Art Major for Bachelor of Fine Arts

Studio Art Concentrations:

Foundation courses are prerequisites for courses within the studio concentrations.  Check each course description for specific prerequisites or corequisites.

Ceramics Concentration:

The ceramics concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Formulate creative and analytical solutions to ceramic problems using advanced three-dimensional design principles.
• Create a body of artwork that demonstrates mastery of traditional and innovative ceramic tools, materials, techniques and processes, from concept to finished product, including clays, glazes and firings.
• Compare and assess ceramic artwork from historical, critical and theoretical perspectives, and evaluate the role and place of ceramics within the history of art, design, and culture.

Ceramics students must take ART 1541 Drawing II: Color as part of their foundation coursework.

Communication Design Concentration:

The communication design concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Construct meaningful solutions to communication problems, including problem identification, research, information gathering, analysis, prototyping, and evaluation of outcomes.
• Formulate informed responses to the audiences and contexts in which communication design must operate, from concept to finished product.
• Compare and assess design solutions from historical, critical and theoretical perspectives, and evaluate the place of communication design within the history of art, design, and culture.

Communication Design students must take ART 1531 Introduction to Digital Art and Design as a foundation course. Students must have a suitable laptop computer before proceeding with ART 3225 and subsequent courses. See advisor for specifications.

Digital Art Concentration:

Total: 30

Drawing Concentration:

The drawing concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Compare and rate the possibilities and limitations of the drawing medium.
• Create a body of artwork that demonstrates mastery of traditional and innovative drawing tools, materials, techniques and processes from concept to finished product.
• Compare and assess drawings and related artwork from historical, critical and theoretical perspectives, and evaluate the role and place of drawing within the history of art, design, and culture.

Drawing students must take ART 1531 Introduction to Digital Art and Design as a foundation course. Art 1541 Drawing II: Color is required for the concentration.

Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing Concentration:

The jewelry design and meta1smithing concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Evaluate the possibilities, limitations and aesthetic use of various raw materials as well as technical benchworking procedures.
• Create a body of artwork that demonstrates mastery of traditional and innovative jewelry design and metal-smithing tools, materials, techniques and processes from concept to finished product.
• Compare and assess jewelry and fine metal artwork from historical, critical and theoretical perspectives, and assess the role and place of the medium in the history of art, design and culture.

Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing students may take IND 1470 Perspective Drawing or ART 1541 Drawing II: Color as part of their foundation coursework.

Painting Concentration:

The painting concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Evaluate and assess the use of formal elements, color, compositional and technical aspects used in painting.
• Create a body of artwork that demonstrates mastery oftraditional and innovative painting tools, materials, techniques and processes from concept to finished product.
• Compare and assess paintings and related artwork from historical, critical and theoretical perspectives, and evaluate the role and place of painting in the history of art, design and culture.

Painting students must take ART 1541 Drawing II: Color as a foundation course.

Photography Concentration:

The photography concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Appraise visual forms and their aesthetic functions in digital and traditional photographic processes.
• Create a body of artwork that demonstrates mastery of digital and/or traditional photographic tools, techniques and processes from concept to finished product.
• Compare and assess photographic artwork from historical, critical and theoretical perspectives, and evaluate the role and place of photography in the history of art, design and culture.

Photography students must take ART 1531 Introduction to Digital Art and Design as a foundation course.

Printmaking Concentration:

The printmaking concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Solve problems relating to both basic and advanced imaging making as applied to printmaking.
• Create a body of artwork that demonstrates mastery of selected traditional and innovative printmaking tools, materials, techniques and processes from concept to finished product, including technical procedures such as intaglio, relief, lithography, screenprinting, or the various photo-mechanical processes.
• Compare and assess fine art prints from historical, critical and theoretical perspectives, and evaluate the role and place of printmaking in the history of art, design and culture.

Printmaking students must take both ART 1541 Drawing II: Color and ART 1531 Introduction to Digital Art and Design. ART 1531 will be counted in the concentration.

Sculpture Concentration:

The sculpture concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Evaluate the possibilities, limitations and aesthetic use of various raw materials and sculptural techniques, and choose the appropriate medium for a specific aesthetic intent.
• Create a body of artwork that demonstrates mastery of selected traditional and innovative sculptural tools, materials, techniques and processes from concept to finished product.
• Compare and assess sculptural artwork from historical, critical and theoretical perspectives, and evaluate the role and place of sculpture in the history of art, design and culture.

Sculpture students may take either ART 1541 Drawing II: Color or IND 1470 Perspective Drawing as a foundation course. Students must also take ART 1531 Introduction to Digital Art and Design which will be counted in the concentration.

Art Education Concentration:

The art education concentration is designed to prepare students to:

• Teach in an art classroom applying and testing psychological principles of learning and psychological, social, and aesthetic/visual development theories in children as they relate to art education.
• Assess aptitudes, experiential backgrounds and interests of individuals and diverse groups of students, and devise learning experiences to meet assessed needs.
• Develop and present a statement of art education philosophy and practices using knowledge of history, psychology, philosophy, aesthetic development, cognitive, physical, and visual development theory and current best practices in the field.

A grade of “C” or better is required in each required course, including the specific General Studies Requirements, Art Foundation, Art Education Concentration, and Studio Emphasis.

Art Education students must take ART 1531 Introduction to Digital Art and Design as a foundation course.

Totals:

Notes:

*Student teaching is composed of daily full-time work during 16 weeks, split 8 and 8 weeks between elementary and secondary levels. ART 4703 is dual-listed with EDU 4190; ART 4704 is dual-listed with EDS 4290.

Students must also achieve satisfactory scores on the state licensure examination. See your advisor for more information.

Students seeking teacher licensure should read the teacher licensure sections of this Catalog and stay in regular contact with their advisors.