Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018

Art, B.A.

The Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree is designed for students planning to pursue an interdisciplinary double major or for those students seeking to minor in another field.

Both the B.F.A. and the B.A. degrees are appropriate for students planning to pursue a career in art education through the M.A.T. graduate program.

Art Curriculum Outline

Bachelor of Arts Degree

General Education

Total Credit Hours:46

Piedmont College Requirement

PDMT 1101Intro to College Life and Liberal Arts Tradition

1

Total Credit Hours:1

Students who have not completed a minimum of 24 semester credit hours of college-level coursework upon admission to Piedmont College must meet this college requirement.

Art Major

Total Credit Hours:45-48

Art Foundations

ART 1120Drawing I

3

ART 1130Two-Dimensional Design

3

ART 1140Three-Dimensional Design

3

ART 2200Drawing II

3

ART 2270Painting I

3

Total Credit Hours:15

Art History/Criticism

ART 2301Art History: Prehistoric to Renaissance

3

ART 2302Art History: Renaissance to Present

3

ART 4430Art Criticism

3

Art History Elective

3

Total Credit Hours:9-12

Concentration

Level II and Level III in any studio discipline

Total Credit Hours:6

Senior Exhibition/Capstone

ART 4450Senior Capstone Seminar and Exhibition

3

Total Credit Hours:3

Major Electives

Students must select four courses from photography, ceramics, sculpture, drawing, painting, and graphic design.

Total Credit Hours:12

Total Credit Hours: 120

ART 2301: This course also satisfies a general education requirement and appears in the number of hours for both general education and the major; in reality, art majors may have 28 additional hours to use for electives. Students may use elective hours to earn a minor or another major, as well as to develop additional marketable skills. The number of elective hours students may take will depend on the courses taken to satisfy general education requirements.