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Accounting
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ACCT 486 - Accounting Internship
The internship highlights academic study with a focus in various areas of accounting. It offers students the opportunity to test classroom theory, align career goals, develop a professional outlook, proof communication skills, and deepen the understanding of the functions of accounting in a business setting. Academic credit is dependent upon the number of hours spent at the internship site. Courses for junior and senior business majors only.
Prerequisites & Notes
SPCO 220 - Internship Preparation Seminar
Credits: 1-6
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Addiction Studies
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ADST 100 - Introduction to Addiction Studies
This course provides an introduction to Addictions Studies (ADST). Course goals include building a pharmacological knowledge of substances, as well as analyzing systems intended to offer identification, intervention, prevention, and treatment. The relationship between high risk populations and addictions is explored. Emphasis includes the identification and application of various theoretical models used in addiction services.
Credits: 3
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ADST 201 - Ethical, Legal and Professional Standards for Addiction Professionals
This course prepares students to identify, analyze and apply ethical standards to the field of Addiction Studies. The course focuses on issues related to ethical decision-making, as well as legal and ethical standards of practice for counselors including self-examination. Issues such as client rights, confidentiality, dual relationships, duty to warn, consent for treatment, and ethical consideration of special populations are reviewed. Licensing considerations, as well as federal, regional, and state laws associated with mental health counseling and addictions, drive specific codes used within this course.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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ADST 347 - Foundations of Prevention Science
This course provides an overview of the science that underlies evidence-based prevention interventions and strategies, and the application of these effective approaches in prevention practice. Students in this course gain an interdisciplinary perspective on prevention theory, research, and practice.
Prerequisites & Notes
ADST - 100 - Introduction to Addiction Studies
ADST - 201 - Ethical, Legal and Professional Standards for Addiction Professionals
HUSB - 240 - Introduction to Psychopathology
Credits: 3
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ADST 486 - Internship
The internship is a course of practical study through placement in a work experience in a community service agency with a focus in addictions studies. Acceptable internship settings provide the student with an opportunity to develop new skills or work with a new problem or population. Under close supervision, students acquire experience in providing direct service to consumers and learn how agencies function. Credit hours awarded will vary depending on hours of internship performed at the chosen agency, in accordance with the Springfield College Guide for Internships (formerly known as the School of Professional and Continuing Studies).
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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American Sign Language
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AMSL 101 - American Sign Language I
Students learn to communicate effectively in American Sign Language through fingerspelling, development of receptive and expressive skills, and the study of deaf culture.
Prerequisites & Notes
none
Credits: 3
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AMSL 102 - American Sign Language II
Students build on skills introduced in American Sign Language I, and learn to communicate effectively in American Sign Language through fingerspelling, development of receptive and expressive skills, and the study of deaf culture.
Prerequisites & Notes
AMSL 101: American Sign Language I
Credits: 3
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Applied Exercise Science
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AEXS 101 - Introduction to Applied Exercise Science
This introductory course in Applied Exercise Science is designed for Applied Exercise Science majors. This course provides an overview of the field of applied exercise science. The student will gain exposure to various career options and the settings for professional practice. Introduction to the curriculum, policies, and procedures for the major will be provided.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 270 - Exercise Psychology
This course covers applied and theoretical issues related to the psychology of physical activity and exercise. Theories of exercise behavior and motivation is examined in relation to the increasing problems of exercise adherence and physical inactivity. Other topics discussed include: psychological and psychobiological responses to exercise, exercise patterns in different populations, the relationship between exercise and mental health, strategic interventions that promote physical activity, and problems associated with excessive exercise. The course is a lecture and discussion format.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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AEXS 284 - On Campus Practicum
This course represents the first in a sequence of practical experiences within the AEXS Fieldwork Sequence. Students explore the field of Exercise Science through professional development, networking, and limited observation/shadowing opportunities. Additionally, students are introduced to various methodologies, principles and philosophies within the field under the direct supervision of Springfield College faculty members.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 101: Introduction to Applied Exercise Science
Credits: 1
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AEXS 315 - Physiology of Exercise - Lab
Lab component of AEXS 313.
Credits: 0
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AEXS 321 - Kinesiology / Biomechanics - Lab
Lab component of AEXS 319.
Credits: 0
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AEXS 362 - Exercise Testing and Prescription-Lab
Lab component of AEXS 360.
Credits: 0
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AEXS 410 - Senior Seminar in Applied Exercise Science
This online course is a seminar for seniors in the Applied Exercise Science program and is designed to supplement the senior internship experience (AEXS 486: Internship II). Topics to be covered include but are not limited to: networking, professional development, position papers, and current trends in exercise science.
Prerequisites & Notes
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- AEXS 284 ON-CAMPUS PRACT
- AEXS 350 FIELDWORK I
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Credits: 3
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AEXS 470 - Strength & Conditioning
This course is designed to provide students information for the design and implementation of a successful strength and conditioning program. Emphasis is placed on assessment of athletic performance, description and analysis of sport movement, and designing weight training programs to enhance performance variables. Application of these principles occur through the exploration of musculoskeletal flexibility, speed, agility, quickness, strength, and power. This course assists those students who desire to take the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s Certified Strength and Conditioning (CSCS) Exam. However, this course is not a preparation course for the exam. The course is a combined lecture and discussion format for AEXS 470 and laboratory based format for AEXS 471.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 313/315; AEXS 319/321; AEXS 380 (new course proposed)
Credits: 3
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AEXS 471 - Strength & Conditioning Applications
This course is designed to provide students information for the design and implementation of a successful strength and conditioning program. Emphasis is placed on assessment of athletic performance, description and analysis of sport movement, and designing weight training programs to enhance performance variables. Application of these principles occur through the exploration of musculoskeletal flexibility, speed, agility, quickness, strength, and power. This course assists those students who desire to take the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s Certified Strength and Conditioning (CSCS) Exam. However, this course is not a preparation course for the exam. The course is a combined lecture and discussion format for AEXS 470 and laboratory based format for AEXS 471.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 313/315, 319/321 & 380.
Credits: 0
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AEXS 540 - Sports Nutrition
This course focuses on the relationship between nutritional practices and human physical performance. Topics covered include the role of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water on performance. In addition, factors affecting body composition and weight control are covered.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 561 - Electrocardiogram Interpretation and Graded Exercise Testing
The purpose of this course is to continue general orientation to a cardiovascular health program; to review physical fitness knowledge techniques and interpretation; to increase understanding of monitored graded exercise testing; to provide skill training in the administration and interpretation of exercise testing protocol and procedures; and to introduce the student to cardiac rehabilitation program policies and procedures.
Prerequisites & Notes
YMCA Physical Fitness Workshop or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 563 - Electrocardiogram Interpretation and Graded Exercise Testing Lab
Lab component of AEXS 561
Credits: 0
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AEXS 602 - Exercise Biochemistry
This course covers the biochemical principles responsible for the release of energy from carbohydrates, fats, and proteins during exercise. Biochemical changes associated with acute exercise, chronic training, and endocrine control of metabolism are also covered.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS313/315, CHEM 331, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 603 - Cardiopulmonary Exercise Physiology
This course provides students the opportunity to study cardiopulmonary function both at rest and during exercise. The effect of both acute and chronic exercise on cardiopulmonary function is studied both in lecture and during a laboratory component.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 313/315 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 604 - Neuromuscular Physiology and Exercise
This course examines the integration of neural and muscular aspects of human movement, the effects of acute and chronic exercise on neuromuscular function, and factors which influence neuromuscular function.
Prerequisites & Notes
MSCI 313/315
Credits: 3
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AEXS 606 - Environmental Physiology
This course provides the student the opportunity to study the various forms of environmental stress and how the human organism responds physiologically to them. Students study how physical performance is affected by environmental stressors such as heat, cold, altitude, and the hyperbaric environment both in lecture and in a laboratory component.
Prerequisites & Notes
MSCI 313/315or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 607 - Pulmonary Physiology & Exercise
This course provides students the opportunity to study pulmonic physiological function both at rest and during exercise. The effect of chronic exercise on pulmonic function is studied both in lecture and during a laboratory component. The effect of acute exercise is also studied. The relationship of cardiovascular function to pulmonic function is also presented.
Prerequisites & Notes
Credits: 3
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AEXS 610 - Advanced Exercise Physiology
This course takes an in-depth look at the physiological responses and adaptations to acute and chronic exercise. Topics that are covered include the physiology of the skeletal muscle, cardiorespiratory, endocrine, and renal systems. In addition, environmental effects, ergogenic aids, gender differences, and training procedures are studied.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS313/315or equivalent. CHEM 331 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 613 - Exercise for Special Populations
This course provides an advanced level overview of the principles and practice of exercise testing and prescription in select special populations. Focus of the course is on exercise considerations for non-cardiac conditions. Laboratory exercises and clinical site visits are required.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 260.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 621 - Seminar in Exercise Physiology
This course provides doctoral students the opportunity to delve into the most current literature on leading topics in the field of Exercise Physiology. This course provides doctoral students the opportunity to explore the most current technology, research designs, and physiological mechanisms incorporated in novel groundbreaking research papers in the field of exercise physiology. Students will choose an area of their interest and lead discussions with other students critically assessing the most current literature related to that topic.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 602, AEXS 603, AEXS 604
Credits: 2
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AEXS 622 - Functional Anatomy and Biomechanics
This course seeks to incorporate knowledge in anatomy, physiology and kinesiology/biomechanics for application of classical Newtonian mechanics in assessing the quality of movement to determine limitations and enhance performance. This course focuses on analysis of linear and angular motion, muscle structure and function during complex tasks, and the relationship between the effective application of force and movement efficiency. This is a fifteen-week course with 45 contact hours. Class meeting times will integrate both didactic lecture and laboratory experience during the class meeting.
Prerequisites & Notes
N/A
Credits: 3
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AEXS 670 - Strength and Conditioning
This course is designed to provide students with information for the design and implementation of a successful strength and conditioning program. Emphasis will be placed on assessment, description and analysis of sport movement, and designing weight training programs to enhance performance variables. This course will assist those students who desire to take the National Strength and Conditioning (CSCS) Exam. However, this course is not a preparation course for the exam.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 671 - Strength and Conditioning Applications
This course provides students with the appropriate setting in which to apply the principles of strength and conditioning which are taught in the AEXS 670 course. Emphasis is placed on assessment of athletic performance as well as the development of musculoskeletal flexibility, speed, agility, quickness, strength, and power.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite/Corequisite:
Credits: 1
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AEXS 672 - Medical Physiology
This course focuses on the pathophysiology of selected diseases. The diseases covered include cardiac, pulmonary, and renal disease. This information is important for those who have an interest in clinical exercise physiology.
Prerequisites & Notes
Credits: 3
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AEXS 673 - Evidence Based Practice in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Using the scientist-practitioner perspective, this course introduces the purpose and methods for conducting research in sport and exercise psychology and how research evidence informs and impacts the practice of sport and exercise psychology. Students learn to read, interpret, analyze, and apply findings to the profession. The course introduces a variety of commonly applied quantitative and qualitative research designs and analysis used in the field as well as examining key elements of scientific research design.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
Credits: 3
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AEXS 674 - Technology Use in Strength and Conditioning
This course is designed to introduce various aspects of technology use in the field of strength and conditioning. Emphasis is placed on creating a philosophy on how and when technology should be used, evaluating the pros and cons of various products, as well as interpreting data and presenting necessary changes to sport coaches and implementing modifications to strength and conditioning sessions.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 670
Credits: 3
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AEXS 675 - Graded Exercise Testing and Electrocardiography
This course is designed to instruct students in the acquisition and interpretation of both resting and exercise electrocardiograms. Students are taught to identify various supraventricular and ventricular dysrhythmias. This course is also designed to acquaint students with the procedures involved with exercise testing and prescription for healthy and diseased populations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Credits: 3
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AEXS 676 - Exercise Psychology
This course will cover applied and theoretical issues related to the psychology of physical activity and exercise. Theories of exercise behavior and motivation will be examined relative to the increasing problems of exercise adherence and physical inactivity. Other topics that will be discussed include psychological and psychobiological responses to exercise, exercise patterns in different populations, the relationship between exercise and mental health, strategic interventions that promote physical activity, and problems associated with excessive exercise.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 677 - Stress Management
This course provides comprehensive and advanced treatise of stress management. The concept of stress, the psychophysiology of stress, the measurement of stress, the relation of stress to mental and physical health and performance, prevention and intervention in stress management, and special topics related to stress are discussed.
Prerequisites & Notes
BIOL 130-131, 132-133.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 678 - Sport Psychology
This course is designed to provide the student with the theory basis of human behavior in sport settings with an emphasis on the cognitive aspects of behavior. Areas to be discussed are sport personology (including personality, motivation, achievement, and attributions), anxiety/arousal, attentional focus, and social/cultural manifestations of sport (including humanism, youth sport, aggression, cooperation/ cohesion, and leadership).
Credits: 3
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AEXS 679 - Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology
This course provides opportunity for investigations into current skill enhancement techniques from sport psychology. Direct application in sport through classroom learning and supervised field experience is emphasized. Performance enhancement techniques, including goal setting, imagery and relaxation, self talk, attributions, visualization, and mental practice, are employed as the student practices psychological skills training with an athlete.
Prerequisites & Notes
Credits: 3
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AEXS 680 - Advanced Strength and Conditioning
This course provides students with information to complement and illustrate material taught in AEXS 670. Emphasis is placed on theory and methodology of training and preparing athletes for competition.
Prerequisites & Notes
Credits: 3
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AEXS 681 - Internship in Strength and Conditioning
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the appropriate setting for the application of the principles of strength and conditioning which are taught in the AEXS 670 course. Emphasis is placed oninstruction and performance of the Olympiclifts, core strength lifts, abdominal/lowback training, as well as balance andproprioception training. Students areexpected to complete 100 hours of fieldworkin the Springfield College Strength andConditioning facility.
Prerequisites & Notes
ESSS majors only.
Credits: 2-6
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AEXS 682 - Strength and Conditioning Fieldwork I
This is a supervised field-based experience that familiarizes students with the conditions, practices, and environmental settings where aspired vocational roles are conducted. Placement for fieldwork is made and must be approved by the coordinator for health/fitness fieldwork. The experience is arranged on an individual student basis and should reflect the student’s professional and career aspirations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of appropriate coursework and permission of advisor and fieldwork coordinator. CPR and CSCS certifications are recommended.
Credits: 1
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AEXS 683 - Strength and Conditioning Fieldwork II
This is a supervised field-based experience that familiarizes students with the conditions, practices, and environmental settings where aspired vocational roles are conducted. Placement for fieldwork is made and must be approved by the coordinator for health/fitness fieldwork. The experience is arranged on an individual student basis and should reflect the student’s professional and career aspirations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of appropriate coursework and permission of advisor and fieldwork coordinator. CPR and CSCS certifications are recommended.
Credits: 2
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AEXS 684 - Fieldwork in Sports Nutrition
This course is designed to give students an opportunity to apply the scientific principles that they gained in the MSCI 440/640 course (Nutrition and Athletic Performance). Students are assigned to an athletic team to assist members of that team in developing a better understanding of the role that nutrition plays in enhancing their performance.
Credits: 1-2
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AEXS 691 - Professional Ethics and Standards
AEXS 691 is designed to provide students with an overview of ethical issues, implications, and proper ethical decision-making within sport and exercise psychology. In addition to gaining knowledge in these areas, students have the opportunity to become more aware of their own value system as a professional and gain an understanding as to how ethics influence their own professional practice in applied areas within their sport, exercise, or performance-related field.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 678 Sport Psychology or equivalent course.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 692 - Independent Study in Applied Exercise Science
This course is intended to meet the non-thesis master’s degree requirements in the health science and physical education programs. A project is planned by the student and conducted under faculty supervision. It may involve a research project, development of curricula materials, a review of literature, or other appropriate activity. A written proposal is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
ESSS majors only. Approval of major advisor and faculty supervisor required.
Credits: 2
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AEXS 694 - Special Topics: Professional Seminars
This course is devoted to the analysis and synthesis of selected problems, issues, or special topics facing physical education and sport. Students may take a maximum of four semester hours in PHED 550 and PHED 688 within a master’s program.
Credits: 1-3
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AEXS 695 - Internship in Clinical Exercise Physiology I
In this course, graduate students have the opportunity for hands-on application of their didactic instruction. Students are exposed to a variety of clinical experiences as they interact with patients having or recovering from cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, immunological/hematological conditions at an approved site.
Prerequisites & Notes
CPR/AED and permission of instructor
Credits: 1
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AEXS 696 - Internship in Clinical Exercise Physiology II
In this course, graduate students have the opportunity for hands-on application of their didactic instruction. Students are exposed to a variety of clinical experiences as they interact with patients having or recovering from cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, immunological/hematological conditions at an approved site.
Prerequisites & Notes
CPR/AED and permission of instructor
Credits: 1
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AEXS 697 - Internship in Clinical Exercise Physiology III
In this course, graduate students have the opportunity for hands-on application of their didactic instruction. Students are exposed to a variety of clinical experiences as they interact with patients having or recovering from cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, immunological/hematological conditions at an approved site.
Prerequisites & Notes
CPR/AED and permission of instructor
Credits: 1
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AEXS 698 - Internship in Clinical Exercise Physiology IV
In this course, graduate students have the opportunity for hands-on application of their didactic instruction. Students are exposed to a variety of clinical experiences as they interact with patients having or recovering from cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, immunological/hematological conditions at an approved site.
Prerequisites & Notes
CPR/AED and permission of instructor
Credits: 1-3
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AEXS 716 - Scholarly Writing
During this course, graduate students learn how to transform research into publishable articles, drafting, editing, and revising their work with the guidance of instructor feedback and peer review. Students will also be exposed to various forms of scholarly writing and the peer review process. This course is restricted to PEPSL doctoral students only.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 2
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Art
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ARTS 101 - Materials and Techniques
This course gives students experience in a variety of materials- metal, ceramics, woods, and cloth. Each medium is developed as a unique form of creative expression.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 102 - Arts and Ideas
This course is designed to combine the elements of art with art history. Through the study of the plastic elements of art and composition, students view the role of the artist from ancient times to the present day to form a better understanding of the aesthetics of our own human nature.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 103 - Introduction to Graphic Design
This is an introductory course that utilizes digital media technologies in a graphic design context. Students will begin by establishing a work flow between analog and digital platforms along with a process for creative problem solving. Using the elements and principles of design and theories of visual perception, students will focus on developing image making techniques while considering how form conveys meaning. Upon completion of the course, students will have built a vocabulary for visual language and digital technologies, along with methods of conceptual problem solving.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 104 - Creativity: Methods and Practices
This course explores the creative processes of artists in the visual arts. Examples of work by the leaders of contemporary art, as well as artists of historical significance are analyzed. Slides, tapes, films, museum visits, and guest artists provide an integral part of the course. Through this examination of art, students have the opportunity to develop an aesthetic sensitivity that can be applied to creating more meaningful and significant artistic statements of their own.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 105 - Studio in Printmaking
This course explores the varied aspects of the printmaking media. Areas covered are intaglio, calligraphy, and lithography. Work is done using both traditional and experimental techniques in black and white and in color.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 108 - Studio in Drawing
This course sets out to increase the student’s ability to draw realistically. Drawings are treated as an independent medium rather than a sketch exercise or studies for other materials.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 111 - Studio in Design
This is an exploration of design as a visual language as it exists on a flat surface. Students are guided toward the understanding of the basic design elements as a means to maximize the freedom of expression in the area of communication and originality.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 116 - Studio in Painting
This is a course in which the many aspects of making a painting are explored. Various painting problems are assigned in order to focus on the capacity of painting for control and scope of expression. Students are encouraged to develop and realize their personal ideas as exciting visual images.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 118 - Introduction to Community Arts
This course introduces students to the field of socially engaged art practices, and is designed for students interested in merging social activism, creative work, performance, teaching and youth development. Students learn how to identify, approach and construct classes for community sites, including youth organizations, schools and after-school programs, as well as institutions serving other populations through the arts in a community setting. The course examines the processes of creative thinking, community involvement, collaborative enterprise, research, and education in community arts.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 120 - Contemporary Art and Design
This course provides a survey of contemporary art and design from the beginning of Modern Art until the present. Students are exposed to a variety of images through slide presentations and video. Lectures and class discussions will focus on Modern/Postmodern art and design of the Western world, but it also includes Indigenous Art from non-Western cultures. The course also focuses on the socio-economic/political aspects of art and design and on the experimental process of its production. These include: conceptual Art, Installation, Performance Art, Ethnic Art, LGBTQ Art, Postmodern architecture, popular culture, Environmental Art, Site Specific Art, Digital Art, Video, etc.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 202 - 2D Animation
This course is designed for individuals who are interested in developing an understanding of 2D computer animation using Adobe Animate software. Students will explore animation concepts and filmmaking principles in order to produce their own computer animation project. In addition, character design, scriptwriting, and storyboarding are practiced. Students also explore a variety of computer graphics tools, as well as rudimentary ActionScript. Motivated camera, animatic, inverse kinematics and editing are also emphasized. Throughout the semester, screenings of landmark animations are examined and critiqued.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 203 - Graphic Design I
Through an introduction to visual semiotics, students learn to further develop meaning in their designs. Students examine theories of visual communication, explore denotative and connotative forms, and utilize communicative tools such as composition, color, hierarchy, scale, rhythm, and visual metaphor to establish form based on content. Upon completion of the course, students have developed image-making techniques for solving complex visual problems, through both analog and digital processes while considering the complicated relationship between language, meaning, and form.
Prerequisites & Notes
ARTS 103 - Introduction to Graphic Design
Credits: 3
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ARTS 210 - Figure Drawing
This course is an in-depth study of the traditional problems of drawing the figure, working with light, weight, dimension, and color. Emphasis is placed on developing the student’s sensitivity and awareness to the many possibilities and potentials that the human form possesses. Students draw directly from both male and female models. Work is done in such media as charcoal, ink, pencil, and conti-crayon, as well as in techniques of contour, line, and work drawings.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 211 - Studio in Sculpture
This course develops the individual imaginative efforts of students working in the third dimension. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of materials, scale, means, and concept as related to the artist’s statement. Students may work in a variety of materials and techniques such as wood, stone, plaster, metal, wax, and clay.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 217 - Arts of the Prehistory to the Renaissance
This survey course examines the development of the visual arts from cave painting to the beginning of the modern era. It concentrates on the relationship between artistic expression and social and cultural forces.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 218 - Renaissance to Modern Art
This course provides a descriptive survey of painting, sculpture, decorative arts and architecture from the Renaissance to Modern Era. This course includes the development of Western styles as well as those of Africa, Asia, and South America. Slides and visual materials illustrate lectures and discussions. This course focuses on the relationship between artistic expression and societal and cultural forces during this time period.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 219 - American Art 1700-1900
This course is a survey of painting, architecture, and sculpture from the early Colonial Period to the turn of the Twentieth Century. It emphasizes the meaning and function of art in the historic and cultural context of the developing nation.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 221 - Women Artists in History
This course examines the achievements and contributions of European and American women artists from the Middle Ages to the present in terms of the culture in which they lived and worked.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 222 - Asian Arts and Culture
This course provides a survey of the arts of Asia, specifically India, China, and Japan from prehistory to modern times. Lectures and discussions focus on the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the art of Feng Shui, Ikebana, Calligraphy, Haiku, Bonsai, Raku, and martial arts. Students have an opportunity to work directly with some of the art forms. Students are exposed to the aesthetics as well as the philosophical basis of these Eastern Arts.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 223 - Studio in Ceramics
This course is an introduction to the various methods of pottery making. Students explore such forming methods as slab, pinch, coil, and throwing. The uses of glazing and kiln firing as a means for enhancing the design of both the pottery form and its function are developed. Tests are conducted in differing clay bodies and glaze information.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 225 - Studio in Photography
This course explores the photographic process, the use of equipment, history of photography and current trends. Emphasis is placed upon the use of the camera as a creative means of expression.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 228 - Three-Dimensional Design
This course explores our urban environment as three-dimensional design. Students are encouraged to use the urban community as a classroom for studying the aesthetic interrelationships of man and his environment. Such basic design elements as color, form, shape, texture, and scale as related to the human elements are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 230 - Sequential Art
This course provides the opportunity for students to gain an introduction to the art of creating comics and sequential art. Students explore four key elements involved in creating sequential art: design, drawing, character, and story. Throughout the semester, students will make several of their own graphic short stories as a series of projects leading toward a final portfolio. By the end of this course, students will understand page layout, design and illustrations as they relate to sequential art and begin to apply these newly acquired skills toward their own personal style.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 231 - 3-D Animation
This course is designed for individuals who are interested in developing expertise in 3-D computer animation. 3-D animation theory and practice are integrated using the latest computer programs. Animation composition and the creation of storyboards are taught in addition, as a variety of graphic and digital video tools are explored. Skills in lighting, vector layout, and animation rendering are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 235 - Typography I
Examining the fundamental principles of typography, students progress from analyzing the smallest component of type, the letterform, to the complex structure of the page. The theory, historical significance, and the anatomical and organizational structures of type are examined in detail as students focus on achieving legibility and establishing a hierarchy on the way to developing typographic solutions. Upon completing this course, students know how to design effective visual communication through the creation of typographic systems that consider letterforms, type families, spacing, and composition, and through establishing and utilizing a typographic grid.
Prerequisites & Notes
ARTS 103: Introduction to Graphic Design
Credits: 3
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ARTS 245 - Contemporary Jewish Art
This course is an overview of the lives and works of Jewish visual artists from the mid-nineteenth century to today. The effects of anti-Semitism on the themes and acceptance of Jewish artists is addressed. In addition to a didactic approach, a component of this course explores the styles and media of these artists. Artistic skill is not required, only a willingness for students to explore their creativity.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 248 - Interarts Workshop
This course trains musicians, singers, dancers, painters, sculptors, actors, designers, and graphic artists to function as a collective in the preparation and mounting of a major stage production in an apprentice-like manner by contract with faculty coaches/directors.
Prerequisites & Notes
Auditions, interviews, and permission of the company directors.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 255 - Introduction to Art Education
This course explores the stages of a child’s development through art and how to teach developmentally-appropriate creative art activities in elementary, middle, and high schools. Students participate in art exercises and are required to design and critique lesson plans. Art teaching that emphasizes current research in art education is a major focus.
Credits: 3
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