ART297 - Special Topics in Art and Design: Intermediate

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course allows faculty to introduce a new course into the curriculum, on a limited basis, to art programs on the junior level. The course is designed to take advantage of conditions or opportunities that might be temporary, for example, a course involving a visiting artist or local event

AVA309 - Digital Illustration

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

Digital Illustration is a standard and necessary manner of working with image generation. It is an efficient and professional set of skills to develop. This course is an introduction to the fundamental techniques used in digital illustration. Students will learn how to create effective images that retain a textural complexity while utilizing the various digital tools in an illustrative manner. The course will cover the use of digital collage, digital painting and generating professional work from the students own means. Students will construct effective communicative images. Students will use digital illustration methods to explore the use of tone, line, colour and texture.

AID311 - Drawing for Designers

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This drawing course introduces the students to the principles of drawing applicable to Graphic and Interior Design. Emphasis is given to the development of drawing as design with a wide array of assignments that involve analytical translations of imagery, objects and spatial environments using a diverse set of drawing materials, techniques, and conventions. The content will concentrate on the design process from initial concept sketches through formal presentation drawings and visualizations.

Pre-requisite:ART201 or ART205

Co-requisite:AID287;AID279

AVA312 - Painting I

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

The aim of this course is to develop the basic skills, techniques and processes of painting with an understanding of basic color principles. The integration of paint application and color principle develops an awareness that painting and color are used not only as mediums for representation, but also as mediums for expressive purposes. Artists’ paintings are analyzed to understand their reasons for using particular techniques/materials, use of color and conceptual content.

Pre-requisite:ART205

AVA313 - Drawing II

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course builds upon the observational and technical skills learned in Drawing I (AVA310) and assists in applying these skills to a conceptual framework. It stresses the expressive and conceptual aspects of drawing, including advanced composition arrangements and the development of an individual approach to theme and content, with a focus on materials and experimental media.

Pre-requisite:AVA310

AGD314 - Illustration and Visual Narrative

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course provides students with the opportunity to design and develop character and environment for visual narratives. Through examination of historical and popular culture narratives, students will learn to identify key aspects of character and environment design and to use visual storytelling techniques to communicate concepts to an audience. This course is suitable for students with an interest in animation, illustration, conceptual design, film, comics, motion graphics and visual communication.

AVA315 - Sculpture I

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This is an introductory sculpture course in which students learn the basic use of tools for the execution of sculpture, including mold making, woodworking, metal fabrication, mounting and installation of relief and free standing sculpture. Students are also exposed to basic sculpture concepts, which provide a general survey of sculptural studio practices.

Pre-requisite:ART205 or ART201

AVA316 - Ceramics I

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

The emphasis of this introductory course is learning to create original work,while exploring the physical properties of clay. The expressive potential of clay becomes apparent through increased awareness of historical and contemporary ceramic art, and through the use of the basic ceramic techniques of forming, glazing and firing. A knowledge of basic tools and equipment is acquired through the hands-on use of basic equipment including : clay extruders, potters wheels, and electric kilns.

AVA317 - Storyboarding

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course emphasizes story and concept development. Various techniques for creating a storyboard will be explored. Students will also create animatics that will establish the story timing based on the previously created storyboards.

AVA318 - Three-Dimensional Design

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course is an introduction to three-dimensional design concepts. Students investigate the forces that influence the design of objects and spaces including, but not limited to, art objects. Natural forces such as the earths gravity affect our preception of balance,poise gesture and weight. Cultural influences, materials and structure are all areas of thought and information which can be directly applied to this course. The various assignments are intended to allow you to develop artistically and creatively within a given framework.

AVA319 - Introduction to Jewelry Design

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course offers an introduction to the basic principles and skills used in jewelry design. Students will be introduced to the fundamental technical, conceptual, and aesthetic issues involving jewelry. Through a series of explorations and technical exercises students will learn a broad range of processes and materials, progressing from the simpler to the more complex projects.

ADR328 - Cross Cultural Influences in Design

3 credits

Schedule Type: UG Lecture

This course provided students with the opportunity to develop professional Arabic lexicon and language styles used by artists and designers. It provides an examination of cross-cultural influences in international art and design fields, and a study of the work of a selection of modern and contemporary Arab designers, and develop the ability to present the nuances of the Arab and other cultures through the use of visual language. The course strengthens students’ acquisition of technical terminology in Arabic

ART330 - Art Education

3 credits

Schedule Type: UG Lecture

This course is structured to introduce programs in education and art to the theory and practice of teaching art in elementary schools. It emphasizes art curriculum planning, motivational strategies, art room management, and methods motivational strategies, art room management, and methods of evaluation in art. It also focuses on art across the curriculum

AVA340 - Photography I

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

An introduction to the standards of still imaging with a balanced emphasis on practical, technical, aesthetic, and conceptual skill sets. The student will gain general experience in digital photography through lectures, demonstrations, videos, assignments, practice, readings, critiques, and research. The curriculum emphasizes craft, photographic vision, and visual problem solving using a digital SLR and digital darkroom processes. Visual design concepts along with historical and contemporary photographic images will be stressed with an emphasis on the traditional rules of composition and photographic design.

Pre-requisite:ART201;ART205

AVA345 - Digital Video I

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

Using video as a means for studying basic techniques of filmmaking and 2D animation, students develop universal skills of expression and storytelling, and an understanding of the fundamental language and processes of digital video, from conception to final video edited works. Students learn basic digital video filming techniques including linear and nonlinear editing with Final Cut Pro software as they shoot and edit a series of 3 short individual and 1 team project. Artistic, narrative and non-narrative genres are all explored. conceptual development, narrative development, story-board development, lighting and camera techniques. Production practices include: editing, audio development, shooting, lighting, scene development, and export/output techniques.

Pre-requisite:ART251;ART201;ART205

AGD355 - Designing with Color

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

A course devoted to the development of the perception of color and its use as a tool for the graphic designer. Exercises are given that test the appearance of color relationships in complex structures. Class sessions alternate between working in a studio workshop and critiques of assignments

AGD358 - Design for Social Change

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

Over the past decade, the notion of “design for social change” has become a relevant component of professional practice, with designers utilizing creative tools and methodologies to address complex social, humanitarian, and environmental needs. Social design brings together designers from varying disciplines to collaborate with clients, educators, philanthropists, and corporations to address the complex needs of the diverse community. In response, this course places particular emphasis on how social responsibility is presented in an interdisciplinary professional design practice in the UAE, and how we, as designers, can contribute to positive social change. Students examine how design can be a significant driver in raising awareness on a global scale, while also focusing on local issues such as heritage, environment, cultural identity, and health.

Pre-requisite:ART201 or ART205

AGD359 - Information Design

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course investigates visual systems, which communicate complicated information through the combination of notational, visual, and structural forms such as diagrams, graphs, and charts. Aesthetics and strong visual communication criteria are used in analyzing and creating.

Pre-requisite:ART251

AVA360 - Printmaking I

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course introduce students to the basic skills and processes of a variety of print making techniques such as the monotype, relief, intaglio and planographic methods. Students will familiarize themselves with the print studio, exploring issues of printed multiples as they relate to their current body of work. Learning the basic processes and transforming them into a mode for personal creative expression will be the main focus of this course.

Pre-requisite:ART205

AVA365 - Digital Printmaking

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course will introduce students to the skills and processes of advanced digital printmaking techniques. Students will familiarize themselves with the print studio, exploring issues of printed multiples as they relate to their current body of work. Students will be introduced to pronto plate lithography, screen printing, inkjet printing, and solar plate intaglio. Learning these processes to create prints and transforming these processes into a mode for personal creative expression will be the main focus.

AVA366 - Book Structures I

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course builds upon previously learned skills and concepts, using various book structures as mediums of artistic creation. Students will familiarize themselves with a variety of binding techniques including basic codex creation, Japanese stab binding, accordion structures, and additional forms. Students’ use of diverse materials and methods to express themselves in an intelligent and creative manner is emphasized.

Pre-requisite:ART201;ART205

AAD375 - 3D Modeling

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This is an introductory class where students learn basic Techniques of modeling, texture mapping, lighting, composition and rendering. Attention is paid to concepts and techniques that aid the student in creation of single geometric objects as well as more complex interior and exterior design scenes that will be rendered to produce non-photorealistic images.

Pre-requisite:ART251

AAD376 - Animation I

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts and properties of time based graphics and motion on screen. By making different types of animation, students will experience both straight ahead animation and key-framed animation. Students will practice new skills in both traditional and digital technologies for the production of moving images.

Pre-requisite:ART251 or CIT210

ART397 - Special Topics in Art and Design

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course allows faculty to introduce a new course offering, on a limited basis, to art programs at the intermediate level. The course is designed to take advantage of conditions or opportunities that might be topical: for example, a course involving a visiting artist or local event

ADR421 - Material Culture of the United Arab Emirates

3 credits

Schedule Type: UG Lecture

This class surveys the different chronological phases of material culture in the U.A.E., focusing on the relationship between society, environment and the arts

AGD457 - Designing for the Web II

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

This course offers an advanced understanding of web design that is specific to the interactive need of the client. Students will learn how to integrate web design into the entire graphic design experience from identity design to campaign development. Along with an intermediate understanding of CSS, students will have advanced understanding of how to assess the characteristics of both the client and audience in order to create effective websites. Students will create operational site architectures after assessing the needs of the project and then work through effective design that matches the client/audience expectations.

Pre-requisite:AGD357

AAD476 - Animation III

3 credits

Schedule Type: Studio

In this course, students will further their knowledge and practice of animation, learning techniques for live action integration, advanced animation techniques and visual effects.

Pre-requisite:AAD377