2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Fine Art

  
  • ART 201 - Principles of Design and Color


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    An introduction to the principles of two-dimensional design and color theory and their use as tools for effective visual communication.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 202 - Art Appreciation


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered & OPS
    The class will discuss art in its broadest context. Students will recognize and appreciate their impulse to create by considering the role of the artist through history, across cultures, and in our own time. The students will develop a working familiarity with art in general so art becomes a natural component of understanding the world.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 203 - Printmaking I


    Units: 4
    When Offered: As offered
    This is a studio course designed to facilitate the creation of original prints using a variety of printmaking techniques. Methods such as monotype, relief (woodcut, linoleum), and intaglio will be explored.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional lab fee
    Prerequisite(s): ART 201 , and 204  or 208  
  
  • ART 204 - Drawing I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course is one of the foundation courses that develop the perceptual and technical skills for effective drawing. Presents drawing as an essential tool for visual expression. This course is also recommended for general education.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 207 - Watercolor I


    Units: 4
    When Offered: As offered
    This is a studio course designed to introduce the novice art student to the art of watercolor painting. The basic quality of transparency will be explored in tandem representational exercises.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 208 - Studio Drawing I


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring
    This course functions as the introductory drawing course for Art majors and minors. In it, the perceptual and technical skills, and the basic media of drawing are introduced and exercised. Drawing as a historic art form is studied and used to develop a sophisticated awareness of its current expressive potential. Credit cannot be earned for ART 204  and 208.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 225 - Sculpture I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall (odd years)
    Basic elements of sculpture. Creating forms in clay, plaster, paper, and multi-media techniques.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional lab fee
  
  • ART 232 - Ceramics I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Introduction to working with clay, using pinch, coil, slab and wheel; applying glazes, exploring decorating techniques using oxides. History of clay as an art form.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 241 - Global History of Art: Ancient to Medieval


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall (odd years)
    This course will introduce you to the major monuments of art and architecture across the globe beginning with prehistoric civilizations and ending with medieval societies. As a survey, we will be covering a wide range of objects, concepts, terms, chronology, and geography.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 242 - Global History of Art: Renaissance to Contemporary


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall (even years)
    This course will introduce you to the major monuments of art and architecture across the globe beginning with medieval societies and ending with the modern world. As a survey, we will be covering a wide range of objects, concepts, terms, chronology, and geography.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 283 - Painting I


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Fall (even years)
    Projects introduce traditional painting methods in oils or acrylic paints. Applied studio work, slide lectures, group discussions, and field trips are possible.
    Repeatable: May be repeated one time for credit
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 201 204 , or 208  
  
  • ART 300 - Advanced Art


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Fall (even years)
    An essential course for the serious art student. Projects include multimedia community outreach opportunities; such past projects have been local elementary school murals, public sculptures, and collaborations with other departments on campus. More experimental art processes will also be explored in this class such as indigo dye painting, cyanotypes, and image transfer techniques. Emphasis on developing individual student skills and concepts.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional lab fee
    Prerequisite(s): ART 201 204 , or 208   
  
  • ART 301 - Color, Theory, and Application


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring
    This is a combination studio and lecture course that focuses exclusively on issues of color, its aesthetic, symbolic and psychological dimensions, as related to visual expression. This content is applicable to both fine art and design-related fields.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 201  or ARC 122  
  
  • ART 305 - Figure Drawing I


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Fall
    This course is dedicated to developing facility at rendering the human form in a variety of dry media. The context for this is drawing from live models (clothed), augmented with anatomical drawing exercises. It will also introduce students to the metaphorical and expressive possibilities of the human form.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 204  or 208  
  
  • ART 314 - Drawing II


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring (even years)
    This course is a continuation and expansion of more advanced techniques in drawing. There will be an emphasis on concept building and storytelling through visual imagery. Students will explore new ways to think and approach drawing and the drawing surface.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional lab fee
    Prerequisite(s): ART 204  or 208  
  
  • ART 323 - New Genre


    Units: 4
    When Offered: As offered
    This course is an introduction and exploration in inter-media art. It will encourage interface and comparison within art and other disciplines.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 325 - Sculpture II


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring (even years)
    Sculpture II is an expansion of Sculpture I . There will be an emphasis on scale and new materials such as wood, metal, and found object assemblage. A large scale collaborative object for community outreach also gets explored in this class as well as a history in object making and their various functions.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 225  
  
  • ART 326 - Contemporary Art Issues


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    Students will be reading writings by a variety of cultural theorists and historians, site visits, guest speakers, experiments and class discussions. Topics of Fine Art vs. Visual Culture (mass culture, printed matter, etc.) will be major points of exploration and discussion. This course is not a studio class but a class which discusses studio practices and ideas.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241  or 242  
  
  • ART 345 - Nineteenth Century Art History


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    A study of the major developments in the visual arts in Europe from David to the first Impressionist show in 1874. Lecture and slides.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241  or 242  
  
  • ART 346 - History of Modern Painting


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    A study of the development of modern painting from the French Impressionist movement to the present day in the United States. Lecture and slides.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241  or 242  
  
  • ART 347 - Contemporary Art History


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This course critically examines visual art and design on a global scale from 1945 to the present. We will consider art in its broader framework of “visual culture” that includes performance, installation, print media, video, and propaganda.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241  or 242  
  
  • ART 350 - Gallery Methods


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    In this course students will be learn the basics of gallery design and installation. This includes general theories pertaining to the exhibition space and the evolving history of the gallery. In addition, students will gain practical experience installing exhibitions.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of six (6) units
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241  or 242  
  
  • ART 351 - Museum Studies


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall (odd years)
    The course will examine the pivotal role that the curators play in museums, and the ways in which the expanding art-world functions today. It will introduce students to aspects of museum work, with an emphasis on the role of the fine arts curator and curatorial theory and how this can integrate with becoming a professional arts administrator.
    Repeatable: May be repeated one time for credit
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241 , 242 , or PHO 140  
  
  • ART 353 - Ceramics II


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring
    Developing clay as an art form; study of properties of clay, glaze and their origin; fusion of materials; stacking and loading kiln, emphasis on wheel throwing.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 232  
  
  • ART 354 - Printmaking


    Units: 4
    When Offered: As offered
    This is a studio course designed to facilitate the creation of original prints using a variety of advanced printmaking techniques. Methods such as monotype, relief (woodcut, linoleum), and intaglio will be explored.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional course fee
    Prerequisite(s): ART 201 , and either 204  or 208   
  
  • ART 355 - Contemporary Art Practice


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring (odd years)
    This course focuses on contemporary art practice through theoretical analysis and applied studio practice. Through text, discussion, fieldtrip, lecture and making, assignments will address contemporary issues in the arts to expose students to advanced practices of installation, relational aesthetics and new media.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 201 204 , or 208    
  
  • ART 361 - Art of Latin America


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    As an introduction to the ancient Americas, this course will focus on seven major cultures in Mesoamerica (Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, and Aztec) and Andean South America (Chavín, Moche, and Inca). The course concludes with the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century and a brief analysis of new visual forms produced in response to new social, political, and religious contexts.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241  or 242  
  
  • ART 371 - Art of Southeast Asia


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This course covers the development of art in India and Southeast Asia (i.e. Cambodia, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Vietnam, and Indonesia) from pre-historic periods to the present.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241  or 242  
  
  • ART 381 - Women in the Arts


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This course will focus on women both as the subjects and the creators of art. It will be organized chronologically and thematically. This will involve a historical survey of women artists and their artistic contributions, as well as an examination of the religious, mythological and secular images of women in art. Extensive attention will be given to the creation, modification, and persistence of these images throughout history, due to their respective religious, social, economical, psychological, and intellectual conditions.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 241  or 242  
  
  • ART 383 - Painting II


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring (odd years)
    Projects further develop skills learned in ART 283 - Painting I . Applied studio work, slide lectures, group discussions, and field trips are possible.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 283  
  
  • ART 385 - Film as Visual Art


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    Film as Visual Art is a study of masterworks of cinematic art with an emphasis on visual aesthetics and cultural influences. The class will examine selected International cinematic classics, focusing on the film’s director, or ‘auteur’. The French idea of “camera as style” (pen) will be explored through the film director’s use of camera angles, composition, editing, and lighting will be explored and deconstructed, in a manner consistent with traditional forms of visual art. Also under consideration will be the way that these visual elements stand in dynamic and creative tension with the visual culture of their national origin or context. Included in this would be fashion, art, politics, and philosophy.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 387 - Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture


    Units: 3
    When Offered: OPS
    Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture is a study of the causes and effects of the proliferation of new media in 21st century Western Society. This class explores post-modern theory and a tactile approach to the elements that make up the visual world. By exploring advertising, television, film, digital image making, arts and crafts, social media, and both public and private spaces, this course considers the roles of consumers, creators, and critics of visual culture, while engaging with a Christian world view of these cultural practices.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 391 - Art Theory


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This is a seminar style class in which readings, critique sessions, writing, discussion, peer review, and the making of original artwork are used to discuss topics in art theory. This writing-centered course provides a forum for the exploration of contemporary art theories and practice. The course also examines the role of artists and artmaking in contemporary culture so students must respond critically to the subject matter at hand, analyze the texts and art works, and understand the methods, practices, and materials utilized in the creation of contemporary art.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 399 - Independent Study


    Units: 1-3
    When Offered: As offered
    An opportunity for students who have demonstrated the ability to do independent work to pursue in depth a topic of particular interest.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of six (6) units of credit
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 400 - Problems in Art


    Units: 1-4
    When Offered: As offered
    This course will explore and present selected specialized instruction in various media. 
    Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of eight (8) units with a change in topic
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 405 - Figure Drawing II


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring (odd years)
    This is a studio course whose aim is to develop increased mastery of the perceptual, technical, and compositional skills involved with figure drawing.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 305  
  
  • ART 412 - Topics in Art History


    Units: 1-4
    When Offered: As offered
    Projects in Art History topics of current interest not normally covered by established courses. Content variable.
    Repeatable: May be repeated twice for credit with a change of topic
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 414 - Drawing III


    Units: 4
    When Offered: As offered
    This course is to focus on a continuation of skill development, with an emphasis on individual style and expression. This course is structured to encourage personal voice through idea generation, material investigation, technical refinement and research. Students are encouraged to push the boundaries as they investigate materials, subject matter, process and interpretation related to image making.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 314  
  
  • ART 415 - Aesthetics and the Classroom


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    An upper division and graduate level course for the classroom teacher and liberal studies major. Also meets the art history requirement for Visual Arts. Studies assumptions we make about art, investigates our difficulties in understanding art, builds skill in perceiving and communicating about art, and connects lessons learned to practical classroom application.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 430 - Art and the Bible


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    A study of the dynamic relationship, which has historically existed between the content of Biblical texts and visual art, with consideration also being given to select examples of music and literature.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • ART 432 - Sculpture III


    Units: 4
    When Offered: As offered
    Advanced problems in sculpture for those who wish to develop individual statements in a sculptural media.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 325  
  
  • ART 435 - Figure Drawing III


    Units: 4
    When Offered: As offered
    Advanced studies and mastery of the perceptual, technical, and compositional skills involved with figure drawing.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 405  
  
  • ART 450 - Internship in Visual Arts


    Units: 1-3
    When Offered: As offered
    Under faculty supervision, the student will be assigned to a position, utilizing principles of fine art acquired and employed throughout their university experience. This internship provides an opportunity for investigating and participating in field experience with a practitioner of the trade, giving depth and breadth to their understanding of fine art as a whole.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of six (6) units
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department Chair
  
  • ART 453 - Ceramics III


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring
    Advanced pottery with emphasis on wheel throwing and design problems. Individual objectives will more or less regulate the type of work done, although specific assignments will be given. Advanced-level performance is expected.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 353  
  
  • ART 495 - Art Therapy Studio


    Units: 4
    When Offered: Spring (odd years)
    This course will enable students to examine the use of paints, inks, organic art processes, sculpture materials and other traditional and non-traditional art media and their use with particular client populations. Salient features of particular materials and expressive dimensions will be explored. Discussion of computer applications relevant to art therapy will be included. Students will investigate the impact of art processes and materials through ongoing participation in personal art making. By strengthening their connection to the creative process, students will gain an understanding of personal symbolic language, and arts-based learning allowing for the opportunity to integrate intellectual, emotional, artistic, and interpersonal knowledge.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): ART 201  and DES 110  
    Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): PSY 376  
  
  • ART 499 - Senior Exhibition


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Senior Exhibition provides unit reward for the work art majors perform en route to the creation and mounting of their required thesis exhibit.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): Senior status and permission of the Department Chair

French

  
  • FRE 115 - Elementary French I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall
    This course introduces students to fundamental skills such as understanding, reading, writing, and speaking the French language, while developing French cultural awareness. To introduce students to these skills, this course will prepare students to use common phrases, a basic vocabulary, and essential grammar. In addition, students will develop their cultural awareness and language skills through a variety of learning activities such as French games and interactive software, French songs, reading and writing short stories, and performing a brief oral topic demonstration.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • FRE 125 - Elementary French II


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Spring
    This course continues the study of the basics of the French language and expands or further develops the student’s ability to speak, understand, read, and write elementary French through a variety of activities both in and out of the classroom, homework assignments, workbook exercises, and language lab participation. In addition, the class gives further understanding and appreciation of French civilization/culture.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 115  
  
  • FRE 215 - Intermediate French I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    Introduces students to more complex linguistic patterns presented in a French/Francophone cultural and comparative context, and includes practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing through discussion of short texts, written exercises and short compositions, work in multimedia resources, and participation in French cultural events. This is a dynamic, hands-on language course geared toward discussion of topical issues of interest to contemporary French speakers. It includes a review of basic French vocabulary and syntax keyed to readings on cultural topics including globalization, immigration, media, friendship, gender, religion, and human rights. Classes are conducted primarily in French.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 125  
  
  • FRE 225 - Intermediate French II


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This course develops the advanced linguistic patterns introduced in Intermediate French I and includes more practice in speaking, listening, reading, and composition through discussion and written analysis of French films. The student will become a more proficient French communicator by learning about French culture, history, and politics while studying French cinema in the context of hands-on classroom activities. Knowledge of French vocabulary and grammatical structures taught in the earlier three semesters is assumed. Some grammar study is included, associated primarily with cultural conversations following from the cinema selections and student review projects. Classes are conducted primarily in French.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 215  

General Studies

  
  • GST 010 - Lifeline


    Units: 1
    When Offered: As offered
    The Lifeline course is an extension of the International Student Orientation at California Baptist University and is required of all Intensive English Program Students. The course is comprised of a semester-long series of small group seminars, activities and discussions designed to address the developmental and transitional needs of new international students at CBU. The course is designed to motivate students to engage in and think about issues and topics that are critical to academic success at the university level and cultural transition into the United States. Topics address the skills and relationships needed for students to succeed academically, socially, emotionally and spiritually.
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail
  
  • GST 050 - Chapel Convocation


    Units: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    The California Baptist University community gathers regularly for worship, communication, fellowship, personal development, and spiritual formation. As a community deeply rooted in the Baptist tradition of the Christian faith, it is appropriate to expect broad participation in this experience. (This is a non-academic requirement and does not count toward the number of units required for graduation. A failing grade in Chapel will have a 1 unit negative effect on a student’s semester and cumulative grade point average.)
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail
  
  • GST 060 - Academic Success Seminar


    Units: 1
    When Offered: Fall
    The purpose of this course is to equip students with tools that they need to be successful in their academics at California Baptist University. The course will be comprised of a series of workshops, activities and small group discussions designed to meet the academic needs of students at California Baptist University.
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail
  
  • GST 061 - Academic Course on Excellence


    Units: 1
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    The purpose of this course is to promote academic success through excellence. Learning theories, concepts, and strategies related to academic excellence and personal success are covered.
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail
  
  • GST 099 - The Teaching Assistant


    Units: 0
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    The class is designed to provide students a deeper understanding of the academic discipline by viewing through the lens of instruction and evaluation of student work. Students will experience this perspective through opportunities to evaluate work, provide supplemental instruction, and participate in other in and out of class activities in support of the course in which the student is serving as a teaching assistant.
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Provost Office
  
  • GST 100 - First Year Experience


    Units: 1
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    The First Year Experience is designed to assist new students with the transition to university life and the California Baptist University community. The course is comprised of a semester-long series of small group seminars, activities, and discussions and is designed to address the developmental and transitional needs of new students at California Baptist University. Topics focus on the issues, skills, and relationships that can help students succeed academically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually. Based on years of tradition, but sensitive to the ever-changing needs of university students, this course provides a well-rounded introduction to the California Baptist University experience.
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail
  
  • GST 101 - Essentials for Online and Professional Studies


    Units: 0
    When Offered: OPS
    The course is designed to prepare students for a successful transition to college coursework, including online studies. Students are introduced to the resources California Baptist University has in place to ensure the success of its student body including an introduction to the Blackboard learning management system.
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail
  
  • GST 199 - Portfolio Seminar


    Units: 1
    When Offered: OPS
    The goal of the portfolio workshop is to help the student gather the material necessary for petitioning for prior learning credit and to assist in the presentation of the material. The prior learning portfolio is intended to be a thorough compilation of the student’s prior learning. With guidance from the faculty, the student will develop a portfolio documenting college level learning which has been obtained outside of the traditional college classroom setting through work related training, professional experiences, and community involvement. Portfolio credit is awarded for learning that has taken place-not for experience. Therefore in addition to documenting experience, students are expected to articulate and demonstrate appropriate theory and terminology in their portfolio. (Portfolio credit can only be earned toward general elective credits and cannot be earned in a student’s major field of study.)
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail
  
  • GST 200 - Career Readiness


    Units: 1
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    This course is designed to help students align their academic studies with professional development so that they will be equipped to present themselves as the most preferred candidate when entering into their chosen job field. The full process of career readiness will be discussed and evaluated from student, alumni, and employer perspectives. Subject matter will consist of how to choose a major/career, preparing job application materials, interview skills, strategic job searching, etc.
    Grade Type: Pass/Fail

Graphic Design

  
  • GDM 110 - Fundamental Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course explores the tools and implementations of Adobe Illustrator through assigned projects and exercises. Techniques will be explored and explained. Best practice work-flows will be taught. The goal of this course is a working knowledge of Illustrator for the student.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional course fee (TRAD only)
  
  • GDM 120 - Fundamental Typography


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course explores the tools and implementations of Adobe InDesign through assigned projects and exercises. Techniques will be explored and explained. Best practice work-flows will be taught. The goal of this course is a working knowledge of InDesign for the student and for the student to be able to identify key typography concepts.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional course fee (TRAD only)
  
  • GDM 130 - Fundamental Image


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course explores the tools and implementations of Adobe Photoshop through assigned projects and exercises. Techniques will be explored and explained. Best practice work-flows will be taught. The goal of this course is a working knowledge of Photoshop for the student.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional course fee (TRAD only)
  
  • GDM 140 - Fundamental Web


    Units: 3
    When Offered: OPS
    This course introduces students to the primary languages of web design, HTML and CSS. The course is designed to provide students with a foundational knowledge in the way that web pages are designed and coded. Tools and techniques needed to design and create web pages will be explored.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GDM 150 - Fundamental User Interface and User Experience Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This course serves as an introduction to a variety of visual, navigational and structural approaches in the user experience (UX) and interface (UI) building process. The primary goal is for students to better understand how to design for various digital and environmental user experiences. Topics that will be covered include research, navigation systems, visual hierarchy, prototyping, testing and best practices. A strong emphasis is placed on conceptual development, structure, interactivity, and design aesthetics that will result in effective physical and virtual user experience solutions.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GDM 200 - Special Topics in Graphic Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This course focuses on different topics in the field of graphic design each time it is offered. Designed to reflect both the rapidly changing culture and technologically progress of the field.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for credit with change in topic
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GDM 215 - Principles: Introduction to Graphic Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This foundational course provides a broad introduction to the field of visual communication by exploring 2D design concepts, processes, techniques, and production methods. Students will gain experience in the ideation, research, execution, and presentation of design related projects.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional course fee
  
  • GDM 225 - Principles: Letterforms and Structure


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Students will learn the fundamentals of typesetting and typographic layout by exploring the history, anatomy, vocabulary, design, and function of letterforms and the role it plays in the visualization of language.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional course fee
  
  • GDM 235 - Principles: Image Visualization


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course explores the use of the image as a tool for non-verbal communication and story-telling. Students will learn the fundamentals of image based design through compositing and editing techniques and processes.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional course fee
  
  • GDM 240 - Principles: Innovations in Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course surveys the conceptual underpinnings of the major movements in graphic design and digital art. Students will examine visual communication from the earliest human expressions of cave paintings to contemporary design movements to the software breakthroughs of the Digital Revolution. Students will interpret selected concepts and movements and then create their own designs using a variety of analytic methodologies.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GDM 305 - History of Graphic Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: OPS
    A study of the causes and effects of critical design movements. This course explores the political and social environments that shaped the creation and evolution of graphic design. This course will give students insight into different movements, such as the Medieval Era, Graphic Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, Art Nouveau, Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Digital Revolution. Students will also evaluate how the history of graphic design influences current design philosophies and strategies.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GDM 310 - Intermediate Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course is an intermediate design course in which project work is used to study work flow, pre-press techniques and practices, idea generation, and other concepts that arise from the process of creativity.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 110  and 130  
  
  • GDM 315 - Practice: Designing Brand Identity


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course will explore how to develop, conceptualize and craft effective design solutions in the form of a visual identity system. Students will design a variety of branding elements and strategy guidelines to visually communicate a core message across an array of products, services, and environments.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Fee: Additional course fee
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 215  
  
  • GDM 320 - Intermediate Typography


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course is an intermediate typography course in which more complex typography concepts, best practice type generation and project work challenge the student.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 110 , 120 , and 130  
  
  • GDM 321 - The Art and Design of Professional Presentations


    Units: 3
    When Offered: OPS
    This course introduces students to the knowledge and skills necessary to develop professional interactive multimedia productions. Classroom activities include how to identify the design and communication issues from pre through post production of an interactive presentation. In this multimedia design and production course, students integrate research, writing, creative visual layout, and interface design to develop high impact professional presentations. Additionally, students will learn how to define and identify project goals, purpose, audience, timeline milestones, budget constraints and other multimedia project parameters.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GDM 325 - Practice: Typographic Form and Space


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    The goal of this course is to refine the student’s skills and understanding in using typography as an informative medium. Students will analyze the semiotic function of text including its relationship with content and image. Students will work with visible language in a variety of media and dimension, exploring the possibilities of conceptually-based typographic solutions.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 225  
  
  • GDM 330 - Intermediate Image


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course is an intermediate image course in which more complex photography and photoshop techniques will be taught. Students will learn how to manipulate photography using photoshop to create complex ideas and messages.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 130  
  
  • GDM 335 - Conceptual Image Making


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course will explore how to critically interpret and create meaning in context. Students will design solutions to problems across a variety of media by visualizing conceptual ideas through advanced image-making processes.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 235  
  
  • GDM 340 - Intermediate Web


    Units: 3
    When Offered: OPS
    This course expands on students accrued HTML and CSS knowledge. Principles of content strategy will be integrated with visual design to create compelling web experiences. Popular as well as up and coming CMS solutions such as WordPress, Ghost, and others will also be explored.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 140  
  
  • GDM 341 - Video Fundamentals


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This course explores the tools and implementations of Adobe Premiere Pro through assigned projects and exercises. Techniques will be explored and explained. Best practice work-flows will be taught. The goal of this course is for the student to have a working knowledge of the Adobe Premiere Pro editing software.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GDM 342 - Motion Design I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall (odd years)
    This course teaches students the fundamental skills and processes used in the motion design industry. Students will learn about storyboards, style frames, sound development, and rendering and they will use industry-standard time-based software such as Adobe After Effects to learn 2D animation principles.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 315  or 325  
  
  • GDM 343 - Motion Design II


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Spring (even years)
    This upper-level course teaches advanced motion theory, as well as pipeline workflow concepts, strategies and common industry trends and practices. The emphasis is on showing the full motion design workflow in a studio-like environment from concept to final output.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 342  
  
  • GDM 351 - 3D Concept Design I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall
    This course builds a foundation for advanced 3D environmental modeling, photorealistic rendering, stylistic shading, and effects processes. Students will build upon fundamental techniques to create professional quality imagery and motion with industry standard software such as Cinema 4D and Element 3D. Working is a typical design studio pipeline, students will work with NURBS modeling and mesh editing for hard surface and organic objects; texture mapping, special effects including effectors, dynamics, and multiple emitters; optimization techniques; and a variety of compositing methods to create both artistic works and commercial products.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): EGR 121 FLP 170 , or GDM 215  
  
  • GDM 352 - Visual Effects Concept Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall
    This course teaches students the primary skills and processes used in the visual effects (VFX) industry. Students will learn basic compositing and how to integrate computer graphics and 3D components with live action in a methodology that simulates standard VFX production pipelines.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): EGR 121 , FLP 170 , or GDM 215  
  
  • GDM 353 - 3D Concept Design II


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Spring (odd years)
    This course focuses on advanced 3D concept design, compositing, product design, environmental modeling, photorealistic rendering, stylistic shading, and effects processes. Students will learn advanced techniques for 3D compositing into live action videography that includes a variety of methodologies to create both artistic works and commercial products with industry standard software such as Cinema 4D, After Effects, and Premiere.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 351  
  
  • GDM 354 - Mixed Reality Concept Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Spring
    With the ubiquity of mobile devices and the mainstream adoption of wearables, there is an additive digital layer of structured data viewable in mixed reality environments such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). This course provides students with an overview of the history and evolution of these technologies, their convergence, and how to build basic mixed reality applications for such domains as the arts, design visualization, architecture, fashion, and other artistic and commercial use cases. Students will use industry standard programs such as Unity 3D and Snapchat Lens.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 351  
  
  • GDM 371 - User Interface and User Experience Design I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Spring
    This course takes a deep dive into designing UI / UX for mobile and emerging technologies and will critically examine conceptual innovations in the field. On a practical level, students will work with information architecture, prototyping and wireframing tools, usability assessment, and best practices for design communication. Finally, students will work with the major principles and professional practice of UI/UX design through weekly exercises, class discussions, presentations, and functional projects.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 215 225 , and 235    
  
  • GDM 400 - Special Topics in Graphic Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    This course focuses on different topics in the field of graphic design each time it is offered. Designed to reflect both the rapidly changing culture and technologically progress of the field.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for credit with change in topic
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GDM 410 - Advanced Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course is an advanced design course in which project work is used to build a professional portfolio for employment or advanced studies. Complex design issues and problem solving challenge the student throughout the creative process.
    Repeatable: May be repeated one (1) time for credit
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 310  
  
  • GDM 415 - Studio: Visual Systems Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This studio-based course is expected to be the culmination and synthesis of visualizing complex, integrated design systems from the skills acquired in prior courses within the major. Through key principles in visual systems design, each student will contextualize and develop strategies for managing design solutions across a variety of communication outlets.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of six (6) units
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 315 , 325 , and 335   
  
  • GDM 420 - Advanced Typography


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall & OPS
    This course is an advanced typography course in which complex real-world typography concepts are now explored to build projects for a professional portfolio of work for employment or advanced studies.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 320  
  
  • GDM 425 - Studio: Typographic Hierarchies


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall
    This experiential studio course is expected to be the culmination and synthesis of the typographical knowledge and skills acquired from the successful completion of prior courses within the major. By exploring and discussing historical and contemporary theory related to typography and design, each student will contextualize and apply critical thinking to their developing practice and conceptual interests.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of six (6) units
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 315 , 325 , and 335  
  
  • GDM 430 - Advanced Image


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Spring & OPS
    This course is an advanced image course in which professional, complex image generation is explored and expert techniques in color correction, masking and compositing are implemented. Professional portfolio projects are built to prepare students for employment or advanced studies.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 330  
  
  • GDM 435 - Studio: Image and Art Direction


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall
    This experiential studio course is expected to be the culmination and synthesis of the creative image-making knowledge and skills acquired from the successful completion of prior courses within the major. Studio emphasis is placed on strategic and conceptual art direction for products and subjects.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of six (6) units
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 315 , 325 , and 335  
  
  • GDM 440 - Advanced Web


    Units: 3
    When Offered: OPS
    This advanced course exposes students to real world web design problems through projects and case studies. Client side scripting with JavaScript will be introduced. Web standards and best practices will be studied in depth, as well as project workflow.
    Repeatable: May be repeated one (1) time for credit
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 340  
  
  • GDM 455 - Studio: Visual Experience Design


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall
    This experiential learning course teaches students to develop a disciplined studio digital arts and design practice. Advanced Design Studio explores leading-edge ideas and design methodologies and directs each student to develop specific concepts, processes, and techniques in relation to their developing practice and conceptual interests. Students will develop an individualized area of research, and a directed, productive approach to studio practice. Finally this course will introduce and discuss professional practices in digital arts and design in order to prepare students for careers in design, the arts, exhibitions, graduate study, professional practices, self-promotion, or various other creative pursuits.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of six (6) units
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GDM 315 , 325 , 335 , and either 343  or 353  
  
  • GDM 495 - Design Capstone


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Spring
    This course prepares students for their capstone show by bringing together the skills and processes students have developed here at California Baptist University. Students begin by identifying an area of research and discussing its relationship to graphic design and visual experience while being challenged to expand their abilities of creating visual form with integrity and meaning. This course is viewed by the program as the pinnacle event in their academic journey.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): Senior status and permission of the Dean
  
  • GDM 499 - Senior Project


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
    This course is designed as a capstone showcase of the student’s accumulated body of work while in the program. The Graphic Design Senior Show will consist of 10 portfolio pieces from the student’s portfolio. This is an effort to keep the student on task and focused on the portfolio.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): Senior status and permission of the Department Chair

Greek

  
  • GRK 213 - Introduction to Koiné Greek I


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Fall
    An introduction to Koiné Greek emphasizing basic grammar and vocabulary preparatory for translation of the Greek New Testament.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
  
  • GRK 223 - Introduction to Koiné Greek II


    Units: 3
    When Offered: Spring
    Continuation of GRK 213  with beginning translation from the First Epistle of John.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GRK 213  
  
  • GRK 313 - Intermediate Greek


    Units: 3
    When Offered: As offered
    A “literary laboratory” in which to observe the function of Greek syntax through the translation and exegetical study of specific New Testament materials.
    Grade Type: Letter Grade
    Prerequisite(s): GRK 223  
 

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