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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Art and Design, B.F.A.

The Bachelor of Fine Art (B.F.A.) degrees are the nationally accepted professional degrees in visual arts and design. These degrees are restricted and carry a high level of expected growth and involvement on the student’s part. B.F.A. students are not required to earn a minor outside of the art and design, so spend more time studying in studios. All students seeking a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and design must complete the 12-credit-hour core plus one of the 8 tracks listed here: animation, art history, drawing, integrative media, new media art, painting, photography, or spatial arts (ceramics and sculpture). Upon completion of 60 semester hours* in the university and 27 semester hours in art, students who intend to apply for admission to the B.F.A. degree option should register for ART 299 Portfolio Review (0 credits) . Students must have a 2.5 university GPA or higher to be accepted into the B.F.A. program and must maintain this minimum overall GPA to graduate with a B.F.A. degree from the program.

♦  Indicates prerequisite.

Degree Requirements (12 credits)

Core Courses

Note:

* ART 291W Advanced Writing-Writing/Artists - WC (3 credits)  fulfills the general education requirements for Written Communication II.

Animation Track (70 credits)

Four-Year Plan: Click here  to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures  page.

Art History Track (64 credits)

Four-Year Plan: Click here   to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures   page.

Foreign language requirement (12 credits)

  • four semesters or high school equivalent in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, or Spanish

Electives (9 credits)

  • Select 9 credit hours of electives from anthropology, history, philosophy, and religion. (Consult with advisor regarding appropriate courses; other courses are available upon approval)

Total Credits 76

Drawing Track (64 credits)

Four-Year Plan: Click here  to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures   page.

Total Credits 76

New Media Art Track (64 credits)

Four-Year Plan: Click here   to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures  page.

Studio Techniques (3 credits)

Select one course from the following

Topics in New Media Art (6 credits)

Select two courses from the following

Studio Art or Media Informatics Elective (3 credits)

Select one course from the following

Total Credits 76

Integrative Media Track (64 credits)

Integrative Media is for the student whose work combines two or more media. To pass into this track, a student must show evidence of this approach during the Portfolio Review.

Four-Year Plan: Click here   to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures  page.

Special admission requirements: To apply, submit a letter to the professors/area coordinators in the disciplines to be integrated a minimum of 2 weeks before Portfolio Review explaining the rationale for why the Integrative Media emphasis is the appropriate track for study.

If the student is accepted, an Integrative Media Track Committee will be created composed of two or three appropriate faculty members chosen by the student and the Portfolio Review Committee by the end of the semester of the student’s Portfolio Review. This committee, in consultation with the student, will develop a course of study appropriate to the development of the student’s work. This must be approved by the Visual Arts program head.

Total Credits 76

Painting Track (64 credits)

Four-Year Plan: Click here   to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures  page.

Total Credits 76

Photography Track (64 credits)

Select one course from the following (3 credits)

Total Credits 76

Spatial Arts Track (64 credits)

Four-Year Plan: Click here  to view the Four-Year Plan for this specific program. To find out more about Four-Year Plans, visit the Policies and Procedures  page.

Select three courses from the following (9 credits)

Total Credits 76