Fine and Applied Arts
College of Fine and Applied Arts: 110 Architecture Building, 608 East Lorado Taft Drive, Champaign, (217) 333-6061
The College of Fine and Applied Arts prepares men and women for professional work by offering majors in architecture, art and design, dance, landscape architecture, music, theatre, and urban and regional planning. Freshmen and transfer students are admitted into the college majors. In each curriculum specific basic courses, professional courses, and general education requirements must be completed in order to qualify for the specific baccalaureate degree offered.
For development beyond the undergraduate degrees offered in these areas of study, the units of the college offer graduate curricula leading to advanced professional degrees through the Graduate College.
For students enrolled in other colleges and schools of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the College of Fine and Applied Arts offers introductory courses designed to increase aesthetic appreciation and development, and to portray the role of the arts in civilization. Participation in the many bands, choruses, and orchestras on campus, as well as private instruction on most instruments and in voice, is available to students in all colleges by audition.
To serve the total academic community and all citizens in the state of Illinois, the college features the arts in exhibitions, concerts, lectures, performances, demonstrations, and conferences. Many outstanding professionals and works in these fields are brought to the University campus. All departments in the College of Fine and Applied Arts reserve the right to retain, exhibit, and reproduce the works submitted by students for credit in any course.
In addition to the teaching divisions, the College of Fine and Applied Arts includes the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, and Japan House.
Special Facilities
Career Services Office
The Career Services Office in the College of Fine and Applied Arts recognizes the unique career needs of students in the visual and performing arts. The office provides presentations and individual appointments to help students explore all of their options. The office also serves as a resource for concerned parents.
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
Krannert Art museum is an accredited general art museum with eight permanent galleries, four temporary exhibition galleries, and an open virtual-reality lab. Its outstanding permanent collection places it among the top tier of university art museums in the nation. But, the space is used as more than an art museum by students at the University of Illinois. Here they can gather to hear improvised music played by international artists, watch films, and participate in an open mic hip-hop cafe. Come and experience a space that allows for simultaneous interplay between more than one artistic form.
www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/index.html
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is a remarkable four-theatre performing arts complex with spaces for instruction, rehearsal, and performance in theatre, opera, dance, and music. The Foellinger Great Hall, seating 2,200, is designed for large-scale musical events. The Festival Theatre, with 1,000 seats, is for opera, dance, and other musical stage productions. The Colwell Playhouse seats 700 and is the home of the Department of Theatre. The Studio Theatre, seating 150, is for experimental productions. An outdoor amphitheater, rehearsal rooms, offices, dressing rooms, technical shops, and underground parking on two levels for 650 cars complete this monumental facility.
Japan House
The study of Japanese culture began at the University of Illinois in 1900, with the arrival of the first Japanese student. Throughout the last century, the University's role as a leader in Japanese studies began to take form. A major theme of Japan House is peace. The focus of Japan House it its three tea rooms. The grounds also feature a Japanese tea garden, strolling garden, and Zen-style rock garden.
www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse/index.cfm
University Music Performance Organizations
The School of Music offers credit for all students enrolled in its many performance organizations. These organizations include ensembles in the nationally recognized Band Division: a Wind Symphony, two Symphonic Bands, three Concert Bands, Basketball Band, Brass Band, Clarinet Choir, and the world-famous Marching Illini. The Choral Division offers singers the opportunity to perform in the Oratorio Society, Black Chorus, Women's Chorus, University Chorus, Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, Concert Choir, and UI Chorale. The University Symphony and Illini Symphony, three jazz bands, gamelans and other ethnomusicology performance ensembles, and ensembles specializing in contemporary music, chamber music, and early music, among others, satisfy student interest both as performers and concertgoers.
A student in any college wishing to enroll in a performance organization should contact the Office of Undergraduate Studies, Room 3030 Music Building (phone: 217-244-2670) or the appropriate ensemble director to receive further information and arrange for an audition.
Libraries
Students in the college have at their disposal outstanding library resources. In addition to the University Library, one of this country's great university collections, there are specialized libraries serving the needs of specific fields. The Ricker Library of Architecture and Art contains more than 49,000 books (with almost 50,000 additional publications in the same fields located in the main University Library), 33,000 photographs, and 9,400 clippings.
The City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library houses about 20,000 volumes of current interest, while more than 110,000 additional related volumes are in the main University Library.
The Music Library, located in the Music Building, contains more than 765,000 items. These include introductory, instructive, research, and reference materials including books, editions of music, recordings, manuscripts, microfilm, and other materials.
Departments, Schools, and Curricula
The College of Fine and Applied Arts consists of the Departments of Dance, Landscape Architecture, Theatre, and Urban and Regional Planning; the Schools of Architecture/Building Research Council, Art and Design, and Music; the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and Japan House. The specific functions of each department or school and the undergraduate curricula are described on the following pages. Consult the Undergraduate Handbook available on the college website for reference to academic policies and procedures for students and faculty in the college.
Special Programs
Study Abroad
International study can be a life transforming experience. The college provides the opportunity for students to obtain campus credit for foreign study and/or travel for a summer session, one semester, or an academic year. Students in FAA have a range of opportunities for study abroad. They can pick from programs which include Rome, Paris, London, Versailles, Glasgow, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Shanghai, India, Costa Rica, and Mexico.
Prior to departure students are required to submit a study plan for review by their advisor and the college. This review is conducted in order for the student to understand what academic credit will be available to them upon their return. Once the study plan is approved, students may register and retain their status as UI students and may continue their student health insurance while abroad. Participation in an approved UI program also counts as time in residence at the University.
The Study Abroad Office offers information on program, travel, and financial aid specifically for study away from campus. Information is available from the Study Abroad Office, 115 International Studies Building.
Graduation Honors
At graduation, the College of Fine and Applied Arts grants honors to superior students. To be eligible, students must have completed a minimum of four semesters of work and 65 hours of credit in residence at the Urbana-Champaign campus.
The college requirements for honors are specified as follows: For the degree with Honors, the student must have a grade-point average of 3.25 (A=4.0) or better and be in the upper 25 percent of the students in the graduating class; for the degree with High Honors, the student must have a grade-point average of 3.5 or better and be in the upper 15 percent; and for the degree with Highest Honors, the student must have a grade-point average of 3.75 or better and be in the upper 6 percent. Each fall the cumulative GPA requirements that meet these criteria are calculated, based on the previous year's graduating students, including transfer credit and credit earned at UIUC, and posted on the College Web site.
Dean's List
Each semester students are recognized by the College for academic excellence through the Dean's List. In order to be eligible for Dean's List recognition, a student must successfully complete at least 14 academic hours, taken for a letter grade (A through F), and earn a grade-point average that places them in the top 20 percent (approximately) of the College. Students with grades that are excused or deferred are not considered for the Dean's List until letter grades have been submitted for those courses. The GPA level necessary to be placed on the Dean's List is revised annually and is posted on the College Web site.
James Scholar Honors Program
The James Scholars Program in the College of Fine and Applied Arts is designed to identify students who have demonstrated superior academic performance and provide them with opportunities for unique educational experiences and special recognition. Named after one of the University's distinguished presidents, Edmund James Scholars enjoy many benefits including: the opportunity to take designated honors courses, priority registration for classes, James Scholar designation noted on academic transcripts, and participation with faculty in independent study and/or undergraduate research projects on topics of special interest. For more information on eligibility and self-nomination to this program, see the James Scholar section of the web site.
Requirements
Graduation
Students who meet the general University requirements with reference to registration, residence, scholarship, fees, and general education requirements, and who maintain the minimum grade-point average required in their degree program, receive degrees appropriate to the curriculum completed. Refer to the specific unit and curricular requirements listed in the following sections. In addition, students must complete the required senior courses in their major field of study in residence at the Urbana-Champaign campus.
General Education
The Campus Senate, the faculty General Education Board, and the colleges have developed campus wide common general education requirements. See www.courses.illinois.edu for a current listing of the general education categories and individual courses that satisfy each requirement on this campus. Students are advised that some general education requirements may be fulfilled by courses already required in the major. All FAA curricula require students to meet the minimum campus general education requirements for graduation. Some programs require additional general education courses. See the individual programs of study for each curriculum.
Electives
Electives other than professional or supporting electives specified in any curriculum in the College of Fine and Applied Arts must be chosen from the list that follows. Approval for any course not contained in the list must be requested by written petition to the college Office of Student Affairs and supported by an adviser prior to registration in the course.
Elective Areas
FAA students may receive elective credit from the University of Illinois campus and other institutions with the following qualifications:
Air Force aerospace studies, military science, and naval science: maximum of 12 hours
Art: courses specified for non-majors do not count for art and design majors (for art and design majors, please refer to curriculum)
Aviation: maximum of six hours
Band: choral ensembles, jazz bands, and orchestras: maximum of eight hours (this limitation does not apply to music majors; for music majors, please refer to curriculum)
Dance: maximum of eight hours in dance studio courses (for dance majors, please refer to curriculum)
Kinesiology (physical education): maximum of eight hours of activity courses
Landscape Architecture: for landscape majors, please refer to curriculum
Mathematics: Cannot duplicate high school entrance or curricular requirements or prerequisites regardless of course placement by examination.
Music: courses for non-majors do not count for music majors; for music majors, please refer to curriculum
Theatre: for theatre majors, please refer to curriculum
Urban Planning: for urban planning majors, please refer to curriculum for courses that may count as elective credit
Foreign Language
Students entering as freshmen in Fall 2000 or later need to complete the foreign language requirement in order to graduate. To satisfy this requirement, students must complete the third semester level of a college foreign language course. This requirement may also be satisfied by three years of the same foreign language in high school. A foreign language placement test must be taken by those students entering the University without three years of the same foreign language in high school. Students who have completed 3 years of a high school foreign language cannot receive credit for a first semester level college foreign language course in that language. Students who have completed 4 years of a high school foreign language cannot receive credit for the first or second semester levels of a college foreign language course in that language.
Minors in the College of Fine and Applied Arts
FAA International Arts Minor
The college offers a minor in International Art to all University of Illinois students. This minor offers students a rich new means for approaching international and intercultural studies though the fine and applied arts. The study of art, dance, music, theatre, the built environment, and cultural practice through the fine and applied arts, is inherently international and intercultural. The study of artistic practices and environmental design is a central resource for understanding the social identity of communities around the world, their core cultural and social values, and related global and social processes that shape cultures. For more information see the FAA web site.