Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 332b Typography 2 Spring 332a Expanding on the concepts and skills introduced in FA 332a: Typography, FA 332b is devoted to the further study of typography and type's application. Students will explore the dynamics...
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Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 499 The Internet Experience 4 Fall None This class will not be offered until fall 2010. FA 499: The Internet Experience: Experimentation and Online Expression This new studio course is an experimental forum for...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 208abx Three-Dimensional Art Workshop: Perceptual and Carving Skills 2 (Repeatableup to 8) Spring None Studio practice designed to help the student recognize and sharpen their visualization, carving, manual dexterity, visual judgement, and eye-hand coordination...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 499 Special Topics 4 Spring None Coming soon....
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 436 Art and Technology 4 Fall, Spring None Fall 2009: The emphasis of this class is conceptual thinking, directed research and personal investigation in the development of individual project proposals that investigate 3D video...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 406 Topics in Advanced Sculpture 4 (repeatableup to 12) Fall, Spring 306 Individual direction of the study of aesthetic issues in sculpture; investigation of an individual creative vision....
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 366 Art and Site 4 Fall 106 Art and Site is a studio course emphasizing context as a major component of artwork in both context and form. Context is defined to include the physicality...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 335 New Genres: Experimental Practices in Contemporary Art 4 Fall None This studio course begins where culture lets off and artists take up the slack. At edges of discourse lye fields where the problematics...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 306 Advanced Sculpture 4 Fall, Spring 106, 206 Advanced Sculpture is a directed examination of three-dimensional aesthetic concepts and the continued development of individual creative vision. The goals of this course may be achieved...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 246 Construction Techniques 2 Spring None This course presents students with the basic concepts used in building residential dwellings. Lectures include step-by-step guidance in framing, masonry, plumbing and electrical. A collaborative project will provide...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 236 Metal 2 Fall 136 This course examines techniques and philosophies of working with ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Welding, forging and casting will be explored, and combining metals with other traditional and non-traditional sculpting...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 206 Scullpture II 4 Fall, Spring 106 Description for FA 206 Fall 2005 with Ann Page: Building on that learned in Sculpture I, Sculpture II continues to explore and examine, through hands on assignments,...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 136 Modeling and Moldmaking 2 Spring None Modeling and Moldmaking is an introduction to plaster mold-making using clay and wax for both ceramics and sculpture. Includes impression molds, single-part molds, two-part molds, and multiple-part...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 106 Sculpture I 4 Fall, Spring None Sculpture I is a practical and theoretical introduction to sculpture as dimensional manipulation. This course will guide you through an exploration of form, mass, gravity, surface, structure...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 411 Topics in Advanced Printmaking 4 (repeatableup to 12) Fall, Spring 311 Directed examination of specific printmaking media in relation to personal aesthetic goals and expressive concepts....
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 311 Printmaking 4 Fall, Spring None In this class, you will learn a variety of printmaking techniques such as monoprints, linoleum block printing, wood block printing, etching, photo-etching, and water etching. You will learn...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 409 Topics in Advanced Photography 4 (repeatable up to 12) Fall, Spring 209a, 209b, 309 The objective of this course is to continue the development of an individual or independent relationship between you as...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 309 Advanced Photography 4 Fall, Spring 209a, 209b The goal of this course is to facilitate a shift from teacher-assigned work to self-directed, self-motivated research and art production. Indeed, the process of making art...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 209b Photography 4 Fall, Spring 209a Continued examination of the conceptual, technical and historical tools necessary for a well-informed, deliberate art practice. The emphasis of this course is on color photography, medium format cameras,...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 209a Photography 4 Fall, Spring None FA 209a introduces students to the practice of photographic image making within a fine arts context. Students are acquainted with the 35 mm camera, exposure techniques, black and...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 405 Topics in Advanced Painting 4 (repeatable up to 12) Fall, Spring,Summer 101a, 101b, 102, 305 Directed painting with continued emphasis on personal choices regarding appropriation of conceptual images and arrangement, material processes, scale,...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 305 Advanced Painting 4 Fall, Spring, Summer 105, 205a, 205b This course is based on the students' continued development in the methods, practice and concepts of painting. Students are expected to show proficiency in...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 205b Painting II 4 Fall, Spring, Summer 105, 205a Painting 205b is a continuation of topics explored in 205a. More soon...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 205a Painting II 4 Fall, Spring, Summer 105 Painting II is a further investigation into painting methods, processes and techniques, with an emphasis on the development of personal vision, composition and scale. The student...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 105 Painting I 4 Fall, Spring, Summer None This course teaches you how to paint with oils, emphasizing both the mastery of skills and also an understanding of the conceptual basis behind painting. We...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 420 Advanced Video Studio 4 Fall, Spring 210, 215, 320 This class works at the advanced level in the study and execution of digitally-based photographic image making. Students have the conceptual and technical freedom...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 415 Advanced Multimedia Studio 4 (repeatableup to 12) Fall, Spring 210, 215, 315 This is a special offer advanced level studio class focused on the use of moving images and sound as vehicles for...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 410 Advanced Digital Photo Studio 4 (repeatableup to 12) Fall, Spring 210, 310 410 is an opportunity for serious students to pursue independent, significant projects in digital photography. This capstone course provides a studio...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 330 Ideas in Intermedia 4 Fall, Spring None Spring 2010: To Be Real! -- Reality and its Representations Cheryl Lynn's 1978 disco hit "Got To Be Real" taps into one of the great anxieties...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 320 Video Studio 4 Fall, Spring 215 This class establishes an advanced and challenging study in digital-video art production. More extensive theoretical discussions, readings and projects will help establish a platform from which students...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 315 Multimedia Studio 4 Fall, Spring 210, 215 FA 315 is a technically and conceptually intensive fine art studio in the understanding and method of digital interactivity as a fine art tool. The emphasis...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 310 Digital Photo Studio 4 Fall, Spring 210 This class establishes an advanced and challenging study in digitally-based photographic image making. More extensive theoretical discussions, readings, and projects will help students create a platform...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 215 Intermedia: Introduction to Digital Video and Interactivity 4 Fall, Spring None This introductory class will acquaint the students with the computer, the digital video camera, video editing via Final cut Pro, video presentation...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 210 Introduction to Digital Photography 4 Fall, Spring None This introductory class will acquaint students with the computer, digital camera, Photoshop and digital printing from a fine art standpoint. Theoretical lessons and readings will...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 207abx Two-dimensional Art Workshop: 2D Character Design for Games and Animation 2 (repeatableup to 8) Fall,Spring None The focus of this course is to improve fundamental drawing skills by way of classically drawing the...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 401 Topics in Advanced Drawing 4 (repeatableup to 8) Fall, Spring, Summer 301 Continued directed examination of personal approaches in drawing, emphasis on making visual and artistic decisions and developing an appropriate attitude toward...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 331 Human Figure in Narrative Drawing 2 Fall, Spring 101a An introduction to visual story-telling in both its historical and contemporary contexts. Emphasis on aesthetic, conceptual, and technical skills for figurative narration....
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 301 Advanced Drawing 4 Fall, Spring, Summer 101a, 101b, 201a, 201b Advanced Drawing will endeavor to give breadth and extension to a definition of drawing. Class objectives include: to question the nature and development...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 201b Life Drawing 4 Fall, Spring, Summer 101a, 101b, 201a Continuation of FA 201a. More soon....
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 201a Life Drawing 4 Fall, Spring, Summer 101a, 101b Drawing II builds upon the foundation of Drawing I, functioning as a transitional course from the emphasis on technique to conceptual skills, involving personal ideas...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 101b Drawing I 4 Fall, Spring, Summer 101a FA 101b is a second semester foundational drawing course in which students will learn to further develop critical observational skills, technical knowledge and expressive imagery. Students...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 101a Drawing I 4 Fall, Spring, Summer None This course teaches you how to draw—how to render spatial relationships, light, texture and forms. It will develop your ability to see and transpose what one...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 499 New York Design Research Study Tour 2 Spring None This 15-week course will provide students with an exciting alternative to traditional classroom based learning. Students will experience first-hand historical and contemporary aspects of...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 432 Special Projects in Design 2 Spring None This class is by invitation only, and only for upper-division students. To participate, all students must be recommended by a USC Roski School of Fine Arts...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 402 Topics in Graphic Design for Fine Arts 4 (repeatableup to 12 Fall, Spring 302 Continued exploration of the aesthetic content of graphic arts. Skills and procedures relating to the fine arts aspects of...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 332a Typography 2 Fall None This course is the study of visual communication through the use of letterforms from historical tradition to contemporary experimental rebellion. Students will gain an understanding of typography as a...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 302 Graphic Design for Fine Arts 4 Fall, Spring 102, 202 In the School of Fine Arts, design is artistic communication using the language and techniques of the information age. Design output is made...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 203 Digital Tools for Design 2 Fall, Spring 102, 202 This course is a supplement fo FA 202 Design. It provides design students with the most commonly used software tools (i.e. Adobe Illlustrator and...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 202 Design II 4 Fall, Spring 102 This course will explore the most essential elements in the development of a designer and their ability to communicate through numerous mediums. Exercises and projects are specifically...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 102 Design I 4 Fall, Spring None Design Fundamentals is an introduction to the basic elements and processes of visual communications. The goal of this course is to provide students with a working understanding...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 208abx Three-dimensional Art Workshop: Ceramics Workshop 2 (repeatable up to 8) Fall, Spring None This course is designed for the non-art major with little or no experience in working in clay. It will introduce...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 499 3D/Actual and Virtual 4 Fall, Spring None This course is an introduction to modeling as it exists in contemporary art. During the first half of the semester, students will be introduced to beginning...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 499 Clay as Canvas 2 Fall, Spring None This course will focus on applying two-dimensional images to three-dimensional forms. A variety of ceramic techniques will be explored, including underglaze painting, sgraffito, decals and china...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 412 Topics in Advanced Ceramics 4 (repeatable up to 12) Fall, Spring, Summer 312 Continued direct examination of aesthetic concepts and investigation into personal ideas as they relate to the development of a creative...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 312 Advanced Ceramics 4 Fall, Spring, Summer 112 Students enrolled in this course will pursue a more advanced level of work, exploring a variety of techniques, clays and firings within the framework of class...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 213 Clay and Glazes 2 Every other Spring 112 This class is designed with the artist in mind, with the purpose of establishing a foundation in clay and glaze materials as it relates to...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 212 Wheel Throwing 2 Fall, Spring None Wheel Throwing is an introductory ceramics course that uses wheel-throwing techniques to pursue visual results in several three-dimensional exercises. Students learn how to use these techniques to...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 112 Ceramics 4 Fall, Spring, Summer None This is an introductory level studio course in ceramics. It is intended to give a basic yet broad understanding of ceramic techniques and aesthetics through demonstrations, lectures,...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 140x A Cultural Guide to Los Angeles 2 Fall, Spring None Become a connoisseur of Los Angeles's rich cultural landscape. Framed by the city's history, sociology, geography and mythologies, this class offers a broad...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 450 Senior Seminar 4 Fall, Spring Official Fine Arts Majors Only This class is intended to be a summation of your undergraduate work, and aid you as you look ahead to your career in...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 371 Art in the Public Realm: Contemporary Issues 4 Fall, Spring None Public art is a critical voice in the complex dialogues of power, culture and democracy in public spaces. It can take the...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 350 Art Theory and Criticism 4 Fall, Spring 150 Recommended Our lives are bound by material conditions and social factors which put limits on our experience. Generally speaking, we remain unaware of those limits...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 250 Visual Culture and Literacy II 4 Fall, Spring None In this course we will explore the aesthetic debates and theoretical discourses that have shaped modern and contemporary visual culture. We will concentrate in...
Number Title Units Offered Prerequisites 150 Visual Culture and Literacy 4 Fall, Spring None This course will examine major developments in modern and postmodern visual culture. Beginning with the late 19th century and proceeding chronologically, the course will look...