Summer/Winter Intersessions

Degree Program Classes Summer 2010
 

 
Tuition is $375 per credit hour. Students registering for studio classes are required to pay studio fees of $34 per credit hour, as well as any additional materials fee for their specific studio. Check with the Financial Aid office regarding financing your summer session classes. To audit a Liberal Arts course and receive no credit, the cost is $500.  Studio cources are not available to audit. 
 

Tuition and fees for Session I courses are due in full in the Business Office by Friday, May 14. Tuition and fees for Session II courses are due in full by Monday, June 21. Your registration will be cancelled the day after this payment deadline if payment has not been received.
 
Computer access will be provided in the Jannes Computer Lab.
 
Refund Schedule:  KCAI has adopted the following withdrawal policy to establish charges based on the amount of time completed in the enrollment period. All students who withdraw from KCAI during the summer sessions will be charged a $35 administrative fee per course. Studio and materials fees are not refunded.
 
Liberal Arts Refund Policy (16 class meetings):  on or before first day of class 100% refund; 1st-2rd day of class 90% refund; 3rd-4th day of class 50%; 5th-8th day of class 25%; after 8th day of class no refund.
 
Studio Refund Policy (25 class meetings): on or before first day of class 100% refund; 1st-3rd day of class 90% refund; 4th-6th day of class 50%; 7th-12th day of class 25%; after 12th day of class no refund.
 
If a class is cancelled due to low enrollment 100% will automatically be refunded within four weeks.

Session I

Last day to drop/add classes June 2
Last day to withdraw from class – June 15
 
Session II 

Last day to drop/add classes July 6
Last day to withdraw from class – July 19
 

Summer Study Abroad Programs

Summer Session I Liberal Arts Classes

Tuesday, June 1 - Thursday June 24

Topics in Art & Society:  Art History on Film [Ancient/Med. or Ren./Bar.]
ARTHI 3728-03
You see them everywhere – films about art history. They appear on PBS, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and, particularly recently, in our local movie theater. In the 1950s and '60s movies such as "The Agony and the Ecstasy," "Moulin Rouge" and "Lust for Life" depicted that era’s version of the lives of famous artists Michelangelo, Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh. More recently, "The Da Vinci Code" and the "Rape of Europa" have been released. Because these films have become so common, it is important for us to be good
consumers of this entertainment and infotainment. In this class we will view many of the films from the television channels most commonly showing “historical documentaries,” as well as some of the theater releases and then explore the accuracies and inaccuracies contained in them, as well as the kinds of half-truths which sell tickets and raise ratings. Beyond viewing films and discussion, there will be numerous readings and two exams as well as accuracy validation and interpretation papers.
Faculty: Michele Fricke
Location: BH 103
Time: 1 - 3:50 p.m.
 
Topics in American Studies:  Vietnam as Myth & Metaphor [can also count for LITR
or SOCI credit] HIST 3100-04
Focusing on Vietnam as myth and metaphor, this course will explore popular American films as important cultural documents by which the student can achieve some understanding of the meaning of America in Vietnam and its profound effects upon American society. Among the artistic and cultural themes to be discussed in the course are:  Vietnam as symbolic landscape; the influence of popular culture in shaping attitudes,
creating expectations and determining events; the corruption of innocence; sexual, racial and class identities and conflicts; patriotism and dissent; the nature of war; the American national character and the reform heritage of the 1960s; and the meaning of history.
Faculty: Milton Katz
Location: BH 101
Time: 9 -11:50 am
 
Experimental Writing Workshop:  Hyper Texts, Hybrid Forms
LITR 3702-01  
In this workshop you will create and investigate work that occurs at the meeting places of literature, visual art and electronic media. Expect to experiment with a variety of innovative forms including video poetry, neo-benshi performance, hyper-text fiction, conceptual writing and more. We will explore the history of hybrid and innovative
forms from the rise of modernism to the ultra-contemporary, and the way these forms fit into the changing literary landscape. Through in-class experiments, intensive journal keeping and daily writing, you will develop and discuss a substantial original body of work.
Faculty: Anne Boyer
Location: BH 103
Time: 9 - 11:50 am

Summer Session I Studio classes

Image on Cloth
FIBRE
No pre requisite, class is open to fiber majors as well as non-majors
In this course you will generate a personal library of imagery and learn how to transfer the imagery to cloth.  Emphasis will be on photo screen-printing processes, thermofax printing, various transfer methods and direct application on fabric. Pattern repeat and registration will be covered, along with more painterly, improvised printing on cloth. Dyes, pigments, resists and discharge agents will be introduced to non-majors, while fiber majors are expected to experiment with advanced level processes.
Faculty: Kim Eichler-Messmer
Location: Fiber Studio
Time: 9 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Materials Fee: $75
 
Stone Lithography Rock and Rollin’
PRINE
In this class our emphasis will be to integrate the aesthetic, conceptual and technical experience necessary to understand lithography’s graphic process and its historical and contemporary practice in printmaking and the arts today. You will explore the natural application of drawing and painting approaches to working on lithographic limestone.  You will be encouraged to investigate expressive and conceptual possibilities within this medium with your work, the printing process as well as developing control to create multiple prints in an edition. We will also introduce a variety and combination of media using lithography and other related print disciplines.  Alternate approaches include color lithographs incorporating layering, photography, transfers, text, monotypes, digital technologies as well as other information that proves to be needed.
Faculty: Doug Baker
Location: Printmaking Studio
Time: 8  – 11:50 a.m.
Materials Fee:  $85
 
Vision/Revision: Etching and Transformed States
PRINE 335-40   
This class is designed to explore the etching process and printmaking’s sense of vision and revision. You will explore graphic and technical issues through both historical and contemporary research of the medium. The class’ technical parameters and production issues will include editioning, series and sequence, multiples, analog or hand worked images, some photographic digital technologies, color prints and layering. We will work at
developing technical and stylistic combinations that utilize transformation through various working methodologies trying to extend the range and possibilities available. The faculty member will direct each student in their use of the process and medium, especially as it may relate to etching’s own unique signature and attributes.
Faculty: Doug Baker
Location: Printmaking Studio
Time: 1 - 4:50 p.m.
Materials Fee: $85
 
Referencing the Landscape
PAINT
This class will focus on the landscape as a point of reference for image making. During the first half of this class we will go to various locations off campus to directly observe the landscape. While on location we will collect information and form concepts to challenge your studio processes. The second half of the class will focus on pushing the different concepts that were discovered while out in the environment. You will be taught how to use
a specific source as a restriction thus allowing you to investigate both traditional and more experimental image making. Come prepared to draw on the first day.
Faculty: David Harrison
Location: Dodge Pntg Bldg., Rm D202
Time: 9 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.

Summer Session II Liberal Arts Classes

Monday, July 5 - Wednesday, July 28

Classes meet Monday through Thursday unless indicated otherwise.

Topics in Design:  The Arts and Crafts Movement [counts for Modern credit]
ARTHI 3402-02
This course will explore the Arts and Crafts Movement of the 19th and 20th centuries from the Exhibition of 1851 to Art Nouveau. We will discuss the artwork of all media in terms of philosophy, politics and craft. Major figures such as William Morris and John Ruskin will be examined in depth.
Faculty: Michele Fricke
Location: BH 103
Time: 1 - 3:50 p.m.
 
Topics in Printmaking:  History of Printmaking [counts for Modern credit]
ARTHI 3709-01
This course will consider some of the major developments in Western printmaking from the fourteenth century to the present; my hope is that we will have time to consider some non-Western prints as well.  
Faculty: Reed Anderson
Location: BH 103
Time: 4 - 6:50 p.m.
 
Topics in Art as History:  Modern Japanese Film [counts for Global/Comparative
credit] HIST 3000-08  
This course will begin with Japan's return to the international film circuit in 1953 when "Ugetsu" by Kenji Mizoguchi was entered in the Venice Film Festival, which resulted in the San Marco Silver Lion Award.  Mizoguchi's successful entry touched off a renaissance in Japanese film that came to include award-winning works by Yasujiro Ozu and by Akira Kurosawa. In the 1950s, Japanese film captured a wide international audience and has remained a source of innovative new film. Controversial films that deal with social
dislocation include Tsukamoto Shinga's "Tetsuo the Iron Man" a shocking protest against industrialization. The recent return of the Samurai film is an important component of the course as are the yakuza films of “Beat” Takeshi and the explosive impact of the shock horror film. Paper on an aspect of Japanese film required.
Faculty: Hal Wert
Location: EB 217
Time:  9 - 11:50 a.m.

Topics in Aesthetics:  Utopias [also can count as a literature elective]
PHIL 3000-06  
From Plato onward, writers and thinkers have created images of ideal societies — “Utopias” or “no place lands.” This course will explore this Utopian tradition in fiction, philosophy and film. Students will read and analyze texts ranging from philosophical classics to contemporary science fiction, as well as watch Utopian films. This
course will culminate in a Utopian project, through which students can develop their own fictional and philosophical ideal worlds.
Faculty: Anne Boyer
Location:  BH 103
Time: 9 - 11:50 a.m.
 
Topics in Psychology:  Madness in Film
SOCI 3200-02
 “Overall, the mass media do a poor job of depicting mental illness, with misinformation frequently communicated, unfavorable stereotypes of people with mental illness predominating, and psychiatric terms used in inaccurate and offensive ways.” (Wahl, 1995)
This course examines how psychological disorders are presented and portrayed by the film industry. Through watching and discussing films, students will gain knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of psychological/psychiatric disorders and how the professionals practicing in these fields are accurately and inaccurately portrayed. In addition, we will discuss the etiology, or known causes, of various psychological disorders. The typical class structure will include a short lecture from 7-7:30 p.m. followed by a film. Sometimes,
however, lecture will be longer, and a film will be shown and discussed over two class periods. You should read the related material in the text before coming to class. This is detailed on the course schedule.   
Required Text for the Course: Wedding, D., Boyd, M.A., and Niemiec, R. (2005). Movies and Mental Illness, Hogrefe and Huber Publishers.   
Faculty: Bambi Burgard
Location: BH 102
Time: 6 - 8:50 p.m.
 

Summer Session II Studio Classes

PLEASE NOTE: Studios are only open for studio class time.

Monday, July 5 -  Wednesday, August 4

Classes meet Monday through Friday 

Fundamentals of Glass: Kiln Fired
CERME 364-80  and CERME 384-80
This introductive and investigative glass class will explore two distinctive methods of forming: flat glass drawing and reverse relief castings. The flat glass format encourages the student to explore with “drawing” materials of colored powders, fluxing, frits, stringers and sheet glass. The reverse casting is more complex, and a basic knowledge of sculpting, mold- making and strong technical skills is recommended. In both investigative components, each student will be encouraged to develop a technical understanding of material, equipment and
firing cycles as well as to demonstrate a strong work ethic and a passionate pursuit for investigating personal artistic strengths and goals throughout the class.
Faculty: George Timock
Location: Richard Stern Ceramic Studio
Time: 6 – 9:50 p.m.
Maximum enrollment: 10
Materials fee: $250
 
Entrepreneurial Textiles: School to Market
FIBRE     Prerequisite: Demonstrated proficiency in a studio major to assure independent work.
The studio component of this course will address portfolio preparation, product development and marketing principles related to textiles.  You are expected to have adequate technical skills in sewing, weaving, printing, dyeing, knitting or related textile medium to be able to work independently on a product line in your chosen area of interest. This course is co-taught giving you access to the expertise and professional backgrounds of two
entrepreneurs in the textile field. Hands-on studio work as well as real world marketing and merchandising lessons and opportunities will be at the core of this course.
Faculty: Mary Beth Yates and Peggy Noland
Location: Fiber Studios
Time: 8 – 11:50 a.m.
Materials Fee: $75