Visual Arts - B.A. Degree

Department of Visual Arts and New Media
Office: 217 Rockefeller Arts Center

[phone]

Dr. Michele Bernatz, Chairperson

Email: [e-mail]

Website: https://www.fredonia.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-liberal-arts-sciences/visual-arts-new-media

Major Requirements

Core Courses:

ARTH 101	Art in Culture from Prehistory to 1400	3
ARTH 102	Art in Culture from 1400 to the Present	3
ART 100	Visual Concepts	3
ARTS 102	Foundations in 2-D Form and Content	3
ARTS 105	Foundations in Drawing	3
ARTS 240	Foundations of 3-D Form and Content	3
	or
ARTS 270	Foundations in Clay	3
ARTS 222	Cinema Arts I	3
	or
ARTS 225	Digital Foundations	3
Total Credit Hours:		21

Visiting Artist Program:

Total Credit Hours:

8

NOTE: The Visiting Artist Program is only required each semester the student is a major within the department.

Additional Requirements:

• ARTS studio courses at the 300-level or above (9 credit hours) - Excluding all ARTS 490 and ARTS 497 courses
• Advanced Level ARTS Course: 400-level in Animation + Illustration, Ceramics, Film + Video, Graphic Design, Painting + Drawing, Photography or Sculpture (3 credits hours), excluding all ARTS 490 and ARTS 497 courses
• Art History elective: 3 credit hours at the 200-300 level as advised to reach a total of 24 upper level credits in the major
• ARTS studio electives: 12 credit hours, 9 of which must be at the upper level; only 3 credit hours of ARTS 490 or ARTS 497 allowed
• Capstone experience (by advisement)

Total Credit Hours:

27

Total Credit Hours: 56