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Aug 14, 2024
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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Visual Arts, B.F.A.
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The B.F.A. degrees are the nationally accepted professional degrees in visual arts. These degrees are restricted and carry a high level of expected growth and involvement on the student’s part. B.F.A. students are not required to earn a minor outside of the visual arts, so spend more time studying in studios. All students seeking a Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual arts must complete the 12-credit-hour core plus one of the 8 tracks listed here: animation, art history, drawing, integrative media, new media art, painting, photography, or spatial arts (ceramics and sculpture). Upon completion of 60 semester hours* in the university and 27 semester hours in art, students who intend to apply for admission to the B.F.A. degree option should register for ART 299 Portfolio Review (0 credits) . Students must have a 2.5 university GPA or higher to be accepted into the B.F.A. program and must maintain this minimum overall GPA to graduate with a B.F.A. degree from the program.
♦ Indicates prerequisite.
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Degree Requirements (12 credits)
Art History Track (64 credits)
Four-Year Plan: Click here to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures page.
Foreign language requirement (12 credits)
- four semesters or high school equivalent in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, or Spanish
Electives (9 credits)
- Select 9 credit hours of electives from anthropology, history, philosophy, and religion. (Consult with advisor regarding appropriate courses; other courses are available upon approval)
Drawing Track (64 credits)
Four-Year Plan: Click here to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures page.
New Media Art Track (64 credits)
Four-Year Plan: Click here to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures page.
Studio Techniques (3 credits)
Select one course from the following
Topics in New Media Art (6 credits)
Select two courses from the following
Studio Art or Media Informatics Elective (3 credits)
Select one course from the following
Integrative Media Track (64 credits)
Integrative Media is for the student whose work combines two or more media. To pass into this track, a student must show evidence of this approach during the Portfolio Review.
Four-Year Plan: Click here to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures page.
Special admission requirements: To apply, submit a letter to the professors/area coordinators in the disciplines to be integrated a minimum of 2 weeks before Portfolio Review explaining the rationale for why the Integrative Media emphasis is the appropriate track for study.
If the student is accepted, an Integrative Media Track Committee will be created composed of two or three appropriate faculty members chosen by the student and the Portfolio Review Committee by the end of the semester of the student’s Portfolio Review. This committee, in consultation with the student, will develop a course of study appropriate to the development of the student’s work. This must be approved by the Visual Arts program head.
Painting Track (64 credits)
Four-Year Plan: Click here to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures page.
Photography Track (64 credits)
- ARTH 100 History of Art: Renaissance Modernism (3 credits)
- ARTH 101 History of Art: Prehistoric through Goth (3 credits)
- ARTH 454 Art Now (3 credits) ♦
- ARTH 358 History of Photography (3 credits)
- ARTD 210 Drawing I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTP 230 Painting I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTC 240 Ceramics I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTS 262 Sculpture I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTR 272 Printmaking I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTO 210 Photography I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTM 350 Video, Installation & Sound I (3 credits) ♦
OR - EMB 210 Single Camera Production (3 credits) ♦
- ARTO 310 Photography II: Digital Techniques (3 credits) ♦
- ARTO 312 Introduction to Studio and Location (3 credits) ♦
- ARTO 415 Documentary Photography (3 credits) ♦
- ART 317 Web and Social Media for Artists (3 credits) ♦
- ARTO 414 Advanced Studio Photography (3 credits) ♦
- Select one 300/400-level course in art history or studio art in ART, ARTC, ARTD, ARTH, ARTM, ARTO, ARTP, ARTR, or ARTS (3 credits)
- ARTO 410 Advanced Concepts in Photography (3 credits) ♦ (Take twice, once in conjunction with ART 497 )
- ART 450 Advanced Studio Seminar (3 credits)
- ART 497 Senior Exhibition (1 credit) ♦
- ART 297 Portfolio Review (0 credits) ♦ (to be taken second semester of year 2 or first semester of year 3 at the latest)
Select one course from the following (3 credits)
Spatial Arts Track (64 credits)
Four-Year Plan: Click here to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures page.
- ARTH 100 History of Art: Renaissance Modernism (3 credits)
- ARTH 101 History of Art: Prehistoric through Goth (3 credits)
- Select one ARTH 300/400-level course (3 credits)
- ARTH 454 Art Now (3 credits) ♦
- ARTC 240 Ceramics I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTD 210 Drawing I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTM 350 Video, Installation & Sound I (3 credits) ♦
OR - TAR 361 Design and Construction of Stage Properties (3 credits) ♦
- ARTO 210 Photography I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTP 230 Painting I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTR 272 Printmaking I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTS 262 Sculpture I (3 credits) ♦
- ARTC 341 Ceramic Sculpture (3 credits) ♦
- ARTS 360 Techniques in Sculpture (3 credits) ♦
- Select two 300/400-level courses in art history or studio art in ART, ARTC, ARTD, ARTH, ARTM, ARTO, ARTP, ARTR, or ARTS (6 credits)
- ART 450 Advanced Studio Seminar (3 credits)
- ARTS 460 Advanced Spatial Arts (3 credits) ♦ (take twice, once in conjunction with ART 497 )
- ART 497 Senior Exhibition (1 credit) ♦
- ARTV 297 VCD Portfolio Review (0 credits) ♦ (to be taken after ARTR 373 and 60 credit hours of university coursework or 21 credit hours)
Select three courses from the following (9 credits)
Animation Track (70 credits)
Four-Year Plan: Click here to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures page.
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