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Jun 29, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Art Conservation (BA)
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Program Educational Goals:
A graduate of our BA program will be able to:
- Apply the ethics of working with tangible and intangible aspects of cultural heritage.
- Advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage collaboratively, creatively, and effectively.
- Evaluate and document in writing, using precise and appropriate terminology, the overall condition and preventive needs of cultural materials.
- Demonstrate a basic and scientifically supported understanding of the materials, manufacture, and deterioration of cultural heritage as well as proper health and safety principles and practices.
- Apply fundamental craft and manual skills in the conservation treatment of cultural materials.
Following a successful completion of the BA program, students will be qualified to work as a conservation technician, collections manager, or museum professional; and/or apply to graduate-level study in the conservation of material culture, historic preservation, museum studies, or library science.
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College Requirements:
College Breadth Requirements:
The College Breadth requirements are in addition to the University Breadth requirement. Up to three credits from each of the University Breadth Requirement categories may be used to simultaneously satisfy these College of Arts and Sciences Breadth Requirements. Minimum grade C- required for courses used to satisfy College Breadth.
*If the grade earned is sufficient, a course may be applied toward more than one requirement (e.g., breadth and major requirements), but the credits are counted only once toward the total credits for graduation. If all but one course in a group has been taken in one department or program, a course cross-listed with that program will not satisfy the distribution requirement.
Foreign Language:
- Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 202) in an ancient or modern language with minimum grades of D-.
- The number of credits (0-12) needed and initial placement will depend on the number of years of high school study of foreign language.
- Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language, or who have gained proficiency in a foreign language by other means, may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination through the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department.
Mathematics:
The math requirement must be completed by the time a student has earned 60 credits. Students who transfer into the College of Arts and Sciences with 45 credits or more must complete this requirement within two semesters.
Complete one of the following four options (minimum grade D-):
Option Two:
One of the following:
Option Four:
- Successful performance on a proficiency test in mathematics administered by the Department of Mathematical Sciences (0 credits awarded).
Second Writing Requirement:
A Second Writing Requirement approved by the College of Arts and Sciences. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours, completed with a minimum grade of C-, and the section enrolled must be designated as satisfying the requirement in the academic term completed.
Major Requirements:
Minimum of 19 credits in ARTC (including cross-lists) required. C- minimum required for all courses in the major. Fifteen credits of the following studio art courses:
Fifteen credits of studio courses from the ARTC or ART Departments. One of the following 100-level material culture courses
100-level material culture course Four courses of upper division material culture electives:
Africana Studies; Anthropology; Art Conservation; Art History; Asian Studies; Disability Studies; English; Fasion and Apparel Studies; Game Studies; History; Jewish Studies; Languague, Literature, and Culture Studies; Museum Studies; Music; Philosophy; Political Science; Sociology; and/or Women and Gender Studies 200-level or higher courses with a strong material culture basis with approval by an Art Conservation academic advisor prior to enrollment in the course. One of the following chemistry sequences:
Option A (Chemistry BA track):
Two semesters of general chemistry and one semester of organic chemistry is required Option B (Chemistry BS track):
Two semesters of general chemistry and one semester of organic chemistry is required. Students have the option to enroll in the chemistry major course sequence
One additional science course
One additional (3-4 credits) science class is required, with approval by an Art Conservation academic advisor prior to enrollment. Courses can be from the Agriculture and Natural Resources Program; Animal and Food Sciences; Anthropology ;Biological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Chemistry and Biochemistry; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Computer and Information Sciences; Earth Sciences; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Entomology and Wildlife Ecology; Fashion & Apparel Studies; Geography and Spatial Sciences; Linguistics and Cognitive Science; Marine Science and Policy; Materials Science and Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Physics and Astronomy; Plant and Soil Sciences
Electives:
After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.
Credits to Total a Minimum of 124
Last Revised 2024-2025 Academic Year
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