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Crafts or Fine Arts - B.A. Program Requirements

  • Crafts Concentration
  • Fine Arts Concentration

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts:KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity and writing-intensive requirements.

I.
DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE  (1 credit)
Type Course Title Credits
  US 10097 Destination Kent State: First Year Experience 1
II.
MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (24 credits)  Courses count in major GPA 
Type Course Title Credits
  ARTF 14000 Drawing I 3
    14001 Drawing II 3
    14022 Two-Dimensional Composition 3
    14055 Sculpture I 3
    14060 Painting I 3
    24020 Digital Media 3
KFA ARTH 22006 Art History I: Ancient and Medieval Art 3
 KFA   22007 Art History II: Renaissance to Modern Art 3
III.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (48-55 credits)  
Type Title Credits
  Kent Core Additional (must be from two categories) 6
  Kent Core Basic Sciences (must include one laboratory) 6-7
  Kent Core Composition 6
  Kent Core Humanities
3
  Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning 3-5
  Kent Core Social Sciences (must be from two disciplines) 6
  General Electives (lower or upper-division) 18-25
IV.
CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (45-52 credits) 
  Crafts (45)
  Fine Arts (52)
MINIMUM TOTAL 
125

Crafts Concentration

For semester-by-semester course sequencing for this program, view the 2010-2011 Roadmap.

 I. CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (45 credits)  Courses count in major GPA
Type Course Title Credits
  ARTC 25300 Textile Arts: Pattern
3
    25400 Ceramics I
3
    25600 Glass I
3
    25700 Introduction to Jewelry/Metals
3
  ARTC

KBA
3/4xxxx

45080
Craft Art upper-division electives
or
Studio Experience in Crafts (1-6)*
18
  ARTx

KBA
xxxxx

44080
Art electives**
or
Studio Experience in Fine Arts (1-6)
12
  ARTH 3/4xxxx Art History upper-division elective
3
Total
45

One elective must be writing intensive, completed with minimum C (2.0) grade. Suggested course:
PHIL 41080 Philosophy and Art in the Modern Age (3)

*KBA 45080 may be used in the "12 credit hour art elective" category.

**Maximum 6 credit hours of the following travel-study courses may be applied toward the required 12 credit hours of art electives:

ARTC 45092 Field Experience Travel Study Crafts (1-3)
ARTF 44092 Field Experience Travel Study Fine Art (1-3)

These courses may not be applied toward the required 18 credit hours of upper-division ARTF electives. Students may apply these courses toward fulfilling general electives, with no maximum credit hours required.
 

 

Fine Arts Concentration

For semester-by-semester course sequencing for this program, view the 2010-2011 Roadmap.

 I. CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (52 credits)  Courses count in major GPA
Type Course Title Credits
  ARTF 24001 Drawing III
3
    24005 Sophomore Review: Fine Arts
1
    24010 Introduction to Fine Art Photography
3
    24040 Printmaking 3
    24055 Sculpture II
3
    24060 Painting II
3
  ARTF

KBA
4xxxx

44080
Upper-division Fine Art Elective
or
Studio Experience in Fine Arts (1-6)*
18
  ARTH 32066 Late Modern Art
3
  ARTx

KBA
xxxxx

45080
Art Elective**
or
Studio Experience in Crafts (1-6)
9
WIC PHIL 41080 Philosophy and Art in the Modern Age***
3
  Choose from the following: 3
  ARTF 34040 Printmaking: Intermediate Intaglio (3)  
    34041 Serigraphy I (3)  
    34421 Lithography (3)  
Total
52

*KBA 44080 may be used in the "12 credit hour art elective" category.

**Maximum 6 credit hours of the following travel-study courses may be applied toward the required 9 credit hours of art electives:
ARTC 45092 Field Experience Travel Study Crafts (1-3)
ARTF 44092 Field Experience Travel Study Fine Art (1-3)

***A minimum C (2.0) grade must be earned with to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.

These courses may not be applied toward the required 18 credit hours of upper-division ARTF electives. Students may apply these courses toward fulfilling general electives, with no maximum credit hours required.