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B.F.A. in fibers

Savannah

Foundation studies: 30 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 240 Spatial Design and Fabrication

General education: 55 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
  • ARLH or ARTH elective
  • General education elective
  • Mathematics/natural sciences elective
  • Social/behavioral sciences elective

Major curriculum: 75 hours

  • FIBR 160 Surface Design: Drawing for Print and Pattern
  • FIBR 170 Textile Structures: Material, Form, and Function
  • FIBR 190 Color Lab: Textile Trends and Techniques
  • FIBR 201 Woven Structures: Cloth and Context
  • FIBR 221 Survey of Textiles: Origins and Evolution
  • FIBR 276 Digital Surface Design: Image, Pattern, and Presentation
  • FIBR 312 Surface Design: Screen Printing for Textiles
  • Select one of these three options:

  • FIBR 315 Complex Woven Structures: Dobby Technology
  • FIBR 318 Digital Surface Design: Print and Pattern Development
  • FIBR 319 Textile Futures: Digital Applications for Kinematic Structures
  • FIBR 337 Business Practices for Fibers
  • Select one of these three options:

  • FIBR 342 Embellished Surfaces: Bespoke Embroidery to Thermoformed Fabric
  • FIBR 415 Complex Woven Structures: Jacquard Technology
  • FIBR 416 Digital Surface Printing: Material and Image Innovation
  • Select one of these three options:

  • FIBR 405 Machine Knitting for Art and Industry
  • FIBR 412 Surface Design: Screen Printing for Fashion, Interiors, and Fine Art
  • FIBR 418 Digital Surface Design: Collection Development for Interiors and Fashion
  • FIBR 440 Fibers Senior Studio I: Research and Concept Development
  • FIBR 450 Fibers Senior Studio II: Innovation and Production
  • FIBR 460 Fibers Senior Studio III: Portfolio and Professional Practice
  • Select one of these three options:

  • FIBR 479 Undergraduate Internship
  • 500-level SCADpro elective
  • Business-focused elective

Additional electives: 20 hours

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

Total course of study: 180 hours