The Bachelor of Arts in Art and Design is a four-year degree program with two options: Art and Culture or Visual Culture Studies. Both options require students to complement their art coursework with study in an area outside of the College of Design. This can include a second major or minor, or an alternative program of study approved by your academic adviser.
Many students pursue this BA degree in conjunction with a second major or a minor such as journalism, advertising, business, history or psychology.
The two Art and Design curricula provide a solid liberal arts educational experience that can be a springboard into a wide array of graduate school and career opportunities, including art criticism, art history, art sales, corporate art collections, gallery/museum studies, and art therapy.
Art and Culture Option
The Art and Culture option provides a general studies degree in which students combine art with another area of interest. Students create their own programs of study, which may can include another major or minor in a subject taught outside the College of Design. This concentration emphasizes studio components.
Required courses include three (3) art or design history courses (two at the 300/400 level).
Visual Culture Studies Option
For students who are really interested in art history or museum studies, the Visual Culture Studies option allows the student to take a larger number of courses in those topics. Required courses include several art or design history courses at the 300/400 level, which may include a museum or gallery internship.
This curriculum offers two concentrations: Art and Culture and Visual Culture Studies. Both concentrations are combined with an applied career minor or approved program of study.
Art and Culture Concentration
The curriculum in Art and Design, Art and Culture Concentration leads to a 120.5 credit undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree
Transfer students with studio credits from other programs, colleges and universities must present for department review a portfolio of work done in those courses in order to have the credits applied toward studio requirements. Students are required to present this portfolio upon admission and prior to registration for classes. Arrangements for this process must be made with department advisers.
Total Degree Requirements: 120.5 cr.
Only 65 cr. from a two-year institution may apply which may include up to 16 technical cr; 9 P-NP cr. of free electives; 2.00 minimum GPA
International Perspectives: 3 cr.
U.S. Diversity: 3 cr.
Communication: 10 cr.
(C- or better grade)
| ENGL 150 | Critical Thinking and Communication | 3 |
| ENGL 250 | Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition | 3 |
| LIB 160 | Information Literacy | 1 |
| One course from the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Communication Studies | ||
| Introduction to Interpersonal Communication | ||
| Communicating with the Deaf | ||
| Listening | ||
| Fundamentals of Public Speaking | ||
| Total Credits | 10 | |
Humanities: 6 cr.
6 cr. from department curriculum sheet.
Social Sciences: 6 cr.
6 cr. from department curriculum sheet
Math/Physics/Biol. Sciences: 6 cr.
6 cr. from department curriculum sheet
General Education Courses: 9 cr.
| Six credits of course levels 300-400 from department curriculum sheet. | 6 | |
| Three credits from department curriculum sheet. | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 9 | |
College of Design Core: 11.5-12 cr.
| DSN S 102 | Design Studio I | 4 |
| DSN S 115 | Design Collaborative Seminar | 0.5-1 |
| or DSN S 110 | Design Exchange Seminar I | |
| DSN S 131 | Design Representation | 4 |
| DSN S 183 | Design Cultures | 3 |
| Total Credits | 11.5-12 | |
Art History and Theory: 15 cr.
| ART H 280 | History of Art I | 3 |
| ART H 281 | History of Art II | 3 |
| Six credits from 300-level or above from ART H | 6 | |
| Three credits from history courses in ARCH, ART H, DSN S, LA or ARTGR 388 | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 15 | |
Art and Culture Concentration: 12 cr.
12 credits from 200 level or above in College of Design courses.
Program of Study: 30 cr.
30 cr. from an approved program of study, including 6 cr. at 300-400 level.
Electives: 15 cr.
Visual Culture Studies Concentration
Total Degree Requirements: 119 cr.
Only 65 cr. from a two-year institution may apply which may include up to 16 technical cr; 9 P-NP cr. of free electives; 2.00 minimum GPA
International Perspectives: 3 cr.
U.S. Diversity: 3 cr.
Communication: 10 cr.
(C- or better grade)
| ENGL 150 | Critical Thinking and Communication | 3 |
| ENGL 250 | Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition | 3 |
| LIB 160 | Information Literacy | 1 |
| One course from the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Communication Studies | ||
| Introduction to Interpersonal Communication | ||
| Communicating with the Deaf | ||
| Listening | ||
| Fundamentals of Public Speaking | ||
| Total Credits | 10 | |
Humanities: 6 cr.
6 cr. from department curriculum sheet.
Social Sciences: 6 cr.
6 cr. from department curriculum sheet
Math/Physics/Biol. Sciences: 6 cr.
6 cr. from department curriculum sheet
General Education Courses: 9 cr.
| Six credits of course levels 300-400 from department curriculum sheet. | 6 | |
| Three credits from department curriculum sheet. | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 9 | |
Visual Culture Studies Core: 9 cr.
| ART H 280 | History of Art I | 3 |
| ART H 281 | History of Art II | 3 |
| Choose ONE from the following | ||
| DSN S 183 | Design Cultures | 3 |
| or ART H 292 | Introduction to Visual Culture Studies | |
| Total Credits | 9 | |
Visual Culture Studies Concentration: 28 cr.
24 cr. in History/Theory/Criticism courses from any department in the College of Design. May include up to 9 cr. Museum/Gallery Internship. 12 cr. must be at 300 level or above. 4 cr. ART H 499 Visual Culture Studies Capstone Seminar.
Program of Study: 30 cr.
30 cr. from an approved program of study, including 6 cr. at 300-400 level and 6 cr. foreign language.
Electives: 15 cr.
Art and Design, B.A., Art and Culture Concentration
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| DSN S 102 (or DSN S 131) | 4 | DSN S 102 (or DSN S 131) | 4 |
| DSN S 183 (or General Education) | 3 | DSN S 183 (or General Education) | 3 |
| ENGL 150 (or General Education) | 3 | ENGL 150 (or General Education) | 3 |
| DSN S 110 or DSN S 115 | 0.5-1 | General Education | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | General Education | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | LIB 160 | 1 |
| 16.5-17 | 17 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Studio Option | 3 | Studio Option | 3 |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | General Education | 3 |
| ART H 280 (fall only) | 3 | ART H 281 (spring only) | 3 |
| ENGL 250 (or General Education) | 3 | ENGL 250 (or General Education) | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Studio Option | 3 | Studio Option | 3 |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | Elective | 3 |
| ART H 300-level or above | 3 | ART H 300-level or above | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 |
| Art or Design History | 3 | ||
| 15 | 12 | ||
| Total Credits: 120.5-121 | |||
Art and Design, B.A., Visual Culture Studies Concentration
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| ART H 280 (fall only) | 3 | ART H 281 (spring only) | 3 |
| DSN S 183 or ART H 292 (or General Education) | 3 | DSN S 183 or ART H 292 (or General Education) | 3 |
| ENGL 150 (or General Education) | 3 | ENGL 150 (or General Education) | 3 |
| LIB 160 | 1 | General Education | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | General Education | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | ||
| 16 | 15 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Visual Culture Studies Option | 3 | Visual Culture Studies Option | 3 |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | General Education | 3 |
| ENGL 250 (or General Education) | 3 | ENGL 250 (or General Education) | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Visual Culture Studies Option | 3 | Visual Culture Studies Option | 3 |
| Visual Culture Studies Option | 3 | Visual Culture Studies Option | 3 |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approve POS | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| ART H 499 Visual Culture Studies Senior Capstone Seminar | 4 | Visual Culture Studies Program | 3 |
| Approved POS | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | Approved POS | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | ||
| 13 | 15 | ||
| Total Credits: 119 | |||