Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing
The Drawing program maintains formal and academic roots while letting students explore the dynamic, eclectic practice that characterizes contemporary drawing. It offers flexibility in the exploration of space and dimension, materials, and connection to other disciplines, enabling each student to develop a personal drawing vision and vocabulary. Drawing majors learn the language of drawing and apply its flexibility, expansiveness and contemporary strategies to personal artistic ends. The discipline’s usefulness for visual research, problem-solving, personal expression, and idea generation prepare each drawing major to join the workforce as a doer, maker, thinker, and problem-solver – a solid basis for entering / inventing numerous careers. Drawing Curriculum FO101 FO102 FO103 FO113 FO11x FO121 FO122
Studio Arts 1 Studio Arts 2: Processes and Media Studio Arts 3: Color Digital Workshop 1 Digital Workshop 2 Drawing 1 Drawing 2
Drawing Major SA482 SA491 SA492 PC400 DR201 DR202 DR301 DR308 DR313
Senior Seminar 2 Advanced Tutorial 1 Advanced Tutorial 2 Professional Component Drawing 3 Drawing 4 Drawing 5 Drawing as Inquiry Individual. Investigations in Drawing Studio Electives
Art History AH101 AH102 AH200 AH201 AH202 AH214 AH215 AH301
Introduction to Art History 1 Introduction to Art History 2 Art History Elective One of the Following Art of the 20th Century 20th and 21st Cent. Design History History of Photography History of Illustration Contemporary Art: Issues and Ideas
Liberal Arts HU101 HU102 HU201 NS100 SS100 HU100 LA100 LA101 LA102 LA103 LA481
Artist as Writer Artist as Reader Aesthetics Natural Science Elective Social Science Elective Humanities Elective Liberal Arts Elective Liberal Arts Elective Liberal Arts Elective Liberal Arts Elective Senior Seminar 1
Catalog Credits
16
6.00 3.00 3.00 1.50 1.50 3.00 3.00 3.00 6.00 6.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 21.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 120.00
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing Course Descriptions
Course descriptions for Professional Component, Advanced Tutorial 1 and 2, and Senior Seminar 1 and 2 are located in the Studio Course Descriptions portion of the catalog. DR201 Drawing 3: Investigations in Space and Meaning (3)
This course investigates a variety of approaches to describe and communicate spatial information. Students work from direct observation of landscape, still life, interior space, and the human figure, investigating expressive and narrative possibilities. Complex compositional, spatial, and lighting situations, and multiple figure poses will challenge students’ technical and conceptual drawing abilities. They also explore the implications of the artist’s choice of spatial structures and introduce students to non-Western spatial conventions, as well as mapping, griding, and patterning. (Prerequisite: 1st Year Studio Program) DR202 Drawing 4: Strategies and Media (3)
Students explore a range of strategies and processes and experiment with traditional and contemporary media in solving problems that deal with space, time, narrative, and abstraction. This course supports the student in broadening drawing strategies, taking risks, experimenting with materials and surfaces, expanding subject matter, content and thinking while working conceptually. (Prerequisite: 1st Year Studio Program) DR301 Drawing 5: Contemporary Problems in Drawing (3)
In the process of encouraging more freedom, responsibility, and personal decision-making in each student, this course introduces students to concepts, roles, processes and practices that characterize contemporary drawing. Through research and individual practice, the student gains an understanding of the place and value of drawing in contemporary art and in their own art making. (Prerequisite: DR201) DR308 Drawing as Inquiry (3)
This course focuses on drawing as a means of intentional research/investigation in the context of strategy, process and concept. Varied approaches to drawing are all built around preliminary and substantial research leading to drawing solutions to issues or ideas independently chosen by the student. (Prerequisite: DR201) DR313 Individual Investigations in Drawing (3)
This course allows the student, through drawing, to make a sustained commitment to a concept,
theme, or issue of his/her choosing. This class is dependent on individual development and supports attention to individual needs. “Drawing” in this course is interpreted broadly and could incorporate collage, digital processes, photography, and the use of traditional and non-traditional surfaces and formats. Since much of the course is self-directed, students are expected to take initiative in their work and move beyond comfortable levels of achievement. (Prerequisite: DR202 or permission of the instructor).
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing Sample Schedule First Year Fall Semester Studio Arts 1 Drawing 1 Artist as Writer Introduction to Art History 1 Digital Workshop 1: CS6
6 3 3 3 1.5
Total 16.5
Spring Semester Drawing 2 3 Studio Arts 2: Process and Media 3 Studio Arts 3: Color 3 Introduction to Art History 2 3 Artist as Reader 3 Digital Workshop 2: Film/Video 1.5 or Digital Workshop 2: Animation or Digital Workshop 2: Design Total 16.5
Second Year Fall Semester Drawing 3 3 Studio Elective 3 Art History Elective 3 Studio Elective 3 Liberal Arts Elective 3 Total 15
Spring Semester Drawing 4 3 Studio Elective 3 Art History Elective 3 Aesthetics 3 Liberal Arts Elective 3 Total 15
Third Year Fall Semester Drawing 5 3 Individual Investigations or Studio 3 Studio Elective 3 Studio Elective 3 Liberal Arts Elective 3 Total 15
Spring Semester Drawing as Inquiry 3 Individual Investigations or Studio 3 Professional Component 3 Studio Elective 3 Liberal Arts Elective 3 Total 15
Fourth Year Fall Semester Advanced Tutorial 1 6 Senior Seminar 1 3 Liberal Arts Elective 3 Liberal Arts Elective 3 Total 15
Spring Semester Advanced Tutorial 2 Senior Seminar 2 Liberal Arts Elective
6 3 3
Total 12
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS 120
This course puts strong and consistent emphasis on research as a basis for the development and sophistication of drawing, both product and process. 17