Art Degrees Online

Requirements may differ according to date of enrollment. Current students should check their college catalog.
Minor requirements: 18 credit hours

Course Number Title Credit Hours

ART 115 Masterpieces-Art to 1400 3
ART 116 Masterpieces-Art from 1400 to the Present 3

Two courses selected from 200-level art history offerings
6
One course selected from 300-level art history offerings
3

One course selected from 400-level art history offerings 3

All courses should be selected with advsing and approval of the department. Please consult with a department advisor in planning a course of study as an Art History minor.
Requirements for the Minor in Visual Arts and New Media

Requirements may differ according to date of enrollment. Current students should check their college catalog.
Minor requirements: 21 credit hours

Course Number Title Credit Hours

ART 116 Masterpieces-Art from 1400 to the Present 3
ART 150 Drawing I 3
ART 155 2-Dimensional Design 3

Four courses in any combination from courses in Visual and Media Arts
12

The Visual Arts and New Media minor can easily be organized to complement any major. The minor may take a variety of visual and media arts courses or the courses may be in a specific area of study. However, due to enrollment demands, a minor may find it difficult to register for some studios, so flexibility is important. Students should consult with a department advisor in planning a course of study as a Visual Arts and New Media minor.

Requirements may differ according to date of enrollment. Current students should check their college catalog.
Minor requirements: 18 credit hours

Course Number Title Credit Hours

ART 115 Masterpieces-Art to 1400 3
ART 116 Masterpieces-Art from 1400 to the Present 3

Two courses selected from 200-level art history offerings
6
One course selected from 300-level art history offerings
3

One course selected from 400-level art history offerings 3

All courses should be selected with advsing and approval of the department. Please consult with a department advisor in planning a course of study as an Art History minor.
Requirements for the Minor in Visual Arts and New Media

Requirements may differ according to date of enrollment. Current students should check their college catalog.
Minor requirements: 21 credit hours

Course Number Title Credit Hours

ART 116 Masterpieces-Art from 1400 to the Present 3
ART 150 Drawing I 3
ART 155 2-Dimensional Design 3

Four courses in any combination from courses in Visual and Media Arts
12

The Visual Arts and New Media minor can easily be organized to complement any major. The minor may take a variety of visual and media arts courses or the courses may be in a specific area of study. However, due to enrollment demands, a minor may find it difficult to register for some studios, so flexibility is important. Students should consult with a department advisor in planning a course of study as a Visual Arts and New Media minor.

Program Description

The photography program at ASU has earned an international reputation for the quality of its instruction and the broad range of course work offered. Students study the medium of photography as a means toward the creation of art and toward visual literacy. This involves the acquisition of technical skills, the development of a sound theoretical base and an immersion in photography’s history. Course work encompasses critiques of creative work, beginning and advanced criticism and theory, practice in gallery management as well as practice in black and white, color, digital, large format, portraiture and 19th-century processes.

Additional Program Fee: No

Second Language Requirement: No
Career Opportunities

A degree in the arts offers students a pathway to a rich and varied choice of careers. The B.F.A. is essential for advanced study leading to the terminal M.F.A. This advanced degree offers opportunities in university teaching, in history or studio areas, curatorial work in galleries, museums and historical collections and nonprofit arts organization management.

Admission Requirements

Students will be admitted to ASU as art exploratory majors. They must complete a series of requirements including successfully passing a portfolio review in order to be eligible for upper-division course work in the major.

Freshmen students applying to the Herberger College School of Art enter ASU as pre-art majors in the School of Art. There is no portfolio review process at the time of admission to ASU for freshmen.

Typically students in their second year interested in studio art and art education will submit a portfolio for review once they have completed their core requirements and are completing the last of the 12 hours of 200-level art requirements; or if they are interested in art history or museum studies, they will submit a declaration form in the semester in which they complete 30 hours.

Transfer students who have completed the foundational core and pre-art requirements may submit a portfolio for review before they have been admitted to ASU. To complete an undergraduate degree in four years, it is recommended that community college transfer students, who are completing a two year degree and have completed the foundational core and pre-art requirements apply and submit a portfolio in the semester they are completing their community college degree or the semester before they plan to enter Arizona State University.

Direct transfer of courses from other accredited institutions to the Katherine K. Herberger College of the Arts are subject to:
the existence of parallel and equal courses in the college’s curriculum, and
departmental or school evaluation of studio courses with respect to performance standards.

Every candidate for the bachelor’s degree must earn a minimum of 30 semester hours in resident credit at ASU. Transfer students enrolled in the college must complete a minimum of 15 semester hours of resident credit in the major as approved by the faculty.

Program Description
Degree Awarded: MFA Art (Photography)

The photography program includes critical and cultural analysis of photography. Students can explore interdisciplinary options in their art through close links among the photography program and a number of other disciplines, including printmaking, intermedia and sculpture. The Northlight Gallery is part of the School of Art’s photography program and students have the opportunity to exhibit, view and study the work of outstanding photographic artists from across the country. Students who take the photographic exhibitions class learn how to run a gallery and get practical experience and theoretical training.

Degree Requirements

A minimum of 60 hours of graduate credit subject to committee approval is required, including:
Twenty-seven to 32 graduate studio credit hours in the major area(s) of concentration.
Six credit hours of graduate-level art history and three credit hours of other interdisciplinary graduate credit to supplement M.F.A. work (nonstudio courses).
Nine credit hours of graduate-level course work outside of the major area of concentration, of which three credit hours must begin with the ART prefix and the remaining six credit hours may be outside the School of Art.
Ten to 15 hours of ART 680 Practicum, resulting in an M.F.A. exhibition.

Admission Requirements

All applicants must submit the Graduate College online application. A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university recognized by ASU is required. All students applying for the M.F.A. must submit to the graduate coordinator:
A portfolio of images of their work on a CD-ROM disk containing 20 JPEG files (1000 pixels in the long dimension) or 20 images assembled as a PowerPoint presentation.
Three letters of recommendation.
A current curriculum vitae.
A statement of intent pertaining to the student’s educational objectives.