2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

Requirements for Students in Art and Design

Outcomes

Foundations Outcomes (12 credits)

Communication  CWRIT 1101 
Analysis  CLITR 1100
Quantitative Reasoning CMATH 1009, CMATH 1010, CMATH 1500, CMATH 1501, CMATH 1515, CMATH 1522, CMATH 1590, CMATH 1990, CMATH 2140, CMATH 2144, or CMGMT 1590
Collaboration INTGR 1665, IDESN 1600 or AINTD 2008

Students must take one course for each of the above Foundation Outcomes.

Students in BFA programs and the BA in Art take INTGR 1665 to fulfill the Collaboration Outcome.

Students in the Bachelor of Science for User Experience program take IDESN 1600 User Experience Research Methods to fulfill the Collaboration Outcome.

Certain transfer students are also eligible to take AINTD 2008 Transition Seminar: Lives in Context to fulfill the Collaboration Outcome or may transfer a First Year Seminar collaboration equivalency.

Perspectives Outcomes (15 credits)

Local and Global Connections
Examining Power & Inequity
Ethical Reasoning, Social Action & Civic Engagement
Create, Perform, Design
Human Relationships to the Physical & Natural World

Students must take one course to fulfill each Perspectives Outcome.

Students can fulfill these outcomes with designated courses within or outside their major.

Applications Course (3 credits)

All undergraduate students must take a designated Applications Course.  Students are expected to complete 60 credits before enrolling in an Applications course.

Breadth of Inquiry

Liberal Arts Traditions (27 credits)

Art History 12 credits
Arts & Humanities 3 credits
Social Sciences 6 credits
Math & Science 6 credits

Students may double count any of their courses with Breadth of Inquiry and Perspectives Outcomes requirements except Foundations Outcomes courses and the Applications course.

Art History (12 credits)

All BFA students are required to take five Art History (IAHIS) courses to fulfill their program requirements. Four of these Art History courses (12 credits) automatically count toward the Breadth of Inquiry requirement.

BS in User Experience majors and BA in Art majors are required to take 12 credits of Art History (IAHIS), all of which count toward the Breadth of Inquiry requirement.

Please see individual program information for specific courses.

Social Sciences (6 credits)

Choose two courses from the following course prefixes: CANTH, CECON, CGEOG, CGLST, CPOLS, CPSYC, CPLCY, CSOCS or, CSOCL

BS in User Experience majors take 9 credits of Social Sciences. It is recommended that 6 credits be fulfilled by the following courses: CPSYC 1101 and CPSYC 3439.

Math & Science (6 credits)

Choose two courses from the following course prefixes: CMATH, CBIOL, CHLTH, CNSCI or CPHYS

Arts & Humanities (3 credits)

Choose one course from the following course prefixes: CDANC, CDRAM, CHIST, CHUMS, CMUSC, CLANG, CLITR, CPHIL, CRELS or CCRWT

Does not include CLITR 1100 

BFA Animation, Film, Visual Effects, Visual Narrative and Animation/Illustration double major must take one or more CCRWT courses.