Corcoran College of Art and Design

Fall 2012 Courses + Printmaking

Introduction to Drawing

No sections available this semester

DR1200 (1.5 credits or audit)
For students seeking to improve their drawing skills, this course emphasizes gesture, line, proportion, perspective, mass, volume, value, tone, and shading.

Academic Drawing: Still Life, Portrait and the Figure

No sections available this semester

DR1220 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students explore the traditional methods of studying drawing used by the European art academies, with a focus on the relationships between form and tonal values.

Two-Dimensional Design

No sections available this semester

DR1250 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students develop basic skills, working with a variety of materials and approaches to two-dimensional design.

Academic Figure Drawing

No sections available this semester

DR1310 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students explore traditional methods of figure drawing used by European art academies.

Introduction to Botanical Drawing

DR1400 (1.5 credits or audit)
Explores the close observation of form and the use of contemporary drawing sensibilities in the tradition of botanical illustration

Intermediate Drawing

No sections available this semester

DR2200 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students develop their drawing skills and explore a wider range of materials related to drawing through still life, landscape, and the model.

Surface Design for Textiles

No sections available this semester

PR1270 (1.5 credits or audit)
Explore the properties, processes, and techniques of working with dyes, paints, and chemicals on fabric.

Introduction to Screenprinting

PR1300 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students learn a variety of techniques and latest technologies for screen printing.

Between Paint and Print

PR2280 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students explore how to integrate screen-printed imagery, textures, and ideas into paintings.

Wood Block Print: Traditional and Contentemporary

No sections available this semester

PR2361 (3.0 credits or audit)
In this class, traditional methods of wood block printing will be taught as well as techniques that include reductive color printing. (CE students are welcome to enroll in this 3 credit undergraduate course.)


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Important Dates

May 18-28
Late registration period for Continuing Education summer session I classes

May 24-27
Memorial Day weekend (College closed)

May 28
Summer session I begins

May 31 
Pre-College Session A & B Registration Deadline

June 1
Registration Deadline for Explore D.C. with the Corcoran

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