Numerous degree tracks are available within the Department of Art, allowing students to tailor their education to their own individual requirements. Descriptions of these tracks are provided below.
BFA Degree
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Major in Art
The BFA Degree provides a more comprehensive and structured background in the fine arts. This degree provides the fullest experience of Fine Art at the undergraduate level and is recommended for students seeking careers as fine artists. BFA candidates must complete the three foundations courses and nine additional required studio courses. Five art electives must also be completed, divided between 2-D and 3-D art disciplines. The two introductory Art History survey courses are also required for the major, as well as two additional required upper-division courses, and two elective upper-division courses. The remaining five courses must be selected from a single art discipline, becoming the student's area of specialization. This approach allows a student to focus in Fine Art without an outside minor. The 21-credit minor is waived and those credits are taken in more advanced Fine Art course work. Students from this program often seek admission into graduate schools with a more well defined personal and professional portfolio after completing the undergraduate degree and go on to teach or work as professional artists. The degree's specialization provides more variance and broader background into fine arts, which could develop wider range training and self reliance.
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Major in Art with Graphic Design Emphasis
The BFA Degree provides a more comprehensive and structured background in graphic design. This degree provides the most thorough knowledge of creative Graphic Design at the undergraduate level and is recommended for students seeking careers as creative designers, multimedia designers, illustrators, web designers and art directors. BFA-Graphics candidates must complete the three foundations courses and six additional required studio courses. Three art electives must also be completed, chosen from only the 3-D art disciplines. The two introductory Art History survey courses are also required for the major, as well as two additional required upper-division courses, and two elective upper-division courses. The Graphic Design courses are required, and the remaining four courses must be selected from the advance offerings in Graphic Design, which thereby becomes the student's area of specialization. This approach allows a student to focus in Graphic and Multimedia Design without an outside minor. The 21-credit minor is waived and those credits are taken in more advanced Graphic Design course work. Students from this program often seek admission into graduate schools with a more well defined personal and professional portfolio after completing the undergraduate degree and go on to teach or work as professional designers.
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Major in Art
Advising Guidelines
The BA Degree in Art is a more generalized program than the BFA. BA candidates must complete the three foundations courses and five additional required studio courses. Four art electives must also be completed, of which no more than three can be within the same art discipline. The two introductory Art History survey courses are also required for the major. Unlike the BFA Degree, this degree allows students to pursue a minor from another discipline. This approach allows a student to concentrate in fine art while taking advantage of a wide variety of 21-credit minor offerings campus-wide for a rounded more liberal arts degree.
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The BA Graphic Design program is intended to develop students as creative graphic designers with career development paths as graphic production designers, print designers, and web designers in a competive job market. This degree must be approached with an additional minor from another discipline unlike those selecting the BFA degree. This approach allows a student to concentrate in fine art and graphic design while taking advantage of a wide variety of 21-credit minor offerings campus wide and is particulary useful when balancing business courses, advertising and web information development courses for a rounded more liberal arts degree approach.
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with Art History Minor
The BA Graphic Design program is intended to develop students as creative graphic designers with career development paths as graphic production designers, print designers, and web designers in a competive job market. Art History Minor allows for some additional competitive edge if going into designing for Museums, Galleries or Art Historians is a career goal.
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The BA Graphic Design program is intended to develop students as creative graphic designers with career development paths as graphic production designers, print designers, and web designers in a competive job market. Multimedia Minor allows for some additional competitive edge.
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The Multimedia Digital Arts Major is intended to provide students with an interdisciplinary grounding in the multimedia area.
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The Art History submajor allows students to specialize in the history of art within the broader art program. Each art history major must take two introductory survey courses which introduce the chronological range of Western art history from prehistory to the present. Students must take six additional upper division courses, one each in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 19th Century and 20th Century art. Students must also choose two additional elective courses, and take a course in art history research methodology. Majors must also complete four semesters of foreign language, and complete an English competency requirement.
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Art Education
The Department of Art works in conjuction with the College of Education to offer a B.S.E. track in Art Education, allowing students to become teachers of art at the elementary and high school level. The requirements of the B.S.E. degree are defined by the College of Education.
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Major in Art with Teaching Certification
Certification provides graduates with the ability to become instructors in specific areas of art, such as art history, jewelry, printmaking, etc. This is a certification for Elementary and High School only, and is obtained by completing a block of courses in the College of Education in addition to the requirements of the BFA or BA degrees.
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Minors
Studio Emphasis Art Minor
In Art Studio minors students may select from two distinct tracks.
In Track I (General Art Minor) students pursue 24 credits of which 15 credits are directed studio courses engaging students in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional studio areas, as well as allowing students an additional 6 credits of studio electives. An additional 3 credits of Art History is also required.
The Track II minor (Art Studio emphasis) similarly requires 24 total credits (including 3 credits of Art History) but is distinct from Track I as it offers students interested in investigating a specific area eight sequenced 9-credit concentrations in specific studio areas which include Painting, Drawing, Graphic Design, Ceramics, Metals, Printmaking, Photography and Sculpture.
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The Art History minor allows students to minor in the history of art as a complement to a studio art major or any other major in the University. Each art history minor must take two introductory survey courses which introduce the chronological range of Western art history from prehistory to the present. Minors must take five additional upper division courses, choosing one course in Ancient or Medieval art, one in Renaissance art, two from Baroque, 19th Century and 20th Century art, and finally one additional elective art history course.
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The Multimedia Design minor addresses the newest overall programmatic initiative and offers a hybrid program designed for an analogous discipline. This 24 credit minor integrates 6 credits of ARTSTUDIO, with 6 credits of ARTMULTI studio, a selection 3 credits of additional electives from either previous designation (including an Art History option), 3 credits of directed Art History, as well as 6 credits of unique College interdisciplinary studies.
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