Painting

2019-21 Painting Curriculum

MAJOR CURRICULUM

Total credits for a BFA in Painting: 120.0

The below degree plan is for students entering in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic year.




Course

Course #

Credits

First-Year-Experience Requirements
Art Matters AH 100 3.0
Frameworks: Themes in Humanistic Studies HMST 101 3.0
Forum I FF 111 3.0
Forum II FF 112 3.0
Drawing: Tradition and Innovation FF 161 3.0
Drawing: Contemporary Practices FF 162 3.0
Choose one course from the following Color/Design category
Color/Design/Process
FF 120A 3.0
Color/Design/Pattern FF 120B 3.0
Choose one course from the following Form/Space category
Prototype/Situate/Fabricate
FF 130A 3.0
Body/World/Machine FF 130B 3.0
Choose one course from the following Systems/Time category
Haptics and Optics
FF 140A 3.0
Cartographies / Designing Information FF 140B 3.0
Studio Elective   3.0
Liberal Arts Requirements
Modernism and After / Modernisms AH 201 3.0
Art History Elective AH 3.0
Art History Elective (400-level) AH 3.0
Art History Elective (400-level) AH 3.0
Humanistic Studies/Literature Elective (any level)   3.0
Humanistic Studies/Literature Elective (300 or 400 level)   3.0
Intellectual History I -IH1 3.0
Intellectual History II -IH2 3.0
Theory -TH 3.0
Science/Math NSCI 3.0
Academic Elective (or Writing Workshop, if required)   3.0
Academic Elective   3.0
Painting Major Requirements
Life Drawing DR 252 3.0
Studio Drawing DR 298 3.0
Introduction to Painting PT 201 3.0
Color, Pigment, Surface PT 202 3.0
Personal Directions PT 250 3.0
Junior Independent Painting PT 350 3.0
Professional Practices for the Visual Artist PD 455 3.0
Senior Thesis I FA 498 6.0
Senior Thesis II FA 499 6.0
Painting Electives PT 12.0
Studio Electives   9.0