Fine Arts

• FACULTY
• MAJOR IN ART HISTORY
• MAJOR IN FINE ARTS
• MAJOR IN VISUAL ARTS
• MINOR IN ART HISTORY
• MINOR IN MUSIC
• MINOR IN PHOTOGRAPHY
• MINOR IN STUDIO ARTS
• MINOR IN THEATRE
• COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

FACULTY

Chair: Janet A. Headley, Professor

Professors: Janet A. Headley; Martha C. Taylor; Anthony D. Villa

Associate Professors: Mary Beth Akre; James R. Bunzli; James E. Dockery (emeritus); Janet Maher; Barnaby Nygren; Ronald Pearl; Daniel Schlapbach

Assistant Professors: Natka Bianchini; Kerry Boeye

Affiliate Faculty: Letty Bonnell; Kevin Gift; Lisa Green-Cudek; Ernest J. Liotti; Christopher Lonegan; Carol Miller-Frost; Lake Newton; Mary Skeen; Lars Westby

Theatre Manager: Stuart Dawkins

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The Fine Arts Department offers a major, a minor, and an interdisciplinary major in art history, fine arts (includes performing arts), and visual arts. Students interested in visual arts may pursue concentrations in photography or studio arts. Students interested in performing arts may pursue concentrations in music or theatre (within the area of fine arts). Internships are available throughout the department. Students seeking internships should contact a faculty director in the semester prior to the internship.

The department offers an optional senior project course for majors; this is the equivalent of an honors thesis in other humanities departments. Students interested in undertaking a senior project must consult with faculty in the appropriate discipline during their junior year to develop their proposed projects. Students present their proposals to the fine arts faculty for approval during the spring semester of their junior year. Students register for credit in the first semester of their senior year and work on the project continues over both semesters of the senior year. For additional information on senior projects, consult the link on the department's website.

For students double-majoring in an area in fine arts and an allied major, the department allows departmentally-approved courses to "cross-count" for both majors so long as both department chairs agree. Students interested in double-majoring should consult both departments early in their career.

MAJOR IN ART HISTORY

Learning Aims

Students majoring in art history will demonstrate mastery in the following five areas:

• Visual literacy demonstrated through formal and comparative analyses of works of art
• Knowledge of the terminology, methodology and historiography of the discipline
• Knowledge of the major artists, monuments, and artistic periods of Western art; familiarity with at least one non-Western tradition
• The ability to conduct scholarly research, as demonstrated by responsible use of scholarly sources, both electronic and printed
• The development of critical reading, writing, and thinking skills that enable the student to construct a complex contextual analysis of a work of art

Bachelor of Arts

Requirements for the major and an example of a typical program of courses are as follows:

Freshman Year

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Sophomore Year

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Junior Year

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Senior Year

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Spring Term

* Terms may be interchanged.

1. Art history majors take AH110, AH111, PT270 or SA224, and nine upper-division courses. Majors must take one 200-level, non-Western course; no more than two 200-level courses may count toward the major. Students must take one upper-division course in classical or medieval art, one in Renaissance or baroque art, and one in art postdating the eighteenth century.
2. Interdisciplinary art history majors take AH110, AH111, and five upper-division courses (200-level or above). Students must take one upper-division course in classical or medieval art, one in Renaissance or baroque art, and one in art postdating the eighteenth century. Students are strongly encouraged to take a course in non-Western art, which is approved for the diversity requirement.
3. Students must complete the diversity requirement through a designated diversity core, major, or elective course (see Diversity Requirement under Curriculum and Policies).

MAJOR IN FINE ARTS

Music Concentration

Learning Aims

Students who elect a music concentration will demonstrate a mastery in the following five areas:

• Aural literacy--defined as an ability to recognize the elements of musical language: pitch, rhythm, and harmony, and the ability to manipulate those elements in a coherent manner
• Stylistic literacy--the ability to recognize, analyze, and understand the genesis of the major stylistic periods
• Instrumental literacy--the ability to perform music in an expressive and stylistically appropriate manner at a reasonably advanced level
• Ensemble ability--the ability to work cooperatively towards a musical/interpretive goal with other musician
• Writing skills--the ability to write cogently about music

Bachelor of Arts

Requirements for the major and an example of a typical program of courses are as follows:

Freshman Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

Sophomore Year

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Spring Term

Junior Year

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Spring Term

Senior Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

1. Music students take MU201, MU203, and nine upper-division courses. A minimum of six additional courses in applied music (two lower- and four upper-division), six in ensembles (two lower- and four upper-division), and four semesters of ear training are also required. After declaring the music major, students are required to enroll in an ensemble and an applied music course each semester they attend Loyola.
2. Music students choose a particular area of concentration: an instrument, voice, theory/composition, or music history. All students are admitted to upper-level applied and ensemble courses through the music jury process.

Those concentrating on an instrument usually take one-hour lessons (MU219 or MU319). Those concentrating in theory, composition, or music history are required to take half-hour lessons at the minimum (MU218 or MU318). Students who enter the program after freshman year may be given credit for lower division applied music at the discretion of the department chair, usually after an audition. Students who wish to complete a degree in music education should consult with music faculty to discuss course requirements.

3. The following courses are taken in addition to the regular five-course load since they are not three-credit courses: ear training (MU101, MU102, MU103, MU104); applied music (MU218, MU219, MU318, MU319); and ensembles (MU200, MU211, MU220, MU230, MU231, MU300, MU311, MU320, MU330, MU331). Students register for these courses during the regular registration period. Ensemble requirements are satisfied by taking Chorale, Chamber Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Classical Guitar Ensemble, or Steel Pan Ensemble.
4. A nonrefundable fee is charged for all Applied Music courses which is paid directly to the instructor at the first lesson. A semester jury is required of all Applied Music students beginning with their second semester of Applied Music study.

5. Students who wish to enter Loyola as a fine arts major concentrating in music should submit a clearly marked audition CD or tape or call the department to arrange an audition.
6. Students must complete the diversity requirement through a designated diversity core, major, or elective course (see Diversity Requirement under Curriculum and Policies).

Theatre Concentration

Learning Aims

Students with a theatre concentration will demonstrate a mastery in the following areas:

• An advanced literacy in the terminology, conventions, and collaborative methodology of theatre, including knowledge of theatre practice, as well as the methodology, historiography, and conventions of the theatre scholar
• Historical, literary, and theoretical literacy defined as an ability to identify and recognize the major periods of theatre history from ancient Greek theatre to contemporary world theatre, and familiarity with wide array of performance styles and dramatic genres, as well as knowledge of the representative works and playwrights of each genre, major movements in dramatic theory, and representative discourses
• A heightened aesthetic sensibility through participation in the interpretive creative process of live theatre in a variety of different capacities and critical reflection on the work of others, as well as a mastery of textual analysis utilizing plays as dynamic blueprints for theatrical action and cultural expression
• Communication and information literacy, defined as the ability to conduct scholarly research in the discipline, including the use of scholarly sources and academic databases, the understanding of primary and secondary sources, and the ability to construct and sustain an argument supported by critical sources and communicate that argument to a defined audience via oral or written means

Bachelor of Arts

Requirements for the major and an example of a typical program of courses are as follows:

Freshman Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

Sophomore Year

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Spring Term

Junior Year

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Spring Term

Senior Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

1. Fine arts majors with a theatre concentration must take six required courses (DR100, DR250, DR251, DR350, DR351, DR374) and five theatre electives. They must also complete three one-credit hours of Theatre Practicum (DR275). No more than one of the following courses counts toward the major: DR260, DR261, DR263, DR278, DR279, DR280, DR281, DR282.
2. Interdisciplinary fine arts majors with a theatre concentration take five required courses (DR100, DR250, DR251, DR350, DR351, DR374), DR275/three times, and two theatre electives.
3. Students must complete the diversity requirement through a designated diversity core, major, or elective course (see Diversity Requirement under Curriculum and Policies).

MAJOR IN VISUAL ARTS

Photography Concentration

Learning Aims

Students with a photography concentration will demonstrate a mastery in the following five areas:

• Technical command of the photographic medium. Students should be able to make confident, informed decisions regarding composition, exposure and print quality using both analog and digital technology.
• Command of the skills necessary to evoke their personal visions.
• Heightened visual sensibility. Students should learn to see both with their eyes and their cameras and make astute compositional decisions in their photographs.
• Knowledge of the history of the photographic medium and how it relates to the history of the other fine arts.
• Fluent knowledge of the vocabulary of photographic aesthetics. Through their photographs, critiques, and written evaluations, students should demonstrate an ability to articulate their intentions about their own work and criticisms about the work of others using objective terminology.

Bachelor of Arts

Requirements for the major and an example of a typical program of courses are as follows:

Freshman Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

Sophomore Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

Junior Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

Senior Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

1. Visual arts majors with a photography concentration take AH111, PT270, PT319, PT375, PT400 or PT412, SA224, one additional art history course, and seven additional upper-division photography courses. No more than one of the following may count towards the major: PT278, PT279, PT280, PT281, PT282.
2. Interdisciplinary visual arts majors with a photography concentration take AH111, PT270, PT319, PT375, PT400 or PT412, and three additional upper-division photography courses.
3. Visual arts students with a photography concentration are strongly encouraged to take computer science to fulfill one of the math/science core requirements.
4. Students interested in photojournalism should declare a visual arts major with a photography concentration and a communication minor, or a communication major with a journalism specialization and a photography minor.
5. Students must complete the diversity requirement through a designated diversity core, major, or elective course (see Diversity Requirement under Curriculum and Policies).

Studio Arts Concentration

Learning Aims

Students with a studio arts concentration will demonstrate a mastery in the following areas:

• Familiarity with the concepts and materials of the visual arts and the ability to communicate and analyze the significance of their own work and the works of others
• Acquisition of technical skills in drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media art, three-dimensional art, and digital technology
• A mastery of the creative and manual skills required for solving two- and three-dimensional design problems
• The ability to conduct a critical dialogue between personal work and the larger art historical tradition
• A sound preparation for entering the professional work force or pursuing graduate study

Bachelor of Arts

Requirements for the major and an example of a typical program of courses are as follows:

Freshman Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

Sophomore Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

Junior Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

Senior Year

Fall Term

Spring Term

* Terms may be interchanged.

1. Visual arts majors with a studio arts concentration take AH111, PT270, SA224, SA225, SA400 or SA412, one additional art history course (AH320 recommended), and nine additional studio arts courses. Of the nine additional studio arts courses, one must be taken from each of the following sequences: drawing (SA303-304, SA342-343), painting (SA310-315), printmaking (SA321-323), mixed media (SA352-355), digital (SA360-361), and three-dimensional (SA365-366). The three remaining courses may be selected from any SA300- or 400-level course.
2. Visual arts interdisciplinary majors with a studio arts concentration take SA224, SA225, four additional upper-division studio arts courses, and one art history course.
3. Students must complete the diversity requirement through a designated diversity core, major, or elective course (see Diversity Requirement under Curriculum and Policies).

MINOR IN ART HISTORY

• AH110 Survey of Art: Paleolithic to Gothic
• AH111 Survey of Art: Renaissance to Modern
• Four upper-division courses (200-level or higher)

Students are strongly encouraged to take a course in non-Western art, which fulfills the diversity requirement.

MINOR IN MUSIC

• Two lower-division courses
• Four upper-division courses
• Four semesters of applied music (two lower- and two upper-division)
• Ensembles (two lower- and two upper-division)
• Two semesters of ear training

MINOR IN PHOTOGRAPHY

• PT270 Basic Digital Photography
• PT319 History of Photography or
• One art history course
• PT375 Silver Processes
• Four additional upper-division photography courses

MINOR IN STUDIO ARTS

• SA224 Two-Dimensional Design
• SA225 Drawing
• Four additional upper-division studio arts courses
• One art history course

MINOR IN THEATRE

• DR100 Stagecraft
• DR250 Introduction to Theatre History
• DR251 Experience of Theatre
• DR275 Theatre Practicum (1 credit; taken three times)
• DR350 Acting I
• DR351 Directing I