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Art-General Studio courses generally require six hours per week of in-class work and critical discussion. Students should enroll with a firm commitment to regular attendance and should expect to spend an additional four to six hours per week, per class, to complete their coursework.
Prerequisites and Course Fees. In enrolling for courses in art, it is necessary that the course number be preceded by the appropriate subject code prefix for credit to be properly recorded. Many courses at the 3000 level and all courses at the 5000 level have prerequisite coursework required. All directed studies courses require instructor approval before enrollment. All courses in studio art, except lectures and seminars, have a laboratory fee of $30 per credit hour, which is added to the tuition and fees assigned at the time of enrollment. Certain courses in art require an additional material or tool expense in addition to fees.
Foundations and Art, General Studio
Foundations courses are ASAG 1300 , ASAG 1304 , ASAG 1308 and ASAG 1312 . This sequence of courses is for art majors or any student who seeks an intensive study of the visual arts. The remaining ASAG courses are organized thematically to explore a range of assumptions and practices – from the historical to the contemporary – that inform the making and display of art; these general studio courses have been designed to provide students with intensive training in studio practice, exposure to a range of materials, processes and research methods, and an introduction to the theoretical issues that frame contemporary art.
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ASAG 3360 - Color and the Visual Image
Credits: 3
Color systems of Munsell, Itten, Photoshop palettes, etc. are studied in the light of contemporary neurobiology and the capabilities of media. Klee, Albers, Matisse, and other masters of color focus the course on color modes. Prerequisite: 24 credit hours in art or permission of instructor.
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ASAG 3370 - Special Topics in Studio Art
Credits: 3
To be announced by the Division of Art. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASAG 3380 - Critical Issues
Credits: 3
A seminar for art majors in their 3rd year of studies. This course investigates topics in current critical theory in the arts as well as the historical context of their development. Readings are taken from philosophy, literary criticism, art theory, and art criticism. Prerequisite: 24 credit hours in art.
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ASAG 3390 - Advanced Studio I
Credits: 3
A forum for art majors in the third year of studies that facilitates the students’ ability to articulate their work as artists and to defend and present it in a peer–group setting. Prerequisite: ASAG 3380 .
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ASAG 5001 - B.F.A. Qualifying Exhibition
Credits: 0
(for students who entered prior to fall 2010) Participation in the qualifying exhibition is required for all candidates for the degree of B.F.A. in art.
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ASAG 5100 - Internship in Studio Art
Credits: 1
Students work in internship positions that relate to their individual studio studies, including internships in teaching, in galleries, as assistants to established artists, or with businesses in the arts. Students should sign up for 1, 2, or 3 credit hours for internships of 3, 6, or 10 hours per week. Internships are supervised and evaluated by a member of the Division of Art faculty. Prerequisite: Approval of departmental chair or adviser.
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ASAG 5200 - Internship in Studio Art
Credits: 2
Students work in internship positions that relate to their individual studio studies, including internships in teaching, in galleries, as assistants to established artists, or with businesses in the arts. Students should sign up for 1, 2, or 3 credit hours for internships of 3, 6, or 10 hours per week. Internships are supervised and evaluated by a member of the Division of Art faculty. Prerequisite: Approval of departmental chair or adviser.
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ASAG 5300 - Internship in Studio Art
Credits: 3
Students work in internship positions that relate to their individual studio studies, including internships in teaching, in galleries, as assistants to established artists, or with businesses in the arts. Students should sign up for 1, 2, or 3 credit hours for internships of 3, 6, or 10 hours per week. Internships are supervised and evaluated by a member of the Division of Art faculty. Prerequisite: Approval of departmental chair or adviser.
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ASAG 5310 - Professional Practice in Art
Credits: 3
For art majors in their final year of studies. A practical and informed approach to understanding the competencies that are required to sustain practice as an artist beyond the undergraduate experience. Students learn how to negotiate the professional aspects of art and to identify and take advantage of a host of opportunities. Topics include establishing a studio; applying for residencies and grants; exhibiting work; intellectual property law; the contemporary art market; and alternative models of production, distribution, and exchange of art. Prerequisite: ASAG 3390 .
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ASAG 5315 - Advanced Studio II
Credits: 3
A forum for art majors in the fourth year of studies that facilitates the students’ ability to articulate their work as artists and to defend and present it in a peer–group setting. Serves as a culmination of the study of art through the production of a body of work for exhibition. Required for the B.A. in art and the B.F.A. in art. Prerequisite: ASAG 3380 .
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ASAG 5325 - Studio Workshop
Credits: 3
An intensive investigation in arts by students engaged in independent work, group collaboration, and analytical study. Prerequisite: 15 credit hours in art or permission of instructor.
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ASAG 5350 - Art Colloquium: New York
Credits: 3
Involves intensive analysis, discussion, and writing concerning works of art in museum collections and exhibitions, and in alternative exhibition spaces. Students study the philosophical as well as the practical to define and understand the nature of the art society produces and values. The colloquium meets in New York City for 2 weeks in January.
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ASCE 1300 - Introduction to Ceramics
Credits: 3
Introduces the discipline of ceramics through projects, readings, and field trips. The motto of the ceramics area is “panta rhei” (everything flows) because the deformation of matter and the flowing across disciplines determine what one makes in ceramics. Students engage the Dallas community by making pots for the annual Empty Bowls food bank benefit, and they learn to use ceramic materials to analyze the ceramics they produce and to judge them critically.
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ASCE 1310 - Ceramic Technology
Credits: 3
Explores the principles of formation, transformation, and deformation regarding refractory, glass-former, and flux. From the sources of raw materials, to their mechanical behaviors, to multiple-fired products, students discover relationships between chemistry, structure, properties, and performance in the manufacture of artworks.
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ASCE 3300 - Intermediate Ceramics
Credits: 3
Further engages the discipline of ceramics through projects, readings, and field trips. Students form independent projects in which they may pursue a particular interest of their own (e.g., to depict the human figure in ceramic, to copy in clay an object that exists in another material, to create a set of tableware in a particular style, to use ceramic as a complement to artwork being made concurrently in other disciplines such as painting, or to employ ceramics as a part of an installation). Prerequisite: ASCE 1300 , ASCE 1310 , ASCE 3320 , or ASCE 3330 , or permission of instructor.
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ASCE 3320 - Sex, Drugs, and Rocks
Credits: 3
Beyond their more common uses, pots have traditionally been used ritually and socially in conjunction with powerful substances and forces, which are often depicted in a pot’s form or surface decoration. Such practices continue today. Traditional and current uses of pots include Greek wares for gymnasia and bacchanalia, Chinese tea ware, Central American chocolate ware, North American dinnerware, and South African brewery ware, as well as pots that celebrate bodily functions such as giving birth and pots that depict parts of the body gendered, sexualized, or related to reproduction. After studying these pots and their contexts, the ceramics of living artists particularly concerned with topics such as sex and drugs, and texts about various pots and their contents, students make their own interpretations by undertaking the ceramic process as an artificial geological process.
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ASCE 3330 - Death Pots
Credits: 3
A fundamental motive in ceramics is to preserve - though paradoxically, a pot’s destruction may be inherent in its making. Some ceramics are made to navigate their bearers away from the world of the living, while others are deliberately destroyed in accordance with death rites, in anticipation of death, or as a replacement for death. Death pots may define relationships with otherworldly luminaries, serve as milestones for the event of death, or mark cyclical reunions with the dead. As well as examining these pots that bridge two worlds, students study the ceramics of memorialization, transformation, regeneration, decadence, violence, and obsolescence.
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ASCE 5100 - Directed Studies in Ceramics
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASCE 3300 .
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ASCE 5200 - Directed Studies in Ceramics
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASCE 3300 .
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ASCE 5300 - Advanced Ceramics
Credits: 3
Students refine their understanding of the discipline of ceramics based on their grasp of techniques and principles from the first two courses. Employing the fluid nature of ceramics to flow across disciplines, students select a common ground (for example, architecture, food service, or the human figure) and identify specific techniques (for example, printing, throwing, or painting) to accomplish primarily self-initiated projects of research and making. Prerequisite: ASCE 3300 or permission of instructor.
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ASCE 5302 - Directed Studies in Ceramics
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASCE 3300 .
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ASIM 1300 - Introduction to Digital/Hybrid Media
Credits: 3
Introduces computational media and digital processes as the basis of creative practice. Students gain proficiency in digital imaging, sound, and video using Adobe Creative Cloud and open-source software, in addition to exploring glitch and internet art. Includes an overview of the history of digital/hybrid media art from the mid-20th century onward.
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ASIM 1310 - Creative Coding I
Credits: 3
Exploring computation as a powerful generative medium, students learn the fundamentals of coding and computational thinking, including an introduction to object-oriented programming. Hands-on topics may include algorithmic drawing, procedural imaging, 2-D and 3-D animation, visualization, interactivity, computational music, and gaming.
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ASIM 1330 - Intermediate Digital/Hybrid Media
Credits: 3
Students use intermediate computational media and digital processes to experiment with and generate interactive pieces, internet art, 3D modeling and animation, digital fabrication, and virtual and augmented reality. For students interested in installation, sculpture, performance, interactivity, and electronics in art. Prerequisite: Meadows student or permission of instructor.
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ASIM 1340 - Computational Sculpture
Credits: 3
An introduction to 3D modeling, with a focus on modeling, animation, and physical object output using 3D software and digital fabrication tools. Students develop a multidisciplinary skill set and learn to model objects and environments and to apply surface texturing, lighting, rapid prototyping, rigging, and rendering. Includes lectures, field trips, in-class studio time, and assignments. Prerequisite: Meadows student or permission of instructor.
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ASIM 3305 - Creative Computing II
Credits: 3
Introduces advanced creative coding principles using the Java programming language. Students learn how to design software systems for real-time performance and interactive applications. Advanced objected-oriented principles and introductory data structures are introduced. Prerequisites: ASIM 1310 , CRCP 1310 , CS 1341 , or permission of instructor.
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ASIM 3310 - Digital/Hybrid Media Workshop
Credits: 3
An intensive study designed to further integrate computational media and digital processes into creative practice. The focus is on developing independent work, group collaboration, and analytical study. Depending on the topic and work completed, study may be applied to different media concentrations. Prerequisite: ASIM 1310 , CS 1341 , or CS 1342 .
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ASIM 3315 - Special Projects in Digital/Hybrid Media
Credits: 3
Intermediate to advanced research in a variety of areas that support digital and hybrid media practice and research. Uses focused research topics, studio projects, seminar discussions, and an introduction to various computational tools as vehicles for personal aesthetic expression. Prerequisites: ASIM 1310 , ASIM 3320 , or permission of instructor.
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ASIM 3320 - Advanced Digital/Hybrid Media
Credits: 3
Students use advanced computational media and digital processes to continue to experiment with and generate interactive pieces, internet art, 3D modeling and animation, digital fabrication, and virtual and augmented reality. Over the course of the semester, students complete several projects to help establish their artistic practice. For students interested in new media art, installation, sculpture, performance, interactivity, and electronics in art. Prerequisite: ASIM 1330 .
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ASIM 3325 - Special Projects in Digital/Hybrid Media
Credits: 3
Intensive study of a particular subject or design project.
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ASIM 3350 - Digitally Augmented Performance and Installation
Credits: 3
Introduces digitally augmented performance art and installation through survey lectures, video documentation, reading, technical instruction, and off-campus research trips. Students explore the intersection of material/immaterial, interactivity, technology, the body (human and nonhuman), and the conceptual potentials within the context of new media performance and installation. Students produce their work both individually and collaboratively, working up to one final completed piece. Prerequisite: ASIM 1330 .
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ASIM 5302 - Digital/Hybrid Media Directed Studies
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASIM 5320 - Aesthetics and Computation
Credits: 3
In this studio based course students explore code and computation as primary generative media, developing original works of art, leading to the creation of an online portfolio. Screen based, printed, mobile, Web, physical, and performative applications may be explored. Prerequisite: ASIM 3305 , CRCP 3305 , or CS 1342 .
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ASIM 5325 - Special Projects in Digital/Hybrid Media
Credits: 3
Intensive study of a particular subject or design project.
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ASDR 1300 - Introduction to Drawing
Credits: 3
Drawing from life objects and concepts. Work in class is supplemented by outside assignments and readings. Emphasis placed on space, materials, analysis of form, and critical judgment.
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ASDR 1310 - Drawing in Italy
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to plein-air drawing of the ruins, monuments, and landscape of central Italy, with an emphasis on development of light, space, and compositional structure. Offered at SMU-in-Italy.
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ASDR 3300 - Drawing: Intermediate Level
Credits: 3
Studio and outside work in drawing that further develops vision and individual approaches to drawing. Prerequisite: ASDR 1300 .
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ASDR 3305 - Drawing as Concept and Performance
Credits: 3
This course begins with the premise that the contemporary artist conceives of drawing as an expanded field of expressive and conceptual possibilities. Drawing understood as concept or performance is neither solely preparatory nor descriptive. Rather, drawing is constructed using a variety of means, including imaginative systems of notation, graphic conventions drawn from visual culture at large, and scripted physical actions. Prerequisite: ASAG 1300 or ASDR 1300 .
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ASDR 3320 - Material Studies: The Book Art
Credits: 3
An interdisciplinary course for creating artworks based on the form of the book. Considers the relationships among materiality, time, and an extended field of image making. Students are encouraged to utilize constructed and found materials in their exploration of concepts and processes central to contemporary book works, including sequence, repetition, and viewer participation; the embodiment of ideas through the book; book as tool and as art object; and the variety of formats clustered around the scroll and the codex. Prerequisite: ASAG 1300 or ASDR 1300 .
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ASDR 3330 - The Mirroring Line: Interdisciplinary Mark Making
Credits: 3
Interdisciplinary mark making (be it movement, sculpture, sound, drawing, or text) enables research on what might be termed the “mirroring line.” By locating and engaging a series of borders (legal, social, physical, psychic, sonic, environmental, theoretical, and imaginary) that striate Dallas, its environs, and the multiple communities that intersect within the city, students expand the concepts of what it means to make a line (using graphite, blood, router, string, etc.) and of the kinds of substrate that take a line (be it paper, street, water, or human beings).
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ASDR 5100 - Directed Studies in Drawing
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300 .
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ASDR 5200 - Directed Studies in Drawing
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300 .
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ASDR 5300 - Drawing Advanced
Credits: 3
Drawing at the senior level exemplifying independent development in drawing. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300 or permission of instructor.
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ASDR 5302 - Directed Studies in Drawing
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300 .
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ASDR 5303 - Directed Studies in Italy: Advanced Students
Credits: 3
Offers senior-level development in drawing and individual responses to the ruins, monuments, and landscape of Italy, which are themselves the subjects of many masterpieces encountered in churches, museums, and archaeological sites. Students are allowed the freedom to explore formal issues and expressive means in response to these subjects, producing a visual record of their perceptions and thoughts in representational, abstract, or conceptual modes. Critiques allow students to demonstrate skills in formal analysis and interpretation. Enrollment is limited. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300 .
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ASDR 5305 - Drawing as Concept and Performance
Credits: 3
This course begins with the premise that the contemporary artist conceives of drawing as an expanded field of expressive and conceptual possibilities. Drawing understood as concept or performance is neither solely preparatory nor descriptive. Rather, drawing is constructed using a variety of means, including imaginative systems of notation, graphic conventions drawn from visual culture at large, and scripted physical actions. Prerequisite: ASDR 3305 .
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ASPT 1300 - Introduction to Painting
Credits: 3
A first course in painting from life, objects, and concepts. Emphasis is placed on space, materials, color, analysis of form, and critical judgment.
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ASPT 3300 - Painting Intermediate
Credits: 3
Includes study of the materials, capabilities, processes, and essential meaning of painting, as well as the qualities of color, vision, and composition. Subjects are drawn from life, objects, and concepts. Extensive studio and outside work is required. Prerequisite: ASPT 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPT 3305 - Studio Workshop: Color and Meaning
Credits: 3
A painting workshop in which theoretical works on color are discussed and employed, but the central concern remains the development of color relationships within each student’s work. Extensive reading and written presentations are required. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300 .
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ASPT 3306 - Painting in Taos I
Credits: 3
An intermediate study of painting in the physical and cultural environment of the Fort Burgwin Research Center. Prerequisite: ASPT 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPT 3309 - Painting in Rome
Credits: 3
A study of painting among the monuments and landscapes of central Italy. Prerequisite: ASPT 1300 or permission of instructor. (SMU-in-Italy)
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ASPT 5100 - Directed Studies in Painting
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300 .
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ASPT 5200 - Directed Studies in Painting
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300 .
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ASPT 5300 - Advanced Painting
Credits: 3
An intensive studio experience for students who wish to develop a significant body of work in painting. Independent development is stressed alongside a program of readings and individual and group critiques. Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in painting at the 3000 level or permission of instructor.
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ASPT 5302 - Directed Studies in Painting
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300 .
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ASPT 5306 - Painting in Taos II
Credits: 3
An advanced study of painting in the physical and cultural environment of the Fort Burgwin Research Center. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300 or ASPT 3306 , or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 1300 - The Basics of Photography
Credits: 3
An introduction to lens-based creative practice including technical and conceptual concerns specific to the medium. Working digitally, students gain proficiency in Adobe Lightroom, and experience outputting their work as archival inkjet prints. Includes an introduction to the history of photography and contemporary practice, and an exploration of individual photographers and artists. Students gain experience articulating verbal and written criticism of images through class critiques and a written examination. Students must supply their own digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, which allow for manual exposure.
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ASPH 1310 - Introduction to Video
Credits: 3
Provides an opportunity to understand and master the craft of video production in the context of art. Using Final Cut Pro and higher-end cameras with full manual controls, students experiment with the many ways to generate moving images. Covers methods and concepts derived from film and video: point of view, shot composition, spatial and time continuity, lighting, and superimposition. Encourages the comparison of narrative and non-narrative formal systems. Also, the most important practitioners of video as art and the intersection of video with film, theatre, installation art, and architecture.
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ASPH 3300 - Darkroom Photography
Credits: 3
Exploration of the creative possibilities of silver-based photographic materials in the darkroom. Special attention is given to black-and-white film development, negative enlarging, and a variety of manipulative techniques. Students provide their own 35mm film camera. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3302 - Black-And-White Photography II
Credits: 3
Continuation of ASPH 3300 , with emphasis on the zone system, film manipulation, chemical printing, and matting techniques. Includes the possibility of working in medium-to-large film formats, zone system, and bifilter printing. Prerequisite: ASPH 3300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3303 - Photography II
Credits: 3
A continuing study of lens-based creative practice which concentrates on students’ development of an independent body of work. Working digitally, this course advances students’ conceptual knowledge of the medium, while expanding upon their experience and confidence working with tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, scanners, and large-format printers. Special areas of focus, tools, and technique may be offered by the professor. Students must supply their own digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3304 - Digital Tools
Credits: 3
Exploration of the experimental use of image-capture devices, software manipulation, output material, and presentation. Topics can include flatbed scanners, large-format inkjet printing, and text and collage techniques. Students provide their own single-lens reflex digital cameras. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3306 - Photography in Taos
Credits: 3
Intermediate and advanced study of photography in the physical and cultural environment of the Fort Burgwin Research Center. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3310 - Large-Format Photography
Credits: 3
Explores the mechanics, creative possibilities, and aesthetics of silver-based photographs made with the 4x5 view camera. Fully examines adjustments unique to the view camera allowing for maximum image control. Topics include still life, landscape, portraiture, and architecture. View cameras are available for student use. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3315 - Video Art
Credits: 3
This studio course introduces video, sound, and time-based media in the context of the visual arts. Learning the fundamentals of shooting moving images with the camera, capturing sound, and editing in the Adobe Suite, students generate independent projects that work across sequence, montage, formal experiments, and narratives. Students take advantage of hi-tech and low-tech, the anachronistic and the new. Examines artists and media makers at the intersection of visual art, film, installation, architecture, and networked media. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3320 - The Documentary Impulse
Credits: 3
Exploration of traditional and contemporary approaches to documentary photography through shooting assignments, lectures, and readings. Utilizing print-on-demand technology, each student produces a book of images and text on a self-defined project. Students work with digital cameras. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3325 - The Photographic Portrait
Credits: 3
Explores traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic portrait through shooting assignments, lectures, and readings. Students work in available light on location and with SMU’s electronic strobe equipment in the studio. Includes work with digital cameras. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3330 - Fashion Photography
Credits: 3
Students photograph on location and in the studio. Includes on- and off-camera lighting techniques, concept development, art direction, work with talent, shot styling, fees, publication rights, model releases, editing, portfolio presentation, and the history of fashion photography. Students work with digital cameras. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3340 - Altered and Alternative Photographic Images
Credits: 3
Exploration of the specialized chemical techniques that alter the gelatin silver print, including line drop, Sabattier effect, and hand coloring. Also, alternative nonsilver-based printmaking methods, including cyanotype, Van Dyke brown, gum bichromate, and platinum and palladium. Prerequisite: Any studio art 1000-level course or instructor consent.
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ASPH 3345 - Cameraless Photography and Contemporary Practice
Credits: 3
This experimental course asks students what it might mean to make a photograph by exploring the most basic materials of digital and analog photography: light, chemicals, pixels, code, film, paper, and ink. Students are introduced to various cameraless processes including the making of photograms, cyanotypes, and lumen prints, and also investigate digital inkjet printing as a creative practice. Students are encouraged to experiment liberally with the materials of their choosing. The course introduces historical and contemporary examples of cameraless photography and discusses the role of abstraction within these processes. Class content is largely dedicated to studio time to complete photographic projects in addition to reading, discussion, technical demonstrations, and in-class exercises. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 .
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ASPH 3350 - The Photographic Book
Credits: 3
Exploration of the creative presentation of photographs in traditional and contemporary book form using conventional and alternative bookbinding techniques. Field trips to local rare book collections supplement the students’ understanding of the nature of the photographic book. Students may work with film and/or digital cameras. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3355 - Eco-Photography
Credits: 3
Explores the role of photography in appreciating, preserving, and altering nature. Students gain experience conducting photographic fieldwork through class trips to local gardens and trails. Alongside these site-based experiences, students are introduced to environmentally conscious plant-based photo processes in the studio. Works by historic and contemporary landscape and botanical photographers are explored, along with examples of non-fiction nature writing. Overall, the course emphasizes the production of creative works, technical demonstrations, critical group discussion, and the development of ethical, waste-reducing approaches to photography. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3360 - Special Topics in Photography
Credits: 3
Topics to be announced by the Division of Art. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 3370 - Nonfiction Production
Credits: 3
Combines the history and practice of nonfiction field production. Hands-on demonstrations, screenings, readings, lectures, and discussions prepare students to produce and create a short documentary piece. Focuses on research, preplanning, and writing skills as integral components of video production. Students create a documentary project 5–10 minutes in length on a topic of their choice. Prerequisite: FILM 1304 or ASPH 1300 .
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ASPH 3390 - Experimental Camera
Credits: 3
Introduces students to non-traditional approaches to lens-based art practice. From historical optical devices like the camera obscura, to alternative ways of creating imagery using traditional capture devices (both still and/or moving), students explore the possibilities and limitations of creating artwork with a camera. The majority of this studio class is dedicated to the processes of making artwork. Students are also introduced to historical and contemporary experimental approaches to image-making and read and discuss art theory when relevant. The specific processes and concepts introduced are determined by the instructor and may vary semester to semester. Materials required for the semester vary but may include: DSLR Camera, film camera, and/or other historical film and contemporary digital image-capture devices. Prerequisite: ASPH 1300 or instructor permission.
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ASPH 5100 - Directed Studies in Photography
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5101 - Directed Studies in Video
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5200 - Directed Studies in Photography
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5201 - Directed Studies in Video
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5302 - Directed Studies in Photography
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5303 - Directed Studies in Video
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5304 - Advanced Photography and Digital Media
Credits: 3
An advanced investigation of lens-based creative practice, which culminates in a self-directed body of work. Execution and exploration of students’ work is open to digital, analog, video, and hybrid processes. Prerequisite: ASPH 3303 or permission of instructor.
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ASPR 1300 - Introduction to Printmaking
Credits: 3
Introduction to historical and contemporary printmaking in a wide variety of media, including intaglio printing, etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint, monotype, silkscreen, woodcut, and numerous digital possibilities presented by the medium.
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ASPR 1321 - Printmaking: Woodcut
Credits: 3
Introduces the process of relief printing.
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ASPR 3300 - Printmaking Workshop
Credits: 3
Intermediate- and advanced-level exploration of the printing medium as an expressive tool. The ambience of the workshop, with no fixed structure, offers freedom to experiment in all directions (emotionally, intellectually, and technically) and to seek inspiration from any source. Students gain the self-discipline necessary for coherent results and mastery of the craft of printing. Prerequisite: ASPR 1300 or instructor consent.
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ASPR 5100 - Directed Studies in Printmaking
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPR 5200 - Directed Studies in Printmaking
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPR 5300 - Printmaking Workshop
Credits: 3
Further intermediate- and advanced-level exploration of the possibilities of the printing medium as an expressive tool. The ambience of the workshop, with no fixed structure, offers freedom to experiment in all directions (emotionally, intellectually, and technically) and to seek inspiration from any source. Students gain the self-discipline necessary for coherent results and mastery of the craft of printing. Prerequisite: ASPR 3300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPR 5302 - Directed Studies in Printmaking
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASSC 1300 - Introduction to Sculpture
Credits: 3
An introduction to working in three dimensions from a variety of approaches, investigating sculpture’s purposes, materiality, and spatial nature. Students examine historical and contemporary approaches to sculpture to understand how to manipulate form, space, and expressive content in three dimensions.
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ASSC 1320 - Materials and Processes
Credits: 3
An introductory survey of the manipulation of a variety of media (clay, plaster, wood, metal, etc.) and the contemporary and historical approaches to the use of these materials in art. Emphasis on expressive potential and studio safety.
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ASSC 3300 - Intermediate Sculpture
Credits: 3
A continuation of study of problems in sculpture, including analysis of form, theory, and technical processes. Emphasis on sustained investigation using a number of perspectives, critical discussion, analysis of contemporary and historical work, and concentrated studio practice. Students gain confidence with and understanding of the tools, materials, and concepts of sculpture. Prerequisites: ASSC 1300 , ASSC 1320 or permission of instructor.
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ASSC 3310 - Material and Form
Credits: 3
Intensive investigation of physically-based (construction, metal casting, and subtractive techniques) and digitally-based (3-D printing, computer-controlled output) material processes. Examines the ramifications of material choice and method in the formal and stylistic development of sculptural work. Explores the traditional development and contemporary practice of sculptural production, with a focus on developing a personal sculptural vocabulary. Requires 6 hours of studio work outside of scheduled meeting times. Prerequisites: 3 credit hours in ASSC courses or 6 credit hours in ASAG courses, or permission of instructor.
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ASSC 3320 - Body and Object
Credits: 3
An intensive sculptural study of the body and figure that addresses the body through its objective structure and its social and psychological meanings and explores how these can be conveyed in contemporary practice. In class, students focus on the observation and direct study of the figure and its tactile translation into material. Out of class, students focus on independent projects to consider the question of the body as a metaphoric and performative subject, to explore the body’s material and immaterial nature, and to create work about the figure without literal reference to it. Requires 6 hours of studio work outside of scheduled meeting times. Prerequisites: 6 credit hours in ASSC courses and 12 credit hours in ASAG courses, or permission of instructor.
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ASSC 3330 - Time and Material
Credits: 3
An interdisciplinary course that considers the relationships among materiality, time, and drawing, using both constructed and found materials. Investigates time, movement, and repetitive action; work that documents the process of making; the relationship between digital and material form; and the formats of installation and documentation. Prerequisites: 6 credit hours in ASSC courses and 12 credit hours in ASAG courses, or permission of instructor.
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ASSC 3340 - Shelter and Place
Credits: 3
An intensive interdisciplinary investigation into social forms and environments, both constructed and natural, in order to question what it is to dwell, how a sense of place is described and enacted, and how forms and events can influence and be influenced by structures. Work is based upon the identification of and location within a specific urban or natural landscape site. Includes collaborative work, drawing, analytical study of sites and environments, and construction. Draws paradigm examples from installation, architectural, and sculptural practice. Requires 6 hours of studio work outside of scheduled meeting times. Prerequisites: 6 credit hours in ASSC courses and 12 credit hours in ASAG courses, or permission of instructor.
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ASSC 3350 - X–Sculpture
Credits: 3
Investigates the creation of 3–D forms and environments using experimental methods such as digital modeling, processing, video, sound and computer–based manufacture or output and performance. Students to interact with different knowledge bases and purposes in an investigation of the problem of how to image spatial and material experience in contemporary practice. Prerequisites: ASSC 1300 or ASAG 1300 and ASAG 1304 , plus 3 hours in any ASIM course.
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ASSC 5100 - Directed Studies in Sculpture
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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