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    The Art Administration Visual Arts Concentration Program

    The Department of Visual Arts

    Visual Arts Learning Objectives:

    • Students should know and be able to use discipline-based vocabulary.
    • Students should be able to critique their own work as well as the work of others.
    • Students should be able to identify stylistic characteristics.
    • Students should have acquired basic facility in a broad range of media or research methods.
    • Students should have acquired advanced facility in one medium.
    • Students should have understanding of possible career paths.

    Arts Administration Major with Visual Arts Concentration (48 credits) 

    Required courses (39 credits):
    AR 101 Art History I: Ancient through Renaissance - 3 credits
    AR 102 Art History II: Baroque to the Present - 3 credits
    AR 130 Drawing I - 3 credits
    AR 131 Design: Two-Dimensional - 3 credits
    AR 280 Museum Studies - 3 credits
    AR 320 Junior Seminar - 3 credits
    AR 420 Senior Research Project/Thesis - 3 credits
    AR 550 Cooperative Education – Internship - 3 credits
    BA 102 Survey of Accounting - 3 credits
    BA 104 Introduction to Management - 3 credits
    BA 220 Principles of Marketing - 3 credits
    BA 230 Introduction to Entrepreneurship - 3 credits
    HI 306 Introduction to Non-Profit Organizations - 3 credits

    One course selected from (3 credits):
    AR 145 Introduction to Film Studies - 3 credits
    AR 200 Pre-Columbian Art - 3 credits
    AR 375 19th Century Seminar 3
    AR 380 20th Century Seminar - 3 credits

    Two courses selected from (6 credits):
    AR 330 Digital Photography and Post-Production - 3 credits
    CA 235 Introduction to Web Design - 3 credits
    CA 285 Electronic Media or Any other art studio or art history course offered by the department - 3 credits

    Recommended Electives:
    EL 109 Business Communications - 3 credits
    BA 150 Managerial Accounting - 3 credits
    BA 305 Business Ethics - 3 credits