Moodle at Eckerd College 2024-25 Academic Year

Examines archaeology's intellectual history and current debates. Explores frameworks for data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Considers themes shaping archaeological discourse, including professional ethics, government involvement, and cultural heritage management. Prerequisite: AN 204S and JR standing.

Systematic approach to visual arts, developing skills in spatial organization, relating forms in sequence, discovering uniqueness, personal approach to solutions, even within narrow, arbitrarily prescribed bounds.

For the novice or the initiated, an immersion in new ways of seeing, eye-hand coordination, self-discovery, and self- expression through varied drawing media, using as sources the figure, still-life, nature, and imagination.

For beginners, the fundamentals of ceramic materials, hand forming, recycling, glazing, firing. Laboratories with supervised working time and lectures on technical knowledge and creative problem solving.

Students will explore printmaking through a variety of techniques that will develop their technical, conceptual, and aesthetic understanding of printmaking media, including but not limited to image transfer, relief and intaglio. Prerequisites: AR101 and 102.

Process, techniques, and aesthetics of making black and white film photographs. No prerequisites, but the student should have access to a 35mm film camera with adjustable aperture and shutter speeds.

Photography in context with digital technology; the composition and creation of artistic digital images. Digital camera required. Evaluation based on quality of work, participation, effort and improvement. Prerequisites: AR 101A, AR 102A, or AR 229A.

Photography in context with digital technology; the composition and creation of artistic digital images. Digital camera required. Evaluation based on quality of work, participation, effort and improvement. Prerequisites: AR 101A, AR 102A, or AR 229A.

Throwing instruction and practice. Skill, aesthetic considerations, techniques and critiques.