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Bfa in Studio arts<br />
Note: No new students may begin this program after Fall 2009.<br />
Students currently enrolled will be allowed to complete this<br />
program. Please consult the program for details.<br />
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts program is dedicated to<br />
the practice of creativity as a means of achieving increased<br />
awareness of personal identity and connection to meaningful work<br />
in the world. The program combines studio practice and<br />
development of skill with other activities—spiritual practice, ritual,<br />
academic research, and intensive self-inquiry. The BFA is designed<br />
for those who have already completed a significant amount of<br />
college-level work and have some background in the arts. The BFA<br />
is designed to help move experienced students to a deeper level of<br />
self-inquiry, technical skill, and cultural connection through art.<br />
The program is a bridge to either the MA in Trans formative Arts<br />
or the MFA in Studio Arts through a linking program that makes<br />
possible the simultaneous enrollment in undergraduate and<br />
graduate programs in the final year. Students who already have<br />
undergraduate degrees in fields outside of the arts or who feel they<br />
need some extra work on development of a portfolio before<br />
attempting graduate work in the arts are also encouraged to enroll.<br />
In addition to technical and creative growth, BFA students gain<br />
important insights into how they fit into the constantly changing<br />
worlds of contemporary art, healing, and community<br />
transformation.<br />
Program learning outcomes<br />
• Skill. Demonstration of technical and formal skills associated<br />
with creative activity. Clear understanding and competence in<br />
at least three artistic media.<br />
• Cultural competence. Awareness of cultural pluralism.<br />
• Creative process. Demonstrated achievement of ongoing<br />
creative practice using specific media. Ability to create new<br />
artworks without external direction or assignment and a clearly<br />
defined sense of artistic interest and direction. Articu lation and<br />
analysis of artwork from formal, conceptual, and psychosocial<br />
perspectives.<br />
• Professional practice. Awareness of contemporary venues for<br />
artistic practice. Determination of appropriate career path in the<br />
arts and development of an appropriate career plan related to<br />
artistic interests and goals.<br />
• Academic competence. Knowledge of academic material<br />
related to contemporary art practice. Demonstration of inte gral<br />
awareness of academic material in individual artistic practices.<br />
• Spirituality and personal transformation. Demonstrated<br />
aware ness of links between inner and outer realities. Evidence<br />
of substantial personal and spiritual growth as a result of creative<br />
self-expression. Demonstration and narrative of personal inquiry<br />
through creative practice resulting in positive change in<br />
perspective and awareness.<br />
Curriculum<br />
The BFA degree requires the completion of 189 units of<br />
undergraduate credit.<br />
Prior to enrolling in the BFA degree program, students will have<br />
completed 60 units of specific pre-requisites at another college or<br />
College of Undergraduate Studies<br />
<strong>University</strong>. An additional 27 units are necessary to fulfill General<br />
Elective requirements, and may also be accepted as transfer credit,<br />
or completed at JFK <strong>University</strong>.<br />
The remaining 102 units are completed as indicated on the<br />
curriculum chart below. A minimum of 65 units must be<br />
completed in residence at JFK <strong>University</strong> in no less than two<br />
academic years.<br />
Transfer credit is evaluated on a case by case basis. Working in<br />
partnership with the program advisor and in conjunction with the<br />
registrar’s office, students design an individualized academic plan<br />
based on previous academic transcripts and evolving artistic goals.<br />
This must be reviewed, approved and updated each quarter in<br />
order to insure successful completion and fulfillment of all program<br />
requirements.<br />
The foundation of the BFA degree program is built on a progressive<br />
structure of core courses taken in sequence with a cohort of other<br />
BFA degree students beginning each Fall. The grounding course,<br />
Art, Archetypes and Creative Process is a studio-oriented<br />
introduction to specific self-inquiry techniques using the creative<br />
process. Here, students explore art, metaphor, pattern and<br />
symbolism from psychological, cross-cultural and spiritual<br />
perspectives in relation to their own art-making experiences. The<br />
core then continues through a series of four BFA Core Seminars<br />
taken sequentially each quarter:<br />
A: Artistic Identity<br />
B: Art and The other<br />
C: The Artist in Society<br />
D: Purpose and Practice<br />
Concurrent with the Core Seminars, BFA degree students enroll<br />
for a two-part sequence of courses, visual Culture A&B that<br />
explores the nature of culture and identity from an ethnological<br />
and phenomenological basis. What makes us who we are? Where<br />
do we fit into the world? What is the role of visual communication<br />
in the search for meaning and identity? These and other questions<br />
are explored through an intensive combination of academic and<br />
experiential work.<br />
Simultaneously, under guidance of faculty in the Arts &<br />
Consciousness (A&C) program in the College of Professional<br />
Studies, students develop their own artwork through a series of<br />
courses and independent work in a customized academic plan.<br />
After the first year, students explore their work in depth with<br />
mentorships – a system of individual tutorials with artists in the<br />
community who offer specific insights into skill, technique and<br />
professional practices crucial to aspiring artists.<br />
The program builds to a BFA Final Project, with a public BFA Final<br />
Project Seminar & Exhibition in the Arts & Consciousness Gallery<br />
in the spring quarter of the second year, and an individual BFA Final<br />
Project Paper due the final quarter prior to graduation.<br />
Linking – The BFA degree program provides an opportunity for<br />
students to link undergraduate coursework to graduate programs<br />
in the Arts & Consciousness program. Upon successful completion<br />
of up to 154 BFA degree units, students may apply to the MA in<br />
Transformative Arts or the MFA in Studio Arts programs. If<br />
accepted, students may then enroll in linked graduate level courses<br />
and receive up to 18 units of dual degree credit upon their<br />
completion. Students should consult with an A&C advisor early in<br />
their academic program to determine and create an individualized<br />
linking plan.<br />
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