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Course Syllabus

ART 1110 Drawing I

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Visual Art
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 3
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2023
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2028
  • Optimum Class Size: 16
  • Maximum Class Size: 20

Course Description

This foundation studio course is an introduction to the expressive means of drawing. The focus of this course is the development of observational drawing skills, employing a wide range of mediums. This course will address the fundamental techniques consistent in historic and current artistic practices. Required of all art majors. A lab fee is required.

Justification

This foundation art course should be completed during the first year of art study for students pursuing a degree in the visual arts. It is pertinent that art majors master the skills taught in this course to be able to succeed. It is a prerequisite for many visual art courses.; It is required at most academic institutions.; This course articulates with a common number and title in the USHE system.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcome: Material Proficiency
  2. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcome: Conceptual Principles
  3. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcome: Historical Context
  4. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcome: Critical Analysis
  5. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcome: Creative Process

Course Content

Students will be introduced to the process of drawing through a variety of means, which include lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and art critiques. These teaching methods are tailored to accommodate unique learning styles that will culminate with the completion of a variety of creative projects. In this course students will explore the formal elements and principles of design. The relationships between positive and negative shapes using empirical information. An investigation of the Italian Renaissance and the invention of Linear Perspective. Conduct a critical study of light logic and its application of communicating form and shadow. Students will also be introduced to the critical analysis process and develop a means to discuss and write about art.