Sep 16, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Studio Arts, BFA


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The BFA in Studio Arts combines the creation, evaluation, and professional exhibition of innovative visual work in a variety of disciplines with a strong grounding in the history of art. Students develop the skills and experience necessary to pursue a career in a wide range of contemporary visual arts industries. The four-year, 120-credit curriculum fuses traditional and current approaches to art production while considering cultural and historical contexts, aesthetics and critical theory, and the development and practice of professional proficiencies.

Concentrations: Ceramics, Illustration, Metals, Painting and Drawing, Sculpture, Wood Furniture Design

Student Learning Outcomes


  • Students will demonstrate a high level of proficiency with the primary material, tools, technique, and technology used in their concentration area supplemented by experience with other media.
  • Students will fully investigate in their work conceptual issues and expressive potential of their medium.
  • Students will integrate aesthetic principles in the development of their own artwork.
  • Students will recognize that the making and study of art can be approached from a variety of perspectives.
  • Students will defend meaningful interpretations and critical evaluations about their own artworks and the works of other artists both orally and in writing.
  • Students will construct informed discussion of art as an essential component of viewing, producing, and evaluating art.
  • Students will explain cultural and historical contexts surrounding works of art in general and in their field of study.
  • Students will conclude that art communicates, challenges and shapes cultural and societal values.
  • Students will reframe their practices through experimentation.
  • Students will organize and produce a resume, a written statement about, and an appropriate visual documentation of their work.

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