Summer and winter intersession courses and internships are offered as part of KCAI's regular academic curriculum. B.F.A. degree program students may enroll in no more than six credit hours per session. Intersession courses are open to students from other institutions and members of the community through the KCAI continuing education department.
WInter intersession classes are offered as part of our regular academic curriculum. KCAI degree program students may enroll for no more than six credit hours per session. Enrollment for KCAI degree program students is done through Web registration.
Students from other institutions and Kansas City community members are welcome to take these courses and can register through the School for Continuing and Professional Studies. To register by phone with a credit card (Visa, Master Card, American Express or Discover), call 816-802-3505 or visit our office in Mineral Hall to register in person. Registration begins March 1. These classes also can be audited at a cost of $500 per course. Students wanting to transfer credits earned at KCAI to other institutions should consult with their academic advisors at those institutions for transfer approval.
Tuition is $425 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 course. Check with the financial aid office for information on financing your summer session classes. To audit a course for no credit, the cost is $500.
Tuition and fees for courses are due in full in the business office Friday, May 4 for summer intersession I and Friday, June 22 for summer intersession II. Enrollment will be cancelled the day after these deadlines if payment has not been received.
Computers in the Jannes Library computer lab will be accessible during the summer intersessions. View library hours.
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:
100% refund if withdrawn on or before first day of class
90% refund if withdrawn during classes one through two
50% refund if withdrawn during classes three through four
25% refund if withdrawn during classes five through eight
No refund after class eight.
Studio refund policy:
100% refund if withdrawn on or before first day of class
90% refund if withdrawn during classes one through three
50% refund if withdrawn during classes four through six
25% refund if withdrawn during classes seven through 12
No refund after class twelve.
All tuition will automatically be refunded within four weeks if a class is canceled due to low enrollment.
Summer intersession I
Liberal arts courses: June 4–27
Studio courses: June 4 – July 3
Tuesday, June 5
Last day to drop or add classes
Last day to register late (register by 4 p.m.)
Last day to register for Directed Study
Last Day to register for internships (register by 4 p.m.)
Wednesday, June 13
Last day to withdraw from classes
Summer intersession II
Liberal arts courses: July 9–Aug. 1
Studio courses: July 9–Aug. 8
Tuesday, July 10
Last day to drop or add classes
Last day to register late (register by 4 p.m.)
Last day to register for Directed Study
Last day to register for Internships (register by 4 p.m.)
Wednesday, July 18
Last day to withdraw from classes
Liberal arts courses: June 4–27
Studio courses: June 4 – July 3
ARTHI 3728-03
Credit: 3 hours art history (Ancient/Medieval or Renaissance/Baroque) OR 3 hours liberal arts elective credit OR 3 hours of open elective credit.
You see them everywhere – films about art history. They appear on PBS, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and 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 half-truths which sell tickets and raise ratings. Beyond viewing films and discussion, there will be numerous readings, accuracy validation and interpretation papers.
Instructor: Professor Michele Fricke
Schedule: 1-3:50 p.m. Monday-Thursday
Location: Baty House 103
Maximum enrollment: 22
LITR 3400-03
Credit: 3 hours of literature, workshop, liberal arts elective OR open elective credit
This course is a study of the history of narrative technique from Anton Chekhov to Flannery O’Connor to Miranda July. We will read a wide range of authors, both classic and contemporary. Students will learn to identify and critically assess, both in discussion and in writing, elements of the narrative, including plot, characterization, theme, point of view, voic, and style. We will, as Lawrence Weschler said, “Write as if reading mattered, and read as if writing mattered.” Reading exams, micro-essays and informed discussions comprise the requirements for this course.
Instructor: Dr. Phyllis Moore
Schedule: 4-6:50 p.m. Monday-Thursday
Location: Baty House 300
Maximum enrollment: 15
SOCI 3300-04
Credit: 3 hours social science, liberal arts elective OR open elective credit.
Odds are that as artists, death, as a subject, will be found in our work at some point throughout our lifetimes, whether it be in the form of an elegiac response, metaphysical inquiry, political outrage towards mass killing in warfare or meditation on our collective predicament. In this reading intensive course, students will explore and discuss numerous critical and creative writings on death such as Giorgio Agamben’s "Homo Sacer: Soverign Power and Bare Life," Philippe Aries’s "Western Attitudes Towards Death from the Middle Ages to the Present," Ovid’s telling of Orpheus and Eurydice, Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Poe’s “The Premature Burial,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd” and selections from Joy Williams’s short story collection "Honored Guest." Students will write three short response papers and produce a final creative project accompanied by a detailed artist statement.
Instructor: Jordan Stempleman
Schedule: 9-11:50 a.m. Monday-Thursday
Location: Baty House 102
Maximum enrollment: 22
FIBRE 348-01
This course has been specifically designed for non-majors or transfer students into fiber. This is a unique opportunity for those interested in exploring the potential of loom woven form. Basic weave structures as well as fundamentals of more complex patterning and principals of weaving tubes and pockets will be explained. A wide variety of materials traditionally used in weaving as well as options of non-traditional linear elements will be covered. Fundamentals of yarn dyeing will be introduced. Students will be encouraged to explore functional applications of woven cloth as well as non-functional approaches to woven form. All students have access to 8-Harness floor looms in a well-equipped studio. All tools and most supplies will be furnished.
Instructor: Erika Hanson
Schedule: 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Irving 101 and 102
Maximum enrollment: 6
Materials fee: $75
FIBRE 369-01
This course introduces student to various methods of loom woven form and structured surface. Intermediate level weave structures will be introduced and students choose individual research areas that are concept based or an examination of ancient traditions. These special topics range from low-tech approaches such as back-strap loom construction and weaving to the possibilities of high-tech computer assisted weaving and Jacquard design. Advanced level students will be introduced to the basics of creating and translating designs for Jacquard weaving on the computer using Pointcarre software. All students have access to 8-Harness floor looms and 16-Harness computer looms in a well-equipped studio. All tools and most supplies will be furnished.
Instructor: Erika Hanson
Schedule: 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Irving 101 and 102
Maximum enrollment: 6
Materials fee: $75
CERME 364-80/CERME 384-80
This is an entry level course for kiln fired glass where the students will investigate a series of approaches to work with glass materials. These approaches will involve flat glass drawings using a variety of forms of glass, such as colored powders, stringers, vitrographs and sheet glass. Other areas of investigation will include slumping and mold making with plaster and silica as well as creating a three-dimensional glass object with the mold making material Zircar. Students are highly encouraged to incorporate their own studio interests in relation to each glass assignment tocan ensure a coherent language.
Instructor: Will Preman
Schedule: 4-7:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Ceramics Building
Maximum enrollment: 10
Materials fee: $250
PADRE 314-01
This course explores observational drawing in a classical, modern and contemporary context. Students are encouraged to understand and adopt these different languages of drawing in order to enhance their own studio practice. They will produce sketches, figure studies, large-scale drawings, collages and motion based pieces in order to demonstrate an understanding of time, appropriation, ideals and expression in drawing. Strong work ethic and classroom attendance are vital to the cumulative benefits of this class. The goal of this course is to provide students with a glimpse into different epistemologies found in drawing. Students will engage in activities like narrative drawing, re-drawing master works, process-based abstraction, stop-motion animation and collaborative projects.
Instructor: Jonah Criswell
Schedule: 1-4:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Painting Building D202
Maximum enrollment: 18
Materials fee: $40
PRINE 385-01
This course is a beginning level studio class in stone lithographic techniques. It is designed to provide students an introductory course that integrates both conceptual and technical experiences necessary to utilize and integrate lithography in printmaking and the arts today. Our emphasis will be to explore the natural application of drawing and painterly approaches while working directly on lithographic limestone. This direct application of materials offers an introduction and integration of the aesthetic, conceptual and technical aspects necessary to experience lithography's graphic process and potential. We will use lithography’s broad range of investigative, expressive and conceptual possibilities as referenced in much of printmaking’s historical and contemporary practice.
Students will learn to develop control of the etching and printing processes to ensure a uniform quality as multiple prints in an edition are created. Other media utilized in combination with the lithographic process will be introduced as part of the course structure. Alternate approaches may include layering and color, photography, transfer techniques, utilizing text, color monotypes and digital technologies as well as other types of combinations that could prove productive.
Instructor: Doug Baker
Schedule: 8-11:50 a.m. Monday-Friday
Location: East Building 102
Maximum enrollment: 10
Materials fee: $85
PRINE335-40
This class is designed to explore the etching process and printmaking’s sense of vision and revision. Students will explore graphic and technical issues through both historical and contemporary research of the medium. The class’s technical parameters and production issues include editioning, series and sequence, multiples, analog or hand worked images, some photographic digital technologies, color prints and layering. Students will work at developing technical and stylistic combinations that utilize transformation through various working methodologies trying to extend the range and possibilities available. The instructor 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.
Instructor: Doug Baker
Schedule: 1-4:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: East Building 102
Maximum enrollment: 14
Materials fee: $85
Liberal arts courses: July 9–Aug. 1
Studio courses: July 9–Aug. 8
ARTHI 2000-01
Credit: 3 hours art history (Ancient/Medieval), liberal arts elective OR open elective credit
In this course we will study the art and cultures of the ancient world, with emphasis on the Middle East and Europe. While a survey, this course will consider these cultures in greater breadth and depth than the freshman art history survey. In addition to the usual considerations of art history including iconography, site, materials, technology and religion, we also will consider more contemporary considerations such as cultural identity, gender roles, art theft, the legal issues of repatriation, conservation and restoration.
Instructor: Michele Fricke
Schedule: 1-3:50 p.m. Monday-Thursday
Location: Baty House 103
Maximum enrollment: 22
HIST 3000-08
Credit: 3 hours history, liberal arts elective OR open elective credit; satisfies requirement for a global/comparative course
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 and won the San Marco Silver Lion Award. Mizoguchi’s successful entry set 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. Recent controversial films that deal with drug addiction and social dislocation include Ishii Sogo’s "Angel Dust" and Tsukamoto Shinga’s "Tetsuo the Iron Man", a shocking protest against industrialization.
Instructor: Hal Wert, Ph.D.
Schedule: 9-11:50 a.m. Monday-Thursday
Location: Baty House 102
Maximum enrollment: 22
PHIL 3200-07
Credit: 3 hours philosophy, liberal arts elective OR open elective credit
This course will survey major thinkers in 17th, 18th and 19th-century Western philosophy. We will explore the ethical, epistemological, and/or metaphysical systems of the following philosophers: Descartes and Spinoza (Rationalism); Berkeley and Hume (Empiricism); and Kant and Schopenhauer (Idealism).
Instructor: Michael Holko
Schedule: 9-11:50 a.m. Monday-Thursday
Location: Baty House 103
Maximum enrollment: 22
SCIE 3000-01
Credit: 3 hours science, liberal arts elective OR open elective credit
The word biology is derived from the Greek words bios, meaning life and logos, meaning study, and is defined as the science of life and living organisms. Alongside physics and chemistry, biology is one of the largest and most important branches of the natural sciences, and each field within it has contributed to mankind or the Earth’s well-being in numerous ways. This class will offer a concise overview of many current biological investigations, including the study of cells, the classification and behavior of organisms, how species evolve and the various interactions between ecosystems.
Instructor: Kate Lindholm
Schedule: 1-3:50 p.m. Monday-Thursday
Location: East Building 203
Maximum enrollment: 22
SCUE 319-01
This is primarily a technical course where you will learn a variety of mold making and casting techniques. Within this course, you will create waste molds, multiple piece molds and flexible molds. You also will think about and discuss how these processes refer to concepts and histories of art.
Instructor: Jung A. Woo
Schedule: 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Sculpture Building, junior/senior room
Maximum enrollment: 15
Materials fee: $170
SCUE 312-01
CASLE 312-01
This course aims to introduce students to a dialogical, process-based art practice, which facilitates the creation of collaborative encounters and conversations among diverse communities. Students will identify and interact with the dynamic and constantly changing urban environment to uncover new ways of understanding how cities are made. This will include visual and spatial explorations through drawing, media sketches, mapmaking, collecting found objects, conducting interviews, teaching exchanges, taking walks, creating events and more to explore the relationship between a relational artistic practice and social engagement. We will have a critical, multidisciplinary, post object-centric approach to artistic production, focused on models of art-making in and outside of conventional galleries and museums. We will look at a range of contemporary artists, art collectives, theoretical and art historical texts and videos from various cultural contexts to investigate the limits of artistic processes.
Instructor: Asma Kazmi
Schedule: 1-4:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Sculpture Building, sophomore room and East Building, room 220 for lecture
Maximum enrollment: 18
Materials Fee: $80
SCUE 302-01
This class will explore experimental approaches of charting space and time. We will spend some time walking and recording our journey through GPS technology, photography and video, collecting found objects and through marking the ground. The accumulated material/data will be used to create a personal cartography that documents the poetry and politics of space. Some of the questions we will discuss include how do maps represent reality? Are maps merely suggestive devices, which simulate new ways to look at information, or can they be used to redescribe and reimagine the world? We will be looking at a range of contemporary artists who use mapping as a vehicle to explore ritual, performance, documentation, and social interaction. Artists include Maya Lin, Nils Norman, Shirin Neshat, Jeannie Thib, Meg Webster, Jeremy Wood and Laura Kurgan.
Instructor: Asma Kazmi
Schedule: 8-11:50 a.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Irving Building, room 114
Maximum enrollment: 18
Materials fee: $80
PADRE 301-01
This painting class will explore the elements of the landscape as it relates to the construction of the painted image. The history of landscape will be discussed. Individual instruction will be given daily and group critiques will be held on campus in the classroom once a week. Outdoor painting sessions will take place in nearby parks within walking distance. The primary medium will be oil paint but a variety of materials also will be used and daily homework will be assigned.
Instructor: Scott Seebart
Schedule: 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Painting Building, room K101
Maximum enrollment: 18
PADRE 355-01
This ntensive drawing class is designed to allow students the freedom to experiment using a nude figure as the focus. Because of the nature of experimentation, risk and failure will be a large part of the discussion. The goal is to use the figure to develop a new way of thinking about the student’s studio process. Perceptual skills along with ideas about abstracting from observation will be developed. A model will be used every class period. Students will be encouraged to use non-traditional drawing materials. Group and individual critiques will be a major part of the class structure and participation is expected. All majors are encouraged to enroll. Students should come to class ready to draw on the first day.
Instructor: David Harrison
Schedule: 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Monday-Friday
Location: Dodge Building, room D202
Maximum enrollment: 16
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