Sunday, January 8, 2012

How does a degree in Fine Arts work?

I thought Fine Arts is all about drawing and painting, along with some theory courses and that's it. But i just found out there're specializations/concentrations and so the name "Fine Arts' is just a broad name, kinda like saying you're going to sch to get a masters in Clinical Psychology. Psychology is the general name for the program and "Clinical" is the what you're actually focusing on. I dunno if that explanation makes sense; it's just how i've made sense of it. So if i want to get a degree in Fine Arts, i'm not really getting a degree in Fine Arts (because apparently there're different fields/concentrations of Fine arts: like drawing, painting, art history, etc, and so i have to chose one of them and "specialize/concentrate" in that one field (or do it in conjuction with another...can u do that?) and that would be the degree i get? Do i have the general idea? At my sch, in the Fine Arts Program, there's a (Studio Program with 5 areas of concentration: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking and electronic imaging, an (Arts History Program), a Film Studies Program and another program.For someone who likes to draw and paint, and who's also interested in Art History, what should be a good specialization(s) to choose? I eventually want to work in a museum as a Museum curator or an Archivist.

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