Looking to unleash your creativity? Take a course at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.
Temple students can explore painting and drawing, glass, printmaking, jewelry, ceramics, graphic design, photography as well as art history, community arts practice, architecture, landscape architecture and community development.
Studying at Tyler will give you hands-on practice in self-expression, experience in creative problem-solving and lots of opportunity for collaborative thinking—skills highly desired in today’s workforce.
If you’re interested in a minor or certificate, simply taking a provocative Gen Ed requirement or just satisfying a curiosity, we have a class for you.
Please contact Tyler’s Advising Office for more information.
Due to Covid-19 safety measures, courses may be hybrid, with a mix of online and in-person learning, or fully online. Check the fall 2022 course schedule to learn more.
NEW FOR SPRING 2023
● TYLE 0810 Arts, Communities and Climate Justice
In this course, students learn how the arts and cultural practices can function to engage communities on interlocking issues of climate change and race to foster climate justice. This course fulfills the Arts Gen Ed (GA) requirement. IN-PERSON
● TYLE 0910 Artful Living: Engaging in Art and Visual Culture (HONORS)
This course explores myriad facets of arts engagement: consumer, maker, viewer, decorator, wearer, critic — online, in stores, on stage, in museums, in print, in life, in the community, through media. This Honors course fulfills the Arts Gen Ed (GA) requirement. In-Person
● and many more!
GEN ED
ARTH 0803 Sacred Space - GA Gen Ed Arts
ARTH 0808 Arts of Western World - GA Gen Ed Arts
ART 0822 The Photographic Image - GB Gen Ed Human Behavior
TYLE 0805 Race, Identity & Experience in American Art - GD Gen Ed Diversity & Race
TYLE 0810 Artful Living: Engaging in Art and Visual Culture - Limited Edition GA Gen Ed Arts
TYLE 0810 Arts Communities and Climate Justice - Limited Edition GA Gen Ed Arts
ARCH 0835 Guerrilla Altruism - GB Gen Ed Human Behavior
ARCH 0875 Architecture and the American Cultural Landscape - GB Gen Ed Human Behavior
LARC 0841 Sustainable Design - GS Gen Ed Science & Technology
LARC 0852 Green vs Gray: Urban Ecology - GS Gen Ed Science & Technology
CTRP 0807 People, Places & Environment - GU Gen Ed US Society
CTRP 0821 Digital Mapping - GQ Gen Ed Quantitative Literacy
HONORS
ARTH 1956 Arts of the World II SPRING ONLY
ARCH 0975 Honors Architecture & The American Cultural Landscape — GB Gen Ed Human Behavior
TYLE 0905 Race, Identity & Experience in American Art - GD Gen Ed Diversity & Race
TYLE 2968 Search and Destroy: Punk's DIY Rebellion
ART 2901 Digital Imaging
ARCHITECTURE
ARCH 1001 Intro to Design & Environment
ARCH 1013 Architecture for Non-Majors
ARCH 1017 Photo & Visual Literacy
ARCH 1196 History of the Form of Cities
ARCH 2142 Architectural History: Renaissance through 20th Century SPRING ONLY
ARCH 3146 Engaging Places
ART
ART 1010 Special Topics in Art - Spring 2023 Topics
- Intro to Woodworking
- Painting the Expanded Field
- Introduction to Welding and Metal Fabrication
- Intro to Motion Design
- Natural Dye
- Watercolor
- Garment Construction for Non-Majors
ART 1012 Intro to Visual Language Design
ART 1101 Ceramic for Non-Tyler BFA
ART 1201 Fibers for Non-Tyler BFA
ART 1301 Glass for Non-Tyler BFA
ART 1401 Jewelry for Non-Tyler BFA
ART 1502 Intro to Vis Language Painting
ART 1503 Intro to Vis Language Drawing
ART 1504 Philadelphia Sketchbook
ART 1602 Art Photography - Digital
ART 1603 Art Photography - Online
ART 1604 Photography and Social Media
ART 1701 Screenprinting
ART 1702 Artist Books, Zines and Independent Publishing
ART 2010:
- Special Topics in Art: Graffiti: Process to Pieces NEW
- Cultivating a Collection
- Natural Dye
- Sculpture Techniques and Materials
ART 3010: Special Topics in Art NEW
- Optics and Light
- Prosthetic and Mold Making
- Creativity
- Moving Image and Sound
ART HISTORY
ARTH 1155 Arts of the World I: Prehistoric to 1300
ARTH 1156 Arts of the World II: 1300 to 21st Century
ARTH 2008 History of Photography
ARTH 2010:
- Michelangelo
- Art in the Age of Exploration: From Van Eyck to Bosch and Bruegal
- The Art of the Book
- Main Trends in 20th Century Painting
ARTH 2044 Later Islamic Art: From the Mongols to the Mughals
ARTH 2105 Roman Art & Archaeology
ARTH 2543 Transnational Impressionism
ARTH 2610 Topics Mod & Contemp Art: Modern and Contemporary Feminist Art
ARTH 2612 Introduction to Caribbean Art
ARTH 2642 Modern Art, 1900-1945
ARTH 2646 Contemporary Art, 1989-Present
ARTH 2096, 2098, 2197
Art History Writing Intensive - Spring 2023 Topics
- The Artist's Studio in the Early Modern World
- Cross-Cultural Artistic Influences in the West and Japan
- The Body: Naked, Nude, Dressed
- Travel and Migration in Latin American Art
- Visualizing the Prophets
- Constructing Memory: The Museum as Agent
- Black Space, Place, and Art
ART THERAPY
ARTT 3004 Intro to Art Therapy
ART EDUCATION
ARTE 3003 Art and Learning in the Elementary School
ARTE 3202 Teaching Artists
BOTANY
BOT 1112 Plant Ecology SPRING ONLY
COMMUNITY ARTS
CART 3011 Introductory Seminar in Community Arts
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CDEV 1113 Intro to Community Development
CDEV 3113 Nonprofit Management
GRAPHIC AND INTERACTIVE DESIGN
GAD 2073 Intro to Web Design
GAD 2077 Intro to Illustration
GAD 2078 The Art of Infographics
HORTICULTURE
HORT 2222 Herbaceous Plants II
HORT 2554 RejuviNATURE: Improving Health and Well-Being
HORT 2556 Intro to Bee-Keeping