Major requirements
Ceramics Major

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Beginning Ceramics 0151 or 0152

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Intermediate Ceramics 0160
Advanced Ceramics 0293
Advanced Ceramics 0294
Two additional specialized Ceramics course

SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Ceramics 0293
Advanced Ceramics 0294
Advanced Ceramics Seminar 0351
Two additional specialized Ceramics courses

Glass Major

SOPHOMORE REQUIREMENTS:
Introduction to Glass 0158

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Glass 0243 or 0244
At least two of the following courses:
Glass Construction 0237 or 0238
Hot Glass 0241 or 0242

SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Glass 0243 or 0244
At least two of the following courses:
Glass Construction 0237 or 0238
Hot Glass 0241 or 0242
 
 
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
Fibers and Fabric Design Major

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
One of the following:
Fiber Structures I 0102 or
Fiber Structures II 0130 or
Fabric Pattern and Image 0130

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
The other three courses not taken during the sophomore year:
Fiber Structures I 0102
Fiber Structures II 0130
Fabric Pattern and Image 0130
Papermaking 0104
Mixed Media Constructions 0206
Advanced Fiber 0273
Advanced Fiber 0274
Advanced Fibers 0382
One specialized course in Fibers/Fabric Design
 
 
Graphic 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
Graphic Design Major

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Graphic Design 0117 or 0118

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Advanced Graphic Design 0253
Advanced Graphic Design 0254
Illustration 0255 or 0256 or Typography 0257
Intermediate Computer Graphics 0283

SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Three specialized courses in Senior Graphic Design (courses numbered 0385-0390)
Senior Portfolio 0361 or 0362 (in final semester)
 
 
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:
Jewelry and Metals Major

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Jewelry 0153 or 0154

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Junior Metalsmithing 0265
Junior Metalsmithing 0266
Two specialized Metals courses

SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Senior Metals and Plastics 0363
Senior Metals and Plastics 0364
Two specialized Metals courses
 
 
Painting/Drawing
Stanley Whitney, 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
Painting Major

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
 
 
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
Photography Major

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Photography I 0171 or 0172

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Photography II 0173 or 0174
Digital Imaging 0203
Color Photography I 0205
View Camera 0281 or 0282
Graphics Arts Processes 0201
Photo Process Workshop 0279 and 0280
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
Printmaking Major

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Survey of Printmaking Techniques 0116

JUNIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Serigraphy 0133 or 0134
Etching 0135 or 0136
Lithography 0137 or 0138
Art Career Workshop 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
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
Sculpture Major

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE:
Sculpture 0169 or 0170

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS:
Two courses in Advanced Sculpture 0221 or 0222
One course in Senior Sculpture 0335 or 0336
Two advanced level courses in Drawing
Three 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.

Return to menu.