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DOCUMENTS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY
PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ART, ART HISTORY MAJOR IN THE COLLEGE
OF FINE ARTS SECTION OF THE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG, 2000-2002
Associate Dean Lita Guerra of the College of Fine Arts
filed with the secretary of the Faculty Council the proposal below to
make changes in the requirements for the degree of bachelor of arts, art
history major. The edited proposal was received from the Office of Official
Publications on November 22, 2000. The secretary has classified this proposal
as legislation of exclusive application and primary interest to a single
college or school.
If no objection is filed with the Office of the General
Faculty by the date specified below, the legislation will be held to have
been approved by the Faculty Council. If objection is filed within the
prescribed period, the legislation will be presented to the Faculty Council
at its next meeting. The objection, with reasons, must be signed by a
member of the Faculty Council.
To be counted, a protest must be received in the Office
of the General Faculty by December 8, 2000.
<signed>
John R. Durbin, Secretary
The Faculty Council
This legislation was posted on the Faculty Council web
site (http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/)
on November 28, 2000. Paper copies are available on request from the Office
of the General Faculty, FAC 22, F9500.
951
PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ART, ART HISTORY MAJOR IN THE COLLEGE
OF FINE ARTS SECTION OF THE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG, 2000-2002
| The following changes are proposed for requirements
given on page 211 of the College of Fine Arts section of The Undergraduate
Catalog, 2000-2002: |
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN
ART
ART HISTORY MAJOR
| 1. |
Basic education requirements: At least thirty-nine
semester hours as described on page 204. |
| 2. |
Additional basic education requirements: Eighteen
semester hours, consisting of
| A. |
Foreign language: Nine semester hours beyond
course 407 or 507 in one foreign language. |
| B. |
Social science: Six semester hours chosen from
the social sciences listed in the basic education requirements,
government, and history. |
| C. |
Fine arts and humanities: Three semester hours
in one of the following areas:
| 1. |
Architecture |
| 2. |
Classics, including classical civilization,
Greek, Latin (but excluding any courses in Latin or Greek
that are used to fulfill the language requirement) |
| 3. |
Music |
| 4. |
Philosophy |
| 5. |
Radio-television-film |
| 6. |
Theatre and dance |
| 7. |
Programs of special concentration, such
as women's studies and Latin American studies |
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| 3. |
Studio art: Six semester hours, consisting of Studio
Art 302K and 302L. |
| 4. |
Art history: [Twenty-seven] Thirty
semester hours, consisting of
| A. |
Art History 302 [and 303]. |
| B. |
Fifteen semester hours of upper-division art
history distributed among at least four of the following five
areas:
| 1. |
Ancient |
| 2. |
Medieval |
| 3. |
Renaissance and baroque |
| 4. |
Modern |
| 5. |
Pre-Columbian and native American, Asian,
Islamic, Oceanic, African |
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| C. |
Art History 375. |
[C]D. |
[Six] Nine additional
semester hours of art history. |
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| 5. |
Electives: [Thirty] Twenty-seven
semester hours chosen from courses either within or outside the Department
of Art and Art History. |
Total requirements for the degree: 120 semester hours
as outlined above.
Justification: The changes in the Bachelor of Arts
in Art, art history major are being proposed in order to strengthen the
program and to provide students with a stronger foundation in art history.
At the recommendation of the National Association of Schools of Art and
Design (NASAD), the number of required art history credit hours is being
increased from twenty-seven to thirty semester hours. This will be achieved
without changing the total number of required hours for the degree by
deleting Art History 303 (Survey of Renaissance through Modern Art) as
a requirement and by changing the number of elective courses from thirty
to twenty-seven semester hours. The content of Art History 303 is frequently
overlapped with that of certain upper-division courses and the students
may continue to choose it as an elective. Art History 375 (Art Historical
Methods) is being added as a required course. This introduction to theories
and methodological approaches of art history as a discipline, to historiography,
and to selected scholarly readings is critical as a foundation for all
fields of study.
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