For the Degree Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
The curriculum in graphic design requires 122 credit hours and prepares
the student for entrance into the professional practice of visual
communications. Studio work encompasses visual organization, typography,
image making, sequential design, production techniques, and the process
of communication planning.
| Hours |
General Education Requirements1 |
| 4 |
Composition
I |
| 3 |
Advanced Composition |
| 27 |
Six hours
in each of the following areas: humanities and the arts, natural
sciences and technology, social and behavioral sciences, quantitative reasoning and cultural studies. |
| 0-12 |
Foreign language2 |
| 34 |
Total |
| Hours |
Art History |
| 8 |
Any two of: ARTH 111, 112, 113, 114, or 115 (all meet a general education requirement)* |
| 6 |
Advanced art history |
| 14 |
Total |
| Hours |
General Art and Design
|
| 2 |
ARTF 101—Contemporary Issues
in Art |
| 6 |
ARTF 102 and 104—Drawing, I
and II |
| 6 |
ARTF 103 and 105—Design, I
and II |
| 14 |
Total |
| Hours |
Graphic Design |
| 3 |
ARTD 210—Visual Organization |
| 3 |
ARTD 211—Design History Survey |
| 3 |
ARTD212—Typography |
| 3 |
ARTD 213—Image Making, I |
| 3 |
ARTD 310—Advanced Typography |
| 3 |
ARTD 311—Methodology |
| 4 |
ARTD 410—Advanced Graphic Design,
I |
| 4 |
ARTD 411—Advanced Graphic Design,
II |
| 26 |
Total |
| Hours |
Major Elective in Graphic Design |
| |
Choose four courses(12 hours) from the following: |
| 3 |
ARTD 312—Production |
| 3 |
ARTD 313—Sequential Design |
| 3 |
ARTD 314—Image Making II |
| 3 |
ARTD 391—Special Problems in Design |
| 3 |
ARTD 412—Computer Visualization ! |
| 3 |
ARTD 413—Computer Visualization II |
| 3 |
ARTD 490—Senior Honors |
| 3 |
ARTS 260—Basic Photography |
| 3 |
ARTS 261—Photography II |
| 3 |
ARTS 262—View Camera and Studio |
| 3 |
ARTS 263—Color Photography |
| 3 |
ARTS 440—Image Studio |
| 3 |
ARTS 441—Multimedia Studio |
| 3 |
ARTS 442—Moving Image I |
| 3 |
ARTS 443—Image Studio II |
| 3 |
ARTS 444—Experimental Web Studio |
| Hours |
Electives |
| 9 |
General Electives |
| 13 |
Professional and Art Design Electives (see table below) |
| 22 |
Total |
| Hours |
Recommended Professional Electives |
| 3 |
ADV 300—Intro to Advertising |
| 3 |
BADM 446—Entrepreneurship Sm. Bus. Firm |
| 3 |
COMM 101—Intro to Media |
| 3 |
COMM 166—Media Literacy |
| 3 |
ECON 102—Microeconomics Principles |
| 3 |
ECON 103—Macroeconomics Principles |
| 3 |
JOUR 200—Intro to Journalism |
| 3 |
PSYC 100—Intro to Psychology |
| 3 |
PSYC 201—Intro to Social Psychology |
| 3 |
PSYC 230—Perception and Sensory Processes |
| 3 |
SOC 100—Intro to Sociology |
| 3 |
SPCM 101—Public Speaking |
