斯坦福大学

The undergraduate program is designed to help students think critically about the visual arts and visual culture. Courses focus on the meaning of images and media, and their historical development, roles in society, and relationships to disciplines such as literature, music, and philosophy. Work performed in the classroom, studio, and screening room is designed to develop a student's powers of perception, capacity for visual analysis, and knowledge of technical processes.

Degree Requirements

All undergraduate majors complete a minimum of 65 units including six lower level courses, six upper level courses, and four art history courses, including the WIM course ARTHIST 294 Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing. All courses must be taken for a letter grade and must pass with a letter grade of 'C' or better. Students are required to take upper level ARTSTUDI 230 Interdisciplinary Art Survey in their junior year and ARTSTUDI 249 Advanced Undergraduate Seminar in their senior year. University units earned by placement tests or advanced placement work in secondary school are not counted within the 65 units. The studio requirements are divided into lower level (introductory, 100 level) and upper level (advanced, 200 level) course work. At the lower level, students focus on a range of subject matter from historical motifs (figure, still life, landscape) to contemporary ideas in art. Upper level courses are designed to stretch the student's understanding of materials, techniques, site, and social relevance. Experimental and challenging in nature, these courses cross area boundaries. Completing a full year of ITALIC can count towards either one Art History elective or one lower level Art Practice course. Independent study supervised by a member of the permanent faculty is also available to the advanced student.

Students are encouraged to move through the requirements for the major in the sequence outlined. Students are exposed to a range of practices early in their development in order to have a good basis of comparison if they choose to focus on a particular medium. This sequence of courses also broadens the students' skills and enables them to combine materials and methods. In all courses, students are expected to pass mid-term and final reviews and critiques of their work.