BFA Programs » Life Drawing
Life Drawing
The Life Drawing department offers a program in Life Drawing. Students who pursue this major work to perfect their traditional drawing techniques.
The courses in the Life Drawing program focus on intensive study of the figure in a variety of contexts. Students complete assignments which require them to render a representational figure, draw a figure in action, compose a figure within an environment, and compose multiple
figures in a narrative mode.
Students strive to develop an individualized style in their work and to produce a professional portfolio that exemplifies their creative vision.
BFA Sample Curriculum
| Semester 1 |
Life Drawing I
Fundamentals I |
| Semester 2 |
Life Drawing II
Fundamentals II |
| Semesters 1 & 2 |
Humanities and Sciences Department Requirements:
English Language Arts I: The Written Process; Anatomy;
Survey of Art History I; Life Skills and Health Issues |
| Semester 3 |
Intermediate Life Drawing I
Watercolor I or Painting I |
| Semester 4 |
Intermediate Life Drawing II
Watercolor I or Painting I |
| Semesters 3 & 4 |
Humanities and Sciences Department Requirements:
English Language Arts I: The Oral Process;
Survey of Art History II;
Vision, Light and Color; Quantitative Literacy |
| Semester 5 |
(one of three) Advanced Figure Drawing, Figure in Composition,
Drawing for Illustrators
Figurative Sculpture I |
| Semester 6 |
(one of three) Advanced Figure Drawing, Figure in Composition or
Drawing for Illustrators
Computer Graphics Foundations |
| Semesters 5 & 6 |
Humanities and
Sciences Department Requirements:
Creative Thinking; Art History: Rococo and Neo-classical or Art History: Renaissance and Baroque; Marketing; Film and Society |
| Semester 7 |
Advanced Drawing I
Studio Elective-200, 300 or 400 level |
| Semester 8 |
Advance Drawing II
Portfolio 400 |
| Semesters 7 & 8 |
Humanities and
Sciences Department Requirements:
Professional Writing; Film and Society:
World Cultures; Non-western Art;
Contemporary Visual Culture |
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