康奈爾大學

This curriculum will combine the intensive studio culture of the art department with enhanced access to electives in all areas of the university. By focusing on interdisciplinary relationships, the department aims to produce a community of artists who will participate in the world as artistic and intellectual leaders.

The program allows the student to map a highly individualized curriculum with the goal of evolving a mature artistic practice at the earliest possible stage.

The two academic components of B.F.A. program consist of the art-specific component taught within the department (64 credits) and the elective component drawn from the university at large (56 credits). The art component consists of seminars and core studio courses in:

• Digital media
• Drawing
• Painting
• Photography
• Print media
• Sculpture
• And a wide range of special topics.

The elective component comprises art history requirements and First-Year Writing Seminars plus a full range of elective classes selected by the student with an advisor's input. This latter component offers students a truly unique degree of freedom in integrating ideas, interests, and skills into an artistic practice that is critically, intellectually, and materially advanced.

Curriculum

Within the departmental curriculum, the first three semesters provide six introductory, medium-specific studio classes (drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, print media, and digital media) along with an intensive art seminar.

Following this, students select from advanced studios in which medium specificity accommodates and encourages developing student material and intellectual interests. In the second and third years, students may apply for semester programs at both AAP NYC and Cornell in Rome, which combine studio classes with seminars, studio visits, field trips, and internship possibilities aimed at providing added exposure to professional and global art worlds. All three campuses run robust visiting artist lecture series.

Upon return to Ithaca, the final three semesters focus on studios and seminar work based on strengthening self-directed practice while preparing for a thesis project.