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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Fine Arts BFA - Art and Technology Concentration
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Art and design are all around us. As an artist or designer, you can impact every level of society-from culture, communication and commerce to sustainability, equity and basic problem solving. So if you want to make your mark on the world-and make anything you can imagine-then art might be the perfect program for you. You’ll get to use your creativity and explore how art helps you better understand yourself, your community, and the larger social, cultural and political contexts in which you exist.
Visit the Art academic program page for more information about the academic experience, who you will learn from, opportunities outside of class and what you can do with this degree.
Visit the Art department page for contact information, a brief overview of the department and the curricular options.
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Art and Technology Core (59 credits)
Four Art Electives (12 credits):
Total Credits Required for Major: 71
Additional Degree Requirements Include:
- Additional coursework to fulfill UB Curriculum requirements
- Elective courses as needed to complete the 120 credit hour total
Total Credits Required for Graduation: 120
Total Credit Hours Required represents the minimum credits needed to complete this program, and may vary based on a number of circumstances. This chart should not be used for financial aid purposes.
Academic Requirements
Minimum GPA of 2.000 overall. Students must also maintain a minimum GPA of 2.500 in art courses to remain in good standing in the Art BFA program. If students drop below this GPA, they will be placed on department probation and given a semester to improve their standing. Students who do not improve will be dismissed from the Art Program. To graduate, a minimum GPA of 2.500 is compulsory in all courses required for the BFA degree, including art history and studio art courses.
Transfer Credit Policy
Students may transfer art courses taken elsewhere; however, the department accepts no more than 18 credit hours of appropriate art courses toward the major requirements.
Program Distinction
A student in this major is eligible for Program Distinction upon degree conferral if the criteria are met. Criteria are found under Academic Honors in the Policy and Procedure section of this Catalog. Program Distinction is noted on the official transcript. Curricular Plan
A Curricular Plan provides a roadmap for completing this academic program and the UB Curriculum on time. Your actual plan may vary depending on point of entry to the university, course placement and/or waivers based on standardized test scores, earned alternative credit and/or college transfer credit.
Fourth Year Spring
- ART 494LAB - Senior Thesis Credits: 3
- ART Course at 300/400 level Credits: 3
- ART Course at 300/400 level Credits: 3
- Emerging Practice Elective Credits: 3
- Emerging Practice Elective Credits: 3
Total Credits Required: 120
Note: Some classes may count toward both a major and UB Curriculum requirement.
Learning Outcomes
The Emerging Practices (Art & Technology) concentration’s curriculum is a multidisciplinary studio practice that builds on knowledge of emerging technologies such as interactive multi-media, electronic installation, networked telematic communication, robotic art, three-dimensional simulation, biotechnology, and algorithmic image synthesis. Emerging Practices (Art & Technology) engages the latest technologies, scientific processes and best practices available. It also reclaims, alters and appropriates existing technologies through creative re-use for communicative cultural purposes. Students engage in deeply experimental technological creative practices, positioning them to anticipate and shape future art movements, media forms and research fields.
The BFA degree focuses on intensive work in Emerging Practices (Art & Technology), supported by a smaller, more defined program of general studies in the liberal arts. Students in the BFA also take a 2-semester capstone course, resulting in a senior thesis exhibition. Because this option includes the development of a cohesive body of work, the BFA is considered particularly relevant for students who wish to continue on to an MFA program.
Upon successful completion of all requirements, the student will have knowledge of:
- Students demonstrate visual literacy through the acquisition of analytical skills to identify and create meanings in visual culture.
- Students will acquire a broad, applied knowledge of fundamental strategies and methods of contemporary art-making, and creative problem solving to be used as a framework for future investigations.
- Students will develop and refine a set of technical tools and/or techniques that apply to their concentration of study.
- Students will acquire experience to equip them for professionally and publicly presenting a cohesive body of their own creative artworks in their chosen field.
- Students will create a professional, self-directed creative research project that reflects their own voice, and gain explicative skills to assess the work of others.
- Students will acquire a foundational understanding of the roles of art history in visual culture.
- Students gain exposure to contemporary art and design practices through experiential learning.
(HEGIS: 10.01 FINE ARTS-GENERAL, CIP: 50.0702 Fine/Studio Arts, General)
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