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COLLEGE OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS
117 Architecture Building
608 East Lorado Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-1660
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
KRANNERT ART MUSEUM AND KINKEAD PAVILION
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.
KRANNERT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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.
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 Department of Bands: 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.
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 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 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 nonbook
materials.Departments
Departments, Schools, 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. The FAA Student Handbook provides reference to academic policies and procedures for students and faculty in the college.
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
INDIVIDUAL STUDY PROGRAM
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 (3.0 cumulative GPA) 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 Of Student Affairs. Final consideration and notification of the action taken on the proposal will be made by the college office.
STUDY ABROAD
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. Information is available from the Study Abroad Office, 115 International Studies Building.
HONORS AT GRADUATION
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.
For the degree with honors, the student must have a grade-point average of 3.25 (A = 4.0) or better in all courses used for graduation and be in the upper 25 percent of those receiving a degree from that department or school; for the degree with high honors, a grade-point average of 3.5 or better and the upper 15 percent; and for the degree with highest honors, a grade-point average of 3.75 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
GRADUATION
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
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 . Only foreign language courses taken at or beyond the level established by placement exam will be counted. 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
Air Force aerospace studies, military science,
and naval science-advanced courses only (maximum of six hours)
Accountancy
Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Advertising
Anthropology
Architectural history
Art-all courses specified for nonmajors (none
usable for art majors) and all art history courses.
African studies
Asian studies
Astronomy
Aviation-maximum of six hours
Band-maximum of three hours (not for music majors)
Business administration
Chemistry
Classics
Communication
Comparative literature
Computer science
Consumer sciences
Dance-especially DANCE 100, 101, 102, 105, 106,
107, 108, 131, 150, 220, 312, 331, 341; maximum of three hours, none for majors
East Asian languages and culture
Ecology, ethology, and evolution
Economics
Engineering
English-including advanced rhetoric, and business
and technical writing
Finance
Food science and human nutrition
French1
Geography
Geology
Germanic languages and literatures1
History
Horticulture
Human development and family studies
Humanities
Journalism
Kinesiology (physical education)-maximum of three
hours of activity courses
Labor and industrial relations
Landscape architecture (not for landscape architecture
majors)
Latin American studies
L A S-110, by petition only
Leisure studies
Library science
Life sciences
Linguistics
Mathematics1
Music-especially MUSIC 100-104, 133, 130-131;
maximum of three ensembles, two instrumental courses (not for music majors)
Philosophy
Physics
Political science
Psychology
Religious studies
Slavic languages and literatures
Sociology
Spanish1, Italian, and Portuguese
Speech communications
Theatre-especially THEAT 110, 178 (not for theatre
majors)
Urban planning (not for majors)
1. Cannot duplicate high school entrance or curricular requirements or prerequisites regardless of course placement by examination.
GENERAL EDUCATION DISTRIBUTION
To comply with the general education sequence requirements, each student in the College of Fine and Applied Arts must have a minimum of six semester hours in each of the following areas: the humanities and the arts, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and technology, cultural studies (.three hours Western, three hours non-Western, or six hours comparitive Western/non-Western), and Composition I and Composition II. Three hours of quantitative reasoning is also required. Lists of courses which fulfill these requirements are available from departmental and college advising staff or on the Web at http://www.uiuc.edu/providers/provost/gened.html.
1. A student may not use courses in his or her major area to satisfy a distribution requirement.
2. Basic foreign language courses, rhetoric
and speech requirements,
L A S 110, and courses numbered 199 may not be used to fulfill the distribution requirements.
3. Foreign language that is used in lieu of high-school entrance requirements or is below placement test level will not be accepted as elective credit.
4. A maximum of 6 hours of credit in RHET 100-105, and 108 may be applied toward the degree. E S L 114 and 115 will apply toward the degree.
5. Approval to use any course not contained
in the campus approved lists must be requested by written petition to the Office
of the Associate Dean of the college prior to registration in the substitute course
or courses. Approval of an adviser or instructor only is not acceptable. 
School of Architecture
- Undergraduate Curriculum in Architecture
School of Art and Design
- Curriculums: Art Education - Crafts - Graphic Design - The History of Art - Industrial Design - Painting - Photography - Scupture
Department of Dance
- Curriculum in Dance
Department of Landscape Architecture
- Curriculum in Landscape Architecture
School of Music Curricula in Music
- Music Education
Department of Theatre
- Curriculum in Theatre
Department of Urbana and Regional Planning
- Curriculum in Urban and Regional Planning
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