Bachelor of Fine Arts or Bachelor of Arts (Art)
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About the Art Program
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As an art student you'll investigate the roots of your own experience and increase your potential to `see' the world. You begin with an all-encompassing visual foundations course, where you experience how art connects us with the world by exploring familiar things in new ways. The University of Lethbridge enables you to explore a wide range of artistic media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photo-arts, printmaking, and audio and video recording/editing as well as interesting courses in art history. |
The B.A. and B.F.A. programs share a similar core of required courses; however, the B.A. is a general program whereas the B.F.A. offers an in-depth study that immerses you in art history, theory, material, and process. The B.A. requires a minimum of 13 art courses and the B.F.A. requires 25-27 art courses. Either degree can serve as a foundation for a combined degree in art education, a particular strength of the University of Lethbridge.
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Students in the B.F.A. (Art) program may choose from one of two majors: Art Studio major or Art History/Museum Studies major. Within a liberal education context, the programs provide the opportunity for intensive instruction in studio production and in art history and museum studies, and for engagement with theoretical and historical discourses related to contemporary art.
Art Studio courses combine traditional and emerging media, such as drawing, painting, sculpture, computer-based art, audio art, photography, video, printmaking, installation and performance art. Spacious and well-equipped facilities permit students to undertake projects in an environment of expert technical support, creative guidance, and critical dialogue. Foundation courses provide an introduction to a diversity of materials and ideas that are expanded upon in upper level courses. Senior students are allocated individual studio spaces facilitating independent art production at an advanced level.
The Art History/Museum Studies program concentrates primarily on nineteenth to twenty-first century European and North American and First Nations Art History. This degree program is unique in Canada with its combination of history, theory, and hands-on museum experience at the undergraduate level. Students intern in regional public art galleries and museums and gain valuable, career-specific skills in the context of the University's renowned teaching collection of over 13,000 objects.