For the Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting
The curriculum in painting requires 122 credit hours and provides
extensive training in preparation for professional practice as an
artist.
The first year is devoted primarily to the study of design, composition,
and the acquisition of both representational and abstract drawing
skills. The second year concentrates on introducing the student to
beginning painting skills and techniques with further studies in drawing
and composition. The last two years are devoted to the development
of individual creative expression in painting and other media.
When followed by a program leading to a degree of Master of Fine Arts
in Painting, this curriculum is recommended as preparation for a career
as an artist and as a teacher of painting and drawing and related
subjects at the college level.
Foreign Language Requirement
Students entering the University of Illinois 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 a
third level college foreign language course. This requirement may
also be satisfied by three years of the same foreign language in high
school. Students entering the University of Illinois without three
years of the same foreign language in high school must take a foreign
language placement test to determine the courses in which to enroll.
| Hours |
General Education
Requirements |
| 4 |
RHET 105
or 108—Composition I |
| 3 |
Advanced
Composition |
| 21 |
Six hours in each of the following areas: humanities
and the arts, natural sciences and technology, social and behavioral
sciences, and Western and non-Western culture. ARTH 112 satisfies
half of the humanities requirement. |
| 6 |
Quantitative
reasoning, I and II |
| 0-12 |
Foreign language |
| 34 |
Total |
| Hours |
Art History |
| 4 |
ARTH 111—Ancient
and Medieval Art |
| 4 |
ARTH 112—Renaissance
and Modern Art (General Education-Humanities & the Arts) |
| 6 |
Advanced
art history |
| 14 |
Total |
| Hours |
General Art and
Design |
| 2 |
ARTF 101—Contemporary
Issues in Art |
| 6 |
ARTF 102
and 104—Drawing, I and II |
| 6 |
ARTF 103
and 105—Design, I and II |
| 14 |
Total |
| Hours |
Painting |
| 4 |
ARTS 250
and 253—Life Drawing, I and II |
| 6 |
ARTS 251—Beginning
Painting, I and ARTS 254—Figure Painting, I |
| 4 |
ARTS 252—Painting,
Materials, Methods and ARTS 255—Painting, Issues and Methods |
| 2 |
ARTS 392—Current
Art Issues Seminar |
| 6 |
ARTS 350
and 352—Intermediate Studio, I and II |
| 6 |
ARTS 351
and 353—Intermediate Painting, I and II |
| 6 |
ARTS 450
and 452—Advanced Painting, I and II |
| 6 |
ARTS 451
and 453—Advanced Painting Studio, I and II |
| 40 |
Total |
| Hours |
Electives |
| 4 |
General electives
(see college list, no Art courses) |
| 16 |
Professional
electives |
| 17 |
Total |
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