工作室艺术学学士-美术（绘画）

通识教育课程使人们可以对过去，现在和未来有一种自我和艺术观。通识教育可以让艺术家广泛地了解和理解艺术家必须发挥作用的世界。在所有专业中，都必须具备出色的书面和口头交流能力以及扎实的哲学和道德判断力，以及文学，数学和社会科学方面的常识。一所通识教育课程可以培养批判性的阅读，研究和写作技能，从而在学术研究和创造性活动之间达到最佳平衡。
The concentration in Drawing (FADP) provides students with the fundamental skills needed for communicating visual ideas and images on a two dimensional surface. These skills are the necessary foundation for all visual art practice. In Drawing I, a general foundation course, students learn to analyze the subject of the drawing to its basic formal components. The visual information is then organized in order to build the drawing in a logical sequence from its core abstraction to its most particular details. The course includes an in depth study of linear perspective and light logic, the study of how light falls on surfaces. These tools make it possible to create convincing volumes, light effects, and spatial environments. Over the course of the semester students explore different mark making techniques, different materials, and a wide variety of subject matter. Personal expression and visual problem solving is emphasized, students are encouraged to be attentive to the development of their own distinctive mark making and approaches to drawing.<br><br>As part of the general foundation, drawing skills are further developed and honed in Drawing II, a beginning figure drawing course. The principles and methods of observation, analysis and synthesis are applied to perhaps the most demanding subject of all, the human figure. Working each class session from the live model, students learn to analyze the movement of the figure and to interpret the figure as a sequence of three-dimensional solids in space. The study of anatomy leads to a deeper understanding of the structure, forms and topography of the human body. Further development of technical skills permit the student to capture the volumes and vitality of the human figure. Also addressed are the canons of proportion, and techniques for measuring and relating the different parts and volumes of the figure. As the semester proceeds students learn to apply their distinctive mark making skills and vision to create lively, realistic figures in the classical tradition.