CURRICULUM IN CRAFTS


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For the Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Crafts

The curriculum in crafts requires 122 credit hours and emphasizes professional training for the development of the self-sustaining craftsman, the teacher of crafts, and the designer-craftsman in industry. The curriculum provides a choice of threee areas of concentration: ceramics, glassworking, and metalworking. The emphasis within these areas of concentration is on the development of individual design capabilities and perceptions and upon the mastery of comprehensive technical skills. In conjunction with these individual areas of emphasis, each student is given experience in other craft media.

HOURS GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
4 RHET 105 or RHET 108--English composition
3 Composition II
18 One approved sequence of 6 hours in each of the following areas: humanities and the arts, natural sciences and technology, and social and behavioral sciences
3 Quantitative reasoning
28 Total
HOURS ART HISTORY
4 ARTHI 111--Ancient and Medieval Art
4 ARTHI 112--Renaissance and Modern Art
6 Advanced art history
14 Total
HOURS GENERAL ART AND DESIGN
0 ARTGP 113--Orientation to Art and Design
6 ARTGP 117 and ARTGP 118--Drawing, I and II
6 ARTGP 119 and ARTGP 120--Design, I and II
12 Total

Major in Ceramics

HOURS REQUIRED COURSES
6 ARTSC 151 and ARTSC 152--Sculpture, I and II
4 ARTPA 125 and ARTPA 126--Life Drawing (or ARTPA 143--Painting Composition I)
Select two:
3 ARTCR 160--Jewelry, I
3 ARTCR 170--Ceramics, I
3 ARTCR 288--Glass, I
19 Major sequence in ceramics: select from:
ARTCR 170--Ceramics, I
ARTCR 171--Ceramics, II
ARTCR 270--Ceramics, III
ARTCR 271--Ceramics, IV
ARTCR 274--Ceramics, V
ARTCR 275--Ceramics, VI
ARTCR 374--Ceramics
6 Allied interests in sculpture or crafts
3 ARTSC 219--Seminar: Sculpture, Glass, and Ceramics
44 Total
HOURS ELECTIVES
6 General electives
18 Professional and technical electives
24 Total

Major in Glass

HOURS REQUIRED COURSES
6 ARTSC 151 and ARTSC 152--Sculpture, I and II
4 ARTPA 125 and ARTPA 126--Painting, I and II
6 Select two:
ARTCR 160--Jewelry, I
ARTCR 170--Ceramics, I
ARTCR 288--Glass, I
19 Major sequence in glass
Select from:
ARTCR 288 and ARTCR 289--Glass, I and II
ARTCR 384--repeat for 8-10 hours
6 Allied interest in sculpture or crafts
3 ARTSC 219--Seminar in Sculpture, Glass, and Ceramics
44 Total
HOURS ELECTIVES
6 General electives
18 Professional and technical electives
24 Total

Major in Metals

HOURS REQUIRED COURSES
3 ARTGP 121--Drawing Theory
2 ARTGP 125--Life Drawing
6 ARTSC 151 and ARTSC 152--Sculpture, I and II; or ARTID 133 and ARTID 134--Industrial Design Studio, I and II
3 ARTCR 170--Ceramics, I
3 ARTCR 288--Glass, I
3 Select one:
ARTCR 171--Ceramics, II
ARTCR 289--Glass, II
ARTCR 291--Individual Crafts Problems (Neon)
Major sequence in metals
3 ARTCR 160--Jewelry, I
3 ARTCR 161--Jewelry, II
3 ARTCR 260--Jewelry, III
3 ARTCR 261--Jewelry, IV
4 ARTCR 262--Metal Technology (repeat twice)
5 ARTCR 264--Jewlery, V
5 ARTCR 265--Jewelry, VI
3 ARTCR 266--Enameling
3 ARTCR 263--Metalsmithing
52 Total
HOURS ELECTIVES
7 General electives (see college list)
9 Art and design electives
16 Total


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