Art and Visual Culture - Bates College

Art and Visual Culture from Bates College is a Campus Bachelor American Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Prospective majors should meet with the art and visual culture faculty as first-year students. Majors emphasizing studio art must take a minimum of three courses in the history of art and visual culture distributed across a variety of cultures and time periods, including one course in recent art and visual culture. Studio majors are encouraged to enroll in at least one studio course each semester, and are required to take a minimum of five studio courses and one Short Term studio unit. The preponderance of studio major requirements should be completed prior to beginning a studio thesis. Where available, studio majors must complete at least two sequential courses in one medium (for example, Photography I and II) before their senior year. Studio majors are required to take either Art and Visual Culture 350 (Visual Meaning I) or Art and Visual Culture s34A (Building a Studio Practice). Visual Meaning must be taken before or during the senior thesis. Students are encouraged to take Building a Studio Practice before the senior thesis. Studio majors are required to take Art and Visual Culture 457A and 458A (Senior Thesis) consecutively in the fall and winter semesters of their senior year, for a mimimum total of eleven courses. Studio majors intending to study abroad must consult with the department well in advance. In most cases, the department advises students who wish to study abroad to do so for only one semester. View more details on Bates College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related American Studies courses.