The specialization in fine art focuses on providing students with a unique exposure to the expanding world of art and visual culture. This specialization offers a curriculum in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and digital arts. Through an integrative approach, students can combine advanced courses in these areas to develop varied applications of innovative methods and materials. Courses in critical studies and advanced art history provide the student with a social, cultural, historical, and philosophical context for understanding traditional and contemporary art. These acquired skills add to the development of their personal expression and cultural literacy. Ultimately, students learn about the relationship of their art to the exhibition space while they prepare a thematic body of work for final viewing and critical assessment. Fine art students complete a portfolio and special capstone project that is exhibited in the campus gallery in their senior year. This exhibition helps build a portfolio for job placement and/or admission to graduate school. In addition, students have the opportunity to develop independent work with faculty and to apply for competitive internships on campus and within the metropolitan area.
The specialization in fine art is offered through the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media (ACM). ACM houses programs and/or majors in art, graphic design, art history, media studies (with majors in journalism and video production), music, and theater. Each major includes an ACM core sequence requirement. Taking advantage of the range of disciplines in ACM and the campus mission to engage with its community, the core combines an integrated sequence of classes, shaped in large part by projects drawn from the urban region surrounding the university. The sequence consists of three classes: Introduction to Arts, Media, and Culture, a class designated by each program that combines interdisciplinary pedagogy with a student's major; and either Colloquium in Arts, Culture, and Media or
Seminar in Arts, Culture, and Media.
Major Requirements for Major in Art (080): Specialization in Fine Art (B.A.)
Required Foundation Courses (21 credits)
21:085:102 Design Fundamentals (3)
21:085:103 3-D Design Fundamentals (3)
21:080:121 Introduction to Drawing (3)
21:080:251 Introduction to Painting (3)
21:080:261 Introduction to Photography (3)
21:082:101 Introduction to Art History I (3)
21:082:102 Introduction to Art History II (3)
Required Art History Courses (9 credits in consultation with adviser)
21:082:350 Development of Modern Art (3)
21:082:360 Art Since 1945 (3)
One art history course (082) 200 level or higher (3)
Required Critical Studies Course (3 credits)
21:080:285 Seminar in Contemporary Art (3)*
*ACM Critical Studies Core Requirement
Senior Program (6 credits in consultation with adviser)
21:080:497 Senior Seminar Studio I (3)
21:080:498 Senior Seminar Studio II (3)
Courses of Specialization (12 credits from the following in consultation with adviser)
21:080:211 Ceramics I (3)
21:080:212 Ceramics II (3)
21:080:223 Figure Drawing (3)
21:080:236 Illustration (3)
21:080:245 Digital Studio (3)
21:080:252 Painting II (3)
21:080:262 Photography II (3)
21:080:263 Introduction to Digital Photography (3)
21:080:264 Color Photography
21:080:265 Experiments in Photography (3)
21:080:273 Introduction to Printmaking (3)
21:080:276 Intaglio Printmaking (3)
21:080:281 Introduction to Sculpture (3)
21:080:283 Figure Sculpture (3)
21:080:305 Problems in Art (3)
21:080:306 Problems in Art (3)
21:080:321 Drawing III (3)
21:080:322 Drawing IV (3)
21:080:335 Illustration II (3)
21:080:336 Illustration III (3)
21:080:345 Intermediate Digital Studio (3)
21:080:354 Experiments in Digital Studio (3)
21:080:351 Painting III (3)
21:080:352 Painting IV (3)
21:080:355 Painting and Drawing Workshop (3)
21:080:361 Studio Photography (3)
21:080:362 Photography Workshop (3)
21:080:363 Digital Photography II (3)
21:080:365 Photographic Communication and Illustration (3)
21:080:373 Advanced Printmaking (3)
21:080:378 Book Arts (3)
21:080:391/392 Individual Study in Studio Art (3)
21:080:393/394 Art Internship (3)
21:080:405 Problems of Contemporary Art (3)
21:080:445 Advanced Experiments in Computer Art (3)
21:080:483 Advanced Sculpture Workshop (3)
21:085:231 Graphic Design I (3)
21:085:232 Graphic Design II (3)
21:085:236 Illustration I (3)
21:085:333 Motion Design (3)
21:085:334 Interactive Design (3)
21:085:335 Motion Design II (3)
21:085:336 Interactive Design II (3)
21:085:370 Computers in Graphic Design (3)
Arts, Culture, and Media Departmental Core Requirements for Specialization in Fine Art (B.A.) (Also see Critical Studies*) (6 credits)
21:083:101 Introduction to Arts, Culture, and Media (3)
21:083:301 Colloquium in
Arts, Culture, and Media (3) or 21:083:401
Seminar in Arts, Culture,
and Media (3)
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