ART 120 - Introduction to Digital Art

3 Credit(s)

Course Description: Provides experiential instruction in basic modalities, techniques, and software programs in digital design, and their use in contemporary art making processes. Students work in both the computer lab and a traditional studio art setting to explore significant individual concepts and exercise their ability to communicate those concepts visually. Programs such as those in the Adobe^® suite and other freely available software will be used as both a platform for creative ideation and a finished visual medium. Skills acquired in this class are applicable to both fine art and more commercially based design disciplines.

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Demonstrate the ability to competently engage with digital mediums. (ILO: Communication)
CLO#2: Create and explore individually formed concepts in the creation of visual art.
CLO#3: Engage fully in critical thinking processes.
CLO#4: Use non-objective form in digital media as part of a creative process using both objective and non-objective subjects.

Typical Required and Recommended Equipment and Materials: A variety of artist’s materials, use of various software programs in the Visual Arts and Design Computer Lab.

ACTI Code and Course Type
100 Lower Division Collegiate

Length of Course:
A required state minimum of (60) and a standard RCC delivery of (66) lecture/lab hours per term, not to exceed (72) hours per term.