Courses

American Crafts History

Course No. ACD376X.1  Credits: 3
Faculty Mark Bassett

This course will necessarily focus on American crafts. However, an effort will be made to incorporate other expressions (especially non-Western) into the mix too.Ê For example, there are readings in Adamson on the Scandinavian sl?jd system, Bauhaus aesthetics, the Japanese concept of mingei, the Indian notion of svadharma, the Mande blacksmiths of West Africa, and subversive (feminist) stitchery, in addition to writings by Anni Albers, Karl Marx, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ellen Gates Starr, George Nakashima, Carole Tulloch, Garth Clark, and many more. Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits.

American Vernacular Architecture

Course No. ACD344.1  Credits: 3

This class will take a cultural perspective to the architectural and design traditions of the United States. The primary emphasis will be on the domestic environment and its furnishing, though church and civic buildings will play their less part in the story. European antecedents and elite architecture will be included, of course, but we will pay particular attention to the vernacular traditions of various ethnic groups (or cultural regions) and the way in which these traditions adapted and accommodated the above influences, in both architecture and its furnishings. (Based on this historical knowledge, students will have the option of designing housing or other products for recent immigrant groups in the United States.) This course will follow these traditions into the modern world with attention to the development of suburbs as a social phenomenon, and of Craftsman, Prairie, Art Deco and Populous styles (the look and life of America in the '50's and '60's from tailfins and TV dinners to Barbie dolls and fallout shelters, to my own tract house childhood.) Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits.

Anatomy for the Artist

Course No. BMA250.1  Credits: 3
Faculty Thomas Nowacki

This course is a sophomore elective and is designed to strengthen the students understanding and use of figure anatomy within their work. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of biomedical art, the course will have two complementary components. These components reflect a multidisciplinary approach to muscular anatomy and figure drawing. Study in this area is designed to provide the student with a good grasp of muscular anatomy as it strongly relates to drawing the figure and its proportions. This course will provide the student the opportunity to interpret anatomy knowledge by working directly from the model and human cadaver from CWRU Anatomy Department This course is designed to provide the student with a solid basic understanding of muscular anatomy as it relates to surface anatomy, proportion and movement of the human figure. The course incorporates lectures on anatomy, figure proportion and drawing techniques linked to direct and accurate observation of the figure model and cadaver model. Offered spring. 3 credits.

Animal Behavior

Course No. BMA358.2

Ultimately the success or failure (i.e., life or death) of any individual animal is determined by its behavior. The ability to locate and capture food, avoid being food, acquiring and defending territory, and successfully passing your genes to the next generation, are all dependent on complex interactions between an animal's design, environment and behavior. This course will be an integrative approach emphasizing experimental studies of animal behavior. You will be introduced to state-of-the-art approaches to the study of animal behavior, including neural and hormonal mechanisms, genetic and developmental mechanisms and ecological and evolutionary approaches. We will learn to critique examples of current scientific papers, and learn how to conduct observations and experiments with real animals. We will feature guest appearances by the Curator of Research from the Cleveland MetroPark Zoo, visits to working animal behavior research labs here at CWRU. Group discussions and writing will be emphasized. Cross-registration at CWRU required. 3 credits.

Animation II

Course No. TIM210.1  Credits: 3

An advanced, project-based course whose goal it is to create finished Animation or Motion Graphics pieces. Emphasis will be on After Effects and/or Apple Motion. Priority enrollment to TIME and Communication Design majors. This course covers contemporary issues in Motion Graphics and Broadcast Design. In this class, students will visualize, develop, and realize various creative solutions for tasks in 2D and 2 1/2D animation projects. Concept development, visual storytelling, montage theory, typography, sound design, and principles and meanings of movement will be explored. The final project will be a broadcast-ready or festival piece. If you're not sure what sort of work is created in the realm of motion graphics, please check out: http://motionographer.com/ Required materials: A 7200 rpm hard drive, a set of headphones and a notebook. 3 credits.

Animation II

Course No. TIM310.1  Credits: 3

An advanced, project-based course whose goal it is to create finished Animation or Motion Graphics pieces. Emphasis will be on After Effects and/or Apple Motion. Priority enrollment to TIME and Communication Design majors. This course covers contemporary issues in Motion Graphics and Broadcast Design. In this class, students will visualize, develop, and realize various creative solutions for tasks in 2D and 2 1/2D animation projects. Concept development, visual storytelling, montage theory, typography, sound design, and principles and meanings of movement will be explored. The final project will be a broadcast-ready or festival piece. If you're not sure what sort of work is created in the realm of motion graphics, please check out: http://motionographer.com/ Required materials: A 7200 rpm hard drive, a set of headphones and a notebook. 3 credits.

Animation II

Course No. TIM410.1  Credits: 3

An advanced, project-based course whose goal it is to create finished Animation or Motion Graphics pieces. Emphasis will be on After Effects and/or Apple Motion. Priority enrollment to TIME and Communication Design majors. This course covers contemporary issues in Motion Graphics and Broadcast Design. In this class, students will visualize, develop, and realize various creative solutions for tasks in 2D and 2 1/2D animation projects. Concept development, visual storytelling, montage theory, typography, sound design, and principles and meanings of movement will be explored. The final project will be a broadcast-ready or festival piece. If you're not sure what sort of work is created in the realm of motion graphics, please check out: http://motionographer.com/ Required materials: A 7200 rpm hard drive, a set of headphones and a notebook. 3 credits.

Anthropology

Course No. SNS378.1  Credits: 3
Faculty Diane Lichtenstein

The course is an introduction to the nature of culture and a comparison of contemporary western and non-western cultures worldwide. Readings, films, slides and class discussion help review cultural similarities and differences in subsistence technology, language, social organization, politics, religion and art. An analysis that views culture as humankind's most important adaptive tool, a strategy for survival, also suggests anthropology's relevance for appreciating modern world social, economic and ecological problems. The course addresses contemporary issues of human choices and culture change. 3 credits.