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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

ART 151 - Art Fundamentals


Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 6
Prerequisites: RDG 090  and ENGL 090  or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests
MTA Humanities/Fine Arts Satisifer Y
Session Cycle: FW

This is an introductory course for all art students, especially those who are interested in taking a basic art class. The student will be exposed to the elements of two-dimensional form structure, the principles of organization, art terminology, materials and techniques and forms of artistic expression.

Notes: Humanities/Social Sciences Division

Lab Hours: 90

Learning Outcomes:  

  1. Identify/Recognize the three components of art and how each is integrated into a work of art

Applies to Fine Arts, A.F.A.  Outcomes B, D, E and F.

  2. Identify/Recognize the principles of art organization and how they affect form structure

Applies to Fine Arts, A.F.A.  Outcomes A, B and E.

  3. Identify/Recognize the importance of vocabulary, content and style as integral ingredients in the understanding of art

Applies to Fine Arts, A.F.A.  Outcomes A, B, D, E and F.

  4. Demonstrate/Practice the ability to understand art terminology through class art projectsand oral critiques of student art work.

Applies to Fine Arts, A.F.A.  Outcome E.

  5. Demonstrate/Practice the ability to use the elements of art and the principles of organization to find visual solutions to defined problems.

Applies to Fine Arts, A.F.A.  Outcomes A, B, D, E, and F.

  6. Demonstrate/Practice the ability to use organizational principles, divergent andconvergent thinking when creating a well-planned visual composition

Applies to Fine Arts, A.F.A.  Outcomes B, D, E, and F.