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) |
|---|---|
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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