Art Theory and Practice (ARTP)
Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission.
Description: Public exhibition to demonstrate artistic proficiency.
Prerequisites: Studio art major
Description: Introduction to writing methods, portfolio development, and creative research as essential skills for the pursuit of professional opportunities in all areas of studio arts.
Prerequisites: Studio Art, Graphic Design, or Graphic Arts Major
Description: Introduction to color theory and the use of color in design and to elements and principles of two dimensional composition and design in both pigment and digital media
Prerequisites: Studio Art, Graphic Design, or Graphic Arts Major
Description: Three-dimensional design principles, studio practices, tools, and material handling to conduct research and develop understanding of human interactions/experiences with objects and their occupation of space.
Description: Explore how street art practices highlight the unique relationships that develop between artists, communities and society-at-large within the urban environment. Study this public form of expression from early graffiti writing and birth of hip hop, to its current use as the voice of resistance and protest.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Introduction to digital media and basic principles of static 2D and 3D digital design using relevant software and hardware.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Introduction to interactive and time-based digital design using relevant software and hardware.
Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation.
Description: Topic varies.
Description: Introduction to basic skills and concepts of creative thinking and computational thinking and their application to interdisciplinary problem-solving.
Description: Hands-on approach to learning aspects of gallery management. Practical considerations of daily operations, including art handling, condition reporting, packing artworks for shipment, installation, lighting, and writing press releases, essays, and reviews.
Majors must enroll for letter grade. Credit will count toward the major in art as a studio elective.
Description: Field school art course at UNL Cedar Point Biological Station (CPBS). Approaches for understanding visual arts with broad perceptions of the natural world, environmental awareness, rural communities and relationships between art and science through art media with contemporary meaning and applications.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission of department chair.
Description: Special internship placement in community, state, or federal institutions related to the area of emphasis or interest.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission
Description: Culminating experience in studio art. Writing, thinking, and talking about art, and planning, preparing, and presenting a Capstone Exhibition.
Prerequisites: Senior standing; major in art; and permission of department chair.
Description: Advanced work in special internship placements.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Problems in technique and expression for the advanced undergraduate.
Prerequisites: 3.0 GPA, and permission
Description: Partner with local schools and community organizations in the production of collaborative exhibitions and events.
Prerequisites: Senior standing, co-register with ARTP 400 Capstone Art Experience; and permission.
Should be taken during the final semester of the BA or BFA in art. If the final semester is summer, then course should be taken during the preceding spring semester.
Description: Culminating experience for Art majors with an Interdisciplinary option to produce work for the Capstone Art Exhibition.