Sep 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

AD 23900 - Painting For Non-Majors



Introduction to painting in acrylic. Study of the spatial and expressive qualities of color, with an emphasis on composition and pictorial design. Development of technical skills in image making through exploration of traditional and modern methods of paint application. Introduction to surface preparation, framing, and display of paintings. 

Preparation for Course
P: Non-Art and Design major.

Cr. 3.
Hours
Studio. 6.
Notes
Indiana Core Transfer Library course. No credit toward any degree program in the Department of Art and Design, except as liberal arts electives.
Student Learning Outcomes
1.  Produce texts that use appropriate formats, genre conventions, and documentation styles while controlling tone, syntax, grammar, and spelling.
2.  Compose texts that exhibit appropriate rhetorical choices, which include attention to audience, purpose, context, genre, and convention.
3.  Summarize or paraphrase an oral message to demonstrate comprehension.
4.  Analyze the concepts and principles of various types of humanistic or artistic expression.
5.  Create, interpret, or reinterpret artistic and/or humanistic works through performance or criticism.
6.  Demonstrate an understanding of the creative process using the vocabulary of the appropriate discipline.
7.  Perform or create a work of personal expression and bring the work to fruition using applicable skills.
8.  Articulate a reflective and critical evaluation of their own and other’s creative efforts using written and/or oral communication.