Course Calendar 2011-2012 - Champlain College Saint-Lambert

Creative Arts
502-101-LA
Art & Ideas
(Concentration course for Creative Arts students only)
This course focuses on the inherent human urge to
express knowledge, emotions, values and beliefs
artistically. By looking at works of art from different
cultures and historical periods, students will explore a
wide range of artistic expression in different fields
including the visual arts, literature, music and dance.
3 hours/week Units: 2.00
502-101-01
Art & Ideas
(Concentration course for Modern Languages students
only)
This course surveys characteristic works of different
cultures and their socio-historical context and focuses on
the human artistic expression of knowledge, emotions,
values and beliefs. Various forms of artistic expression
will be explored: the art of writing, literature, painting,
sculpture and architecture.
3 hours/week Units: 2.00
502-201-LA
Art & Media
(Concentration course for Creative Arts students only)
This course will examine cultural movements of the past,
gradually bringing the student into the current period.
Touching on many issues of contemporary culture, the
student will be shown how to question and analyze
creation, meaning, and interpretation of cultural
phenomena. Helping the student to identify the most
important contexts surrounding culture will help them to
be critically informed as they participate within it.
3 hours/week Units: 2.00
502-201-01
Art & Media
(Concentration course for Modern Languages students
only)
Picking up where Art & Ideas left off, this course will
continue the survey of Western Civilization up to the
present time. Throughout the course, students will
appreciate the socio-historical and technological reasons
that led one movement into the next. Some trends of the
Modern Era will be discussed more closely for their
importance. Examples from different artistic domains will
be used to substantiate and clarify in the mind of the
students the meaning of the various currents.
3 hours/week Units: 2.00
510-101-LA
Intro to Digital Imaging/Studio Arts
(Concentration course for Creative Arts students only –
all profiles)
This course, and the profile it introduces, was designed with
the belief that artists working in the digital field will go much
further if they have a firm footing in studio arts practice. In
this introductory course, we attempt to take into
consideration the needs of students from all areas of
creative arts. This course will lay the foundation for more indepth
study of combined fields of digital imaging and the
studio arts. We will concentrate on principles of spatial
organization that are fundamental to all forms of expression
in the visual arts. Students will learn through practice that
various qualities of the same thing (i.e., line) can create
different messages. They will also begin discussion of visual
signs and symbols as they relate to meaning.
3 hours/week Units: 1.66
510-212-LA
2D Computer Imaging
(Concentration course for students in Creative Arts -
Digital Imaging/Studio Arts profile only)
This course uses the computer as an important research
tool in the exploration of visual language, design and the
creative process. Working with Photoshop, students will
learn to create, manage and manipulate graphic files, while
developing their own imagery and visual ideas. An emphasis
will be placed on integrating the students’ digital experience
with the rest of the studio practice. Students will be graded
on their mastery of technical skills and their creativity at
finding solutions to 2D design problems. The course will
start with 3 weeks of experiments in image manipulation,
followed by 3 thematic projects. The themes proposed:
Surrealist Collage, Drawing from Music and Self-Portrait will
emphasize aspects of visual language and design. Students
will be encouraged to create links between formal aspects
of digital image-making with content and meaning.
3 hours/week Units: 2.00
Prerequisite: 510-101 or with written permission from
instructor