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 Level: Lower Division Collegiate

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.