Art School(ed) returns with another round of Course Superlatives! Yes, BlogDailyHerald has already thoroughly explored Brown’s Fall 2014 courses, but today marks the first day of classes down the hill at the Rhode Island School of Design. If you’ve taken VISA 0100, you know the drill: you are free to peruse the artsy course selections available at RISD. This upcoming week allows Brown students the opportunity to cram a 5-hour studio class into an already-busy course load. Acknowledging the classic obstacles RISD will set before you (notoriously small class sizes, a neurotic premium on quality control, etc.), these Course Superlatives are here to help you navigate the art school’s course catalog and streamline your RISD assimilation process – in a format reminiscent of your high school yearbook. Without further ado, we present this year’s RISD Course Superlatives:
Punniest…
PAINTING 4406: PAINTING FOCUS: GO FIGURE
Most likely to improve your #TBT game…
PHOTOGRAPHY 5340: FAMILY ALBUM
Most useful for students who live off-campus…
CERAMICS 4122: TABLEWARE
Most alliterative…
HISTORY OF ART AND VISUAL CULTURE H713: ART IN THE AGE OF ALEXANDER
LITERARY ARTS E326: BIRDS IN BOOKS
ILLUSTRATION 3048: VOICE + VISION
Most twinning…
HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY/SOCIAL SCIENCES S597: PROPAGANDA
ILLUSTRATION 3024: PROPAGANDA
Most foot-centric…
APPAREL 3052: *ITALY: SHOE DESIGN PERCEPTION, HISTORY & PROTOTYPING
TEXTILES W470: THE WOVEN RUG
ILLUSTRATION 3700: THE TWO-LEGGED PRINT
Most fun to say aloud…
HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY/SOCIAL SCIENCES C350: THIS IS THE WOONASQUATUCKET: STORIES OF A LIVING RIVER
LITERARY ARTS E289: THINGAMAJIGIRL: OBJECTS, HUMANS, FEMININITY
Most niche topic…
HISTORY OF ART AND VISUAL CULTURE H791: JAPANESE UKIYO-E PRINTS
Most ethereal…
LIBERAL ARTS ELECTIVE 54: TIME, LIGHT AND SOUND
GLASS 2385: LIGHT, SHADOW, TRANSPARENCY
Most likely to be a Bon Iver song title…
FILM/ANIMATION/VIDEO W506: CREATURE-CREATION
Most overlap with a Biggie song title…
HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY/SOCIAL SCIENCES S734: SEMINAR: LOOT
Most likely to already be a Kanye West song title…
PAINTING 4711: MONSTER
Most likely to teach you how to revive Tupac…
LIBERAL ARTS ELECTIVE LE14: OPTICS: MAKING HOLOGRAMS
Most site specific…
ILLUSTRATION 3016: NEW YORK, NEW YORK(ER)
Most that know that the best things come in three’s…
FURNITURE 2527: CABINETS, DOORS AND DRAWERS
ARCHITECTURE H652: SYNAGOGUES, CHURCHES, MOSQUES
HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY/SOCIAL SCIENCES S444: WORKERS, CONSUMERS, AND HEALTH
ILLUSTRATION 3748: PEN, INK & SCRATCHBOARD
Fewest vowels necessary to indicate that a course revolves around gender constructs…
ILLUSTRATION 3032: XX/XY
Most inquisitive…
ILLUSTRATION 3036: WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
Illustration course that sounds the most like a BEO class…
ILLUSTRATION 3504: THE ENTREPRENEUR
Illustration course that sounds the most like jockspeak…
ILLUSTRATION 3632: MAKING PLAY: GAMES
Course most easily confused with a RISD eatery…
ILLUSTRATION 4012: THE PORTFOLIO
Course that covers the largest proportion of the world’s population…
HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY/SOCIAL SCIENCES S519: WOMEN IN ASIA
Course that asks a question you’d think most RISD students would be able to answer by now…
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 2015: WHAT IS GREEN?
Course that begs the most comparison to the Brown course of same title…
HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY/SOCIAL SCIENCES S156: THE MEANING OF LIFE
Most doable…
PHOTOGRAPHY 5341: FROM INSTAMATIC TO INSTAGRAM: PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Most ambiguous classes due to excessive wordplay in the course titles…
GRAPHIC DESIGN 3117: UNFOLDING + ENFOLDING MEANING
GRAPHIC DESIGN 3265: TEXTperience/TEXTperiment
GRAPHIC DESIGN 3177: WORKSHOP: PHOTO/GRAPHIC
Most likely to be named after a store in the Providence Place Mall…
LITERARY ARTS E375: THE BODY SHOP
Most likely to remind you of the first time you saw Jack Nicholson naked in Something’s Gotta Give…
APPAREL 3046: RESPONSIVE APPAREL DESIGN/ REDESIGNING THE HOSPITAL JOHNNY
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