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Art: Art History (Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Courses) |
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ARTH-517 Northern Renaissance Art: Sex and Gender (3)
Investigates sex and gender in northern European art of the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, c. 1300-1550. Topics include femininity and masculinity across court, urban, and monastic contexts and sexual practices and prohibitions, including possibilities of same-sex desire. Identity, agency, compliance, and transgression are interrogated across the artistic media. Usually Offered: alternate springs. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: five art history courses.
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ARTH-520 Seminar in Art History (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics in art historical fields include medieval art, Renaissance/Baroque art, Nineteenth to Twentieth Century European art, American contemporary art, and Asian art. Critical discussion of readings followed by reports and research papers. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisite: five art history courses.
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Art: Art History (Graduate Courses) |
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ARTH-600 Approaches to Art History (3)
Reading, discussion, and written work based on subjects such as style, iconography, semiotics, the art museum, and social, psychological and feminist approaches. Attention to critical interpretation and writing research papers. Crosslist: ARTH-400 .
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ARTH-601 Italian Art: Early Renaissance (3)
Developments in Florence, Siena, and Venice in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, including the classical revival, narrative, linear perspective, and the role of social and theoretical factors in the practice of art. Emphasis on major figures such as Giotto, Duccio, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, and Giovanni Bellini. Crosslist: ARTH-401 .
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ARTH-602 Italian Art: High Renaissance (3)
Development of high Renaissance and early Mannerist styles in Rome, Venice, and Florence in the first half of the sixteenth century. Major artists emphasized include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. Includes consideration of issues such as the elevation of artists’ social status and the emergent concept of artistic genius. Crosslist: ARTH-402 .
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ARTH-603 Italian Art: Late Renaissance and Early Baroque (3)
Examines Italian art from the mid-sixteenth through early seventeenth centuries, considering the flourishing of art theory, late Mannerist and early Baroque style, and the significant emergence of female artists. Artists include Bronzino, Vasari, late Titian and Michelangelo (sculpture and painting), Tintoretto, Veronese, Sofonisba Anguissola, the Carracci, Caravaggio, and Artemisia Gentileschi. Crosslist: ARTH-403 .
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ARTH-611 Modern European Art: Rococo to Realism (3)
A survey of European art from 1760 to 1848, with attention to the social role of art in the age of revolutions. Includes the creation of art academies and public art exhibitions; the Industrial Revolution and landscape painting; and the effects of nationalism and colonialism on European identity. Crosslist: ARTH-411 . Usually Offered: alternate years.
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ARTH-612 Modern European Art: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (3)
A survey of European art from 1848 to 1900, with emphasis on stylistic innovations in art and contexts in which works were produced, exhibited, and debated. Includes changing concepts of modernity and its relationship to modernism; shifting experiences of city and country life; and new roles for men and women in public and private. Crosslist: ARTH-412 . Usually Offered: alternate years.
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ARTH-613 Modern European Art: Expressionism to Surrealism (3)
A survey of European art from 1900 to 1945, tracing radical changes in conception of art as well as social and political contexts that shaped it. Includes the rise of abstraction; antimodernism and the “primitive”; and the notion of an artistic avant-garde. Crosslist: ARTH-413 . Usually Offered: alternate years.
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ARTH-614 Women and the Avant-Garde (3)
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed increasing professional opportunities for women artists, yet the status of women in Impressionism, Expressionism, Constructivism, and Surrealism remained ambivalent. This course explores the complex experiences of such avant-garde artists as Berthe Morisot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Camille Claudel, Sonia Delauney, and Frida Kahlo. Crosslist: ARTH-414. Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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ARTH-615 Museums and Society (3)
Explores the intersection of the museum and its public from the late eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the formation of collections and organization of exhibitions; changing modes of display; architecture and wall text; the economics of the art world; politics and cultural property; and race, gender, and national identity. Crosslist: ARTH-415 . Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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ARTH-623 East-West Photography (3)
Examines the emergence of photography and the medium’s pivotal role in shaping relations between Asia and the West. Examines early portraiture, architectural sites, colonial tourism, photojournalism, family photographs, and contemporary photography. Crosslist: ARTH-423 . Usually Offered: alternate years.
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ARTH-624 Envisioning the Nation: Modern and Contemporary Art in Asia (3)
Explores nationhood, nationalism, and the body politic as represented in Asian art and visual culture. Focuses on modern and contemporary art in China, Japan, India, and other parts of Asia, including film, prints, painting, photography, architecture, performance art, and propaganda. Crosslist: ARTH-424 .
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ARTH-631 Visual Arts in the United States to 1890 (3)
Covers portraiture, landscape, and genre painting from the early Colonial period to the late nineteenth century. Examines major artists and movements including Colonial portraiture (Copley, Peale), Hudson River School and Luminist landscape (Cole, Church), sculpture, photography, and late nineteenth century artists including Eakins, Homer, and Cassatt. Emphasizes cultural politics of colonialism, slavery, Native Americans, gender issues, and relationships between American and European art. Crosslist: ARTH-431.
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ARTH-632 Visual Arts in the United States: 1890 to 1935 (3)
Covers art from the Gilded Age through mid-1930s. Examines major artists and movements, including American Impressionism, Ashcan School, American modernist abstraction, Harlem Renaissance, Mexican muralists, Regionalism, WPA art and photography. Focuses on relation to European modernisms and U.S. cultural politics, including gender and racial issues and the rise of major museums, dealers, and collectors. Crosslist: ARTH-432 . Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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ARTH-633 Visual Arts in the United States: 1935 to 1970 (3)
Covers dramatic changes in realism and modernism in the mid-twentieth century including WPA art and leftist politics, the Great Depression and federal support, geometric modernisms, Abstract Expressionism, New Realism, Pop Art, and photography. Emphasizes major artists and cultural politics including the New Deal, Cold War, gender and racial difference, and contributions of art critic and dealers. Crosslist: ARTH-433 .
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ARTH-634 Contemporary Visual Art and Postmodernism (3)
Covers contemporary art since 1970 created in the United States by American and international artists. It examines movements including Minimalism, Earth Art, Photorealism, Neo-Expressionism, feminism, new abstraction, identity politics, installation and performance art. Emphasizes critical understanding of postmodernist theory related to multiculturalism, racial/ gender difference, queer theory, censorship, ecology, and social/political critique. Crosslist: ARTH-434 . Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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ARTH-677 Museum Management (3)
This course explores major issues in museum management, including current thinking on museology, technological issues affecting visual arts management, the balance between curating, education, and public programs, and the changing role of museum directors. The course also addresses ethical issues concerning looting and repatriation and earned income activities in museums. Crosslist: ARTH-477 and PERF-477 /PERF-677 . Grading: A-F only. Permission: instructor.
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ARTH-690 Independent Study Project in Art History (1-3)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTH-691 Internship (3)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTH-696 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTH-792 Thesis Research Seminar (3)
Research seminar to develop thesis proposal to be approved by thesis committee, do literature review for proposed topic, and begin thesis development. Students develop abilities to do serious research and share project critiques. Restriction: Art History (MA) .
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ARTH-796 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTH-797 Master’s Thesis Research (3)
Thesis research course for students completing research and writing of the thesis requirement for the MA in Art History. Grading: SP/UP only. Prerequisite: ARTH-792 .
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Art: Studio (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ARTS-100 Art: The Studio Experience FA1 (3)
This beginning studio course introduces students to painting, drawing, sculpture, and design combined with visual literacy. The course focuses on the interrelationship of hand, eye, and mind to create informed works of art that engage larger critical, formal, or cultural dialogues and relate basic visual language to analytic and creative processes of the artist. AU Core Habits of Mind: Creative-Aesthetic Inquiry. Usually Offered: fall, spring, and summer.
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ARTS-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTS-205 The Artist’s Perspective: Drawing FA1 (3)
This introductory drawing course examines observation as a tool of discovery. Students explore traditional and conceptual notions of looking and experiment with different materials, techniques, and practices in order to examine visual perception. The course investigates drawing as a two-dimensional and three-dimensional medium. Usually Offered: fall, spring, and summer.
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ARTS-210 The Artist’s Perspective: Painting FA1 (3)
This introductory painting course utilizes surface, color, and composition as well as technical procedures to introduce students to formal, conceptual, and social issues inherent in painting. These concepts may be explored through the use of models, still life, and landscape. Students learn the language of painting and its context in contemporary art. Usually Offered: fall, spring, and summer.
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ARTS-215 The Artist’s Perspective: Sculpture FA1 (3)
This introductory sculpture course investigates three-dimensional concerns, focusing on observation, process, form, and object as a means of arriving at content. Students are introduced to traditional and contemporary art practices and explore a variety of materials, techniques, and tools. AU Core Habits of Mind: Creative-Aesthetic Inquiry. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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ARTS-235 The Artist’s Perspective: Video Art FA1 (3)
An introduction to contemporary video art and its representations of time, this course emphasizes experimental approaches over conventional narrative. Projects involve shooting and editing individual video assignments for class critiques, and developing personal moving image art projects. Examples of artists’ film and video are screened and discussed in the context of readings and written assignments. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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ARTS-240 The Artist’s Perspective: Printmaking FA1 (3)
This introductory printmaking course examines observation and expression through the processes of wood cut, drypoint, and etching. Students are introduced to traditional and contemporary art language, practices, techniques, and tools through the medium of print. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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ARTS-245 The Artist’s Perspective: Digital Photography FA1 (3)
This introductory course explores new technologies in contemporary photographic practice. Though technical aspects of digital photography are covered, the main focus is on making and looking at photographs. Utilizing Photoshop, technical topics center on cultivating a digital workflow, which includes digital capture, image editing, and digital output. Students become familiar with both historic and contemporary photographic work as well as ideas around light, composition, visualization, editing, and sequencing of images. Critiques are the central forum for students to develop their ability to speak about their own work as well as their peers’. The course concludes with students developing a final portfolio of photographs. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Grading: A-F only. Note: Students are required to provide their own digital SLR camera and fixed (not zoom) lens.
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ARTS-294 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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ARTS-296 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTS-344 Ceramics Studio (3)
Includes basic principles of working with clay and instruction in both wheel and other methods of making pottery. Repeatable for credit.
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ARTS-390 Independent Reading Course in Art (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTS-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTS-400 Senior Seminar (3)
This studio and criticism course considers the inspirations and practices of contemporary artists and also emphasizes the relationship between art making, culture, and audience. Gallery/museum trips and artist lectures help students contextualize their work in current art practices. Readings, group discussions, and critiques facilitate deeper understanding of the social and conceptual issues surrounding contemporary art. Students pursue an individualized body of studio work that culminates in an exhibition. Usually Offered: spring. Permission: instructor.
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ARTS-420 Painting Studio (3)
This is an intermediate and advanced course that encourages experimental approaches to painting through historical and contemporary study. Students creatively explore issues of color, surface, and composition, and are encouraged to begin exploration of individualized concerns that can be addressed through image making. Thematic studies provide opportunity for intensive investigation of ideas. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisite: ARTS-210 .
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ARTS-440 Sculpture Studio (3)
This is an intermediate and advanced course that focuses on the interrelationship between object and environment. Students investigate materials and concepts used in historical, contemporary, and experimental art practices. Course structure focuses on creative problems and solutions. Students explore form, content, and context through individual projects. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisite: ARTS-215 .
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ARTS-460 Drawing Studio (3)
This is an intermediate and advanced course in drawing. Students explore selected drawing media, locate a direction of study, and develop a personal visual vocabulary in artwork. Drawing is investigated as an initiating and developing tool for creative thinking. Emphasis is on the process, production, and research needed to produce consistent and creative work. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisite: ARTS-205 .
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ARTS-463 Printmaking Studio: Intaglio and Relief (3)
Investigation of the historical techniques utilized in woodcut, linocut, surface printing, monoprinting, etching, drypoint, and aquatint. Students explore the history and the processes of print in relation to individualized projects. Emphasis on experimentation, the development of techniques, and the utilization of printmaking as a tool for challenging studio practice and expanding broader critical concerns. Usually Offered: fall. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisite: ARTS-205 .
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ARTS-464 Printmaking Studio: Screenprint (3)
Investigation of the contemporary techniques utilized in screenprinting as well as photo and digital based printing processes. Students explore contemporary graphic approaches and the processes of print in relation to individualized projects. Emphasis on experimentation, the development of techniques, and the utilization of printmaking as a tool for challenging studio practice and expanding broader critical concerns. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisite: ARTS-205 .
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ARTS-470 Expanded Media Studio: Video and Photography (3)
This course explores cross-disciplinary use of digital photography, video, sound, performance, media installation, and social practice. Each student develops individual artistic expression and conceptual approach to creating a coherent art project. Students become familiar with a variety of digital and time-based contemporary art forms and their technologies and discourses, while engaging in critical thinking and dialogue. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisite: ARTS-235 or ARTS-245 .
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ARTS-480 Studio Berlin (3)
This course focuses on creative production in the unique context of a site-driven, international studio experience in Berlin, Germany. Emphasis is on the individual’s development of studio projects in response to the influence of the location, as well as the exploration of innovative processes in an altered studio environment. Gallery, museum, and artist’s studio visits contribute to an understanding of Berlin’s expansive contemporary and historical arts culture. Crosslist: ARTS-680 . Usually Offered: summer. Prerequisite: ARTS-400 . Permission: instructor.
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ARTS-490 Independent Study Project in Art (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTS-491 Internship (3)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTS-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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Art: Studio (Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Courses) |
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ARTS-560 Drawing Practicum I (3)
Drawing as research. This course explores the process of the sketch in developing, proposing, and planning visual works in various media. Students work on synthesizing ideas and representing them formally and conceptually, with emphasis on individual creative expression. Usually Offered: fall. Repeatable for credit. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) .
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ARTS-561 Drawing Practicum II (3)
Continuation of ARTS-560 . Students put research into practice. The emphasis of this practicum, which can operate as an extension of students’ studio practice, is on creating a series of related work. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) .
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ARTS-590 Independent Reading Course in Art (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTS-596 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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Art: Studio (Graduate Courses) |
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ARTS-600 Twentieth Century Art Theory (3)
A contextual analysis of contemporary issues in art as a development of critical thinking throughout the twentieth century. This course presents a theoretical and philosophical consideration of the development of critical, cultural, and social dialogs defining art and practice from the advent of Modernism through its institutionalization and the eventual rise of post-Modernism. Includes figuration, abstraction, formalism, spirituality universalism, the art object, the art original, myth, authorship, allegory, conceptualism, the capitalist impulse, colonialism, authenticity, and the role of audience. Usually Offered: fall. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) .
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ARTS-601 Contemporary Art Theory (3)
A theoretical and philosophical consideration of art practices. A detailed analysis of contemporary and cultural studies including post-colonialism, gender, globalization, positioning painting, the state of art and emerging trends in contemporary art. Students evaluate the relationship between artists and the writer/critic. The course introduces students to a broad range of critical thinking and to develop their skills in verbal and textual analysis. Students consider the relationship of their art to contemporary rhetoric. Usually Offered: spring. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) .
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ARTS-620 Advanced Printmaking (3)
Individual projects in printmaking with emphasis on the investigation of contemporary art issues. Students develop a suite of prints or other related investigation in either tandem with their advanced studio work or based on a theme of their choosing in consultation with the instructor. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) .
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ARTS-630 Advanced Sculpture (3)
Individual projects in sculpture. Students explore formal and critical issues concerning two- or three-dimensional work. Students are encouraged to manifest ideas three-dimensionally with respect to the environment or installation of their work. Repeatable for credit. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) .
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ARTS-660 Research Practicum (3)
Studio practice as research and its context. Students explore the process of developing, proposing, and planning visual works in various media. The emphasis of this practicum, which can operate as an extension of students’ studio practice, is on creating a series of related work. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) .
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ARTS-661 Professional Practices (3)
This course introduces and examines a wide range of strategies for developing a professional practice as a working visual artist. Topics covered include documenting and archiving artwork, preparing submission materials, writing artist statements, grant writing and research, understanding the culture and structure of non-profit and commercial exhibition venues, exploring collaborative exhibition opportunities and strategies, social networking in the field, and online presentation of artwork. Course work includes conception and preparation of curatorial proposals, collective conception and design of the MFA thesis exhibition catalog. Course sessions held off-campus give students the opportunity to meet a diverse group of professionals in the field, including artists, writers, curators, and administrators.
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ARTS-670 Time-Based Studio (3)
This class develops individual moving image art projects through group critiques, class discussion of texts and screenings, and studio lab time. Students become familiar with a variety of time-based contemporary art and their discourses, including video and performance, experimental and avant-garde film, media installation, and social practice. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) .
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ARTS-680 Studio Berlin (3)
This course focuses on creative production in the unique context of a site-driven, international studio experience in Berlin, Germany. Emphasis is on the individual’s development of studio projects in response to the influence of the location, as well as the exploration of innovative processes in an altered studio environment. Gallery, museum, and artist’s studio visits contribute to an understanding of Berlin’s expansive contemporary and historical arts culture. Crosslist: ARTS-480 . Usually Offered: summer. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) . Permission: instructor.
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ARTS-690 Independent Study Project in Art (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTS-691 Internship (3)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTS-696 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTS-796 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTS-797 Master’s Thesis Seminar (3)
Independent work toward students’ thesis exhibition and written thesis statements. Consult the department for registration and participation requirements. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Grading: SP/UP only. Restriction: Studio Art (MFA) . Permission: department chair.
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Asian Studies (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ASIA-100 Introduction to Asia (3)
The course offers a broad spectrum on Asia through examinations of the major philosophical, religious, and cultural characteristics of different regions, with each example set in an appropriate historic context. Social, political, and economic characteristics of Asia are also examined in this context. AU Core Habits of Mind: Cultural Inquiry. Usually Offered: fall.
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ASIA-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ASIA-296 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ASIA-350 Topics in Asian Society and Culture (3)
Topics vary by section. A critical examination of Asia regionally or of particular Asian countries, in historical and contemporary contexts. Rotating topics include women and gender, history and the state, the role of religion, and film and popular culture. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ASIA-361 Modern Korean History (3)
This course seeks to understand Korea’s historical experience of modern transformation from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century and the evolution of the historical narratives and interpretations in this modern century. After a tumultuous, humiliating, and subjectively very painful experience of the modern century, from a unitary Confucian state, to a colony of Japan, and now as a divided country, Korea still keeps its own distinct culture, identity, and strong nationalism. By highlighting major events in Korea’s modern century, including the opening of Korea and Korea’s response, the fall of the Yi Dynasty, colonial Korea, and the post-1945 Korea until the Korean War, the course analyzes and evaluates the major historical themes, concepts, and controversies in Korea’s modern transformation.
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ASIA-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ASIA-490 Independent Research in Asian Studies (1-6)
Permission: instructor and program director.
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ASIA-491 Internship in Asian Studies (1-6)
Permission: instructor and program director.
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ASIA-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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Asian Studies (Graduate Courses) |
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ASIA-690 Independent Study in Asian Studies (1-6)
Permission: instructor and program director.
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ASIA-691 Internship in Asian Studies (1-6)
Permission: instructor and program director.
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ASIA-696 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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Audio Technology (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ATEC-101 Fundamentals of Audio Technology (3)
Students learn about the generation, transmission, and detection of sound; properties of sounds; history and aesthetics of electro-acoustic music and components; anatomy of audio equipment; professions in the field of audio technology; and the global structure of audio-related industries. Student apply basic recording and editing techniques in the completion of audio and audiovisual projects. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Corequisite: ATEC-102 .
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ATEC-102 Audio Technology Laboratory (1)
Students apply recording and editing techniques discussed in ATEC-101 to real world music. They also learn basic compression and digital signal processing techniques. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Corequisite: ATEC-101 .
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ATEC-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ATEC-296 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ATEC-301 Digital Audio Workstations I (3)
This course provides intermediate-level students with fundamental knowledge of the basic principles of non-linear digital audio editing software. Includes creating and managing digital audio workstation sessions, importing media, basic editing and mixing techniques, external controllers, managing sessions and tracks, recording and editing MIDI and audio, time scaling, and automation. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: ATEC-101 and ATEC-102 .
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ATEC-311 Sound Studio Techniques I (4)
This course explores multi-track recording techniques as applied to professional sound systems. Studio consoles, signal path, microphone configuration and placement, and other relevant topics are studied. Students gain experience with hands-on projects during the weekly laboratory. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: ATEC-301 .
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ATEC-321 Sound Synthesis I (3)
This course introduces audio synthesis using the Pure Data (Pd) programming environment with a focus on understanding fundamental concepts of digital audio manipulation. Covers several standard techniques, including additive and wavetable synthesis, sample playback, time-stretching, pitch shifting, various forms of modulation, and use of delay networks. In addition to raw audio processing algorithms, students develop strategies for managing control information and sequencing. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: ATEC-101 .
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ATEC-394 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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ATEC-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ATEC-401 Digital Audio Workstations II (3)
This course is a continuation of materials presented in ATEC-301 and provides students with more advanced knowledge of principles of non-linear digital audio editing software. Includes analyses of digital audio workstation systems, high-end user systems and interfaces, editing and mixing techniques, external controllers, managing sessions and tracks, recording and editing MIDI and audio, and advanced automation techniques. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: ATEC-301 .
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ATEC-403 Production Mixing and Mastering (3)
This course explores effective mastering techniques and digital signal processing techniques with non-linear digital audio software. Includes advanced equalization techniques, advanced filtering techniques, delay, compression and expansion of dynamic levels, chorusing, and reverberation. Crosslist: ATEC-603 . Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: ATEC-401 .
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ATEC-411 Sound-Studio Techniques II (4)
This course examines advanced multi-track recording techniques as applied to professional sound systems. Studio consoles, advanced microphone techniques for recording acoustic and amplified instruments and other relevant topics are studied. Students gain experience with hands-on projects during the weekly laboratory. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: ATEC-311 .
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ATEC-414 Audio Mastering (3)
This course presents an advanced hands-on approach to the principles and practices of mastering. Students master the use of equipment specially designed for audio mastering and develop mastering techniques, as well as learn best practices for mastering. Students also explore surround sound mastering techniques. Crosslist: ATEC-614 . Usually Offered: summer. Prerequisite: ATEC-403 . Permission: instructor.
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ATEC-421 Sound Synthesis II (3)
This course continues exploration of synthesis techniques in Pure Data (Pd) as introduced in ATEC-321 and introduces software libraries from the Pd-extended package. Topics include delay networks, reverberation, spatialization, filtering, Fourier-based spectral analysis/resynthesis, and wave form design. Students also are introduced to an additional programming environment for audio synthesis, SuperCollider (SC). Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: ATEC-321 .
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ATEC-422 Real-Time Performance Workshop (3)
This performance workshop directs students in developing new approaches to live computer-based music. The primary focus is on creating real-time interactive systems for generative music, sound installations, and digital musical instruments. The course surveys influential performance projects from the computer music literature and examines them from technical and aesthetic standpoints. Crosslist: ATEC-622 . Usually Offered: spring. Prerequisite: ATEC-421 . Permission: instructor.
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ATEC-424 Digital Instrument Design (3)
This course introduces students to the concepts, history, software, and hardware behind digital musical instruments (DMIs). In the process of creating several different DMIs, students learn how to map available control information to sound synthesis parameters in musically meaningful ways. Crosslist: ATEC-624 . Usually Offered: fall. Prerequisite: ATEC-421 . Permission: instructor.
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ATEC-431 Studio Management (3)
Students learn troubleshooting in regard to audio technology equipment and software. Includes tape machine alignment, maintenance and proper use, tracing signal flow problems, soldering techniques, and power grounding issues. Students in the class work and learn cooperatively, and collaborate on multiple projects relating to the tasks of managing a studio, including sound wall construction, studio proposals, and other creative projects. Prerequisite: ATEC-101 /ATEC-102 .
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ATEC-441 Business of the Audio Industry (3)
This course covers business-related aspects of the music and film audio recording industries, including copyright, royalties, publishing, licensing, negotiations, music production, and studio ownership. Prerequisite: ATEC-101 /ATEC-102 .
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ATEC-450 Audio Technology Capstone (1-6)
This course enables students to pursue advanced discipline- specific projects, which may include electro-acoustic instrument design and construction, advanced live sound reinforcement techniques, post-production audio for film and video, audio engineering for compact disc recordings, and electro-acoustic music composition. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisite: ATEC-421 .
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ATEC-490 Independent Study Project in Audio Technology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ATEC-491 Internship (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ATEC-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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Audio Technology (Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Courses) |
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ATEC-096 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (0)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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