Printmaking Courses (Art and Art History) (PRNT)

This is the first version of the 2024–25 General Catalog. Please check back regularly for changes. The final edition and the historical PDF will be published during the fall semester.

PRNT Courses

This is a list of courses with the subject code PRNT. For more information, see Art and Art History (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) in the catalog.

PRNT:2610 Introduction to Printmaking 3 s.h.

Introduction to methods, materials, and concepts of printmaking. Prerequisites: ARTS:1510 and ARTS:1520. Requirements: art major. GE: Engineering Be Creative.

PRNT:3600 Textile Printing and Surface Design 4 s.h.

Introduction to screen printing and block printing on textiles, including image generation and digital techniques from start to finish; effective use of design principles; application of a conceptual approach to work; possibilities of working with textiles. Prerequisites: ARTS:1510 and ARTS:1520 and PRNT:2610.

PRNT:3610 New Media for Printmaking 4 s.h.

New concepts and techniques for contemporary print media, including digital and less toxic applications in relief, intaglio, lithography, and screenprinting. Prerequisites: PRNT:2610.

PRNT:3620 Intaglio 4 s.h.

Concepts, techniques; traditional through contemporary ideas, methods; emphasis on metal plate printing, including etching, drypoint, engraving, softground, aquatint. Prerequisites: PRNT:2610. Requirements: PRNT:2610 or BFA candidacy in any area or graduate standing.

PRNT:3630 Woodcut and Relief 4 s.h.

Concepts and techniques of relief printmaking, including woodcut, linocut, relief etching, black-and-white and color printing methods; traditional and contemporary approaches. Prerequisites: PRNT:2610. Requirements: ARTS:1510, ARTS:1520, and PRNT:2610 for art majors; ARTS:1510 for nonmajors; or BFA candidacy in any area; or graduate standing.

PRNT:3640 Lithography 4 s.h.

Technical, aesthetic characteristics; basic direct drawing, processing, printing of stone and plate images in black and white. Prerequisites: PRNT:2610. Requirements: ARTS:1510, ARTS:1520, and PRNT:2610; or graduate standing.

PRNT:3660 Monoprint 3-4 s.h.

Concepts, techniques in use of traditional and alternative printmaking media to produce unique, matrix-generated prints. Prerequisites: PRNT:2610.

PRNT:3665 Frogman's Print Workshop 3 s.h.

Hands-on experience in printmaking techniques; workshop format. Offered summer session.

PRNT:3680 Screenprint 4 s.h.

Photographic, nonphotographic stencil techniques for silkscreen printing. Prerequisites: PRNT:2610. Requirements: ARTS:1510, ARTS:1520, and PRNT:2610 for art majors; ARTS:1010 and ARTS:1050 for nonmajors; or BFA candidacy in any area; or graduate standing.

PRNT:4610 Advanced Printmaking 4 s.h.

Print media (i.e., intaglio, lithography, relief, screenprint); emphasis on individual technical and conceptual growth and development of independent studio practices. Prerequisites: PRNT:2610 and (PRNT:3620 or PRNT:3630 or PRNT:3640 or PRNT:3680).

PRNT:4799 Undergraduate Individual Instruction 1-3 s.h.

Individual instruction in printmaking; for advanced students.

PRNT:6665 Frogman's Print Workshop 3 s.h.

Hands-on experience in printmaking techniques; workshop format. Offered summer session.

PRNT:6675 Graduate Print Workshop 3-4 s.h.

Contemporary issues in printmaking; emphasis on development of personal work and independent studio practice through group critiques, special research projects, work in all print media.

PRNT:6699 Individual Instruction in Printmaking arr.