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Art and Design, BFA Web and User Experience Emphasis

78 credit hours

This emphasis of the BFA in Art & Design is comprised of the Art & Design BA core plus additional courses ensuring that students gain the necessary coding skills along with design, branding, and business practices associated with the field of Web Design. Students should expect to be challenged in each course as well as being provided opportunities to enhance their portfolios as they gain valuable skills needed to work in the industry. Students will learn to work with clients, embrace usability experience conventions, use HTML, CSS, & JavaScript to author websites, work with popular Content Management Systems, leverage frameworks and libraries, conduct independent research, and understand the role that digital marketing can make in their work.

Requirements

Major Coursework

30 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

AAD 10000Introduction to Art and Design

3
AAD 10050Introduction to Web Design

3
AAD 10600Design I

3
AAD 13000Drawing I

3
AAD 13600Design II

3
AAD 14000Visual Storytelling

3
AAD 18101Digital Photography I

3
AAD 35000Portfolio Review

3
ARTH 22200History of Western Art to 1300

3
ARTH 22400History of Western Art from 1300

3

Foundation Coursework

3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

AAD 12000Digital Foundations

3
AAD 20300Adobe Certification in Photoshop

3
AAD 20400Adobe Certification in Illustrator

3

Emphasis Coursework

24 credit hours of coursework from the following options: 

AAD 11000Programming Logic

3
AAD 25000Typography I

3
AAD 32200Motion Graphics

3
AAD 35500Visual Branding

3
AAD 36100Web Design - User Experience I

3
AAD 36200Web Design - User Experience II

3
AAD 36300Web Design - User Experience III

3
CAH 43000Arts Entrepreneurship

3

Art and Design Elective Coursework

9 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

AAD 10100Emerging Technologies

3
AAD 11000Programming Logic

3
AAD 11600Drag and Drop Web Design

3
AAD 20400Adobe Certification in Illustrator

3
AAD 22100Sculpture I

3
AAD 22600Digital Art I

3
AAD 23000Microsoft Office Specialist Certification

3
AAD 23400Fibers I

3
AAD 24100Ceramics I

3
AAD 25000Typography I

3
AAD 30600Imaging and Illustration

3
AAD 31500Printmaking II

3
AAD 32200Motion Graphics

3
AAD 32500Desktop Publishing

3
AAD 33000Drawing II

3
AAD 33100Figure Drawing I

3
AAD 333103D Printing

3
AAD 33400Fibers II

3
AAD 336003D Graphics

3
AAD 33700Digital Painting

3
AAD 34000Ceramics II

3
AAD 35001Digital Photography II

3
AAD 36001Digital Photography III

3
AAD 36100Web Design - User Experience I

3
AAD 36200Web Design - User Experience II

3
AAD 38600-38699Special Topics in Art and Design

1-3
AAD 40100Painting III

3
AAD 41500Printmaking III

3
AAD 42400Applications for Mobile Devices

3

Art History Coursework

3 credit hours of coursework from the following option:

ARTH 36900History of Graphic Design

3

Art History Electives

3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

ARTH 35400Nineteenth-Century Art

3
ARTH 35600Baroque Art

3
ARTH 35700Ancient Art

3
ARTH 35800Medieval Art

3
ARTH 36100Twentieth-Century Art/Modern

3
ARTH 36200Twentieth-Century Art/Contemporary

3
ARTH 36300Early Modern Gender Studies

3
ARTH 36500History of Photography

3
ARTH 37000History of Games and Critical Theory

3
ARTH 38000History of Digital Art

3
ARTH 38300Renaissance Art

3
ARTH 38400Classical Myth

3
ARTH 38600-38699Special Topics

1-3
ARTH 38700-38799Special Topics

1-3
ARTH 38900Art Theory and Criticism

3

Practical Application Coursework

3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

AAD 30105Applied Art and Design

3
CAH 44444Internship

1-6

Capstone Coursework

3 credit hours of coursework from the following option:

AAD 41000Art and Design Capstone

3

Seminar Coursework

Zero credit hour course in which students are required to enroll every fall and spring semester from matriculation to degree conferral.

AAD 10200Art and Design Seminar

0

No duplication of coursework is permitted within the program.