First Term Enrollment
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School of Art
Every student in the School of Art will take the following courses:
- ARI 101, First-year Studio I (3cr): Guides the students through a series of dynamic projects to explore different media and approaches to making art. Focuses on visual language and introduces visual inquiry.
- AIC 101, Arts in Context I (3cr): This is the first part of an introductory level course designed to acclimate students to the fundamental contexts in which the practice of making art co-exists with art’s audience, collectors, exhibitors, theorists, and historians. It unfolds many ways of seeing and thinking, opening up new perspectives on the world of contemporary visual art for both practitioners and viewers.
- ARL 131, Observational Drawing Workshop (1cr): The focus of this course is to learn to see and allow the experience to develop into drawing.
- ARL 150, Woodshop Art Lab I (1cr): Technical workshop. Students will learn the basics of woodworking including associated tools and equipment. Tools will be demonstrated. Students will construct 2D and 3D projects using skills learned in class. Safe work practices emphasized.
- ARL Labs, TBD (2cr): Students will be registered for two additional five-week intensive art labs with varying topics (drawing, design tools, sculpture, color). The assignments will be at random with the goal that students try a little bit of everything. Illustration majors will have predominately drawing labs.
Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Every student in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies will take the following courses:
- CRS 100, CRS Foundations - New Student Forum (1cr): This forum provides a space for conversation about acclimation to SU and in CRS, including introductions to a range of people and resources from across campus to facilitate and enrich this process, and to help provide the foundation for student success. We will explore together what it means as students and campus community members to have agency, and how to make best use of it.
- CRS 181, Concepts & Perspectives in Communication Studies (3cr): Overview of everyday interaction and extent to which content and forms of communication shape social realities. Broad introduction to field of communication.
- CRS 225, Public Advocacy (3cr): Principles, practice, and criticism of informative, persuasive, and ceremonial speeches. Enhances student capacity to respond appropriately to a variety of speaking situations.
- WRT 105* (3cr)
- FYS 101 (1cr)
- Liberal Arts Academic Elective* (3cr)
- Liberal Arts Academic Elective* (3cr)
17cr
* This indicates the courses you will be able to select for yourself in August. More information will follow on this process. Please be on the lookout for communications from our office.
Department of Drama
Every student in the Department of Drama will take the following courses:
- DRA 090, Theater Lab (0-1cr): Weekly department colloquium; work in progress viewed and discussed by faculty and student body. Frequent masterclasses and presentations by a diverse group of professionals in the field.
- DRA 115, Drama in Context I (3cr): Survey of basic principles of drama from a diverse range of cultures and periods. Application of dramatic analysis principles to an inclusive selection of introductory texts.
School of Design
Every student in the School of Design will take the following courses:
- DES 100, First Year Forum (1cr): This course introduces students to Syracuse University and to the protocols and processes that they will encounter during their university experience. In addition, this course will introduce students to available resources and support systems.
- DES 101, Digital Tools for Designers I (3cr): Introduction to digital design software processes to create and manipulate vector and raster-based imagery and gain an understanding of publication software for layout and printed media.
- DES 103, Analog Design Tools (3cr): This course introduces students to two and three-dimensional visualization methods for the design fields. These methods will include hand drawing as well as modeling with paper/card, wood, and plastic.
- DES 113, History of Modern Design: 1850-Present (3cr): Lectures, readings, discussion, and written assignments develop visual literacy, critical, and communication skills integral to understanding design within its historical, social, and cultural context.
Department of Film and Media Arts
Every student in the Department of Film and Media Arts will take the following course:
- FMA 151, Conversations in Film and Media Arts I (3cr): A survey of current media arts with many guest speakers. Media explored includes film, photography, animation, contemporary art, and criticism. Issues focused on include historical and contemporary representations of underrepresented groups in media.
Setnor School of Music
Every student in the School of Music will take the following courses:
- MHL 071, Weekly Student Convocation (0cr)
- MTC 145, Theory and Musicianship I (3cr): Music fundamentals. Elementary counterpoint. Basic principles of diatonic harmony, voice leading and analysis. All diatonic triads and their inversions.
- MTC 147, Ear Training I (1cr): Sight singing with diatonic melodies. Rhythmic reading and dictation with simple and compound meter. Melodic and harmonic dictation using all diatonic triads and their inversions.