Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

ART 1111 BFA Professional Practices

Professional Practices in the Arts is required of all Art majors to develop their writing skills, portfolio, artist statement, and gallery practices. Students will use critical thinking skills in comparing, evaluating, and making informed, aesthetic judgments on the exhibitions and express those judgments using appropriate nomenclature. Students will keep an organized digital portfolio of artifacts from history and studio courses. ART 1110 will be taken every semester as an art major.

Registration Name

BFA Professional Practices

Lecture Hours

0

Lab Hours

1

Credits

0-1

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Development in his or her personal aesthetic philosophy.
2. Ability to present work in a professional-quality digital portfolio.
3. Ability to write about works of art critically.
4. Development of his or her resume, CV, and other career-oriented writing skills.
5. Knowledge of gallery and museum practices.