Courses

Working Collaboratively:Art & The Group Dynamic

Course No. PTG35X.1  Credits: 3

Though the image of the artist is that of the solitary individual striving to express their vision Ð the contemporary practice of art is peppered with numerous examples of artists collaborating. These extend form something as simple as organizing a group exhibition, to the type of social interventions practiced by the Guerrilla Girls or the work of such entities as Gilbert and George, or the collective N55. This course through projects, readings, and critiques will explore the dynamic of working collaboratively. Each exercise will address different processes, skill-sets and interpersonal relationships. This course is open to students from all disciplines and is not media specific. 3 credits.

Working Collaboratively:Art & The Group Dynamic

Course No. PTG45X.1  Credits: 3

Though the image of the artist is that of the solitary individual striving to express their vision Ð the contemporary practice of art is peppered with numerous examples of artists collaborating. These extend form something as simple as organizing a group exhibition, to the type of social interventions practiced by the Guerrilla Girls or the work of such entities as Gilbert and George, or the collective N55. This course through projects, readings, and critiques will explore the dynamic of working collaboratively. Each exercise will address different processes, skill-sets and interpersonal relationships. This course is open to students from all disciplines and is not media specific. 3 credits.

Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions

Course No. LLC102.2  Credits: 3
Faculty Jonathan Rosati | Joyce Kessler | Katherine Clark | Mark Bassett | Olatubosun Ogunsanwo

An intermediate writing and research course based in readings on the western intellectual and cultural heritage and their global contexts. The course will emphasize the basic research skills involved in both academic writing and studio processes. Twenty pages of student expository writing will be required. Prerequisite LLC 101. Offered spring. 3 credits.

Writing and Inquiry III: Narrative Forms

Course No. LLC203.1  Credits: 3
Faculty Clifford Borress | Joyce Kessler | Olatubosun Ogunsanwo

This course continues to build studentsÕ skills in writing, research, critical thinking, and argument, while introducing a survey of narrative forms and critical methods based in narratology to be used in the analysis and understanding of narrative. Prerequisite LLC 101. Offered fall and spring. 3 credits.

Writing Concentration : Body of Work Contin

Course No. LLC415C.1  Credits: 3

Required of seniors pursuing the Creative Writing Concentration. Not open as an elective. Fall and spring semesters required. 1.5 credits each semester.

Writing Concentration: Body of Work

Course No. LLC415.1  Credits: 3

Required of seniors pursuing the Creative Writing Concentration. Not open as an elective. Fall and spring semesters required. 1.5 credits each semester.

Writing for the Art/Design Career

Course No. LLC204W.1  Credits: 3
Faculty Joyce Kessler

This course offers students the opportunity to develop strong writing skills for the types of writing involved in art and design careers. The first and biggest part of this course is devoted to these career-related forms and is predicated on an exploration of the relationship between the rhetorical and the design arts. The culminating project for this section of the course, therefore, will be a portfolio containing the final versions of each of the writing assignments, designed to showcase visually the collected written works, and thus also to demonstrate the extent to which the student has pursued the relationship between rhetoric and design. Each studentÕs portfolio will contain the types of career documents relevant to her/his own particular emphases or goals within the art/design fields represented by the particular group of students in the class. A later, smaller part of the course will explore the theories and argument strategies of art critical essays and reviews as models for the studentsÕ own assignments in critical writing. These assignments will include one art or design show review and one critical essay on an art or design subject selected by the student for the relevance of its subject to his/her own studio work. Class work will focus on writing, tutorials, and peer editing/critique, allowing students ample opportunity to become comfortable with, and even accomplished in, the kinds of writing necessary for self-presentation and critical engagement in visual arts careers. Fulfills Humanities/Cultural Studies distribution requirement. Creative Writing Concentration course. 3 credits.