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• ARTS 298 Junior Studio Art Practicum 6 credits

  Required for the studio major, and strongly recommended for the junior year, this seminar is for student artists considering lives as producers of visual culture. At the core of the course are activities that help build students’ identities as practicing artists. These include the selection and installation of artwork for the Junior Show, a presentation about their own artistic development, and studio projects in media determined by each student that serve as a bridge between media-specific studio art courses and the independent creative work they will undertake as Seniors in Comps. The course will also include reading and discussion about what it means to be an artist today, encounters with visiting artists and trips to exhibition venues in the Twin Cities.

  Extra Time Required: Field Trips

  • Offered: Spring 2026
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration
  • Tags: CL: 200 level

  • ARTS  298.01 Spring 2026

  • Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
  • Size:26
  • Grading:S/CR/NC
  • T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:45pm

  • Extra Time Required: Field Trips

• ARTS 339 Advanced Photography 6 credits

  In this course students explore photography as a means of understanding and interacting with both the world and the inner self. We will emphasize a balance of technical skills, exploration of personal vision, and development of critical thinking and vocabulary relating to photography. Advanced students will focus on developing a concise body of work independently through two self-directed longer projects. Instruction includes: use of large format cameras with a hand meter, film scanning, and strobe lighting. Students will learn to develop a portfolio as an ongoing process that requires informed and critical decision making to assemble a body of work. Collectively we will critique, analyze, give feedback on work and discuss readings that are pertinent to the production of images in contemporary times.

  Seats held for Art and Art History majors.

  • Offered: Spring 2026
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice
  • Prerequisites:

    Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 139 or ARTS 142 or ARTS 244 or ARTS 245 with grade of C- or better.

  • Tags: ARTS 2-D Emphasis CL: 300 level DGAH Critical Ethical Reflection DGAH Arts Practice

  • ARTS  339.01 Spring 2026

  • Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • T, THBoliou 130 9:00am-11:30am

  • Four seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.