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:

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

SENIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

Major Requirements B.F.A. in Glass  

SOPHOMORE REQUIREMENTS: 

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

At least two of the following courses: 

SENIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

At least two of the following courses: 

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
Fibers and Fabric Design  

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

Eight of the following courses: 

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. 
Graphic and Interactive Design

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE: 

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:  

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/Metals/CAD-CAM

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE: 

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

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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: 

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

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: 

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

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: 

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:   
Two advanced courses chosen from the following three groups: 

One specialized course in Printmaking 

Sculpture  

Jude Tallichet, 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: 

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

Other Programs

BFA 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 

Introduction 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 

Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science Programs (Main Campus)

Architecture
Sally Harrison, Chair

The Architecture Program is essentially urban in character.  The program treats the city itself as a primary laboratory of study for the student.  The wide variety of neighborhoods, public buildings, and major urban design projects in Philadelphia serve as examples for evaluation and study.  The Program offers the Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree and the NAAB accredited Bachelor of Architecture degree.  The Architecture curricula share a common two-year Basic Studies Program.  Upon successful completion of this preparatory program, students may either continue in the Bachelor of Science in Architecture curriculum or may apply for acceptance into the Professional Program, the Bachelor of Architecture Program. 

Students must satisfy all University CORE requirements in addition to major requirements.  

Recommended CORE courses are noted below.

 Architecture Basic Studies Courses (Year 1 & 2)                          64 s.h.

Required Courses Also Satisfying University CORE

After completion of Architecture Basic Studies, students will follow either the Bachelor of Science in Architecture Curriculum, or the Bachelor of Architecture curriculum.  (Separate Application is required for Bachelor of Architecture) 

Bachelor of Science in Architecture (Year 3 & 4)

Bachelor of Architecture (Year 3, 4, 5) 

 Total of 125 s.h. required for completion of Bachelor of Science in Architecture; 157 s.h. required for completion of Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Art 
Media, or Visual Studies Concentration  
Jo-Anna Moore, Chair 

The Studio concentration offers students a strong focus in visual art practice 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. The Digital Media concentration enables students to focus on the use of computer technologies as offered in courses throughout the University, including those in the programs of Art, Architecture, Film and Media Arts, Music, Theater, Dance, etc.   The Visual Studies concentration enables students to organize the various approaches to visual thinking that cut across various disciplines into a logical whole. Students analyze visual communication from a variety of aesthetic, theoretical, scientific, sociological, and historical viewpoints. 

Major Requirement B.A. in Studio Concentration

Digital Media Concentration Requirements

Visual Studies Concentration Requirements:

One Printmaking or Photography or Computer Imaging 

Four of the following: 

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. Pennsylvania State Teacher Certification requires 

minimum 3.0 GPA and passing scores on six Praxis tests in addition to successful 

completion of the degree. 

Major Requirements 

B.S. in Art Education

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: 

Five of the following seven: 

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. 

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