Art Core

Art Core

All art students (in the BA and BFA programs) must complete the Art Core. Note: Some courses taken for the major may also fulfill requirements for the University core curriculum.

 Required:

• ART 100 - Seminar: Fundamentals to Success 
• ART 103 - Design I 
• ART 104 - Design II 
• ART 105 - Drawing I 
• ART 106 - Drawing II 
• ART 195 - Computers in Art 
• ART 211 - Art History Survey I 
• ART 212 - Art History Survey II 
• ART 220 - Photography I 
• ART 300 - Seminar: Process to Synthesis 
• ART 313 - Twentieth-Century Art History 
• ART 401 - Art as a Profession 

Select one of the following printmaking courses: (3 semester hours)

• ART 280 - Printmaking: Serigraphy I 
• ART 281 - Printmaking: Intaglio I 
• ART 282 - Printmaking: Relief I 
• ART 283 - Printmaking: Lithography I 

Select one of the following art history courses: (3 semester hours)

• ART 310 - Nineteenth-Century European Art History 
• ART 315 - Women Artists in History 
• ART 316 - American Art 

Select one of the following crafts courses: (3 semester hours)

• ART 230 - Ceramics I 
• ART 235 - Metal Arts I 
• ART 236 - Fiber Arts I 

Select one of the following painting courses: (3 semester hours)*

• ART 270 - Watercolor Painting I 
• ART 277 - Oil Painting I 
• ART 375 - Acrylic Painting 

*Art Education majors must take ART 270 and either ART 277 or ART 375 (6 semester hours)

Total Art Core: 43 Semester Hours

Notes:

ART 102 - Art Appreciation cannot be counted toward a major in the Department of Art and Design. Community/junior college transfer students who have taken a comparable class may have it accepted as a general elective only.