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B.F.A. in painting

Atlanta
 / 
Savannah

Foundation studies: 35 hours

  • FOUN 110 Design Thinking and Process
  • FOUN 111 Sketching and Drawing
  • FOUN 112 Color in Context
  • FOUN 113 Creative Collaboration Lab
  • FOUN 220 Drawing: Light and Shadow
  • FOUN 230 Figure Drawing: Gesture and Movement
  • FOUN 240 Spatial Design and Fabrication

General education: 50 hours

  • COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
  • BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals 
  • CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
  • CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
  • ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
  • DIGI 130 Digital Communication
  • ARTH 207 20th-century Art
  • Select one of the following:

  • PHIL 301 Aesthetics
  • ARLH or ARTH Elective
  • ENGL Elective
  • Mathematics/Natural Sciences Elective 

Major curriculum: 75 hours

  • PNTG 203 Oil-based Techniques and Exploration
  • PNTG 206 Water-based Techniques and Exploration
  • SFIN 220 Art of Tomorrow
  • PNTG 302 Concept and Strategies: Developing Ideas
  • PNTG 309 Abstraction: The Language of Paint
  • SFIN 330 Digital Tools for Fine Arts
  • Select one of these three options:

  • PNTG 345 From Wall to Space: Extended Media
  • PNTG 382 Painting the Scene: Visual Narrative and Mythmaking
  • PNTG 386 Human Image: Capturing Identity and Essence
  • SFIN 413 Business and Professional Practices for Fine Arts
  • SFIN 415 Branding and Entrepreneurship for Fine Arts
  • PNTG 470 Painting Senior Studio I: Concept to Audience
  • PNTG 490 Painting Senior Studio II: Refining a Cohesive Body of Work
  • Select one of these two options:

  • SFIN 492 Exhibition Design as Practice
  • SFIN 494 Collaboration and Production in Creative Industries
  • Select one of these three options:

  • PNTG 479 Undergraduate Internship
  • 500-level SCADpro elective
  • Business-focused elective
  • PNTG or SFIN elective
  • PNTG or SFIN elective

Additional electives: 20 hours

  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective

Total course of study: 180 hours