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ART 3240 - Art Methods: PreK Through 12
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on four issues: 1) how teachers determine what to teach, 2) how they structure content to meet their objectives, 3) how they decide when to teach material, and 4) how they evaluate what they have taught. Students should, by the end of the course, be able to describe their rationale for “teaching” art in any classroom.
Restrictions: Junior Standing
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 3260 - Commercial Photography
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to studio photography for the commercial marketplace. The course involves a variety of commercial projects, including product photography and portraiture. Topics will include composition, exposure, and studio-lighting techniques.
Prerequisites: ART 1410 or ART 2301 , and DES 1020 and DES 1025 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ART 3270 - Advanced Photography
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed for the intermediate and advanced student working in film-based black and white photography. Technical control and artistic expression are emphasized as students develop their visual perception and an awareness of photographic possibilities. Students will generate a personal portfolio of prints, and the students will sequence a book of student photographs, which is printed, bound and put up for sale.
Prerequisites: ART 2301
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: One time.
Notes: A 35 mm camera with adjustable aperture and shutter speed is required. There is a course fee.
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ART 3314 - Advanced Printmaking
Credit(s): 3
Intaglio printmaking is emphasized beginning with the collagraph and advancing through the intaglio processes. The focus is to gain control of these techniques so that the student feels free to experiment. The ability to make art and develop an individual imagery as printing skills develop is stressed. While the student is expected to be able to edition prints, experimentation and pushing the medium and imagery are emphasized over traditional multiples editioning.
Prerequisites: ART 2410 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
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ART 3320 - Monoprints
Credit(s): 3
Explore this hybrid printmaking technique that combines painting, drawing and printing to create unique printed images. This technique encourages spontaneity and freedom in many directions. Some possibilities include chine colle, collage, drypoint and collagraph. We begin with basic monotype techniques and increase complexity including multiple plates.
Prerequisites: ART 1011 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
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ART 3415 - Animation Illustration Workshop I
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces the production team process by engaging and applying students’ individual strengths and interests in development roles on larger team projects directed by students in ART 4415 . The roles will be project specific and may include cleanup, inbetweening, basic tasks and functions, and the execution of projects for festivals and screenings.
Prerequisites: ART 2530 or ART 3085 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ART 3515 - Animation Illustration Workshop II
Credit(s): 3
This course complements skills and processes introduced in ART 3415 through projects directed by students in ART 4515 .
Prerequisites: ART 3415
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee, but students may be required to incur additional expenses toward the completion of their projects.
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ART 3710 - Special Topics in Art
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general Art curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ART 4007 - Graphic Novels
Credit(s): 3
One could argue that cave paintings were the first comics, but this course focuses on more recent graphic novels, including award winning works by Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Joe Sacco and many more. In addition to reading masterworks, we’ll study the history of comics, and the many uses of comics from advertising to animation. Students will also design and produce their own limited edition graphic chapbooks. Drawing is only one way to approach this, but not the only way – painters, photographers, writers and mixed-media artists are all welcome.
Prerequisites: ART 1011 , ART 2110 , and ENG 1072
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4020 - Advanced Digital Media
Credit(s): 3
This course offers a survey of contemporary digital image processes and tools, including digital photography, illustration, design, 3-D graphics and video/multimedia. Intended for students who have background in photography and related issues of media arts, the course focuses on the relationship of digital media to established art forms and study possibilities for their integration. The course also covers contemporary work in technology-influenced art practice and theory.
Prerequisites: ART 2110
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
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ART 4025 - Advanced Digital Media: Documentary & Social Media
Credit(s): 3
This course covers theoretical and artistic principles in portraying “reality” and “truth” through social-networking, Web 2.0, digital photography and video. Students will work on a number of projects investigating digital identities, contemporary methods for documenting location and socially conscious audiovisual podcasting. Throughout the course students will be exposed to work created by innovators of documentary. The course will also teach students to creatively utilize tools such as Facebook, Flickr geo-tagging), Youtube and online media networks such as Current TV. The final project will include producing and promoting a short video podcast for public broadcast.
Prerequisites: ART 2110
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4040 - Advanced Photography
Credit(s): 3
This course further explores technical, historical and creative issues. Students will generate a strong portfolio through intensive studio work. Other course components may include research projects, field trips to local exhibitions, non-traditional processes, readings in history and criticism, and a public exhibition of completed projects.
Prerequisites: ART 2301 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
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ART 4050 - Advanced Painting
Credit(s): 3
This course emphasizes a student’s individual vision. Each semester explores different techniques. Several topics are addressed including large-scale works, mixed media, handmade paints and an examination of painting masters, both historic and contemporary.
Prerequisites: ART 2211 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
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ART 4060 - Advanced Digital: Graphic Design
Credit(s): 3
This course will explore page layout, graphic design and digital imaging for print. It is designed for both the intermediate and advanced student who wishes to learn how to make effective print presentations, brochures and books. The course will focus on contemporary creative and practical concepts of using computers in the visual arts and graphic design, focusing on the basic concepts and terminology associated with typography and page layout.
Prerequisites: ART 2110
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4070 - Advanced Digital: Web Design for Artists
Credit(s): 3
Students learn to use web design creatively for their portfolios and as an interactive art form to present original online work. Students learn how to plan, organize and produce a 30- to 40-page standards- compliant website from start to finish with Macromedia Dreamweaver using tableless transitional XHTML with Cascading Style Sheets. Class time provides an overview of aesthetics and concepts of web design, including usability, accessibility, information design and graphic design.
Prerequisites: ART 2110 or CIS 2220
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4075 - Advanced Digital: Animation & Motion Graphics
Credit(s): 3
This course offers artistic and theoretical principles in animation. Students learn basic motion-graphic techniques, including Straight Ahead Animation, Squash and Stretch, Anticipation, and Rotoscoping. The course covers both traditional styles of animation (frame by frame, motion and shape tweens), basic 2D character rigging, and experimental techniques. Students are exposed to work created by innovators of animation to gain insight into theory and techniques. The class provides an environment where students share their work and ideas and critique each other’s progress.
Prerequisites: ART 2110
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4080 - Advanced Digital Media: Intermedia
Credit(s): 3
This course is an experimental class in which we create new genres of art. Students are encouraged to develop selective awareness, imagination and an interdisciplinary approach to creative practice. Students are exposed to deep listening techniques, expanded cinema, movement research and emergent media. The class provides an environment where students are appreciated for attempting the unknown while embracing failure.
Prerequisites: ART 2110
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4110 - Visual Art & Performance
Credit(s): 3
This course is an exploration into the world of performance art. Students will generate, perform and create props and visuals for their performances. Two to four visiting artists will conduct workshops throughout the semester. A trip to Boston or New York will be arranged to see professional work.
Prerequisites: ART 2251
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4120 - B.F.A. Project & Exhibit
Credit(s): 3
Students work closely with a mentor chosen from the studio art faculty to prepare and mount their senior thesis exhibition. Students may work in a single medium or combination of media to produce their culminating exhibition in the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4130 - Advanced Sculpture
Credit(s): 3
Students investigate at least three media, which may include plaster, wood, metal, stone and others. Emphasis of study shifts from semester to semester, and concept and material are of equal importance. Students are encouraged to work creatively within the context of the learned technique. Assignments may encompass public art, installations, performance art and others.
Prerequisites: ART 2251 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
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ART 4140 - Advanced Photojournalism
Credit(s): 3
Students engage in a number of projects outside of the classroom as a photographer. Students complete fieldwork involving on-location photography, interviewing, writing and final presentations in both an exhibition and simulated book in order to synthesize their work into a publishable form.
Prerequisites: ART 2110 ; and also ENG 1260 for photojournalism majors, permission of instructor for others
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4150 - Advanced Digital: Video
Credit(s): 3
This course covers theoretical and artistic principles of video art. Students will learn basic video recording, editing, effects and audiovisual production techniques. They are exposed to work created by innovators of video art to gain insight into applying theory and technique. The class provides an environment where students can share their work, and ideas and critique each other’s’ progress.
Prerequisites: ART 2110
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4175 - Advanced 3D Animation
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on advanced skills in which the animator develops depth of knowledge and productivity in 3D animation. The continued use of the twelve principles of animation will be applied to the digital format for the purpose of designing and developing advanced 3D animated films.
Prerequisites: ART 3085
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ART 4415 - Animation Illustration Workshop III
Credit(s): 3
This course places students in leadership roles in the production of advanced animation and illustration projects in conjunction with students in ART 3415 , who will serve in support roles during the production process.
Prerequisites: ART 3515
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee, but students may be required to incur additional expenses toward the completion of their projects.
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ART 4515 - Animation Illustration Workshop IV
Credit(s): 3
This course complements work in ART 4415 in collaboration with students in ART 3515 . Acting as project leaders, students will complete a culminating body of work worthy of portfolio inclusion or festival submission.
Prerequisites: ART 4415
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee, but students may be required to incur additional expenses toward the completion of their projects.
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ART 4611 - Senior Thesis I
Credit(s): 3
Students in this course will develop, plan, and execute a personal capstone project related to the visual arts. Examples of possible projects include, but are not limited to, the development of an industry-specific portfolio, self-promotion or marketing of a business, or preparation for a graduate program. BFA Animation/Illustration students will complete their two-semester senior project in ART 4612 .
Restrictions: Senior standing and permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ART 4710 - Special Topics in Art
Credit(s): 3 (Johnson), Variable (Lyndon)
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general Art curriculum.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus, Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ART 4730 - B.F.A. Seminar
Credit(s): 3
This professionally oriented “capstone” course looks into all aspects of a career in the visual arts. By the end of the semester, students will have produced a professional portfolio documenting their own work, complete with resume, artist’s statement and slides. Students also explore career options, exhibit venues, grant writing, websites, graduate schools, legal considerations for the artist and how to set up a safe, affordable studio.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4810 - Internship in Art
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an internship in an art field in consultation with their advisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ART 4820 - Animation Illustration Internship
Credit(s): 1-15
This internship offers students the opportunity to gain “on the job” experience in the animation and/or illustration field. Job-site supervisors serve as mentors to students, offering their individual expertise and guidance. Students must apply for an internship in advance and meet with their academic advisor to discuss procedural details. A contract must be established between the student, job-site supervisor, and faculty supervisor, subject to the departmental approval.
Restrictions: Junior standing and permission (requires portfolio application).
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes (but only 3 credits may be counted toward Visual Arts program requirements).
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ART 4910 - Independent Study (L)
Credit(s): 1-3
This course gives the advanced student an opportunity to work on a special area of interest that is not possible through the standard curriculum. The independent study contract must be approved, signed, and submitted before the current semester’s registration period closes.
Restrictions: By Permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ART 4910 - Independent Study in Art (J)
Credit(s): 1-12
Students develop and complete an independent study in an art field in consultation with their advisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 1030 - FYS: Art & Ethics
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to explore ethics of the art world from many angles. We will study graffiti and street art and how graffiti artists have migrated from illicit street art into the galleries and museums. We will discuss art and activisim in terms of environmental art and architecture as well as art as political protest. We will explore environmental art and architecture as well as art as political protest. We will explore articles and case law that deal with the issues of illegal export, import, censorship, copyright and display. We will see how war has dislocated and destroyed artworks.
Restrictions: First-year student
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 1710 - Special Topics in Art History
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 1000-level not offered in the general Art History curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ARH 2010 - Survey of Western Traditions in Art
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the history of Western art as expressed in different medias such as painting, sculpture and architecture from the prehistoric to the modern era.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 2011 - Survey of Western Art I
Credit(s): 3
This course provides a survey of the history of Western art from prehistoric times to the early Renaissance, with emphasis on developing visual awareness and the ability to analyze works of art. This instruction examines selected works in terms of their historical and cultural elements and the phenomenon of stylistic change over the centuries.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ARH 2012 - Survey of Western Art II
Credit(s): 3
This course surveys the history of Western art from the Renaissance to the present. The instruction provides emphasis on developing the student’s visual awareness and ability to analyze works of art. The instruction consists of lectures that examine selected works in terms of their historical and cultural elements and the phenomenon of stylistic change over the centuries.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ARH 2060 - Survey of Non-Western Traditions in Art
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the history of non-Western art as expressed in different mediums such as painting, sculpture and architecture from the prehistoric to the modern era.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 2070 - History of Photography
Credit(s): 3
This course will explore the history of photography from its inception through modern times. Students will gain an understanding of the cultural impact of photography.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ARH 2710 - Special Topics in Art History
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general Art History curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ARH 2910 - Independent Study in Art History
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an independent study in art history in consultation with their advisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3015 - Greek & Roman Art
Credit(s): 3
This course studies the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, from the Aegean through the Late Empire periods.
Prerequisites: ARH 2010 ; ARH 2060
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3020 - Art of the Renaissance
Credit(s): 3
This course stresses Italian painting and sculpture, beginning with the 14th-century Tuscan masters and ending with Michelangelo and the early Mannerists. Northern art is considered in terms of its influence on developments in the south.
Prerequisites: ARH 2010 ; ARH 2060
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3060 - Twentienth Century Art
Credit(s): 3
This course studies the history of 20th century art covering Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Suprematicism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Happenings, Minimal Art, New Genre Art and Post-Modern Art.
Prerequisites: ARH 2010 ; ARH 2060
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3075 - History of Media Art
Credit(s): 3
This course will trace the ancestry of the computer as used by the artist and designer. This course will examine the pre-digital origins of digital artistic applications. The course is structured by application and will start with the pre-digital origins and then study early, modern, and contemporary artists for each area. Topics included are: history of graphic design, film and animation, artistic and architectural rendering, image manipulation, Photoshop, installation, and interactive art.
Prerequisites: ARH 2010 , ARH 2060
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3080 - History of Animation and Illustration
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces the student to the history, evolution, and popular trends of animation and American illustration from the industrial revolution to the present day. Students will also explore the relationship and influence of fine art and graphic design on the two narrative art forms and how animation and illustration have influenced fine art and graphic design.
Prerequisites: ARH 2011 or ARH 2012 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ARH 3090 - Historical Themes in the Visual Arts
Credit(s): 3
This course provides in-depth study of specific topics, themes, artists, mediums, and/or periods etc. within the History of the Visual Arts. Topics will rotate based on faculty expertise. This course may be repeated once for credit with a change of topic.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 and permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ARH 3110 - The Spiritual in Non-Western Art
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the rich cultural history of African, Native American, Oceanic and pre-Roman Celtic art. The course will underscore how traditional societies fully integrated art into everyday life and how they imbued it with powerful magical and mystical meanings. How western artists, collectors and museum officials have used and misused art from “Third World” countries will be carefully illustrated and considered throughout the semester.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3120 - Art Criticism
Credit(s): 3
This course will expose students to the major critical stances that have shaped art historical thought in the West. Students analyze the critical stance of Kant, Winckelmann, Marx, Freud and others, which will help them become more critical readers and writers. Students are expected to write weekly assignments and critique each other’s work.
Prerequisites: ARH 2060
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3130 - The History of Photography
Credit(s): 3
This course surveys the history and aesthetics of 19th and 20th century photography. Photographs by masters form the basis for a critical assessment of the medium.
Prerequisites: ARH 2010 ; ARH 2060
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3140 - African Art
Credit(s): 3
The art from the continent of Africa is one of the most varied in terms of culture, aesthetics and techniques in the world. The course begins in the northern cultures of the Mediterranean and makes its way down across the Sahara to the West, Central, East, South, and then looks at art of the African Diaspora. In each region, we will examine art from ancient to contemporary and discuss the changing cultural, political and social climates. Students will look at sculptures, performance, architecture, adornment and jewelry.
Prerequisites: ARH 2010 ; ARH 2060
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3150 - Art of the Human Body
Credit(s): 3
This course examines all art that scrutinizes the human body in some way. The course covers art from all cultures and all time periods, from ancient Greek sculpture, Mesoamerican frescoes and Maori tattooing to modern-day body artists who practice tattooing, scarification and other body arts.
Prerequisites: ARH 2010 ; ARH 2060
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3210 - Women in Art
Credit(s): 3
A survey of representative women artists from the Renaissance to the present, this course introduces students to the unique role of women in the visual arts, their contributions and struggle for recognition.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ARH 3710 - Special Topics in Art History
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general Art History curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ARH 4710 - Special Topics in Art History
Credit(s): 3 (Johnson), Variable (Lyndon)
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general Art History curriculum.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus, Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ARH 4720 - Seminar in Contemporary Art Issues
Credit(s): 3
The issues treated vary from semester to semester. The class takes an active role in deciding the relevant issues. Past topics have included public funding for “controversial” art, women’s issues in art, art vs. craft and “Is it art?” Students develop critical skills and see their own work in the light of the contemporary scene. At least one field trip to a metropolitan center is scheduled to view contemporary art.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
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ARH 4910 - Independent Study in Art History
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an independent study in art history in consultation with their advisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ATM 1010 - Elementary Meteorology
Credit(s): 4
This course presents an introduction to meteorology, primarily for the non-science major. Topics may include weather observation, clouds and precipitation, radiation and weather phenomena, the laws of motion of the atmosphere, the general circulation, air masses and fronts, cyclones and anticyclones, the weather map, and an introduction to weather forecasting.
Prerequisites: Basic Math competency.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 1020 - Introduction to Climate Change
Credit(s): 4
This course presents an introduction to climate change science, primarily for the non-science major. This course focuses on the causes of global climate change, with a particular focus on human influences, perspectives in the media, climate change projections, likely impacts, and potential solutions.
(with lab)
Prerequisites: Basic Math competency.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 1030 - Elementary Oceanography
Credit(s): 4
This course presents an introduction to oceanography, primarily for non-science majors. Topics may include life in the ocean, the composition of sea water, waves, tides, currents, ocean basin formation, and environmental issues related to the oceans.
Prerequisites: Basic Math competency.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 1040 - Field Experience
Credit(s): 0.5 to 3
This experiential course includes a supervised on-site educational activity at an operational meteorological facility or an on-site instrument usage, data gathering, and data analysis experience as a major component.
Restrictions: By Permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: When no duplication of experience results.
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 1050 - Problem Solving in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces fundamental atmospheric physical processes such as radiation, thermodynamics, and the forces creating wind. An emphasis is placed on problem solving and graphing scientific data.
Prerequisites: MAT 1020 or a higher level mathematics course required for the major.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 1060 - New Student Seminar in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces Atmospheric Sciences majors to the intellectual and social environment of college. Students will discuss skills that will help them to be successful within the Atmospheric Sciences program and more broadly at Lyndon. These skills include managing time and money, effective studying, test taking, problem solving, and critical thinking. This course discusses career paths in Atmospheric Sciences and the skills required to be successful in the workforce. The importance of general education is also covered.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 1211 - Survey of Meteorology I
Credit(s): 2
This course introduces the study of the atmosphere and is designed for atmospheric science and other science-oriented students. Topics may include atmospheric structure, weather instrumentation, temperature, seasons, humidity, clouds, precipitation, atmospheric stability, optical phenomena, and thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Prerequisites: High school physics or PHY 2031 .
Corequisites: MAT 1410 or a higher level math course required for the major.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 1212 - Survey of Meteorology II
Credit(s): 3
This course builds on the principles learned in ATM 1211 and is designed for atmospheric science and other science-oriented students. Topics may include the exploration and study of weather features such as fronts, cyclones, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes. The instruction covers basic weather data acquisition, decoding and interpretation of surface weather observations, analysis of surface weather maps, and upper-level analysis in the context of midlatitude cyclone lifecycles.
(with lab)
Prerequisites: MAT 1410 and ATM 1211 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 1710 - Special Topics in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 1000-level not offered in the general Atmospheric Sciences curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ATM 2061 - Survey of Climate and Statistics I
Credit(s): 2
This course is designed for science majors and introduces the study of climatology using statistical concepts. Topics may include atmospheric composition, controls of climate, atmospheric interaction with other climate components, energy balances, the hydrologic cycle, general circulation, and climate classifications. Statistical concepts include probability, numerical and graphical summaries, and re-expression.
Corequisites: MAT 1531 or a higher math course required for the major, or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 2062 - Survey of Climate and Statistics II
Credit(s): 3
This course expands on the study of climatology and may include topics such as regional climates, natural and anthropogenic climate change and variability, coupling between the atmosphere and ocean, statistical forecasting, and climate modeling. Instruction applies additional statistical concepts, such as paired data exploration and significance testing, to various types of climate data to study spatial and temporal climate variability, teleconnections, and trends.
(with lab)
Prerequisites: ATM 2061
Corequisites: MAT 2532 or a higher math course required for the major, or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 2210 - Geophysical and Human Interactions
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the interactions among humans, the earth, and the atmosphere. Topics may include the human impact on weather, climate, tropospheric pollution, ozone, precipitation acidification, desertification, and biogeochemical cycles. Societal, health, and economic impacts of these phenomena on the human condition are explored. Policy, mitigation, and adaptation strategies to our changing climate are discussed.
Prerequisites: MAT 1020
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 2710 - Special Topics in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general Atmospheric Sciences curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ATM 3030 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an application of physics and calculus to the study of atmospheric thermodynamics and provides a foundation for more advanced topics such as dynamics, cloud physics, and weather forecasting. Topics may include ideal gas properties, work and energy, hydrostatics, thermodynamics of dry, moist, and saturated air, and thermodynamic diagrams.
Prerequisites: MAT 2532 , ATM 1212 , and PHY 2062 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3050 - GIS Applications in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces GIS for data analysis in atmospheric science. Topics may include types of GIS data, projections, geo-referencing and reclassifying imagery, creating personal geo-databases, spatial analysis, spatial data acquisition, interpolation techniques, animation, and shape file creation. This course also covers conversion and integration of geospatial data into commonly used application programming interfaces.
Restrictions: Junior standing or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3110 - Remote Sensing
Credit(s): 3
The course lecture sessions provide an overview of the operation and performance of various meteorological sensors and platforms, including Doppler radar, wind profilers, balloons and sondes, satellites, aircraft, and ASOS. The laboratory includes the study and use of data and products from meteorological remote sensing systems, including launching a radio-tempsonde and analyzing its data.
Prerequisites: ATM 3140 , ATM 3321 , and ATM 3331 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3140 - Physical Meteorology
Credit(s): 3
This course examines topics such as radiation processes in the earth’s atmosphere, cloud physics, atmospheric optics, atmospheric electricity, and aeronomy.
Corequisites: ATM 2020
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3170 - Weather Risk Assessment
Credit(s): 3
This course investigates weather and climate risks posed to society and industry. Industries sensitive to weather risk are highlighted. The assessment of risk exposure on weekly to seasonal time scales is accomplished using statistical analysis. The process of monetizing weather and climate effects is described. Effective risk management and decision-making are also discussed.
Prerequisites: ATM 2060
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3270 - Television Weather Graphics
Credit(s): 1
This course introduces students to graphical software used in broadcast meteorology. Students will learn how to construct technically correct and visually appealing weather graphics using WSI software.
Prerequisites: ATM 2062
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3310 - Forecasting Applications
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on the application of weather information to weather-sensitive industries. The course develops weather forecasting and technical skills through a variety of simulated forecast challenges for various clients. This course illustrates how meteorologists add value to weather-sensitive industries. Effective interpersonal communication skills and client relations are discussed.
Prerequisites: ATM 2060
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3321 - Atmospheric Dynamics I
Credit(s): 3
This course uses physics and calculus to examine relationships between forces and motion on a rotating earth. Kinematic principles, such as vorticity and divergence, are introduced, and conservation laws are explored with respect to momentum, mass and energy, and various wind balances.
Prerequisites: ATM 2020 , ATM 3331 , MAT 2543 , and PHY 2062 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3322 - Atmospheric Dynamics II
Credit(s): 3
This course expands upon the concepts introduced in ATM 3321 to understand Rossby waves, synoptic-scale instability theory, fronts, and jets. Quasi-geostrophic and potential vorticity frameworks are used to understand the development/decay and movement of midlatitude extratropical cyclones.
Prerequisites: ATM 3321 and ATM 3332 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3331 - Analysis and Forecasting I
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces analysis techniques to diagnose past and present weather conditions, and methods to ultimately predict the future state of the atmosphere. Topics may include synoptic mid-latitude weather systems and their mesoscale structures, the effective use of modern numerical weather prediction, and analysis of data from various sources for timely and accurate weather forecast decision making.
Prerequisites: ATM 2020
Corequisites: ATM 3321
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3332 - Analysis and Forecasting II
Credit(s): 3
This course expands upon the concepts introduced in ATM 3331 to accurately diagnose the atmosphere and incorporate forecasting techniques and strategies so that one can construct a forecast based on sound scientific principles and reasoning. Topics may include Quasi-Geostrophic diagnosis and prediction of high-impact weather associated with synoptic scale midlatitude cyclones, and practices and limitations of modern numerical weather prediction.
Prerequisites: ATM 3331
Corequisites: ATM 3321
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 3710 - Special Topics in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general Atmospheric Sciences curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ATM 4010 - Television Weathercasting
Credit(s): 1
This course allows students to prepare unique weather forecasts which are communicated to nearly 10,000 local households via live on-camera presentations using the News7 studios. Instruction includes one-on-one critiquing/coaching to develop and improve weather storytelling on live TV.
Prerequisites: ATM 3332 and ATM 3270 .
Corequisites: EJA 3222 and permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: One time.
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4030 - Physical Climatology
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the climate system based on fundamental physical principles and statistical theory. Topics may include the dynamical influences of climatic indicators, such as sea-surface temperature, on planetary circulation regimes, commonly identified intraseasonal-to-multidecadal climate variations, teleconnections, and their relationships to high impact weather/climate events and medium-range forecasting.
Prerequisites: ATM 2061
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4040 - Physical Hydrology
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces hydrology with application to the atmosphere and upper one meter of the terrestrial surface. The instruction covers such topics as hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture transfer, surface runoff, flood prediction and mitigation, flash flooding, terrain influence on water flow, drainage basins, and natural and anthropogenic changes to hydrologic cycle. The instruction includes the study of computer models of soil moisture and canopy energy transfer to demonstrate air-soil moisture interactions.
Prerequisites: ATM 2020
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4110 - Numerical Weather Prediction
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on numerical weather prediction, including both regional climate models and general circulation models. The instruction covers such topics as the governing equations, numerical methods, model configurations, history of numerical modeling, climate change scenarios, ensembles, and atmospheric predictability.
Prerequisites: ATM 2020 and ATM 3331 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4120 - Mesoscale Meteorology
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on the structure, evolution, and dynamics of atmospheric phenomena having spatial scales between 2 and 2,000 km., which are studied through the examination of data from a variety of observing platforms, mesoscale models, case studies, and multi-media instructional modules. Topics may include sea/land/lake breezes, the dryline, coastal fronts, gust fronts, air-mass thunderstorms, multicell thunderstorms, supercells, mesoscale convection systems, bow echoes, derechoes, tornadoes, and gravity waves.
Prerequisites: ATM 3321 and ATM 3331 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4140 - Climate Change Dynamics
Credit(s): 3
This course discusses natural and anthropogenic impacts on the global energy budget, global carbon cycling, and radiative forcings. Topics may include general circulation dynamics and modeling, theories of climate change controls, and observational evidence for climate change.
Prerequisites: ATM 2061
Corequisites: ATM 3321 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4410 - Workshop on Weathercasting Techniques
Credit(s): 1
This course offers TV weathercasting training facilitated by professional TV meteorologists. During the fall semester, instruction includes an overview of the current state of the TV weather, business, and one-on-one guidance on the effectiveness of students’ on-camera performance and weather storytelling skills. During the spring semester, instruction includes feedback on News7 shows and assessment of improvement from the fall semester.
Prerequisites: ATM 3332 and permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: One time.
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4610 - Mathematical Studies in Atmospheric Sciences I
Credit(s): 1
This course allows students to use their knowledge of mathematics to investigate a meteorologically-related topic at a level beyond those which are presented in courses in the Atmospheric Sciences (B.S.) program.
Prerequisites: ATM 3321
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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ATM 4620 - Mathematical Studies in Atmospheric Sciences II
Credit(s): 1
Students complete the research program started in ATM 4610 , then write and present their work.
Prerequisites: ATM 4610
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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ATM 4710 - Topics in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general Atmospheric Sciences curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ATM 4712 - Thesis in Atmospheric Sciences I
Credit(s): 2
This course discusses meteorological research methodology and then requires students to research and write a major paper on a topic in the atmospheric sciences.
Prerequisites: ATM 3321 , ATM 3332 , and ATM 3140 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4713 - Thesis in Atmospheric Sciences II
Credit(s): 2
This course provides an opportunity for students to revise and expand the content and style of the report written in ATM 4712 and includes a unique research component.
Prerequisites: ATM 3322 , ATM 4120 , and ATM 4712 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ATM 4820 - Co-op in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): 1 to 15
This cooperative education course provides college credit for field placement with a commercial, governmental, or non-profit organization and is designed to provide the student with experience in practical application of theories and principles learned in the classroom. The work experience must be approved in advance by the department, the employer, and the college.
Restrictions: By Permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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ATM 4900 - Independent Study, Directed Study, and Special Projects in Atmospheric Sciences
Credit(s): 1 to 3
This course allows students to select a topic or project in atmospheric sciences for detailed independent or directed study under the supervision of a department faculty member.
Restrictions: By Permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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BIO 1030 - Introduction to Nutrition
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to the physiological basis of nutrition and evaluates dietary requirements. Emphasis is placed on metabolism, digestion, and nutrients used in the human body and the nutrition involved in health, disease, and aging.
Prerequisites: Basic Math Competency.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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BIO 1050 - FYS: Pretty or Nasty: The World of Cosmetics
Credit(s): 3
The popularity of cosmetics has increased significantly during the 20th century in western societies, particularly in the U.S. This course looks at cosmetic use from its beginning more than 6,000 years ago to the present time, when it comprises a worldwide, $18 billion industry. The class will first participate in a professional make-up session, then move on to investigate the role of cosmetics in self-image as a more comprehensive understanding of the influence of the social environment, including the media. An introduction to cosmetic chemistry will allow students to evaluate safety and ethical issues. The course concludes with a personal reflection and analysis of cosmetic usage.
Restrictions: First-year students only
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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BIO 1110 - Bird Identification
Credit(s): 2
This course is designed for students interested in being able to identify the local birds in field and in laboratory. A final field test and bird list is required.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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BIO 1210 - Introduction to Biology
Credit(s): 4
This course is a broad overview of the study of life including cells, organisms, ecosystems, evolution, biodiversity, and the techniques of the biologist. This course is recommended for non-science majors.
(with lab)
Prerequisites: PLM 0003 or PLM 0004 ; or MAT 1015
Offering Location: Johnson Campus, Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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