ARTS 115 - Freehand Drawing

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 1
Laboratory Hours: 2

Prerequisite(s): None

Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This course first introduces strategies that refine students’ ability to see and understand complex visual characteristics such as shape and form and then to record what is discerned accurately and expressively with pencil on paper. The course then introduces basic principles of design and composition in black and white and in color. Students are then encouraged to explore more personal interpretations of real and imagined objects by employing any or all of the preceding skills and strategies in a variety of sketching and design assignments. This course is also listed as ARCH 115.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Student will demonstrate understanding of at least one principal form of artistic expression and the creative process inherent therein.