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Catalog 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice, BFA
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Program Description
For students who want to create a foundation for a career in the arts, the art faculty highly recommend the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), a professional art degree program. In their final spring semester, BFA students do independent studio work in painting and drawing, ceramics, or sculpture.
Entrance Requirements
Students who are currently enrolled in a BA Art program who are interested in the BFA program should apply for admission to the program in the middle of the junior year or the beginning of the senior year and submit a portfolio of previous course work. Admission to the BFA Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice program is based on the application proposal, portfolio, and a GPA of 3.0 in prior art courses. Applications are available from the Art Department administrator. Continued participation in the program requires a 3.0 GPA or higher in art courses.
BFA Art Program Learning Outcomes
Upon successfully completing the BFA in Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate alertness, receptivity, and engagement
- Create works for art that demonstrate self-reliance and resourcefulness in integrating materials, process, effective technique, form, and content.
- Develop ideas with a distinct point of view (perception of the world.)
- Effectively apply the formal language of art to communicate visually.
- Create a cohesive body of artwork, sufficient to sustain a studio practice and/or to apply for graduate study.
- Research and write effectively about art, using relevant artworks as sources of inspiration, articulating how they relate to aesthetic values, the cultural context, and to consciousness.
- Write and speak clearly and authentically about their own art and practice.
Graduation Requirements
Graduation and course requirements vary by previous academic experience:
- Course requirements for new undergraduate students who have not earned a bachelor’s degree
- Course requirements for MIU BA Art or Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice graduates
- Course requirements for students who have earned a degree equivalent to MIU’s BA Art at an accredited institution
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BFA in Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice for Miu Ba Art Graduates
To graduate with a BFA Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice, students who have earned a BA in Art or Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice from MIU must successfully complete 40 credits, including 36 required Art credits and one Forest Academy course in each semester in which a student is enrolled for 12 weeks or more. Art History Courses (Choose 4 credits)
Choose 1: Studio Arts Courses (Choose 12 credits3)
BA Art Electives (Choose 12 credits)
- Any Art (FA) courses Credits: variable
Senior Studio | Final Semester (repeated 4 times/total 16 credits)
Forest Academy Requirement
- Any Forest Academy course Credits: 2
- Any Forest Academy course Credits: 2
Total Credits Required 40
3 Students may choose to repeat 4-credit studio art courses to meet the 12-credit requirement. BFA in Art, Consciousnes, and Creative Practice for Students with a NON-MIU Ba in Art
To graduate with a BFA Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice, students who have earned a bachelor’s degree in art from another accredited institution must successfully complete 42 credits of study including the Exploring Consciousness course required for all undergraduate students and one Forest Academy course in 2nd semester of the program. Required Undergraduate Courses (4 credits)
Art History Courses (Choose 4 credits)
Choose 1: BA Art Electives (Choose 12 credits)
- Any Art (FA) courses Credits: variable
Senior Studio | Final Semester (repeated 4 times/total 16 credits)
Forest Academy Course (2nd semester)
- Any Forest Academy course Credits: 2
Total Credits Required 42
*Completing STC 108 Exploring Consciousness fulfills the Forest Academy requirement for the semester in which the course is completed. BFA Art, Consciousness. And Creative Practice for New Undergraduate Students
To graduate with a BFA Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice, new undergraduate students who have not earned a prior bachelor’s degree in art must successfully complete 128 credits of study, including the initial Exploring Consciousness course required for all undergraduate students, 8 credits of Writing for Career and Community courses, one Forest Academy course in each semester in which the student is enrolled for 12 weeks or more, and 80 credits of coursework listed below. Required Undergraduate Courses (12 credits)
BFA Art Core Courses (complete both courses + repeat one for total 12 credits)
Art History Courses (Choose 8 credits)
Studio Arts Courses (Choose 16 credits; any course may be repeated for credit)
BFA Art Electives (Choose 24 credits)
- Any Art (FA) courses Credits: variable
- Any Cinematic Arts and New Media (CANM) courses Credits: variable 8 credits maximum with advisor consent
Senior Studio | Final Semester (repeated 4 times/total 16 credits)
Forest Academy Requirement
- Any Forest Academy course Credits: variable
Open Electives
- Any elective courses Credits: variable
Total Credits Required 128
1 The WTG 191 requirement may be fulfilled with approved transfer credit from a prior institution or waived by examination. 2 The WTG 192 requirement may be fulfilled with approved transfer credit from a prior institution. *Completing STC 108 Exploring Consciousness fulfills the Forest Academy requirement for the semester in which the course is completed. |
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