techniques, and materials of the professional jeweler/metalsmith. Emphasizes working more 3-dimensionally with greater complexity. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Discuss advanced jewelry and metal forming concepts.
- Demonstrate technical development and personal imagery.
- Demonstrate advanced processes in metal, including wax carving, spruing, investing, and casting.
- Utilize design criteria and concept.
- Discuss themes in historical and contemporary metalworking.
- Use basic techniques for setting faceted stones.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course is an in-depth investigation into the tools, techniques, and materials of the professional jeweler. Emphasis will be on the mechanics, ergonomics, and engineering of complex jewelry projects. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Apply catch and hinge mechanisms to complex jewelry projects.
- Utilize precious metals in metalsmithing projects.
- Discuss the engineering and ergonomics for complex jewelry designs.
- Demonstrate technical development and personal imagery.
A continuation of ARTJ 212, this course provides a further in-depth investigation into the tools, techniques, and materials of the professional jeweler/metalsmith. Emphasis will be on business and production methods of the independent studio artist. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate technical development and personal imagery through a body of work.
- Employ production methodology of the professional jeweler/metalsmith.
- Utilize pricing and business practices of the professional jeweler/studio artist.
Forging and smithing are ancient hammer and anvil based techniques that take advantage of the plastic qualities of metal. This course concentrates on hammer formed jewelry items utilizing non-ferrous metals such as copper, brass, silver, and gold. The course will introduce the student to the following topics: forging and raising techniques, hammers, anvils, forming stakes, tool maintenance. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Design and produce raised and forged forms beginning with the appropriate sheet metal or dimensional stock and using the proper techniques to carry the work through to a finished object.
This course is designed to explore the use of the hydraulic press in jewelry and vessel construction. Emphasis will be in die making involved in the processes. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Design and produce metal forms using dies and the hydraulic press.
- Use polishing and finishing techniques to take pieces to finished state.
This is a jewelry foundational course designed to teach the student how to design in a 3D CAD/CAM software environment and to further take those designs and create finished wax models on prototyping CNC mills. Manufacturing issues and techniques that will be found in a production setting will be explored. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Maneuver though basic computer operations, including file management and removable storage devices.
- Create artwork in a 3D software environment.
- Transfer completed designs into a manufacturing environment and create completed 3D models.
This is an advanced jewelry course designed to continue teaching the student how to design in a 3D CAD/CAM software environment and to further take those designs and create finished wax models on prototyping CNC mills. Manufacturing issues and techniques that will be found in a production setting will be explored. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Maneuver though basic computer operations, including file management and removable storage devices.
- Create artwork in a 3D software environment.
- Transfer completed designs into a manufacturing environment and create completed 3D models.
This upper level jewelry course is designed to further the education of students who have completed the first and second semester of the CAD/CAM programs. The class will focus on more complex design and milling projects including making galleries, sculpting tools, two and three sided projects, two-color metal projects, and design and milling of metal molds. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Design complex projects using our CAD program.
- Transform CAD projects into 3D objects with the use of our CAM program.
This advanced CAD/CAM jewelry course is designed to expand skills acquired in the first three semesters of the jewelry CAD/CAM programs. The class will focus on the completion of complex custom designs from inception to ready-for-market pieces. Additionally, students will integrate the preparation of portfolio, marketing, and human relations skills in a simulated jewelry business environment. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Design and produce complex custom projects using CAD/CAM, CNC, and jewelry lab equipment.
- Create/assemble a portfolio of finished pieces which would maximize success in marketing strategies.
- Demonstrate interpersonal skills and work effectively with customers and co-workers in a simulated professional Jewelry business environment.
- Understand the basic employment laws and regulations in the jewelry industry.
This course is an introduction to casting tools, techniques, and materials of the professional jeweler/metalsmith. Emphasis will be on the design and production of custom pieces. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Perform a variety of waste-mold casting techniques.
- Carve and model wax for custom design.
- Use organic and inorganic materials for casting.
- Express a working knowledge of metallurgy in regards to casting.
- Perform surface finishing techniques of cast pieces.
A continuation of ARTJ 250, this course provides an in-depth investigation into casting tools, techniques and materials of the professional jeweler/metalsmith. Emphasis will be on design and production of multiples. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate technical development in regards to casting.
- Create models and molds for production casting.
- Sprue wax models for production.
- Perform batch finishing of production pieces.
In this course, students build basic stone setting skills by learning tool assembly and shaping, and how to set stones in a round, oval and pear-marquis head setting. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Install simple head settings.
- Set round, oval and pear stone marquis headings.
- Set and cluster heads.
- Solder and set prong setting for round faceted stones.
- Build baskets for oval settings Integrate a variety of techniques in the creative process.
Students build stone setting skills by completing head settings and assembling tools for channel, flush, pave' and gypsy settings. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Construct and grind tools.
- Perform bead setting, pave'.
- Perform channel setting.
- Perform flush or gypsy setting and fishtail.
- Integrate the techniques learned in class in order to build a piece.
This course concentrates on textural and chromatic surface treatments for all non-ferrous metals including silver and gold. Included among the topics covered will be reticulation, acidetching, enameling, fusing, hammer and punch treatments, patination, roller printing, and media blasting among others. These are all vital techniques which are, due to their proliferation and technical nature, beyond the scope of basic jewelry classes. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Explain the ancient and modern surface techniques.
- Utilize concepts, principles, techniques and problems of different treatments.
This comprehensive course teaches students the skills necessary for basic jewelry repair. Students are expected to identify various precious metals as well as cleaning, refurbishing and polishing jewelry. In addition, students learn to size rings, repair broken jewelry and replace stones in damaged pieces. Specifics include: precious metal terminology, cleaning and polishing for repair, soldering techniques for heads and shanks, ring sizing and reshanks, hinge and catch repair, broken chains, diamond removal and tightening, prong work and re-tipping, estimating price quotes. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Make simple repairs on precious metal jewelry Identify metals.
- Clean and polish for repair.
- Use solder techniques for heads and shanks.
- Perform ring sizing and reshanks.
- Repair hinge and catch repair.
- Repair broken chains and spring rings.
- Tighten prong settings.
- Fabricate prong work and re-tip broken prongs.
- Estimate price quotes.
- Communicate clearly and ethically with customers.
- Evaluate different approaches to repair and select most appropriate repair solutions.
Art: Visual Arts (ARTZ)
This course focuses on the introduction to the craft, materials and conceptual concerns of two- and three-dimensional visual arts. No prior art experience is expected. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Interpret visual arts through expression, aesthetics, historical genres and application.
- Use, and experiment with composition, techniques and materials.
- Make artistic, creative, and analytical decisions.
- Recognize, understand, and utilize art vocabulary in discussions, presentations and critique.
- Use art materials in safe and logical manner.
This course, a presentation to art students with varying degrees of talent and exposures to instruction, is designed to help each student develop his or her own unique style. Considerable emphasis is placed upon the perception of the draftsperson and problems arising from the representation of three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional planes. Exercises using a variety of media and papers will occupy a great portion of this course. Class problems and assignments are planned to meet the individual needs of all students. Uniformity is not the aim. The major aim is the exposure to, and subsequent assimilation of, basic drawing "tools." (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Create two dimensional artworks based on contemporary concepts that emphasize observation, imagination, and memory.
- Employ formal elements of line, shape, texture, value and design principles of unity, variety, balance, movement, space, rhythm, and pattern.
- Express ideas and evaluate artworks in a formal group and individual critiques.
- Select basic drawing media based upon personal preference or assignment requirements.
- Utilize correctly papers and their applications.
- Create the illusion of 3-dimensionality on a 2-dimensional plane.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
A foundational course designed to present basic concepts, this course focuses on organization, structure, and composition of form through the use of basic design elements, such as line, shape, and value, and emphasizes design development, which is related to two-dimensional art. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Apply basic design elements to construct meaning through creation of artwork.
- Utilize knowledge of design elements to analyze existing artwork.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course is a continuation of ARTZ 106, a foundational course designed to present basic concepts, studying organization, structure and composition of forms through the use of basic design elements. Emphasis is on three-dimensionality. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Understand the basic principles of 3D Design.
- Demonstrate a variety of art construction techniques.
- Choose and understand appropriate construction materials and tools used in creating 3D artwork.
- Conceptualize ideas and produce work through process and procedure.
- Critique the artwork of self and classmates.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This introductory short course is designed for students interested in learning the fundamentals of wheel throwing and trimming clay, as well as glazing pottery. The course is designed for students who are not sure they can commit to a full semester course. This course may be repeated for a total of two credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Make objects out of ceramics and finish works for presentation and for critique.
- Assess the quality and effect of final products.
- Discuss historical and contemporary artists illustrating ideas and concepts.
This course covers the initial development of visual portfolio, photographing and exhibiting artwork, artist statement, and other preparation for transfer to a BFA program in visual arts. Students will also be prepared for graduate exhibition opportunities as well as for entry into the professional business of art. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Operate copy camera and lights.
- Demonstrate a familiarity with portfolio requirements of museums, galleries and educational institutions.
- Write and speak using appropriate language/terminology concerning biographical and artistic statements, as well as the philosophy and technical methods behind the student's body of artwork.
- Develop and maintain an online presence.
- Explain typical practices concerning the professional business of being an artist.
This is a course designed for the more advanced student. It is expected that prospective students will understand and be capable of demonstrating basic techniques and applications of media. The course is committed to the drawing of the human figure. The first sessions are dedicated to the physiology of the body, the skeletal structure first and then the muscular organization. It is a course aimed at encouraging the student to develop his or her own way of assimilating previous drafting knowledge with the intricacies of the human form. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Understand the skeletal structure of the human figure.
- Understand the muscular structure of the human figure.
- Produce drawings, both representational and gestural, which capture the essence of the human form.
- Demonstrate a personal style of drawing.
- Participate critiques, justifying your own and discussing others' work.
- Explain why successful drawings are successful.
This course is aimed at students with varying degrees of ability who have successfully completed a beginningdrawingprogram and wish to pursuedrawingbeyond the basic level. Exercises involving a broader variety of media, their application, and effects will be given emphasis. A portraiture component is included. Class problems and assignments will have enough flexibility to meet the individual needs of all students. The major aim of this course is to encourage the development of each student's unique approach todrawing- a personal style. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Make choices of paper and media, based upon the requirements of the project and personal preference.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive competence in the differing approaches to drawing - line, structure, contour, value, and gesture.
- Create drawings with the use of collage.
- Participate in critiques, justifying your own, and discussing others' work.
- Know why successful drawings are successful.
This elementary painting course seeks to acquaint students with the basic tools of the painter, focusing on technique and materials. Each assignment is tailored to both satisfy the need for individual expression and to present a vehicle for the practice of new techniques. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Understand the "language" of painting used to describe technique and materials and to critique.
- Apply techniques to a variety of subject matter; i.e., still life, landscape.
- Complete a finished painting.
- Know why successful paintings are successful.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course is designed for both beginning and more advanced students to develop the skills necessary to complete an oil portrait of a live model. Progressing from the large and less complicated structures of the human head, neck, and torso to the finer and more complex structures, the student will learn the significant topographical anatomy and employ the concepts of composition, design, perspective, color, light and shadow, character and narrative to establish a "likeness." Each student will be encouraged to develop his or her own style. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Use basic technical aspects of paint handling and manipulation, formal composition, and color theory and mixing.
- Discuss critical and conceptual concerns, such as visual problem solving and development of personal expression and visual language.
- Analyze the topographic anatomy of the human head, neck, and torso to determine the distinctive features.
- Interpolate this visual information to the digital skills necessary to drawing and painting.
- Demonstrate proficiency in recreating on canvas the size, shape, proportion, color, and texture of a live model's head, neck, and torso.
- Delineate the likeness of the model in a manner which expresses an aesthetic totality.
A continuation of study for the aspiring painter, this course allows time for practical experience with brush at the easel, combined with periods of open discussion, lecture sharing and critique. The focus of this class is help and direction for the individual student in developing a unique and personal expression. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Reflect human anatomy and skeletal structure.
- Master color mixing and harmony and palette management.
- Master the Alla Prima method, which involves completing a painting during one sitting.
- Identify various historical and contemporary masters techniques and apply them to own paintings.
- Explore the connection between drawing and painting.
This course is designed for both beginning and more advanced students to develop the skills necessary to complete an oil portrait of a live model. Progressing from the large and less complicated structures of the human head, neck, and torso to the finer and more complex structures, the student will learn the significant topographical anatomy and employ the concepts of composition, design, perspective, color, light and shadow, character and narrative to establish a "likeness." Each student will be encouraged to develop his or her own style. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Assemble materials needed to produce oil paintings and be fully aware of the health hazards associated with the medium.
- Explain color, texture, composition, and other components of creating a painting.
- Discuss their understanding of the arts, particularly in recognizing the value of the arts as a basic form of communicating the human condition.
This course is a continuation of ARTZ 221where the basic tools of the painter are now focused more on composition and color experimentation. It is expected that the student will exercise more personal preference and choice in both subject matter and expression. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Generate a larger palette of colors.
- Know and understand the use of value within color scheme.
- Generate complete composition based entirely on subjective color choices.
- Work competently with the principles of composition.
Inspired by figure painting masters of the past and present, this course is designed for the student or professional who is ready to take their drawing and painting skills to a new level.The student will be exposed to a wide variety of Alla Prima painting techniques while they accumulate a basic understanding of artistic anatomy.Each session of this class will be a direct painting experience from the live model.This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Generate a larger palette of colors.
- Know and understand the use of value within color scheme.
- Generate complete composition based entirely on subjective color choices.
- Work competently with the principles of composition.
A study of the history, materials, techniques and presentation of transparent watercolor, this course considers a variety of subject matter. Summer classes will be conducted "en plein air" (outdoors) weather permitting. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate the basic technical aspects of paint handling and manipulation, formal composition, and color theory and mixing.
- Explain tools, materials, craftsmanship, content, and professionalism.
- Discuss the various tools and techniques of transparent watercolor and to fain an understanding and appreciation of its many facets.
- Discuss critical and conceptual concerns, such as visual problem solving and development of personal expression and visual language.
- Understand the history of the medium and its foremost practices, past and present.
- Develop a portfolio of finished work, properly signed and matted for presentation.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
An in-depth continuation of ARTZ 224, this course is a study of the history, materials, techniques, and presentation of transparent watercolor with a variety of subject matter considered. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate the basic technical aspects of paint handling and manipulation.
- See and translate a vision on to a two-dimensional surface.
- Demonstrate the various tools and techniques of transparent watercolor and discuss its many facets.
- Create a personal vision after becoming familiar with the technical aspects of the medium.
This is an introductory ceramics course which will include the history, development, and aesthetics of ceramic vessels and sculpture. Students will learn basic technical aspects of building clay, working with glazes, and the firing of ceramic objects. Emphasis will be placed on problem solving and the development of ideas. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Express an understanding of the history, development, and aesthetics of ceramic vessels and sculpture.
- Utilize a variety of basic methods of building with clay (slab, coil, pinch, wheel, etc.).
- Reveal an understanding of the technical aspects of clay, glazes, and the firing of ceramic objects.
- Explore the development of ideas and problem solving skills.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course is a comprehensive introduction to sculptural ceramic processes and equipment. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Explain a variety of sculptural ceramic processes, including building techniques, basic mold-making, clay body formulation, glazing, and firing.
- Address and explore contemporary ceramic sculptural issues and applications from art gallery to industry.
- Demonstrate proficient use of studio equipment: slab roller, extruder, wheel, clay mixer, and firing processes.
This course is designed for all levels of students interested in developing pottery throwing skills including wheel throwing, trimming clay and glazing techniques. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate how to prep and wedge clay for throwing application.
- Throw cylindrical pieces of different widths and heights that can be made into utilitarian or decorative objects.
- Produce lidded objects including covered jars, canisters and casseroles.
- Create assemblages-attaching clay to clay-in the forms of handles and knobs.
- Demonstrate advanced trimming skills to best showcase the form created.
- Learn to prepare, apply, and maintain slips, glazes, and other surface treatments.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding and appreciation of firing thrown ceramic objects with high fire stoneware kilns, raku and sawdust firings through exposure and participation.
This course is a tile making class with emphasis on the various techniques used to produce and install tile murals, as well as an exploration of a variety of historical and contemporary techniques used to create tile. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Describe a wide variety of historical and contemporary techniques for creating and installing tile.
- Demonstrate competency using studio equipment: slab roller, extruder, pub mill, clay mixer, etc.
- Develop and design a large-scale project and generate a professional proposal for his/her ideas.
- Demonstrate an awareness of creating clay bodies and glazes for a variety of tile/ceramic applications.
This course is a lecture/lab that focuses on the use of 3D printing systems and their potential in producing elements of sculptural works. Students will learn how to design, lay out and produce three dimensional works and explore the possibilities of using CAD software as viable terrain for creative thought. Students will be encouraged to incorporate mixed media into their projects and resolve their pieces as finished works of art. This course may be repeated for a total of nine credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Develop sculptural pieces designed for 3-D printer, demonstrating a familiarity of x, y, z, coordinates in CAD software and
- Apply basic 3-D design concepts in the digital realm.
- Explore the possibilities and limitations of both software and hardware in the process of 3-D sculpting.
This is an introductory course in the art and technique of Intaglio and collagraph. Basic plate preparation, experimentation with a variety of grounds and tones, and the use of the press will be covered. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Use basic etching process.
- Use basic collagraph process.
- Use basic embossment process.
- Prepare metal plates for printing processes.
- Work with inks and paper.
- Operate and maintain an etching press.
Communication (COMX)
This course focuses on preparation, presentation, and criticism of speeches. Emphasis is on the development of public speaking techniques through constructive criticism. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate analysis of the audience and speaking situation.
- Identify general and specific speech purposes.
- Generate well organized ideas.
- Apply research to support ideas.
- Present public speeches.
- Evaluate purpose and audience to create a well-developed, supported, and stylistically fluent response.
- Express, interpret, or modify ideas to communicate effectively.
This course is a study of and practice in communication skills in professional life and in daily relationships. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate interpersonal communication concepts: listening skills, perception, self-concept, and nonverbal communication;
- Communicate effectively one-to-one;
- Analyze personal communication situations and make appropriate choices;
- Manage interpersonal conflict appropriately and effectively;
- Demonstrate appropriate interpersonal communication skills such as managing conflict, self-disclosing, and active listening;
- Evaluate purpose and audience to create a well-developed, supported, and stylistically fluent response;
- Express, interpret, or modify ideas to communicate effectively; and
- Collaborate with others in complicated, dynamic, and/or ambiguous situations.
This introductory course will focus on concepts, skills, and strategies for effective resolution of conflicts through negotiation. Emphasis will be placed on the application of concepts learned through the use of simulated exercises and case studies which allow students to apply, practice, and evaluate negotiation skills. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Recognize situations that call for negotiating.
- Understand what the process of negotiation involves.
- Analyze, plan, and carry out successful negotiations.
- Understand basic mediation processes (3rd party intervention).
- Express, interpret, or modify ideas to communicate effectively.
- Collaborate with others in complicated, dynamic, and/or ambiguous situations.
The techniques, practice, and performance of effective oral reading will be the subject of this course. Poetry, drama, children's literature, stories, speeches, and articles will be analyzed, practiced, and performed before the class. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate variation of pitch, rate, inflection and articulation.
- Describe attributes of literature appropriate for interpretation.
- Classify types of literature for interpretation.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
- Evaluate purpose and audience to create a well-developed, supported, and stylistically fluent response.
This course introduces theory and research on communication in organizations. Focus is on topics such as productivity, power, culture, socialization, technology and globalization covering a wide range of organizations including corporations, government, educational institutions, non-profit agencies and media organizations. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Explain the basic concepts in the field of organizational communication.
- Describe a range of perspectives, theories and issues to explore the ways in which variedperspectives can shape, expand, or limit our Explaining of communicating and organizing.
- Apply theoretical knowledge to an Explaining of real world processes through class discussionand other exercises.
- Develop and enhance your analytical organizational communication skills.
- Connect theory and research to your own lived experiences in organizations.
- Accurately describe key elements of the following theories: classical management, human relations, human resources, and critical.
- Accurately describe key elements of the following processes: assimilation, organizational decision-making, conflict management, change and leadership, emotion, organizational diversity, and technological.
Creative Writing (CRWR)
This introductory writers' workshop focuses on the critique and revision of students' short fiction. Contemporary literary short stories, short shorts and parables will be emphasized. Students will study fiction elements and techniques, including character sketches, beginnings, dialogue, point of view, plot, authorial distance, significant detail, scene, characterization, and endings. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Develop, organize and revise an introductory-level short story.
- Read aloud in front of others for critique.
- Critique another writer's work.
- Demonstrate professionalism in the presentation of a short story manuscript.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course focuses on the reading and writing of poetry with emphasis on the techniques of imaginative writing and critical appraisal. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Articulate aesthetic value judgements (orally and in writing) of their own poems and the poems of their peers.
- Make significant revisions to their own poems and articulate the standards by which they adjudge the revised poems to be of greater merit than earlier versions.
- Locate their own work within one or more schools of contemporary or historical poetic styles.
- Risk innovation in their own work and assess their success (or lack thereof) in reaching new possibilities for author/reader connection.
This intermediate course focuses on critique and revision of students' short fiction or on chapters of students' novels. Students will be expected to finish three stories of literary quality. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Develop, organize and revise a short story of publishable quality.
- Provide a professional-level critique of another's work.
- Submit a manuscript in proper form to a potential publisher.
- Demonstrate in writing an astute response to a college-level creative writing text.
- Discuss how fiction writing is assessed professionally, esthetically and culturally.
- Demonstrate an informed opinion about at least three contemporary short story writers (of at least two genders, of at least two races, including Native American; and of at least one writer of the Northwest).
An advanced course in the writing of poetry, this course considers special problems in this area as well as refinement of the student's skill. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Articulate advanced aesthetic value judgements (orally and in writing) of their own poems and the poems of their peers.
- Revise their own poems and articulate the standards by which they adjudge the revised poems to be of greater merit than earlier versions.
- Innovate and experiment with new strategies and theories of the author/reader connection and make articulated assessments of strengths (or weaknesses) of their innovations.
- Understand the complexities of performance options in presenting (on the page and on the stage) poems in various venues to various audiences.
Study the art of nonfiction through reading and responding to contemporary nonfiction and the writing of original nonfiction works. Focus is on creative expression, writing technique and nonfiction forms. Students begin with writing exercises and brief essays, advancing to longer forms as the semester progresses. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate foundational skills in reading, discussing, and writing essays.
- Utilize the terminology and concepts that apply to creative nonfiction.
- Practice the art of writing and revising nonfiction works.
- Critique the quality of one's work and that of fellow students.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
Dance (DANC)
The focus of this course is to instruct the student in the awareness of the body used in the theatre performance style. This is done through understanding, practicing, and executing the basic technical moves of this form of dance. The vocabulary of stops and moves are taught carefully so that the student can learn, appreciate, and understand how the body and muscles work together for a fluid and strong performance. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Possess proficient knowledge and understanding of the structure, analysis and skilled execution of movement as a creative and expressive art form.
- Execute problem-solving skills for ongoing artistic development and communication in a community.
- Continue artistic, creative, technical and civic advancement through contributions within the leadership roles in a community.
- Recognize and focus the abilities and skills needed to build a proficient and aesthetic understanding of the structural, analytical, and technical elements of movement as a creative and expressive career.
Film (FILM)
A mini-course designed to develop informed, critical understanding within students. Examines the language and historical impact of the motion picture industry from the silent era to contemporary filmmaking. Course may be repeated for a total of four credits. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Identify motion pictures of historical significance.
- Describe techniques of cinematic analysis.
- Explain how culture is encompassed in motion pictures.
Global Humanities (GH)
This course offers an interdisciplinary survey of human creative achievements from Prehistory through the Late Middle Ages. By examining major works of art, architecture, music, literature and philosophy, students will gain an awareness of human productivity and the historical contexts that provided its inspiration, as well as an enhanced appreciation of the rich cultural heritage that informs our own contemporary identity. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Discuss the cultural roots of Western civilization from antiquity to the Renaissance.
- Connect diverse literary, artistic, musical, architectural, philosophical and religious masterworks, and consider how they influence Western civilization.
- Ask relevant questions about and write cogently about literary and philosophical texts.
- Identify specific creative works which mark the major intellectual, social, spiritual and economic values of our cultural evolution.
- Comprehend and appreciate the rich cultural heritage that informs our own present-day identity.
This course offers an interdisciplinary survey of human creative achievements from Early Renaissance to Postmodernism. By examining major works of art, architecture, music, literature and philosophy, students will gain an awareness of human productivity and the historical contexts that provided its inspiration, as well as an enhanced appreciation of the rich cultural heritage that informs our own contemporary identity. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Discuss the Western humanistic tradition from the later Middle Ages through the twentieth century including works of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, and music.
- Read literary and philosophical works of different times, places, genres, and categories with an understanding of the connections and debates between them.
- Appreciate the influence of this tradition on one's own ways of thinking and seeing.
- Ask relevant questions about and write cogently about literary and philosophical texts.
- Comprehend and appreciate the rich cultural heritage that informs our own present-day identity.
Graphic Design (GDSN)
Because the eye is trained to appreciate the sensibilities and subtleties of typographic conventions such as kerning, leading, style, and practice, in this course students will gain an understanding of the vocabulary surrounding letter forms and the design of text. Symbolic communication inherent in different typefaces will also be explored. Typographic relationships with other graphic elements will be investigated through brochures, posters and other two-dimensional projects. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Discuss the history of typography.
- Explain the basic principles of typography, including the selection and arrangement of tuype for effective legibility.
- Develop effective arrangements of text, information and visuals with typographic elements.
- Use common typographic terms (e.g.: leading, point size and kerning).
- Identify letterform anatomy (e.g.: serif, ascender, bowl, ligature).
- Produce work using a variety of tools and methods (e.g.: photocopy machine, computer, photography, hand rendering type).
This is a beginning course in the use of Adobe Illustrator where students will develop vector-drawing abilities through a variety of skill-based assignments, with an emphasis on concept, creativity, technical achievement and presentation. In addition, students learn file preparation standards for production, including file formats, color palettes and image resolution. The most recent version of Illustrator is highly recommended. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Create graphics and illustrations using Adobe Illustrator software.
- Work with Edit, Selection, Drawing, Type and Transform tools.
- Organize workflow through the management of art boards and layers.
- Create original solutions with emphasis placed on digital output.
This is a beginning course in the use of Adobe Photoshop. This class will introduce the concepts of basic digital image manipulation techniques. This includes cropping images, selecting details, creating new layers, adjusting color balance/contrast, adding type, web optimization, resampling/resizing of images, and using alpha channels. More intermediate topics such as layer mask selection, clipping masks, layer adjustments, filters, and image slicing will be introduced. The most recent version of Photoshop is highly recommended. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify the basic elements of design and branding.
- Select appropriate resolutions and formats for different images and output types.
- Manipulate blending effects, layer effects, filters, and type to create realistic composites.
- Optimize images for the Web.
This is a fast-paced course in the use of Adobe InDesign. The concepts of integrating imagery and type as art, identity branding, and multi-page layouts will be covered extensively. Students must be proficient with Illustrator and Photoshop because this course combines photo, illustration, and typography to create cohesive layouts. Students will finish this class with the ability to create a small magazine from concept to creation to production. The most recent version of InDesign is highly recommended. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Identify the basic elements of design and branding.
- Manipulate design elements to achieve a desired effect.
- Compose an array of successful layouts from ad design to and multi-page magazine layout.
- Create a published product from concept to final product.
This course integrates graphic design skills with video editing to create short promotional videos. Students explore basic working concepts of the art of video editing through the use of linear and non-linear video editing to tell a story from start to finish with a detailed plot arc. Topics include capturing digital video, organizing projects, storing video clips, explaining the browser, viewer, canvas, and timeline. Students learn advanced features such as special effects, camera angles, techniques for connecting shots, overlapping sound sequences, and text effects. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Combine graphic design and video to promote or sell a product.
- Identify and describe the basic digital video formats.
- Shoot and edit a short narrative piece based on a storyboard.
- Record, capture, convert, and edit a variety of video sources.
- Describe the main principles of continuity editing.
- Create a story by compiling clips into a complete sequence from start to finish with a detailed plot arc.
- Combine multiple video and audio sources to produce composite video productions.
In this course, students develop a unique identity and branding to showcase examples of both graphic design and web technology pieces in preparation for the job market. A cohesive design will be displayed through a resume, business card, leave behind, print portfolio, and digital portfolio. This capstone course prepares Graphic Design and Web Technology students for the job market by teaching interviewing skills and independent contract techniques. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Design a unique identity and branding for a professional resume, business cards, leave behinds, print portfolio, and digital portfolio for a defined audience and purpose.
- Demonstrate knowledge of effective resume writing and interviewing skills.
- Apply team work skills while working interacting with diverse groups.
- Display strong leadership, communication, and confidence skills.
- Collaborate with others in complicated, dynamic, and/or ambiguous situations.
This is an advanced course in the use of Adobe Illustrator. The concepts of advanced digital illustration will be introduced and explored. This includes drawing in 3D, using perspective, streamlining color management, creating customized brushes, and using special effects. Also, a strong emphasis on typography as a design element will be applied. The most recent version of Illustrator is highly recommended. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Use Adobe Illustrator to create professional-level graphics and illustrations.
- Develop a command of high-level typography skills using the type tools and design aesthetics.
- Understand color theory principles, successful compositions, and progressive design fundamentals.
- Work with advanced tools to create effects including transforming images, masking, making compound paths, custom brushes, and custom patterns.
This is an advanced course in the use of Adobe Photoshop. The concepts of advanced digital image manipulation techniques will be introduced and explored through Photoshop. This includes advanced techniques in retouching and enhancing techniques, creating special effects, and applying artistic type, textures and filters. The use of multiple layers with adjustments, blending modes, clipping masks, alpha channels, puppet warp, liquefy and other filters, will be thoroughly explored. The most recent version of Photoshop is highly recommended. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Use Adobe Photoshop to create professional-level graphics.
- Work with multiple layers to create design effects using adjustments/blending modes/alpha channels
- Enact image adjustment using Levels and Curves, Blending Modes, Type Techniques, and Special Effects
- Create professional images by applying retouching and enhancing techniques.
This course provides an introduction to the principles of Graphic Design that can be applied in photography, painting, and fine arts. The course covers the fundamentals of graphic design with an emphasis on creative problem solving. Students will learn composition, color theory, models and schemes, design components, typography and terminology, resolution, design basics to prepare for web, the marketing process including branding, standard business practices, contracts and ethical guidelines for the graphic arts industry. Students work on critical thinking skills by completing visual problem-solving exercises. This is an introductory course so assignments done on a computer will not be required. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate ability to deliver an effective, short presentation of your work.
- Understand and be able to produce a clear visual communication.
- Explore the evolution of typeface and understand best practices.
- Recognize and be able to use methods of simplifying a message.
- Understand basic color theory, schemes and recognize the power/moods of basic color combinations.
- Grasp some understanding of resolution in both printing and on the computer as well as different color methods.
- Apply basic design in computer based outcomes.
- Express, interpret, or modify ideas to communicate effectively.
Exploration of techniques and formats used for the documentation and presentation of 2D and 3D artworks. Film, digital and web-based technologies will be used. Students will learn how to create and present portfolios of artwork. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Operate copy camera and lights.
- Transfer images to disc and file.
- Label and document art pieces.
- Demonstrate a familiarity with format required by museums, galleries, and educational institutions.
- Demonstrate a familiarity with format and materials to contain slides, CDs and information.
- Write and speak using appropriate language/terminology concerning biographical and artistic statements, as well as the philosophy and technical methods behind the student's body of artwork.
- Express, interpret, or modify ideas to communicate effectively.
This course offers a supervised, structured learning experience at an approved business/organization. Students experience the selection process, receive training related to their field of study, enhance their academic learning, and gain exposure to the workplace. Students apply theoretical classroom concepts to real world workplace issues. Typically, a student completes 45 site hours per one credit of lecture. Additionally, students participate in activities and class time beyond the hours spent at the job site. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Write a professional resume following acceptable rules of format, grammar and usage.
- Identify a minimum of three potential employers within their field of study.
- Successfully interview for a job.
- Write measurable learning goals and objectives in conjunction with their site supervisor and internship instructor and make progress toward accomplishing those objectives.
- Self-evaluate and gain feedback on job performance.
- Apply knowledge and skills learned in program courses to the workplace.
- Utilize program related and business terminology in describing and presenting solutions to business problems.
- Utilize effective written and verbal communication skills in the organization.
- Operate in a professional and ethical manner to accomplish organizational objectives.
- Follow directions and adhere to policies of the organization.
- Understand a job description and provide value-added services as appropriate to the defined roles and responsibilities of a specific job.
- Operate effectively in a team environment as well as operating independently with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrate the functions of the department and/or organization.
- Develop a list of important skills needed to be successful in the organization.
- Broaden technology skills in the workplace with video editing, imaging editing, and cloud computing.
Languages: French (FRCH)
Study of the French language with attention to pronunciation, conversation, grammar, and reading. Provides students with a working vocabulary, basic structures of the French language, and an introduction to French and Francophone culture. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Comprehend French within a number of limited social contexts.
- Communicate in French, with some mistakes, in a number of social situations.
- Read non-literary texts.
- Write simple but correct French for a variety of situations.
- Explain French and Francophone cultures.
- Demonstrate full control of verbs of first group (-er) and a partial one of the 3rd group verbs ( -re) in present, pass compose, futur proche and imperative.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural, global community.
Continued study of the French language with attention to pronunciation, conversation, grammar, and reading. This course expands the working vocabulary, provides a more in-depth study of the French language, and explores the French and Francophone culture. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Comprehend French within a number of social contexts.
- Communicate in French, with some mistakes, in a number of social situations.
- Write simple but correct French for a variety of situations.
- Explain French and Francophone cultures.
- Demonstrate full control of the usage of narration in the past with pass compose, imperfait and plus-que-parfait; of future tense; of comparison; of pronominal verbs, adverbial and simple relative pronouns, as well as of conditional and of basic use of subjunctive.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural, global community.
Languages: Italian (ITLN)
This course will bring students directly in touch with the language and culture of contemporary Italy. The format and structure will enable students to acquire solid grammar and conversational skills and become acquainted with the Italian culture. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Express many of their own interests in spoken and written Italian.
- Conduct a basic conversation in Italian.
- Understand a great deal of what others are saying or writing in Italian.
- Understand Italian society and culture as compared to their own cultural background.
- Apply the basics of Italian grammar to real life scenarios.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Demonstrate awareness of the self as a member of a multicultural global community.
This course will broaden students' Italian language skills and deal more in-depth with Italian culture and history. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Expand their ability to express their own ideas in spoken and written Italian.
- Conduct a conversation in Italian.
- Understand a great deal of what others are saying or writing in Italian.
- Continue to develop a deeper understanding of Italian society and culture as compared to their own cultural background.
- Apply Italian grammar within the context real life scenarios and cultural morae.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Demonstrate awareness of the self as a member of a multicultural global community.
Languages: Russian (RUSS)
Introduction to Russian grammar and sentence structure, with extensive practice in conversation and oral comprehension. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Comprehend basic sentences in oral and written Russian.
- Use basic Russian grammar.
- Communicate in simple Russian sentences.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.
This course is a continuation of RUSS 101. Further instruction and practice in oral and written communication, as well as Russian culture. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Hold a basic conversation in Russian.
- Demonstrate increasing control over basic aspects of Russian grammar, such as case usage, verbal conjugation, tense, and aspect.
- Demonstrate a developing awareness of Russian cultural norms in a growing number of contexts.
- Compare cultural practices of Russian-speaking countries with their own.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.
Languages: Sign (SIGN)
Learn to communicate with the deaf using the language most widely employed by the deaf population. This course includes expressive and receptive skills in finger spelling, basic word and phrase sign, facial expression and body language, conceptual signing, and basic deaf culture. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate skills of fingerspelling and signing read finger-spelled words and signed words.
- Understand deaf culture.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.
Learn to communicate with the deaf, using American Sign Language. Includes finger spelling and conceptual signing, facial expression and body language, and deaf culture. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate skills of finger spelling and signing.
- Read finger spelling and signing by others.
- Converse.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.
Languages: Spanish (SPNS)
This course is an introduction to reading, writing, and speaking Spanish. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Introduce and describe self and others.
- Recognize basic information and questions including the time, clothing, colors, school items, house items, weather, family members and prepositions.
- Ask and answer basic questions using the present indicative.
- Express likes, dislikes and preferences Describe their environment, family and friends.
- Summarize daily routines and activities.
- Tell others what to do using formal imperatives.
- Compare cultural practices of Spanish-speaking countries with their own.
- Recognize their worth and responsibility in others' learning as well as their own.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.
A continuation of SPNS 101 with more in-depth practice in reading, writing, and speaking Spanish. Examines cultural practices of Spanish-speaking countries. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Recognize basic information and questions including the time, clothing, colors, school items, house items, weather, family members and prepositions.
- Ask and answer basic questions using the present indicative.
- Express emotions, feelings, reactions and concerns.
- Describe varying situations and surroundings.
- Summarize daily routines and activities in the past.
- Tell others what to do using both formal and familiar imperatives.
- Compare cultural practices of Spanish-speaking countries with their own.
- Recognize their worth and responsibility in others' learning as well as their own.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.
Literature (LIT)
This introductory course focuses on the reading, enjoyment, and critical analysis of fiction, poetry and drama. Students will read world literature, as well as works of the American West, contemporary dramatists, minority writers, and works focusing on the lives of immigrants, expatriates, and first-generation Americans. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Read, discuss, and evaluate literary texts from various genres.
- Use literary terminology.
- Describe the critical and cultural significance of literature.
- Identify the elements of fiction, poetry, and drama.
- Differentiate between interpretive and escape literature.
- Recognize canonical history and literary theories.
- Analyze literary fiction, poems, and drama.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
This introductory course focuses on the reading, enjoyment, and critical analysis of the short story and the novel. Students will read world literature, as well as contemporary writers of the American West; minority writers; and writers focusing on the lives of immigrants, expatriates and first-generation Americans. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Describe intellectual and aesthetic elements of fiction.
- Identify the difference between slick (genre) and literary fiction.
- Explain the concept of canonical history and of literary theories.
- Analyze literary fiction in writing.
- Read, discuss, and evaluate a variety of fiction texts.
- Employ literary terminology in written or oral assignments.
- Describe the critical and cultural significance of fiction.
- Write critically and/or imaginatively about fiction.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
This course is an introduction to the reading, enjoyment, interpretation, critical analysis, and appreciation of selected poetry. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Learn to read and appreciate poetry.
- Read a poem in terms of the following elemenst: rhyme, rhythm imagery, diction, metaphor, and other elements of poetry .
- Read, discuss, and evaluate a variety of poetic texts.
- Employ literary terminology in written or oral assignments.
- Describe the critical and cultural significance of poetry.
- Write critically and/or imaginatively about poetry.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
This writing-intensive introduction to the English major will prepare students for advanced study in literature by providing them with the foundational skills of literary analysis, literary theory, disciplinary methodologies, and close readings of literary texts. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Describe the distinguishing characteristics of the major literary genres (poetry, drama, fiction).
- Analyze specific examples of the major literary genres.
- Engage in close readings of texts, utilizing a variety of approachs to textual and discourse analysis.
- Find, evaluate, and engage with literary scholarship as part of a larger effort to gain a better understanding and appreciation of a literary text.
- Utilize the stylistic conventions of formatting an essay and documenting secondary sources.
- Write rhetorically effective essays (well-reasoned and grammatically correct).
This course is an exploration of major developments in the study of environmental literature that introduces students to current debates and discussions about how diverse cultures have imagined the human place in the nonhuman world. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstratean understanding of the historical and cultural range of natural history writing.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the essential connection between cultural epistemologies and environmental ethics.
- Examine the environmental issues shaping life in the 21st century.
- Discuss how environmental literature has addressed the methods used by scientists in analyzing human relations with nonhuman nature.
- Examine the primary approaches employed by environmental writers in addressing the most pressing ecological concerns of the era.
- Examine the nature of the human experience and/or artistic expression.
This survey course is designed to give students a broad overview of the evolving canon of influential literary works produced in America from approximately 1600 through 1865. Students will read a variety of exemplary texts from a historical perspective in order to critically analyze the formation of our American identity. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Explain how contemporary America by studying the literature that helped shape the nation they see around them.
- Identify outstanding American writers, their themes, and their major works.
- Identify characteristics of Romanticsim in a work of literature.
- Use literary terms discussed and in the course.
- Read, discuss, and evaluate a variety of texts ranging from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War.
- Situate and interpret literary texts in a national context.
- Describe the impact of a national literature on culture and history and vice versa.
- Write critically about a national literature as it is informed by a historical and cultural perspective.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
This survey course is designed to give students a broad overview of the evolving canon of influential works produced in American Literature from 1865 to the present. Students will examine a variety of authors including African American, Native American, Asian, and Hispanic writers, and will focus on increasing awareness of how historical, economic, social, and geographical concerns help to mold our unique American identity. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify specific influential works and authors from approximately 1860-the present.
- Identify the conventions of literary genres including the short story, poetry, drama, and personal narrative, journalistic essay, and novel.
- Demonstrate use of literary theory and terminology when writing and speaking critically about a variety of works. Produce coherently structured and insightful essays displaying an understanding of the works and concepts introduced.
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate and document critical sources within a literary analysis using MLA format. Read, discuss and evaluate a variety of texts ranging from the Civil War until the present.
- Situate and interpret literary texts in a national context.
- Describe the impact of a national literature as it is informed by a historical and cultural perspective.
- Write critically about a national literature as it is informed by a historical and cultural perspective.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
This course is an examination of regional literaturein the context of critical multiculturalism. It analyzes topics throughhistorical and cultural lenses and may focus on a specific regional literature or adopt a comparative approach. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Read, interpret, and evaluate regional literary works.
- Identify literary, cultural, historical, and philosophical forces that shaped regional literary works.
- Interpret aesthetic and literary contexts of a range of regional works.
- Apply and demonstrate principles of literary analysis in a full-length essay on selected regional works.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.
This introduction to British writers and works begins with the ancient heroes and monsters in Beowulf and continues through the Middle Ages with readings from The Canterbury Tales, as well as King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The adventure continues during the Renaissance with The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, then moves on to a variety of works during the Restoration and 18th century:from the stinging satire, Gulliver's Travels to the hilarious comedy She Stoops to Conquer.Literature read throughout the course will include a number of poems, essays, plays and stories. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Draw reasonable inferences, interpret, and critically analyze literature.
- Discuss literature of the Middle Ages, the Elizabethan, the Jacobean, Puritan, and the Restoration time periods.
- Discuss the major concerns of British writers of these periods.
- Explain the social political, religious, and economic influences on the British writers of these periods.
- Read, discuss, and evaluate a variety of tests ranging from the Anglo-Saxon to the Enlightenment Period.
- Situate and interpret literary texts in a national context.
- Describe the impact of a national literature on culture and history and vice versa.
- Write critically about a national literature as it is informed by a historical and cultural perspective.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
The course includes Romantic poets Wordsworth and Keats, Victorians Bronte, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barret Browning as well as 20th century writers D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Tom Stoppard and Seamus Heaney. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Draw reasonable inferences, interpret, and critically analyze literature.
- Discuss literature of Romantic, Victorian, and 20th -century British writers.
- Discuss the major concerns of British writers of the three periods.
- Explain the social, political, religious and economic influences on the British writers of the three periods.
- Read, discuss, and evaluate a variety or texts ranging from the Enlightenment to the Postmodern Period.
- Situate and interpret literary texts in a national context.
- Describe the impact of a national literature on culture and history and vice versa.
- Write critically about a national literature as it is informed by a historical and cultural perspective.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
In this course students will read, discuss and, if possible, see a presentation of selected tragedies and comedies: King Lear , Julius Caesar , The Tempest , A Midsummer Night's Dream and others. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Draw reasonable inferences, interpret, and critically analyze a play.
- Discuss the life of William Shakespeare.
- Describe the nature of Elizabethan theatre.
- Read and understand poetic language as written by Shakespeare.
- Relate Shakespeare's plays to the human experience, such as human motives, conflicts, and values
- Define tragedy and comedy.
- Describe the nature and purpose of the soliloquy and monologue.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
In this course students will read, discuss and, if possible, see a presentation of selected tragedies and history plays of Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, MacBeth, Henry IV, Part I, Richard II, and others. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Draw reasonable inferences, interpret, and critically analyze passages in Shakespeare's plays.
- Read and understand poetic/prose language in Shakespeare's plays.
- Identify the connection between events and people in history, and the events and characters in Shakespeare's history plays.
- Discuss William Shakespeare's life.
- Interpret Elizabethan times and theater.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
This course will study the development of science fiction as a literary genre that investigates the technological and social dilemmas encountered by humanity. The history of science fiction, the significant authors, and the genre's moral questions will be covered through an examination of the texts and films that have framed science fiction. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify significant science fiction authors and their major contributions to the genre.
- Illustrate a comprehensive understanding of the history of science fiction.
- Analyze cultural/historical events that have directly impacted the development of science fiction.
- Differentiate the key structural elements in science fiction that define the genre.
- Critique science fiction based upon the historical and key components of the genre.
- Assess the impact of current and future technologies on the genre.
- Discuss the intersection between film and literary science fiction.
- Interpret how science fiction explores the human experience.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
The course examines the purpose and applications of mythology in both historical and contemporary culture and how myths can transform through different periods, across cultures. Students will explore global mythologies including the ancient Greeks, Norse, Egyptians, Chinese, and indigenous Americans. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Recognize names, terms, and stories of the gods, heroes, and humans who were created as the foundation of philosophies and histories, as well as recognition of modern uses of the ancient entertainments.
- Read, discuss, and evaluate a variety of mythological texts from across the globe.
- Interpret mythological literature with an understanding of how it forms the foundation of the literary tradition.
- Identify and describe key figures, images, and themes in mythological literature.
- Write critically about mythology from a historical and cultural perspective.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Explore how cultural mythologies reinforced cultural norms and behaviors.
Media Arts (MART)
This course introduces web development tools to create websites using industry standard practices and techniques. Students use HTML5 and Cascading Style Sheets to plan, design, and develop responsive websites. Topics include web design best practices, website hosting, web graphics, design standards, and embedding media. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Develop a web site plan and design considering audience, accessibility issues, colors, fonts, graphic styles and types, and design flow.
- Use industry standard text editors, web editors and graphical programs.
- Design and develop responsive web sites using current web languages.
- Add user interactivity by inserting multimedia objects, navigation, and forms.
- Plan, design, and develop a website for a "client".
This course focuses on teaching students advanced web design concepts.Students willfurther their experience with web design, focusing onHTML5, CSS3, and a CMS to create responsive designs. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Design and develop responsive web sites using current web languages (CSS3, HTML5, JQuery).
- Plan and create a mobile site.
- Work with a client in the community to plan, design, and develop a responsive website using emerging web techniques.
- Use a CMS to create websites.
- Employ creative problem-solving.
Music (MUSI)
This course traces the development of art music through the past 1000 years. Vocal and instrumental music and composers from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th century will be examined through listening, reading, and writing. Students will be presented with the analytical and comparative tools to identify and understand the various historical musical eras. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Understand how melody, rhythm, harmony, basic instrumentation and other musical elements developed and shaped the course of music history.
- Identify important music eras, style elements and leading composers in their historical context.
- Define pertinent musical terms and elements comprising musical historical eras.
- Analyze and identify various instrumental and vocal music forms through definition, understanding, listening, reflection and comparison.
- Explain and compare the evolution of Music of Western Civilization in chronological terms.
This course provides an introduction to the music fundamentals including the grand staff, note reading in bass and treble clef, note values, time signatures, dynamics and tempo markings, articulations, accidentals, and major scales. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Name the notes in bass and treble clefs.
- Identify note and rest values.
- Differentiate various time signatures.
- Recognize various dynamic andtempo markings.
- Identify articulations.
- Find notes on a piano and interpret accidental markings.
- Write out major scales.
This is a course that teaches the fundamentals of music theory: meter, note values, rests, intervals, major scales, circle of fifths, chord construction, minor scales, basic harmonic progression, whole-tone scales and modes. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Explain the basics of music theory and music notation.
- Define scales, keys, intervals, triads, clefs, meter, rhythm, and some basic harmony.
- Demonstrate fluency in reading and writing musical notation.
- Demonstrate the provision of a foundation for music analysis skills.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course is a continuation of MUSI 105, which teaches the fundamentals of music theory (meter, note values, rests, intervals, major scales, circle of fifths, chord construction, minor scales, basic harmonic progression, whole-tone scales and modes). (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate a depth of knowledge of horizontal and vertical structures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of voice leading in four parts.
- Demonstrate increased skill in writing music.
- Explain rhythmic and motivic analysis.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
An audition-only group, the symphony prepares and performs orchestral literature of the past and present and requires intensive rehearsals and public performances. Students must supply their own musical instruments. A maximum of sixcredits in music ensemble may be applied towards graduation. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Synthesize information regarding the basic function of an orchestra.
- Express knowledge of repertoire and concepts through performances.
- Demonstrate basic string playing technique, tone quality, and ensemble blend.
The FVCC Orchestra prepares and performs orchestral literature of the past and present and requires rehearsals and public performances. Students must supply their own musical instruments. A maximum of six credits in music ensemble may be applied towards graduation. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Synthesize information regarding the basic function of an orchestra.
- Express knowledge of repertoire and concepts through performances.
- Demonstrate basic string playing technique, tone quality, and ensemble blend.
This course provides an introduction to the skills which enable and enhance healthy singing, including: proper vocal technique, performance skills, and artistic presentation. Course is taught in a group setting. Appropriate to all levels, students do not have to read music in order to succeed in this course. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate singing technique as it relates to posture, breath support, tone, resonance, and diction.
- Demonstrate good singing practice habits (technique, memorization of songs, performance aspects).
- Understand basic performance aspects of solo singing.
- Show accuracy with pitch and rhythm.
- Discuss song lyrics and their meaning.
- Perform solo songs from memory with piano accompaniment in front of the class.
- Evaluate a performance (critical listening skills).
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic vocal health.
An audition-only group, the chorale prepares and performs orchestral literature of the past and present and requires intensive rehearsals and public performances.A maximum of six credits in music ensemble may be applied towards graduation.Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Perform a variety of repertoire in a semester performance.
- Identify and understand correct rhythms, pitches and any other musical markings.
- Contribute to the ensemble through the understanding of their own vocal part, stage presence, and concert etiquette.
- Demonstrate healthy singing technique during rehearsals and performances.
This course will cover the classical choral ensemble literature and includes performing in small choral ensembles. This course may be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate the language of music (melody, harmony, rhythm, form, style) through large group rehearsals, basic score study and analysis, individual practice, small group sectionals, and performances.
- Demonstrate the essential elements of concert etiquette and stage presence as a performer in an ensemble setting during performances.
- Critique and provide necessary adjustments to singing technique and accurate representation of the musical score through large and small group rehearsals.
- Explore various style periods, composers, genres, and be able to perform them with as accurate representation as possible.
This course introduces the inner workings of a band program with survey and basic training on a variety of instruments. A maximum of six credits in music ensemble may be applied towards graduation. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Understand and synthesize information regarding the basic function of a brass and percussion band with emphasis on instruments individual and sectional.
- Exhibit a working knowledge of instruments and their particular musical vocabulary and functionality.
- Demonstrate knowledge of band concepts through performance with the ensemble.
This course focuses on functional keyboard skills such as scales, sight reading, harmonization, transposition, and literature. A working understanding of musical notation is needed in order to succeed in this course. Intended to be taken concurrently with Music Theory and Aural Perception, but open to interested non-majors with a musical background. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate skills of functional music theory at the keyboard, playing scales major/minor triads, sight reading, transposing and harmonizing melodies.
This course, a continuation of MUSI 135, focuses on functional keyboard skills such as scales, sight reading, harmonization, transposition, and literature. Intended to be taken concurrently with Music Theory and Aural Perception, but open to interested non-majors with a musical background. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate skills of functional music theory at the keyboard, playing scales major/minor triads, sight reading, transposing and harmonizing melodies (a continuation of MUSI 135).
This course builds aural skills through the use of singing and dictation to supplement MUSI 105. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify all ascending and descending intervals an octave or less.
- Identify, write, and sing various major, minor, and pentatonic scales.
- Identify and notatemajor and minor melodies.
- Sight-read a piece of music in both major and minor keys using Solfege syllables and moveable "Do".
- Write notation and rhythms upon hearing a musical phrase in class using both simple and compound meter.
- Demonstrate basic conducting patterns.
This course, a continuation of MUSI 140, builds aural skills through the use of singing and dictation to supplement MUSI 106. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify, sing, and notate scales (major, minor, pentatonic, chromatic, and modes).
- Identify and notate all intervals (ascending and descending) an octave or less.
- Sight-read a piece of music using Solfege syllables and moveable "Do".
- Notate major and minor melodies.
- Notate rhythms upon hearing a musical phrase in class, using both simple and compound meters.
- Identify major, minor and 7th chord qualities.
- Identify major chords inverted in first and second inversions.
- Sing and notate single-line, 2-part, and 4-part melodies.
This course will cover the classical choral ensemble literature and includes performing in small choral ensembles. This course may be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Synthesize information regarding the basic function of a vocal ensemble.
- Discuss choral repertoire concepts through performances.
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic choral technique, tone quality, and ensemble blend.
Designed for beginners, students learn the chords and classical playing techniquesneeded to accompany, as well as basic music reading and performance. It is not necessary to read music in order to take this course. This course may be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran's benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Read guitar tablature.
- Play and strum chords in first position.
- Establish a secure classical playing technique.
- Tune a guitar.
- Transpose using acapo and a plectrum (pick).
- Understand basic theory and standard music notation in first position.
Title will vary. This course consists of string, woodwind, brass, percussion, and piano ensembles as appropriate to meet student needs. This course can be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate confidence on their instrument.
- Demonstrate the basics of proper technique and musical interpretation.
- Exhibit how to read a basic musical score.
- Understand and synthesize information regarding the basic function of an orchestra/ensemble and become familiar with symphonic orchestra/ensemble literature.
- Demonstrate knowledge of symphonic orchestra/ensemble concepts through performances.
This course consists of guitar ensembles as appropriate to meet student needs. This course can be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate confidence on their instrument.
- Demonstrate the basics of proper technique and musical interpretation.
- Exhibit how to read a basic musical score.
- Understand and synthesize information regarding the basic function of an orchestra/ensemble and become familiar with symphonic orchestra/ensemble literature.
- Demonstrate knowledge of symphonic orchestra/ensemble concepts through performances.
This course consists of brass ensembles as appropriate to meet student needs. This course can be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate confidence on their instrument.
- Demonstrate the basics of proper technique and musical interpretation.
- Exhibit how to read a basic musical score.
- Understand and synthesize information regarding the basic function of an orchestra/ensemble and become familiar with symphonic orchestra/ensemble literature.
- Demonstrate knowledge of symphonic orchestra/ensemble concepts through performances.
This course consists of string ensembles as appropriate to meet student needs. This course can be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate confidence on their instrument.
- Demonstrate the basics of proper technique and musical interpretation.
- Exhibit how to read a basic musical score.
- Understand and synthesize information regarding the basic function of an orchestra/ensemble and become familiar with symphonic orchestra/ensemble literature.
- Demonstrate knowledge of symphonic orchestra/ensemble concepts through performances.
This course consists woodwind ensembles as appropriate to meet student needs. This course can be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate confidence on their instrument.
- Demonstrate the basics of proper technique and musical interpretation.
- Exhibit how to read a basic musical score.
- Understand and synthesize information regarding the basic function of an orchestra/ensemble and become familiar with symphonic orchestra/ensemble literature.
- Demonstrate knowledge of symphonic orchestra/ensemble concepts through performances.
This course covers a variety of vocal ensemble literature and includes performing in small choral ensembles.This course can be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate confidence on their instrument.
- Demonstrate the basics of proper technique and musical interpretation.
- Exhibit how to read a basic musical score.
- Understand and synthesize information regarding the basic function of an orchestra/ensemble and become familiar with symphonic orchestra/ensemble literature.
- Demonstrate knowledge of symphonic orchestra/ensemble concepts through performances.
This course consists of string, woodwind, brass, percussion, and pianoensembles as appropriate to meet student needs.FVCC Combos are small jazz ensembles. This course can be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Officre before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate confidence on their instrument through listening skills, sight-reading, rhythm, and sound production.
- Demonstrate the basics of proper technique and musical interpretation.
- Exhibit how to read a basic musical score.
- Understand and synthesize information regarding the basic function of an jazz combo/ensemble and understand the concepts of playing in a small ensemble.
- Exhibit understanding of jazzensemble literature as well as jazz composers/arrangers.
- Demonstrate knowledge of jazz combo/ensemble concepts through performances and improvisation.
This course explores the craft of contemporary art music composition through the creation of original musical works, and the study of composition techniques and repertoire from the past century. Students will gain knowledge of a broad range of repertoire, aesthetics, and compositional techniques. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Describe the fundamentals of contemporary art music composition.
- Develop one's own compositional voice and artistic interests.
- Critique a broad range of contemporary art music repertoire.
- Think critically about contemporary music.
- Effectively communicate in writing about contemporary music.
This course is a continuation of MUSI 180 Composition I: Fall, further exploring the craft of contemporary art music composition through the creation of original musical works, and the study of composition techniques and repertoire from the past century. Students will gain knowledge of a broad range of repertoire, aesthetics, and compositional techniques. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Analyze contemporary art music composition.
- Summarize the historical aspects of contemporary art music composition.
- Critique a broad range of contemporary art music repertoire.
This audition-only course presents vocal solo, small ensemble and chorus training for theatrical productions that include musicals, operas and other theatrical shows involving music. The course may be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Perform the music studied with accuracy in musical notation.
- Understand the basic function of a pit orchestra.
- Have an awareness of their role within the entire theatrical production and ensemble.
- Demonstrate basic string playing technique, tone quality, and ensemble blend.
This audition-only course presents vocal solo, small ensemble and chorus training for theatrical productions that include musicals, operas and other theatrical shows involving music. The course may be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veteran benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Perform the music studied with accuracy in musical notation.
- Understand the basic function of a pit orchestra.
- Have an awareness of their role within the entire theatrical production and ensemble.
- Demonstrate basic string playing technique, tone quality, and ensemble blend.
A survey of representative examples of the standard music literature of the Western European tradition. Particular attention to musical styles and forms and their relationship to musical understanding and effective listening. A basic knowledge of music fundamentals is expected. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Explain the basic elements of all music such as melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
- Identify, by ear, music from any of the six periods: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern.
- Describe the development of styles and/or genres of western music from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century.
- Discuss various philosophical concepts, cultural events, and technological developments in music.
- Trace the history of western music and identify significant composers and representative works.
- Listen responsively and write critically about music.
- Discuss the cultural influences of music from various world cultures.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
This course is a continuation of MUSI 106, which teaches the fundamentals of music theory (meter, note values, rests, intervals, major scales, circle of fifths, chord construction, minor scales, basic harmonic progression, whole-tone scales and modes). This course focuses on the harmonic language of the Romantic era, including jazz and 18th century counterpoint. An introduction to music notation for computer is included. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate skill in reading and writing chromatic harmony and modulation.
- Demonstrate understanding of small forms and their accompanying tonal plans.
- Describe and analyze musical events: Melody, Harmony, Structure.
This course is a continuation of MUSI 205, which teaches the fundamentals of music theory (meter, note values, rests, intervals, major scales, circle of fifths, chord construction, minor scales, basic harmonic progression, whole-tone scales and modes). This course focuses on the harmonic language of the Romantic era, including jazz and 18th century counterpoint. An introduction to music notation for computer is included. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate skill in reading and writing chromatic harmony and modulation.
- Demonstrate understanding of small forms and their accompanying tonal plans.
- Describe and analyze musical events: Melody, Harmony, and Structure.
- Demonstrate understanding of post romantic, impressionistic, and related styles, the contemporary period and twelve tone technique.
This course surveys the diversity of music among the world's peoples. Music systems, instruments and artists representing various indigenous peoples over seven continents are examined through cultural, social, religious, ceremonial, and performance traditions. Students will be introduced to universal musical elements and techniques for active listening. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Understand the many diverse ways in which music is expressed by various cultures both as an art form and as a ceremonial - social phenomenon.
- Identify and compare ways in which various music traditions are experienced in their respective cultures.
- Recognize universal musical elements as well as the development/usage of a wide range of instrumental families throughout the world Identify important style musical elements unique to world peoples on various continents.
- Define pertinent musical terms and elements comprising musical traditions of individual cultures.
- Analyze and identify various instrumental and vocal music forms through definition, understanding, listening, reflection and comparison.
- Identify and recognize music, traditions and presentation particular to selected world cultures.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture
- Demonstrate awareness of self as a member of a multicultural global community.
This course focuses on the advancement of functional piano skills, enabling students to cope with practicalsituations at the keyboard. Technique, music reading skills inmultiple clefs, harmonization, transposition of melodies using primary as well as secondary harmonies,improvisational treatment of familiar melodies, along with rehearsal of solo and collaborative repertoire are included. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Play I-vi-IV-ii-V-I in any major key and i-VI-iv-V-I in any minor key.
- Play pentascales moving up by half steps using pivot chords.
- Play all harmonic minor scales and arpeggios hands together, three octaves, MM=88+.
- Play chromatic scale hands separately, starting on any note, M.M. = 76+.
- Sight-read easy vocal and instrumental accompaniments.
- Sight-read a melody in alto and tenor clefs.
- Sight-read a homophonic open-score choral, string, or band excerpt.
- Play a polyphonic open-score choral, string, or band excerpt.
- Transpose wind parts to concert pitch and play at sight.
- Harmonize a melody at sight using primary and secondary chords with varied accompaniment styles.
- Improvise a basic two-hand vamp using a given chord sequence or chord names or symbols.
- Play a basic accompaniment with a soloist.
This course is a continuation of MUSI 235, further advancing functional piano skills. For students transferring to the University of Montana, this coursemust be taken with thepiano assessment (MUSI 296y). (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Play any major or harmonic minor scale, hands together, four octaves, with correct fingerings, atM.M. = 120+, followed by I - vi - IV - ii - V - I or i - VI - iv - V - i cadence in half or quarter notes, followed by two octaves of inversions of the tonic triad, followed by four octaves of arpeggios of the tonic triad.
- Play diatonic triads for any major or minor key, in all inversions, two octaves, hands together, M.M. = 60.
- Sight-read easy vocal and instrumental accompaniments.
- Sight-read a homophonic or polyphonic open-score choral, string, or band excerpt.
- Play a homophonic or polyphonic open-score choral, string, or band excerpt.
- Harmonize a melody at sight using primary and secondary chords with varied accompaniment styles.
- Improvise a basic two-hand vamp using a given chord sequence or chord names or symbols.
- Play basic accompaniments with vocal and instrumental soloists.
- Play piano pieces at the Intermediate to Late Intermediate levels.
This course builds aural and vocal skills through the use of singing and dictation to supplement MUSI 205. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Recognize and sing all 7th chords in root position andinversions.
- Dictate melodies with increased use of chromaticism, modulations to closely related keys.
- Dictate harmonic progressions using secondary dominant and 7th chords, borrowed chords and chromatic approaches to dominant.
- Sing melodies that modulate and employ chromaticism using moveable "Do".
- Demonstrate rhythmic dictation that comines varioud beat divisions and rhythmic syllables.
This course builds aural and vocal skills through the use of singing and dictation to supplement MUSI 206. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify integral sections of variation, passacaglia, and sonata forms.
- Dictate melodies and harmonies that modulate by a chromatic 3rd.
- Sing scales and melodies using modes, pentatonic, whole tone, octatonic, and atonal patterns.
- Dictate melodies that incorporate atonality and modern scales.
- Recognize and dictate extended pop and jazz harmonies.
- Sing and dictate pitch sets.
- Demonstrate rhythmic dictation that combines varied beat divisions and rhythmic syllables.
Music Technology (MUST)
This course is an introduction to the use of technology in music and its industry. It provides insight into building self-directed careers and is a basic exploration of music composition through the use of DAW. The introductory study of electronic music provides beginning skills to record at home, make your own electronic music, or produce other people's music. This course employs the study of electronic music composition, hands-on recording, and sound-design. This is a lab-based class where the majority of time will be spent creating electronic music. This course may be repeated for a total of six credits. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Develop basic skills to manipulate a DAW program.
- Study the process of music composition and creativity.
- Learn the basics of mixing and mastering compositions.
- Create compositions throughout the course based on differing genres of electronic music.
- Study a brief survey of the history of electronic music and electronic art music.
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic acoustics and music theory.
- Discuss the roles of electronic music within the field of professional music careers.
Philosophy (PHL)
This course addresses the perennial questions of philosophy as they are found in the many nuances of metaphysics (what is real?), epistemology (what is knowledge?), and ethics (how ought we live?) through a study of selected great thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Discuss the central themes and figures of the Western philosophical tradition.
- Use philosophical reasoning and analysis to evaluate an argument or position.
- Distinguish subjective opinions from justified philosophical claims.
- Examine the nature of human experience.
This course is an examination of moral decision making and behavior, primarily within the western tradition. Students will critically examine various theories of both personal and societal ethics from the classical period until present day. Readings from Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Kant, and Mill, as well as from numerous contemporary philosophers on such issues as good and evil, free will and determinism, ethical relativism, and egoism; courage, wisdom, compassion, and self-respect; hypocrisy, self-deception, jealousy and lying; birth control, abortion, euthanasia, racism and sexism. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Apply foundational ethics concepts (Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics of Morals, Utilitarianism, virtue ethics, deontology) to contemporary moral problems and/or theme.
- Explain the fundamental concepts that underlie each of the three traditions in normative ethics, which includes the form of reasoning in which each tradition engages.
- Explain the limitations of each of the three traditions.
- Justify his or her own moral positions, both in terms of the general normative framework to which he or she adheres (which includes making sense of the limitations of that framework) and his or her positions on concrete moral issues.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
Photography (PHOT)
This course is an introduction to basic photographic theory and visual principles, including camera operation, film and digital and use of black and white darkroom. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate how to operate a 35mm film camera (e.g. shutter speeds, f-stops, film speed, lens choice, etc.).
- Correctly process film.
- Use darkroom techniques to produce quality black and white negatives and photographic prints with full tonal range.
- Discuss the principles governing the process from camera to print.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course involves theory and continued application of image control in black and white photography through the use of a variety of 35mm films and digital media. It will include advanced traditional black and white in preparation for portfolio review. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Use darkroom and camera skills to produce high-quality prints.
- Control the photographic process with a greater variety of materials.
- Critique the quality of one's own work.
- Discuss aspects of quality presentation and exhibition.
A beginning course about digital photography and the digital darkroom, students learn about capturing technology of digital cameras and scanners, digital shooting techniques and computer transfer technology of monitors, printers and graphic programs. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Explain how images are captured with digital cameras and scanners.
- Diagnose the anatomy of digital images.
- Understand imaging systems relating to image processing, storage and transmission.
- Determine which printer devices are suitable for particular needs.
- Distinguish similarities and differences between digital and traditional film photography.
- Express artistic creativity using digital technology.
- Construct a mounted and matted print for display.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course teaches students to simplify the photography process from shoot to finish. The student will use Lightroom to learn to manage this digital workflow, while complementing Adobe Photoshop software. Lightroom will be used to import, manage, and adjust one image or large volumes of digital photographs. This course will introduce students to the tools and techniques used by the professionals in the photography field. Includes image capture, manipulation, and output. Students will learn the hardware and software used by today's creative professionals in a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and class projects. This course is intended for dedicated photography students. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Explain how images are captured with digital cameras and scanners.
- Exhibit competence with basic photo editing software programs.
- Manipulate images to enhance, stylize, or morph them.
- Manipulate color and textures of images.
- Develop creative photo editing processes.
- Present images in a professional format.
- Operate digital printers.
This course gives students advanced instruction in specialized digital photography areas: shooting at night, using flash and related tools, shooting portraiture, macro-photographing, indoor shooting and printing. Basic computer skills required. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Explain how images are captured with digital cameras and scanners.
- Diagnose the anatomy of digital images.
- Understand imaging systems relating to image processing, storage and transmission.
- Determine which printer devices are suitable for particular needs.
- Distinguish similarities and differences between digital and traditional film photography.
- Express artistic creativity using digital technology.
- Construct a mounted and matted print for display.
Theatre (THTR)
The background and theories of theatre arts, appreciation of the theatre and dramatic literature, and the practical aspects of producing a play are explored. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Use the language of theater to discuss dramatic works.
- Identify artistic and technical theatre techniques utilized in production.
- Analyze, critique, and construct meanings from dramatic works.
- Identify the visual and aural components of live theater and explain how they support the text.
- Recognize the basic nature, materials, elements, and means of communicating in theater.
- Construct social meanings of dramatic works from a variety of cultures and historical periods and relate them to current personal, national, or international issues.
- Describe the impact of social and aesthetic experience of theatre as a reflection of culture.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
This course will provide a basic understanding of the principles of design for the theatre including the production elements of scenery, sound, digital media and lighting. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate the principles, processes, organization, and techniques of sound, digital, scenic, and lighting design.
- Demonstrate aesthetic literacy in planning, preparation, and organization in each of the stage design and production management areas.
- Illustrate understanding of the fundamentals of specialized technology and theory as it applies to theatre.
- Demonstrate fundamental skills in representing design and technical ideas.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
Students will learn the procedures and responsibilities of house management and of being front-of-house staff through participation in several class/workshops and then putting those skills into practice by working FVCC Theatre Arts productions. This course may be repeated for a total of four credits. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Discuss the process and responsibility of House Management and the front of house staff.
- Explain the importance of the first interaction on a patron's theatrical experience.
- Employ methods to safeguard the audience during theatre events.
- Take appropriate steps during an emergency.
- Describe potentially liable situations in the theatre environment and how best to avoid hazards.
Students function as a member of the production team in a role of responsibility (i.e. scenic designer, lighting designer, artistic director, technical director...). Course may be repeated for a total of four credits. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate script analysis as it directly applies to a departmental production.
- Identify design problems.
- Describe potential solutions.
The focus of this course is interactive development of basic acting skills through psycho-physical technique: dramatic action, image-making and improvisation. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Use basic acting vocabulary and techniques to create a believable and artistic performance.
- Break down, evaluate and analyze a script in acting terms.
- Identify the most preeminent and most useful approaches to building a character.
- Use the interaction between actors to create the synergy necessary to bring dramatic life to the stage.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
A continuation of THTR 120, students further explore improvisation, textual links and development of performance project. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Use basic acting vocabulary and techniques to create a believable and artistic performance.
- Break down, evaluate and analyze a script in acting terms.
- Identify the most preeminent and the most useful approaches to building a character.
- Use the interaction between actors to create the synergy necessary to bring dramatic life to the stage, to gain ready access to his/her intellectual and emotional life in order to bring them to bear on the demands of a role.
- Apply appropriate methods of research and inspiration to analyzing a script and a character.
- Examine the role of the Arts as a reflection of culture.
Fundamental theories and application in the areas of scenery, lighting, sound, and stage properties are covered in this course. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Identify, develop, evaluate, and apply criteria to technical theatre plans or projects.
- Revise a plan or project in response to relevant constraints of technical theatre.
- Make informed decisions by examining alternatives and anticipating consequences of technical design execution.
This course is a continuation of the fundamental theories and application in the areas of scenery, lighting, sound and stage properties and painting. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Achieve desired results by executing designs for production application.
- Create a design or project based or project based on a production that will meet a specific application.
- Critique an aesthetic or technical production project of an event or performance.
This course is designed to give the student the theory, practice, and application of the artistic and technical production in a performance situation. Course may be repeated for a total of eight credits. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Office before repeating this course. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Collaborate with an artistic team, and summarize their role within that team.
- Incorporate creativity, script analysis, design concepts, and direction for each production.
- Complete assignments within production framework and schedules, and with a level of quality that is deemed acceptable by the production team.
This course introduces the basic concepts of voice production, phonetics, and speech for the stage. Students will develop kinesthetic awareness of the body necessary for dynamic movement, breath, voice, and speech on stage. (Fall Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, breath support, strong phonation, and active resonance in all performances.
- Recognize and understand the poetry inherent in all dramatic texts.
- Attune to the nuances of speech and language.
- Notate rhythmic patterns and common speech sounds of spoken language through descriptive and prescriptive poetic scansion and phonetic transcription.
- Exhibit marked improvement in clear phonation, projection, and volume.
- Develop a personal "Career Speech" integral to one's professional aspirations.
- Incorporate all skills learned in the studio into the practice of acting.
This course will examine a variety of plays from ancient Greece to modern times. The types of drama studied range from tragedy to comedy. The styles of drama studied will also vary including classicism, realism, and absurdism. This course focuses on drama as a literary genre. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Articulate an understanding of a play's plot, structure, character development, language, and scenography.
- Draw reasonable inferences from a theatrical production.
- Discuss the similarities and differences between types of theatrical genres and styles.
- Engage in independent criticism and analysis of dramatic literature as a practitioner, reader, or audience member.
- Examine the nature of human experience and/or artistic expression.
This course focuses on the use of creative drama and dance as types of educational tools. Students will explore, experience, and implement creative teaching methods in order to promote scholarship through kinesthetic teaching in elementary education. (Spring Semester)
Course Outcomes
- Teach transitional body/mind exercise to students.
- Develop classroom management strategies for guiding active groups of children.
- Create believable scenes and characters via action, text, subtext, voice and proximity.
- Write and implement lesson plans involving both dance and creative drama to enhance, demonstrate, reiterate and teach subject matter.
- Participate in a unit on Reader's Theatre.
This course is offered for students wishing to expand their theatre experience in the area of artistic direction. This course is geared to anyone with an interest in developing the basic skills necessary to understand the role and responsibility of the artistic director. (Intermittently)
Course Outcomes
- Recognize the major historical events in the evolution of the modern theatre director.
- Analyze and break down a dramatic script in order to identify and apply the "spine", or theme of the play, to a production.
- Identify and apply basic elements of stage composition and blocking.
- Work with actors in such a way as to nurture their talents and utilize their skills to the maximum effectiveness. Work with other theatre practitioners, such as lighting, set and costume designers in a collaborative way in order to bring the director's concept to its fullest realization.
Writing (WRIT)
This is a developmental writing course focused on building skills necessary for expository writing. Based on assessment of student needs, instruction emphasizes paragraph development resulting in unity, coherence, and organziation. Students will begin with the well-developed paragraph and extend to the essay. Instruction in grammar, mechanics and usage is also included. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate control of mechanics, word usage, and sentence structure needed to construct a well-developed paragraph.
- Monitor and adjust independent writing to avoid fragments, run on sentences, and comma splices.
- Identify and utilize correct punctuation and capitalization.
- Construct unified, coherent paragraphs developing an idea into a multi paragraph essay with a clear thesis statement.
Instruction and practice in expository writing, this course emphasizes specific writing and revision techniques to develop coherence, conciseness, clear and forceful style and voice, and thinking skills. Assignments range from short pieces to essays and a research paper. Mastery of the basics of grammar and mechanics is assumed. (All Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate organization, coherence, and clarity in writing.
- Use writing as a means to engage in critical inquiry by exploring ideas, challenging assumptions, and reflecting on and applying the writing process.
- Read texts thoughtfully, analytically, and critically in preparation for writing tasks.
- Develop multiple, flexible strategies for writing, particularly inventing, organizing, drafting, revising and copy editing.
- Demonstrate an understanding of research as a process of gathering, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources.
- Integrate their own ideas with those of others.
- Formulate an assertion about a given issue and support that assertion with evidence appropriate to the issue, position taken, and given audience.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of the conventions of language and forms of discourse, including grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling and mechanics.
- Use conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation and audience.
- Develop an organize logical thoughts as a means of building evidence that results in a persuasive argument.
- Understand how to self-edit and appreciate its importance in crafting a professional document.
- Express, interpret, or modify ideas to communicate effectively.
This course refines specific writing techniques and develops control of style and voice. Emphasis will be placed on the essay form and writing for a specific audience. Also included are advanced rhetorical and persuasive forms, elementary logic, and research techniques. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Utilize writing as a means to explore and understand abstract concepts and complex issues.
- Apply a personal writing process which includes multiple techniques for and approaches to prewriting, drafting, revision, editing, and copyediting.
- Demonstrate proficiency with writing conventions, mechanics, and structures.
- Understand and demonstrate the continuous and cyclical nature of the research process.
- Create evidence-based papers that incorporate expert sources to support personal ideas while maintaining respect for and awareness of differing and contrasting views.
- Critically engage with, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize sources to determine their value to the student's topic and approach.
- Examine a controversial or complex issue from multiple perspectives in order to create an informed, civil perspective.
- Demonstrate respectful awareness of audience perceptions and perspectives.
- Utilize structure and organization to facilitate audience engagement and understanding.
- Engage in collaborative learning activities to contribute to peers' knowledge of and proficiency in writing tasks.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of an acceptable academic documentation style, such as that of the American Psychological Association.
This course allows students to experience the production of an academic journal from concept to publication. Students will review submissions, edit creative works, design, and produce an academic journal. (Fall and Spring Semesters)
Course Outcomes
- Understand the current state of print publication processes.
- Carry out submission processes for academic journals.
- Recognize content that is compelling, well-constructed, and viable.
- Review submissions to determine an appropriate balance of content.
- Use correct grammar and punctuation.
- Utilize techniques to identify errors and contradictions within a diverse set of writing styles.
- Communicate clearly and work closely with writers regarding suggested edits and finalized work.
- Apply layout and design concepts.
- Create contracts and understand liabilities, copyright, and other ownership rights.
- Source printers, solicit bids, and contract with the selected printer.
- Perform final publishing tasks such as library of congress information, acknowledgements, ISBN acquisition, and copyright statements.
- Develop and execute promotion and distribution plans for the journal.