All courses required for the B.A. in Art History may be taken on the Ambler campus. Prerequisite courses in Art and Art Education are offered for students who may transfer in the junior year to Tyler or to a college on the Main Campus.
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In the Ceramics area, equipment is available for wheel work, mold making, and slip casting projects, as well as large kilns for hand building and sculpture. Processes include: wood firing, raku, salt glazing, stoneware, and porcelain. The glass curriculum incorporates glass blowing, casting, fusing, and kiln work. Major requirements
CERAMIC MAJOR
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GLASS MAJOR
SOPHOMORE REQUIREMENTS:
The Fibers major covers weaving and fabric design in a curriculum based on printing, dye, and techniques and fiber structure. Once techniques are mastered, the program promotes experimentation and development of a personal direction.
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FIBERS AND FABRIC DESIGN MAJOR
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The program covers visual communication in advertising art, illustration, and typography. Included in the curriculum are courses dealing with computer graphics, animated film, offset lithography, publications, television graphics, environmental design, and packaging.
Major requirements
GRAPHIC DESIGN MAJOR
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This program stresses the use of traditional techniques and materials in relation to their historical significance while encouraging the use of new technologies in the advanced courses. Assignments focus on the design and creation of jewelry, non-functional forms, furniture, and tableware.
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JEWELRY AND METALS MAJOR
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This program offers a pattern of studio and seminar courses that fosters the development of pictorial concepts realized in the tangible form of painting and drawing. Visiting professional artists and critics are regularly scheduled to lecture and critique student work.
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PAINTING MAJOR
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In addition to traditional black and white and color photography, this program offers a variety of workshops focusing on temporal and cultural issues. The faculty stresses an experimental approach to picture-making, ranging from the handmade camera to production on a Heidelberg press.
Major requirements
PHOTOGRAPHY MAJOR
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This program offers courses in the basic printmaking areas of Serigraphy, Etching, and Lithography with advanced courses in color and photo-etching, photo-lithography, metal engraving, mezzotint, viscosity, color printing, woodcut, and light sensitive materials.
Major requirements
PRINTMAKING MAJOR
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The sculpture facility houses wood shops, metal fabrication equipment, plaster and model-making facilities, and an extensive foundry for casting bronze and aluminum. The initial emphasis is on the development of basic skills with tools and equipment. Advanced courses provide intensive studio experience and the dynamics of a critical dialogue.
Major requirements
SCULPTURE MAJOR
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Main Campus (Broad Street)
College of Arts and Sciences: B.A. with concentrations in Art and Art History; College of Education: B.S. in Ed., with major in Art Education; Graduate School, M.A. in Art History.
Ambler Campus
All courses required for the B.A. in Art History may be taken on the Ambler campus. Prerequisite courses in Art and Art Education are offered for students who may transfer in the junior year to Tyler or to a college on the Main Campus.
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