Fall 2022
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School of Art
Every student in the School of Art will take the following courses:
- ARI 101, First-year Studio I (3cr): Guides the students through a series of dynamic projects to explore different media and approaches to making art. Focuses on visual language and introduces visual inquiry.
- AIC 101, Arts in Context I (3cr): This is the first part of an introductory level course designed to acclimate students to the fundamental contexts in which the practice of making art co-exists with art’s audience, collectors, exhibitors, theorists, and historians. It unfolds many ways of seeing and thinking, opening up new perspectives on the world of contemporary visual art for both practitioners and viewers.
- ARL Labs, TBD (4cr): Students will be registered for four five-week intensive art labs with varying topics (drawing, design tools, sculpture, color). The assignments will be at random with the goal that students try a little bit of everything. Illustration majors will have predominately drawing labs.
Communications and Rhetorical Studies
Department of Drama
Every student in the Department of Drama will take the following courses:
- DRA 090, Theater Lab (0-1cr): Weekly department colloquium; work in progress viewed and discussed by faculty and student body. Frequent masterclasses and presentations by a diverse group of professionals in the field. Required of all Drama majors.
- DRA 115, Introduction to Theater (3cr): Survey of basic principles of drama from a diverse range of cultures and periods. Application of dramatic analysis principles to an inclusive selection of introductory texts.
School of Design
Every student in the School of Design will take the following courses:
- DES 100, First Year Forum (1cr): This course introduces students to Syracuse University and to the protocols and processes that they will encounter during their university experience. In addition, this course will introduce students to available resources and support systems.
- DES 101, Digital Tools for Designers I (3cr): Introduction to digital design software processes to create and manipulate vector and raster-based imagery and gain an understanding of publication software for layout and printed media.
- DES 103, Analog Design Tools (3cr): This course introduces students to two and three-dimensional visualization methods for the design fields. These methods will include hand drawing as well as modeling with paper/card, wood, and plastic.
- DES 113, History of Modern Design: 1850-Present (3cr): Lectures, readings, discussion, and written assignments develop visual literacy, critical, and communication skills integral to understanding design within its historical, social, and cultural context.
Department of Film and Media Arts (formerly the Department of Transmedia)
Every student in the Department of Film and Media Arts will take the following courses:
- TRM 151, TransMedia Colloquium – History (3cr): Introduction to the history of the media arts, including artists’ use of photography, film, video, and digital media, extending into artists’ use of television, audio, radio, the web, video games, and mediated performance.
- TRM 153, Studio Concepts (3cr): Introduces students to thinking critically and practically about time-based creative practices. Explores the use of digital media in concepts surrounding time/space, image/sound, interactivity/networks, and performance/movement. Students will work with photo, film, video, and computer.
Setnor School of Music
Every student in the School of Music will take the following courses:
- MHL 071, Weekly Student Convocation (0cr)
- MTC 145, Diatonic Harmony I (3cr): Music fundamentals. Elementary counterpoint. Basic principles of diatonic harmony, voice leading and analysis. All diatonic triads and their inversions.
- MTC 147, Ear Training I (1cr): Sight singing with diatonic melodies. Rhythmic reading and dictation with simple and compound meter. Melodic and harmonic dictation using all diatonic triads and their inversions.