Oct 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Visual Arts, B.F.A.


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Offered by Visual Arts , the Visual Arts, B.F.A consists of a sequence of foundation courses that builds a framework for all areas of study in visual arts and a concentration that develops students’ artistic voices and forms the foundation for their personal, creative work.

University Requirements


Completion of Minimum University Requirements for an Undergraduate Baccalaureate Degree .

  • Minimum 120 credits and minimum GPA of 2.0
  • Completion of 45 upper-level credits, residence requirement, Writing Intensive requirement, and General Education requirement

Major Requirements


  • Minimum 72 credits
  • Minimum grade of ‘C’ in courses applied to the major except where otherwise indicated
  • Students complete one of the following concentrations: Animation, Photography and Cinema, Print Media

Course Requirements


Foundation Courses (27 credits)


Concentration (45 credits)


Animation


Students pursuing the Animation concentration develop a framework from which to begin their path as animators and interactive artists. Students have the opportunity to produce a fully developed work at the culmination of the program, either individually or as part of a team.

Photography and Cinema


Students pursuing the Photography and Cinema concentration explore technical, aesthetic, theoretical, and historical aspects of these lens-based media while embracing emerging imaging technologies. As a professional degree, the Photography and Cinema concentration will prepare students for graduate studies and careers as professional artists or as entrepreneurs working in the industry.

Print Media


Students pursuing the Print Media concentration engage new forms of artistic expression through interdisciplinary explorations of manual, photographic, and digital print processes. They create projects that allow for a variety of approaches to print practice, incorporating two- and three-dimensional multiples, book arts, installations, performance, documentation, and other hybrid expressions.

Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Programs


Qualified students may apply to an accelerated program, which allows them to share courses between a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. Students take graduate courses as undergraduate students and later apply those courses to master’s degrees. An undergraduate may apply to participate in an accelerated program even if the desired graduate program is in a department other than the one in which the student is majoring. More information is available from the Accelerated Program page of the Graduate School website.

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