Fine Arts

The curriculum presented here applies to students who started the major in Fall 2020 or Spring 2021. If you enrolled as a matriculant prior to that, please see the College Catalog for the year you started the major as a matriculant for the curriculum requirements that apply to you.

Consultation with the Program Advisor is required.

Upon successful completion of the Fine Arts degree program requirements, graduates will:

1. apply the visual and writing skills needed to identify the main concepts governing a work of art to compare, critically analyze and discuss them in terms of their stylistic, social and historical contexts (visual literacy and critical analysis)

2. develop and apply the skills needed to use and control the basic materials employed in each studio art concentration, and/or the database research tools and writing skills employed in the study of art history. Students will also demonstrate safe studio practices in the proper use of tools and equipment, and/or proper research practices in terms of gathering, employing and citing primary and secondary sources (technical skills and professional practices)

3. be able to discuss works of art verbally, using acquired art-specific vocabulary during classroom discussions and, where possible, in-class presentations (oral communication)

4. conceive and execute well-informed, creative and innovative solutions to visual problems while working within assignment boundaries (concepts)

5. develop the ability to distinguish and analyze a resolved, well-executed work of art through an understanding of how form, color, and composition generate content (aesthetics)

6. produce a presentation portfolio or a written body of work that demonstrates department expectations within each concentration (portfolio)