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Art: Graphic Design (BS)

Graphic Design plays a pivotal role in todays visual culture, having a major impact on the area of advertising design, web design, publishing design, and social media. The BS Art: Graphic Design degree provides training in all of these areas while allowing students the opportunity to develop other individual art skills.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

-4courses

credit hours (bS)

CORE EXPERIENCE

DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience

3

Developing a Christian Mind

DBUE 2301 - Developing a Christian Mind

3

English

9

ENGL 1301 - Composition and Rhetoric I

ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II

and

ENGL 2301 - World Literature I

or

ENGL 2302 - World Literature II

Fine Arts

FINE 1306 - Introduction to Fine Arts

3

History HIST Lower Level (LL)

3

Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List.

Kinesiology

KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living

1

Mathematics (3-4 hour LL course)

3

Choose one 3-hour course from Math LL Course List.

Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course)

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

41

Additional Program General Education Hours

11

Choose two 4-hour courses from Nat. Lab Science LL Course List.

Choose one 3-4 hour course from STEM LL Course List.

Art: Graphic Design Major 

51

ART 1301 - Design I

ART 1303 - Drawing I

ART 2050 - Sophomore Portfolio Review

ART 2303 - Drawing II

ART 2314 - Photography I

ART 3318 - Web Design

ART 3319 - Visual Communication

ART 3321 - Graphic Design I

ART 3322 - Graphic Design II

ART 3325 - Lettering and Typography

ART 4300 - Portfolio Research

ART 4301 - Internship in Art (S-L)

ART 4318 - History of Graphic Design I

ART 4321 - Advertising Design (S-L)

ART 4328 - Illustration I

ART 4338 - History of Graphic Design II

COMA 3304 - Writing Across Media

COMA 3350 - Social Media

Specialization Electives - Choose 15 hours from the following:

15

ART 3303 - Drawing III (Requisite ART 2303)

ART 3304 - Watercolors

ART 3305 - Art History I

ART 3306 - Art History II

ART 3310 - Painting II (Requisite ART 2310)

ART 3314 - Photography II

ART 3341 - Photography Process and Practice

ART 4303 - Drawing IV (Requisite ART 3303)

ART 4309 - Painting III (Requisite ART 3310)

ART 4310 - Painting IV (Requisite ART 4309)

ART 4327 - Color and Composition

ART 4329 - Illustration II

ART 4330 - Special Topics in Art

ART 4341 - Business of Photography

ART 4380 - The Arts and the Creative Process

MRKT 3303 - Promotional Strategy

Electives 

Upper-Level

0

Lower or Upper-Level

2

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 DESCRIPTIONS

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