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Applied Design and Visual Arts
New! Earn a BFA at UHCL!
- Gain a competitive edge
- Develop a career-ready portfolio!
- Enhance your credentials!
The Bachelor of Fine Arts is the highest undergraduate degree a student can achieve in Visual Production. It is highly valued in the marketplace and carries greater prestige and professionalism than does a standard BA. The BFA affords students stronger visual and cognitive problem-solving skills. Students concentrating in Graphics and Media will have a more competitive edge, those concentrating in traditional media will have a stronger portfolio, and others continuing on to higher degrees will have stronger credentials.
You can choose from a wide variety of courses in studio art, art history, art education, and graphic communication. Studio art instruction is given in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, weaving, crafts, and photography. There is a broad range of instruction in art history and art education. The latter includes an option leading to elementary or secondary teacher certification in art. The Art School for Children and Young Adults-UHCL provides students with a laboratory for observation, teaching, and research in art education. Students in graphic communication learn to handle the dynamics of computer technologies.
Specific specialties and their features follow:
- Art Education.: Preparation for teaching children's art in public and private schools is offered. Model classroom and curricula are available. A practicum course provides observation and teaching of specific curricula in a model classroom through The Art School for children and Young Adults.
- Art History: Surveys of Western art and specialized courses in Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionist, Modern, Contemporary, and Asian art. Explore language, form, and meaning in visual culture with an emphasis on understanding and interpreting art, interdisciplinarity, and creative individuality. Visits are made to Houston area museums.
- Ceramic Arts: well-equipped, spacious studios for graduate and undergraduate students are available. Instruction is given in potter's wheel, handbuilding and ceramic sculpture, glaze technology, and firing procedures for Raku. Student participation in competitions and exhibitions is encouraged.
- Crafts: introductory course which explores two- and three-dimensional art forms or crafts with emphasis on design, technique, and history. Well-equipped studio space allows for work with fibers, papermaking, clay, and assemblage.
- Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking: instruction is offered in creative and experimental painting, drawing techniques, and printmaking, as well as drawing/Photoshop, and collage.
- Sculpture: instruction is given in various three-dimensional materials and techniques, including welding, casting, and wood construction.
Two of the arts faculty have been Fulbright Fellows at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia, where UHCL has a faculty-student exchange agreement. Internationally known artists-in-residence also visit the campus and provide an opportunity for faculty/student interaction. Other faculty have active agendas in art history research and in graphic design.
Creative and intellectually stimulating courses in Applied Design and Visual Arts prepare majors for graduate studies in studio art, graduate programs in art history, careers as art teachers in Texas public and private schools, and professional careers as graphic designers and computer artists. The program also seeks to offer students a means of achieving personal growth and enrichment through the study of art.
Students may participate in a visual arts club that has a faculty advisor.
Degrees:
- Undergraduate Degree - BFA in Applied Design and Visual Arts
- Graduate Degree - MA degree in Humanities (Images Track)
For more information, contact Professor Nick deVries at
devries@uhcl.edu or (281) 283-3377.
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