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ARHI 185 SC-01: History of Photography

  • Instructor: Lum, Julia
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00PM
    • Room 101, Steele Hall
    • Media History/Art History

Photography from the nineteenth century to the present. The camera as a tool for documentation, portraiture, social comment, journalism, advertising, and as a pure vehicle for personal expression and a point of departure for allied art forms.

ART 116 SC-01: Intro to Digital Photo

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:00PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

A studio art course in digital photography with an emphasis on image production. Students will explore, discuss, and contextualize historical and contemporary uses of photograpic media. Student will learn or expand on their skills in Photoshop and Lightroom. Students must have access to a DSL or Lensless camera w/ full manual camera settings. The course will include student presentations, technical assignments, writing assignments, and a final portfolio.

ART 134 SC-01: Trad & Digital Printmaking

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:30PM
    • Room 106/214, Lang Art Building
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

Moving Between Media: Traditional and Digital Printmaking. The digital print is considered something of a hybrid in the print and photo world. Crossing platforms between the etching studio and the digital art lab, students will create works that integrate both methodologies. Systems including transfer drawing, monoprinting, silk solar plates, digital transfer, and analog and digital printing will be explored. Pre-requisite: Art 141 SC. May be taken twice for credit.

ART 135 SC-01: Experimental Relief Printing

  • Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
    • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:00PM
    • Room 100, Lang Art Building
    • Elective

Through open and structured assignments, students will learn the basics of experimental and relief printing. In library and artist visits, the class will explore how artists utilize printmaking with original text to entertain, educate, connect, shift consciousness, and build community. Unique and editioned prints will represent the effort and vision of each student.

ART 136 SC-01: The Artist’s Book

  • Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:30-3:30PM
    • Room 100, Lang Art Building
    • Elective

In this studio course at the Scripps College Press, each student will create a unique, limited-edition artist’s book. Students write text, generate imagery using traditional and alternative printing techniques, hand set metal and wooden type, letterpress print on antique printing presses, and hand-bind an edition of 12-15 copies of an artist’s book. While some assignments will be collaborative, the final book project will represent each student’s individual vision and effort.

ART 141 SC-01: Introduction to Digital Art

  • Instructor: Macko, Nancy
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 10:00AM-12:00PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. The curriculum is designed to assist students in approaching their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, to draw upon formal elements in art and conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects and goals. Also listed as MS 041 SC.

ART 144 SC-01: Digital Fabrication in Fine Art

  • Instructor: Ogasian, Aly
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-3:45PM
    • Room 116, Lang Art Building
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

This intermediate level art course will explore digital fabrication within the realm of contemporary art. Assignments will encourage the integration of emerging methods such as 3D printing with traditional techniques such as moldmaking, casting, and other sculptural or expanded studio practices. Through presentations, independent research, critiques, and hands-on studio work, students will be exposed to a diverse array of artistic approaches and methodologies that merge analog and digital. Course satisfies Fine Arts general education requirement.

ART 145 SC-01: Intro to B/W Darkroom Photo

  • Instructor: Gonzales-Day, Ken
    • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:00PM
    • Room 119, Lang Art Building
    • Intro to Production

A studio course in black-and-white photography with an emphasis on image production, developing, and printing 35mm film, in a wet darkroom. Instruction in basic camera operation, and darkroom techniques, and considers historical and contemporary uses of the photographic medium. Students should have access to a 35mm camera. Some cameras are available for check out from Scripps AV. Prerequisites: Art 100A, Art 100B, Art 141, Intro to Media Studies.

ART 147 SC-01: Int/Adv Digital Photography

  • Instructor: Gonzales-Day, Ken
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:00-3:00PM
    • Room 119, Lang Art Building
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Elective

This course will provide the student with an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of digital color photography. Working with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, studnets will learn advanced image editing skills and image management, and be given the opportunity to combine digital with film, large format, and wet darkroom techniques. Course will include readings and student presentations on contemporary photography. Digital SLR camera recommended. Prerequisite: Art 141 or Art 145. Laboratory fee: $75.

ART 148 SC-01: Introduction to Video Art

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Tuesday; 10:00AM-12:30PM
    • West Hall Q120 (Pitzer Campus)
    • Thursday; 10:00AM-12:30PM
    • Room 214, Lang Art Building
    • Intro to Production

A studio course introducing students to the basic techniques of digital video production: camerawork, audio recording, lighting and non-linear editing. Production is augmented by critiques, screenings, and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas. Course has pre-req.

ART 181M SC-01: Topics in Studio Art Theory: Ecofeminsim and Eco Art

  • Instructor: Macko, Nancy
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00PM
    • Room 221, Lang Art Building
    • Media Theory

This course will explore the history, theory and concepts that set the stage for the contemporary eco art practices of today. We will study the philosophy of ecofeminism that defines the international environmental art movement and trace the evolution of eco art from its roots in ecology. Throughout the course students will have the opportunity to learn from this legacy and to apply this knowledge to their interests and practices as makers, curators, writers, and historians. Course meets Fine Arts and Gender Women’s Studies general education requirements.

CLAS 019 SC-01: Classical Myth in Film

  • Instructor: Roselli, David
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
    • Room 100, Vita Nova Hall
    • Elective

From Cleopatra’s beguiling charms and Medea’s torrid love affair with Jason to Homer’s wily Odysseus, ancient culture still provides material for conceptualizing modern political, racial, social, and sexual issues as imagined in modern Hollywood films and European cinema. This course explores contradictions in the relationship between modernity and antiquity through a study of cinematic adaptations of ancient narratives; central to these discussions are the relationship between aesthetics and politics and the shifting role of culture from common ground to culture industry and beyond. In addition to screening films, students will also read plays, poetry, historical narratives, film criticism, and works of critical theory.

ITAL 140 SC-01: Italian Cinema

  • Instructor: Ovan, Sabrina
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00PM
    • Room 102, Humanities Building
    • Elective

This course will explore the history and criticism of Italian cinema from its origin to the 21st century through the showing of a number of iconic films and the criticism surrounding them. It will also help student better understand contemporary Italian history through film. Taught alternately in Italian and English.

MS 038 SC-01: Machine Learning for Artists

  • Instructor: Goodwin, Doug
    • Friday; 1:15-4:00PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

Machine learning (ML) is a new branch of computer science that provides services for automatic translation and speech recognition (Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant), product recommendations (Netflix, Amazon, etc.), transportation (Waymo, Tesla, the City of Copenhagen), and political campaigns (Facebook and Cambridge Analytica). ML is becoming a familiar presence in our lives; computer scientists and developers introduce new applications every day for chatting with humans, recommending the best course of action, and making predictions about the future. In spite of all the press, ML remains daunting to non-specialists. This class seeks to mend this divide. This class will introduce ML concepts to students without prior experience and provide templates to get students working in ML right away. We will study and remake artworks by Mario Klingemann, Anna Ridler, Sougwen Chung, Memo Akten, Helena Sarin, Tom White, and others. They will use techniques such as image segmentation, CycleGAN, pix2pix, and Tensorflow. Students will propose and work on a larger project in the last third of the class. Prerequisite: Any experience with programming, especially with Python

MS 041 SC-01: Introduction to Digital Art

  • Instructor: Charlesworth, Vivian
    • Tuesday/Thursday 1:15-3:45PM
    • TBA
    • Intro to Production

This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. The curriculum is designed to assist students in approaching their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, to draw upon formal elements in art and conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects and goals. Also listed as ART 141 SC.

MS 051 SC-01: Introduction to Digital Media Studies

  • Instructor: Moralde, Oscar
    • Monday/Wednesday; 11:00AM-12:15PM
    • Room 101, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Critical Studies

An interdisciplinary introduction to digital and electronic media, exploring the relationships between “old” and “new” media forms, the historical development of computer-based communication and the ways that new technologies are reshaping literature, art, journalism, and the social world.

MS 057 SC-01: Intro to Game Design

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-3:45PM
    • Room 229, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

This course serves as an introduction to the foundations of game design. Talking about games may conjure memories of Sonic and Mario, but gaming long precedes the digital forms we know today. Games are as old as any human art form and exist across every culture; playful behavior even precedes human language. In this course we will explore this question through a formal approach, focusing on game design as a creative and cultural practice with deep history and common principles that can be studied, practiced and effectively enacted. In this setting, game design does not require mastery of code nor a life-long obsession with games. Rather, like other aesthetic and experiential forms, game design has fundamentals that may apply across media, platforms and contexts.

MS 059 SC-01: Intro to Python

  • Instructor: Goodwin, Doug
    • Friday; 9:30AM-12:00PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

This is an introduction to computer programming that supports Scripps College’s interdisciplinary vision. It is for everyone–visual designers, data scientists, and fine artists–who wants to create interactive media and computer graphics. This course links software concepts to principles of visual form, motion, and interaction. Students learn the fundamentals of Python programming (data structures, sequencing, selection and sorting, iteration and recursion, functions, object-oriented code) and use Processing.py to analyze and visualize data, generate drawings and sounds, manipulate images, create interactions for games, use network communication to collect data, and learn how to work with remote data to create environmental simulations. Prior programming experience not required. This course satisfies the pre-requisite for DS2 in Scripps’ Data Science minor.

MS 120 SC-01: Video Games & Media Discourse

  • Instructor: Moralde. Oscar
    • Monday/Wednesday; 2:45-4:00PM
    • Room 101, Steele Hall
    • Media History/Media Theory

How does a medium become gendered or racialized? Whose voices, images, and bodies come to delimit a medium? In this course, we will investigate the role that paratextual fields such as criticism, marketing, and fandom play in shaping media culture, with video games and game cultures as a paradigmatic case study. Historical examples from games will be supplemented with theories of criticism and discourse to create a starting point for student-developed media research projects. Prerequisite: MS 049 SC, MS 050 PZ, or MS 051 SC.

MS 131 SC-01: Interactive Narrative Design

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 4:15-6:45PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

This course situates narrative writing as a key design practice for the creation of games and other interactive experiences. Students will learn to use Twine, HTML/CSS, Adobe Photoshop & After Effects, to build their own websites as interactive narrative games. They will also embark on creative writing and web design projects that integrate visual art, animation, narrative and rule-based play.