4D Design introduces students to the basic concepts of art and design in time and space. The course explores elements of moving images such as continuity, still and moving image editing, transitions and syntax, sound and image relations, and principles of movement. Computers, video, photo, sound and lighting equipment are used to create short-form time-based work relevant to students in all majors and programs required to take this course. The course addresses the both historical conventions of time in art and recent technological advances, which are redefining the fields of Fine Art and Design. In focusing on the relations between students' spacing and timing skills, 4D Design extends and supplements the other Foundation courses, and prepares students for further work with time-based media.

This course, the second course of a two-semester sequence, will introduce students to the use and manipulation of specialty analog cameras (e.g., pinhole, Holga, Hasselblad fish-eye, X-Pan, view camera), as well as methods of making “monoprints” - one of a kind photographs using analog processes such as photogram, chemogram, hand-coloring, and negative alteration. Students will also work collaboratively to expose and process large-format prints. Selections of work by noted photographic artists and others enrolled in the course will be analyzed and interpreted by students in both critiques and written assignments. A creative portfolio of black and white prints and/or monoprints will be produced by each student.

Students produce a thesis as a component of the MFA degree in Photography and Related Media. The completion of the thesis exhibition, from artwork to the installation, is the focus of this course.

This course provides an introduction to Visual Culture studies, an interdisciplinary field of study that explores the ways in which our lives are shaped through contact with, and consumption of, images, designed objects and visual forms of media, communication, and information. Students will develop a critical understanding of different aspects of contemporary visual culture as well as an awareness of its recent historical development.