Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular term. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• CFA AR 816: Visual Narrative Professional Development Seminar
  Throughout this course students will develop a portfolio and learn about professional practice and development in a range of related fields. The Professional Development Seminar helps students complete proposals for work in the fourth semester Visual Narrative Thesis Studio.
• CFA AR 817: Visual Narrative Thesis Seminar
  This course emphasizes the final development and completion of the thesis to be presented at the end of the second year of graduate study. The thesis is comprised of original written and visual work that integrates drawing, narrative, sequence and theoretical and/or arts-based research.
• CFA AR 821: Graduate Sculpture 1
  Concentration on the development of a personal mode of sculptural expression. Students will work on an individual body of work and research materials and their practical application.
• CFA AR 822: Graduate Sculpture 1
  A continuation of CFA AR821. Concentration on the development of a personal mode of sculptural expression. Students will work on an individual body of work and research materials and their practical application.
• CFA AR 823: Graduate Sculpture 2
  Further concentration on developing a personal direction in sculpture. Students will work to prepare an individual body of work in preparation for the thesis exhibition at the end of the year.
• CFA AR 824: Graduate Sculpture 2
  A continuation of CFA AR823. Further concentration on developing a personal direction in sculpture. Students will work to prepare an individual body of work in preparation for the thesis exhibition at the end of the year.
• CFA AR 834: Print Media & Photo Special Topics Seminar 1
  Semesters of Special Topics Seminar courses are required courses for graduate students in the Print Media & Photography MFA program. These courses will be taught on a rotating basis by graduate faculty in the School of Visual Arts. The topics will vary depending upon the faculty member's area of expertise, but will at all times be applicable to printmaking and photography history and practice. Relevant historical and contemporary readings, exhibitions, and artists will be discussed throughout all of the seminars and will be structured around a range of topics, including mechanical reproduction and perception. Students will be required to regularly participate in class discussions, oral/multimedia presentations, visits to area archives, museums, artists' studios and lectures.
• CFA AR 835: Print Media & Photo Special Topics Seminars 2
  Semesters of Special Topics Seminar courses are required courses for graduate students in the Print Media & Photography MFA program. These courses will be taught on a rotating basis by graduate faculty in the School of Visual Arts. The topics will vary depending upon the faculty member's area of expertise, but will at all times be applicable to printmaking and photography history and practice. Relevant historical and contemporary readings, exhibitions, and artists will be discussed throughout all of the seminars and will be structured around a range of topics, including mechanical reproduction and perception. Students will be required to regularly participate in class discussions, oral/multimedia presentations, visits to area archives, museums, artists' studios and lectures.
• CFA AR 836: Print Media & Photo Special Topics Seminars 3
  Semesters of Special Topics Seminar courses are required courses for graduate students in the Print Media & Photography MFA program. These courses will be taught on a rotating basis by graduate faculty in the School of Visual Arts. The topics will vary depending upon the faculty member's area of expertise, but will at all times be applicable to printmaking and photography history and practice. Relevant historical and contemporary readings, exhibitions, and artists will be discussed throughout all of the seminars and will be structured around a range of topics, including mechanical reproduction and perception. Students will be required to regularly participate in class discussions, oral/multimedia presentations, visits to area archives, museums, artists' studios and lectures.
• CFA AR 837: Print Media & Photo Thesis Seminar 2
  The Thesis seminar is taken in the final Spring semester and builds on the work in the previous Special Topics seminars. In the Thesis Seminar, work is dedicated to thesis preparation and writing.
• CFA AR 838: Professional Practice in Print Media and Photography 1
  Graduate level course that addresses the practical needs of the emerging artist as they prepare to enter the professional world. The course includes collaboration and partnering for projects that reach beyond SVA with institutions like the Photographic Resource Center, the Thurman Center and galleries, international professional study abroad, and other professional experiences. This course includes readings on art criticism and sustaining a creative life, as well as research into contemporary artists and art trends that will augment a graduate student's own studio practice. Topics will include: defining professional goals both within the studio and beyond, artist statements, resumes, biographies, documenting work, exhibitions, art world professionals (i.e. curators, directors, writers, etc.), and community building.
• CFA AR 841: Graduate Painting 1
  Intensified professional study; emphasis on an original contemporary statement; picture structure and interpretation of concepts, forms, and symbols in today's art.
• CFA AR 842: Graduate Painting 1
  A continuation of CFA AR841. Intensified professional study; emphasis on an original contemporary statement; picture structure and interpretation of concepts, forms, and symbols in today's art.
• CFA AR 843: Seminar and Discussion 1
  Planning, execution, and discussion of comprehensive original projects in various media and techniques; contemporary trends in art and their relation to the art of the past; problems of teaching painting. Students submit original work on completion of course.
• CFA AR 844: Seminar and Discussion 1
  Planning, execution, and discussion of comprehensive original projects in various media and techniques; contemporary trends in art and their relation to the art of the past; problems of teaching painting. Students submit original work on completion of course. 2 cr, each semester.
• CFA AR 845: Painting Seminar and Discussion 2
  Prereq: CFA AR 843, 844. Discussion and execution of original projects; various aesthetic problems concerning the contemporary artist. 2 cr, each semester.
• CFA AR 846: Painting Seminar and Discussion 2
  Discussion and execution of original projects; various aesthetic problems concerning the contemporary artist. 2 cr, each semester.
• CFA AR 847: Graduate Painting 2
  Continuation of Graduate Painting 1; emphasizes the work to be presented as the student's exhibit thesis. This group of paintings is developed in individual consultation with the graduate faculty and is presented in a major exhibit at the end of the second year of graduate study.
• CFA AR 848: Graduate Painting 2
  Continuation of Graduate Painting 1; emphasizes the work to be presented as the student's exhibit thesis. This group of paintings is developed in individual consultation with the graduate faculty and is presented in a major exhibit at the end of the second year of graduate study. 3 cr, each semester.
• CFA AR 855: Special Topics: Visual Art
  This course description is currently under construction.