Studio Arts, BFA

Program Requirements

University Wide Requirement

1. FYS 101

   First Year Seminar
   1

Major Requirements

1. AIC 101

   Arts in Context I
   3
2. AIC 102

   Arts in Context II
   3
3. ARI 101

   First-year Studio I
   3
4. ARI 102

   First-year Studio II
   3
5. ARI 201

   Second-Year Studio I
   3
6. ARI 202

   Second Year Studio II
   3
7. ARI 301

   Third Year Studio I
   3
8. ARI 302

   Third Year Studio II
   3
9. ARI 497

   Art Practices: Capstone 1
   6
10. ARI 498

    Art Practices: Capstone II
    6
11. ARL 131

    Observational Drawing Workshop
    1
12. ARL 150

    Woodshop Art Lab I
    1

Art Intensive Requirements

1. Through the art intensives, students have the opportunity to choose to focus within one of the traditional media or pursue an interdisciplinary practice that incorporates various mediums, methods, and approaches guided by mentorship and extensive advising.

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Arts in Context Requirements

The required 12 credits should consist of 9 Liberal Arts & Sciences credits.

Art in Context can be satisfied by courses related to art and design history, theory and philosophy.

As part of these AIC classes, students must take AIC 340 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, a 1-credit class, three times, for a total of 3 credits.

Students must also take one of the following survey classes from the Department of Art & Music Histories:

1. HOA 106

   Arts and Ideas II
   3
2. HOA 176

   The Visual Arts of the Americas
   3
3. HOA 378

   Twentieth-Century American Art
   3

Students may also petition for a survey-style selected topics class that covers modern or contemporary art, under HOA 200, 300, and 400, to fulfill this requirement. Not all HOA selected topics classes will count; they must be focused on modern or contemporary art (roughly 1860s to present) and must be a survey class, meaning that they cover a broad range of work instead of focusing on a narrow topic.

1. Art history survey class

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   3
2. Arts in Context elective (x2)

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   6
3. AIC 340

   Visiting Artist Lecture Series

   As published: “Visiting Artist Lecture Series (3x, 1 credit each)”
   3

Academic Requirements

1. WRT 105

   Studio 1: Practices of Academic Writing
   3
2. WRT 205

   Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing
   3

Liberal Arts & Sciences

The required 26 credits should consist of Liberal Arts & Sciences (15 credits), and Academic Electives (11 credits)

1. Academic electives are most courses offered outside of art, design, or transmedia (for example, courses offered in CRS, Arts and Sciences, Whitman, and other colleges outside of VPA). These academic courses usually have non-art-related content, such as math, natural sciences, astronomy, global history, political science, psychology, and entrepreneurship, and languages, among others.

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You can find a comprehensive list of courses that count here.

Studio Electives

1. Studio electives are courses usually offered in VPA through art, design, or transmedia. The content of the courses directly relates to the preparation of students for professional careers in art, design, and transmedia. The course content includes, but is not limited to, conceptualization, process, product, and critique of creative work in studio practice. These courses meet for a much longer time, for a minimum of four hours per week for the duration of the semester. Usual meeting patterns are: the class meets once per week for four+ hours, or the class meets twice per week, usually for two or more hours each.

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You can find a comprehensive list of courses that count here.