COURSES

Fall 2013 Undergraduate Courses

Core Studio Courses (ARTDES)
A&D Academic Courses (ARTDES)
Lecture Series (ARTDES)
Elective Studio Courses (ARTDES)
Outreach/Engagement Studio Courses (ARTDES)
Integrative Project (ARTDES)
Interarts Performance (INTPERF)
Upper-Level Writing (ARTDES)
Non-Major Studio Courses (ARTDES)

Course Schedule

For a complete course schedule, see: Wolverine Access: Fall 2013 Course Schedule

Unit	Cat#	Sec	Cr	Course Title	Days/Time	Room	Instructor
ARTDES	100	001	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2057	Cogswell, Jim
ARTDES	100	002	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2063	Chung, David
ARTDES	100	003	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2058	TBD
ARTDES	100	004	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 8:30-11:30am	Bursley	TBD
ARTDES	100	005	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2058	TBD
ARTDES	100	006	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2057	TBD
ARTDES	100	007	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2063	TBD
ARTDES	100	008	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	Bursley	TBD
ARTDES	100	009	3	Studio : Drawing I	TTh 7:00-10:00pm	Bursley	TBD

ARTDES	110	001	3	Digital Studio	TTh 8:30-11:30am	1006	TBD

ARTDES	115	001	3	Studio : 2D	WF 8:30-11:30am	2058	Poskovic, Endi
ARTDES	115	002	3	Studio : 2D	WF 8:30-11:30am	2057	Modrak, Rebekah
ARTDES	115	003	3	Studio : 2D	WF 8:30-11:30am	2126	Nunoo-Quarcoo, Franc
ARTDES	115	004	3	Studio : 2D	WF 8:30-11:30am	2043	Smotrich, Hannah
ARTDES	115	005	3	Studio : 2D	WF 8:30-11:30am	2044	TBD
ARTDES	115	006	3	Studio : 2D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	2044	TBD
ARTDES	115	007	3	Studio : 2D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	2058	Gloeckner, Phoebe
ARTDES	115	008	3	Studio : 2D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	2057	TBD
ARTDES	115	009	3	Studio : 2D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	2043	TBD
ARTDES	115	010	3	Studio : 2D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	2126	TBD

ARTDES	120	001	3	Studio : 3D	WF 8:30-11:30am	1269	Porter, Marianetta
ARTDES	120	002	3	Studio : 3D	WF 8:30-11:30am	2062	TBD
ARTDES	120	003	3	Studio : 3D	WF 8:30-11:30am	2023	TBD
ARTDES	120	004	3	Studio : 3D	WF 8:30-11:30am	1108	Rodemer, Michael
ARTDES	120	005	3	Studio : 3D	WF 8:30-11:30am	1258	Marinaro, Lou
ARTDES	120	006	3	Studio : 3D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	1108	Andersen, Jan-Henrik
ARTDES	120	007	3	Studio : 3D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	2062	TBD
ARTDES	120	008	3	Studio : 3D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	1269	Inuzuka, Sadashi
ARTDES	120	009	3	Studio : 3D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	2023	Graf, Roland
ARTDES	120	010	3	Studio : 3D	WF 1:30-4:30pm	1258	TBD

ARTDES	150	001	3	Art & Design in Context	MW 5:00-6:00pm	Stamps	TBD
ARTDES	150	002	3	Discussion A	W 11:30-12:30pm	1006	GSI
ARTDES	150	003	3	Discussion B	W 12:30-1:30pm	1006	GSI
ARTDES	150	004	3	Discussion C	W 11:30-12:30pm	2147	GSI
ARTDES	150	005	3	Discussion D	W 12:30-1:30pm	2147	GSI
ARTDES	150	006	3	Discussion E	W 11:30-12:30pm	2126	GSI
ARTDES	150	007	3	Discussion F	W 12:30-1:30pm	2126	GSI
ARTDES	150	008	3	Discussion G	W 11:30-12:30pm	2043	GSI
ARTDES	150	009	3	Discussion H	W 12:30-1:30pm	2043	GSI
ARTDES	150	010	3	Discussion J	W 11:30-12:30pm	2062	GSI
ARTDES	150	011	3	Discussion K	W 12:30-1:30pm	2062	GSI
ARTDES	150	012	3	Discussion L	W 11:30-12:30pm	2023	GSI
ARTDES	150	013	3	Discussion M	W 12:30-1:30pm	2023	GSI

ARTDES	220	001	3	TMP III: Time (All sections)	W 12:30-1:30pm	Stamps	All Sections
ARTDES	220	002	3	"TMP III: Time, Sec A"	MW 9:00-11:30am	2114	TBD
ARTDES	220	003	3	"TMP III: Time, Sec B"	MW 9:00-11:30am	2216	Rowden, Stephanie
ARTDES	220	004	3	"TMP III: Time, Sec C"	MW 2:00-4:30pm	2114	Pachikara, Cynthia
ARTDES	220	005	3	"TMP III: Time, Sec D"	MW 2:00-4:30pm	2147	Kumao, Heidi
ARTDES	220	006	3	"TMP III: Time, Sec E"	TTh 2:00-4:30pm	2114	Chung, David
ARTDES	220	007	3	"TMP III: Time, Sec F"	TTh 7:00-9:30pm	2114	TBD
ARTDES	220	008	3	"TMP III: Time, Sec G"	TTh 9:00-11:30am	2114	Kirshner, Andy
ARTDES	220	009	3	"TMP III: Time, Sec H"	MW 6:00-8:30pm	1108	TBD

ARTDES	230	001	3	"Concept, Form & Context II: Culture"	TTh 7:00-10:00pm	2023	Khan, Osman
ARTDES	230	002	3	"Concept, Form & Context II: Culture"	MW 1:30-4:30pm	2063	Kenyon, Matt
ARTDES	230	003	3	"Concept, Form & Context II: Culture"	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2023	TBD
ARTDES	230	004	3	"Concept, Form & Context II: Culture"	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2023	Rowden, Stephanie
ARTDES	230	005	3	"Concept, Form & Context II: Culture"	TTh 7:00-10:00pm	2062	TBD
ARTDES	230	006	3	"Concept, Form & Context II: Culture"	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2062	Ellis, Seth
ARTDES	230	007	3	"Concept, Form & Context II: Culture"	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2062	Jacobsen, Carol
ARTDES	230	008	3	"Concept, Form & Context II: Culture"	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2062	TBD

ARTDES	250	001	3	Art-Design Perspectives III: Tech & The Environment	MW 11:30-12:30pm	Stamps	Trumpey, Joe
ARTDES	250	002	3	Discussion A	T 11:30-12:30pm	1006	GSI
ARTDES	250	003	3	Discussion B	T 12:30-1:30pm	1006	GSI
ARTDES	250	004	3	Discussion C	T 11:30-12:30pm	2023	GSI
ARTDES	250	005	3	Discussion D	T 12:30-1:30pm	2023	GSI
ARTDES	250	006	3	Discussion E	T 11:30-12:30pm	2062	GSI
ARTDES	250	007	3	Discussion F	T 12:30-1:30pm	2062	GSI
ARTDES	250	008	3	Discussion G	T 11:30-12:30pm	2043	GSI
ARTDES	250	009	3	Discussion H	T 12:30-1:30pm	2043	GSI
ARTDES	250	010	3	Discussion J	T 11:30-12:30pm	2147	GSI
ARTDES	250	011	3	Discussion K	T 12:30-1:30pm	2147	GSI
ARTDES	250	012	3	Discussion L	T 11:30-12:30pm	2126	GSI
ARTDES	250	013	3	Discussion M	T 12:30-1:30pm	2126	GSI

ARTDES	160	001	1	A&D Lecture Series	Th 5:00-6:30pm	MI Thtr	TBD

ARTDES	205	001	3	Intro to Painting: Creating Visual Space	MW 8:30-11:30am	2094	TBD
ARTDES	210	001	3	Intro to Graphic Design: Type	TTh 8:30-11:30am	1108	TBD
ARTDES	215	001	3	Intro to Industrial Design	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	1258	Andersen, Jan-Henrik
ARTDES	225	001	3	Intro to Fibers: Entanglement	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	1068	Smith, Sherri
ARTDES	235	001	3	Intro to Printmaking	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2143	TBD
ARTDES	240	001	3	Intro to 3-D Digital: Form and Fabrication	MW 1:30-4:30pm	1006	Marshall, John
ARTDES	240	002	3	Intro to 3-D Digital: Modeling and Motion	MW 1:30-4:30pm	TBD	Van Gent, Elona
ARTDES	245	001	3	Intro to Computational Media	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2023	Khan, Osman
ARTDES	255	001	3	Intro to Photography	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2006	TBD
ARTDES	260	001	3	Intro to Sculpture: Representational Sculpture	MW 1:30-4:30pm	1262	Marinaro, Lou
ARTDES	300	001	3	Scientific Illustration	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2043	TBD
ARTDES	300	002	3	Jewelry/Metals: Meaning Found	TTh 8:30-11:30am	1069	Mondro, Anne
ARTDES	300	003	3	Photo Essay	TTh 7:00-10:00pm	2126	Jacobsen, Carol
ARTDES	300	004	3	Creating Visual Phenomena from Text-Based Work: Limited Fork	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	1006	Moss, Thylias
ARTDES	300	005	3	Graphic Narrative	WF 8:30-11:30am	2147	Gloeckner, Phoebe
ARTDES	300	006	3	Interactivity	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	1108	Rodemer, Michael
ARTDES	300	007	3	Interface Design	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2147	Ellis, Seth
ARTDES	300	008	3	Topics in I.D.	TTh 8:30-11:30am	1258	TBD
ARTDES	300	009	3	The Concerned Photographer: Struggling for Social Justice	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2126	Turnley, David
ARTDES	300	010	3	Packaging Design	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2044	Nunoo-Quarcoo, Franc
ARTDES	300	011	3	Advanced Typography	TTh 8:30-11:30am	2043	Smotrich, Hannah
ARTDES	300	012	3	Sustainable Food System Design	MF 8:30-11:30am	M 2043 F TBD	Trumpey, Joe
ARTDES	300	013	3	Drawing the Figure in Context	MW 8:30-11:30am	2063	TBD
ARTDES	300	014	3	Ceramics	TTh 8:30-11:30am	1269	TBD
ARTDES	300	015	3	Advanced Industrial Design	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2044	TBD
ARTDES	300	016	3	Information Design	TTh 7:00-10:00pm	1108	TBD
ARTDES	300	017	3	Design Drawing	TTh 7:00-10:00pm	2057	TBD
ARTDES	335	001	3	Exploring Contemporary Printmaking	MW 1:30-4:30pm	2143	Poskovic, Endi
ARTDES	347	001	3	Video Installation	MW 7:00-10:00pm	2114	Pachikara, Cynthia
ARTDES	367	001	3	Color	MW 8:30-11:30am	1068	Platt, Robert
ARTDES	367	002	3	Color	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2043	TBD
ARTDES	372	001	3	Video Games	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2126	Kenyon, Matt
ARTDES	408	001	3	Directions in Fibers	TTh 8:30-11:30am	1068	Smith, Sherri
ARTDES	414	001	3	Where Do Paintings Come From?	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	2094	Cogswell, Jim

ARTDES	311	001	3	Detroit Connections: In the Classroom	F 9am -12pm & 1-4pm	1006	TBD
ARTDES	314	001	3	Change by Design	MW 1:30-4:30pm	TBD	Tobier, Nick

ARTDES	398	001	3	Penny Stamps Speaker Seminar	T 1:30-4:30	2216	West, Ed
ARTDES	399	001	3	Writing in Art & Design	MW 5:30-7	TBD	Metsker, Jennifer

INTPERF	150	001	3	Interarts Live Art Survey	MW 5:00-6:30pm	2147	Hughes, Holly
INTPERF	160	001	1	Interarts Performance Forum	F 11:00-12:00pm	TBD	Hughes, H./ Tulip, M.

ARTDES	498	001	6	Integrative Project - Class Time	MW 9:00-11:30am	1042	Marshall, J. /Graf. R./GSI
	498	001	6	Integrative Project - Workshop	T 12:30-1:30pm	2104
	498	001	6	Integrative Project - Studio Time	MW 1:30-4:30pm	IP Studio
ARTDES	498	002	6	Integrative Project - Class Time	MW 2:00-4:30pm	1042	West, E. / Platt, R./GSI
	498	002	6	Integrative Project - Workshop	T 12:30-1:30pm	2104	GSI
	498	002	6	Integrative Project - Studio Time	MW 8:30-11:30am	IP Studio
ARTDES	498	003	6	Integrative Project - Class Time	TTh 9:00-11:30am	1042	Rodemer, M./Modrak, R./GSI
ARTDES	498	003	6	Integrative Project - Workshop	T 12:30-1:30pm	2104
ARTDES	498	003	6	Integrative Project - Studio Time	TTh 1:30-4:30pm	IP Studio
ARTDES	498	004	6	Integrative Project - Class Time	TTh 2:00-4:30pm	1042	Inuzuka, S. / Mondro, A./GSI
ARTDES	498	004	6	Integrative Project - Workshop	T 12:30-1:30pm	2104
ARTDES	498	004	6	Integrative Project - Studio Time	TTh 8:30-11:30am	IP Studio


ARTDES	700	001	3	Progress Seminar (2nd Year Students)	T 6:30-9:30pm	2147	Porter, Marianetta
ARTDES	800	001	3	Exit Seminar (3rd Year Students)	W 6:30-9:30pm	2216	Kumao, Heidi

ARTDES	170	001	3	Drawing Studio : Imagination	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2057	TBD
ARTDES	170	002	3	Drawing Studio : Architecture & Landscape	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2058	TBD
ARTDES	170	003	3	Drawing Studio: Design Drawing	TTh 7:00-10:00pm	2057	TBD
ARTDES	170	004	3	Drawing Studio: Life Drawing	TTh 6:00-9:00pm	2044	TBD
ARTDES	170	005	3	Drawing Studio: Fashion	TTh 6:00-9:00pm	2058	TBD
ARTDES	171	001	3	Printmaking for non-Majors	TTh 2:00-5:00pm	2143	TBD
ARTDES	172	001	3	Painting for non-Majors	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2094	TBD
ARTDES	172	002	3	Painting for non-Majors	TTh 9:00am-12:00pm	2094	TBD
ARTDES	173	001	3	Digital Photography for non-Majors	MW 6:00-9:00pm	TBD	TBD
ARTDES	173	001	3	Digital Photography for non-Majors	TTh 2:00-5:00pm	2126	TBD
ARTDES	174	001	3	Watercolor for non-Majors	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2063	TBD
ARTDES	176	001	3	Graphic Design for non-Majors	MW 6:00-9:00pm	2044	TBD
ARTDES	176	002	3	Graphic Design for non-Majors	TTh 6:00-9:00pm	2063	TBD
ARTDES	181	001	3	Clay for non-Majors	TTh 2:00-5:00pm	1269	TBD

Core Studio Courses (ARTDES)

100	Studio: Drawing 1	3 cr
No prerequisites.
This course focuses on drawing as a means of visual inquiry and builds the skill to articulate both perceptual and conceptual visualizations. A variety of drawing media and processes heighten awareness of what we see and how we see it, and achieve confident and intelligently articulated visual responses. Students work primarily from observation, supplemented by rigorous critique and systematic exposure to historical and contemporary precedents for their practice.

110	Digital Studio	3 cr
No prerequisites. Wireless laptop and appropriate software required.
Digital Studio is an introduction to fundamental computing processes that are integral to contemporary studio practice. The three primary areas of focus are basic computing skills and programming, 2-D image generation and manipulation, web design, and 3-D object generation and surfacing. Through hands-on experience with a variety of digital tools, the course aims to engender an appreciation for the computer’s potential as a creative tool/medium and provide a foundation of skills that will be developed further in more advanced courses.

115	Studio : 2D	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

120	Studio : 3D	3 cr
No prerequisites.
This course will introduce the student to ways and methods of developing, analyzing and composing form. Through a series of challenges the student will construct forms using a variety elements. These forms and there relationship in and about space will be explored formally, psychologically and culturally. The materials and methods will be simple relying on very basic wood, clay, plaster, plastic and metal construction techniques.

150	Art & Design in Context	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

220	Tools, Materials and Processes Studio III: Time	3 cr
ARTDES 120 and 121 are prerequisite.
Tools, Materials, Processes III: Time is the third in a series of required core studio courses that focuses on both the concepts of time-based art and design and the tools and methods necessary to create this work. Assignments in video, animation, sound, and real time/live art serve to provide students with a range of approaches to creating works that utilize time and movement and are experiential in nature. Students will develop skills in still and moving image editing, audio editing, sound and image relationships, and narrative ordering and timing that provide a foundation for further work in time-based media. Students gain critical understanding of their work and its context through lectures and screenings, visiting artist presentations, readings, technical demonstrations, and most importantly, evaluation sessions and critiques.

230	Concept, Form & Context II: Culture	3 cr
ARTDES 130 is prerequisite.
CFC II focuses on problem solving and problem generation. It complements the other Core Studio courses by focusing on the development and structuring of ideas as contrasted with the development of media or technical competence. It incorporates reading, research, and writing components. The content of these studios includes a broad range of general, transferable concepts.

250	Art Design Perspectives III: Technology & the Environment	3 cr
ARTDES 150 and 151 are prerequisite.
No description available.

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A&D Academic Courses (ARTDES)

160	Penny W. Stamps Lecture Series	1 cr
Open to A&D majors and to prospective majors by permission of the School.
Students attend the weekly Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series each week, through which a variety of artists, designers, performers, critics and theorists give insight into their biographies, career paths, and ideas about contemporary practice.

250	Art Design Perspectives III: Technology & the Environment	3 cr
ARTDES 150 and 151 are prerequisite.
No description available.

398.001	Penny Stamps Speaker Seminar	3 cr
Instructor(s): Edward West
No prerequisites.
Attendance at the lectures ( already required ) will be supplemented by attendance at the Q & A’s. Utilizing the Stamps Speaker Series as a means to ask larger and different questions about our culture and its proponents this seminar invites the participants to enrich their experience of the visitors talks and to have greater access to them and to their larger communities. Each week we will both do a in depth review of the talk from the previous week and spend the other half of class anticipating the next speaker through readings and image searches. In this manner we will “connect the dots” of the series. Viewings of earlier Stamps lectures will provide cross semester synergies. In addition class participants will attend other events, when possible, of the speakers including social events as well as assisting the speakers and the series through service roles. The contextualization of the issues raised by the speakers presence will allow students the fuller read and deeper comprehension of the cultural moment as evidenced by their work.

399.001	Writing in Art & Design: Making a Statement	3 cr
FYWR and A&D major.
This upper-level writing course engages students in reading and writing genres specific to art and design practice - genres such as the formal analysis, the curatorial note, the portfolio or creator’s statement, the critical review, and research writing. Being able to articulate sophisticated insights about their own and others’ works through expository writing is a necessary skill for all fields of art and design. This course examines these forms of writing from a variety of angles, and students write and revise three to four papers based on their own creative interests. In addition to improving writing skills in preparation for the Integrative Project thesis, this course also offers students the opportunity to examine and develop their critical thinking skills.

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Lecture Series (ARTDES)

160	Penny W. Stamps Lecture Series	1 cr
Open to A&D majors and to prospective majors by permission of the School.
Students attend the weekly Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series each week, through which a variety of artists, designers, performers, critics and theorists give insight into their biographies, career paths, and ideas about contemporary practice.

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Elective Studio Courses (ARTDES)

205.001	Intro to Painting: Creating Visual Space	3 cr
No prerequisites.
The visual surface of a painting invites imaginative engagement by implying space and movement that do not exist except in a viewer’s acts of perception. This course focuses on building knowledge of the basic tools of oil painting in order to intelligently create this engagement. Through a series of paintings from observation as well as from imagination, students investigate the potential of color, surface, mark, and form to create spaces and movement that refer to the external world as well as those that are unique to the pictorial plane. Students who anticipate enrolling in more advanced painting classes are encouraged to begin here, as this course prepares students for more advanced topics, and may serve as a prerequisite for some advanced courses.

210.001	Intro to Graphic Design: Type	3 cr
No prerequisites.
This course is a close study of the full range of typographic variables (i.e., the characteristics of letterforms and the ways in which they are combined and configured to create texts) and of the relationship of typographic form to conventions of language use.

215.001	Intro to Industrial Design	3 cr
Instructor(s): Jan-Henrik Andersen
No prerequisites.
The course offer a gateway into industrial design thinking and the problems we are facing in manufacturing an ever increasing number of products and services. Included in this thinking, the students will learn about and exercise human factors, materials and processes, design methodology, form and object appearance - all wrapped in a series of projects. The course will also discuss the history and cultural aspect of Industrial Design.

225.001	Intro to Fibers: Entanglement	3 cr
Instructor(s): Sherri Smith
No prerequisites.
An introduction to fibers. Students learn to weave, to silk screen yardage and some other fibers techniques, doing finished work in all three areas.

235.001	Intro to Printmaking	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

240.001	Intro to 3-D Digital: Form and Fabrication	3 cr
Instructor(s): John Marshall
No prerequisites.
This course will give you a functional understanding of modeling in Rhino OSX and prepare you to build on this understanding for more advanced courses and projects. You will focus on 3D modeling concepts and focus on detailed and accurate modeling for digital fabrication and manufacturing. We will do this by reverse-engineering the exterior surfaces of a design icon (the Model 11 Sunbeam Mixmaster, 1955-57) to identify its components and their interrelationships and create precise representations of them. The instructor assumes no prior knowledge of 3D modeling or Rhino OSX. You will work from a physical Sunbeam Mixmaster and will learn techniques for accurately measuring and translating its dimensions to a non-uniform rational basis-spline (NURBS) model. You will learn why particular design decisions were made as well as how to replicate them in the computer (e.g. draft angles and molding requirements for parts). In the second half of the semester, you will conduct a post-mortem of a designed object of your choice. You will explore how materials, manufacturing techniques, systems and values are brought together in your chosen object by taking this object apart systematically and documenting this process. Once the object has been dissected and its function and design has been analyzed your task will be to re-design the object in a way that transcends our expectations and preconceptions of the original. 3D scanning, laser cutting, rapid prototyping and computer numerical control (CNC) machining may be used to realize parts and prototypes.

240.002	Intro to 3-D Digital: Modeling and Motion	3 cr
Instructor(s): Elona Van Gent
No prerequisites.
This course is an introduction to the work flow and creative potential of three-dimensional computer modeling and animation. Students will focus primarily on learning polygonal modeling techniques along with surface texturing, lighting, rendering and basic animation. Projects are designed to guide students through the process of designing virtual scenes in order to depict forms and objects, visualize spaces, and convey ideas. The course provides a foundation of digital 3D technical skills and conceptual understanding that can be developed further in more advanced courses and applied in a variety of art and design practices.

245.001	Intro to Computational Media	3 cr
Instructor(s): Osman Khan
No prerequisites.
This course teaches fundamental manipulations of digital media as an introduction to using computation as a medium for creative exploration. Basic software engineering principles and programming skills are taught with a programming language that supports object-oriented programming. Through both individual and group projects, the course will allow students to experiment and develop dynamic/interactive/reactive systems that explore how computation methodologies, sensors and actuation technologies can be applied for creative production. Lectures will provide conceptual and technical background to computational methodologies, as well as expose students to relevant historic and contemporary creative practices. Students will also be exposed to various technologies via workshops and demos, Processing (programming), Arduino (micro-controller), DMX (protocol and hardware), Mobile device (iPhone) development, machine vision systems, various sensor and actuation technologies.

255.001	Intro to Photography	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

260.001	Intro to Sculpture: Representational Sculpture	3 cr
Instructor(s): Louis Marinaro
No prerequisites.
This course will introduce the student to the methods and materials related to the production of representational sculpture. Through observation of the human figure, landscape and the environment students will investigate a variety techniques related to modeling both in the round and in the form of a bas-relief. Ideas that have grown out of the contemporary realist movement will be included as part of the contextualization of this courses content. The materials used will include, metal, wood, clay, rubber and plaster. Students will gain experience in armature building, modeling, mold making and casting.

300.001	Scientific Illustration	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

300.002	Jewelry/Metals: Meaning Found	3 cr
Instructor(s): Anne Mondro
No prerequisites.
This jewelry and metals course will investigate the meaning of found objects when contained, arranged, and transformed into contemporary jewelry and small objects. Students will explore how found objects contribute to constructing narratives. Students will also research contemporary metalsmiths working with everyday objects. Basic and advanced jewelry/metal skills will be introduced with an emphasis on techniques for assembling found objects and documentation of artwork.

300.003	Photo Essay	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

300.004	Creating Visual Phenomena from Text-Based Work: Limited Fork	3 cr
Instructor(s): Thylias Moss
No prerequisites.
This course explores ways of visualizing text-based material for display online and in galleries, especially getting work off walls whenever possible. The scale of projects can range from microscopic to huge. The concept of "imited forking" will be explained / discussed, including answers to such questions as: why limited? why a fork? (A nature of forking is that both questions and answers change, so nothing tends to be permanent for long - certainly not forever). How "temporary" interacts with "permanence" will be considered; what "makers" want will be considered, versus what's possible. We will study "nature collaborators" such as Andy Goldsworthy. " limited fork theory" primary website: http://www.4orkology.com

300.005	Graphic Narrative	3 cr
Instructor(s): Phoebe Gloeckner
No prerequisites.
This course introduces students to narrative art as a genre of expression that has its origins in prehistory and has transmuted and persisted in various forms. The class is primarily a studio class, and students will be assigned two primary projects (long stories), interspersed with a variety of less time-intensive assignments. Writing, drawing, and design skills will all be employed and developed. Each semester, students will be assigned reading, have class visits by several practicing cartoonists, and participate in extra-curricular activities (comics conferences, mini-comics day, etc).

300.006	Interactivity	3 cr
Instructor(s): Michael Rodemer
No prerequisites.
Learn how you can use sensors and microcontrollers to make artworks that behave and interact with the viewer/environment! We’ll cover the basics of using electricity safely, along with the fundamentals of control. The Arduino microcontroller board, which you will receive along with an assortment of sensors, motors, and more, will be our chief tool; combining it with traditional media and your ideas will constitute our main activities in the class. No experience necessary.

300.007	Interface Design	3 cr
Instructor(s): Seth Ellis
No prerequisites.
Interface Design is an intermediate studio course that constitutes an introduction to the development, design and construction of digital interfaces, with an emphasis on creating interfaces for the web. We begin with the building blocks of Web pages, in particular HTML and CSS, and move on to consider issues of web architecture, site structure, and interface design. We also consider the increasing proliferation of interfaces in different devices (smartphones, tablets, kiosks) and consider how to address all these platforms equally. By the end of the course, students conceive and develop interactive projects on their own, with attention paid to every step of the process. The emphasis of this course is on interface and navigation, rather than on visual design—this is an introductory course to interface design, rather than a course in web design for graphic designers.

300.008	Topics in I.D.	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

300.009	The Concerned Photographer: Struggling for Social Justice	3 cr
Instructor(s): David Turnley
No prerequisites.
Concerned Photography is a term that was coined in the 1960’s to refer to documentary photography that makes us care and connect to the world we live in. Each week, during this course, students will be given assignments, constructed to mentor the strategies necessary to produce photographic documentary work. Each student will be expected to spend a day of their week engaged in photographic work involving immersion into the lives of each photographer’s subjects. Class time will be spent in review of each photographer’s work, mixed with presentations of the work of some of the iconic “Concerned Photographers” of our time. The instructor, David Turnley, is a Pulitzer Prize winning documentary photographer, and filmmaker.

300.010	Packaging Design	3 cr
Instructor(s): Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo
No prerequisites.
This studio course focuses on three-dimensional structures for a broad range of products that not only protect package contents but also create an experience for the user. Students will examine the impact of messages when composed with purpose in three-dimensional space. Conceptual development, prototyping, materials, typography, image making, composition, design and form are fully contemplated and explored to create experimental and impactful packaging. The class will also focus on the fundamentals of sustainable design for packaging design, including social, sustainable and environmental issues, characteristics of various sustainable materials, life cycle analysis, and understanding how to apply this knowledge to create positive change.

300.011	Advanced Typography	3 cr
Instructor(s): Hannah Smotrich
No prerequisites.
No description available.

300.012	Sustainable Food Delivery Design	3 cr
Instructor(s): Joseph Trumpey
No prerequisites.
This course explores a wide variety of contemporary and historic food systems at several scales including conventional, organic, and permaculture. Regular site visits include trips to a dairy farm, a beef operation, small permaculture farm, a CSA, a community farm in Detroit, the MSU student farm, and a slaughterhouse. Students will read and present work from a range of contemporary farm / food literature and will work on completing a series of original designs. Early designs will be on assigned topics and a final design project is self-directed.

300.013	Drawing the Figure in Context	3 cr
No prerequisites.
Through intensive studio sessions, this course focuses on drawing from the live model, both clothed and unclothed. Students investigate ways the figure is used and referenced in the work of contemporary artists and explore strategies for using the figure in drawings that are creative and expressive in nature. The goals of this course include gaining a better understanding of the figure and its significant role in the history of art, improving figure drawing skills, and pursuing unique methods of personal expression through the use of the figure in drawing.

300.014	Ceramics	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

300.015	Advanced Industrial Design	3 cr
No prerequisites.


300.016	Information Design	3 cr
No prerequisites.


300.017	Design Drawing	3 cr
No prerequisites.
This course will introduce students with an interest in design to the fundamental principles of design drawing (also known as "visual communication"). This will be accomplished through a series of iterative assignments, ranging in complexity from simple to advanced. Proficiency in perspective drawing and the ability to quickly and accurately communicate ideas and render a variety of materials will be stressed throughout the course. Students will have the opportunity to create their own design themes and, at the same time, learn to communicate them clearly. Each class will include sketching sessions and group critiques to provide students with immediate feedback on their progress. The course will provide an introduction to digital tools (i.e. Alias, Adobe Photoshop, Wacom tablets) with an eye towards students leveraging the skills developed in this class in future classes focused primarily on the digital drawing tools.

311.001	Detroit Connections: In the Classroom	3 cr
A&D major or permission of instructor. Five seats are reserved for non A&D undergraduates. This program meets the outreach/engagement requirement for A&D majors. This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.
Connecting A&D students with elementary school students in Detroit through semester long art projects, this class is a combination of work with the children and contextual studies that address issues of urban schools and the radical transformation creative projects have on cognitive development. Working intensively in Detroit every week, students learn first hand some of the city's history and contemporary culture with field visits and projects. Planning for and reflecting on class projects, students develop close ties with the children and produce vibrant art that transforms the physical nature of the schools, and shared experiences across generations and cultures that transform the nature of connected creative work.

335.001	Exploring Contemporary Printmaking	3 cr
Instructor(s): Endi Poskovic
Prerequisite: TMP II: Messages and Digital Studio or permission of the instructor.
The course engagements, lectures, discussions, and visiting artist workshops stress a strong historical and theoretical understanding of the print media while investigating the meaningful relationships between the technologies of reproduction, individual expression and the relationship of contemporary print practices to the broader visual culture. Students explore matrix based print technologies and create singular prints and multiples utilizing a range of printmaking processes. Class demonstrations cover basic planographic, relief, and intaglio techniques and introduce students to making and printing images from a variety of inked surfaces: metal, wood, MDF, plastic and others. Students freely explore both analog and digital input in image making and, through individual and group studio assignments, engage print concepts such as multiplicity, serialization and sequence.

347.001	Video Installation	3 cr
Instructor(s): Cynthia Pachikara
Prerequisite: Junior or senior A&D major or permission of instructor.
In this studio course, students will explore the potential of video when it is unleashed from the standard screen or monitor and allowed to occupy space with the spectator. Students will venture into Ann Arbor with generators and projectors and cast video to unexpected places (building facades, sidewalks, bodies of water, etc). Assignments will focus on the definition of “screen,” the materiality of light, and how ambient sound, interference and distortion can be used to the best effect. When the weather gets cold, the course will continue in the video projection lab in the A&A building. Students will leave the class with skills using higher end video cameras, projectors, generators, and the editing software Final Cut Pro X. No previous experience required. Open to non-majors.

367.001	Color	3 cr
Instructor(s): Robert Platt
A&D major or permission of instructor
This course is designed to inspire confidence in the application and understanding of color in two, three and four-dimensional visual disciplines. In addition to covering the fundamentals of color theory in logical exercises, students will be guided through a variety of color experiences and experiments with color. Some of the assignments will involve mining, processing and making raw pigments, light installations, exploring color through time-based media and other experiential modes of color application. Students will alternate between analogue processes, archaic technologies, using physical materials and liquids as well as digital and virtual apparatus.

367.002	Color	3 cr
Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.
This class is about color properties and the interaction of colors in compositional structures. It forms the basis for art and design work in many media. We study the relativity of color and look at the relationship of color to design, composition and content. We start with basic concepts including hue, value, saturation, analogous and complementary colors. We mix colors using paint and use color aid papers to work with color interaction.

372.001	Video Games	3 cr
Instructor(s): Matt Kenyon
A&D major or permission of instructor. Five seats are reserved for non A&D undergraduates.
This course will concentrate on creating, authoring, exhibiting, and critically evaluating interactive games as creative vehicles for self-expression. The focus will be creative work that is exploratory and experimental and that engages students in research methods to advance their skills and critical competence in making interactive games. Assignments will cover a range of digital processes and applications using interactive sound, image, and interface design. This course provides technical skills and conceptual understanding in preparation for further advanced study in game art/design utilizing digital technologies.

408.001	Directions in Fibers	3 cr
Instructor(s): Sherri Smith
Prerequisite: A&D major and previous weaving course and or permission of instructor.
Directions in Fibers allows a student to continue working in fibers, expanding the range of his/her abilities and knowledge according to interest. Three projects will be required.

414.001	Where Do Paintings Come From?	3 cr
Instructor(s): Jim Cogswell
Prerequisites: Prior course in painting and A&D major or instructor approval.
This course focuses on the generation of paintings to explore how images and ideas emerge from an encounter between a physical knowledge of the materials, an external stimulus, and the skills and desires that an individual artist brings to the encounter. Students will be given four separate problems to address, each requiring a process of informal exploration directed toward creating four or five developed paintings. Students will also be responsible for researching generative processes in the work of contemporary artists. This course presupposes a working knowledge of oil paint as a material, although students might also be asked to step beyond that medium. Students must have completed Organizing Visual Space as a prerequisite or have instructor approval.

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Outreach/Engagement Studio Courses (ARTDES)

311.001	Detroit Connections: In the Classroom	3 cr
A&D major or permission of instructor. Five seats are reserved for non A&D undergraduates. This program meets the outreach/engagement requirement for A&D majors. This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.
Connecting A&D students with elementary school students in Detroit through semester long art projects, this class is a combination of work with the children and contextual studies that address issues of urban schools and the radical transformation creative projects have on cognitive development. Working intensively in Detroit every week, students learn first hand some of the city's history and contemporary culture with field visits and projects. Planning for and reflecting on class projects, students develop close ties with the children and produce vibrant art that transforms the physical nature of the schools, and shared experiences across generations and cultures that transform the nature of connected creative work.

314.001	Change by Design	3 cr
Instructor(s): Nick Tobier
No prerequisites. This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.
Working with a neighborhood in Detroit (Brightmoor) and Detroit Community School within that neighborhood, this course focuses on inspiring and beginning to equip students to become innovative, imaginative and entrepreneurial leaders through art and design. Students will prototype ideas, objects, innovations and processes, and refine these through field work, validation, and testing towards innovative projects and products that can impact the school and the community. Students will work hands-on each day, either in the studio building prototypes or in Brightmoor, working with our school and community partners. Students will learn and practice frameworks for social entrepreneurship, human centered design, and design thinking, as well as explore the individual skills and will necessary to respond with action to complex social questions.

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Integrative Project

498	Integrative Project	18 cr
Senior Art & Design students
This year-long course allows you to synthesize your academic and studio work, beginning with an individually developed project proposal and culminating in a thoughtful, public presentation that demonstrates knowledge of particularized issues, methods and materials.

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Interarts Performance Courses (INTPERF)

150.001	Interarts Live Art Survey	3 cr
Instructor(s): Holly Hughes
No prerequisites.
This seminar explores the history and theory of Performance Art and Avant Garde Theatre, focusing on American work since modernism. Although Performance is often seen as a minor subgenre of the larger world of art and design practices, students discover how this work has been central to the evolution of post modern contemporary work. The class takes a field trip to Chicago, has visitors, and students respond through their own creative work to the material covered.

160.001	Interarts Performance Forum	1 cr
Instructor(s): Holly Hughes
Interarts Performance major.
Interarts forum is a one-credit course, lecture discussion group, exploring topics in time-based work. Led by Holly Hughes and Malcolm Tulip, there are many visitors to broaden the discussion, including other Interarts Performance Art & Design and Theatre/Drama faculty, as well as other artists and scholars working in time based media. By permission only.

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Upper-Level Writing Course

399.001	Writing in Art & Design: Making a Statement	3 cr
FYWR and A&D major.
This upper-level writing course engages students in reading and writing genres specific to art and design practice - genres such as the formal analysis, the curatorial note, the portfolio or creator’s statement, the critical review, and research writing. Being able to articulate sophisticated insights about their own and others’ works through expository writing is a necessary skill for all fields of art and design. This course examines these forms of writing from a variety of angles, and students write and revise three to four papers based on their own creative interests. In addition to improving writing skills in preparation for the Integrative Project thesis, this course also offers students the opportunity to examine and develop their critical thinking skills.

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Non-Major Studio Courses

170.001	Drawing Studio: Imagination	3 cr
No prerequisites.
Take an idea. It could be for a graphic novel, a theatrical event, choreography for a dance, a new product, an installation or any creative endeavor which doesn't yet exist. This course develops students' ability to sketch images in order to visualize and present those ideas. The course begins with finding systems for generating creative solutions to problems. Students then explore image making techniques and mediums, which describe the ideas most effectively. The course also examines professional examples of this process.

170.002	Drawing Studio: Architecture & Landscape	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

170.003	Drawing Studio: Design Drawing	3 cr
No prerequisites.
This course will introduce students with an interest in design to the fundamental principles of design drawing (also known as "visual communication"). This will be accomplished through a series of iterative assignments, ranging in complexity from simple to advanced. Proficiency in perspective drawing and the ability to quickly and accurately communicate ideas and render a variety of materials will be stressed throughout the course. Students will have the opportunity to create their own design themes and, at the same time, learn to communicate them clearly. Each class will include sketching sessions and group critiques to provide students with immediate feedback on their progress. The course will provide an introduction to digital tools (i.e. Alias, Adobe Photoshop, Wacom tablets) with an eye towards students leveraging the skills developed in this class in future classes focused primarily on the digital drawing tools.

170.004	Drawing Studio: Life Drawing	3 cr
No prerequisites.
Through intensive studio sessions, this course focuses on drawing from the live model, both clothed and unclothed. Students investigate ways the figure is used and referenced in the work of contemporary artists and explore strategies for using the figure in drawings that are creative and expressive in nature. The goals of this course include gaining a better understanding of the figure and its significant role in the history of art, improving figure drawing skills, and pursuing unique methods of personal expression through the use of the figure in drawing.

170.005	Drawing Studio: Fashion	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

171.001	Printmaking for Non-Majors	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

172.001	Painting for Non-Majors	3 cr
No prerequisites.
The course introduces students to the tools, materials and techniques of painting. Problem solving assignments will encourage the studentʼs aesthetic development and demonstrate understanding of contemporary art and design practices relevant to acrylic painting. Participation in group discussions and critiques is required.

173.001	Digital Photography for Non-Majors	3 cr
No prerequisites.


174.001	Watercolor for Non-Majors	3 cr
No prerequisites.
No description available.

176.001	Graphic Design for Non-Majors	3 cr
No prerequisites.
The course introduces the principles and processes of graphic design - effective communication using typography and visual imagery. Course assignments stress the imaging process, the fundamentals of art and design, and methods for the production of graphic imaging projects. Students learn important aspects of design practice including design terminology, computer software, and how to interact with professional artists/designers. Participation in group discussions and critiques is required.

181.001	Clay for Non-Majors	3 cr
No prerequisites.
The course introduces students to the tools, materials and techniques of creative work using hand-building clay techniques for sculptural purposes. Course content includes historical presentations and demonstrations. Problem solving assignments will encourage the studentʼs aesthetic development and demonstrate understanding of contemporary art and design practices relevant to the use of clay as a creative medium. Participation in group discussions and critiques is required.

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Graduate Courses

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