About this Program
Make a career out of your creativity.
Program Overview
The studio art minor provides students with the fundamentals of design, drawing and painting to develop their visual and creative thinking skills.
Fine art is about layers of meaning, about the visual message in relationship to us as people. Students are required to address hard questions and become more visually articulate. As the world moves toward a fast-paced, visual-based, computer-linked society, it is within studio art that rigorous academic studies and personal expression merge in a new understanding of life as an integrated whole. The cognitive skills developed during the creative process span the skills needed for a creative approach to life.
A minor in studio art can prepare you for careers in art education, museums/galleries, marketing and communications, graphic design and more.
Degrees Offered
- Minor
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Required Courses
- ARTS 101 Design
- ARTS 123 Drawing I
Electives
Choose Three of the Following
- ARTS 203 Ceramics Handbuilding
- ARTS 211 Digital Photography; or
- ARTS 214 Darkroom Photography
- ARTS 224 Drawing II
- ARTS 234 Relief Printmaking I
- ARTS 235 Monotype Printmaking I
- ARTS 237 Painting I
- ARTS 243 Ceramic Wheel
- ARTS 304 Ceramics:Sculpture/Handbuilding
- ARTS 311 Photography II
- ARTS 312 Photography III
- ARTS 314 Relief Printmaking II
- ARTS 315 Monotype Printmaking II
- ARTS 316 Selected Topics in Studio Art
- ARCA 322 Photojournalism
- ARTS 324 Drawing III
- ARTS 330 Skills for Surviving in Drawing & Painting
- ARTS 334 Advanced Printmaking
- ARTS 338 Painting II
- ARTS 339 Painting III
- ARTS 343 Intermediate Wheel
- ARTS 344 Drawing IV
- ARTS 345 Ceramic Sculpture
- ARTS 498 Advanced Topics in Studio Art
- Any 3-credit course offered through the artists in residence program or special topics in studio arts
Total credits: 16.0
What majors pair well with the studio art minor?
Explore complementary majors that build upon and tie into the studio art minor.
Art and Archaeology, Art History Concentration
Connect an interest in the history of art with contemporary art practice.
Biology
By combining studio art with biology, a student can provide expertise in scientific illustration and photography.
Elementary/Special Education
The studio art minor can provide important background for education majors who do not wish to pursue as extensive a grounding in studio art as the art education major requires.
Political Science
The studio art minor can enhance the visual literacy of political science majors pursuing the global studies track, an important skill for a major requiring students to make connections across a variety of areas of research.
Program Contact
Assistant Professor of Studio Arts