Painting Major — BFA Degree Program
The painting program provides students not only with a strong technical and creative foundation but also with the opportunity to explore the endless number of paths the painting medium can lead an artist. It exposes students to the range and multiplicity of ideas that generate contemporary approaches to painting in order to stimulate a full understanding of those concepts and to challenge students to develop a personal vocabulary of painterly forms and create a store of visual ideas relating to their own lives and experiences.
The philosophy of the painting program centers on the understanding that painting is a complex and vital art form that exists in a state of constant flux. It is a tradition that is both mired in its own history and capable of regularly evolving and redefining its purpose and place. Painting today may incorporate a multitude of working methodologies that borrow from sculpture, photography, printmaking and digital media.
Degree Requirements
Requirements for a major in painting:
One of the following courses:
Two of the following courses:
| ART 250 | Observational Painting | 4 |
| ART 251 | Mixed-Media Painting | 4 |
| ART 252 | Experimental Painting | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Four of the following painting courses:
| ART 350 | Figure Painting | 4 |
| ART 351 | Abstract Painting | 4 |
| ART 401 | Special Problems in Painting | 1-6 |
| ART 450 | Advanced Painting Studio | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Both of the following art history courses:
One of the following courses:
All of the following courses:
ART
| Elective | 6 |
| ART 298 | Junior Seminar: Portfolio and Professional Practices | 2 |
| ART 398 | Junior Review | 0 |
| ART 498 | Senior Seminar | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Total Credit Hours: 72