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Catalog 2020-2021 
    
Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Visual & Public Art

  
  • VPA 208 - Power of Image


    This class is designed to provide a critical exploration of contemporary ethics within the field of visual, media, and public arts. Students will be actively engaged in learning skills of visual literacy and media analysis applied to both public arts and popular media.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 209 - Day of the Dead Workshop


    This ceremony is a community building practice that helps integrate the past histories with the present memories of the students and faculty involving student-made altars, Aztec dancers, musicians, and a candle light procession.

    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 2-4
  
  • VPA 210 - The Artist and Society


    This course focuses on reading comprehension, writing, and oral communication skills within a framework of the visual arts. Students will consider the artist throughout history and across diverse cultures as a catalyst for social change and a standard bearer of new vision. We will examine art as a visual literacy and a voice of profound human expression. Through sound composition and comprehension practices, students will strengthen their own communication effectiveness.

    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 3
  
  • VPA 215 - Beginning Drawing


    Introduces entering students to the fundamentals of drawing, including line, perspective, composition, and beginning drawing skills.

    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 217 - Color Theory


    One of the tap-roots of visual expression, color is both physical and psychological. How we perceive colors, value, chroma, and hue depends upon their relationship to each other, and with our own perceptions of their temperature and emotion. This course will explore both the scientific properties of optical perception of color, and practical application of its uses for a variety of effects.

    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 218 - Introduction to Painting


    Students learn observational skills and develop painting techniques specific to acrylic media through intensive studio practices.  Students learn basic painting techniques and fundamentals such as scale, proportion, composition, mark making, and basic color theory. 

    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 285 - Intro to Photojournalism


    Introduces the use of photography as a tool in reporting and interpreting news for print and digital media. Students will gain an understanding of the history of photojournalism and the impact of photographic imagery in communication ideas and narratives.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 290 - Intro to Printmaking


    This course will introduce several printmaking media and techniques, including monoprinting, etching, block printing, and serigraphy (screen printing). The technical aspects of each technique will be investigated through demonstrations, in-class work, readings, and slide lectures, which combine the history of printmaking with hands-on learning.

    Typically Offered: Spring term only - even years

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 292 - Intro to Metal Works


    In this introductory course, students will use steel to develop a series of fundamental welding techniques and projects. This course is designed to introduce the beginning student to the possibilities of metal fabrication as they relate to sculpture. Students will learn basic fabrication skills, including MIG welding, Oxy/acetylene welding, plasma cutting, torch cutting, and hot and cold metal bending techniques. This course will also prepare students in the use of essential metal shop tools.

    Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 295 - Special Topics


    Studies a particular topic in the visual and public art major. May be repeated for credit when topics vary

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-6
  
  • VPA 300 - VPA Major ProSeminar


    Introduction to the theories and models of the Visual and Public Art program and its Major Learning Outcomes. Through readings, lecture/discussions, history and research assignments, community arts projects, portfolio development, public art design, review and exhibition projects, introduces students to the field of public art. Provides insight and practices for careers in visual art, arts education, and museum management.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Must be a VPA major in Junior Standing)
    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 302 - VPA Visiting Artist Series


    Students have opportunities to meet with visiting artists. Requires attending a minimum of three evening artist lectures, and developing artists’ profiles and written summary essays.

    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 2
  
  • VPA 303 - Beginning Sculpture


    Presents the fundamentals of construction using basic sculpture methods and materials. Introduces the concepts of installation. Students work individually toward a class-developed collaboration on a specific campus project.

    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 304 - Painting & Mural


    Students study painting to develop individual portfolios, and team and large-scale collaborative class projects. Students work in a variety of materials and learn techniques for studio painting, murals, and other public art works. Contemporary issues in painting and site-specific art are discussed, and all students participate in the class critique process.

    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 6
  
  • VPA 305 - Media Culture


    Students develop skills of media analysis. Emphasis placed on the analysis of media representations and ethical approaches to socio-media. Forms of media include digital advertising, Internet, music videos, and popular culture materials influencing perception and identity. Provides theoretical approaches to a hands-on model of analysis and media intervention.

    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 306S - Digital Public Art


    Students learn digital approaches to public art making and make connections to community through critical and ethical inquiry that includes social and new genre public art practices. Students engage in project management, analysis of sites, and collaboration with local communities to conceptualize reciprocal service learning partnerships, and develop digital public artworks. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
    University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 307 - Diverse History of Contemporary Art


    Provides examples of contemporary and historical art movements reflective of diverse world communities and cultures. Emphasizes the examination of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, and sexuality in contemporary art. Students learn new skills of “seeing,” analyzing, and writing as they develop transferable knowledge, skills, and abilities that can be used in the understanding of their own ethnic or social culture, and the formation of cross-culture alliances.

    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 308 - Ways Of Seeing


    Surveys the field of contemporary ethical theory in visual and public arts. Students follow controversial cases in public art. Uses guest artists, slide lectures, videos, and field trips as resources to understand and analyze cases.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
    General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities
    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 3
  
  • VPA 309 - Materials and Methods


    Students will gain a basic understanding of foundational exhibition practices and installation skills that lead to the creation of senior capstone projects.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: (VPA 300  with a C- or better) and (Must be a VPA major in Senior Standing)) and (Co-req: VPA 405 )]
    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 2
  
  • VPA 310 - Mixed Media


    Provides beginning and intermediate drawing skills using media. Students work from models, still life, landscape/outdoor fieldwork, photographs, and mixed media collage. Students study techniques, proportion, composition, light/shadow, perspective, color, and scale, and do collaborative drawing projects.

    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 311 - Book Arts


    “Books are portable magic”. This course teaches students the studio practice of hand-made book arts. Examining visual and literary communication in various cultural contexts, students will learn to make book forms originating from both the East and West. The course will include some basic printmaking methods such as embossment, monotype, relief printing and image transfer as ways to convey meaning through imagery and color. Altered books and found objects will be considered for use.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 312 - Vis Arts Ed For Teachers


    In Visual Arts Education for Teachers,students will examine the context for learning, aspects of cognition and creativity, teaching pedagogy, and curriculum in the arts. Students will gain an understanding of traditional and contemporary arts through an approach that integrates diverse perspective with hands-on activities, curriculum development, and collaborative projects. There will be an emphasis on integrating arts into and across disciplines. 

    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 313 - Regional Art History


    VPA 313 engages students in inquiry based learning as they investigate, analyze and describe, both in written and oral presentation format, the overlays of multiple cultures evidenced in early Central Coast art, 1875-1950. Based on the concept of cultural citizenship, the course examines both groups and individuals. While the content focus will be on the visual arts, the course will also examine literature and poetry as they serve to expand and enrich an understanding of regional expression.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (Junior or Senior Standing) and (GE  Area A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better)]
    University Requirement: GWAR Graduation Writing Assess
    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 315 - Life Drawing


    Provides beginning and intermediate drawing skill development using media that focuses on the human figure. Students work from models to explore a range of techniques studying proportion, composition, light/shadow, anatomy, and use of color. Includes class critiques and student presentations.

    Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 316 - Photography as Art


    Emphasizes photography as a means of artistic expression with a primary focus on photography as a means of image making much like other artistic mediums, e.g. painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Students study the technical, compositional, and conceptual elements of photography as a visual language as well as gain an understanding of the history and uses of photography from the mid-19th century to contemporary photographic practice.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: VPA 316L )
    Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years

    Units: 2
  
  • VPA 316L - Photography as Art Lab


    Students gain hands-on darkroom technique and practice through demonstrations and exercises on a weekly basis. Subject to applied lab fees for chemical and darkroom supply usage.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: VPA 316 )
    Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years

    Units: 2
  
  • VPA 318 - Digital Photography as Art I


    Digital Photography as Art I: Students study the technical, compositional, and conceptual elements of photography as a visual language as well as gain an understanding of the history and uses of photography from the mid-19th century to contemporary photographic practice. Assignments and class critiques encourage lively and thoughtful dialogue among class participants.

    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 320S - Museum Studies


    Through hands-on activities that consider community needs and facilitate public participation, this course examines the sociocultural importance of museums as society serving institutions that collect and preserve objects that are culturally, artistically and historically significant. Across reciprocal service learning partnerships with museums, students gain leadership skills and make connections to community through critical and ethical inquiry that includes research and education programming.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
    University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 325 - Curatorial Gallery Practices


    This course is an introduction to art gallery management, theory, and 2 and 3-dimensional design principles as they apply to gallery practices. Through hands-on participation, students curate exhibitions in the Student Gallery, and are responsible for all aspects of gallery management and exhibition design and installation: conceptualization of themes, selection of artwork, publicity and graphics. Students organize exhibition outreach events, such as gallery walk-throughs and panel discussions.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 2-4
  
  • VPA 326 - Photo as Art II: Alternative


    Dedicated entirely to unconventional photographic processes, explores the photographic medium as a means for artistic expression. Includes non-silver printing techniques, polaroid manipulation, digital negatives, pinhole cameras, and liquid emulsions in the communication of ideas through visual imagery.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: VPA 326L )
    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 2
  
  • VPA 326L - Photo as Art II: Alternative


    Students gain hands-on techniques and practice through demonstrations and exercises on a weekly basis. Subject to applied lab fees for chemical and darkroom supply usage.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: VPA 326 )
    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 2
  
  • VPA 327 - Video as Art


    This course provides an introduction to video imaging as art, and is designed to expand conceptual ideas and visual language by reconsidering the photographic image and its relationship to time. Students are encouraged to experiment with video-making tools, and use research and class discussions to explore their personal vision.

    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 341 - Feminist Art: History, Theory


    Examines feminisms across visual culture in art and popular media. Students work with text and visual materials, applying theories of feminism, gender construction, race, post-colonialism, anthropology, identity politics, and cultural hybridity. Topics include body and sexuality, community and activism, media representations, and domestic forms in the arts. Includes hands-on research, group and public presentations, and text-based activities.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 347 - Chicana/o-Black Art


    Examines Chicana/Chicano and Black artists, art movements, and social histories. Students work with images and text, applying theories of multiculturalism, feminism, colonialism, and hybridity. Topics include familial and cultural legacies, aesthetics, media, and cultural nationalism. In this hands-on and theory course, students explore issues of self-identification, race, and cross-cultural solidarity.

    University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 369 - Fashion as Contemporary Wearable Sculpture


    This course will examine the various artistic possibilities of cultural entrepreneurship and the complexities of cultural appropriation as viewed through a critical lens of concepts, practices, and politics. Students will learn the various methodologies and techniques that are required in the construction of garments. Emphasis will be placed on the exploration and research of traditional and contemporary approaches to fashion. Students engage in critical readings & constructive group critiques.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 370 - Whose Space? Museums, Cultural Institutions, and Community


    This course is an investigation into the vital relationship between museums, cultural institutions, and communities.  The success of museums is no longer measured by internal resources: collections, funding, facilities, and staff, but instead by the external value they create for individuals and the diverse communities in which they exist. The course examines the role of museums and cultural institutions as facilitators of social change.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
    Typically Offered: Fall term only - even years

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 395 - Special Topics


    Provides students with an opportunity to propose and implement individualized interdisciplinary learning activities.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-4
  
  • VPA 396 - Field Studies


    Provides students opportunities for independent work in the field with professional artists and includes visiting artist projects.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-4
  
  • VPA 397 - Independent Study


    Students pursue work in forms of public art including murals, installations, and performances, under the tutelage of practitioners in the field. Offers longterm project advisement and offsite project involvement. Note: students may enroll by faculty arrangement for critique or consultation on specified projects.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-4
  
  • VPA 401 - Installation & Performance Art


    An interdisciplinary course (art, theater, and music) that focuses on the use of site-specific and time-based work, light as art, interactive outdoor public art installations, and contemporary performance both on and off the CSUMB campus. Each semester brings new and exciting projects that utilize both individual and collaborative working methodologies.

    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 403 - Sculpture and 3D Design


    Individual and team projects using wood, metal, light, and “found” materials. Examples from public art projects explore the relationship between materials, site, content, and audience. Refining technical skills and building portfolios, students explore the role of cultural heritage, social positioning, and autobiographical narrative in their work. Cross-disciplinary projects include functional art, solar design, lighting design, and interactive sculpture.

    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 6
  
  • VPA 405 - Senior Capstone


    Allows students to design, curate, and present their own senior exhibition/project as a display of their cumulative learning in the major. Exhibitions may take place in a community setting within their public art focus; two semester’s required in major.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: (VPA 300  with a C- or better) and (Must be a VPA major in Senior Standing)) and (Coreq or Prereq: VPA 309 )]
    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 4
  
  • VPA 495 - Special Topics


    Specialized study for a particular topic in visual and public art. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-4
  
  • VPA 497 - Independent Study


    Assessment study for student portfolio review, please contact the academic program office for further information.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4-6
  
  • VPA 497S - Independent Study Srv Lrn


    Independent study in service learning to be determined by student in collaboration with the Institute of Visual and Public Art. Contact the academic program office for further information.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4-6
  
  • VPA 596 - Field Studies


    Student and faculty member select advanced topic of field study and number of credits. Contact the academic program office for instructor signature, registration code, and schedule number.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-6
  
  • VPA 597 - Independent Study


    Students pursue work in forms of public art including murals, installations, and performances, under the tutelage of practitioners in the field. Offers longterm project advisement and offsite project involvement. Note: students may enroll by faculty arrangement for critique or consultation on specific projects.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-6

World Languages & Cultures

  
  • WLC 195 - Special Topics


    Studies a particular topic in World Languages. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Letter Grade Available)

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-4
  
  • WLC 197 - Independent Study


    Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-6
  
  • WLC 201 - Intermediate World Languages


    Alternative assessment for the third semester of World Languages. Freshmen and Sophomore transfers attempting to satisfy the Language Requirement through assessment must enroll in WLC 201. Junior and senior transfers attempting to satisfy the Language Requirement through assessment, must also enroll in WLC 201. (Letter Grade Available)

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4
  
  • WLC 212 - Language and Culture for Heritage Speakers


    This course is for heritage speakers who have a moderate proficiency in their Heritage language, other than Spanish, but have completed little or no formal study of that language. The course emphasizes the linguistic and cultural aspects of language ability, and learning strategies; provides an introduction to linguistics, and second language acquisition; incorporates 21st Century Skills and National Standards; and encourages students to explore the social implications of language use. Students will demonstrate language proficiency through assessment. Conducted in English. 

    General Education: C2 Humanities:Lit, Philosophy, Lang other than Eng
    University Requirement: WCL World Cultures&Languag-BS, WCLP World Cult & Lang Prof-BA
    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 3
  
  • WLC 230 - Academic Life in U.S: Cross Cultural Studies


    Your study abroad experience in America is potentially a rich opportunity for you to enhance your language skills and deepen your understanding of other cultures, people and their practices. This course provides the resources to help you have meaningful American College experiences.

    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 2
  
  • WLC 250 - Academic English Reading and Writing


    This course is offered to students who are non-native speakers of English and who wish to develop advanced academic reading and writing skills. These skills include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in various academic disciplines, analyzing and responding to assigned texts, and making effective choices in writing for specific academic situations. The course will cover strategies for reading, writing, and conducting research at an American university.

    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

    Units: 4
  
  • WLC 295 - Special Topics


    Studies a particular topic in World Languages. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Letter Grade Available)

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-4
  
  • WLC 297 - Independent Study


    Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 2-4
  
  • WLC 300 - WLC Major ProSeminar


    This course introduces students to the Japanese Language and Culture, or Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures majors. Students acquire knowledge and understanding needed to fulfill Major Learning Outcomes for the programs, including literature, culture and linguistics, and to develop individual learning plans. The course examines opportunities in related professional and career paths, such as graduate education and teaching credential preparation. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
    Typically Offered: Fall term only

    Units: 2
  
  • WLC 395 - Special Topics


    With faculty guidance, students design unique learning sequences that are pertinent to their learning plans and not covered in current courses. Students design a study proposal with appropriate faculty members and obtain authorization from their academic center. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-6
  
  • WLC 397 - Independent Study


    Individual study of a topic or subject of particular interest to the student. A written proposal for the study/research must be approved in advance by the sponsoring faculty member and the program chair. Number of credits depends on the nature of the student’s academic goals and the consent of the faculty advisor.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-6
  
  • WLC 397SL - Independent Study SL


    Student and faculty member select advanced topic of study and number of credits.

    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 4
  
  • WLC 400 - WLC Major Capstone


    Students work with the instructor and WLC faculty advisors to research, synthesize, write and present their Capstone projects. Students will also complete a Graduation ePortfolio reflecting how each MLO was met. This course is required for all Japanese Language and Culture, and Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures majors.

    Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [(Prereq: (SPAN 300  or JAPN 403  with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 4
  
  • WLC 420 - Maximizing Study Abroad Experiences


    Your study abroad experience is potentially a rich opportunity for you to enhance your language skills and deepen your understanding of other cultures, people and their practices. This course provides the resources to help you prepare for your study abroad experiences. This course is taught in English.

    Typically Offered: Spring term only

    Units: 1-4
  
  • WLC 497 - Independent Study


    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 1-6
  
  • WLC 595 - Comm-Based Instr Theor/Pr


    Typically Offered: Periodically offered

    Units: 2
 

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