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