德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校人文学院艺术与艺术史系的使命是提供和鼓励视觉艺术和艺术史教育。该课程通过对专业，理论，视觉和分析过程的理解为学生提供广泛的教育。为了帮助学生理解视觉艺术的基本性质，界限，方法和技术，该系提供了广泛的媒体和方法论。学生将能够在许多独特而激动人心的媒体上创作作品，并在艺术，历史，社会和文化的背景下表达出对作品的理解。<br> <br>雕塑计划提供的课程旨在探索广泛的领域。一系列工艺和技术包括：木工和制造，粘土模型，石膏和树脂的模制和铸造，带电弧的金属加工，MIG和TIG焊接，氧/乙炔焊接
The sculpture program offers courses that explore a wide range of processes and techniques including: woodworking and fabrication, clay modeling, molding and casting in plaster and resins, metal fabrication with electric arc, MIG and TIG welding, oxy/acetylene welding / cutting and plasma cutting. Other resources include a centrifugal casting machine, investment studio and large outdoor work space. A recently installed foundry includes a Speedy Melt furnace, gantry crane and wax burnout kiln, facilitating aluminum and lost wax bronze casting. While the initial study in sculpture begins with traditional processes, students are also introduced to installation art, environmental art, performance art and the use of sound, video and time-based projects realized in a spatial context. The curriculum facilitates a functional knowledge of the history and theory of sculpture, an understanding of aesthetic principles, and their application to sculptural works. Sculpture majors are also required to take classes in ceramics, glass and drawing.<br><br>Course objectives and syllabi require students to create their own projects and engage in individualized material and process research in conjunction with their instructor. In sculpture classes students choose not only what ideas they wish to state through a work of art, but also what materials they will use to state them. This philosophy is aligned with the department's Intermedia program at the graduate level, and corresponds to an increasingly relevant definition of what it means to be a contemporary artist.