Art: Graphic Design (BA/BS)
Graphic Design plays a pivotal role in todays visual culture, having a major impact on the area of advertising design, web design, publishing design, and social media. The BA/BS Art: Graphic Design degree provides training in all of these areas while allowing students the opportunity to develop other individual art skills.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
courses  | credit hours (ba)  | credit hours (bS)  | 
|---|---|---|
Developing A Christian Mind  | 3  | 3  | 
English  | 12  | 9  | 
ENGL 1301 - Composition and Rhetoric I ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II  | ||
ENGL 2301 - World Literature I and/or ENGL 2302 - World Literature II  | ||
Fine Arts  | 3  | 3  | 
Foreign Language   | 14*  | 0  | 
Foundations for Excellence  | 1  | 1  | 
FOUN 1101 - Foundations for Excellence is required of all first-year and transfer students with fewer than 15 credit hours. (AP, CLEP, IB, or dual/concurrent credit earned while in high school does not count toward these 15 credit hours.)  | ||
History  | 6  | 6  | 
Choose two: HIST 1301 - U.S. History to 1865 HIST 1302 - U.S. History Since 1865 HIST 2301 - World Civilization I HIST 2302 - World Civilization II  | ||
Kinesiology  | 2  | 2  | 
KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living and one additional activity course (KNES 1102-1122); for veterans or those 25 years of age or older prior to enrollment at DBU, KNES courses are waived  | ||
Mathematics  | 3  | 3  | 
(BA) Choose one: MATH 1301 - Math for Liberal Arts MATH 1303 - College Algebra MATH 1307 - Finite Math for Business Analysis MATH 1405 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry I 
 Choose one: MATH 1303 - College Algebra MATH 1307 - Finite Math for Business Analysis MATH 1405 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry I  | ||
Natural Science (1000 or 2000 level courses only)  | 4  | 15  | 
One laboratory science (BA) or 15 credit hours of laboratory science (BS) selected from two or more areas of Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, Physical Science, or Physics  | ||
Religion  | 9  | 9  | 
RELI 1301 - Old Testament Survey RELI 1302 - New Testament Survey and three additional credit hours depending on credit hours transferred at time of initial enrollment  | ||
Social Science (1000 or 2000 level courses only)  | 6  | 6  | 
POLS 2301 - American National Government and PSYC 1301 - General Psychology or SOCI 1301 Introduction to Sociology  | ||
TOTAL GENERAL STUDIES HOURS  | 63  | 57  | 
Art: Graphic Design Major  | 45  | 45  | 
Complete the following 16 courses for 45 semester hours: ART 1301 - Design I ART 1303 - Drawing I ART 2050 - Sophomore Portfolio Review ART 2303 - Drawing II ART 2314 - Photography I ART 3318 - Web Design ART 3319 - Visual Communication ART 3321 - Graphic Design I ART 3322 - Graphic Design II ART 3325 - Lettering and Typography ART 4300 - Portfolio Research ART 4301 - Internship in Art (S-L) ART 4318 - History of Graphic Design I ART 4321 - Advertising Design (S-L) ART 4338 - History of Graphic Design II COMA 3304 - Writing Across Media  | ||
Complete the following allied courses for 6 credit hours:  | 6  | 6  | 
MRKT 3301 - Principles of Marketing (required) PSYC 4303 - Social Psychology (required)  | ||
Specialization Electives:  | 6  | 6  | 
Complete at least 6 additional upper-level credit hours of courses in ART: ART 3303 - Drawing III (Requisite ART 2303) ART 3305 - Art History I ART 3306 - Art History II ART 3310 - Painting II (Requisite ART 2310) ART 3314 - Photography II (Requisite ART 2314) ART 3341 - Photography Process and Practice (Requisite: ART 3314) ART 4327 - Color and Composition ART 4328 - Illustration I ART 4329 - Illustration II ART 4341 - Business of Photography  | ||
Electives  | ||
Upper-Level  | 0  | 0  | 
Lower or Upper-Level  | 0  | 6  | 
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED  | 120  | 120  | 
A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor’s degree is required, including 36 upper-level credit hours.
At least 12 credit hours in the major program must be completed at Dallas Baptist University, including nine upper-level course hours.
Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University. DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0.
(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.
Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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