Postgraduate

In Berkeley (USA)

higher than £ 9000

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Berkeley (USA)

The two-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Program supports 12 graduate students per year and strives to graduate working artists who will continue to demonstrate significant artistic, critical and cultural impacts across a wide array of disciplines. Incoming MFA students are expected to already be deeply engaged in their creative practice and possess technical proficiency in their chosen media. Graduate coursework and independent study are designed to help students develop a critical understanding of their creative work in the multiple contexts of specific localities and global contemporary art. Our graduate students are encouraged to take university-wide and cross-disciplinary courses linked to their research interests, studying and collaborating with faculty and graduate students in areas as diverse as Geography, Environmental Sciences, Classics, Art History, Disability Studies, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Interactive Design, Rhetoric, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature.

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2000 Carleton Street Berkeley, CA, 94720-2284, 94720

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Subjects

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  • Media
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  • Image
  • Art
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Ceramics
  • Printing
  • Digital Photography
  • Design
  • Philosophy
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Course programme

Courses

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ART 8 Introduction to Visual Thinking 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session
A first course in the language, processes, and media of visual art. Course work will be organized around weekly lectures and studio problems that will introduce students to the nature of art making and visual thinking.

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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 6 hours of studio per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture and 15 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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ART 8A Introduction to Visual Thinking 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
The ‘designed world’ is implicated in everyday experience. In an increasingly technological and communications based culture-from print to the Web, advertisements to movies, the built environment to modes of pedagogy-we encounter the visual/sensory as a ‘designed world’ in every area of our lives. Art 8 A: Intro to Visual Thinking asks students to rigorously and critically interrogate the ‘designed world.’ To do this students will look at a
range of art, media, and invention across many locations and periods of history.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio and 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 15 hours of studio and 2.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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ART 12 Drawing: Foundations 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session
Students will explore a wide range of approaches to mark making, composition and materials for building a drawing practice. Students will engage with drawing from life as well as conceptual and abstract compositions. This course will feature lectures, field trips, visiting artists and demonstrations in order to expose students to a variety of applications, methods and techniques within the field of
drawing. This course is a recommended prerequisite for upper division Drawing classes.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 16 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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ART 13 Painting: Foundations 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018 First 6 Week Session
This course will introduce students to a broad scope of painting practices. Students will learn about and challenge conventions as well as experiment with modes of viewing, producing and engaging with painting within historical and contemporary contexts. This course will feature lectures, field trips, visiting artists and demonstrations in order to expose students to a variety of painting applications, methods and techniques.
This course is a recommended prerequisite for upper division Painting classes.

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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 16 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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ART 14 Sculpture: Foundations 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
This course is the study of the interaction between physical form and space. We will focus on building a strong conceptual foundation while developing the practical studio skills needed to translate your ideas into three dimensions. Shop practices will include hand, machine, and computer-aided fabrications. Field trips and illustrated talks will help acquaint students with the ideas sculptors have explored through history and in contemporary
sculptural practices. This course is a recommended prerequisite for upper division Sculpture classes.

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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 16 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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ART 15 Ceramics: Foundations 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2019
This course will prepare students to use ceramics to explore and understand three-dimensional space. We will develop a practical understanding of how clay and glaze behave, while building a conceptual framework through which to apply this knowledge. Studio practice includes hand building, modeling, carving, and glazing as possibilities for turning ideas into three dimensional propositions. Assignments, critiques and class
discussions will help acquaint students with the ideas artists have explored through history and in contemporary sculptural practices. This course is a recommended prerequisite for upper division Ceramics classes.

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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 16 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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ART 16 Printmaking (Relief & Intaglio): Foundations 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
The process and techniques of traditional Relief and Intaglio are explored in this fine art printmaking course. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to two of the historically oldest and most continuous of print processes. Unique drawing skills are demonstrated for students to render images onto linoleum and metal plates to produce small editions of relief and intaglio prints. This course is a recommended prerequisite for upper division
printmaking classes. Additional fees required.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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ART 17 Printmaking (Lithography & Screen Printing): Foundations 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018
The process and techniques of traditional lithography and screen printing are explored in this lower division printmaking course. Lectures and demonstrations introduce students to the procedures and practices of these historic print processes. Specific and unique drawing skills are demonstrated for students to render images on limestone and create stencils to produce small editions of lithographs and screen prints. This course is a recommended prerequisite
for upper division printmaking offerings. Additional fees required.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.).

Instructor: Hussong

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ART 21 Digital Photography: Foundations 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session
This course introduces students to technical skills including manual functions of digital cameras, image creation and capture, file management and workflow, image adjustment and digital printing. Assignments will use primary Adobe software tools to test creative possibilities of both the camera and the computer. The course will introduce students to photography history and theory, and a range of contemporary
practices. Group critiques and individual tutorials will help develop ideas and technical skills. By the end of the course, students should feel comfortable shooting digitally, editing and producing final images for print or the web. This course is a recommended prerequisite for upper division Photography classes.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of studio per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 16 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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ART 23AC DIGITAL MEDIA: FOUNDATIONS 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2014
Data and logic form core interfaces for information technology. New media art requires understanding their key dynamics. Students gain experience with data generation, visualization, and their impact on real persons, environments and situations. Can we measure, count and weigh everything? Is data fair? What is the role of privacy? How do digital conditions affect human conditions? From memes to machine learning, students participate in emerging
data cultures including sampling, visualization, animation, video, interactive design, and music. Assignments follow readings on media and design theory, abstraction, interactivity, archives, performance, identity, privacy, automation, aggregation, networking, diffusion, diffraction and subversion.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 4 hours of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture and 10 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Niemeyer

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ART W23AC Data Arts 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Can we measure everything? What is the role of privacy? Can we count beauty? Is data always fair? This course explores participation as the foundation of online citizenship. Participation is based on data literacy and community awareness. Through online assignments, peer reviews and video chats, students form communities of explorers and innovators who challenge data culture through creative interventions including surveys, visualization, animation
, video, interaction design, music and other forms of digital expression. Assignments are based on readings about media theory, abstraction, interactivity, design theory, archives, performance, identity, privacy, automation, aggregation, networking, diffusion, diffraction and subversion.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of web-based lecture and 1.5 hours of web-based discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 23 hours of web-based lecture and 3.5 hours of web-based discussion per week

Online: This is an online course.

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

Instructor: Niemeyer

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ART 26 Moving Image: Foundations 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2018
A practical and critical introduction to moving image media, focusing primarily on independent and experimental film and video art. Students learn video production and post-production and are introduced to key moments and concepts in moving image history and criticism. Course instruction includes basic camera operations, sound recording, and lighting, as well as basic editing, compression, and dissemination formats. Solo
and group assignments are completed, and group critiques of class projects train students to recognize and discuss the formal, technical, critical and historical dimensions of their works. Weekly readings in philosophy, critical theory, artist statements and literature are assigned.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: Master the basic elements of video making and editing.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 7 hours of studio per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 15 hours of studio per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

Instructors: Niemeyer, Walsh

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ART 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
This is a student-initiated course to be offered for academic credit. The subject matter will vary from semester to semester and will be taught by the student facilitator under the supervision of the faculty sponsor. Topics to be related to art practice.

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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Open to freshmen and sophomores. Open to freshmen and sophomores

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-9 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Practice of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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ART 99 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
. This course will be a rubric for all one and two credit Independent Study courses in Art Practice that concentrate on the practical aspects of art production

ART 130 Advanced Sculpture: Concept and...

Art Practice

higher than £ 9000