4D Design introduces students to the basic concepts of art and design in time and space. The course explores elements of moving images such as continuity, still and moving image editing, transitions and syntax, sound and image relations, and principles of movement. Computers, video, photo, sound and lighting equipment are used to create short-form time-based work relevant to students in all majors and programs required to take this course. The course addresses the both historical conventions of time in art and recent technological advances, which are redefining the fields of Fine Art and Design. In focusing on the relations between students' spacing and timing skills, 4D Design extends and supplements the other Foundation courses, and prepares students for further work with time-based media.

This course, the first part of a two-semester sequence, will introduce students to the exposure and development of black and white film and the procedures for making high quality black and white photographic prints in a traditional darkroom with chemicals, safe lights and enlargers. Included in this course are 35mm, medium and large-format cameras, variables in making fine black and white prints and techniques for archival and museum quality processes and methods of display. Students must have access to a film camera with adjustable exposure controls. Each student will produce a finished portfolio of black and white fine prints.

This course, the second course of a two-semester sequence, will introduce students to the use and manipulation of specialty analog cameras (pinhole, Holga, Hasselblad fish-eye, X-Pan, view camera, etc.) and include information and exercises using the Zone System. In addition to the hardware resources, the course will survey and demonstrate methods of making “monoprints” - one of a kind photographs using analog processes such as photogram, chemogram, wet plate ambrotype, and hand -coloring. Students will also interpret selections of work by noted photographic artists and others enrolled in the course in both critiques and written assignments. A creative portfolio of black and white prints and/or monoprints will be produced by each student.

This course provides an introduction to Visual Culture studies, an interdisciplinary field of study that explores the ways in which our lives are shaped through contact with, and consumption of, images, designed objects and visual forms of media, communication, and information. Students will develop a critical understanding of different aspects of contemporary visual culture as well as an awareness of its recent historical development.