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Drawing MFA
MFALA507
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This course will examine storytelling as our most powerful means of understanding ourselves and the world around us. Literature becomes…
MFALA508
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MFALA506
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MFALA502
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MFALA503
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MFALA504
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MFALA505
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MFA514
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MFA515
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MFA516
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MFAAH502
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This course will explore a wide range of less-familiar visual arts. Crossing the boundaries of time, culture, class, geography, and…
MFALA501
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How do environments influence our experience of the world? The spaces we occupy can be understood as characters in the…
MFA512
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MFA513
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The live human figure will be the constant theme of this 3 unit MFA studio class. A variety of accomplished…
MFA511
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This course is a masters level portrait class. The creation of engaging portraits will be explored. Our models will be…
MFA508
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MFA509
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This 3-unit MFA Studio class is focused on painting and drawing methods passed down in workshops or ateliers. Academic practices…
MFA510
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MFA506
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MFA507
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MFA501
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In this studio course will explore and develop personal content and examine the ramifications of public exposure. Research and strategies…
MFA502
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This studio course is tailored to the student who wants to maximize productive work and seriously curtail procrastination. Heightened accountability,…
MFA503
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The human figure occupies various positions on the spectrum between the analytically anatomical to the purely poetic. This course will…
MFA504
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This course draws on contemporary and classical sources, both literary and visual, to create narrative works. Lessons in constructing narrative…
MFA505
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This graduate level studio course is designed to explore and enhance the connection between materials, methods and the resultant meaning…
MFALA601
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MFALA620
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MFALA625
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This specialized course is designed to develop the MFA Thesis: a substantial summative statement analyzing and explaining the student's final…
MFALA626
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This specialized course is designed to develop the MFA Thesis: a substantial summative statement analyzing and explaining the student's final…
MFALA627
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This specialized course is designed to develop the MFA Thesis: a substantial summative statement analyzing and explaining the student's final…
MFA500
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This course is dedicated principally to identifying and exploring directions the student's work may take, including such aspects as subject…
MFA550
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MFA600
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MFA650
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