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Art
Elena Baskin Visual Arts Studios
Room E-104
(831) 459-2272
visart@ucsc.edu
http://art.ucsc.edu
Program Description
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Descriptions
The Art Department offers an integrated program of study
in theory and practice exploring the power of visual communication
for personal expression and public interaction. The department provides
students with the means to pursue this exploration through courses
that provide the practical skills for art production in a variety
of media within the contexts of critical thinking and broad-based
social perspectives.
The art program at UCSC is composed of courses in drawing, painting,
photography, sculpture, printmaking, intermedia, critical theory,
electronic art, and interactive technologies. The Art Department
is committed to pursuing a continuing dialogue about what constitutes
basic preparation in the arts while offering students experience
in established practices, new genres, and new technologies. Foundation
courses are open to all non-art students after priority enrollment.
Art and pre-art majors have enrollment priority in lower-
division studio courses until open enrollment, when restrictions
are lifted, allowing students with appropriate prerequisites to
enroll if space permits.
Students graduating with a major in art may become professional
artists or pursue careers in such diverse areas as arts management,
museum and gallery practices, communication technologies, public
school teaching, media arts, and publishing. Many students who want
to teach at the college level continue their education in graduate
school.
Baskin Visual Arts studios provide excellent facilities for drawing,
painting, installation, photography, casting and sculptural construction,
computers, and printmaking.
Students must declare the pre-art major in order to enroll
in introductory studio courses. Students should declare their pre-art
major early in their freshman year to insure their ability to enroll
in studio courses, but may declare in their sophomore year also.
Juniors cannot declare pre-art. Deadlines for pre-art declaration
are the same as those established by the Office of the Registrar
for filing the Proposed Study Plan and Declaration of Major/ Minor
petition. Please note that students who have declared the pre-art
major still need to follow the procedure for acceptance to the full
major; a student may not graduate as a pre-art major.
Students may apply for admission to the major after completing
at least three lower-division studio courses (not foundation courses)
with a grade of B or better. If one of these classes is graded B-
or lower, the student must take another lower-division studio course
and receive a B to be eligible to declare art. While completing
this lower-division course work, it is critical that each student
meet with a faculty adviser regarding the student’s potential to
proceed to the major level.
Junior transfer students are accepted into the art major
for fall quarter after passing a portfolio review in April. Their
acceptance is contingent upon their acceptance to UCSC. Transfer
students must identify themselves as potential art majors when applying
to the university in order to receive information on the portfolio
review deadlines and the materials required for the review. All
junior transfers will be required to take Art 60, Forms and Ideas,
and one art seminar in their junior year at UCSC in lieu
of the foundation program requirements.
The minimum requirements for the art major are completion
of eight lower-division and nine upper-division courses and satisfaction
of the senior comprehensive requirement.
Students plan their course of study in consultation with a faculty
adviser by choosing an area of concentration.
Lower-Division Requirements
Students complete eight courses as follows:
• The foundation series:
10G 2-D Foundation
10H 3-D Foundation
80C Introduction to Visual Arts
• Three courses from the following list (with a grade of B or
better):
20 Introduction to Drawing for the Major
21 Introduction to Computer Art
22 Introduction to Electronics for Intermedia
23 Intermedia I
24 Introduction to Painting: Oil
26 Introduction to Printmaking
28 Figurative Sculpture
30 Introduction to Photography for Art Majors
40 Sculpture I
• Two courses from the history of art and visual culture 10-series,
one with a Western focus and one with a non-Western focus; students
may substitute upper-division history of art and visual culture
classes for this requirement.
The following is a recommended academic plan for students
to complete during their first two years as preparation for the
art major.
Year Fall Winter Spring
1st Art 80C Art 10H Art 10G
(frsh) low-div studio low-div studio
2nd low-div studio Havc 10*
(soph) Havc 10*
Students complete nine courses as follows:
• five upper-division studio courses in the area of focus;
• 10 credits of senior studio courses or equivalent
senior-level work in the area of focus;
• two upper-division nonstudio courses from history of art and
visual culture, film and digital media theory, or art critical theory
seminars. Students may choose two upper-division courses from another
department relevant to the area of focus in consultation with a
faculty adviser.
The last three quarters of course work for the major must be completed
in residence at UCSC.
Senior majors should meet with their faculty adviser about
this requirement. Students may satisfy the comprehensive requirement
with one of the following two options:
1. completing 10 credits of senior studio course work in the area
of focus;
2. completing 10 credits of upper-division studio course work
in the area of focus; and
a. presenting an exhibition and, by appointment, meeting with
a faculty member for review and critique of the exhibition; or
b. submitting a portfolio and, by appointment, meeting with a
faculty member for review and critique of the portfolio.
The UC Education Abroad Program (EAP) offers students
the opportunity for study abroad. Art majors may participate in
EAP in their junior year. Pre-art majors are not approved to study
abroad. Art students may not go abroad in their senior year, as
the last three quarters of course work must be in residence at UCSC.
Art students should be aware of the materials fee required
for some studio courses. The fee is billed to the student’s account
for specific course materials purchased by the Art Department through
the university. Fees generally range from $30 to $125 per course.
Students may incur additional expense purchasing individual supplies.
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