Printmaking
Undergraduate degrees offered: BA

Practical and conceptual introduction to contemporary printmaking as a mode of artistic
expression and a guided development of a student's ability toward a personal expression.
Studio facilities enable students to make intaglios, lithographs, relief prints, and
screen prints, and to learn photographic printmaking processes and hand paper making.
Basic Requirements
A total of 46 credits are required, including 14 art core credits consisting of Basic
Drawing I & II, 2D & 3D Design, History of Art & Architecture I & II. Students are
also required to take two beginning studios in their sophomore year, preferably one
in a 2D and one in a 3D discipline. It is recommended that art majors take Aesthetics
as an elective and seek appropriate electives in other departments. During the student’s
junior and senior years they will concentrate on their chosen discipline. Seniors
will also participate in two semesters of Senior Seminar (one credit per semester).
Satisfactory completion of the Senior Exhibition and the Art History Comprehensive
Examination is required.
Comprehensive Examination
In the second semester of the junior year the work of the student is reviewed by the
entire art faculty. A second review occurs in the first senior semester, followed
by a final review in the last semester prior to the presentation of the senior capstone
project, a solo exhibition held on campus. It must contain work completed predominantly
during the Senior Studio course. The exhibition--selected, designed and constructed
by the student--is judged by the faculty in an oral examination. In the senior year
all art majors must also pass an art history comprehensive exam.
Area of Printmaking course sequence following the Art Core
YEAR III
Fall Classes |
Hours |
Spring Classes |
Hours |
Art 3323, Intermediate Printmaking I |
3 |
Art 3324, Intermediate Printmaking II |
3 |
Art 3329, Intermediate Drawing |
3 |
Beginning Studio |
3 |
Art 5398, Modern Art |
3 |
Art 5399, Contemporary Art |
3 |
Philosophy 3332 Aesthetics |
3 |
History 1312 |
3 |
Math |
3 |
Physical Science + Lab |
4 |
Total Credits |
15 |
Total Credits |
16 |
YEAR IV
Fall Classes |
Hours |
Spring Classes |
Hours |
Art 4349, Senior Printmaking |
3 |
Art 4350, Senior Printmaking |
3 |
Art 4151, Senior Seminar |
1 |
Art 4152, Senior Seminar |
1 |
Art 5V59, Advanced Drawing |
3 |
Advanced Art Elective |
3 |
Life Science + Lab |
4 |
Philosophy 3311 |
3 |
History 1311 |
3 |
Politics 1311 |
3 |
Elective |
3 |
Advanced Elective |
3 |
Total Credits |
17 |
Total Credits |
16 |