/Institutions/Messiah-College/json/2019-2020/Undergraduate-Catalog-local.json
/Institutions/Messiah-College/json/2019-2020/Undergraduate-Catalog.json
Studio Art (B.A.) Three-Dimensional Studies Concentration
Program Overview
The Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Studio Arts is designed to provide students with both breadth and depth. At the completion of their program art students demonstrate a knowledge of several areas of art and design along with one in depth area. Studio Art majors must maintain a 2.5 grade point average in their major to remain in the program.
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates from Messiah’s Studio Art program can:
- Apply a basic knowledge of foundational design skills used for composing & evaluating visual arts.
- Understand of the relationship between the arts and other areas of study such as history, philosophy, religion, social sciences, and technology.
- Identify themes, historical time periods and cultural context of visual arts
- Analyze art and write in a clear and coherent fashion. Demonstrates an ability to research, process and write about the visual arts
- Compose and execute foundation level projects.
- Critique work using appropriate terms and concepts
- Apply emerging technologies to solving visual problems/projects
- Display mastery and depth in concentration area
- Present first-hand knowledge of working with professionals in their field
- Relate studio experience to employment possibilities.
- Apply skills in the service of not-for-profits and marginalized sectors of society.
- Display an incipient understanding of the historical and formal connections between Christianity and the visual arts.
- Articulate the relationship between faith and creative work.
Major Requirements
Complete the following for your major:
ART 110 | Visual Thinking and Digital Tools | 3 |
ART 171 | Foundations of Drawing | 3 |
ART 182 | Color and Design | 3 |
ART 282 | Form, Space, and Media | 3 |
ART 493 | Art Seminar | 3 |
ART 494 | Senior Exhibit | 3 |
ARTH 111 | Methods & Theories of Art History | 3 |
ARTH xxx
| Elective Art History (200 level or above) | 3 |
| Sophomore Review | |
ART 493: Fulfills Writing Enriched course requirement for major.
Three credits from the following:
ARTH 150 | Art History I: Ancient through Medieval Art | 3 |
ARTH 151 | Art History II: Renaissance through Contemporary Art | 3 |
Three credits from the following:
Three-Dimensional Concentration (15 credits)
Select nine credits from three different processes:
Ceramics:
Fibers:
Furniture:
Installation:
ART 308 | Installation Art and Public Sculpture | 3 |
Paper and Book Structures:
Sculpture:
Three credits from the following or an additional sculpture or fibers course above:
Cross-Concentration Studies (12 credits)
Six credits from Graphic Design and Digital Art:
ART 112 | Intro to Graphic Design | 3 |
ART 236 | Graphic Design and Visual Culture: Seeing, Thinking, Making | 3 |
ART 237 | Typography and Visual Communications | 3 |
ART 312 | Digital Imaging | 3 |
ART 337 | Graphic Design and Professional Practice | 3 |
ART 338 | Digital Illustration | 3 |
ART 345 | Interactive Design II | 3 |
ART 347 | Service Centered Design | 3 |
ART 382 | Digital Photography | 3 |
ART 405 | Topics in Graphic Design | 3 |
ART 420 | Designer as Author:Book Design, Zines | 3 |
ART 431 | Motion Design | 3 |
Six credits from two processes in the following 2-D courses:
Drawing:
Painting:
Photography:
Printmaking:
QuEST Requirements
Experiential Learning requirement |
0 |
QuEST requirements |
Credits |
First Year Seminar |
3 |
Oral Communication |
3 |
Created and Called for Community (W) |
3 |
Mathematical Sciences |
3 or 4 |
Laboratory Science |
3 or 4 |
Science, Technology & the World |
3 |
Two of the following (6 credits total):
Social Science
European History
United States History |
6 |
Literature |
3 |
Philosophy and Religion |
3 |
Arts (ART course meeting QuEST) |
met/major |
First Semester of Language |
3 |
Second Semester of Language |
3 |
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural |
3 |
Non-Western Studies |
2 or 3 |
Bible |
3 |
Christian Beliefs |
3 |
Wellness course |
1 |
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism |
3 |
QuEST requirements |
51-54 |
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration) |
57 |
Free electives |
15-12 |
Total credits |
123 |