Humanities and Sciences

The purpose of this course is to give students a firm understanding of the skeleton as an architectural framework for the human body and of the muscular system as a system for the production of motion. The course will consist of lecture and lab components as well as some work outside of class, including museum trips to study biological and evolutionary exhibits.

This science class will address issues that are of life-long importance to all students. Subjects will include the effects of drug, alcohol and tobacco use, stress management, diet, wellness and the safe use of artists’ materials.

This course develops conceptual understanding and problem-solving, decision-making, and analytic skills dealing with quantities and their magnitudes and interrelationships. Through lectures and assignments, students will develop an appreciation for mathematics as both a science and an art.

This course examines the basic physics and chemistry of light in the framework of geometrical and physical optics. Topics to be covered are refraction and diffraction, structural color, the nature of light and its interactions with matter, photochemistry, pigments and dyes, and the principles underlying fluorescence and phosphorescence, lasers and holography.

This academic studies class will provide the student with the understanding of the anatomy of the human form and systems of motion. This course will enable students to identify, understand and apply anatomical structures to the human form in a variety of poses. Students will be given an introduction to the history of artists’ use of anatomical information. Finally, this course will empower students to think critically about the use of anatomy within their own drawings.