Foundations in Art
Foundations in Art prepare students with fundamental skills, knowledge, and experiences essential for intermediate and advanced work in art history, art education and studio art. The foundation experience is designed to develop skills in critical thinking, visual analysis, problem solving, creative production, and communication. Students explore interdisciplinary connections and strategies for concept development. Foundations provide the student with a solid base for further development as visual arts professionals.
Art Education (B.S.Ed., M.Ed., and M.A.T.)
Art Education prepares highly qualified teachers of art for instruction in elementary and secondary schools by providing challenging course work in pedagogy, curriculum content, and assessment consistent with the national, state, and local standards and goals.
The graduate program in art education provides students with an opportunity to further their knowledge through investigation and research of current issues and curriculum in art education and to pursue their creative work in the studios.
Art History (B.A.)
Our new Art History degree program provides students with an opportunity to study Western and Non-Western Art from pre-history to the present day. Students learn about works of art and develop an understanding about how they reflect the lives and cultures of the artists who made them. It draws on varied means of study found in the fine arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Students who graduate from this program will be prepared to enter graduate school in art history but art history majors may pursue other educational and professional opportunities as diverse as advertising, publishing, business management, medicine and law. Students develop and refine skills in visual analysis, historical research, writing and oral communication.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Art
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Art is designed for students discovering,
exploring and developing their own creative talents while
preparing them for graduate school or arts-related careers. The degree is well-rounded general
fine arts degree with approximately 60% of the total program in
studio courses, supportive courses in art and design, and studies
in the history of the visual arts. Students may choose to focus in
one of several media concentrations or investigate in a broad
interdisciplinary manner. The focus is on the progressive nature of
the learning experience combined with a rigorous review and
exhibition cycle culminating in a professionally mounted final
exhibition.
Areas of Focus for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Art include:
Ceramics
Ceramics provides students with the technical and aesthetic foundations of ceramic art. The Ceramic program establishes skills in constructing ceramic work and creates an understanding of firing and relevant chemistry.
Digital Technology & Design
While not an area of focus, students may become familiarized to digital technology and design through courses such as 2D Design, Design and Marketing for Artists, Creative Imaging, Digital Imaging, and Digital Photography.
Painting & Drawing
Painting and drawing establishes skills in liquid and dry media as well as media independently researched by individual students and enhances an understanding of art history and visual production by teaching traditional techniques. Narrative illustration curriculum supports and supplements drawing and painting.
Photography
Photography fosters a historical and pragmatic understanding of lens-based art making. Photography develops skills in multiple photographic formats, darkroom technologies, and investigates contemporary photographic concepts and techniques.
Printmaking
Printmaking applies print processes to contemporary problems and historical paradigms. This area also establishes a skill set of traditional print processes such as monotype, intaglio, lithography, and relief printing. Book arts and papermaking course work supplement the printmaking curriculum.
Sculpture
Sculpture fosters a broad historical and contemporary understanding of three-dimensional art. Sculpture establishes an understanding of concepts and approaches in 3-D production.
Art Minor
The Minor in Art offers an eighteen-semester hour sequence for
those students wishing to pursue exposure to a basic art experience or to
supplement related curriculum.
Art History Minor
The Minor in Art History offers students an experience in art, studying art from pre-history to the current era for students wishing to gain a background in art history.
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