BFA.PRINT.120 - BFA: Printmaking (120)
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2024 - 2025 | Curriculum | 4-year program
During sophomore year—your first as a Printmaking major—you discover the basic forms of printmaking like intaglio, lithography and silkscreen. Then as a junior in the BFA program, you continue to hone your conceptual, critical and technical skills through a number of Printmaking electives or studios in related disciplines such as Illustration, Textiles and Photography.
Degree Requirements
FIRST-YEAR | |||||
FALL | WINTERSESSION | SPRING | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
15 | Studio Elective | 3 | 15 | ||
SOPHOMORE | |||||
FALL | WINTERSESSION | SPRING | |||
PRINT 4650 - Relief Project I | 3 | Non-major Studio Elective and/or Liberal Arts | 3 | PRINT 4606 - Intaglio I | 3 |
PRINT 4608 - Lithography I | 3 | PRINT 4610 - Waterbase Silkscreen | 3 | ||
Major or Non-major Studio Elective | 3 | Major or Non-major Studio Elective | 3 | ||
Liberal Arts | 3 | Liberal Arts | 6 | ||
Total Credits | 12 | 3 | 15 | ||
JUNIOR | |||||
FALL | WINTERSESSION | SPRING | |||
PRINT 4648 - Junior Printmaking Workshop: Seminar/Critique | 3 | Non-major Studio Elective and/or Liberal Arts | 3 | PRINT 4623 - Junior Printmaking Workshop: Seminar/Critique | 3 |
PRINT 4523 - Printmaking & The Politics of Protest | 3 | Major or Non-major Studio Elective | 6 | ||
Liberal Arts | 6 | Liberal Arts | 6 | ||
Total Credits | 12 | 3 | 15 | ||
SENIOR | |||||
FALL | WINTERSESSION | SPRING | |||
PRINT 4651 - Senior Printmaking Workshop: Critique | 3 | Non-major Studio Elective and/or Liberal Arts | 3 | PRINT 4698 - Senior Printmaking Degree Project: Critique | 6 |
PRINT 4622 - Senior Printmaking Workshop: Seminar | 3 | Major or Non-major Studio Elective | 3 or 6 | ||
Major or Non-major Studio Elective | 3 or 6 | Liberal Arts | 3 | ||
Liberal Arts | 0 or 3 | ||||
Total Credits | 12 | 3 | 12 | ||
Total Credits: 120
Notes:
Although Non-major Studio Elective courses are listed for Wintersession, they may be taken during the Fall or Spring semester. Similarly, the Liberal Arts and Major Electives shown for Fall or Spring, may be taken during Wintersession, as scheduling and interest permit. Consult the Liberal Arts Office or the Registrar for additional information.
The Printmaking Department offers courses, basic and advanced, in intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, relief, papermaking, letterpress, bookbinding and painterly prints. Traditional and contemporary techniques are taught including photo and digital utilization. Students are instructed in each printmaking discipline to ensure that practical application is competent thorough, and that personal invention is carefully explored and developed.
The Senior year provides students the opportunity to develop an individual vocabulary more independently. The Senior year culminates in the formal presentation of a degree project.
Professional Internships are encouraged. The department has special relationships with Solo Impression, Crown Point Press, Graphic Studio, and Pyramid Atlantic among others. Students typically do internships during Wintersession or Summer.