Undergraduate Programs
Degree Programs
Bachelor of Fine Arts
General Academic Requirements
Students in Herron B.F.A. degree programs must successfully complete a program of general academic courses, as well as more concentrated studies within their specialties, to earn their degrees. Students are required to have 9-15 credit hours of art history and 30 credit hours distributed in the humanities, life and physical sciences, and social and behavioral science.
The list that follows provides details on general academic requirements for ceramics, furniture design, general fine arts, printing, photography, printmaking, sculpture. See the description for visual communication for a list of specialty requirements.
*Students not scoring well on the writing placement test will be required to register for W130 Fundamentals of English, a developmental course, before taking W131 Elementary Composition I.
Art History
- HER-H 101*
- HER-H 102*
- HER-H 103
- 6 additional credit hours in art history.
Total: 15 credits
Humanities
English ENG-W 131*, ENG-L 115 or ENG-L 105*, and 6 additional credit hours selected from:
- Africana Studies
- Classical Studies
- Communications Studies
- Comparative Literature
- English
- Film Studies
- Folklore
- Foreign Language
- Journalism
- Music
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
- Speech and Hearing
Total: 12 credits
Life and Physical Science
6 credits from:
- Anatomy
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Food and Nutrition
- Geology
- Mathematics (starting with MATH-M 118, MATH 00100, 11000, 11100 will not be allowed to count toward a Herron degree)
- Physical Geography (GEOG-G 107, GEOG-G 303, and GEOG-G 404)
- Physics
Total: 6 credits
Social and Behavioral Science
6 credits from:
- Anthropology
- Business
- Economics
- History
- Labor Studies
- Nonphysical Geography
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public and Environmental Affairs
- Social Work
- Sociology
Total: 6 credits
Academic Electives
An additional 6 credits must be taken from one or more of the above groups, i.e., humanities, life and physical sciences, social and behavioral science. Art history may not be used to satisfy this academic elective requirement.
Total: 6 credits
* Accomplished as part of the Foundation Program.