Art: Commercial Art (BA)
Commercial Art plays a large role in todays visual culture. From illustration to graphic design, the commercial arts encompass a large variety of visual skills. The commercial art program establishes foundational skills in drawing, design, and digital graphic applications then builds on those foundations to establish more advanced skills in painting, illustration, and publishing design, both digital and traditional.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
courses | credit hours (ba) |
|---|---|
DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience | 3 |
Developing A Christian Mind DBUE 2301 - Developing a Christian Mind | 3 |
English | 9-10 |
ENGL 1301/1401 - Composition and Rhetoric I ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II and ENGL 2301 - World Literature I or ENGL 2302 - World Literature II | |
Fine Arts | 3 |
History HIST Lower Level (LL) | 3 |
Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List. | |
Kinesiology | 1 |
KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living | |
Mathematics (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 3-hour course from Math LL Course List. | |
Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 4-hour course from Nat. Lab Science LL Course List. | |
Religion | 9 |
RELI 1301 - Old Testament Survey RELI 1302 - New Testament Survey and one additional RELI course from RELI Course List. | |
Social Science | 3 |
POLS 2301 - American National Government | |
Total Core Experience | 40-43 |
Additional Program General Education Hours | 14 |
Choose two 4-hour courses in the same language from LANG/BL Language Course List Choose two additional 3-hour language courses from the list above or from HIST/FA/SS Course List | |
Art: Commercial Art Major | 57 |
ART 1301 - Design I ART 1302 - Design II ART 1303 - Drawing I ART 2050 - Sophomore Portfolio Review ART 2303 - Drawing II ART 2310 - Painting I ART 3303 - Drawing III ART 3310 - Painting II ART 3319 - Visual Communication ART 3321 - Graphic Design I ART 3322 - Graphic Design II ART 3325 - Lettering and Typography ART 4301 - Internship in Art (S-L) ART 4309 - Painting III ART 4321 - Advertising Design (S-L) ART 4328 - Illustration I ART 4329 - Illustration II | |
ART 4318 History of Graphic Design I or ART 3305 Art History I | |
ART 4338 History of Graphic Design II or ART 3306 Art History II | |
ART 4385 - Studio Research | |
Specialization Electives - Choose 6 hours from the following: | 6 |
ART 3304 - Watercolors ART 3314 - Photography II ART 3318 - Web Design ART 4303 - Drawing IV ART 4310 - Painting IV ART 4327 - Color and Composition ART 4330 - Special Topics in Art ART 4380 - The Arts and the Creative Process MRKT 3303 - Promotional Strategy | |
Electives | |
Upper-Level | 0 |
Lower or Upper-Level | 3 |
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED | 120 |
A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor’s degree is required, including 36 upper-level credit hours.
At least 12 credit hours in the major program must be completed at Dallas Baptist University, including nine upper-level course hours.
Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University: DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0.
(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.
Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
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