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2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

Art (Graphic Design) BFA Semester Guide

Freshman

1st semester (15 hours)

ENG 101 - Composition One 3 hrs.
HIS 101 - World Civilizations: Beginnings to 1500 C.E. 3 hrs. or
HIS 102 - World Civilizations: 1500 to the present 3 hrs.
MAT 100 - Quantitative Reasoning 3 hrs. or
MAT 101 - College Algebra 3 hrs. or Higher level MAT course
ART 101 - Drawing I 3 hrs.
ART 111 - Design I 3 hrs.

2nd semester (15 hours)

ENG 102 - Composition Two 3 hrs.
ART 102 - Drawing II 3 hrs.
ART 112 - Design II 3 hrs.
ART 113 - Three-Dimensional Design 3 hrs.

Select 1:

HIS 101 - World Civilizations: Beginnings to 1500 C.E. 3 hrs.
HIS 102 - World Civilizations: 1500 to the present 3 hrs.
PHI 151 - Introduction to Philosophy 3 hrs.
PHI 171 - Ethics and Good Living 3 hrs.
REL 131 - Comparative Religion 3 hrs.

Sophomore

1st semester (16 hours)

Laboratory Science 4 hrs.
ART 316 - Introduction to Design Software 3 hrs.
ART 332 - History of Art I 3 hrs.
ART 342 - Graphic Design II/Typography 3 hrs.
Art Studio Elective 3 hrs.

2nd semester (16 hours)

Laboratory Science 4 hrs.
ART 334 - History of Art II 3 hrs.
ART 343 - Graphic Design III/Presentation 3 hrs.
ART 384 - Digital Photography for Graphic Designers I 3 hrs.
Art Studio Electives 3 hrs.

Junior

1st semester (17 hours)

ENG 203 - World Literature 3 hrs.
Art History (400 level) 3 hrs.
Art Studio Elective (2 hours minimum) 2 hrs.
ART 341 - Graphic Design I/Production 3 hrs.
ART 441 - Graphic Communication 3 hrs.
ART 442 - Interactive Design I 3 hrs.

2nd semester (15 hours)

Select 1:

ANT 101 - The Human Experience: A Global Perspective on Human Diversity 3 hrs.
HHS 100 - Concepts of Wellness 3 hrs.
ECO 101 - Basic Economics 3 hrs.
GHY 101 - World Geography: Dynamics of a Changing Earth 3 hrs.
PS 101 - American Government 3 hrs.
PSY 110 - General Psychology 3 hrs.
SOC 101 - Understanding Society: Principles of Sociology 3 hrs.

Senior

1st semester (15 hours)

ART 441 - Graphic Communication 3 hrs.
Art Studio Elective 3 hrs.
Art Studio Elective 3 hrs.
ART 445 - Motion Graphics I: Introduction Design in Motion 3 hrs.

Select 1 course:

ANT 101 - The Human Experience: A Global Perspective on Human Diversity 3 hrs.
HHS 100 - Concepts of Wellness 3 hrs.
ECO 101 - Basic Economics 3 hrs.
GHY 101 - World Geography: Dynamics of a Changing Earth 3 hrs.
PS 101 - American Government 3 hrs.
PSY 110 - General Psychology 3 hrs.
SOC 101 - Understanding Society: Principles of Sociology 3 hrs.

2nd semester (15 hours)

ART 444 - Graphics Design Portfolio 3 hrs.
ART 448 - Graphic Communication Project 3 hrs.
Art Studio Elective 3 hrs.
Art Studio Elective 3 hrs.

Select 1: