Ceramics/Glass
Robert Winokur, Area Head, Ceramics
Jon Clark, Area Head, Glass
In the Ceramics area, equipment is available for wheel work, mold making,
and slip casting projects, as well as large kilns for hand building and
sculpture. Processes include: wood firing, raku, salt glazing, stoneware,
and porcelain. The glass curriculum incorporates glass blowing, casting,
fusing, and kiln work.
Major Requirements
B.F.A in Ceramics
SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITES:
Beginning Ceramics 0151 or 0152
Intermediate Ceramics 0160
JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Ceramics 0293
Advanced Ceramics 0294
Two additional specialized Ceramics course s
SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Ceramics 0393
Advanced Ceramics 0394
Two additional specialized Ceramics courses
Major Requirements B.F.A. in Glass
SOPHOMORE REQUIREMENTS:
Introduction to Glass 0158
JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Glass 0243 and 0244
At least two of the following courses:
Glass Construction 0237 or 0238
Hot Glass 0241 or 0242
SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Glass 0343 and 0344
At least two of the following courses:
Glass Construction 0337 or 0338
Hot Glass 0341 or 0342
Fibers/Fabric Design
Rebecca Medel, Area Head
The Fibers major covers weaving, off-loom, and fabric design in a
curriculum based on printing, dye, and techniques of fiber structure. Once
techniques are mastered, the program promotes experimentation and
development of a personal direction.
Major Requirements B.F.A in Fibers and Fabric Design
SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Off Loom Structure I 0117
Fabric Pattern and Image I 0105
JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Eight of the following courses:
Woven Structure I 0118
Off Loom Structures II 0217
Woven Structures II 0218
Field Internship Fibers 0203
Structural Embellishment I 0206
Silkscreen on Fabric I 0282
Woven Structure III 0318
Off Loom Structures III 0317
Structural Embellishment II 0306
Silkscreen on Fabric II 0382
Fabric Pattern and Image II 0305
Graphic and Interactive Design
Alice Drueding, Area Head
The program covers visual communication in advertising art, illustration,
and typography. Included in the curriculum are courses dealing with
computer graphics, animated film, offset lithography, publications,
television graphics, environmental design, and packaging.
Major Requirements B.F.A. in Graphic and Interactive Design
SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Graphic Design 0117
Introduction to Computer Graphics 0146
JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Graphic Design 0253 (Fall)
Advanced Graphic Design 0254 (Spring)
Illustration 0255 or 0256 or Typography I 0257
Intermediate Computer Graphics 0283
SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Three specialized courses in Senior Graphic Design (courses numbered
0385-0390)
Senior Portfolio 0362 (Spring)
Jewelry/Metals/CAD-CAM
Stanley Lechtzin, Area Head
This program stresses the use of traditional techniques and materials in
relation to their historical significance while encouraging the use of new
technologies in the advanced courses. Assignments focus on the design and
creation of jewelry, non-functional forms, furniture, and tableware.
Major requirements B.F.A. Jewelry and Metals Major
SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Jewelry 0153 or 0154
JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Junior Metalsmithing 0265
Junior Metalsmithing 0266
CAD-CAM I 0133
One specialized Metals course
SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Senior Metals and Plastics 0363
Senior Metals and Plastics 0364
CAD-CAM II 0234
One specialized Metals course
Painting/Drawing
Margo Margolis, Area Head
This program offers a pattern of studio and seminar courses that fosters
the development of pictorial concepts realized in the tangible form of
painting and drawing. Visiting professional artists and critics are
regularly scheduled to lecture and critique student work.
Major Requirements B.F.A. in
Painting
SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Painting 0131 or 0132
Drawing 0143 or 0144 (prerequisite for advanced level drawing courses)
JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Three courses in advanced level Drawing (courses numbered 0200-0399)
Three courses in advanced level Painting (courses numbered 0200-0399)
Two additional courses in either advanced level Drawing and/or Painting
Four courses must be at the 0200 level and four courses at the 0300 level.
Photography
Martha Madigan, Area Head
In addition to traditional black and white and color photography, this
program offers a variety of workshops focusing on temporal and cultural
issues. The faculty stresses an experimental approach to picture-making,
ranging from the handmade camera to production on a Heidelberg press.
Major Requirements B.F.A.
Photography Major
SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Photography I 0171 or 0172
JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Photography II 0173 or 0174
Digital Photography 0203
Color Photography I 0205
View Camera 0281 or 0282
Graphics Arts Processes 0201
Photo Process Workshop 0279
Senior Photography 0383
Senior Photography 0384
Printmaking
John Dowell, Area Head
This program offers courses in the basic printmaking areas of Serigraphy,
Etching, and Lithography with advanced courses in color and photo-etching,
photo-lithography, metal engraving, mezzotint, viscosity, color printing,
woodcut, and light sensitive materials.
Major Requirements B.F.A. in Printmaking
SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Survey of Printmaking Techniques 0116
JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Serigraphy 0133 or 0134
Etching 0135 or 0136
Lithography 0137 or 0138
Art Career Workshop 0349 or W349
SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Two advanced courses chosen from the following three groups:
Advanced Etching 0321 or 0322
Advanced Lithography 0331 or 0332
Advanced Serigraphy 0345 or 0346
One specialized course in Printmaking
Sculpture
Amy Hauft, Area Head
The sculpture facility houses wood shops, metal fabrication equipment,
plaster and model-making facilities, and an extensive foundry for casting
bronze and aluminum. The initial emphasis is on the development of basic
skills with tools and equipment. Advanced courses provide intensive studio
experience and the dynamics of a critical dialogue.
Major Requirements B.F.A. in Sculpture
SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Sculpture 0169 or 0170
JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Sculpture 0221 (and/or 0222)
Junior Sculpture Seminar 0249
Senior Sculpture 0335
Senior Sculpture 0336
Two advanced-level courses in Drawing
Two advanced-level courses in Sculpture
Art
Richard Hricko, Chair
The purpose of the studio art concentration is to offer students an
education in art within a liberal arts context. The curriculum is devised
to offer students a rich range of choices in other academic disciplines to
augment their studio studies.
It is the purpose of the visual studies concentration to organize the
various approaches to visual thinking that cut across various disciplines
into a logical whole. Students will analyze visual communication from a
variety of aesthetic, theoretical, scientific, sociological, and
historical viewpoints.
Major Requirement B.A. in Studio Concentration
C059 - Introduction to Visual Language - Design
C069 - Introduction to Visual Language - Drawing
C079 - Introduction to Visual Language - Painting
C089 - Introduction to Visual Language - 3-D Design
Art 0159 - Color Design
Art 0140 - Drawing II
Art 0118 - Painting II
2 Art History Electives, any time period (not AH 0051)
Printmaking 0131, 0133, 0136, 0138 (2 of the 4)
Five Studio Electives
2 Upper-level Liberal Arts course in Social Science or Nat./Math Sciences
W192 - Art Seminar (writing intensive in the major)
Digital Media Concentration Requirements
C059 - Introduction to Visual Language - Design
C069 - Introduction to Visual Language - Drawing
C079 - Introduction to Visual Language - Painting
C089 - Introduction to Visual Language - 3-D Design
Seven Required Digital Studio courses
Six Digital Studio Electives
Three Non-digital Studios
2 Art History Electives, any time period (not AH 0051)
Five Other Electives
W192 - Art Seminar (writing intensive in the major)
Visual Studies
Concentration Requirements
C059 - Introduction to Visual Language - Design
C069 - Introduction to Visual Language - Drawing
C079 - Introduction to Visual Language - Painting
C089 - Introduction to Visual Language - 3-D Design
One Printmaking or Photography or Computer Imaging
AH C055 Art History
AH C056 Art History
Four of the following:
Anthropology 0241 - Intro to Visual Anthropology
Philosophy C061 - Art & Society
Philosophy 0131 - Intro to Aesthetics
English R170 or 0170 - Art of the Film
Film & Media Arts X155 - Intro to Film & Video Analysis
2 Art History Electives, any time period (not AH 0051)
A minimum of four elective courses in one of the following groups:
History, Science, Theory, or Studio; plus two more courses in any of the
other above group(s).
Capstone Seminar (writing intensive in the major)
Art Education
Jo-Anna Moore, Area Coordinator
The Art Education program is conceived as a curriculum ensuring a fully
rounded preparation for the elementary and secondary school teacher. This
program provides content study for art teacher preparation and teacher
certification to teach art in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Major Requirements
B.S. in Art Education
C059 - Introduction to Visual Language - Design
C069 - Introduction to Visual Language - Drawing
C079 - Introduction to Visual Language - Painting
C089 - Introduction to Visual Language - 3-D Design
Relief Printing
Color Design
Ceramics
2 Studio Art Seminars
4 Studio Art Electives
AH C055 Art History
AH C056 Art History
Art History Elective, any time period (not AH 0051)
Art Education 0085, 0187 (Student Teaching)
Education 0110, 0111, 0122, 0151, 0153, 0155, X060, 0255
Speech Communication
Psychology C050
8 Liberal Arts courses
Art History
Therese Dolan, Chair
The Art history curriculum includes lecture courses and seminars in
Western and non-Western art history from ancient to modern: special
concentrations include Aegean and Greek art; Etruscan and Roman art;
Indian, African, and Oriental art; Early Christian art; Medieval art and
architecture; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; European and
American art of the Romantic era; and the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Major Requirements B.A. in Art History
Two of the following four:
C051 - Visual Experience
C053 - Non-Western Art
C055 - Art Heritage Western World I
C056 - Art Heritage Western World II
Five of the following six:
Ancient
Medieval
Renaissance
Baroque
19th Century
20th Century
Three Art History Electives, any time period
(note: one of the upper level classes must be writing intensive.)
One Studio Art Elective
Two upper-level Liberal Arts courses in Social Science or Nat./Math
Sciences
Three upper-level Liberal Arts course
Other Programs
Ambler Campus
Some courses required for the B.A. in Art History may be taken on the
Ambler campus. Prerequisite courses in Art and Art Education are offered
for students who may transfer in the junior year to Tyler.
Digital Imaging Concentration
A B.F.A. Studio major may complete a concentration in Digital Imaging. As a
concentration this program complements the the studies in the major. This
course of study provides access to a broad range of digital technology and
an introduction to ways in which new technologies can enhance artistic
production.
Freshman course:
1 course required
Foundation Computer
Sophomore courses: 2 - 3 courses
required
Digital Imaging
Digital Drawing
CAD/CAM I
Intro to Computer Graphics
Junior/Senior courses: 2 - 3 courses
required
Interactive Design for non-majors
Digital Photography
Imaging for the WWW
CAD/CAM II
Printmaking Workshop
Total credits for concentration 17 - 19
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