Tuition Fee
GBP 613
Per course
Start Date
Medium of studying
Fully Online
Duration
2 months
Program Facts
Program Details
Degree
Bachelors
Major
Fine Arts | Digital Arts | Visual Communications
Area of study
Arts
Education type
Fully Online
Timing
Part time
Course Language
English
Tuition Fee
Average International Tuition Fee
GBP 613
Intakes
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-23 | - |
| 2024-09-09 | - |
About Program
Program Overview
The Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art (BASA) at UNO requires 120 credit hours, with 63 in Studio Art courses. Students choose a concentration in one of five areas: Two Dimensional Arts, Three Dimensional Arts, Graphic Design, Media Arts, or Illustration. The program includes a core curriculum of art history, studio fundamentals, and professional practices. Graduates are prepared for careers in studio art, design, and art education.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Bachelor of Arts in studio art (BASA) requires a minimum of 120 credit hours of course work. The BASA provides a general liberal arts degree program with specialization in studio art. For the BASA, 63 of the required 120 credit hours are in ART courses.
Outline:
The program is structured around a core curriculum and a concentration in one of five studio art areas: Two Dimensional Arts Three Dimensional Arts Graphic Design Media Arts Illustration
Core Curriculum:
- Studio Core I:
- ART 1100 FOUNDATION: DRAWING (3 credits)
- ART 1110 FOUNDATION: 3D DESIGN (3 credits)
- ART 1210 FOUNDATION: 2-D DESIGN (3 credits)
- ART 1220 FOUNDATION: DIGITAL MEDIA (3 credits)
- ART 2000 CORE ONE PORTFOLIO REVIEW (0 credits)
- Art History Core:
- ART 2050 SURVEY OF WESTERN ART HISTORY I (3 credits)
- ART 2060 SURVEY OF WESTERN ART HISTORY II (3 credits)
- Select one course from each of the following two groups: (6 credits)
- Group A - Modern History:
- ART 3780 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE SINCE 1850
- ART 3830 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
- ART 3870 GENDER & SEXUALITY IN MODERN ART
- ART 4880 MODERN ART I (ART OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS, 1850-1920)
- ART 4890 MODERN ART II (ART OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS, 1918-1968)
- ART 4900 CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY SINCE 1968
- ART 4920 ART IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE SINCE 1900
- Group B - Pre-Modern History:
- ART 3700 INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT ART
- ART 3710 EGYPTIAN ART
- ART 3720 GREEK ART
- ART 3730 ETRUSCAN & ROMAN ART
- ART 3860 WOMEN IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ART
- ART 4770 EARLY MEDIEVAL ART
- ART 4780 LATE MEDIEVAL ART HISTORY
- ART 4850 BAROQUE AND ROCOCO ART HISTORY
- Additional Art History Elective: (3 credits) Approved by advisor
- Studio Art Concentration: (36 credits) Select a studio art concentration.
Concentration Requirements:
- Two Dimensional Arts:
- Studio Core II:
- ART 2100 LIFE DRAWING I (3 credits)
- ART 3310 ELEMENTARY SCULPTURE (3 credits) or ART 3330 ART IN PUBLIC PLACES (3 credits)
- ART 3410 ELEMENTARY PAINTING (3 credits)
- ART 3610 ELEMENTARY CERAMICS (3 credits)
- ART 3510 ELEMENTARY PRINTMAKING (3 credits) or ART 3520 PHOTOGRAPHIC DIGITAL PRINTMAKING (3 credits)
- Two Dimensional Concentration: (12 credits) Select 12 hours from the following list of courses, which must include intermediate and advanced, plus two electives within the concentration:
- ART 1810 WATERCOLOR I
- ART 1820 WATERCOLOR II
- ART 2110 LIFE DRAWING II
- ART 3100 ADVANCED DRAWING I
- ART 3110 ADVANCED DRAWING II
- ART 3210 COLOR THEORY
- ART 3420 INTERMEDIATE PAINTING
- ART 3520 PHOTOGRAPHIC DIGITAL PRINTMAKING
- ART 3530 PAPERMAKING
- ART 4410 ADVANCED PAINTING
- Three Dimensional Arts:
- Studio Core II:
- ART 2100 LIFE DRAWING I (3 credits)
- ART 3310 ELEMENTARY SCULPTURE (3 credits) or ART 3330 ART IN PUBLIC PLACES (3 credits)
- ART 3410 ELEMENTARY PAINTING (3 credits)
- ART 3510 ELEMENTARY PRINTMAKING (3 credits) or ART 3520 PHOTOGRAPHIC DIGITAL PRINTMAKING (3 credits)
- ART 3610 ELEMENTARY CERAMICS (3 credits)
- BASA 3D Arts Concentration: (12 credits) Select 12 hours from the following list of courses, which include intermediate and advance (6); plus two (2) electives WITHIN the concentration:
- ART 3200 THE HAND PRODUCED BOOK I: TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK DESIGN
- ART 3220 HAND PRODUCED BOOK II: LETTERPRESS PRINTING
- ART 3230 BOOK STRUCTURES: INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBINDING
- ART 3250 PATTERNED PAPER ART
- ART 3320 INTERMEDIATE SCULPTURE
- ART 3530 PAPERMAKING
- ART 3620 INTERMEDIATE CERAMICS
- ART 4210 PRINTED BOOKS
- ART 4310 ADVANCED SCULPTURE
- Graphic Design:
- Studio Core II:
- ART 3000 MEDIA ARTS 1 (3 credits)
- ART 3150 VIDEO ART (3 credits) or ART 3160 GAME DESIGN AS ART (3 credits) or ART 3120 MEDIA ARTS 2 (3 credits)
- ART 3140 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY (3 credits) or ART 3520 PHOTOGRAPHIC DIGITAL PRINTMAKING (3 credits)
- Studio Art Electives: (9 credits) Select one course from each group:
- Group A:
- ART 1810 WATERCOLOR I
- ART 2100 LIFE DRAWING I
- ART 3410 ELEMENTARY PAINTING
- ART 3510 ELEMENTARY PRINTMAKING
- Group B:
- ART 3200 THE HAND PRODUCED BOOK I: TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK DESIGN
- ART 3210 COLOR THEORY
- ART 3310 ELEMENTARY SCULPTURE
- ART 3330 ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
- ART 3530 PAPERMAKING
- ART 3610 ELEMENTARY CERAMICS
- Group C:
- ART 2300 WEB DESIGN
- ART 4010 SPECIAL TOPICS IN STUDIO ART
- ART 4130 MEDIA ART III
- ART 4530 ART INTERNSHIP
- ART 4920 ART IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE SINCE 1900
- Graphic Design Concentration:
- ART 2200 TYPEFACE DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY (3 credits)
- ART 3130 GRAPHIC DESIGN 1 (3 credits)
- ART 4150 GRAPHIC DESIGN 2 (3 credits)
- ART 4160 GRAPHIC DESIGN 3 (3 credits)
- ART 4170 GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO (3 credits)
- In addition to Art History Core & Electives stated earlier, Graphic Design majors are required to take in place of one elective: ART 3800 HISTORY OF DESIGN (3 credits)
- Select one of the following courses: (3 credits)
- ART 1810 WATERCOLOR I
- ART 2100 LIFE DRAWING I
- ART 3410 ELEMENTARY PAINTING
- Select One of the following courses: (3 credits)
- ART 3000 MEDIA ARTS 1
- ART 3130 GRAPHIC DESIGN 1
- Select one of the following courses: (3 credits)
- ART 3230 BOOK STRUCTURES: INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBINDING
- ART 3510 ELEMENTARY PRINTMAKING
- ART 3520 PHOTOGRAPHIC DIGITAL PRINTMAKING
- ART 3530 PAPERMAKING
- Select one of the following courses: (3 credits)
- ART 2100 LIFE DRAWING I
- ART 3100 ADVANCED DRAWING I
- ART 3120 MEDIA ARTS 2
- ART 3420 INTERMEDIATE PAINTING
- Illustration concentration:
- ART 2920 ILLUSTRATION 1: INTRODUCTION TO ILLUSTRATION (3 credits)
- ART 3920 ILLUSTRATION 2: THE STATIC IMAGE (3 credits)
- ART 4220 ILLUSTRATION 3: SEQUENTIAL IMAGES (3 credits)
- ART 4290 ILLUSTRATION STUDIO (3 credits)
- Media Arts:
- Studio Core II:
- ART 2100 LIFE DRAWING I (3 credits)
- Select one course from each group: (6 credits)
- Group A:
- ART 1810 WATERCOLOR I
- ART 2110 LIFE DRAWING II
- ART 3100 ADVANCED DRAWING I
- ART 3410 ELEMENTARY PAINTING
- ART 3510 ELEMENTARY PRINTMAKING
- Group B:
- ART 3200 THE HAND PRODUCED BOOK I: TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK DESIGN
- ART 3250 PATTERNED PAPER ART
- ART 3310 ELEMENTARY SCULPTURE or ART 3330 ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
- ART 3530 PAPERMAKING
- ART 3610 ELEMENTARY CERAMICS
- Studio Core II Elective: To be taken in either Two Dimensional or Three Dimensional concentration.
- Art Elective: (3 credits)
- Media Art Concentration: Students will choose either: Option A (Game Design) or Option B (Intermedia and Digital Art), Both with 21 credit hrs.
- Option A: Game Design:
- ART 3140 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY
- ART 3160 GAME DESIGN AS ART
- ART 3170 DIGITAL GAME DESIGN
- ART 4140 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY II
- ART 4180 ADVANCED DIGITAL GAME DESIGN
- ART 4190 GAME DESIGN STUDIO
- Art Elective
- Option B: Intermedia and Digital Art:
- ART 3000 MEDIA ARTS 1
- ART 3120 MEDIA ARTS 2
- ART 3150 VIDEO ART
- ART 4130 MEDIA ART III
- Art Elective
- Art Elective
- Art Elective
- Studio Art with K-12 Certification:
- Studio Core I (12 hrs. ), Studio Core II (18 hrs. ), Art History Core (9 hrs.) and Art History Elective (3 hrs.) courses are the same as in the BASA with a concentration in Two Dimensional or Three Dimensional Arts.
- K-12 Art Concentration:
- ART 3300 ELEMENTARY ART METHODS 1 (3 credits)
- ART 3370 TECHNOLOGY IN ARTS EDUCATION (3 credits)
- ART 4300 SECONDARY ART METHODS 1 (3 credits)
- ART 4350 TRENDING TOPICS IN ART EDUCATION (3 credits)
- Studio Electives: (6 credits) A student with a faculty advisor will select two upper-level classes. This list is an example of accepted courses but is not to be considered a comprehensive list:
- ART 1820 WATERCOLOR II
- ART 2110 LIFE DRAWING II
- ART 3000 MEDIA ARTS 1
- ART 3100 ADVANCED DRAWING I
- ART 3110 ADVANCED DRAWING II
- ART 3120 MEDIA ARTS 2
- ART 3130 GRAPHIC DESIGN 1
- ART 3140 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY
- ART 3170 DIGITAL GAME DESIGN
- ART 3200 THE HAND PRODUCED BOOK I: TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK DESIGN
- ART 3210 COLOR THEORY
- ART 3220 HAND PRODUCED BOOK II: LETTERPRESS PRINTING
- ART 3230 BOOK STRUCTURES: INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBINDING
- ART 3320 INTERMEDIATE SCULPTURE
- ART 3360 APPLIED ART & DESIGN
- ART 3420 INTERMEDIATE PAINTING
- ART 3520 PHOTOGRAPHIC DIGITAL PRINTMAKING
- ART 3530 PAPERMAKING
- ART 3620 INTERMEDIATE CERAMICS
- ART 4140 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY II
- ART 4150 GRAPHIC DESIGN 2
- ART 4180 ADVANCED DIGITAL GAME DESIGN
- ART 4310 ADVANCED SCULPTURE
- ART 4410 ADVANCED PAINTING
- ART 4510 ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN PRINTMAKING
- ART 4610 ADVANCED CERAMICS
- TED 2200 HUMAN RELATIONS FOR BIAS-FREE CLASSROOMS (3 credits)
- TED 2300 HUMAN GROWTH AND LEARNING (3 credits)
- SPED 3800 DIFFERENTIATION AND INCLUSIVE PRACTICES (3 credits)
- TED 2400 PLANNING FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING (6 credits)
Other:
- Students who complete a degree or certificate program from Metropolitan Community College in Design, Interactivity & Media Arts (DIMA), or Photography, Video/Audio Communications Arts upon successfully completing the ART 2000 CORE I Portfolio Review, can transfer up to 18 semester hours of their specific MCC concentration coursework to be applied in the Media Arts Concentration area.
- It is highly recommended that ART 3300 and ART 4300 be taken in the year just prior to student teaching.
- Pursuit of the K-12 certification requires admission to the Teacher Preparatory Program through the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences and a successfully completed PRAXIS Core Skills Exam.
- Students in the BASA w/ PK-12 Certification program must complete the Praxis Core Academic Skills test by the completion of TED 2400. Prior to the completion of Clinical Practice students must successfully complete the Praxis II Art Content Knowledge exam.
- BASA w/ PK-12 students must have at least a 2.5 GPA at the time of applying for the Pre-Professional Education Core classes (TED 2100 and TED 2200). By the time students formally apply to the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences (TED 2300 and TED 2400) student GPA must be 2.75.
- Should students unsuccessfully complete their Clinical Practice or choose to not move forward with the PK-12 Art Certification, students may still graduate with a BASA degree.
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