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Penn Design - Department of Fine Arts

The following summer courses and summer high school programs are offered through the College of General Studies. To learn more about Penn's School of Design visit PennDesign.

Undergraduate Courses for 2006 - Be sure to check back often to learn more about offerings for summer 2007!

• Drawing 1
  This course integrates formal issues, technical skill and content in basic drawing. Investigative work is from observation. Drawing from ideas and the imagination will also be explored using a wide variety of materials (such as graphite, charcoal, conte, ink) and methods (continuous tone, subtraction, etc.) It is appropriate for beginners and those with modest experience.

• Painting 1
  Prerequisite: FNAR 123 (Drawing 1)
  Painting I is an introduction to oil painting. The course will provide an integrated approach to formal issues, content and technical means. Students work from direct observation with still life, landscape and the figure. Students will leave the class with a basic knowledge of materials and with a repertoire of techniques and methods. This course is appropriate for beginners and individuals with some painting background.

• Web Design 1
  Prerequisite: FNAR 264/636 (Digital Design Foundations)
  A course designed to introduce the student to web presentation, theory, techniques and current software applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Macromedia Flash. Instruction will include web terminology, appropriate file protocoling, information architecture planning, menu-linking organization, communication strategies and www identity design. Upon completion of this course, students will possess a working knowledge of how to organize and design full web page content for interactive on-line user interfacing or control-group presentation.

• Clay Wheel Throwing 1
  The purpose of this beginning level ceramics class is to learn the skills needed to use the potter's wheel as a tool for object making. Traditional ceramic techniques such as centering the clay, pulling walls and trimming pots will be a focus. A variety of glazing and slip decoration methods will be covered. Slide discussions, field trips and readings will supplement the studio work

• Digital Design Foundations
  This course explores the elements and principles of design and composition. It is an introduction to the intentional organization of traditional and digital image making. Emphasis will be placed on understanding compositional relationships through experimentation, iteration and critique. Students will create imagery using hand skills and the software programs Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
  

• Photography 1
  Beginning students learn how to use their cameras and light meters. They are taught the basics of black and white film developing and printing in the darkroom. Assignments are given dealing with basic technical and aesthetic photographic problems such as composition, light and form.

Summer High Programs for 2008

• Penn Summer Studios: Art and Architecture
  This is a rigorous four-week, non-credit program consisting of intensive study in one of the following concentrations: animation, architecture, filmmaking, drawing and painting, sculpture, and photography.