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ART 100.
Intermediate Contemporary Painting Issues
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 10; Art 1A or 7B or Upper Division standing or Instructor Approval
Recommended Preparation: Art 18Enrollment Comments: Open to non-majors. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units with instructor approval. Letter grade required for majors. Course materials fee charged.
Various projects designed to assist the understanding and development of contemporary painting practices. Supplemented with slide lectures and class critique. Additional self-directed projects, sketch books, experimentation, and independent research are encouraged.
ART 101.
Advanced Contemporary Painting Issues
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 10,100; 1A or 7B or Upper Division standing or Instructor Approval
Recommended Preparation: Art 18Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Course materials fee charged.
Special critique-based class addressing current issues in contemporary painting. 'Painting' will be used in broadest sense including traditional methods, and digital painting (digitally manipulated images as source), installation and inter-media practices utilizing paint as dominant medium.
ART 102AAZZ.
Digital Media Tool Box: Concepts and Skills
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 22, 7D; 1A or Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units.
A project based course with an emphasis on technical skills within the digital media arts context. Topics may include telecommunications, wireless, database aesthetics, networks, interactivity, digital 3D, virtual reality, immersive environments, algorithmic aesthetics, visualization, media theory and others. Topic to be determined by instructor.
ART 102MM.
Digital Project: Mobile Media
ART 102MU.
Digital Project - Mashups
ART 102XX.
Digital Media Tool Box: Concepts and Skills
ART 105AAZZ.
Intermediate Spatial Practices
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 12; 1A or 7C or Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units with instructor approval. Letter-grade required for majors. Course materials fee charged.
Designed to develop student knowledge and proficiency of material and method, cultivating both manual and conceptual skill-levels in three-dimensional practices. Course focus varies by quarter, but includes a variety of approaches to material practices and engages students in the role of spatial awareness and production within contemporary art.
ART 105KY.
Intermediate Spatial Practices
ART 105PP.
Intermediate Spatial Practices - Public Practice
ART 105SP.
Intermediate Spatial Practices
ART 105TD.
Intermediate Spatial Practices: Physical & Virtual
ART 106AAZZ.
Advanced Spatial Practices
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 12; 1A or 7C or Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Letter grade required for majors. Course materials fee charged.
Advanced study and investigation of new forms and spatial practices. Individual and group projects may encompass formal and collaborative research as well as multi-disciplinary production that engages new and exploratory practices, such as interactive and performative media, public art, social design at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and contemporary art. Course content detailed in syllabus each quarter.
ART 106FA.
Advanced Spatial Studies: Friday Academy
ART 106IV.
Advanced Spatial Practices: Isla Vista
ART 106PP.
Advanced Spatial Practices: Public Practice
ART 106W.
Introduction to 2D/3D Visualizations in Architecture
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 12; 1A or 7C or Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Art History 136W.
Develops skills in reading, interpreting, and visualizing 3D objects and spaces by offering exercises in sketching, perspective, orthographic projections, isometric drawings, and manual rendering practices. Relevant for those interested in history of architecture, sculpture, and such spatial practices as installations and public art.
ART 110.
Intermediate Print
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 14, 18; 1A or 7B or Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Course materials fee charged.
Continued refinement of skills in service of ink and digital print production. Emphasis on intermedia aspects of image and text and the sequential use of pictorial information. Areas of specific focus to include electronic multiples, relief printing, and artists' books.
ART 111PP.
Public Practice Arts: Digital Intermedia
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 7B, Upper Division; Instructor Approval
Recommended Preparation: Art 7B and Upper Division; or Instructor ApprovalEnrollment Comments: Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units.
The use of digital and print-based media to create site-responsive public projects including unsanctioned, permission based, and speculative works. The investigation of the evolving nature and use of public space and its interrelations of individual, social, architectural/built, and infrastructure conditions. Projects are executed both on and off campus.
ART 112.
Artists' Books
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 14; 1A or 7B or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units.
An investigation of the book as an art form. Based on conventional media, artists' books encompass a variety of methods, techniques, and ideas. Assigned and self-directed projects using traditional and innovative practices, combining reading with pictorial and tactile experience.
ART 113.
Experimental Video & Animation
(4)
BECKMAN
Prerequisite: Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: Concurrently offered with ART 213. Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring.
The development of independent, innovative projects that utilize digital video and/or post-production and hybrid means to create video-works for screens and surfaces, including projection, installation, distributed platforms. Projects may employ a variety of strategies and methodologies in concept, production, and presentation. Broad exposure to contemporary and pioneering video/film, with an emphasis on experimentation in substance and form.
ART 115.
Intermediate Ceramics
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 1A, 3D, and 16; consent of department.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Letter grade required for majors.
Investigation at an individual level of raku, low fire, salt, and high firerange. Lectures and problems relating to technical aspects of ceramic chemistry. Personal control of form from clay body, fabrication, glazing, firing.
ART 116.
Special Studies in Ceramics
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: At least one quarter of Art 115.
Advanced level course dealing with a specific faculty interest or a specialdepartmental facility in the ceramics area. Exact course content specified in the Art Department Studio Syllabus.
ART 117.
Intermediate Drawing
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 18; 1A or 7B or Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units with instructor approval. Course materials fee charged.
Continuing investigation into the challenges of two- dimensional representation. Course focus to depend on instructor, but may include structural and symbolic implications of the human form, historical and contemporary strategies of visual analysis, and exploration into experimental media.
ART 118.
Advanced Drawing
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 18, 117; 1A or Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Letter grade required for majors. Course materials fee charged.
Special studies in drawing utilizing particular faculty interests and/or special departmental facilities. Designed for majors.
ART 120AAZZ.
Intermediate Photography
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 19; 1A or Upper Division
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units with instructor approval. Letter grade required for majors. Course materials fee charged.
Continued refinement of traditional photographic technique, and development of photography as an artmaking tool. Course to range by instructor, but may include photo narrative, journalism, fashion, artists' books, desktop publishing, web design, time-based work, and intermedia collaborations.
ART 120EF.
Intermediate Photography
ART 120EL.
Intermediate Photography
ART 120NP.
Intermediate Photography
ART 120PP.
Intermediate Photography - Photographing People
ART 120PV.
Intermediate Photography
ART 120SE.
Intermediate Photography
ART 120WP.
Intermediate Photography: Photo as Witness
ART 121.
Advanced Photography
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 120.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Letter grade required for majors.
Special studies in photography utilizing faculty interests and/or special departmental facilities. Exact nature of course content to be specified in the Department of Art Studio syllabus.
ART 122AAZZ.
Advanced Topics in Digital Media
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 22, 7D; 1A or Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units.
An advanced project based course in digital media arts. Students are expected to have relevant conceptual, aesthetic, and technological grounding in digital media. Topic to be determined by instructor.
ART 122CC.
Advanced Digital Project: Creative Cartography
ART 122CD.
Computational Design through Responsive Architecture
ART 122DM.
Advanced Topics in Digital Media
ART 122PC.
Advanced Digital Projects: Physical Computing
ART 123.
Papermaking
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Course materials fee charged.
Introduction to historical and contemporary methods of handmade papermaking leading to innovative uses of handmade paper as an integral part of art forms.
ART 124.
ARTISTS' FUTURES: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES II
(5)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Must be in upper division standing.
Recommended Preparation: upper division standingEnrollment Comments: Designed for majors.
Repeat Comments: no repeats
Dives into the wide range of professionalism for artists within and adjacent to the art world. The class provides students the necessary skills to advance their work as emerging artists, addressing portfolio preparation and artist opportunities like graduate education, exhibitions, residencies, and grants. Also introduces students to the wide variety of careers available to artists and provides them with building blocks to move forward within these careers. Guest speakers illuminate opportunities in several fields including curatorial practice, design, marketing, art business, education, and non-profit work.
ART 125.
Art Since 1950
(4)
STAFF
Recommended Preparation: Upper division standing.
Developments in American and European art since 1950 with an emphasis on the most recent decades. Focus ranges from the post-war impact of the New York School, Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism to more recent, "postmodern" trends.
ART 126.
Introduction to Contemporary Theory
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 1A or Upper Division
A basic beginning survey of contemporary art, film and media theory, focusing specifically on: realism, formalism, semiotics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, gender/queer studies, poststructuralism, post-colonial theory and broader issues of authorship, narratology, postmodernism, and multiculturalism.
ART 130.
Visual Arts as Culture
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Exploration of visual arts and culture, including the evolving social and practical parameters of technologically produced images and the shifting arenas of ideology, analysis, and criticism.
ART 132.
Digital Video
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 32; 1A or 7A or Upper Division
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Letter grade required for majors.
The making and use of video in contemporary art. Hands-on production and post production are combined with viewing, critique, and discussion topics, including cultural prominence and future trends. Single and multiple channel, installation, and integration with other media are all encouraged.
ART 133.
Memory: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Department approval needed to enroll
Repeat Comments: This course may be repeated for a total of 16 units or up to three times.
Introduces students to the trans-disciplinary fields of memory and migration through interdisciplinary collaboration. Course responsibilities include class participation, a midterm essay and a final interdisciplinary project. This course draws upon the connections between neuroscience, arts and studies of human migration.
ART 133M.
Memory: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
(5)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper Division or add code.
Repeat Comments: May repeat up to 2 more times for a total of 15 units.
Introduces students to the trans-disciplinary fields of memory and migration through interdisciplinary collaboration. Course responsibilities include class participation, a midterm essay and a final interdisciplinary project. This course draws upon the connections between neuroscience, arts and studies of human migration.
ART 134.
Performance
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: 7A; or equivalent.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Letter grade required for majors.
A workshop introduction to the forms, styles, and strategies of contemporary performance art, which may involve the use of the body, space, narrative, audience, object, installation, and multimedia.
ART 134P.
Performance & Environment
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: OR Upper Division OR Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: Majors may repeat for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Minors May repeat for credit max 8 units. Letter grade required for majors..
Repeat Comments: Majors may repeat for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Minors May repeat for credit max 8 units. Letter grade required for majors.
This workshop introduces students to artists in the field of environmental and ecological activism. Students develop projects that address environmental justice, landscape and place using performance, video, installation and other conceptual strategies.
ART 136.
Personal Narrative
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; consent of instructor.
Recommended Preparation: Art 1A and 7A or equivalent.Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units.
Intensive writing-based workshop designed for formulating and producing artwork based on one's own personal experiences and histories. Experimentation and expansion into other artistic media are encouraged.
ART 137.
Spoken Word
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper Division or Instructor Approval
Recommended Preparation: Art 7A or equivalent.
A workshop introduction to the use of voice as an artistic medium, with emphasis on personal monologue, and improvisation.
ART 177.
Art and Science of Aerospace Culture
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units. Same course as Engineering 177 and MAT 258
Interdisciplinary course/seminar/practice that explores technological, aesthetic, cultural, and political aspects of the space side of the aerospace complex. Design history, space complex aesthetics, cinema intersections, imaging/telecommunications, human spaceflight history, reduced/alternating gravity experimentation, space systems design/utilization.
ART 179C.
Mediatechnology
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-Division Standing
Enrollment Comments: Same course as GER 179C and C LIT 179C.
Repeat Comments: Since this is a crosslisted course, this course may not be repeated for additional credit.
Telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and film techniques that have engendered new forms of representation, communications, and thinking. Course studies the impact of these transformations in literature and on literature. Taught in English.
ART 185AAZZ.
Special Topics in Art
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or instructor approval
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units.
Special topics in art.
ART 185AA.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185AI.
Art and Machine Learning
ART 185B.
ARTISTS' FUTURES: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES B
(5)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Open to art majors only; Open to seniors and juniors only.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Concurrently offered with Art CS 106.
This course dives into the wide range of professionalism for artists within and adjacent to the art world. Provides students the necessary skills to advance their work as emerging artists, addressing portfolio preparation and artist opportunities like graduate education, exhibitions, residencies, and grants. Also introduces students to the wide variety of careers available to artists and provide them with building blocks to move forward within these careers. Guest speakers will illuminate opportunities in several fields including curatorial practice, design, marketing, art business, education, and non-profit work.
ART 185BD.
Special Topics: Black Focus Environmental Design Justice: Relocalizing Leimert Park
ART 185CG.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185GL.
Digital Project - Optical-Digital Culture & Practice
ART 185HR.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185ID.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185IV.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185JC.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185KM.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185KY.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185LJ.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185MP.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185PM.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185PR.
Printed, Repeat
ART 185RG.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185RR.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185SW.
Special Topics in Art
ART 185XX.
Special Topics in Art
ART 189A.
Capstone Design Lab
(3)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 7D and Instructor Approval.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Concurrently offered with ME 189A. Quarters usually offered: Fall.
Repeat Comments: Not open to students who have completed ME 189A.
Students in Art 189A-B-C will be working in teams together with mechanical engineering students on a mechanical engineering capstone design project. The teams work under the direction of a faculty advisor in mechanical engineering, and to a lesser extent an advisor from the art department (and possibly an industrial sponsor) to tackle an engineering design project. Engineering communication, such as reports and oral presentations, are covered. Emphasis on practical, hands-on experience, and the integration of analytical and design skills. Students should aim to commit to taking A, B and C in order to work with their team from conception to finalization of a project. This lab is the first of three the series.
ART 189B.
Capstone Design Lab
(3)
STAFF
Prerequisite: 7D and Instructor Approval
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Concurrently offered with ME 189B. Quarters usually offered: Winter.
Repeat Comments: Not open to students who have completed ME 189B.
Students in Art 189A-B-C will be working in teams together with mechanical engineering students on a mechanical engineering capstone design project. The teams work under the direction of a faculty advisor in mechanical engineering, and to a lesser extent an advisor from the art department (and possibly an industrial sponsor) to tackle an engineering design project. Engineering communication, such as reports and oral presentations, are covered. Emphasis on practical, hands-on experience, and the integration of analytical and design skills. Students should aim to commit to taking A, B and C in order to work with their team from conception to finalization of a project.This lab is second of three in the series
ART 189C.
Capstone Design Lab
(3)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Art 7D and Instructor Approval.
Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. Concurrently offered with ME 189C. Quarters usually offered: Spring.
Repeat Comments: Not open to students who have completed ME 189C.
Students in Art 189A-B-C will be working in teams together with mechanical engineering students on a mechanical engineering capstone design project. The teams work under the direction of a faculty advisor in mechanical engineering, and to a lesser extent an advisor from the art department (and possibly an industrial sponsor) to tackle an engineering design project. Engineering communication, such as reports and oral presentations, are covered. Emphasis on practical, hands-on experience, and the integration of analytical and design skills. Students should aim to commit to taking A, B and C in order to work with their team from conception to finalization of a project. This lab is third of three in the series.
ART 192AAZZ.
Internship in Art
(1-4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; consent of department.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a 3.0 overall GPA.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units, but only 4 units can be applied to the major.
Opportunities in applied learning related to visual art through local museums, art galleries, and other art related organizations or institutions. Students work under the direction of the faculty sponsor who maintains contact with the supervisor for whom the student is interning.
ART 192ES.
Exhibition Studies Internship
ART 192IA.
Internship in Art
ART 194.
Special Group Studies
(2-4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Course materials fee charged.
A means of making special studies or meeting special curricular problems.
ART 196.
Honors Seminar
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: L&S and CCS Art majors only; upper-division standing; acceptance into department honors program.
Enrollment Comments: Quarters usually offered: Winter, Spring, Fall. Students must have a 3.5 grade-point average in the major and at least a 3.0 grade-point average overall.
Seminar designed to focus on criticism of current art work. A total of 12 units in this course required to complete honors program. Completion of seminar units followed by public exhibition of work accomplished.
ART 199.
Independent Studies
(1-5)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division courses in Art; consent of instructor and department required.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a minimum 3.0 GPA for the preceding three quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter (without petition) and 16 units total in all 199/199AA-ZZ courses combined.
Independent studies. Advanced independent or collaborative work in consultation with individual faculty; individual tutorial.
ART 199RA.
Independent Research Assistance in Art
(1-5)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division students only; consent of instructor and department.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a minimum 3.0 GPA for the preceding 3 quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter (without petition) and 16 units total in all 199/199AA-ZZ courses combined.
Coursework shall consist of faculty supervised research assistance.