2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

AD 418A Graphic Design: Interactivity Seminar 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall and Winter, even numbered years
• Prerequisites: AD 303 or concurrent enrollment, AD 318A or AD 318B, or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Students will learn to apply research, problem solving, and the user’s experience to interactivity. This course’s focus is on app/software interfaces and other media, wayfinding and the conceptual development of interaction and design.

AD 417A Photography: Contemporary Practices 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter, odd numbered years
• Prerequisites: AD 303 or concurrent enrollment, AD 317A or AD 317B or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Design and implementation of individual advanced projects while exploring contemporary theoretical and critical photographic concepts.

AD 412A Digital Cinema: Production 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter, odd numbered years
• Prerequisites: AD 303 or concurrent enrollment, AD 312A or AD 312B or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Continued development of digital video and audio production skills and knowledge emphasizing development, production, and realization of a group practicum project; professional portfolio and statement development. 

AD 411A Human Centered Design: Design Research 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter, odd numbered years
• Prerequisites: AD 303 or concurrent enrollment, AD 311A or AD 311B, or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

 This course is a collaborative project based studio that focuses on problem finding as well as problem solving. Students will develop skills in exploratory research of trend, behavior, culture and concept.

AD 403 Senior Exhibition 2 cr.

• Offered: Fall Winter
• Graded: S/U
• Prerequisites: AD 303 (with a grade of S) and acceptance of the AD 403 Portfolio Review Application.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Preparation of a collection of work to demonstrate the student’s professional competence for exhibit presentation in a department-approved gallery.

AD 365 History of Modern Craft and Design 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: Junior standing.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

History of modern craft and design considers the course of progressive design in the applied arts (product and furniture design) from the nineteenth century to the present. Major movements in design history including the arts and crafts movement, art nouveau, modernism and postmodernism are investigated within a chronological framework. Social issues affecting design—from the relationship between design and consumerism, design and modern management practices, and design and national identity, to design ethics—will be considered within their historical contexts. Non-western design traditions are included.

AD 355 Twentieth Century Art and Architecture 4 cr.

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: EN 211 with a grade of "C" or better and sophomore standing.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Human Expression (HUME)

Survey of visual art and architecture in the Western world from the second half of the 19th century through the present decade. The conceptual basis of the arts and their place in society is examined within a historical framework.

AD 350 Curriculum Theory and Objectives for Art Education 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: Admission to the methods phase of teacher education, AD 248 and AD 302 with a minimum grade of “B”. Transfer and post-baccalaureate students must have a portfolio of their work approved by the department.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

An examination of how the history of art education influences art curricula today. Emphasis is on a written 15-week curriculum, discussion of creative problem solving, discipline, motivation, evaluation and student-teaching experience.

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May not be applied toward a non-teaching major or any minor in art and design. The art education courses listed above must be taken sequentially.

AD 345 Modernity in Art: The Nineteenth Century 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall odd years
• Prerequisites: EN 211 with a "C" or better and junior standing.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Survey of European and American art of the nineteenth century with introductory discussion of the late-eighteenth-century art. Artworks in a variety of media, styles, and nationalities are discussed, whereas the focus is on French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.

AD 334A Computer Art: Integration 4 cr.

• Offered: Fall, even numbered years
• Prerequisites: AD 234 or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Development of concepts and practices of computer art with an emphasis on integrative methods of production. The intersections and integrative workflows of modeling, digital sculpting, animation, scripting, and interactivity will be explored.