A student working in the ceramics studio.

The 3D Studies Concentration equips students with proficiency in three-dimensional processes and materials for a life-long creative practice. It seeks to foster a rigorous yet supportive studio environment in sculpture and object design that encourages each student to develop their own unique artistic voice informed by interactions among students and with faculty as well as history and the current moment.

Major Requirements

A total of 78 semester hours: 34 semester hours of lower division courses and 44 semesters hours of upper division courses.

  • 34 semester hours of lower division courses: 26 semester hours of Studio Arts and 8 semester hours of Art History.

    Studio Arts Foundations

    • ART 1001 Foundation I 4 semester hours
    • ART 1002 Foundation II 4 semester hours
    • ART 1003 Foundation III 4 semester hours
    • ART 1010 Freshman Workshop in Studio Arts 2 semester hours

    3D Studies Lower Division Requirements

    • ART 2474 Form as Art 4 semester hours
    • ART 2476 Ceramic Sculpture 4 semester hours
    • ART 2478 Ceramics I: Earth and Art 4 semester hours
    • ARHS 2004 Modernism 4 semester hours
    • ARHS Lower Division Elective
      Choose one class from:
      • ARHS 2000 Foundations of Western Art 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 2002 Art and Society: Early Christian to Early Modern 4 semester hours
  • 44 semester hours of upper division courses: 36 semester hours of Studio Arts and 8 semester hours of Art History.

    • ART 3474 Advanced 3D Studies 4 semester hours
    • ART 3478 Drawing and Clay 4 semester hours
    • ART 3554 Art and Ecology 4 semester hours
    • ART 3594 Gallery Issues and Practices 4 semester hours
    • ART 3597 Professional Practices in Fine Arts 2 semester hours
    • ART 3602 Design Concept to Form 4 semester hours
    • ART 3xxx or 4xxx Upper Division art electives 10 semester hours
    • ART 4950 Senior Thesis in Fine Arts 4 semester hours
    • ARHS 4630 Contemporary Art 4 semester hours
    • ARHS Non-Western elective 4 semester hours
      Choose one class from:
      • ARHS 3311 Pre-Columbian Art 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 3331 Arts of Africa 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 3341 Arts of Islam 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 3351 Arts of Asia 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4301 Arts of India 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4303 Arts of China 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4305 Arts of Southeast Asia 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4307 Arts of Japan 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4998 Special Studies 4 semester hours (if a non-Western topic is to be studied)