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In the following listings, courses numbered 110 through 499 are studio electives offered to students from Yale College and the graduate and professional schools. Permission of the instructor is required for enrollment in all courses. Graduate students of the School of Art who wish to broaden their experience outside their area of concentration have priority in enrollment.
Courses numbered 500 and above are offered only to graduate students of the School of Art. In exceptional cases qualified Yale College students may enroll in a graduate course, with the permission of both the instructor and the director of undergraduate studies. Please refer to the section on Academic Regulations for further pertinent details. It should be noted that, as a matter of policy, all faculty members teach on both the graduate and undergraduate levels, although the degree and the nature of contact may vary.
Tutorials, which are special courses that cannot be obtained through regular class content, require a proposal written by the student and the faculty member concerned, defining both content and requirements. Proposals must be presented to the Academic Subcommittee for approval.
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- 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, Histories 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: Ad Hoc Series & Systems
- ART 469, Advanced Graphic Design: Interpretation, Translation
- 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 Design
- 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, Writing as Visual Practice
- 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 & Professional Practices
- 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
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- ART 004, Words and Pictures
- ART 006, Art of Printed Word
- ART 007, Art of the Game
- ART 009, Visual Book
- 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
- ART 110, Sculpture Basics
- ART 111, Visual Thinking
- ART 114, Basic Drawing
- ART 116, Color Practice
- ART 120, Introduction to Sculpture: Wood
- ART 121, Introduction to Sculpture: Metal
- ART 123, How Things Meet
- ART 130, Painting Basics
- ART 132, Introduction to Graphic Design
- ART 136, Capturing Light with Black-and-White Photography
- ART 138, Seeing in Color with Digital Photography
- 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 223, Figure Drawing
- ART 225, Adventures in Self-Publishing
- ART 237, Visual Voice in Analog Photography
- ART 241, Introductory Film Writing and Directing
- ART 264, Typography!
- ART 265, Expression, Structure, and Sequence: Typography
- ART 266, History of Graphic Design
- 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 324, Painting Materials and Methods
- ART 331, Intermediate Painting
- ART 332, Painting Time
- ART 337, Picturing Us: Representation
- ART 338, Digital Photography
- ART 339, Narrative Forms and Documentary Style in Photography after 1967
- ART 341, Intermediate Film Writing and Directing
- ART 342, Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking
- ART 356, Printmaking I
- ART 360, Hidden Truth
- ART 368, Graphic Design Methodologies
- ART 369, Interactive Design and the Internet
- ART 370, Communicating with Time, Motion, and Sound
- ART 379, Form for Content with the View Camera
- ART 395, Junior Seminar
- ART 401, Advanced Projects in Photography
- ART 432, Painting Studio: The Narrative Figure
- ART 433, Painting Studio: Space & Abstraction
- ART 442/443, Advanced Film Writing & Directing
- ART 446, Advanced Sculpture
- ART 457, Interdisciplinary Printmaking
- ART 468, Advanced Graphic Design
- ART 469, Advanced Graphic Design
- ART 495/496, Senior Project
- 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 579, Gender Dialectics
- ART 585, Performative Painting and Painterly Performance
- ART 596, Alternative Nation
- ART 597, Fabric Lab
- ART 619, GOBLINIZATION: “a horizon of vomit & blood”
- ART 630/631, Studio Seminar
- ART 644/645, Individual Criticism
- ART 666, X-Critique
- 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
- 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, Writing as Visual Practice
- ART 762, Exhibition Design
- ART 781, Wind and Computers
- ART 782, Seminar on Design Strategy
- ART 784, Interdisciplinary Typography Workshop
- 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
- ART 902, Experimental Narratives
- ART 908, Video and Beyond
- ART 909, Porous Bodies
- ART 910, Screen Space
- ART 912, Sensitive Machine
- ART 951, Video Seminar
- ART 949, Critical & Professional Practices
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