Art Painting Specialization Transfer to USD

This course explores the creative process emphasizing art as a visual form of communication. It presents useful criteria for evaluation and enjoyment of art through the development of visual vocabulary and knowledge of art processes, as well as art in a historical context.

This combined lecture and lab course introduces the concepts of two-dimensional design and spatial orientation to original design creation. Topics included are pattern, texture, line, shape, value, mass and color theory.

This course combines lecture and lab activities. As a foundation studio course, it introduces basic drawing principles such as line, shape, form, texture, value, space, perspective and composition, as well as serving as an introduction to medias including pencil, pen, charcoal, conte, chalk and other alternate media. It stresses perception, visual awareness, sensitivity, and critical thinking/judgment, and may include still life, landscape, portrait, live model and non-objective forms.

This course is an exploration of writing as a process with attention to audience, purpose and patterns of exposition.
Pre-requisite: Recommended ACT Composite of 22. Students may complete aýwriting sample to gauge preparedness for the course and thenýaccess instructional staff and resources in the CometýLearning Center both before and during the course to beýsuccessful.

This course introduces students to the scientific study of mental processes and behavior with emphasis on psychological theories. This course explains the importance of evidence-based approaches in practice and literature. Students apply critical thinking in relation to research methods and ethics in the field of psychology.

This course introduces students to the College's expectations, environment, and resources so that students may become more competent participants in the learning process.

This course is a cross-cultural study of the variety of human adaptations to physical, social and cultural environments, primarily in terms of subsistence, technology, social groupings, government, economic organization, religion and aesthetics.

This is a combined lecture and lab course. A foundations studio course, it continues basic drawing principles such as line, shape, form, texture, value, space, perspective and composition, as well as continuing to explore medias including pencil, pen, charcoal, conte, chalk and other alternate media. It stresses perception, visual awareness, sensitivity and critical thinking/judgment, and may include still life, landscape, portrait, live model and non-objective forms. Focus is on the student's preferential media, subject and content with an emphasis on the criteria of composition as determining a drawing's success, as opposed to visual perception, rendering or technique. Students will be expected to make finished works of art for presentation and to move beyond strictly studies or technical assignments.
Pre-requisite: Take ART-133;

This course is a survey of the visual arts from prehistoric times through the Middle Ages with an emphasis on the relationship between art and social, economic, religious and geographical conditions. It discusses the historical context of contemporary forms of expression when relevant.

This course is a continuation of ENG 105 with emphasis on developing more complex, sophisticated forms of exposition. It includes a research paper requiring library research, documentation, and bibliography.
Pre-requisite: Take ENG-105 Composition I

This course addresses linear functions and inequalities, quadratics, conics, polynomials and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, linear systems, matrices and determinants. Additional topics may include sequences, series, permutations, combinations, and probability. Completion of Pre-requisite course or alternative assessment required for enrollment.
Pre-requisite: MAT-102 Intermediate Algebra or ACT Math Score of 21 orýALEKS assessment score of 32.

This is a combined lecture and lab course. A foundation course in studio painting, it employs contemporary styles, techniques and materials in various media.

This is a combined lecture and lab course that is a biological concepts survey for non-science majors. Topics covered include biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, genetics, evolution, diversity of life, and ecology.

This course provides an introduction to the study of short fiction, poetry, and drama.
Pre-requisite: Take ENG-105;

This course utilizes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to studying gender, race, class, sexuality and other markers of diversity. The curriculum highlights the duality of oppression and privilege and the ways in which race, gender, class and sexuality shape daily life. Special focus is on learning how to demonstrate course concepts as social action. Social justice is practiced as students become educated in these concepts of diversity and engage in diversity conscious social action.

The course combines theory of speech communication with public speech performance skills. Emphasis is on speech delivery, preparation, organization, support, and audience analysis. Practice of skills is through presentation and exercise.

This is a combined lecture and lab course that studies the fundamentals of three-dimensional arts. It addresses problems based on space organization utilizing the elements of design and emphasizes application of design concepts to original design.

This is a combined lecture and lab course. It is a continuation of ART 143 with emphasis on material, composition and color.

This course is a survey of the visual arts from the Renaissance to the present time with an emphasis on the relationship between art and social, economic, religious and technological development. It stresses the historical context of contemporary forms of expression and examines human concerns as they are revealed in art.

A combined lecture and lab course focusing on environmental concerns: ecosystems, pollution, population, extinction, ethics, energy, food, conservation, and future interrelationships among these concerns.

A general course designed to make the student more aware of musical form, media, genres, musical periods, and the essential role of music in life and culture. Emphasizes the development of tools for intelligent listening and appreciation.