2001/2003 Undergraduate Catalog
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College of Arts and Sciences
Art Department

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Introduction

The Department of Art offers an undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. For successful completion of the B.A. degree in art, each student is expected to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and understandings within the following four categories:

  1. Understanding of the Visual Arts, Historically and Culturally
  2. The Creative Process and Production
  3. Process and Technical Skills
  4. Philosophy, Perception, Appreciation, Valuing

Portfolio Requirements

After admission to the art major program, students must present a portfolio of their original art work for review to the art department faculty during the first month of the semester. Specific requirements for content of this portfolio must be requested from the art department chairperson.

Note: This portfolio is required of all freshmen and transfer students from other colleges or within SU.

Yearly Student Art Exhibit

Each year art majors are required to submit a minimum of two pieces of art for the annual student art exhibit.

Senior Exhibit

All graduating seniors are required to participate in a senior exhibit scheduled during the spring semester of graduation. December graduates must participate the previous spring. This exhibit is a component of the required Senior Art Seminar course.

Features

The Department of Art offers an undergraduate program leading to a bachelor of arts degree in art. Because of the department. s variety of courses and its cooperative programs with two major institutions. The Art Institutes International (AII) and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). the Shippensburg art graduate has a wide range of career opportunities.

Through the junior year option at AII, art majors may concentrate in photography/multimedia, interior design, visual communication, industrial design technology, or computer animation/multimedia. At FIT, students can choose from the following areas: fashion design, advertising design, textile/surface design, or accessories design.

Other options: With the 33 credits of free electives, many students choose a number of different options. The student can double major, minor in another field, or strengthen their art major. Selecting a double major, including art/communication, art/business, or art/psychology, increases their career options.

Some students serve as interns in galleries, museums, advertising agencies, or art supply stores. Others have worked as apprentices on art projects, layout work, or in computer graphics. Others have apprenticed with professional painters, ceramicists, and sculptors. The department is developing a pool of sources for internships in both the public and private sector.

Two art department organizations give students an opportunity to have some first-hand experiences in the field. One organization, the Student Art League, creates a professional artistic publication yearly using the computer creatively to design and lay out the work for the book. The Art Exhibitions Committee gains practical gallery training through organizing and staging eight exhibitions yearly.

Career Opportunities

Art is actually used in any circumstance that requires visual discrimination: What looks better, this or that? The fine artist attempts to make a visual statement through a painting or a piece of sculpture by continuously discriminating with the art elements. All of the design fields actively engage in visual decision making. industrial, fabric, fashion, interior, graphic, and advertising design.

Courses provide students with a sound fine arts background in studio experience, art history, and art criticism. Computer design courses prepare students. marketability in industry, publishing, and advertising. They can prepare for a number of art-related careers. Our graduates are museum curators, gallery directors, illustrators, photographers, practicing and exhibiting artists/craftspeople, fabric designers, and antique dealers. A number of our graduates have opted to go on for advanced degrees in art, particularly the master of fine arts degree. These graduates are practicing and exhibiting artists and some teach at colleges and universities.

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Cooperative Art Programs

A cooperative program has been established between Shippensburg University and the Art Institutes International, which are the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, the Art Institute of Philadelphia, and six additional Art Institutes in: Houston and Dallas, Texas; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; and Seattle, Washington. This plan is for students interested in pursuing specialized careers in commercial art who also want the advantage of an academic degree. Under this program students may select a junior year optional program in either visual communications, interior design, photography/multimedia, or computer animation/multimedia and then return to Shippensburg University for their senior year.

Art majors at Shippensburg University who wish to enroll in the junior year option at one of the Art Institutes must have junior status and have completed all foundation courses and other required art course work.

Following the completion of one of the above junior year options, students would return to Shippensburg University to complete the senior year of their program. Students electing to enroll in one of these options would, in addition to the 30 credit hours of specialized instruction completed at one of the Art Institutes, also complete all specifically required art courses at Shippensburg (37 credit hours: 22 credit hours of required art courses and 15 credit hours of unrestricted art electives), the prescribed distribution of general education courses (48 credit hours), plus 5 credit hours of free electives at Shippensburg University. The total number of hours required for graduation would remain at 120. Junior option courses would be accepted for transfer upon receipt of an official transcript from the Art Institute (only . C. grades or above will transfer).

There is also a reciprocal agreement for graduates of an Art Institute. Any student from one of the Art Institutes who has successfully completed a two-year program in either visual communication, interior design, photography/multimedia, or computer animation/multimedia would be accepted into the baccalaureate degree program in art at Shippensburg University. Art Institute graduates would be accepted with 45 credit hours of transferred credits, with . C. grades or better, applicable toward the 120 credits required for graduation. These students would complete 19 credit hours of art (as determined by the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the art department chair) and 48 credit hours of general education course work as required for graduation and 8 credits of free electives.

A visiting student program has been established between Shippensburg University and the Fashion Institute of Technology of New York City, N.Y. This program offers art majors the opportunity to take courses at F.I.T. in order to supplement the art program at Shippensburg University without the necessity of a formal transfer. The areas in which art majors may apply are fashion design, advertising design, textile/surface design, and accessories design. The same policy of transfer credits applies as with the Art Institute previously stated.

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Art (B.A.)

Requirements for the Art Major (39 crs.)

The art major program for a B.A. in art consists of basic core courses plus a selected concentration which may be fine arts, history, or studio. All art majors are required to take the following courses:

Foundation Courses (12 crs.)
(Taken during first year of program)

ART101 Art Appreciation 3 crs.
ART110 Basic Drawing 3 crs.
ART215 Color and Two-Dimensional Design
(offered in fall only)		 3 crs.
ART218 Three-Dimensional Design
(offered in spring only)		 3 crs.
Additional required courses (12 crs.)
ART210 Drawing II 3 crs.
ART232 Art History II 3 crs.
ART233 Art History III 3 crs.
ART385 Art Seminar 3 crs.

All art majors also must elect five courses (15 crs.)
from the following list:

Art Electives (15 crs.)

ART211 Figure Drawing 3 crs.
ART217 Computer Design I 3 crs.
ART231 Art History I 3 crs.
ART280 Printmaking/Intaglio 3 crs.
ART281 Printmaking/Lithography 3 crs.
ART306 Computer Design II 3 crs.
ART309 Independent Studio 3 crs.
ART319 Computer Design III 3 crs.
ART321 Watercolor I 3 crs.
ART322 Watercolor II 3 crs.
ART326 Painting I 3 crs.
ART327 Painting II 3 crs.
ART339 History of American Art 3 crs.
ART340 Ceramics 3 crs.
ART341 Advanced Ceramics 3 crs.
ART352 Elective Crafts 3 crs.
ART355 Enameling 3 crs.
ART370 Sculpture 3 crs.
ART381 Advanced Printmaking I 3 crs.
ART382 Advanced Printmaking II 3 crs.
ART393 Selected Topics in Art 3 crs.
ART395 Internship in Art 3 crs.
ART399 Independent Study 3 crs.
ART425 Computer Design IV 3 crs.
ART490 Selected Topics in Art 3 crs.

Note:All students completing a Bachelor of Arts degree are required to attain intermediate level proficiency in a foreign language. Intermediate proficiency may be satisfied by the completion of six credits of intermediate level course work in a foreign language, or four years of a foreign language in high school, or satisfactory completion of a proficiency examination.

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Art Minor

21 crs.

Foundation Courses (12 crs.)

ART101 Art Appreciation
ART110 Basic Drawing
ART215 Color and Two-Dimensional Design
ART218 Three-Dimensional Design

Art History Elective (3 crs.)

ART231 Art History I
ART232 Art History II
ART233 Art History III
ART235 History of American Art

Art Electives (6 crs.)

ART210 Drawing II
ART211 Figure Drawing
ART217 Computer Design I
ART280 Printmaking/Intaglio
ART281 Printmaking/Lithography
ART306 Computer Design II
ART309 Independent Studio
ART319 Computer Design III
ART321 Watercolor I
ART322 Watercolor II
ART326 Painting I
ART327 Painting II
ART340 Ceramics
ART341 Advanced Ceramics
ART352 Elective Crafts
ART370 Sculpture
ART381 Advanced Printmaking I
ART382 Advanced Printmaking II
ART393 Selected Topics in Art
ART425 Computer Design IV
ART493 Selected Topics in Art

Note: All students completing a Bachelor of Arts degree are required to attain intermediate level proficiency in a foreign language. Intermediate proficiency may be satisfied by the completion of six credits of intermediate level course work in a foreign language, or four years of the same foreign language in high school, or satisfactory completion of a proficiency examination.

Art Minor – 21 crs.


Foundation Courses (12 crs.)
ART101 Art Appreciation
ART110 Basic Drawing
ART215 Color and Two-Dimensional Design
ART218 Three-Dimensional Design

Art History Elective (3 crs.)
ART231 Art History I
ART232 Art History II
ART233 Art History III
ART235 History of American Art

Art Electives (6 crs.)
ART210 Drawing II
ART211 Figure Drawing
ART217 Computer Design I
ART274 Introduction to Cultural Studio (required for elementary education art minors)
ART280 Printmaking/Intaglio
ART281 Printmaking/Lithography
ART306 Computer Design II
ART309 Independent Studio
ART319 Computer Design III
ART321 Watercolor I
ART322 Watercolor II
ART326 Painting I
ART327 Painting II
ART340 Ceramics
ART341 Advanced Ceramics
ART352 Elective Crafts
ART370 Sculpture
ART381 Advanced Printmaking I
ART382 Advanced Printmaking II
ART393 Selected Topics in Art
ART425 Computer Design IV
ART493 Selected Topics in Art

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