Arts courses

ARTS 592

Computers in Art: Flash Animation
3 credits

This course will cover the uses of Adobe Flash for animation, web development and interactivity. The course is designed to support computer graphics and animation teachers on the high school level. Learn how to create basic Flash animations and movies using the timeline. Find out how to navigate the Flash interface, create new Flash files, set stage properties, use Flash drawing tools, import images into Flash, create and work with text, and incorporate interactivity. Discover how the timeline in Flash can be used to create basic frame-by-frame animations and motion tweened animations.

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Teaching Strategies for the 21st Century
1 credit

This course will investigate many of the current theories and practices in art education. Participants will examine innovative ideas about what is important for students to learn and how this learning can be best accomplished. Participants will review developments that have had an impact upon art curriculum and look to current and emerging ideas about teaching and learning. Visual culture, constructivism, inquiry-based learning, teaching for critical/creative thinking and habits of mind must be considered along with other shifts in art education as we rethink our approach to the classroom. In order to best teach art in the classroom, art educators must be up-to-date on current practices. Through hands-on activities and group discussions, instructional activities will be designed that will take an innovative approach to learning art in the classroom.

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Technology and Art
3 credits
Now more than ever, art teachers must find ways to engage a new generation of “digital native” students by utilizing 21st-century tools and relevant learning environment. This introductory course will explore and model effective strategies to creatively incorporate technology in your instruction, creation, and advocacy of art.  A wide variety of digital art processes and tools will be explored.
Participants will discuss successful examples of the integration of technology in art instruction dealing with topics like communication, creation, assessment, community, portfolios, sharing and collaboration. Taught from a teacher’s perspective, students will gain practical, hands-on experience and insight into the unique technology challenges and opportunities presented to art teachers at all levels of instruction and leave with a game plan for their own classrooms.
Jeff “Coach” Hall is an Apple Distinguished Educator and winner of the 2004 Governor’s Innovative Technology in Education award. 

ARTS 692

Individual Projects: Exhibition
3 credits

Individual work for M.I.S. students preparing their final exhibitions. Please call the program director at (804) 828-8819 to register for this class and for further information. May be repeated.

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Individual Projects: Documentation
1-3 credits

Individual work for M.I.S. students writing their documentation papers. Please call the program director at (804) 828-8819 to register for this class and for further information. May be repeated.