ART 121 Introduction to Drawing

5 credits

This course meets the Humanities  general education distribution requirement.

Prerequisites: ABED 40  or AHSE 56  (or placement into MATH 87  or AHSE 66  or higher) and ABED 46  (or placement into ENGL 93  or higher)

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• Discuss the elements of shape, line, texture, form, and light during class critiques and presentations
• Apply terminology, tools, and techniques used in representational drawing
• Demonstrate proportion, scale, and perspective
• Transfer three dimensional objects onto two dimensional surface using black and white media
• Use a sketchbook for drawing practice, recording ideas, and sketching
• Draw compositions with a variety of line qualities
• Render drawings using tonal contrast
• Communicate ideas through drawing
• Research historical and theoretical applications of drawings as planning,  process, and communication

• Discuss and explain methods of creative expression, social interaction, and aesthetic considerations employed by individuals and societies
• Employ methods of intellectual and creative inquiry central to the selected Humanities course of study, using the vocabulary, concepts, historical perspectives and materials common to the chosen area
• Dependent on the Humanities area selected, interpret specific artifacts from art, film, history, language, literature, philosophy, religious thought, or narrative form and develop one’s own viewpoint or artifact using the techniques common to that area