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• ARC 105: AESTHETIC EXPER IN ARTS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to acquaint the student with the skills and attitudes needed to understand and cope with aesthetic experience, which is assumed to be a natural component of all human experience. In acquiring such skills and attitudes, the student will gain some general understanding of some aesthetic issues but, and more importantly, the student will be able to respond more effectively to aesthetic experiences. To acquire these skills and attitudes, the student will practice, personally and individually, confronting a wide-range of aesthetic phenomena. This course may be selected under humanities or free electives.
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• ARC 15: ART, DESIGN & VIS CULTURE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is a survey of the manner in which the visual arts are an influential aspect of the lives of everyone. Design is explored in terms of theory, historical and cultural foundations, materials, and practical design in the environment. Field trips and guest presentations will supplement lecture-visual instruction. Student assignments may be satisfied by both academic and/or studio performance. This course should enable both art students and non-art students to discover together the ways in which designs evolve, the influence of design on their everyday lives, and the importance of art in helping people enjoy a fuller life. The course is designed as a general education humanities elective.
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• ARC 200: VIS CULTRE:CRITCAL THEORY

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides an introduction to those critical theories and practices that have framed 20th century understandings of visual art, design, and visual culture. Students will read a variety of texts, such as critical theories, biographies, historical essays, and case studies. Students will also interpret a variety of artifacts drawn from the visual arts. Ideas gained from these readings and interpretations will be applied to a wide range of 20th century images, objects, and performances. Students will become conversant with the critical theories and practices presented and will use this knowledge to develop informed opinions through their own writing about visual culture.
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• ARC 211: WOMEN IN THE ARTS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will provide an overview of women's creative achievements, experiences and status in the visual arts. The focus of this course is on gender; however, issues relating to the intersections of gender with race, class, national origin, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation will also be discussed. As well, the course will explore the portrayal of women and the way in which cultural definitions of gender shape women's aesthetic expression.
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• ARC 241: COLOR: PERCPTN/PROP/PROD

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will provide an understanding of color through a broad range of disciplines including the arts, sciences, and humanities. Students can expect to examine the use of color through dyes, paints, and projected technologies, interpret the ways that color has been used to communicate in nature and culture, study biological and psychological aspects of color perception, enjoy the use of color in the production of images, objects, performance, environments and experiences, and understand the physical properties of color. Students will be introduced to the unique contributions of specific cultures, ethnic, religious groups and individuals to our understanding and interpretation of color. This course will be taught in lecture/discussion format.
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• ARC 261: SURVEY OF CRAFTS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is a survey of the crafts beginning with origins, historical impact, craft guilds, craft movements, and resurgence of crafts in contemporary society. Emphasis will be placed on four basic craft areas: clay, fibers, metal, and wood, with an overview of other significant crafts. This course may be taken by non-craft majors and used as a general education elective.
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• ARC 300: VIS CULTRE:CRITCL PRACTIC

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course aims to expand student awareness of the proliferation and pervasiveness of imagery, artifacts, and events in contemporary visual culture. It also seeks to engage students in the critique of images, artifacts, cultural sites, and public spheres. Students are encouraged to use critical strategies to reflect on the relationship of contemporary visual culture to the construction of identity, the richness of global cultures, and the integrity of human-made environments. The course is writing-intensive, emphasizing the need for students to clearly articulate their ideas, using models from disciplines engaged in similar critiques.
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• ARC 342: CRITICISM IN ART

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is an advanced criticism course based on the fundamental principles introduced in RAR 105 Aesthetic Experience in the Arts. The visual arts provide the main focus of the course, although other art forms may also be considered to a lesser extent. Students study methods of criticism and the aesthetic theories upon which those methods are based. The writings of contemporary critics are analyzed and compared. Students develop their critical skills as they study original art works. This course may be selected under humanities.
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• ARC 516: CROSS CULTRL PERSP ON ART

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Accounts of non-Western aesthetic systems provide a starting point for this course which evolves into a cross-cultural comparison of a variety of art forms from a global perspective. After cataloging the ways in which art is conceptualized in various times and places, students begin to look for commonalities and patterns of variation in diverse cultural definitions of art. This course is repeatable for up to 9 credits. (This course is offered under the ARC/ARU 516 designation.)
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• ARC 572: SEL TOPICS: ART SEMINAR

  0.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students in this course will have the opportunity to explore special topics, issues, and creative practices related to art, design, and visual culture. Under this prefix, different topics, which provide distinctive learning experiences, will be offered periodically. The specific topic(s) offered for each semester will be listed in the schedule. Topic may be from 1 to 3 s.h. and 1-3 c.h. Students may take ART 570 up to nine credit hours. Instruction will be lecture/seminar. (This course is also offered under the ART 572 designation.) Repeatable up to 9 credits.
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