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  • ART 3401: Storyboard & Character Design

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This upper-level elective course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills necessary to tell a compelling story. The course emphasis will be on aesthetic visualization, staging, composition, cinematic continuity, rhythm, timing and pacing. Character archetypes will be extensively studied through the internal analysis and biographical history that will convey the final design for Animation/Cinema production. Character design will be a main component within the narrative contents of various film genres.
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  • ART 3410: Color and Surface

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Students discover how color and surface techniques can vitalize and enhance the jewelry and metal objects they create. Incorporating alternative materials is encouraged. A broad examination of historic and contemporary metalwork serves as the foundation for conceptual research and development.
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  • ART 3411: Color for Painters

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course will examine the theoretical and practical roles of color in painting. It will review pigments, their historical treatment and current development, and will examine the evolution of color models created to govern their usage. Through lab exercises students will examine how pigments are used to make paint and the methods used in its application. The color theory presented in lectures will be practically applied through a series of directed studio projects. The course will employ lectures, slide and powerpoint presentations, assigned readings, and hands-on projects and studio assignments to build color literacy for painters.
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  • ART 3412: Relief I

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course will address the ideas, methods, and techniques of relief printmaking. Students will develop their own imagery while practicing skills in a variety of print processes. The history and aesthetics of relief printmaking as an art form will be discussed throughout the course.
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  • ART 3413: Intermediate Sculpture

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Studio concentration in developing, intensifying and enhancing expressional processes as they relate to sculpture. Emphasis on individual initiative in both the development and execution of sculptural problems. The scope of materials and techniques will be extensive, ranging from some of the conventional sculptural media to the most recent materials and techniques. Out of class research is required.
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  • ART 3501: Stop Motion & Exp Animation

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This upper level elective will impart advanced-level knowledge of and experience with specialized and unique processes of stop-motion and experimental animation. Students will come to understand and appreciate the value and aesthetic appeal of this very tactile process in today's world of computer-generated graphics. The history of these art forms will be guided through every step of their chosen technique, from idea to storyboard to lighting and camera considerations into animation and completion of their projects.
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  • ART 3510: Metals II

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course builds upon the skills and concepts introduced in Metals I. Students continue to develop their individual expertise and expression through the creation of jewelry and metal objects, both functional and sculptural. This course will cover metals techniques such as mold making, wax working, centrifugal and gravity casting, stone setting, chain making, surface embellishments and the use of alternative materials. Historic and current trends in metal work are examined to give a basic for aesthetic ideas and criticism.
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  • ART 3511: Digital Drawing & Painting

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course is an introduction to digital drawing and painting hardware, software, techniques, and applications in fine art and applied art/illustrations settings. Students will learn digital drawing techniques and paint applications, transparencies, platforms, layers, and execute drawing and painting in the same way they would in a traditional media class.In addition to undergraduate requirements, graduate students will be expected to integrate course content into their ongoing studio production.
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  • ART 3512: Photo-Lithography

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    This course will explore through lecture and demonstration the history, processes, techniques and materials of Photo-Lithography. The ability of photo-lithography to incorporate and combine hand drawn, digital and photographic image making methods in the development of fine art prints will be explored. This course is structured as a studio fine art course that is an extension of the aesthetics and concerns developed in Printmaking I.
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  • ART 3513: Sculpture Topic Moldmaking

    3.00 Credits
    Pennsylvania Western University

    Students will utilize traditional and contemporary mold-making casting processes to create sculptures of aluminum and bronze.
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