Art Major — Painting/Drawing/ Printmaking Concentration

Degree Requirements

General Education Requirements

Additional Degree Requirements

• Art Core Requirements - Total Credits: 24

• ART 101 - Drawing I
• ART 107 - Design Fundamentals I
• ART 108 - Design Fundamentals II-3D
• ART 156 - Design Fundamentals III
• ART 260 - Survey of Art History I
• ART 261 - Survey of Art History II
• ART 266 - Survey of Art History III
• ART 477 - Art Since 1945

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• Studio Art Requirements - Total Credits: 12

• ART 102 - Drawing II
• ART 201 - Life Drawing I

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• ART 221 - Beginning Printmaking: Intaglio

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• ART 222 - Beginning Printmaking: Lithography

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• ART 231 - Painting I

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• Studio courses upper division electives - Total Credits: 9

• ART 332 - Intermediate Painting
• ART 401 - Advanced Drawing
• ART 421 - Advanced Printmaking: Intaglio
• ART 422 - Advanced Printmaking: Lithography
• ART 432 - Advanced Painting

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• Art History upper division electives - Total Credits: 6

  Select two of the following:

• ART 434 - Topics in Contemporary Art
• ART 461 - The History of Ancient Art
• ART 462 - History of Medieval Art
• ART 463 - History of Early Renaissance Art
• ART 464 - High Renaissance and Mannerist Art
• ART 465 - History of Northern Renaissance Art
• ART 466 - History of Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
• ART 467 - History of Southern Baroque Art
• ART 468 - History of Northern Baroque Art
• ART 469 - History of Eighteenth-Century Art I
• ART 470 - History of Eighteenth-Century Art II
• ART 472 - History of Art in the Nineteenth Century
• ART 473 - Twentieth Century Art
• ART 474 - History of American Art
• ART 475 - History of Photography
• ART 479 - Artistic Traditions of the Southwest
• ART 480 - Art of China
• ART 481 - Art of Japan
• ART 493 - Individual Study in Art History (see note 3 below)
• ART 495 - Special Topics in Art History

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• BFA Project/Exhibition - Total Credits: 6

• (see note 2 below)

• ART 496 - Bachelor of Fine Arts Seminar
• ART 497 - Bachelor of Fine Arts Project

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• ART upper division electives - Total Credits: 4     Selected in consultation with BFA Committee Chair

   

Electives - Total Credits: 19-32

Total Credits: 120

Notes

1. Of the 120 credits required, 42 of these credits must be in upper-division course work (300-400), including courses taken in the major.
2. ART 309 may not be taken for Art History credit by Studio Majors.
3. ART 493 may be taken only after completing at least one 400-level art history course with a B or better.
4. Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.