COURSES BY DEPARTMENT

This is a sampling of School of Art courses; not all of which are offered each semester or year. To see current course offerings, access the link to the active semester schedule above. Courses numbered 100-499 are undergraduate courses offered through Yale College, with some sections reserved for Preliminary Graphic Design students. Courses numbered 500-999 are graduate level courses for MFA students. In cases of elective courses that are not core requirements, permission of the instructor is required to enroll.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

• ART 132, Introduction to Graphic Design

• ART 264, Typography!

• ART 265, Expression, Structure, and Sequence: Typography

• ART 266, History of Graphic Design

• ART 368, Graphic Design Methodologies

• ART 369, Interactive Design and the Internet

• ART 370, Communicating with Time, Motion, and Sound

• ART 468, Advanced Graphic Design

• ART 469, Advanced Graphic Design

• ART 710/711, Preliminary Studio

• ART 712, Prelim Typography

• ART 720/721, 1st-yr. Graduate Studio

• ART 730/731, 2nd-yr Graduate Studio

• ART 738/739, Degree Presentation

• ART 740, Intermediality: Typography, Motion, and Meaning

• ART 742, On Gathering: Digital Collections and Virtual Events

• ART 743, Letterform

• ART 744, Moving Image Methods

• ART 745, T for Typographies

• ART 749, Programming as Writing

• ART 750, Coded Design

• ART 751, Print to Screen

• ART 752, Fictive Interfaces

• ART 761, Thesis Writing Seminar

• ART 762, Exhibition Design

• ART 781, Wind and Computers

• ART 782, Seminar on Design Strategy

• ART 784, Interdisciplinary Typography Workshop

PAINTING/PRINTMAKING

• ART 114, Basic Drawing

• ART 116, Color Practice

• ART 130, Painting Basics

• ART 223, Figure Drawing

• ART 225, Adventures in Self-Publishing

• ART 331, Intermediate Painting

• ART 332, Painting Time

• ART 356, Printmaking I

• ART 432, Painting Studio: The Narrative Figure

• ART 433, Painting Studio: Space & Abstraction

• ART 457, Interdisciplinary Printmaking

• ART 508/509 or 510/511, Pit Crits

• ART 515, Colorspace

• ART 518, Painting, Theory

• ART 533, Space and Abstraction

• ART 536, The Work of Art in the Age of ___, Revisited

• ART 544/545, Individual Criticism

• ART 546, Round Trip: 1st-yr Crits

• ART 550, Projections of Print

• ART 576, Isms and Wasms

• ART 577, Minimizing the “i” in Thesis: Thesis Workshops

• ART 578, Truisms & Falsisms

• ART 585, Performative Painting and Painterly Performance

• ART 596, Alternative Nation

• ART 597, Fabric Lab

PHOTOGRAPHY

• ART 136, Capturing Light with Black-and-White Photography

• ART 138, Seeing in Color with Digital Photography

• ART 237, Visual Voice in Analog Photography

• ART 337, Picturing Us: Representation

• ART 338, Digital Photography

• ART 339, Narrative Forms and Documentary Style in Photography after 1967

• ART 379, Form for Content with the View Camera

• ART 401, Advanced Projects in Photography

• ART 802, Between Frames

• ART 822 or 867/868, Practice and Production

• ART 823 or 863/864, Critical Perspectives (NYC)

• ART 825 or 865/866, What Makes a Book Work?

• ART 828/829, Contemporary Issues in Photography

• ART 844/845, Individual Criticism

• ART 853, Spectral Spaces

• ART 871, Workerism

• ART 890, Artist Writing and Artist Books

SCULPTURE

• ART 110, Sculpture Basics

• ART 120, Introduction to Sculpture: Wood

• ART 121, Introduction to Sculpture: Metal

• ART 123, How Things Meet

• ART 360, Hidden Truth

• ART 446, Advanced Sculpture

• ART 619, GOBLINIZATION: “a horizon of vomit & blood”

• ART 630/631, Studio Seminar

• ART 644/645, Individual Criticism

• ART 666, X-Critique

• ART 671, Materials & Facture

• ART 678, Doing

• ART 686, Publics

• ART 688, The Weight of a Line: Walking and the Exploration of Space, Time, and Mass

• ART 689, BLACKNESS

FILMMAKING/VIDEO/INTERDISCIPLINARY

• ART 111, Visual Thinking

• ART 142, Introductory Documentary Filmmaking

• ART 145, Introduction to Digital Video

• ART 184, 3-D Modeling for Creative Practice

• ART 185, Principles of Animation

• ART 241, Introductory Film Writing and Directing

• ART 285 or 925, Digital Animation

• ART 294, Technology and the Promise of Transformation

• ART 301, Critical Theory In and Out of the Studio

• ART 341, Intermediate Film Writing and Directing

• ART 342, Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking

• ART 395, Junior Seminar

• ART 442/443, Advanced Film Writing & Directing

• ART 495/496, Senior Project

• ART 902, Experimental Narratives

• ART 908, Video and Beyond

• ART 910, Screen Space

• ART 909, Porous Bodies

• ART 912, Sensitive Machine

• ART 949, Critical Practice

• ART 951, Video Seminar

Yale College First-Year Seminars

• ART 004, Words and Pictures

• ART 006, Art of Printed Word

• ART 007, Art of the Game

• ART 010, Interdisciplinary Exploration For Making Fictional Worlds, Flying Machines and Shaking Things Up

• ART 012, On Activism: The Visual Representation

• ART 014, Research in the Making