FSAD 1250 - Fashion, Art and Design Thinking

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

D. Green.

Introduction to the visual arts and design that explores aesthetic and cross-cultural dimensions of visual experience. Augmented by slide presentations, artifacts, video, and an Internet-based electronic textbook, lectures emphasize the varieties of visual expression seen in works of art and design. Discusses social, cultural, and historic interpretations of visual expression.

Outcome 1: Enhance their ability to think visually, and communicate ideas in visual ways.

Outcome 2: Become familiar with the components of design and fine arts, and be able to use design language to discuss and evaluate designed objects.

Outcome 3: Understand major developments in fine arts, decorative arts, and design as they have
occurred since the beginnings of modern design in the later 19th century.

Outcome 4: Become familiar with the most important media of fine arts and design, and understand the
limitations and opportunities offered to the designer by various materials and techniques.