BFA Topics & Electives

Spring 2025 TOPICS 2D: SITES UNSEEN

TOPICS 2D: SITES UNSEEN SPRING 2025 TAUGHT BY: SELENA KIMBALL SECTION: A CRN: 1924 Credits: 3 Places we have never been, or even seen, are…

Spring 2025 TOPICS 3D: TRANSLATING A COPY

TOPICS 3D: TRANSLATING A COPY SPRING 2025 TAUGHT BY: POONEH MAGHAZEHE SECTION: A CRN: 5240 Credits: 3 How can resurrecting an image or object empower,…

Spring 2025 XSTUDIO: POLYVOCAL

XSTUDIO: POLYVOCAL SPRING 2025 TAUGHT BY: MATTHEW VILLARREAL SECTION: A CRN: 2074 Credits: 3 Polyvocal Course Description: This 3-credit studio course focuses on the integration…

Spring 2025 TOPICS 3D: ANTIMONUMENTAL

TOPICS 3D: ANTIMONUMENTAL SPRING 2025 TAUGHT BY: JONAH GROENEBOER SECTION: B CRN: 11679 Credits: 3 This class explores sculpture’s capacities as anti-monumental, ephemeral, and performance-based…

Spring 2025 XSTUDIO: ART AND EXHAUSTION

XSTUDIO: ART AND EXHAUSTION SPRING 2025 TAUGHT BY: FIELDS HARRINGTON SECTION: C CRN: 3304 Credits: 3 In this course, we will delve into themes of…

Spring 2025 XSTUDIO: ACTION ANIMATION

XSTUDIO: ACTION ANIMATION SPRING 2025 TAUGHT BY: EZRA WUBE SECTION: B CRN: 15521 Credits: 3 Drawing, as a medium between process and realization, can be…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 3D: Omni Maker – Adam Brent

This course fuses the digital to the real world. Making sculptures that range from small-scale objects to both proposed and realized installations, students will utilize…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, X-Studio: Love Letters to the Future – Douglas Paulson

An edible weed can grow from a crack in the bricks. A single seed can grow into an oak that can live 400 years. As…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 2D: Return of the Real – Shoshana Dentz

This observational-based painting and drawing course engages the facts, fictions and impossibilities inherent in visual perception when focused intensely on a portion of the phenomenal…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, X-Studio: Sociological Imagination in Film and Video – Eleana Antonaki

In this course students will closely read theoretical texts in order to create critical works of experimental video art. Referencing Avery Gordon’s use of the…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 2D: Critical Collage – Johannah Herr

In our era of the remix, sampling has become its own art form. This course will critically explore the material and conceptual possibilities of the…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 2D: Drawing Energy – Anne Gaines

Everything is made up of or emits energy. How can we both utilize and visualize its presence? This course expands the practice of drawing to…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 4D: Against Productivity – Yasi Ghanbari

This course will examine paradigms of productivity, health, and care through various 4D media including performance, video, sound, and installation. Given late stage capitalism’s increasing…