Visual Art, offered either as a major (BA in Visual Art) or a minor within the cross-disciplinary VAPA degree, offers students a wide range of media, including: digital media, drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture/installation, animation, and video. Students are encouraged to explore hybrid processes and collaborative relationships between the disciplines of art history, film, museum studies and gallery practice, music, theatre, and dance.
The Visual Art option requires 60 credit hours of VAPA coursework, to include 42 hours of required VA courses, 9 hours of AH courses, and 9 hours of core VAPA courses.
Note: VAPA 1100 - Art in Time and Space is the recommended VAPA Core 1000-level course for this option.
General Information
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Visual Art requires the following:
- A minimum of 42 credit hours of VA course work and 9 credit hours of AH course work. At least 27 of those hours must be upper division (courses numbered 3000 or higher).
- A minimum of 9 hours of auxiliary VAPA Core courses. At least 6 of those hours must be upper division.
- A grade of C or better in all major and auxiliary courses.
- A minimum 2.0 GPA must be maintained in all VA, AH, and VAPA course work.
Additional course work is required to complete the Visual Art, BA degree. Please see the advising guide on the Academic Advising website for more information.
Arts Fees
Students enrolled in AH, VA, and VAPA courses will be assessed fees to help defray the cost of supplies. Program fees range from $15-$40 per course, per semester. Check the course schedule for fees, or use the fee estimator at the Student Financial Services website. There is a full refund of the deposit for courses dropped the first two weeks of the term (for full-term courses).
Departmental Goals
Students are members of a departmental campus culture with shared interests in the exchange of ideas about arts scholarship and performance by attending a variety of university and local performances and art events.
Learning Outcomes
- Ability to recognize and comprehend aesthetic criteria, artistic genres, and the intention of a variety of performative acts in different contexts
- Understand fundamental characteristics of performance and artistic expressiveness and their application cross-culturally and across disciplinary practices
- Ability to critique direct outcomes of art and performance (e.g., symbolism, metaphoric content, tropes such as parody and satire, cultural representation, improvisatory interaction, subversive intent, etc.)
- Ability to use the full range of resources to understand the complexity of any given arts-related topic, and to generate the requisite knowledge and evidence to create a compelling and coherent research project
- Ability to work collaboratively in groups across the arts disciplines
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