2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Art - Visual and New Media Arts, BA

The Visual Arts Program at Our Lady of the Lake University offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual and New Media Arts that offers a wide range of courses to cultivate students' creativity as well as the technological skills required of a new media arts focus. Students in the program are able to explore their passion, whether it is painting, ceramics, printmaking, digital imaging, or animation. The degree allows students to tailor their degree to create a visual arts focus, a new media arts focus or a combination of both.

This major does not require a minor.

Total number of hours required for this degree:

120 semester hours

Total number of hours in major:

63 semester hours

Total number of advanced hours required in major:

48 semester hours

Major Courses Required: 48 hrs

ARTS 1361 - Art Appreciation 3 hour(s)
ARTS 2310 - Design I - 2D 3 hour(s)
ARTS 2330 - Design III - 3D 3 hour(s)
ARTS 2340 - Design IV - 4D 3 hour(s)
ARTS 2370 - Design II-Color Theory 3 hour(s)
ARTS 3310 - Digital Imaging I 3 hour(s)
ARTS 3355 - Digital Photography I 3 hour(s)
ARTS 3361 - Mexican American Visual Art 3 hour(s)
ARTS 5335 - Professional Exhibition Practicum 3 hour(s)
ARTS 5336 - Barrio Art and Popular Culture 3 hour(s)
15 Additional Advanced (3000-level or higher) credit hours in ARTS ARTS 5370 - Senior Exhibition Seminar 3 hour(s)

Collateral Courses Required: 15 hrs

ENGL 3314 - Fundamentals of Professional and Technical Writing 3 hour(s)
ENGL 3333 - Grant Writing 3 hour(s)

Select One of the Following:

COMM 4302 - Event Planning and Management 3 hour(s)
MGMT 3350 - Principles of Management 3 hour(s)

Select One of the Following:

COMM 3338 - Marketing for the Media 3 hour(s)
MKTG 3331 - Principles of Marketing 3 hour(s)

Select One of the Following:

COMM 3371 - Media Publications Design 3 hour(s)
MKTG 3355 - Principles of Sales and Promotion 3 hour(s)

Required General Education Courses:

CMAS 1301 - Introduction to Mexican American Studies 3 hour(s)
ENGL 2370 - Survey of Mexican American Literature 3 hour(s)

Suggested Sequencing of Major Courses Bachelor or Arts in Visual and New Media Arts

Fall - Year One

INDS 1311 - Applications of Learning 3 hour(s)
(required of first time traditional freshmen)
ARTS 2310 - Design I - 2D 3 hour(s)
ARTS 3355 - Digital Photography I 3 hour(s)

ENGLISH 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

FINE ARTS 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

ARTS 1361 - Art Appreciation 3 hour(s)

Total: 15 hrs

Spring - Year One

ARTS 2370 - Design II-Color Theory 3 hour(s)
ARTS 3310 - Digital Imaging I 3 hour(s)

MATHEMATICS 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

ENGLISH 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

FOREIGN LANGUAGE/MULTICULTURAL 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

CMAS 1301 - Introduction to Mexican American Studies 3 hour(s)

Total: 15 hrs

Fall - Year Two

3 Advanced (3000-level or higher) credit hours in ARTS
3 additional credit hours*
ARTS 2330 - Design III - 3D 3 hour(s)

LITERATURE 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

ENGL 2370 - Survey of Mexican American Literature 3 hour(s)

NATURAL SCIENCE 4 hrs

General Education Requirements

Total: 16 hrs

Spring - Year Two

3 Additional Advanced (3000-level or higher) credit hours in ARTS
3 additional credit hours*
ARTS 2340 - Design IV - 4D 3 hour(s)

HISTORY 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

PHILOSOPHY 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

Total: 15 hrs

Fall - Year Three

ARTS 3361 - Mexican American Visual Art 3 hour(s)
3 Advanced (3000-level or higher) credit hours in ARTS
ENGL 3333 - Grant Writing 3 hour(s)

SOCIAL SCIENCE 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

THEOLOGY 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

Total: 15 hrs

Spring - Year Three

ARTS 5336 - Barrio Art and Popular Culture 3 hour(s)
3 Advanced (3000-level or higher) credit hours in ARTS
ENGL 3314 - Fundamentals of Professional and Technical Writing 3 hour(s)
COMM 3338 - Marketing for the Media 3 hour(s)
OR
MKTG 3331 - Principles of Marketing 3 hour(s)

DRAMA 3 hrs

General Education Requirements

Total: 15 hrs

Fall - Year Four

ARTS 5370 - Senior Exhibition Seminar 3 hour(s)
3 Advanced (3000-level or higher) credit hours in ARTS
6 additional credit hours*
MKTG 3355 - Principles of Sales and Promotion 3 hour(s)
OR
COMM 3371 - Media Publications Design 3 hour(s)

Total: 15 hrs

Spring - Year Four

ARTS 5335 - Professional Exhibition Practicum 3 hour(s)
8 additional credit hours*
MGMT 3350 - Principles of Management 3 hour(s)
OR
COMM 4302 - Event Planning and Management 3 hour(s)

Total: 14 hrs

Note(s):

The following components are required in all degrees:

General education, major, minor, validation of completion of:

overall semester hours - 120
institutional semester hours - 45
overall advanced hours - 36
institutional advanced hours - 24

Required General Education courses:

ARTS 1361 , ENGL 2370 , CMAS 1301

Acceptable minor fields:

Any approved minor.