*488 Professional Practices : 3 hours. This course is designed to provide art majors with many of the career skills and techniques required in art. Through hands-on work, lectures, discussions, and reading assignments, students will learn about job searches, graduate schools, resumes, professional correspondence, artist¡¯s statements, documentation of work, academe, grants, health hazards, professional ethics, and related topics.
   
496 Final Visual Exhibition : 3 hours. Development of a cohesive body of work for public presentation as a required culminating experience for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio emphases (except Graphic Design). Completed in consultation with the student¡¯s area advisor.
   
499 Art and the Artist in the Context of Society : 3 hours. This course is designed to cultivate in students an awareness of the interaction between the individual artist and the larger community within which they live. Students will be made aware of how the complex mesh of social institutions--social, political, religious, economic, and cultural/intellectual-- interact with each other to define the social function of the thing called art and how they all contribute to defining the social role of the artist. Additionally, the purpose of the course is to bring coherence to students¡¯ Liberal Studies programs by leading them to reflect on the sometimes disparate parts of their liberal studies and guiding them to synthesize those experiences into a more cohesive whole so they can relate their liberal studies experiences to their professional goals. General Education Credits [GE2000: Capstone Course (for credit in the major)]