Art Practices - Minor

The Department of Art and Art History offers a minor in art practices for undergraduate students who are interested in studio arts.

Requirements

The requirements for the minor in art practices include:

• a minimum of 18 credit hours in art practices coursework, including 9 credit hours at the upper-division level.
• all coursework applied to the minor must be completed with a grade of C- or better; no pass/fail work may be applied. The grade point average for all minor degree coursework must be equal to 2.00 (C) or higher
• students are allowed to apply no more than 9 credit hours, including 6 upper-division credit hours, of transfer work toward a minor

Art history majors may apply ARTS 1010 and ARTS 1020 (both major requirements) toward the completion of an art practices minor, but may not apply non-major electives toward completion of the minor.

Required Courses and Credits

Learning Outcomes

• Creativity and making: Students will be able to generate novel and intentional ideas, and demonstrate those ideas through making art that is responsive to their own interests and the world around them.
• Disciplinary skill and technique: Students will demonstrate mastery of the skills and techniques intrinsic to at least one chosen discipline.
• Recognize current and historical frameworks: Students will examine the historical and contemporary issues surrounding their art, the art of others, and the broader global art discourse.
• Develop criticality and analyze complexity: Students will communicate in dialogue and in writing the multilayered concepts and relative contexts of their own and other’s art.
• Students will demonstrate curiosity, initiative, rigor, and persistence, while seeking knowledge. Students will be able to work independently or collaboratively to achieve their goals.