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  • ART 140: Illustration

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course is an introduction to inventive drawing techniques, with an emphasis on narrative. Looking at contemporary and historical precedents, students examine strategies for effective communication of story and mood. Students develop skills to create characters, props, and environments. Exercises use both traditional and digital media.
    ShareART 140 - Illustration

  • 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 course examines the development of letter formation, using calligraphic practice, letterpress printing, and digital experimentation. Concepts will be examined for creative potential, corporate identification and personal exploration. Assignments demonstrate visual solutions for typographic design problems, with emphasis on traditional and digital solutions.
    ShareART 142 - Typography

  • 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 explores the potential with the print variant and print edition. Relief, intaglio, drypoint, monoprint and screen-printing processes will be covered. It introduces an analysis of paper, print matrix, inks and the related fields of bookmaking and letterpress printing. Students will examine the role of the hand- printed image, the digital reproduction and the rich hybrid between these methods of printmaking.
    ShareART 143 - Printmaking

  • 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.
    ShareART 155 - Introduction To Art History

  • ART 156: World Art Survey

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This survey course examines the function, form, construction and context of objects created across all continents of the globe. It establishes 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.
    ShareART 156 - World Art Survey

  • ART 157: Introduction to Contemporary Art

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course examines contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. It covers the fundamental framework and critical ideas that have been documented in recent art history. It explores the major changes in the perception and function of art - how it is made, where it is presented, the role of the audience and how the work is historically recorded. The course focuses on a thematic approach to content. The course considers contemporary art as an evolving dialog that stretches into art history.
    ShareART 157 - Introduction to Contemporary Art

  • 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 of local institutions such as the Carnegie Museum and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.
    ShareART 158 - American Art

  • 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.
    ShareART 159 - Graphic Design History

  • ART 160: 2D Design

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course examines the elements and principles of 2D design, including line, shape, value, color, and composition. Students will solve design problems to develop their understanding of visual communication.
    ShareART 160 - 2D Design

  • ART 161: 3D 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
    ShareART 161 - 3D Design
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