Priority registration for Spring 2019 is underway. Here is an updated list of special opportunities; things to keep in mind; and changes in enrollment procedures that are unique to art, art history and graphic design majors.
COURSE OPPORTUNITIES
• ARTP270- Computational Creativity, online course taught by Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Ingraham. Description: Use creative thinking (flexible, imaginative, divergent thinking) to make your problem solving richer and more powerful and computational thinking (logical, methodical thinking) to make your problem solving more efficient and effective. Develop your collaborative and process skills such as communication, persistence and play to work more successfully. You’ll engage in a variety of fun and thought-provoking creative thinking exercises (including games and thought experiments and working with a camera) and will design a solution to a real-life problem (large or small). By taking this course you’ll become a more powerful problem-solver in any discipline. You’ll experience first hand that creative thinking is not just for artists and computational thinking is not just for computer scientists. You’ll be better prepared to compete effectively in a rapidly-changing global society where problems are often complex, open-ended or ill-defined, organizations expect people to work in interdisciplinary teams (often with limited resources) and innovation is prized. No prior experience with computer science, art, computational thinking or creative thinking is required for this course.
• ARTS291Q- Special Topics: Introduction to 3D Graphics, taught by Chris Irvin. Description: This introductory course will examine the rise of 3D computer graphics as an art creation tool, including its use beyond the traditional formats of visual effects and video games. We will also explore how contemporary artists are using 3D computer graphics within their work. Students will gain basic knowledge of modeling techniques, texture mapping, lighting within a 3D environment, and animation. Topics include modeling of organic and non-organic objects, character creation, 3D printing, and art creation utilizing 3D computer graphics.
• GRPH491A- Special Topics: Exhibits, co-taught by Aaron Sutherlen and up to 5 other faculty from the UNL State Musuem, Journalism and Mass Communications, Anthropology, History, and Innovation Campus. Description: Exhibits communicate to different kinds of audiences through 3D structures. They are used by museums, zoos, businesses, institutions, and in many others to educate, inform, and motivate. This course provides hands-on experience in designing, developing, and assessing exhibits that will be used in real-world settings at the University of Nebraska. Each year, the class will select one exhibit among various proposals, meet with a client, prepare planning and design documents, construct exhibit elements, conduct formative assessments, install the exhibit at a local site, and create a portfolio of the entire process.
•AHIS398-002- Special Topics in Art History: Albrecht Dürer's life and art (paintings, prints, and drawings), taught by Alison Stewart. Description: The diverse artistic production of Northern Renaissance "painter" Albrecht Dürer is the topic of this class that will include his oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints. Dürer is considered one of the greatest printmakers in European print history, as his woodcuts and engravings demonstrate. The class will mix lectures, discussion, and student presentations. Students' interest will play a key role in the class and its organization. Proposed organization is by medium, allowing those students interested in Dürer's painting technique (oil, watercolor, gouache) to center their investigations for the class in that area; others can address Dürer's woodcuts or engravings.
• AHIS398-001- Special Topics in Art History: Cross Communication: Art and Society in East Asia, taught by Mina Kim. Description: This class offers a thematic comparative study of objects, issues, and methods from the past to the present, focusing on modern and contemporary art in East Asia.
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
• If you are an art major, and you have not taken ARTP150- Studio Foundation, please plan to take it this spring.
•Permission codes: Courses that require permission codes will say "Department Consent Required" in the course attributes. If a course says "Permission" in the prerequisites, then verbal permission from the instructor is all that is needed to enroll. The permission code box may be present even when a permission code is not required. When in doubt, click through to see if you can enroll without a permission code.
CHANGE OF PROCEDURE
If you are planning to take focus hours, problems in studio, thesis hours, or graduate level independent study, please note that our procedure for obtaining permission numbers for independent study has changed. We are no longer using the paper permission request form that was previously available in the School office. Permission numbers will be distributed by faculty after the details of the independent study have been agreed upon. Internships will continue to require the Internship Memorandum of Understanding form that is available in the School office.