Undergraduate Progarms

The Department of Art offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum in the visual arts leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts. Subsequent acceptance into the graduate program allows students to pursue the degrees of Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts. Majors receive broad-based instruction in the foundation areas and proceed through increasingly specialized programs of study that emphasize personal concepts and technical refinement.

The Bachelor of Arts degree is offered in Art. Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees are offered in Studio Arts with emphasis areas in Ceramics, Experimental Studies, Painting, Photography or Sculpture. The BFA is also offered in Visual Communication with Emphasis in Art Direction, Design, New Media, Photography or Illustration/Copywriting.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Communication, i.e., Art Direction, Design Communications, New Media, and Photography Copywriting or Illustration prepares students for careers in the advertising industry. Advanced courses in these areas are offered at the Universities Center at Dallas, where new facilities, field trips and internships keep students abreast of the latest trends and technologies in the rapidly-growing field of Communication Arts.

The Department of Art utilizes several buildings on campus for its many different programs and courses, including the University Gallery which hosts an annual series of exhibits of interest to the University and the surrounding area.