Art, Graphic Design Concentration, B.F.A.

Foundation Courses (19 hours)

• ART 1610 - Two-Dimensional Design 3 credit hours
• ART 1620 - Drawing I 3 credit hours
• ART 1630 - Three-Dimensional Design 3 credit hours
• ART 1640 - Drawing II 3 credit hours
• ART 1910 - Art History Survey I 3 credit hours
• ART 1920 - Art History Survey II 3 credit hours
• 1 additional hour as advised by department

Core Graphic Design Courses (taken in sequence) (18 hours)

• ART 2310 - Graphic Design Technologies 3 credit hours
• ART 2325 - Typographic Design 3 credit hours
• ART 3325 - Word and Image 3 credit hours
• ART 3330 - Portfolio I 3 credit hours
• ART 4310 - Portfolio II 3 credit hours
• ART 4320 - Senior Project 3 credit hours

Internship (3 hours)

• ART 4330 - Internship 3 credit hours (which may be taken concurrently with ART 4310  or  ART 4320 )

Specified Graphic-Related Electives (15 hours)

• ART 3930 - Interactive Design I 3 credit hours OR
• ART 4390 - Interactive Design II 3 credit hours

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• ART 3550 - Book Arts I 3 credit hours OR
• ART 3770 - Letterpress I 3 credit hours

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• ART 4280 - Digital Illustration 3 credit hours OR
• ART 4290 - Beginning Illustration 3 credit hours

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• PHOT 2050 - Basic Black and White Photography 3 credit hours OR
• ADV 3020 - Survey of Advertising 3 credit hours

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• PHOT 3200 - Still Digital Imaging 3 credit hours OR
• ART 3610 - Introduction to Computer-Assisted Art 3 credit hours OR
• ART 3620 - Intermediate Computer-Assisted Art 3 credit hours

Specified Studio Electives (9 hours)

• ART 2130 - Silkscreen 3 credit hours OR
• ART 3140 - Etching and Intaglio 3 credit hours

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• ART 2510 - Sculpture I 3 credit hours

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• ART 3650 - Figure Drawing 3 credit hours OR
• ART 2620 - Color Drawing 3 credit hours

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• ART 2710 - Painting I 3 credit hours

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• ART 2810 - Throwing 3 credit hours OR
• ART 3820 - Handbuilding 3 credit hours

Upper-Division Art History (6 hours)

• ART 4920 - Contemporary Art 3 credit hours
• One additional upper-division course in art history 3 credit hours

Art Cognate (9 hours)

• approved by the advisor and chosen from the approved areas

Candidacy Program

The Graphic Design concentration includes a candidacy program based on successful completion of certain required classes with specified minimum grade point expectations and performance for retention in Graphic Design. The candidacy program imposes requirements in several areas:

1. Admission to most upper-division professional courses in the Graphic Design concentration will be restricted to students admitted to candidacy.
2. All students in the Graphic Design concentration should apply for admission to candidacy at the end of the semester in which they will have completed 45 semester hours of coursework.
3. At a minimum, students in the Graphic Design concentration must have completed each of the following courses with a grade of C (2.00) or better before applying for candidacy:
   ART 1610 - Two-Dimensional Design 
   ART 1620 - Drawing I 
   ART 1630 - Three-Dimensional Design 
   ART 1640 - Drawing II 
   ART 2310 - Graphic Design Technologies 
   ART 2325 - Typographic Design 
   ART 3325 - Word and Image 
4. At a minimum, students applying for candidacy in the Graphic Design concentration must have an overall GPA of at least 2.00 on all University-level coursework.
5. Students applying for candidacy in the Graphic Design concentration must twice submit for juried review a portfolio containing work completed in the courses listed in item 3 above (specified graphic-related electives). (The majority of the work in the portfolio must be two-dimensional.) The first portfolio review will follow completion of ART 2325  and a second review will follow completion of ART 3325 . If after the second portfolio review a student is not admitted to candidacy the student may, with modifications, submit the portfolio one additional time before being asked to find another major or concentration.

Curriculum: Art, Graphic Design

Curricular listings include General Education  requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.