{"id":5353,"date":"2025-09-20T19:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/?post_type=bu-program-page&#038;p=5353"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:38:37","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"bu-program-page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/degree-program\/venice-studio-arts-graphic-design\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Studio Arts: Graphic Design Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"toc-wrapper\" id=\"toc\" aria-label=\"Page Section Navigation\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"toc-heading toc-nav-toggle\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle Page Contents Navigation\" aria-expanded=\"true\">Page Contents<\/span><\/nav>\n\n\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/wp-content\/plugins\/bu-front-end-library\/js\/collapsible.js?ver=5.4.2\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All students take introductory Italian, the required studio course, and two elective courses. Upon successful completion of the program, students earn 16 units. Courses are held at the BU Venice center. In addition to regular class meetings, students have access to studios at the Venice center during normal building hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Required Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students must enroll in introductory Italian, and the following studio course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Required Language Course:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS LI 111<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">First-Semester Italian<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p><em>Required for students without prior Italian language study.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Students with prior Italian language experience may select a third elective course.<\/p>\n<p>This course for beginners offers intensive listening, oral, and written practice of Italian. Reading comprehension is also included.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual in Community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Studio Courses:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CFA AR 381<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Junior Graphic Design<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p><em>Prerequisite: CFA AR 225 &amp; 226.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Junior-level graphic design studio focuses on editorial graphics and design. The course teaches students the technical foundations for transforming an idea into an editorial object, focusing on the magazine, the newspaper, and the book. Students also learn the essential elements necessary to creating logos, including how to create the final image, the visual material, the use of words to describe the product, and the realization.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Research and Information Literacy<\/li>\n<li>Teamwork\/Collaboration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CFA AR 487<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Typography<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p><em>This course must be taken together with CFA AR 381.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>Elective Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students choose two courses from this list. Electives are open to all students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS AH 354<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Image and Word in Venetian Renaissance Art<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>Students explore in-class and on-site XIV to XVI century Venetian Renaissance art, the relation between Renaissance art and Venice, the political structure of the Serenissima and the architectural program of Palazzo Ducale, trades routes and the artistic production in Venice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\n<li>Writing Intensive course<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CFA AR 501<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Drawing Venice<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>Drawing Venice is a course in which students experiment with drawing as a way to translate their own experience as travelers. By engaging in the sketching process and selecting subjects of the city of Venice, students will develop a drawing narrative that include specific content including personal thoughts and emotions. Students will expand their technical skills by both drawing in class and on-site, through targeted exercises and creative and innovative projects. On-site practice, discussions and critiques allow the student to directly experience and instinctively reinterpret Venice in a set time, immersed in historical places, in museums and art galleries, in artist studios and artisan workshops of the city.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\n<li>Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li>\n<li>Creativity\/Innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CFA AR 447\/448<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Printmaking (Intaglio and lithography)<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>The course means to push the horizon of what it means when talking about print media in the age of digital dominance and provide students with a setting to articulate their artistic vision.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the course is to produce a \u201cCartella d\u2019Arte&#8221; (an art folder, for a limited art edition).<\/p>\n<p>Available only to students who have studied Italian and who have room for an elective course.<\/p>\n<p>Limited class size.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Creativity\/Innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curriculum All students take introductory Italian, the required studio course, and two elective courses. 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