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Studio Art Major
Studio courses are designed to provide students
with a rigorous and stimulating foundation in visual language and
thinking. Courses emphasize the development of perception and visual
acuity, cognitive skills, a sense of aesthetics, and facility in
manipulating a variety of artistic approaches and media. The
curriculum prepares students to go on to graduate school in studio
or other fields such as education, art therapy, graphic design or
medical illustration.
Students majoring in studio art must complete
eight studio courses, two upper-level art history courses, and one
foreign language course at the second semester elementary-level or
higher, for a total of 11 courses and 44 semester hours.
Requirements for the studio major include two drawing courses; three
painting courses; Anatomy For the Artist and Figure Drawing;
Introduction to Photography; Modern Art History; either Introduction
to Figure Sculpture, Introduction to Printmaking, or Ways of Seeing;
and one other upper-level art history course. The degree awarded is
the Bachelor of Arts.
The Scientific Illustration Track with
Biological Science Emphasis and the Scientific Illustration Track
with Physical Science Emphasis are two programs which enable the
student to combine art major requirements and specific science
courses. These programs fulfill admission requirements for graduate
school programs in medical and scientific illustration. The degree
awarded is the Bachelor of Arts.
Art History Major
The art history major provides students with an
intellectual, aesthetic, and historical foundation for the study of
all visual arts, including architecture, sculpture, painting,
photography, and nascent media. The courses which make up the art
history major have been designed to be integrally related to the
liberal arts experience, complementing other courses and majors
which are already offered at Oglethorpe by providing comparative
historical, cultural, and philosophical reference points, while at
the same time functioning as a rigorous, free-standing discipline.
The curriculum prepares students to go on to graduate school in art
history and for careers such as museum work, education, and art
consulting.
Students majoring in art history must complete
a minimum of eight art history courses (one of which must be Modern
Art History), two studio courses (in any two different media), and
one foreign language course at the second semester elementary-level or higher, for a total of 11
courses and 44 semester hours. All art history courses have COR 104
Art and Culture as a prerequisite. The degree awarded is the
Bachelor of Arts.
As part of the requirement for the art history major, a maximum
of two courses from the list of electives may be taken. Other
courses may be added to the elective list at the discretion of the Art
Department.
CRS 101 Theories of
Communication and Rhetoric
CRS 390 Special Topics in Communication and Rhetoric Studies: Media,
Culture and Society*
CRS 390 Special Topics in Communication and Rhetoric Studies:
Documentary Filmmaking
CRS 390 Special Topics in Communication and Rhetoric Studies: Video
Production
ENG 101 Ancient Literature
ENG 102 Medieval and Renaissance Literature
HIS 201 Ancient Greece
HIS 301 History of Christianity
INT 301 Special Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies: Sex and Gender
in Cinema
INT 301 Special Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies: Art of the Film
I, II
PHI 301 Philosophy of Art (Aesthetics)
SOC 305 Film and Society
WGS 301 Introduction to Women’s Studies – Theory
WGS 302 Introduction to Women’s Studies – History
Two semesters of foreign language (in addition to the foreign
language requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree)
* contingent on these Special Topics courses
being offered again.
Minor
For a minor in art, students may have a
concentration in studio or art history. For both areas of
concentration students must complete a total of five courses or 20
semester hours. Students with a concentration in studio must take
four studio courses and one upper-level art history course. Students
may take up to three of these studio courses in one discipline (for
example, photography, drawing, painting, etc.) or in four different
disciplines. At least two of these studio courses must be in
separate disciplines.
For a concentration in art history, students must take four
upper-level art history courses and one studio course.
Course Descriptions
Guidelines to Art History
Course Rotations
Art History Projected
Course Schedules
Studio Art Projected
Course Schedules
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