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• ANT 255: Interpreting Lives: Rites of Passage, Personal History, and the Life Cycle (Honors)

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Same as HIS 255 & PSY 255. Honors courses involve more in-depth study than non-honors courses and often involve exploratory learning, essay writing, collaborative activities and individualized research. This interdisciplinary course considers the stages of life and their cross-cultural variation, including the rites of passage that mark transitions throughout the human life cycle. Further, the course examines how people construct and reaffirm their lives through the process of personal narrative. Students will be taught life history interview methods and guided to do independent research with an individual ?tradition bearer?. Such life history research facilitates the coming to voice of women and minority people who are often ignored in standard historical writing. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
  ShareANT 255 - Interpreting Lives: Rites of Passage, Personal History, and the Life Cycle (Honors)

• ANT 285: Qualitative Research Methods

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Understanding People Around You (HNRS) Honors courses involve more in-depth study than non-honors courses and often involve exploratory learning, essay writing, collaborative activities and individualized research. The courses focuses on supervised qualitative field research in particular social situations. Students will learn the steps to accomplishing an ethnographic research project, including ways to do various kinds of observations, fieldnotes, interviews, and analysis and interpretation of field data. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
  ShareANT 285 - Qualitative Research Methods

• ART 111: Introduction to Drawing

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course consists of a basic introduction to the formal and conceptual elements of drawing. Students will create independent and collaborative works of art in various dry black and white media on two dimensional surfaces and participate in critique and written evaluation of art. Emphasis is placed on independent visual and conceptual problem-solving through mostly observational and representational drawing. Prerequisite:    Take 1 group (Take COM-098; Minimum grade D /Take EAP-050 EAP-060; Minimum grade D /Take COM-121; Minimum grade D). (Required, Previous).
  ShareART 111 - Introduction to Drawing

• ART 112: Drawing II

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  The act of drawing is elemental to human nature. Since humans have lived in caves we have used material to mark our environment and communicate our existence. In this course, students will delve deeply into the act of drawing on a formal and conceptual level. The study and reflection of drawing, at a more advanced level, strengthens skills of observation, perseverance, investigation, and probem solving. Students will develop skills in creating and assessing with dry, black and white and color media, the application of personal, social and cultural communication through the act of drawing. Prerequisite:    Take ART-111; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
  ShareART 112 - Drawing II

• ART 113: Two-Dimensional Design

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  The study and use of design cultivates skills in the expanding an pervading mode of visual communication. Students will develop skills in creating and assessing their work around themed communication projects. Students will use various media and techniques, explore ideas of message and audience to develop dynamic methods of personal, social and cultural communication through the study of two-dimensional design elements. Prerequisite:    Take 1 group (Take COM-098; Minimum grade D /Take EAP-050 EAP-060; Minimum grade D /Take COM-121; Minimum grade D). (Required, Previous).
  ShareART 113 - Two-Dimensional Design

• ART 114: Introduction to Digital Design

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course is an introduction to the terminology, methods, and processes of constructing 2-Dimensional designs digitally. The study of and use of digital tools in the construction of visual communication is expected in the current field of art and design. Students will use and gain a basic understanding of digital design production, editing software and computing skills to construct vector and image-based work. There will be application of formal elements, such as color, composition, typography, and symbolism used in a digital format. Students will develop skills in creating and assessing their work around themed communications projects and use digital tools to explore the personal, social and cultural communication of digital media. The software used in this course is industry standard and utilizes Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and In-Design. This course is a collaborative learning, critical thinking and problem-solving course using digital media as a tool for visual exploration and communication that is applicable across disciplines, interests and concentrations. Prerequisite:    Take ART-111; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take ART-113; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
  ShareART 114 - Introduction to Digital Design

• ART 121: Painting

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  The practice of painting exists within a history and tradition of thousands of years. In this course, students will learn some traditional techniques and methods for constructing a meaningful painting, and will also ask and begin to answer why we still make paintings. The act of painting is a physical and time-consuming act that seems to defy the expectations of our contemporary society. The study of and reflection around painting builds skills around observation, perseverance, investigation and problem solving. Students will develop skills in creating and assessing, with the use of acrylic paint and techniques, the application of personal, social and cutural communication through the study of painting. Prerequisite:    Take ART-111; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
  ShareART 121 - Painting

• ART 201: Art Appreciation

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course introduces the concept of fine art in a social and cultural context. Students will achieve a comfort with terms, mediums, and evaluation of fine art today and reference the history of art. We will explore the reasons and methods of making fine art. This course will address social issues through art and art history. Students will gain insight into important questions of fine art and its functions in social and historic contexts around the globe. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
  ShareART 201 - Art Appreciation

• ART 230: Three Dimensional Design

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Three-Dimensional Design expands on the study of design by introducing special dynamics, form and environment, as elements to construct meaningful visual communications. Students will develop skills in creating and assessing three-dimensional works made with various techniques and with traditional and sourced materials. They will investigate the significance of these materials and spatial choices in cultural context. Prerequisite:    Take ART-111; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take ART-113; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
  ShareART 230 - Three Dimensional Design

• ART 240: Art in the Digital Age (Honors)

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course uses the smart phones in our pockets and the apps we use every day to dig into three big questions. What makes social media work? How does social media change the way we interact with each other? How does social media impact and challenge our relationship to fine art? In the course, we examine how art connects to media, basic media theory, and how we think about art today. You will learn and utilize the formal, conceptual and disseminative elements of social media posts. This course is a collaborative learning, critical thinking and problem-solving course using digital media as a tool for social exploration that is applicable across disciplines, interests and concentrations. You will need and use a smart phone for this course. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121 or COM-122; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
  ShareART 240 - Art in the Digital Age (Honors)