DEPARTMENT OF ART

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Major — Art —Studio

70 credits

Art Studio includes ceramics, drawing, fiber/fabrics, inter and mixed-media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. The objectives of the major are to investigate the function of art and the relationships between art, culture, artist and audience. Art studio classes are designed to familiarize students with the principles that shape and inform visual literacy and expression through a variety of practices in art making.

Major —Design

79 credits

The Design area of the Department of Art identifies design as the visual communication of ideas. The program utilizes a curriculum that emphasizes the process of problem solving and encourages students to make connections between culture and design, and their role as visual communicators. Students learn to combine personal expression and critical thinking as they create solutions that connect industry to an audience and themselves to the world.

Major —Art History

72 credits

The art history major gives students the opportunity to address social, cultural and transnational issues through an engagement with visual culture —objects, images and ideas —and to imagine critical intersections in the arts, humanities, and sciences by means of innovative course instruction. Art history classes are catalysts through which students make cross-connections between their major areas of study and the diverse perspectives found in visual forms of communication.

Minor — Art History

24 credits

Major —Art —P-12

71 credits

This major must be accompanied by the professional preparation program in secondary education and leads to an endorsement in visual arts.

Major —Art —Elementary

49 credits

This major must be accompanied by the professional preparation program in elementary education, and leads to an endorsement in visual arts.

Major —Art Studio

115 credits

The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is the professional undergraduate art degree. It is an expanded undergraduate degree that requires each student to undertake a program of more than 180 undergraduate credits.

Major —Design

115 credits

The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is the professional undergraduate art degree. It is an expanded undergraduate degree that requires each student to undertake a program of more than 180 undergraduate credits.