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DOCUMENTS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY
PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN STUDIO ART IN THE
THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS CHAPTER OF
THE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG 2006-2008
Dean Robert Freeman of the College of Fine Arts has
filed with the secretary of the Faculty Council the following changes
to the requirements for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art in the
College of Fine Arts of the Undergraduate Catalog, 2006-2008. The
faculty of the school approved the proposed changes on October 10,
2005. The dean approved the proposed changes on October 19, 2005, and
submitted the changes to the secretary on October 21, 2005. The secretary
has classified this proposal as legislation of exclusive application
and primary interest to a single college or school.
The edited proposal was received from the Office of Official Publications on
January 19, 2006, and was sent to the Committee on Undergraduate Degree Program
Review from the Office of the General Faculty on January 23, 2006. The committee
forwarded the proposed changes to the Office of the General Faculty on February
20, 2006, recommending approval. The authority to grant final approval on behalf
of the General Faculty resides with the Faculty Council.
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 noon on March 3, 2006.
< signed>
Sue Alexander Greninger, Secretary
The Faculty Council
This legislation was posted on the Faculty Council Web site ( http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/)
on February 24, 2006. Paper copies are available on request from the Office
of the General Faculty, WMB 2.102, F9500.
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PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN STUDIO ART IN THE
THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS CHAPTER OF
THE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG 2006-2008
| On page 217, under the heading DEGREES, in the REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS section in
the College of Fine Arts chapter of the Undergraduate Catalog,
2004-2006,
make the following changes: |
STUDIO ART MAJOR
| 1. |
Basic education requirements: At least thirty-nine semester hours as
described on page 216.
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| 2. |
Studio art: Sixty semester hours, consisting of
| A. |
Studio Art 303K, 303L, 304K, and 304L.
|
| B. |
[Fifteen] Twelve semester hours [distributed among
at least three of the following areas, with no more than six hours
in any one area:], consisting of three hours
from each of the following four areas:
| 1. |
Area A: drawing, life drawing[, painting, two-dimensional
design]
|
| 2. |
Area B: painting, printmaking[, photography, transmedia
art]
|
| 3. |
Area C: [sculpture, ceramics, metals] photography, transmedia
|
| 4. |
Area D: [visual communications (including communication
design and typography and production)] ceramics, metals, sculpture |
|
| C. |
[Thirty-three] Thirty-six additional semester hours of studio art, of which at
least twenty-four hours must be upper-division.
|
|
| 3. |
Art history: Twelve semester hours, consisting of Art History 302, 304, and six
semester hours of upper-division art history.
|
| 4. |
Electives: Nine 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.
RATIONALE:
To address that fact that "ART" prefix commercial art courses that
once satisfied the Area D requirement no longer exist, thus by default, Area
D has been defunct since 1993—this area either needs to be dropped or utilized;
To exercise preference to utilize Area D instead of deleting it all together;
To structurally support healthy course enrollments across all areas of the studio
art curriculum by redistributing some of the studio areas according to media
and number of beginning level classes available to satisfy the four area requirements;
To address the concern that many faculty have about the loss of a second course
of drawing in foundations for all art majors since we added a time-based foundations
course.
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