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• ART 140: ILLUSTRATION

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  Introduction to contemporary illustration techniques and the techniques of noted illustrators. Enables students to develop a sense of illustrative image creation so that formal and technical elements, such as composition, color and background, can work together to create editorial or narrative impact. Focuses on trends and styles of advertising, with emphasis on working with an art director, deadlines, reproduction requirements and professional attitudes. Technical concerns as well as aesthetic and legal aspects are covered.
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• ART 142: TYPOGRAPHY

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  This course is an introduction to and exploration of type design, history and contemporary use. The development of letter formation through calligraphic exploration, letterpress, poster design and digital experimentation will be examined for creative potential, corporate identification and personal exploration. Students incorporate design ideas, conceptual thinking, topographic elements, color usage and various imaging techniques. Assignments demonstrate visual solutions for realistic design problems, with emphasis on traditional as well as computer-based solutions. Technical concerns that explore historic letterpress printing, as well as digital applications including aesthetic and legal aspects are covered.
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• ART 143: PRINTMAKING

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  This course provides a basic introduction to the field of printmaking through its historic and contemporary technological forms and function. It will explore the potential with the variant and edition print as discovered through relief, intaglio, lithography and screen printing processes. It will introduce an analysis of paper, print matrix, inks and the related field of paper and bookmaking. Students will examine the role of the hand-printed image, the digital reproduction and the rich hybrid between these methodologies.
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• ART 155: INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  Surveys the history and stylistic development of the visual arts. The student is introduced to the process of formal, compositional analysis as it relates to content and historical context, as well as the changing role of art and artist in culture.
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• ART 156: WORLD ART SURVEY

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  This survey course exams the function, form, construction and context of objects created in the non-western cultures of Africa, Western and Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific and the Americas, and establish how art objects are an unconscious representation of a culture's ideology. The arts of these areas will be examined from an anthropological approach with particular attention to the dynamic reasons for cross-fertilization of iconography, material and methodologies. Content will be explored primarily in a chronological and geographic framework.
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• ART 157: INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  This course examines contemporary art from 1960s to the present. It examines the fundamental framework and critical ideas that have been documented in recent art history. It explores the major changes in the perception and function in art as it is made, where it is presented, the role of the audience and how the work is historically recorded. Rather than a chronological approach, history will be unraveled. This is achieved by examining works to discover information from external observation and basic art language. Links will then be drawn between what has been observed and what has preceded the work to reveal how ideas have been reinforced or challenged.
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• ART 158: AMERICAN ART

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  This course introduces the student to the historical and cultural context of American painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts. In addition to the history and progression of art of the United States, students will examine the role Pennsylvania artists have played in the history of American art.
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• ART 159: GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  This course spans the first impulses of visual mark-making and symbolic expression to current streams of thought and changes in the graphic design profession. While technology has changed drastically through the years, the basic principles of visual communication are still relevant. The approach is to demonstrate the links between graphic works and the social forces and conditions of their production. Knowing this history gives insights to the reasoning, meaning, and critical knowledge to understand the expanding field of graphic professions. This course will be offered online.
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• ART 160: 2-D DESIGN

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  Two-dimensional visual art principles will be discovered through the components of problem-solving art applications, lectures and critiques. An important aspect of this course investigates the history and theory of basic design principles as the primary language of visual thinking.
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• ART 161: 3-D DESIGN

  3.00 Credits

  Westmoreland County Community College

  
  The basic elements and principles of design are implemented to create three-dimensional projects. Issues of volume, space, fabrication and construction with a variety of materials are applied to design problem-solving.Students explore three-dimensional space in relation to degree of depth from wall-relief to free-standing forms, and investigate the history and theory of spatial design principles. Prerequisite(s): ART 160 or Permission of instructor Prerequisite:    ART 160 OR Permission of Instructor
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