FINA U401: Special Topics in Studio Art (3cr.), Section number 28233, Meets M, W, 9:30-10:45, FA 007
"Depicting Landscape" is a new course for students interested in understanding how our contemporary landscape was created. It focuses on streets, roads, and highways, their history, and their social effects on the natural environment and on people's relationships with each other. Students will take a number of field trips, do a number of small projects, and produce, as their final project, an artist's map which both analyzes the landscape and presents it as an aesthetic object. In addition, students will learn Photoshop and GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
The course is taught by faculty member Laurel Cornell, who has a background both in demography and in landscape architecture. She is committed to active learning, to social action, and to enhancing to each student's specific interests, skills, and strengths. The syllabus is posted at Oncourse, or email Professor Cornell at cornell@indiana.edu and she will send you a .pdf of it. Depicting Landscape is a 400-level course (and there is also a graduate section) but no previous background in fine arts is required or expected; even students who are unfamiliar with visual methods of learning can do well in this course.
