Painting I – ART 2331
I. Course Description
ART 2331 Painting I Credit: 3 hrs.
This is a studio art course that develops skills and techniques in acrylic painting. (Five hours per week)
II. Course Objectives
This course is about painting issues and their evolution into the twentyfirst century related to art. You will work throughout the semester learning and practicing observational painting techniques discovering how the artist creates and composes. It is the goal of this course to provide, in addition to the skill and knowledge necessary to make dynamic paintings, a background in aesthetics and history. Each student is expected to build upon a good foundation of drawing, design and color theory, with interest in the craft of materials, and the challenge to creatively express yourself through art.
III. Course Requirements
Since this is a physical product based class, students must purchase the appropriate materials in order to receive credit for the class. If you cannot acquire the materials, you are advised to drop the course.
Attendance, Attitude and Participation:
Class participation is required. You should realize that you are responsible for all information disclosed during every class session and although we will be working together during each scheduled class, there will be out-of-class color assignments. This will demand 100% participation in order to complete the requirements of this course.
You are expected to come to class on time, stay for the entire period, participate in class discussions, take notes, bring them along with your sketches to class and attend all lectures/demos/workshops. Bring all your required materials and equipment to class each time.
Please limit your visiting with others and do not impose on others by asking to borrow items required for this class. Your behavior is expected to reflect a “student learning” mode. Some students sit in class as if they are on a bus waiting for their next stop (the end of class). Instead, I ask for active learning with engaged listening, note taking, exploratory sketches and engagement with the new materials and process in each and every class. Missing more than two classes may result in a drop in your final grade by 5% for the first class missed thereafter, 10% for the second, 20% for the third, 40% for the fourth. More than four tardiness’ or early exits will affect your grade in a similar ratio. Class begins on time and ends on time every time.
It will be impossible to complete all of the work required in this course without working outside of class. The workload asked of you is not unreasonable; but it is university-level and requires focus, determination, and desire. Therefore it is imperative that you come to every class on time and prepared to work. Attendance is not just required, but necessary to succeed in this class.
Note: Seniors often ask art faculty to write letters of recommendation for job and graduate school applications. Based on your behavior in class, consider what would I write about you.
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to get the information or materials, if you miss a lecture, demonstration or distribution of materials, CLASS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ONLINE at
Please attend all classes. If you have an excused absence, please contact me before the scheduled class at my Office-ph# 750-2281 or email to betzs@wssu.edu and bring your medical excuse to the following class session. This procedure is the best way to protect your grade. “Death in the family, school sponsored activities, health problems that prohibit attendance” are examples of excusable abscences. “Over-sleeping” and “missing the bus” are not.
IV. Grading Proceedures
Evaluation
There will be daily assignments called problems. These major painting problems will be reviewed at the end of each class, at the midterm and at the final. All work in and out of class will be stored in the painting studio racks. The final grade will be based on the quality of your work and, most importantly, the individual’s progress from the beginning to end of the term. If you do not attempt to participate as a competitive and studious artist, you will be advised to drop this class after the assignment.
VI. Tentative Course Schedule See Problems and Calendar for complete information
VII. Student Responsibility for Coursework
In submitting assignments and projects for courses, students take responsibility for their work as a whole, and imply that, except as properly noted, the ideas, words, material and craftsmanship are their own. Failure to abide by those simple principles of responsible scholarship is dishonest, as is receiving or giving aid on tests, examinations or other assigned work presumed to be independent or original. A student whose work is found to be dishonestly accomplished and submitted as his or her own for credit will be removed from the course with a grade of “F.”
About the Classroom
Room 218 is also used by other students, in other classes, at other times. Your participation in this class will be graded in part by how your behavior contributes to the delivery of new information from the instructor and the success of the entire class. Therefore you are required to maintain the condition of your work area by cleaning up after yourself. You must be able to hear my comments and suggestions, therefore no personal headphones are allowed. Please direct your focus to the current assignment. Students that interrupt class will be asked to leave. You must actively engage in the day’s study, therefore no cell phone usage- whether calling in or out will be permitted. Turn cell phones off before entering this classroom. You are permitted to use this studio to complete assignments whenever the
room is free.
Consent to Use of Photographic Images
Registration as a student and attendance at or participation in classes and other campus and University activities constitutes an agreement by the student to the University’s use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the student’s image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, or audiotapes of such classes and other campus and University activities.
Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
Students with a documented disability must register with the WSSU Disability Services Office each semester to receive consideration for any accommodations in this course. Accommodations are not retroactive. You may reach the Disability Services Office by emailing Ms. Myra Waddell, (waddellm@wssu.edu)
Although I am eager to assist you, no accommodations will be made without notification from this office.
Painting I 