Undergraduate Program

Understanding the art process as it relates to the growth and development of children. Experiences, methods and curriculum for art education in the elementary school. Special fee required.

Philosophical, psychological, theoretical, and practical concepts about teaching art in elementary school, including observation and teaching in field-lab. Screening course requiring a minimum grade of "B-" for admission into the Art Education program. 

Prerequisite: 3 credit hours in ARTH and 12 credit hours in ARTS. 

Philosophical, psychological, theoretical and practical concepts about teaching art in a secondary school, including observation and teaching in field lab. Screening course requiring a minimum grade of "B-" for admission into the Art Education program. 

Prerequisite: 3 credit hours in ARTH and 12 credit hours in ARTS. 

Individual problems are studied and researched under the supervision of a faculty member. Permission of faculty member involved is required. Special fee required.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Directed and supervised student teaching in art at an elementary school and participation in a seminar concerning theory and practice relevant to elementary school art. Minimum grade of "B-" required. 

A maximum of 15 hours of student teaching combined (all levels) is allowed.

Prerequisite: 310 and 320.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Diverse art historical, philosophical, and psychological bases for theories and models of curriculum development as they apply to teaching art in a planned curriculum. Students must earn a grade of "B-" or better in this course. 

Prerequisite: 310 or 320.

Studio experience in bookmaking for artists/teachers in school and community settings. Focus on structure and content in making artist's books. Special fee required.

Studio course exploring technology in teaching elementary and secondary art. Students learn creative computer use through simple digital editing software programs. Special fee required.

Printmaking for artists/teachers in school settings. Processes for elementary and secondary students including stamping, linocuts, Styrofoam cuts, collagraphs, intaglio, monotypes. Special fee required.

Advanced printmaking techniques for secondary and post-secondary levels. In-depth exploration of intaglio (solar gravuere plates) and monotype printmaking. Special fee required.

Studio experience in drawing, painting, collage for students preparing to teach art at elementary and secondary levels. Special fee required.

Studio experience in using textile arts, including weaving and felting, in teaching art at elementary and secondary levels. Special fee required.

Studio experience in ceramic arts, including wheel-throwing and hand-building, for people preparing to teach art at elementary and secondary levels. Special fee required.

Directed and supervised student teaching in art at a secondary school and participation in a seminar concerning art teaching theory and practice. Minimum grade of "B-" required. 

A maximum of 15 hours of student teaching combined (all levels) is allowed.

Prerequisite: 310 and 320.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

(Also offered as SPCD 465)

Designed to acquaint teachers with the value and therapeutic uses of art in special education classrooms and to acquaint art education majors with adaptations of art to various exceptional cases. Special fee required.

A studio-based course in theory and practice of working with diverse students at risk for factors including socioeconomics, language, behavior, psychiatric diagnoses. Ten hours fieldwork. Special fee required.

An exploration of art criticism and aesthetics as part of a comprehensive art education curriculum with practical application in a K-12 setting. Special fee required.

The use of art and architecture in the school curriculum. The aesthetics of the built environment in relation to design and behavior and the order and delicate design in nature and buildings. Design of learning environments are also explored. Special fee required.

Experiences for developing knowledge and competency in K-12 art curricula engaged with contemporary art and critical social issues in art education and grounded in the lives and concerns of all students in the art classroom.

Courses on a wide variety of topics about art education are offered according to interest and need. Different sections indicate different topics. Special fee required.

An introduction to major historical beliefs, values, philosophies and practices that inform contemporary art and art education programs and practices. Special fee required.

Diverse art historical, philosophical, and psychological bases for theories and models of curriculum development as applied to teaching art in a planned curriculum. Students must earn a grade of "B-" or better in this course. 

Prerequisite: 310 or 320.

Studio experience in bookmaking for artists/teachers in school and community settings. Focus on structure and content in making artist's books. Special fee required.

Studio course exploring technology in teaching elementary and secondary art. Students learn creative computer use through simple digital editing software programs. Special fee required.

Printmaking for artists/teachers in school settings. Processes for elementary and secondary students including stamping, linocuts, Styrofoam cuts, collagraphs, intaglio, monotypes. Special fee required.

Advanced printmaking techniques for secondary and post-secondary levels. In-depth exploration of intaglio (solar gravuere plates) and monotype printmaking. Special fee required.

Studio experience in drawing, painting, collage for students preparing to teach art at elementary and secondary levels. Special fee required.

Studio experience in using textile arts, including weaving and felting, in teaching art at elementary and secondary levels. Special fee required.

Studio experience in ceramic arts, including wheel-throwing and hand-building, for people preparing to teach art at elementary and secondary levels. Special fee required.

Study of the special use of art activities with exceptional children along with practicum experience in field situations. Special fee required.

A studio-based course in theory and practice of working with diverse students at risk for factors including socioeconomics, language, behavior, psychiatric diagnoses. Ten hours fieldwork. Special fee required.

Metaphorical aspects of art, art in the construction of self and realities, and image making. Examines relationships among image and imagination, art and art education. Special fee required.

An exploration of art criticism and aesthetics as part of a comprehensive art education curriculum with practical application in a K-12 setting. Special fee required.

Experiences for developing knowledge and competency in K-12 art curricula engaged with contemporary art and critical social issues in art education and grounded in the lives and concerns of all students in the art classroom.

Examination of the assumptions, methods, results and applications of research in art education. Special fee required.

Examination of the contemporary developments, trends and issues in the field of art education as they relate to society, education and art. Special fee required.

Individual research into an area in art education proposed by the student and conducted under the direction of a professor. Special fee required.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Specialized courses about a particular topic in art education. A wide variety of topic courses is offered according to demand. Different sections indicate different topic content. Special fee required.

Individual observation, teaching, residency in an art education field situation under the supervision of a professor.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

A beginning course in the fundamental concepts of the visual arts; the language of form and the media of artistic expression. Readings and slide lectures supplemented by museum exhibition attendance. Meets New Mexico Lower-Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area V: Humanities and Fine Arts (NMCCN 1013).

{Fall, Spring}

Prehistoric, Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic Art. Meets New Mexico Lower-Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area V: Humanities and Fine Arts (NMCCN 2113).

{Fall}

Western Art from the Early Renaissance to Impressionism. Meets New Mexico Lower-Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area V: Humanities and Fine Arts (NMCCN 2123).

{Spring}

A survey tracing the historical and cultural impact of photography, including artistic, scientific, documentary, commercial, and vernacular images.

{Offered upon demand}

Major stylistic developments of European and American painting and sculpture from Impressionism to approximately World War II.

{Fall, Summer}

This course surveys the roots and evolution of what is now regarded as New Media and Contemporary Art, those pioneering new forms and technologies that often blur the boundaries between art, science, and technology.

Survey of the visual cultures (architecture, luxury objects, book illumination and illustration) of the Medieval World, including northern and Mediterranean Europe and the Islamic World, from 500 to 1000 C.E.

{Offered upon demand.}

Survey of the visual cultures (architecture, luxury objects, book illumination and illustration) of the Medieval World, including northern and Mediterranean Europe and the Islamic World, from 1000 to 1200 C.E.

{Offered upon demand.}

(Also offered as ARCH 223)

Lecture survey of the architectural and urban traditions of world cultures from prehistory to the Enlightenment. 

{Fall}

(Also offered as ARCH 224)

Survey of the architectural and urban traditions of the modern world from the Enlightenment to the present.

{Spring}

Painting, sculpture and architecture of the 17th-century European masters, such as Bernini, Rubens, Velasquez, Poussin and Rembrandt, are examined against their background of religious and political conflict, theoretical dispute and the rise of modern science.

Interrelationships of Native American, Hispanic and Anglo cultures from prehistoric times to the present, emphasizing the major forms of expression–pottery, textiles, jewelry, architecture, painting and photography. Slide lectures supplemented by museum exhibits.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as ANTH 401 / 501)

Archaeological and historic art forms of the Arctic Northwest coast and the eastern woodlands of North America.

{Fall}

(Also offered as ANTH 403 / 503)

Archaeological and historic art forms of the Plains, Southwest and western regions of North America.

{Spring}

(Also offered as MSST 407 / 507)

History, philosophy and purposes of museums. Techniques and problems of museum administration, education, collection, exhibition, conservation and public relations.

{Offered upon demand}

The art of Mexico and Central America prior to the 16th century.

{Fall}

Arts of the Andean region prior to the 16th century.

{Spring}

Contextualizes artistic traditions of Pre-Columbian Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean. Geographically occupying a critical juncture between major continents and famous empires, these cultures developed visual traditions uniquely divergent from their more well-known neighbors.

Late 19th century through the present, includes painting and photography as well as media more often termed traditional. Examines historical background and current critical issues including the impact of stereotypes and the marketplace.

{Offered periodically}

Szabo

This course examines Native Southwestern ceramics from the archaeological past to the present. Regional developments, changes in ceramics made for internal use and for outside sale, as well as issues of the contemporary market are investigated.

{Offered periodically}

Long undervalued, Native arts made for outside sale provide multi-voiced narratives. Seminar-format will examine the intrinsic, aesthetic value of these complex arts, their roles and their importance to creators, purchasers and various audiences.

Printmaking, printing and book illustration from Gutenberg to Goya, presenting the graphic arts as an expression of intellectual history and the precursor of photography. Provides an introduction to the curatorship of prints and books.

Printmaking, printing and artists’ books from Goya to present. Including the graphic arts and photography, the rise of the ideas of the original print, 20th-century mixed media and the relationship between words and images.

{Spring}

This experimental seminar provides a forum in which to discuss the theoretical issues and critical diversity of contemporary architecture of the last 30 years.

Restriction: enrolled in B.A. ARTH or B.A.A. ARCH.

{Offered upon demand}

An in-depth study of historical, critical, and theoretical issues in American and European photographic visual culture from its inception to approximately 1914.

{Offered upon demand}

An in-depth study of historical, critical, and theoretical issues in American and European photographic visual culture from 1914 to approximately 1980.

{Offered upon demand}

An in-depth study of recent photographic visual culture, from approximately 1980 to the present. Emphasis on how images are deployed and understood as efforts to explore artistic, cultural, political, social, and theoretical issues.

{Offered upon demand}

Course work determined by specific students’ request or by the professor’s current research.

{Offered upon demand}

This course will explore the worship and display of art and architecture from the Byzantine Empire with a specific emphasis on the cross-cultural connections among Byzantium, Medieval Europe, the Islamic world, and the Armenian Kingdom.

An introduction to the visual culture of the Islamic world from its foundations in the seventh century on the Arabian Peninsula to its flowering under Ottoman and Mughal rule in the seventeenth century.

Survey of Spanish art and civilization.

{Offered upon demand}

Architecture, sculpture and painting in the period of Spanish colonization and the relation of these art forms to both the Spanish and the native Indian traditions.

{Offered upon demand}

Buick

(Also offered as AFST 453)

This class provides an overview of African American artists and contextualizes their creativity within the wider framework of U.S. art. What, for example, are the benefits and pitfalls of assigning race to any creative practice?

Painting, sculpture and architecture in France, England, Spain and Germany from the twilight of Absolutism through the Industrial and French Revolutions.

Buick

Visual culture from colonial times through the Civil War including works by West, Greenough, Duncanson and Homer. Topics include various genres, artistic training and the market and art’s relationship to ethnic, gender and national identity.

Chicano art began in Mexican American communities in support of the civil rights movement, becoming a national art movement with international scope. Discourses of form, content, institutional practice, tradition, innovation, mythic constructs, political/cultural engagement.

{Offered upon demand}

Buick

Visual culture from Reconstruction to World War II including works by Eakins, Stieglitz, Douglas and O’Keeffe. Traces the emergence of American Impressionism, early Modernism and Regionalism and explores their engagement with political, cultural and social debates.

Painting and sculpture in France, England and Germany from Courbet’s Realism and the Victorian Pre-Raphaelites through Impressionism and the late works of Cezanne and Monet.

(Also offered as ANTH, MSST 485 / 585)

Theoretical and practical work in specific museum problems. May be repeated as subject matter changes.

Prerequisite: 407 or MSST 407.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as ANTH, MSST 486 / 586)

Practicum in museum methods and management.

Prerequisite: 407 or MSST 407.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as DANC, MUS, THEA 487 / 587; MA *487)

Analyzes major instances of interdisciplinary influence and collaboration in the present day.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Murals are an ancient and global phenomenon. This course studies the multiplicity of forms, topics, issues, contexts, aesthetic programs, and effects associated with those murals painted throughout the Americas from the 19th century to the present.

Painting and sculpture, 1940 to the present.

Prerequisite: 250.

Buick

The class provides an examination of how densely populated American environments were reinterpreted by Europeans upon contact in the process of designing and implementing various systems for their habitation, exploitation, and consumption.

Barnet

Central and South American art from independence to the end of World War II. Chronological, thematic and institutional developments from national and regional perspectives in addition to themes, styles, movements and other issues of continental significance.

{Alternate Falls}

Central and South American post-war modernism and post-modernity examined through issues of theme, style and medium, including contemporary artistic practices such as conceptual and installation art.

{Alternate Springs}

Individual investigation or reading under faculty direction.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

Art History Capstone course allows the student to demonstrate skill at art historical research and writing. Students work with professors, producing a final paper articulating the results of their findings, correctly revised and edited.

Prerequisite: one 400-level ARTH course.

Restriction: permission of instructor and senior standing. 

Directed independent study in a field of special interest culminating in a written thesis. Open only by invitation to departmental honors candidates.

{Fall, Spring}

A seminar for graduate students in art history stressing the history of the discipline and the methodology of research.

Open to graduate students in art history.

Prerequisite for others: permission of instructor.

{Fall}

(Also offered as ANTH 501 / 401)

Archaeological and historic art forms of the Arctic Northwest coast and the eastern woodlands of North America.

{Fall}

(Also offered as ANTH 503 / 403)

Archaeological and historic art forms of the Plains, Southwest and western regions of North America.

{Spring}

(Also offered as MSST 507 / 407)

History, philosophy and purposes of museums. Techniques and problems of museum administration, education, collection, exhibition, conservation and public relations.

{Offered every academic year}

The art of Mexico and Central America prior to the 16th century.

{Fall}

Arts of the Andean region prior to the 16th century.

{Spring}

Contextualizes artistic traditions of Pre-Columbian Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean. Geographically occupying a critical juncture between major continents and famous empires, these cultures developed visual traditions uniquely divergent from their more well-known neighbors.

Late 19th century through the present, includes painting and photography as well as media more often termed traditional. Examines historical background and current critical issues including the impact of stereotypes and the marketplace.

{Offered periodically}

Szabo

This course examines Native Southwestern ceramics from the archaeological past to the present. Regional developments, changes in ceramics made for internal use and for outside sale, as well as issues of the contemporary market are investigated.

{Offered periodically}

Long undervalued, Native arts made for outside sale provide multi-voiced narratives. Seminar-format will examine the intrinsic, aesthetic value of these complex arts, their roles and their importance to creators, purchasers and various audiences.

Printmaking, printing and book illustration from Gutenberg to Goya, presenting the graphic arts as an expression of intellectual history and the precursor of photography. Provides an introduction to the curatorship of prints and books.

Printmaking, printing and artists’ books from Goya to present. Including the graphic arts and photography, the rise of the ideas of the original print, 20th-century mixed media and the relationship between words and images.

{Spring}

This experimental seminar provides a forum in which to discuss the theoretical issues and critical diversity of contemporary architecture of the last 30 years.

Restriction: enrolled in M.A. ARTH or M.Arch.

{Offered upon demand}

An in-depth study of historical, critical, and theoretical issues in American and European photographic visual culture from its inception to approximately 1914.

{Offered upon demand}

An in-depth study of historical, critical, and theoretical issues in American and European photographic visual culture from 1914 to approximately 1980.

{Offered upon demand}

An in-depth study of recent photographic visual culture, from approximately 1980 to the present. Emphasis on how images are deployed and understood as efforts to explore artistic, cultural, political, social, and theoretical issues.

{Offered upon demand}

{Offered upon demand}

This course will explore the worship and display of art and architecture from the Byzantine Empire with a specific emphasis on the cross-cultural connections among Byzantium, Medieval Europe, the Islamic world, and the Armenian Kingdom.

An introduction to the visual culture of the Islamic world from its foundations in the seventh century on the Arabian Peninsula to its flowering under Ottoman and Mughal rule in the seventeenth century.

Survey of Spanish art and civilization.

{Offered upon demand}

Architecture, sculpture and painting in the period of Spanish colonization and the relation of these art forms to both the Spanish and the native Indian traditions.

{Offered upon demand}

{Fall, Spring}

Buick

This class provides an overview of African American artists and contextualizes their creativity within the wider framework of U.S. art. What, for example, are the benefits and pitfalls of assigning race to any creative practice?

(Also offered as ANTH 509)

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

Aspects of Pre-Columbian art, architecture, and culture in Mesoamerica and South America are examined in depth.

Prerequisite: 511 and 512.

{Offered upon demand}

Painting, sculpture and architecture in France, England, Spain and Germany from the twilight of Absolutism through the Industrial and French Revolutions.

(Also offered as ARCH 523)

Lecture survey of the architectural and urban traditions of world cultures from prehistory to the Enlightenment. 

{Fall}

Buick

Visual culture from colonial times through the Civil War including works by West, Greenough, Duncanson and Homer. Topics include various genres, artistic training and the market and art’s relationship to ethnic, gender and national identity.

Chicano art began in Mexican American communities in support of the civil rights movement, becoming a national art movement with international scope. Discourses of form, content, institutional practice, tradition, innovation, mythic constructs, political/cultural engagement.

Suggested prerequisite: 479.

{Offered upon demand}

Buick

Visual culture from Reconstruction to World War II including works by Eakins, Stieglitz, Douglas and O’Keeffe. Traces the emergence of American Impressionism, early Modernism and Regionalism and explores their engagement with political, cultural and social debates.

Prerequisite: 450.

{Offered upon demand}

Prerequisite: 481.

{Offered upon demand}

Prerequisite: 491.

{Offered upon demand}

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as MUS 584; MA *485)

An independent study in either critical studies or studio, beyond the scope of the Fine Arts interdisciplinary courses, which may occur within or outside the College of Fine Arts.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

(Also offered as ANTH, MSST 585 / 485)

Theoretical and practical work in specific museum problems. May be repeated as subject matter changes.

Prerequisite: 507 or MSST 507.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as ANTH, MSST 586 / 486)

Practicum in museum methods and management.

Prerequisite: 507 or MSST 507.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as DANC, MUS, THEA 587 / 487; MA *487)

Analyzes major instances of interdisciplinary influence and collaboration in the present day.

{Spring}

Murals are an ancient and global phenomenon. This course studies the multiplicity of forms, topics, issues, contexts, aesthetic programs, and effects associated with those murals painted throughout the Americas from the 19th century to the present.

Painting and sculpture, 1940 to the present.

Prerequisite: 250.

Buick

The class provides an examination of how densely populated American environments were reinterpreted by Europeans upon contact in the process of designing and implementing various systems for their habitation, exploitation, and consumption.

Central and South American post-war modernism and post-modernity examined through issues of theme, style and medium, including contemporary artistic practices such as conceptual and installation art.

{Alternate Springs}

Painting and sculpture in France, England and Germany from Courbet’s Realism and the Victorian Pre-Raphaelites through Impressionism and the late works of Cezanne and Monet.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

{Fall, Spring}

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

{Fall, Spring}

Basic drawing concepts, including the expressive use of contour, value, perspective and composition while exploring both dry and wet media. Assigned problems may include still life, landscape, portraiture or the figure.

{Fall, Spring}

Emphasis on elements of line, form, value, color theory, painting principles and visual vocabulary. Particular attention will be placed on a disciplined approach toward design and development of perceptual skills.

{Fall, Spring}

Familiarizes the art student with the safe practice and maintenance of wood and metal shop tools and machinery.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

{Fall, Spring}

This is an interdisciplinary course, exploring the thematic concepts and diverse media that are central to the nature of art making today. Art Practices I will investigate issues of LIGHT, FRAME, and MARK.

{Fall, Spring}

This is an interdisciplinary course, exploring the thematic concepts and diverse media that are central to the nature of art making today. Art Practices II will investigate issues of MOTIVE and CHANGE.

Prerequisite: 125.

{Fall, Spring}

Introduction to the computer as a medium and fine art tool. Course will explore history, theory and contemporary art issues associated with computer-based art practice, as well as introducing students to basic tools and technologies.

{Fall, Spring}

This course introduces the student to three basic skills of an ecological art practice: research, making, and an immersion in ecological systems through poetic thinking, subversive action, and creative fabrication.

{Fall, Spring}

Introduction to basic fabrication methods as they relate to object-making and small-scale sculpture.

{Fall, Spring}

Comprehensive introduction to the terms, concepts, historical, and technical information that support creative development. Includes hand building and throwing, basic clay bodies, slip and glaze, oxidation, reduction, and atmospheric firing.

{Fall, Spring}

This is a hands-on course introducing contemporary techniques, technologies, underlying concepts, and practitioners of fine art photography. ARTS 187 is a foundation course designed to prepare students for ARTS 188.

{Fall, Spring}

This course will help students use photography to develop their ideas conceptually. Students will work in both a traditional and an experimental manner with a variety of photographic processes and technologies to advance the visual presentation of their ideas.

Prerequisite: 187.

Further concentration on basic drawing concepts with a greater emphasis on descriptive and perceptual drawing skills using both dry and wet media.

Prerequisite: 106.

{Fall, Spring}

Painting materials and techniques, integrating basic drawing concepts with color theory and composition. Emphasis on descriptive and perceptual skills through assigned problems.

Prerequisite: 106.

{Fall, Spring}

Continued exploration of the painting concepts and techniques, presented in 207. Working from imagination as well as observation, emphasizing the expressive potential of the medium.

Prerequisite: 207. 

{Fall, Spring}

A further exploration into the concepts presented in Three-dimensional Design. Will investigate, through specific assignments, issues that are central to producing sculpture.

Prerequisite: 123.

{Fall, Spring}

An investigation of video as a medium within a fine art context. Course will explore history, theory, and contemporary art issues associated with video art practice as well as develop student's mastery of technical skills.

Prerequisite: 130.

An investigation of sound as a medium within a fine art context. Course will explore history, theory, and contemporary art issues associated with sound art and develop student's skills in sound editing/recording technology.

Prerequisite: 130.

This course will knit together land art from the 1960s with the present ecological practice of art with lectures and readings.

{Fall, Spring}

A continuation of 157. Fabrication skills are further developed and refined. Emphasis is on developing a deeper understanding of form/content as it relates to intimate scale.

Prerequisite: 157.

{Fall, Spring}

Continuation of 168 with emphasis placed on the mastery of forming, surfacing, and firing processes, expanded critical awareness, and the development of a personal aesthetic. Open-ended and self-selected projects. Individual and group critiques.

Prerequisite: 168.

{Fall, Spring}

Exploration of printmaking concepts and fundamental techniques, including monotype, monoprint, intaglio, lithography, woodcut, linoleum cut, collagraph, and curatorial technique.  Instruction includes lecture, demonstration, and critique. 

Prerequisite: 6 credit hours from 106 and 125 and 126.

{Fall, Spring}

Concentrates on black and white photographic techniques: film processing and fine black and white printing.

{Offered upon demand}

Techniques and aesthetics of digital imaging using a variety of software programs and hardware.

Prerequisite: 188.

{Offered upon demand}

Continued exploration of drawing concepts and techniques presented in 205. Emphasis on expressive drawing, working from imagination as well as from observation.

Prerequisite: 205.

{Fall, Spring}

Extension of the concepts presented in 207, emphasizing experimentation with materials and techniques. Individual in-depth projects are assigned to encourage independent thinking with regard to contemporary painting issues.

Prerequisite: 208.

{Fall, Spring}

Study of the human figure as the primary vehicle for addressing formal and conceptual drawing problems.

Prerequisite: 205.

This class encourages the student to develop personal direction with an emphasis on expanding sculptural possibilities. Topically appropriate assignments will be given according to the instructor’s individual expertise as well as the current theoretical discourse.

Prerequisite: 213.

{Fall, Spring}

An intensive study of color through assigned problems designed to develop greater awareness of and sensitivity to the use and function of color in the arts.

Course emphasizes art making using evolving computer based tools. Class draws on current work and theory, combined with classroom critique. Students must have a basic understanding of video and digital imaging techniques to take course.

{Fall, Spring}

This intermediate course advances techniques and conceptual foundations learned in Video Art I. Through technical demonstrations and assignments, students develop their video work while investigating a variety of formats and presentations in video art.

Prerequisite: 130.

This intermediate course of sound art advances techniques and conceptual foundations learned in Sound Art I. Students are challenged to develop their sound artwork while experimenting with various modes of presentation, software, and recording technology.

Prerequisite: 130.

Exploration of intaglio processes. Includes lecture, demonstration, studio practice, and critique. Emphasis on technical considerations and the development of a personal aesthetic. 

Prerequisite: 274.

{Fall, Spring}

Fundamental techniques of drawing and painting on and from lithographic stones and metal plates, primarily in black and white. Includes lectures, demonstrations, critiques, and practical experience. 

Prerequisite: 274.

{Fall, Spring}

This course builds on the ecological practice of art, emphasizing background research, collaboration, and public interaction.

Prerequisite: 141.

{Fall, Spring}

Introduction to techniques, history, aesthetics and creative aspects of screen printing.

Prerequisite: 274.

{Offered upon demand}

De Jong

Introduction to the fundamentals of small scale metal casting in bronze and silver through the lost wax process. Additional metal related techniques such as soldering and patination will be explored.

Prerequisite: 157.

Encourages personal interest in making art while gaining understanding of traditions, innovations, concepts, history, techniques, critical thinking, material sensibility, and community engagements that underline international ceramics practice. Open-ended projects and self-directed work.

Prerequisite: 268.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

Arita, Japan method of creating wheel thrown porcelain vessels: processes, materials, history, and philosophy.

{Fall, Spring}

Salinger, Stone

Students will begin to develop their own work based on individual interests and contemporary issues, in-class critiques, and readings.

Prerequisite: 187 and 188 and (ARTH 210 or ARTH 425 or ARTH 426 or ARTH 427).

{Offered upon demand}

Students work toward a complete understanding of the qualities of light, both natural and artificial, on photographs. Intensive studio practice explores the use of artificial light.

Prerequisite: 188.

Concentrated practical and historical study of specified concerns in studio art.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Restriction: Permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as CS 394)

Introduction to story boarding, modeling, rendering, animation and dynamics. Class uses high-level commercial animation software. Course emphasizes both the development of technical skills and the aesthetic aspects of computer imagery. Not allowed for graduate credit for computer science majors, nor as a technical elective for undergraduate computer science majors.

Emphasis on contemporary drawing issues. Students are encouraged to initiate their own projects and to develop a personal direction. Individual and group critiques.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Prerequisite: 305.

{Fall, Spring}

Emphasizes contemporary painting issues. Students are encouraged to initiate their own projects and to develop a personal direction. Individual and group critiques.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Prerequisite: 308.

{Fall, Spring}

This is a nature based, field study class. Sites are visited which inspire artists to develop projects with an interrelated media approach. Formal and conceptual issues regarding several environments will be addressed.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall}

(Also offered as MA 409)

This class helps students to develop more complex artistic statements on video. Critiques of student work, plus readings and discussions about various arts and media.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Spring}

Allows students to pursue their own individual concepts and techniques. Emphasis will be on independent projects.

Prerequisite: 213.

{Fall, Spring}

Course work determined by specific student need or by the professor’s current research.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Restriction: Permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

Explores advanced technical, theoretical and conceptual essentials of time-based media. Designed for students with continued interest in using sound, moving images, and performance for their art-making practice. Challenges students to create novel time-based work.

Prerequisite: 331. 

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Course is based on the integration of nascent technologies in electronic / digital media art practice. Works will be created in conjunction with concurrent investigation of digital media art history and contemporary theoretical discourses. Part I.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Course is based on integration of nascent technologies in electronic / digital media art practice. Works will be created in conjunction with concurrent investigation of digital media, art history, and contemporary theoretical discourses. Part II.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Fine Art production for the Immersive Fulldome. This emerging medium comes out of planetarium technology. We will investigate the nature of immersive media through historical and theoretical readings and discussions alongside the creative process.

Prerequisite: 330. 

Restriction: permission of instructor.

This class will focus on network and wireless, communication and control technologies. Students will experiment with streaming and analog broadcasting as well as installation based approaches to working with tools that manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum.

Prerequisite: 330. 

Restriction: permission of instructor.

A continuation of 337 with the exploration of multiple plate and color printing processes. Greater emphasis is given to technical considerations and the development of a personal aesthetic. 

Prerequisite: 337.

{Fall, Spring}

Continuation of 338 with particular emphasis on color printing and special processes, including photo reproduction. Emphasis on personal aesthetic and technical concepts.

Prerequisite: 338.

{Fall, Spring}

This course focuses on skills for researching, designing and writing effective grant applications and proposals for art-based solicitations. Students shape ideas for small and large-scale projects into proposals following requirements of real-world calls for entry.

An interdisciplinary field course in aesthetically visualizing information from computer science, operations research, and applied mathematics to articulate environmental, economic, and societal needs for sustainability. Hands-on projects, theoretical, and field research.

{Offered periodically}

This course will investigate site-based, low-tech, infrastructure as art. We will design and build experimental sculptures to create an aesthetic for functional works and understand challenges to scaling.

{Offered periodically}

This course introduces principles of visual aesthetics and landscape function. Course explores aesthetics, ecological art, sustainable landscapes, modernist landscape design, and ecological functionality of spaces through biotic units and human patterning.

{Offered periodically}

The course uses art and design to respond to global and local challenges. Modules led by faculty from Art and Ecology offer students skills of collaboration, community process, site-based plans of action, and economic value.

Course addresses fundamentals of graphic design through a series of art projects. Students study examples from a variety of sources and develop language for using text and image in installation, print, and online publication.

Course explores the politics of performance and how artists investigate constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Combines seminar discussion with group workshop and critique sessions. Students develop performance pieces or critical scholarship.

This course will investigate research methodologies for field-based artists and facilitate the development and implementation of students' individualized artistic research projects through primary source materials, creative processes, critical reflection, and textual production.

Corequisite: 452 and 453 and 454.

Restriction: permission of instructor. 

This course will immerse students in field-based studio practice across numerous econiches, habitation sites, and conceptions of "Place." Students will work individually and collaboratively to investigate these field sites through artistic processes and projects.

Corequisite: 451 and 453 and 454.

Restriction: permission of instructor. 

This course will engage and transform field-based, artistic research and practice into the production process of interdisciplinary studio art projects culminating in both experimental and finished art works.

Corequisite: 451 and 452 and 454.

Restriction: permission of instructor. 

This course will investigate the context of art through various presentation methodologies, engagement locations, consideration for audience reception, and media dissemination. Students will develop presentation strategies and work collaboratively to prepare a public exhibition.

Corequisite: 451 and 452 and 453.

Restriction: permission of instructor. 

DeJong

Students must develop an individual program of studies in consultation with the instructor. Group critiques are scheduled regularly.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Prerequisite: 357.

{Spring}

Cook

This course addresses what constitutes authentic experience in an era profoundly shaped by electronic media. Travel to locations in New Mexico where work is produced on site with digital video and other imaging tools.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

A cross-cultural class designed to expose students to the Puebloan pottery tradition. The course combines a hands-on approach to pottery making with an analytical investigation of material culture and ethnoaesthetics. 

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall}

In-depth practices of the Arita, Japan method of creating wheel thrown porcelain vessels: forming techniques, aesthetics, surface design, glazing, and firing. 

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

Concentrated exploration of various concepts and methods of printmaking including multiple processes. Course content varies but emphasizes the development of personalized direction and the establishment of high professional standards. Individual and group critiques.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Prerequisite: 336 or 374.

Salinger, Stone

Emphasis on photo-based media, but open to advanced students in all areas of studio art. Will encourage cross-media critique and help students prepare for the professional world upon graduation.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

{Fall, Spring}

A continuation of Computer Science 394. Students are expected to research and make presentations on advanced topics in CGI. Significant term project required. Not allowed for graduate credit for computer science majors, nor as a technical elective for undergraduate computer science majors.

Advanced, individually directed study in areas of special interest not normally covered in advanced level courses.

Open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Pre-professional curricula of the College of Fine Arts. Students in Art Education curricula and majors in Art enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences may enroll with permission of the department chairperson.

Restriction: permission of department.

Art Studio Capstone will focus on preparing B.F.A. seniors on topics pertaining to professional practices and critical discourse for visual artists. Students will learn to present their work verbally and visually in a professional manner.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Directed independent study in a field of special interest, culminating in an exhibition and written thesis. Open only by invitation to departmental honors candidates.

May be repeated for credit towards degree to a maximum of 6 hours.

{Fall, Spring}

Study of relationships between theory and practice. Course examines contemporary theories of art as viewed in the context of the student’s own work.

Open only to studio graduate students in the Department of Art and Art History.

{Fall}

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

This is a nature based, field study class. Sites are visited which inspire artists to develop projects with an interrelated media approach. Formal and conceptual issues regarding several environments will be addressed.

{Fall}

(Also offered as MA 409)

This class helps students to develop more complex artistic statements on video. Critiques of student work, plus readings and discussions about various arts and media. Course fee required.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Spring}

Student is required to produce four projects, an artist’s statement, a portfolio of the semester’s work and give a slide lecture on a contemporary topic.

{Fall, Spring}

Production of finished works based upon current research and studio practice incorporating concepts such as one color as two, two color as one, transparency/illusion, saturation/shadow, descriptive/local color, optical mixtures, unity, anomaly, psychological color, electronic color.

Course work determined by specific student need or by the professor's current research.

{Fall, Spring}

Explores advanced technical, theoretical and conceptual essentials of time-based media. Designed for students with continued interest in using sound, moving images, and performance for their art-making practice. Challenges students to create novel time-based work.

Prerequisite: 331. 

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Course is based on the integration of nascent technologies in electronic / digital media art practice. Works will be created in conjunction with concurrent investigation of digital media art history and contemporary theoretical discourses. Part I.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Course is based on integration of nascent technologies in electronic / digital media art practice. Works will be created in conjunction with concurrent investigation of digital media, art history, and contemporary theoretical discourses. Part II.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Fine Art production for the Immersive Fulldome. This emerging medium comes out of planetarium technology. We will investigate the nature of immersive media through historical and theoretical readings and discussions alongside the creative process.

Prerequisite: 330. 

Restriction: permission of instructor.

This class will focus on network and wireless, communication and control technologies. Students will experiment with streaming and analog broadcasting as well as installation based approaches to working with tools that manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum.

Prerequisite: 330. 

Restriction: permission of instructor.

This course focuses on skills for researching, designing and writing effective grant applications and proposals for art-based solicitations. Students shape ideas for small and large-scale projects into proposals following requirements of real-world calls for entry.

An interdisciplinary field course in aesthetically visualizing information from computer science, operations research, and applied mathematics to articulate environmental, economic, and societal needs for sustainability. Hands-on projects, theoretical, and field research.

{Offered periodically}

This course will investigate site-based, low-tech, infrastructure as art. We will design and build experimental sculptures to create an aesthetic for functional works and understand challenges to scaling.

{Offered periodically}

This course introduces principles of visual aesthetics and landscape function. Course explores aesthetics, ecological art, sustainable landscapes, modernist landscape design, and ecological functionality of spaces through biotic units and human patterning. {Offered periodically}

The course uses art and design to respond to global and local challenges. Modules led by faculty from Art and Ecology offer students skills of collaboration, community process, site-based plans of action, and economic value.

Course addresses fundamentals of graphic design through a series of art projects. Students study examples from a variety of sources and develop language for using text and image in installation, print, and online publication.

Course explores the politics of performance and how artists investigate constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Combines seminar discussion with group workshop and critique sessions. Students develop performance pieces or critical scholarship.

This course will investigate research methodologies for field-based artists and facilitate the development and implementation of students' individualized artistic research projects through primary source materials, creative processes, critical reflection, and textual production.

Corequisite: 552 and 553 and 554.

Restriction: permission of instructor. 

This course will immerse students in field-based studio practice across numerous econiches, habitation sites, and conceptions of "Place." Students will work individually and collaboratively to investigate these field sites through artistic processes and projects.

Corequisite: 551 and 553 and 554.

Restriction: permission of instructor. 

This course will engage and transform field-based, artistic research and practice into the production process of interdisciplinary studio art projects culminating in both experimental and finished art works.

Corequisite: 551 and 552 and 554.

Restriction: permission of instructor. 

This course will investigate the context of art through various presentation methodologies, engagement locations, consideration for audience reception, and media dissemination. Students will develop presentation strategies and work collaboratively to prepare a public exhibition.

Corequisite: 551 and 552 and 553.

Restriction: permission of instructor. 

Small scale metal casting in bronze and silver through the lost wax process. Included are additional metal related techniques such as soldering and patination.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

Cook

This course addresses what constitutes authentic experience in an era profoundly shaped by electronic media. Travel to locations in New Mexico where work is produced on site with digital video and other imaging tools.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

Pueblo pottery investigates the dominant ceramic tradition of the Southwest. Students work with Professor Gilbert and a Native American artist to learn traditional processes, forms and designs.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall}

In-depth practices of the Arita, Japan method of creating wheel thrown porcelain vessels: forming techniques, aesthetics, surface design, glazing, and firing.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

Concentration on student’s individual art production in any area of studio art, with special attention given to developing critical acuity toward photo-based media.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall, Spring}

Consideration of theoretical, critical and historical issues in the context of studio disciplines. Course content determined by student request or professor’s current research.

{Fall, Spring}

Advanced, individually directed study.

Open to graduate students only.

{Fall, Spring}

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

{Fall, Spring}