Adjunct Major in Animate Arts

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The program integrates the study of the arts and technology, with a strong focus on computer programming in the context of artistic creativity. The coursework can include art, music, film, theatre, and dance?giving a rich knowledge base to pull from as students join in the creation of the next generation of media.

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Adjunct Major in Asian and Middle East Studies

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The Asian and Middle East Studies major has two tracks. The second is an adjunct major that is taken in conjunction with another major. The eleven courses must be divided between three broad disciplinary categories: Social Sciences (which include Anthropology, Economics, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology); History; and Humanities (which include Art History, Art Theory and Practice, Comparative Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religion). Majors must take at least three of their eleven courses from each category. Most courses are offered in discipline-based departments; there is no department of Asian and Middle East Studies. Double counting between the Asian and Middle East Studies majors and other majors is not permitted. Students must choose a concentration and complete five or more courses in the declared concentration.

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Adjunct Major in Gender Studies

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Students throughout the University who wish to focus their academic concentrations on Gender Studies and who desire formal recognition of their accomplishments may pursue the major or minor. Students earning the adjunct major will take courses in Gender Studies while simultaneously pursuing a major in WCAS, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Medill School of Journalism, or the schools of Education and Social Policy, Music, or Communication.

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Adjunct Major in International Studies

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Students must complete a disciplinary major offered in any department of Northwestern's schools. Students may declare the International Studies adjunct major before declaring a primary major, but the adjunct major does not by itself meet requirements for an undergraduate degree. Revisions to International Studies have introduced the ?Thematic Cluster? program through which students will now be able to organize their major around one of four themes.

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Adjunct Major in Science in Human Culture

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The program in Science in Human Culture (SHC) prepares students to confront the impact of science, medicine, and technology on society--and on their own lives. It welcomes pre-medical students who wish to explore the broader social, ethical, and economic world within which modern medicine operates. It welcomes students in the humanities and social sciences who seek to understand the intellectual transformations which attended the rise of science and modern medicine. And it welcomes science and engineering students interested in thinking beyond the problem sets assigned in their specialized courses. Students in both the adjunct major and the minor are expected to have some thematic interest which guides them through their studies in SHC. A theme is not rigidly defined and not every course must fit the theme precisely; but students will need to demonstrate that the majority of their courses form a coherent program.

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Art - Advanced Painting

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This course is designed for students who have completed both basic and intermediate level painting or the equivalent. The structure of this course emphasizes the development and coordination of each student?s individual studio practice. Focus on the figure or still-life may be used as a class concentration. Teaching methods include periodic critiques and one-on-one discussion. Evaluation is based on effort, growth, attendance and a final portfolio evaluation.

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Art - Basic Calligraphy

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Calligraphy spans 5,000 years of Chinese and Japanese History: from ancient pictographs to modern day Chinese Kanji. Students in this class will learn of the developments of handwriting style from pictograms to modern day Kanji. Then they will focus on Hiragana or grass writing. Japanese poetry, tanka or haiku, are mainly composed in Hiragana and students will learn to compose historical haiku in the traditional hand writing style of Hiragana.

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Art - Basic Drawing

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This course introduces students to the expressive use of various graphic media such as charcoal, pencil, crayon, chalk, pen and ink and/or brush and wash. Specific techniques such as form modeling, spatial illusions and principles of linear perspective may be explored. Through individual critiques and group discussions students develop an awareness of the relationship between observation, technique and expression. Evaluation is based on in-class performance, attendance, ability to absorb and use information and/or a final portfolio.

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Art - Basic Painting

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This course addresses various problems in painting and introduces students to modes of visual thinking. Work will be done in a two-dimensional format using oil paint on a gesso-prepared ground on a canvas support. The focus is on acquiring the basic material and technical skills necessary to articulate visual ideas in oil paint, including how to organize compositions using color and value relationships, form and shape, placement and paint application. Although most exercises deal with problems in painting, considerable work in drawing may be required to support studies in the use of color and paint.

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Art - Basic Photography

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This course concentrates on extensive darkroom instruction focusing on the production of high-quality black-and-white prints. Class sessions are devoted to lecture/demonstrations and group critiques that address both technique and content. Students work during class sessions as well as independently and students should be prepared to work in the photo lab outside of scheduled class meeting times. Evaluation of student performance is based on attendance, ability to absorb and implement information and a final portfolio.

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Art - Basic Sculpture

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This course is a basic introduction to sculptural concerns and issues of three-dimensional form. It includes instruction in traditional modeling techniques in clay, plaster and woodworking. The teaching method includes slide lectures, demonstrations of techniques and individual guidance on studio projects. There are occasional group critiques and discussions of exhibitions or readings. Evaluation is based on the quality of the completed studio projects, participation in group critiques and attendance.

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Art - Blow Up: Abandoned Utopias and the Inflatable

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The pneumatic structure has historically symbolized a technology associated with visionary endeavors both fantastic and pragmatic. Architects and designers, inspired by the possibility of a world not contained by gravity, have speculated on the use of inflatable structures as a component in the colonization of other planets (as proposed during the burgeoning years of the space race) and as affordable housing solutions for the inner city. But the reality of indoor tennis courts, rooftop advertising balloons and recreational facilities punctuates the failure of the utopic urbanism often associated with Modernism. Blow Up will explore this history through studio production and parallel research. Students will build inflatable structures using a variety of methods. Lectures, readings and discussion will round out a studio environment where we will critically explore the application of this technology. The historical concept of utopia and resultant utopic societal models will serve as a starting point, while renewed needs and desires for utopia will be addressed and implemented.

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Art - Color Photography

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This course explores techniques and issues of contemporary color photographic processes with some emphasis on archival digital printing. Familiarity with fundamental photographic processes is assumed and topics discussed build on critical and technical skills developed in 150 Basic Photography. Class time is divided between demonstrations of techniques and processes, group discussions and one-on-one discussions with the instructor about works in progress. Student evaluation is based on participation, growth and the strength of the work produced.

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Art - Color Theory

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This course provides an introduction to color theory with emphasis on its application to the visual arts. Students will learn key terms and the basics of color physics and the physiology of visual perception. We will become familiar with theories of color relationships based on a color sphere incorporating both color and value with primary, secondary and tertiary colors identified. The course will explore characteristics such as hue, value and saturation; additive and subtractive color mixing; color interaction; simultaneous contrast; transparency; the relationship between form and color; and the spatial effects of colors.

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Art - Contemporary Art Survey

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This slide-lecture survey course is designed to give both art majors and non-majors an introduction to the myriad forms and concerns of art from the 1960s to the present. We will begin by examining the rise of pop and minimal art, and the challenge these movements--along with the earthworks, conceptual art, and performances that followed them--posed to the idea of modernism and the traditions of painting and sculpture.

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Art - Critical Methods for Contemporary Art

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This slide-lecture survey course is designed to give both art majors and non-majors an introduction to the myriad forms and concerns of art from the 1960s to the present. We will begin by examining the rise of pop and minimal art, and the challenge these movements - along with the earthworks, conceptual art, and performances that followed them - posed to the idea of modernism and the traditions of painting and sculpture. The question of postmodernism will be important to the course both thematically and chronologically. The second half of the course will focus on the issues raised by the return to representation in painting, by photography and other technologies of reproduction, by new media and genres like video art and installation, by shifts in concern regarding audience and public art, and by increased pluralism and globalism and their impact on our definitions of mainstream and avant-garde.

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Art - Digital Art

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This course explores the skills and knowledge needed to create web-based and/or computer interactive works of art. It is designed to assist artists with varying levels of familiarity with computers to create and present work expressing a personal vision entirely within the digital realm. Software explored may include Photoshop, Freehand, Flash, Dreamweaver and other tools as needed. Teaching methods include technical instruction and demonstration and group discussion of digital works of art and student work.

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Art - Everybody Moves Against Control: Studies in Public and Social Mobility

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Public space is a topic much discussed in contemporary art, architecture and urban planning. In an idealized conception central to the functioning of democracy, public spaces can be defined as common areas shared by a variety of people, and not controlled or regulated by any entity. These are the places, both physical and virtual, where resources can be shared and innovations can thrive. From garbage pickers to open source coders, the idea of truly public spaces is an important element for many individual's sense of both success and survival. Unfortunately, a number of factors have changed what was previously known as public space into completely regulated areas where autonomy is nonexistent and the fear of authority limits creative possibilities.

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Art - How to Create a Melodrama in Total Darkness

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Students will explore the melodramatic genre from early silent film of the 1920?s to avant-garde film and stage works of the late 20th C. will look at the formal features of the melodrama such as its roots in the stage and the variety show, character types, clear distinctions between good and evil and the happy ending. Some questions and will investigate are: Is melodrama an energizing, democratic and transparent form or does its user-friendly nature conceal a darker aspect whose function is the shoring up of the powerful and an entrenched social order? In response to readings, screening and theorizing, students will create their own critical melodramas. The first half of the course will be lecture/discussion; the second half is hands-on in which students collaborate to create their own critical works of melodrama. Projects include two short papers and a final hands-on collaborative project

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Art - Independent Study

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Independent study is designed for advanced students who will work one-on-one with a faculty advisor to develop a specific independent studio project. Preference is given to senior honors candidates. Independent study students are accepted only by permission of the instructor, who must be a member of the full-time faculty, and by permission of the department chairperson. The teaching method varies somewhat with each individual faculty advisor, but generally students meet privately with their advisor on a bi-weekly basis.

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