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This course explores the expressive potential of drawing as a significant art form using the skills and knowledge acquired in ARTS 10000. The class may be repeated for a total of nine hours.

A continuation of ARTS 20100, this class emphasizes individually designed student projects using a live human model as a subject.

Students will learn about design psychology, rapid prototyping techniques, evaluating multiple interface alternatives, and why rapid prototyping and comparative evaluation are essential to interaction design. In this course, the pioneers of human-centered design will guide you through a four-step process for designing breakthrough ideas. This creative approach to problem-solving will challenge you to get out into the real world and test your ideas so you can arrive at exciting, unexpected solutions tailored to the needs of the people you serve.

An application of the skills and knowledge acquired in ARTS 11000, this course emphasizes individual expression. May be repeated for a total of nine hours.

A continuation of ARTS 13000, this course focuses on individual concerns, including procedures for developing designs by employing analysis and criticism of form. The class may be repeated for a total of nine hours.

This course focuses on the continued application of graphic design skills and the development of leadership skills within the context of a project based collaborative environment. Students will assist in project art directions and project strategy development. They will also utilize their skills in different graphic design forms to create complex graphic design projects as a member of a design team.

This course provides a historical and contemporary study of typography, with special emphasis on computer font design.

This course involves the tools, techniques and aesthetic conventions of 3D modeling and 3D motion graphic used within the graphic design profession.

This course builds off the content presented in ARTS 23400, Interaction Design, and provides exposure to the methods and tools of web design and its application in a professional graphic design context. Course content will include an introduction to HTML, CSS, and JQuery; web accessibility; web aesthetics; and the development of responsive web design.

This course is a concentrated exploration of serigraphy. It may be repeated for a total of nine hours.

A continuation of ARTS 15000, this course focuses on illustration projects designed for the individual student. It may be repeated for a total of nine credit hours.

Students will explore the formal narrative structure and visual storytelling methods through the creation of interactive and passive experiences.

Students will explore a range of interactive applications of motion design and animation, from simple animated icons in a mobile app to fully an immersive virtual reality museum exhibit.

A continuation of ARTS 18100, this course studying composition theory and practice emphasizes the importance of individuality in creating expressive images.

This course surveys Western art, beginning with Paleolithic cultures and chronologically proceeding to Gothic art. It fulfills the advanced writing requirement.

IAI: F2 901

This course surveys art, beginning with the Renaissance and chronologically proceeding to more contemporary art forms. It fulfills the advanced writing requirement.

IAI: F2 902

This course provides an in-depth study of various specialized topics in art.  This course fulfills the General Education Fine Arts requirement.

This course provides an overview of graphic design history within the context of its purpose as a significant cultural, social, and political form. The content aims to help students contextualize their own design practice within the broader history of visual communication.