Undergraduate Programs - Art - Meadows School of the Arts

Undergraduate Programs The B.F.A. Curriculum is divided into eight stages or areas:

1. Foundations: Drawing/Design (for art majors only) (12 hours)
    Six hours each term, team-taught.
    Will meet two days for periods of five hours each
    (10 classroom hours per week).

2. Departmental Distribution (12 hours)
    One course in four of the following areas; usually taken at the 2300 level:
    Ceramics Photography (1300 level)
    Drawing Printmaking
    Painting Sculpture
    Foundations: Drawing/Design cannot fulfill this requirement.
    Courses in major concentration (see below) cannot be counted tofulfill this requirement.

3. Major Concentration, including Junior Independent Tutorial (24 hours)
    Each student must take:
    a. Eighteen hours in a single area of specialization (ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, or sculpture). Three of these hours are the Junior Independent Tutorial, taken in the spring of the 3rd year. (Courses taken in Taos may be counted toward the major concentration or Junior Independent Tutorial.)
    b. Six hours in a related area. Any of the six areas may be deemed "related" to any other, but the student must show a clear understanding of the way they are related for his or her work.

4. Critical Issues (3 hours)
To be taken by the junior year. This may be the course titled "Critical Issues" taught in the Division of Art or a course designated from another department (for example, philosophy) as a critical-issues course, with the consent of the undergraduate adviser.

5. Senior Seminar (3 hours)

6. Art History and New York Colloquium
    (the latter an option, 12 not a requirement)
    Six hours must be art history survey.
    Three hours must be in 20th-century art history.
    Three hours may be in any art history (or in New York Colloquium).

7. Electives (12 hours)

8. B.F.A. Qualifying Exhibition (required)

9. Meadows Elective/Corequirement (3 hours)

10. Electives (9 hours)

Total Hours 125

Minor in Art

1. Foundation requirement (6 hours)
ASDR 1300
ASSC 1300, or ASCE 1312 or 1313

2. Introductory Art (9 hours)
(any three of the following at the 1300 or 2300 level, leading toward work at the 3300 level in at least one discipline)
ASCE 2312 or 2313 Ceramics
ASPT 1300 or 2300 Introduction to Painting I or II
ASDR 2300 Drawing II
ASPH 1300 Basics of Photography
ASSC 2300 Introduction to Sculpture II
ASPR 2320 or 2321 Printmaking, Intaglio, or Woodcut

3. One additional course at the 3300 level (3 hours)

Total Hours 18

Minor in Photography

1. ASPH 1300 Basics of Photography (3 hours)

2. ASPH 2300 Black and White Photography (3 hours)

3. ARHS 3367 History of Photography (3 hours)

4. Three additional courses at the 3000 level or higher (9 hours)

Total Hours 18

For a complete list of courses in Studio Art, click here.