Program Overview
The Studio Art Minor offers students an opportunity to delve into art practice, art history, and gain skills in critical thinking, visual literacy, and problem-solving. Students can choose from a range of studio courses in digital media, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics, while also taking art history courses to contextualize their studio work. This minor complements various disciplines and enhances career prospects in media, arts, culture, service, and education industries. Students should be aware of potential expenses associated with studio practice.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Minor in Studio Art gives students the opportunity to take courses in studio art and gain experience in the fundamentals and principles of art practice. Students also take coursework in art history to learn about the historical, theoretical, and social methods of art history and contemporary art practice. The Studio Art Minor will provide students with skills and knowledge that will complement many other disciplines and major fields of study within the University. It enhances students’ career outlook by providing a versatile skill set including critical thinking and visual literacy, curiosity, risk-taking, experimentation, and problem-solving which are in demand in a variety of professions in the media, arts, culture, service, and education industries. Students should be aware that studio art practice is time-consuming and expensive. Instructional Materials Fees are required for most studio courses, and students may find themselves spending additional sums of money on their projects.
Outline:
Lower-Division Requirements (9 units)
- Art History: Select one:
- ARTH 201 Western Art History I
- ARTH 202 Western Art History II
- ARTH/HUM 205 Asian Art History
- Studio Art: Select two:
- ART 210 Introduction to Digital Media Arts
- ART 222 Introduction to Textile Art
- ART 231 Introduction to Drawing
- ART 235 Introduction to Printmaking
- ART 240 Introduction to Contemporary Sculpture
- ART 245 Introduction to Ceramics
- ART 260 Introduction to the Darkroom
Upper-Division Requirements (9 units)
- Select three:
- ART 310 Foundations in Digital Media Art
- ART 330 Foundations in Painting
- ART 335 Foundations in Printmaking Processes: Drawing the Multiple
- ART 340 Foundations in Contemporary Sculpture: Materials & Concepts
- ART 360 Foundations in Photography
- ART 410 Conceptual Art After Conceptual Art
- ART 411 Interactive Arts
- ART 413 Video Art
- ART 423 Constructed Surfaces
- ART 424 Surface Design Studio
- ART 431 Intermediate Painting
- ART 432 Further Explorations in Drawing
- ART 433 Figure Drawing
- ART 434 Color Workshop
- ART 435 Intermediate Printmaking Workshop
- ART 439 Screen Printing
- ART 440 Sculpture and Expanded Practice
- ART 445 Ceramics on the Wheel
- ART 460 Intermediate Photography
- ART 511 Digital Media and Emerging Technologies: Special Areas
- ART 514 Experimental and Expanded Practices in Video Art
- ART 525 Textiles Studio Process
- ART 527 Repeat Pattern for Fine Art
- ART 530 Advanced Topics in Painting: The Expanded Field
- ART 534 Mixed Media Painting
- ART 535 Artist's Books
- ART 536 Advanced Topics in Printmaking
- ART 541 Installation Art
- ART 543 Hydrarchy: Nautical Art, Watercraft, and the Art of Resistance
- ART 545 Ceramic Sculpture
- ART 546 Glaze Surfaces
- ART 548 Glaze Calculation
- ART 549 Special Topics in Ceramics
- ART 556 Art and Social Function
- ART 563 Advanced Topics in Photography
- ART 619 Exhibition Design
- One upper-division Art History course from the list below may be substituted for one upper-division Studio Art course.
- ARTH/LTNS 301 Latin American and Latino/a/x Art, 1492 to the Present
- ARTH 306 Modern and Contemporary Art in a North American and European Context, 1945-present
- ARTH 401/CLAR 420 Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece
- ARTH 402/CLAR 425 Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome
- ARTH 403/SXS 405 Queer Art History
- ARTH 404/CLAR 550 Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age
- ARTH 406 Global Renaissance and Baroque Art
- ARTH 407/CLAR 500 Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
- ARTH 409/CLAR 530 Greek Vase Painting
- ARTH 410/CLAR 531 Greek Sculpture
- ARTH 412 South Asian Art II: Early Modern to Contemporary Periods
- ARTH 421 Special Topics in Art History
- ARTH/HUM 496 Art, Architecture, and Space in the Islamic World
- ARTH 516 Advanced Topics in Art History
Careers:
The Studio Art Minor will provide students with skills and knowledge that will complement many other disciplines and major fields of study within the University. It enhances students’ career outlook by providing a versatile skill set including critical thinking and visual literacy, curiosity, risk-taking, experimentation, and problem-solving which are in demand in a variety of professions in the media, arts, culture, service, and education industries.
Other:
- A minimum of 6 upper-division units are required to complete the minor.
- All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
- Art History majors may minor in Studio Art, however upper-division coursework may not be double-counted; 12 units of coursework must be unique to the minor.
- Students should be aware that studio art practice is time-consuming and expensive. Instructional Materials Fees are required for most studio courses, and students may find themselves spending additional sums of money on their projects.
- Steps to Declaring the Minor:
- Complete two lower-division courses with a grade of C or better and attend a major/minor group advising session.
