Introduction
The College of Fine and Applied Arts prepares men and women for
professional work by offering programs in architecture, art and
design, dance, landscape architecture, music, theatre, and urban and
regional planning. Both freshmen and transfer students are admitted to
these curricula. In each curriculum certain basic courses,
professional courses, and general education requirements, including 6
semester hours each in the humanities and the arts, social and
behavioral sciences, and natural sciences and technology, must be
completed in order to qualify for the specific baccalaureate degree
offered.
For development beyond the undergraduate programs in these areas
of study, the departments 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
within the areas of architecture, art, dance, landscape architecture,
music, theatre, and urban and regional planning. Many outstanding
professionals and works in these fields are brought to the University
campus.
In addition to the teaching divisions, the College of Fine and
Applied Arts includes the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and
the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion.
Special Facilities
The museum exhibits art objects from its extensive collections,
which date from ancient Egypt to our own time. In addition, it
schedules a full program of changing exhibitions. These bring to the
campus a wide variety of historic and contemporary works of art.
The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 1969,
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 Illinois Repertory
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. The major donors of
the center were Mr. and Mrs. Herman C. Krannert of Indianapolis.
The School of Music offers credit for all students enrolled in its
many performance organizations. These organizations include ensembles
in the nationally recognized Department of Bands: Wind Ensemble, two
Symphonic Bands, three Concert Bands, Basketball Band, Brass Band,
Clarinet Choir, the steel drum band, 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, four jazz bands,
a Javanese gamelan, the Russian Folk Orchestra, and ensembles
specializing in contemporary music, chamber music, harp, 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 School of Music or the appropriate
ensemble director to receive further information and arrange for an
audition.
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 in the same fields in the 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 100,000 related
volumes are in the University Library.
The School of Music Library, located in the Music Building,
contains more than 750,000 items. These include introductory,
instructive, research, and reference materials including books,
editions of music, recordings, manuscripts, microfilm, and other
nonbook -- 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;
and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The specific
functions of each department or school and the undergraduate curricula
are described on the following pages.
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.
Special Programs
Each curriculum offered by the College of Fine and Applied Arts is
designed to develop professional competence in the specific area of
studies noted on the degree. Therefore, an individual study program
must ensure this professional development. A qualified student who has
specific professional goals that are not met by the curricular
offerings of the college may request an individual program of studies
selected from courses offered by the University. Such a program must
include the basic courses prerequisite for advanced study,
requirements of the University for graduation, general education
requirements of the college, and professional course work that will
ensure the competence expected for the particular degree.
To obtain approval for an individual study program, the student
must submit his or her proposal in writing during the sophomore or
junior year. The proposal should contain an outline of the complete
program of course work, as well as an explanation of the professional
goal desired. It should be discussed with and submitted to an approved
representative of the appropriate department or school concerned with
the degree, who will then forward the proposal through the executive
officer of the department or school for recommendation to the college
office. Final consideration and notification of the action taken on
the proposal will be made by the college office.
The college provides the opportunity for students to obtain campus
credit for foreign study and/or travel for a period of from one
semester to one calendar year. Students must submit detailed proposals
of plans for such study and/or travel for approval by the appropriate
departmental committees and by the associate dean of the college prior
to such study abroad. If approved, students register and retain their
status as University students and may continue their student health
insurance as if they continued to study at the Urbana-Champaign
campus.
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 or 65 hours of credit in residence
at the Urbana-Champaign campus.
For the degree with honors, the student must have a grade-point
average of 4.25 (A = 5.0) or better in all courses used for graduation
and
be in the upper 25 percent of those receiving that particular
degree; for the degree with high honors, a grade-point average of 4.5
or better and the upper 15 percent; and for the degree with highest
honors, a grade-point average of 4.75 or better and the upper 6
percent. Credit earned at other institutions and transferred to the
University of Illinois is used in computing the student's
average. Credit earned at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign must be of at least the level required for the degree
with honors.
Requirements
Students who meet the general University requirements with
reference to registration, residence, scholarship, fees, rhetoric, and
general education requirements, and who maintain satisfactory records,
receive degrees appropriate to the curricula completed. Refer to the
specific departmental and curricular requirements listed on the
following pages. 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 and departments are working to implement enhanced general
education requirements. Some changes in requirements are expected to
take effect in the coming years. Thus, new students should confirm
their general education requirements by consulting college and
departmental offices, handbooks, or advisers.
Electives specified in any curriculum in the College of Fine and
Applied Arts must be chosen from the lists that follow. Single courses
specified in the sequence lists or more advanced courses for which
they are prerequisites may also be used as electives.
To comply with the general education sequence requirements, each
student in the College of Fine and Applied Arts must have a minimum of
6 semester hours in each of the following three areas: the humanities
and the arts, social and behavioral sciences, and natural sciences and
technology. These lists will have additions or deletions occasionally
and students are advised to use a current list when selecting courses
to meet these requirements.
footnote 1. Cannot duplicate high school entrance or curricular requirements or prerequisites regardless of course placement by examination.