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Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts

Overview

The Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts is designed to help students attain full development as visionaries in both a general arts context within the framework of art’s history and philosophy. Students are encouraged to create a personal style and a critical approach to the solution of individual problems by exploring two-and three-year dimensional media and forms.

Mission

The mission of the B.A in Fine Arts is to nurture students to their full potential as leading creative artists and thinkers, in both the studio arts context within the framework of art history and philosophy.

Program Objectives

The Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts seeks to

  1. utilize a liberal arts education designed to acquaint students with the leading ideas and forces that steer and shape the arts and art education globally,
  2. provide students with the technical skills and knowledge of the use of materials and technologies in the making of drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, multimedia, and computer art as professional artists,
  3. prepare students interested in art education for a career in teaching art,
  4. pave the way for graduate studies in studio art, art theory, and/or art education,
  5. relate the fine arts to other disciplines and practices in design, technology, science and the humanities for inspiration and areas of interaction,
  6. help heighten the student’s sense of imagination, creative personal expression, and their pursuit of excellence in today’s highly competitive art world, and
  7. provide a yearly art exhibition and an accompanying art catalogue featuring the student’s works, introducing them to how a professional art exhibit is carried out, while also exposing them to galleries, art critics, and the public at large.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates with B.A. in Fine Arts will be able to

  1. become professional artists who are highly trained and equipped to exhibit and market their own work with a seasoned portfolio,
  2. practice in elementary and secondary schools as art teachers with a solid educational background and a distinctive art portfolio,
  3. pursue higher education in art theory, and/or in creative studio art,
  4. contribute drawings and illustrations to books, newspapers, and magazines as an illustrator,
  5. qualify as artist/intellectual contributing to both their own culture and to the world’s reservoir of creative art and art theory works,
  6. grow to be art critics, and
  7. seek employment in museums and art galleries.

Curriculum

A total of 92 credits are required to graduate, as per the following:

  • Major Core Courses (49 cr)
  • Art or Photography Elective Courses (9 cr)
  • LAC Courses (13 cr)
  • LAC Elective Courses (21 cr)

Major Core Courses (49 cr)

Art or Photography Elective Courses (9 cr)

LAC Courses (13 cr)

LAC Elective Courses (21 cr)

Recommended Study Plan

Year One

Fall (13 cr)

  • ART201 Fundamentals of Design I (3 cr)
  • ART221 Drawing I (3 cr)
  • ART223 Perspective Drawing (1 cr)
  • Art or Photography Elective (3 cr)
  • LAC course (3 cr)

Spring (15 cr)

  • ART202 Fundamentals of Design II (3 cr)
  • ART211 Ceramics I (3 cr)
  • ART222 Drawing II (3 cr)
  • LAC course (3 cr)
  • LAC course (3 cr)

Summer (7 cr)

  • LAC courses (7 cr)

Year Two

Fall (15 cr)

  • ART212 Ceramics II (3 cr)
  • ART331 History of Art I (3 cr)
  • ART341 Painting I (3 cr)
  • ART351 Sculpture I (3 cr)
  • LAC course (3 cr)

Spring (15 cr)

  • ART331 History of Art I (3 cr)
  • ART341 Painting I (3 cr)
  • ART351 Sculpture I (3 cr)
  • Art or Photography Elective (3 cr)
  • LAC course (3 cr)

Summer (3 cr)

  • LAC course (3 cr)

Year Three

Fall (12 cr)

  • ART335 Islamic Art of the Middle East (3 cr)
  • ART441 Painting III (3 cr)
  • Art or Photography Elective (3 cr)
  • LAC course (3 cr)

Spring (12 cr)

  • ART442 Painting IV (3 cr)
  • ART499 Senior Studies (3 cr)
  • LAC course (6 cr)