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• Admissions
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• The Core Curriculum
• Fields of Undergraduate Study: Academic Degrees & Course Listings
• Language Institutes
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Appendix: Personnel & Enrollment

• Bachelor of Arts
• Minor
• Art Courses (ARTV)

Department of Performing and Visual Arts
School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Associate Professor: M. Robinson
Assistant Professors: S. Bailey

The Department of Performing and Visual Arts offers an undergraduate bachelor's degree as well as a minor in Art. The curriculum balances theoretical and practical experience from studio and art history courses. All courses within the Art unit include components which encourage writing proficiency. The unit embraces the philosophy of the broad-based liberal arts education.

Bachelor of Arts

The curriculum for the B.A in Art provides a generalist approach within a liberal arts tradition and offers the possibility of a concentration of courses either in Studio Art or Art History. Integration of various artistic disciplines is promoted, including a solid component of the non-Western (especially the Arabic/Egyptian) contribution to the arts.

A total of 120 credits are required for the bachelor's degree in Art:

Core Curriculum (40 credits) as stated on page 76-81

Concentration Requirements (30 credits)

ARTV 200 Foundations of Design and Color, 3 cr.   201 Drawing I, 3 cr.   202 Painting I, 3 cr.   211 World Art Survey I, 3 cr.   212 World Art Survey II, 3 cr.   310 Modern and Contemporary Art, 3 cr.   311 Drawing II, 3 cr.   312 Painting II, 3 cr.   470 Advanced Seminar, 3 cr.   370 or 314 Selected Topics in Art or Modern and Contemporary Architecture, 3 cr.

 

Collateral Requirements (15 credits)

EGPT 261 Art and Architecture from Ancient Egypt I, 3 cr.   262 Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt II, 3 cr. ARBS 270-271 Intro to Islamic Art and Architecture, 6 cr. PHIL 310 Philosophy and Art, 3 cr.

 

Four additional collateral courses to be chosen from among the following (12 credits)

ARTV 402 Independent Study, 3 cr. JRMC 230 Intro to Photography, 3 cr.   305 Intro to Graphic Communications, 3 cr.   315 Public Relations and Advertising, 3 cr.   330 Advanced Photography, 3 cr.   405 Advanced Graphic Communications, 3 cr.   425 Advanced Advertising, 3 cr. THTR 224 Into to Technical Theater, 3 cr.   320 Design for the Theater: Scenography, 3 cr.   321 Design for the Theater: Costume, 3 cr.   322 Design for the Theater: Stage Lighting, 3 cr. FILM 220 Intro to Film, 3 cr.   330 Film Theory and Criticism, 3 cr.   350 Film Production, 3 cr. FILM/AN TH 341 Anthropology and Film, 3 cr. ARBS 206 Art and Architecture of the City of Cairo, 3 cr.   370 Pre-Islamic Influences on the Art and Architecture of Cairo, 3 cr.   468 Painting in Islam, 3 cr.   469 Islamic Pottery, 3 cr.   477-478 Islamic Minor Arts, 6 cr.

 

EGPT 202 Introduction to Egyptology, 3 cr.   204 Archaeology and Prehistory, 3 cr. ANTH 202 Cultural Anthropology, 3 cr. HIST 402 Selected Topics in European History, Power and Art (or other when art is the central focus of the course), 3 cr.

 

Other Selected Topics courses may apply when art is the central focus of the course.

Electives (23 credits)
All elective courses must be selected in consultation with an art advisor. Non-collateral electives will preferably constitute a minor.

Minor

The minor in Art provides a general introduction to studio practices of design, drawing, and painting as well as their historical models.

Art Courses (ARTV)
 

CourseNum CourseTitle 200 Foundations of Design and Color 201 Drawing I 202 Painting I 203 Introduction to Sculpture 211 World Art Survey I 212 World Art Survey II 310 Modern and Contemporary  Art 311 Drawing II 312 Painting II 314 Modern and Contemporary Architecture 370 Selected Topics in Art 402 Independent Study 470 Advanced Seminar