CLASSES FOR TC STUDENTS
How to Search for AAE Courses
Courses in the Art & Art Education Program may or may not be offered every semester (Fall, Spring and Summer). To view and learn more information about the courses below, please visit TC's online course schedule. When you are directed to the online course schedule webpage, please follow these steps:
- Click on the Please select a term drop-down to click on the semester term you want to view courses for.
- Then, click on the Any subject drop-down and select A&HA (this is the code for the courses in the Art and Art Education Program).
- Lastly, click on the green Search button at the bottom of the menu list.
A list of all the courses in the Art and Art Education Program that given semester will appear.
An examination of the role of visual culture in contemporary life, employing experiences from artworks, museums, galleries, and alternative spaces, readings, and discussion.
A&HA 5086 - Credits: 2 or 3
Development of fundamental painting skills and understandings within the quest for individual expression and style. Acrylics, collage, and drawing employed.
A&HA 4063 - Credits: 2 or 3
Permission of Instructor Required. This studio-based course is designed to assist students to continue exploring the diverse possibilities and various processes of using paint, painting media, digital media, and tools to explore and construct painting languages, conceptual frameworks, and personal expressions.
A&HA 5065 - Credits: 2 or 3
Drawing from life, students learn strategies to generate lines, vary their marks, see and draw negative space, light, shadows, shapes, zones, and compositions. We reframe our knowledge and habits in order to see the raw sensory details needed to draw. New observation, concentration, creativity, and idea-generation skills will be developed. Almost half the semester is figure drawing from a model -- gesture, volume, and portraiture. All levels are welcome. One class at a museum or gallery.
A&HA 5060 - Credits: 2 or 3
This class both addresses the intimidation of figure drawing and lays out a number of different practical strategies for tackling it. The class is open to students who have experience drawing and those who are beginners.
A&HA 5070 - Credits: 2 or 3
Permission of instructor required -- email your proposal for a concrete independent project with timelines before the semester begins. Meet as a group every other week with the instructor and peers, also working on your own projects related to drawing (widely defined). Enrollment limited. For advanced independent study. Noncredit for majors only.
A&HA 6903 - Credits: 1 to 4
Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited. For advanced independent study. Noncredit for majors only.
A&HA 6904 - Credits: 1 to 4