Taught by: Professors Emily Beck and Justin Barfield

Description: The fundamentals of two-dimensional design consist of the strategies and tools an artist or designer uses to organize visual images, colors, and content into a unified and dynamic composition. Students will identify design strategies and visual vocabularies, research the history of their usage and recognize their contemporary applications. Through project-based work using traditional and digital mediums and techniques, students will explore contemporary approaches to idea conception, critical thinking, and problem solving. 2D Foundations is for students entering the art and design programs to provide the foundation of personal creative practices for visual communication, conceptualization, process and technique that will continue to evolve and refine in upper level studio and design courses.

Taught by: Professors Hannah Freeman and Austin Brady

Description: This course deals with form depiction in its many aspects and modes and is intended for beginning students as well as advanced students who need additional experience in drawing.

Taught by: Professors Emily Beck and Justin Barfield

Description: The fundamentals of three-dimensional design consist of the strategies and tools an artist or designer uses to generate ideas for and execution of form in space. Through research, conceptualization and production students discover the power of making sculptural objects- how they function or change function, how they make a viewer move through and engage a space, how they transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary, and transform perception and environment. Students will create projects using a variety of traditional and contemporary sculptural mediums, techniques, and tools and be exposed to industrial applications and visual vocabularies. 3D Foundations is for students entering the art and design program to provide the foundation of personal creative practices for visual communication, conceptualization, process and technique that will continue to evolve and refine in upper level studio and design courses.

Taught by: Professors William Kremer, Jennifer Dwyer, Mitchell Springer, and Zachary Tate

Description: This course examines basic techniques of wheel-thrown and hand-built clay structures for sculpture and pottery.

Taught by: Professors Maria Tomasula and Jason Lahr

Description: This course is an introduction to oil painting techniques and to stretcher and canvas preparation. The emphasis is on finding a personal direction.

Taught by: Professors Martina Lopez, Melonie Mulkey, and Justin Trupiano

Description: This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of still photography. It is designed for all students interested in developing their photographic skills and also serves as the entry-level sequence for the photo major in studio art. The course is based on the use of digital cameras. Adobe Lightroom software and professional quality inkjet printing. Creative assignments introduce students to various thematic approaches including documentary work and portraits. Presentations cover both historical and contemporary approaches to the medium. A digital SLR camera with manual controls is highly recommended; or students may check out departmental cameras to complete assignments. A portable hard drive compatible with the Apple OS platform is required for storing personal files.

Taught by: Professor Jasmine Graf

Description: This course is an introduction to stencil processes and printing. Hand-drawn and photographic stencil-making techniques are explored. Mono-printing and discovery of unique aspects of serigraphy are encouraged. Emphasis is on exploration of color and development of student's ideas and methodologies.

Taught by: Professor Jean Dibble

Description: This introductory course explores the making of artists' books and papermaking. Students learn basic bookbinding techniques for books and printing techniques for postcards and posters. They also learn how to make hand-made papers. Part of the focus is on historical books, as well as on what contemporary artists are doing with books.

Taught by: Professor Heather Parrish

Description: In this course students will be introduced to relief printmaking processes, learning traditional techniques of carving and printing both wood and linoleum relief blocks. The contemporary approaches to relief processes through digital media experimentation via inkjet printers, a laser cutter, or a CNC router will be introduced. The course will be administered through lecture, process demos, in class work time, and peer/individual critiques.

Taught by: Professor Thomas Cornell

Description: This course uses wood as a primary medium. Emphasis is placed on individual concept and design. Students learn the use of hand and power tools as well as techniques of joining, laminating, fabricating, and carving.

Taught by: Professor Robin Baker

Description: The course focuses on work in cast aluminum and cast bronze sculptures. Students learn basic welding techniques using oxygen and acetylene, arc and heliarc welding. Mold making, work in wax, and metal finishing techniques are also explored.

Taught by: Professor Austin Collins and Steven Lemke

Description: Metal is the medium of choice in this course designed to explore three-dimensional design with a variety of projects grounded in historical precedents. Students become familiar with as many metalworking techniques as time and safety allow, such as gas and arc welding, basic forge work, and several methods of piercing, cutting and alternative joinery.

Taught by: Professor William Kremer

Description: This course explores advanced processes in clay for pottery and sculpture as well as techniques of glazing.

Taught by: Professor Richard Gray

Description: Today's innovative technologies offer photographers exciting new ways to capture the world we live in. Extreme Photography is a course that will explore several exciting image-making technologies that produce creative still photography and video. Photographic projects include web-based interactive panoramas, GoPro action video, and aerial drone-based photography. Additional assignments that explore high dynamic range (HDR) and time-lapse photography are planned. The course will also include presentations and discussions about the creative and commercial applications of these technologies and the impact they are having on media and culture. Students who do not meet the prerequisite will need to demonstrate equivalent knowledge with digital cameras and workflow to be allowed enrollment in the course.

Taught by: Professor Jean Dibble

Description: Students will create posters and broadsides using relief, silkscreen and inkjet printing. These media offer powerful imaging techniques that range from hand-drawn/cut stencils to digital impressions. A variety of surfaces and applications will be explored. Art historical sources such as propaganda and political posters, concert promotions and urban graphics will propel creative projects.

Taught by: TBA

Description: This course is designed for independent research. There will be four sculptural projects. Each completed project will be followed with group critiques. One of the following courses will be a prerequisite for this course; metal sculpture, foundry, wood sculpture 3-D foundation studies.

Taught by: Jason Lahr

Description: The emphasis is on drawing in all its aspects: materials, methods, techniques, composition, design, and personal expression. The human figure is the subject matter. While anatomy is studied, the course is not an anatomy class. Male and female models, clothed and nude, are used.

Taught by: Professor Maria Tomasula

Description: Painting and drawing are the most direct means of visual expression that contemporary artists employ to articulate their concerns. This course extends and develops the skills and concepts initiated in Painting 1 and/or Drawing 1. Students are engaged in projects that allow them to hone their technical skills while they define and develop their individual concerns as well as the formal means through which to communicate them.

Taught by: Professor Martina Lopez

Description: Students will be introduced to a variety of photographic manipulations including traditional black and white printing from film. Projects will be hands on in the darkroom and include building pinhole cameras, work with film cameras, an introduction to non-silver processes and digital possibilities. Students will get a sense of historical processes and their contemporary resurgence. Projects encourage students to continue defining their own areas of interest and to locate their own concerns within the broad range of photographic practices. Film and digital cameras are available for check out.

Taught by: Professor Marius Hauknes

Description: University seminars will address a variety of topics in the history of art depending on the interests of the professor. These courses require several short papers as well as a final written exercise appropriate to the material.

Taught by: Professor Marius Hauknes

Description: This class explores the development of art and architecture in the medieval Mediterranean world (ca. 300 to 1300). In this survey, our goal will be to expand the conventional understanding of medieval art by studying moments and sites of artistic interaction between Western European, Byzantine, and Islamic cultures. In the course of the semester, we will explore artworks and monuments in places such as Dura Europos, Palermo, Rome, Baghdad, Damascus, Venice, Jerusalem, Cordoba, Constantinople, Thessaloniki, and Ravenna. Our discussions will cover a variety of themes, including the circulation of artifacts; the relationship between Christian basilicas and Islamic mosques; the problem of religious imagery; the rise of the cult of saints; and questions of cultural appropriation. Readings will include both primary sources in translation and secondary literature, and the class will introduce students to a variety of methodological approaches. The class will include visits to the Snite Museum, the Hesburgh Library Special Collections.

Taught by: TBA

Description: This course examines European and American art of the late 19th c. to mid 20th c. Among the various developments we will study include abstraction, the incorporation of African and Oceanic arts into vanguard production, the emergence of anti-art actions, and the organization of artists into a succession of named movements unprecedented in the Western tradition. Students will also follow the advents of new mediums such as collage, photomontage, experimental film, early performance, and installation. This course will also examine how these developments were given shape by their various cultural and political contexts including mass production, mechanized warfare, the rise of Fascism and Communism, and the attempts of the avant-garde to refashion modernism in the wake of World War II. Among the themes we will follow include the increased questioning and demotion of vision in modernity, the fascination with the primitive other, the new roles of the artist such as publicist, exhibition organizer, and manifesto writer, and the potential of art to act as a social and political catalyst.

Taught by: Professor Heather Minor

Description: In this class, we will explore the urban topography of the city of Rome from the first century BC to the year 2000 AD, or roughly the period from the emperor Augustus to the projects by Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid, and others to celebrate the Jubilee at the end of the second millennium. In our discussion of how buildings shape and are shaped to form the city, we will consider contemporary drawings, prints, texts, maps, and a range of other evidence. Special focus will be placed on critical strategies for understanding urban sites. In addition to the city of Rome, this course will focus on developing your skills as critical readers and writers.

Taught by: Professors Heather Minor and Michael Schreffler

Description: This course surveys the art of the world from prehistory to the present. It centers on a sequence of art objects from the Snite Museum, the Hesburgh Libraries' Special Collections, and elsewhere on the Notre Dame campus, linking them to well-known monuments of art history from the University's Global Gateways in Beijing, Chicago, Dublin, Jerusalem, London, and Rome. Students in the course will gain a familiarity with the history of art and develop skills in visual literacy and critical thinking.

Taught by: Professor Michael Schreffler

Description: This course explores the art and architecture of the Aztecs, the Maya, and their predecessors in Mesoamerica -- a region that encompassed the territories of the modern nations of Mexico and Central America. It begins with an examination of the art of the Olmec, a culture that flourished around 1500 BC, and ends with a study of the built environment of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, in the early-sixteenth century. The course foregrounds the rich collection of pre-Columbian art from Mesoamerica in the Snite Museum.

Taught by: Professor Robin Rhodes

Description: This course analyzes and traces the development of Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture in the historical period, from the eighth through the second centuries B.C., with some consideration of prehistoric Greek forebears of the Mycenaean Age. Particular emphasis is placed upon monumental art, its historical and cultural contexts, and how it reflects changing attitudes towards the gods, human achievement, and the relationship between the divine and the human.

Taught by: Professor David Hernandez

Description: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 buried two thriving Roman cities, Pompeii and Herculaneum, in a prison of volcanic stone. The rediscovery of the cities in modern times has revealed graphic scenes of the final days and an unparalleled glimpse of life in the ancient Roman world. The course examines the history of excavations and the material record. Topics to be discussed include public life (forum, temples, baths, inns, taverns), domestic life (homes, villas), entertainment (amphitheater), art (wall paintings, mosaics, sculpture), writings (ancient literary sources, epigraphy, graffiti), the afterlife (tombs), urban design, civil engineering, the economy, and themes related to Roman society (family, slavery, religion, government, traditions, diet).

Taught by: TBA

Description: This course examines European art from the establishment of Neoclassicism in the mid-18th c. through the rise of Realism to the first canvases of Impressionism in the third quarter of the 19th c. Topics include Jacques-Louis David's revolutionary history paintings, Imperial imagery of the Napoleonic period, Romanticism and its fascination with desire and violence, the rise of lithography and photography, and the nascent avant-garde that emerges from the Realism of Gustave Courbet. Works and artists will be positioned within the radical and abrupt changes experienced in Western societies such as the advent of mass imagery, revolutionary iconoclasm, the rise of bourgeois culture, nationalism, the creation of the modern city, the establishment of the public art museum, and the increasingly developed languages of aesthetics and the history of art.

Taught by: Professor Erika Doss

Description: This course traces the history of 20th/21st Century American art: art made in the United States from the Gilded Age of the 1890s to today. A historically based survey of the evolution and development of American modern and contemporary art, it explores a variety of media from paintings and sculpture to photography, graphic arts, performance art, installation, street art, video, digital, New Media, and Social Practice within cultural, economic, political, social, and theoretical contexts. Especially attentive to the themes of modernism, migration, and mobility, it considers the roles that American art has played in the formation of and contestation over ideas about modern national identity and understandings of class, race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual difference.

Taught by: TBA

Description: Through a diverse range of practices, materials, and technologies, recent developments in art have pushed the boundaries of what art can be. The consequences of these actions have been viewed as both positive and negative. The novel forms and materials, the reduced concern for craft, and the increasingly conceptual nature of this art are often seen as alienating, bizarre, and elitist. Yet art of our time has also opened up new venues and spaces where it can be experienced, it has expanded into digital and ephemeral practices, it addresses previously excluded audiences, and it has redefined the roles of artist and beholder/participant. It has also moved beyond the borders of Europe and the United States to operate on an increasingly global stage. The course introduces students to the major movements and artists of the postwar period to the present, with emphasis on the historical and social contexts, critical debates, and the relationships developed internationally among artists and their works.

Taught by: Professor Bridget Hoyt

Description: PhotoFutures is a collaborative collecting group at the Snite Museum of Art that acquires contemporary photography for the University of Notre Dame. This is a zero-credit course. Designed for students of any major, this five-session co-curricular program combines issues related to museum collecting, contemporary photography, and socially-engaged artistic practice. Students will critique individual photographs and evaluate artists' portfolios, and also engage in critical discussions with the artists themselves, Snite curators, and select faculty whose expertise provides different lenses through which to consider the photographs. Ultimately, students will develop their own collecting criteria to choose a photograph for acquisition that adds value to the permanent collection of the Snite Museum and supports the mission of the University. The topic for PhotoFutures will be announced and more spots in the program will open up at the beginning of the fall semester. 0 credits

Taught by: Professor Dennis Doordan

Description: This course will provide a historical perspective on the development of industrial and product design in the modern era. In the modern era, design has been a powerful tool for shaping the development of technology and articulating the values of modern culture. The role of the modern designer as both a facilitator and a critic of industrial technology will be examined.

Taught by: Professor Dennis Doordan

Description: This course will provide a historical perspective on the development of industrial and product design in the modern era. In the modern era, design has been a powerful tool for shaping the development of technology and articulating the values of modern culture. The role of the modern designer as both a facilitator and a critic of industrial technology will be examined.

Taught by: Professor Ann-Marie Conrado

Description: Traditionally, design has been used to connote the process by which the physical artifacts of the objects and communications around us come into being. But over the last decade, design has come more and more to describe not only the development of objects but the process by which one shapes the interactions and experiences of people with the systems, services and organizations around us. A deeply human approach to problem solving, design thinking highlights one's ability to intuitive This course will follow a series of overlapping modules that will introduce the student to the various iterative steps employed in the design thinking process and becoming familiar with the tools and methodologies employed. The course will feature a hybrid seminar format with lectures and case studies followed by hands-on exercises and practical applications of the theories in the form of team projects. At the conclusion of the course, students should be able to articulate the tenets of the design thinking process and apply those methodologies to problems of a variety of disciplines from science and engineering to business and the liberal arts.

Taught by: Professor Wendy Uhlman

Description: With an orientation towards problem identification and the translation of research insights into implications informing the design process, students will learn how to develop a research plan and deploy an array of research methods including interviews, observation, shadowing, contextual inquiry, participatory observation and co-creative development. The course combines lecture with studio practice, with student teams engaging in human-centered, project-based work, sponsored by outside corporate organizations and non-profit social entities. This course is offered every semester and is open to Collaborative Innovation Minors and Design Majors.

Taught by: Professor Christopher Ball

Description: Visual anthropology involves the cross-cultural study of images in communication and the use of images as a method for doing anthropology. This course proceeds through a non-linear integration of visual themes including water, earth, light, fire, flesh and blood with analytical themes including aesthetics, poetics, violence, history, materiality and subjectivity. We explore still photography, film, and popular media in domains from ethnography, social documentary, war photojournalism, to high art. Students watch, read and write about, and generate visual products of their own in multiple media.

Taught by: Professors Ann-Marie Conrado, Brian Edlefson, Michael Elwell, Andre Murnieks, Scott Shim, and Neeta Verma

Description: Graduate majors only. Required of all MFA candidates each semester. This team-taught seminar/critique meets each week to critique ongoing graduate student work and to discuss issues related to contemporary art practice.

Taught by: Professors Heather Tucker and Neeta Verma

Description: What makes a visual image compelling? Why do images engage? This course explores and helps develop an understanding of the delicate balance between these design elements and how they have been skillfully used by designers over time to create some of the most persuasive images and enduring messages. The course will be an exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction of visual images using design elements as a tool. Through assignments, students will work digitally to explore color, form, composition, texture and typography; first individually and then in conjunction with other elements. Initial assignments will be short and will focus on the understanding of a singular element. As the course progresses, students will be expected to use experiences from these short assignments and use them as building block for more complex projects demonstrating and applying the understanding gathered in the previous assignments. No pre-requisites.

Taught by: Professor Heather Tucker

Description: This one-credit course will focus on Adobe Creative Suite software. The class will meet one evening per week throughout the course of the semester. Programs and topics to be covered will be Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, proper file preparation, and font access and usage.

Taught by: Professor Brian Edlefson

Description: This advanced course in visual communication is for students interested in the art of typography, its history, and the use of type as a critical element in the world of graphic design.

Taught by: Professors Andre Murnieks and Miriam Moore

Description: This course explores on-line interactive communications for web enabled platforms including desktop and mobile devices. Application of user-centered design principles to hierarchical and navigational structures, interface, web typography, imagery, sound, and motion through a series of exercises and projects. Survey of technological aspects to web site design, development and production.

Taught by: Professor Andre Murnieks

Description: Evaluation, design and simulation of user interaction with a computer or product interface. Development of interfaces through wireframes, sketches, renderings, illustrations, modeling and animatic sequences. Exploration of user testing and research methods for generative, participatory and evaluative stages of design.

Taught by: Professor Neeta Verma

Description: This advanced course in visual communication illustrates how design can make a demonstrable difference by informing and educating the public. Class projects focus on design's ability to affect positive social change. The class also benefits students who intend to pursue the field of graphic design after graduation, preparing them both creatively and technically for professional practice by focusing on research-based assignments. These projects will allow students to address various issues affecting contemporary society while simultaneously building their portfolio. DESN 20101 (VCD1) is recommended, but not required.

Taught by: Professor Brian Edlefson

Description: Development of environmental graphics and design systems for three-dimensional spaces. Work collaboratively to adapt design skills for the built environment, connecting people to the spaces they navigate and inhabit through visual messaging. Emphasis placed on developing skills for professional practice, including portfolio preparation and presentation.

Taught by: Professors Brian Edlefson, Andre Murnieks, and Neeta Vermer

Description: Independent study in graphic design: research or creative projects.

Taught by: Professors Brian Edlefson, Andre Murnieks, and Neeta Vermer

Description: Independent study in graphic design: research or creative projects. Open to graduate students with permission of the instructor.

Taught by: Professor Michael Elwell

Description: This cross-disciplinary course in rapid sketching and rendering technique serves studio art, design, and architecture. The course is intended for students entering studio practice for the first time as well as for advanced students who wish to deepen their visualization and illustration skills.

Taught by: TBA

Description: This one-credit course will focus on Adobe Creative Suite software. The class will meet one evening per week throughout the course of the semester. Programs and topics to be covered will be Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, proper file preparation, font access and usage as well as others.

Taught by: Professor Robbin Forsyth

Description: This foundation 3-D design studio begins as a natural extension of Basic Design. Students are encouraged to think and work in three-dimensional media. A series of fundamental design problems are assigned during the course of the semester. Emphasis is placed on the transformation of imagination from mind to paper to model. Computer-aided design (CAD) is also introduced into assignments.

Taught by: Professor Scott Shim

Description: This course exposes Art and Design students to common low and high production manufacturing processes. Students use these methods to execute their own original designs. Students are introduced to plastic thermoforming, injection molding, sheet and profile extrusion, blow-molding, rotational molding, reaction-injection, molding and open mold laminating. Metal processes include roll forming, foundry sand casting, die-casting, extrusion, stamping, anodizing, and plating.

Taught by: Professor Shreejan Shrestha

Description: This course is an introduction to various digital design techniques and workflows used by industrial designers. Students will explore design processes integrating digital tablet sketching and computer-aided design (CAD) in order to develop and effectively communicate design concepts. The course is aimed at students seeking to expand their 3-D visualization skills into a digital medium. Software introduced will include Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and SolidWorks 3D.

Taught by: Professor Shreejan Shrestha

Description: The Rapid Prototyping evening tutorial sessions will enable students making physical 3D prototypes from digital files that are virtually modeled in the ID: Digital Solid Modeling or ID: Digital 3D courses. Instruction in file preparation and safe machine operation will lead to prototype output from a CNC milling machine, 3D printer and digital laser cutter.

Taught by: Professor Michael Elwell

Description: In this studio-based course, students create both the business plan and proof-of-concept visuals necessary to inspire confidence in investors. Topics include, but are not limited to, barriers to entry, social media, storytelling, intellectual property protection, crowd funding, and manufacturing constraints. The final deliverable is a funding proposal that may take the form of a crowd funding campaign, grant application, investment proposal, or McCloskey Business Plan Competition entry. It is preferred, but not required, that students who enter the course have already identified a potential market opportunity, as it will allow them to work at a pace needed to meet the project milestones.

Taught by: Professor Scott Shim

Description: This cross-disciplinary course will develop and harness useful innovation through an association of expertise from business/marketing, management entrepreneurship, chemistry, engineering, anthropology, graphic design, and industrial design. Collaborating teams of graduate and undergraduate students will engage several product development cycles, beginning with an identification of need or opportunity and concluding with comprehensive proof of concept, tests of function, specified manufacturing processes, and an appropriately resolved, aesthetically pleasing product or system. All collaborative team members will be engaged throughout the research and developmental process. Each participant will share in rotating leadership responsibilities, providing direction within their specific areas of expertise and in the context of a sequential course outline.

Taught by: Professor Scott Shim

Description: Independent study in product design: research or creative projects.