2023-2024 Cal Poly Humboldt Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2023-2024 Cal Poly Humboldt Catalog

Art, Art Studio Concentration, B.A.


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The art studio concentration helps students develop the strong conceptual ability and technical foundation required of professionals in all their endeavors. We recognize the broader role of art in today’s increasingly visual culture. Our graduates must be leaders in that society with independence of mind, spirited curiosity, and a sense of art’s important connection to a rapidly changing world.

Our program offers courses in painting, ceramics, drawing, digital media, jewelry and metalsmithing, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. We provide large and well-equipped studio facilities (including computer labs), small classes with individual attention, and a faculty of artists who remain active in their own creative pursuits.

The upper division component is tailored to each student’s individual studio emphasis. Through problem-solving assignments and accompanying instruction, students learn processes and strategies for creating works of art in various media. By concentrating on a particular studio area in depth, students can prepare a portfolio for further professional opportunities or for postgraduate study.

We have two galleries on campus. The Reese Bullen gallery sponsors exhibitions of works by professional artists that are relevant to areas of instruction. The Reese Bullen gallery also presents an annual exhibition of student art. The Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery highlights the work of contemporary and traditional Native American artists. The Student Access Gallery Club, a student-run organization, curates and exhibits student work in venues around campus.

Our graduates have gone on to a wide variety of arts related careers, including work as professional graphic artists, web designers, painters, commercial jewelers, photographers, illustrators and ceramicists as well as art teachers, art directors, museum and gallery professionals and art administrators. 

Preparation: In high school take as many art courses as possible in a variety of areas.   

Requirements for the Bachelor’s Degree


A bachelor’s degree requires a total of 120 units. Students must fulfill General Education & All-University Requirements , residency, unit, and GPA requirements as outlined in the Bachelor’s Degree Requirements . This major includes a Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) certified course.

Requirements for the Major (55 Units)


The Art major with a concentration in Art Studio requires 55 units, with 31 units of core coursework and 24 units of concentration specific courses. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- in any major course for it to count toward the major.

Core: Art History Elective (Complete one)


Students in the Art Education or Art Studio Concentrations may select any course from the following list. Students in the Art History and Museum Studies Concentration must take ART 305 to meet the major core requirements. (Students in this concentration will take additional lower and upper division art history courses to meet concentration specific requirements.)

Core: Art Studio Elective (Complete two)


Students in the Art Education and Art Studio Concentrations may select any two courses from the following list to meet the major core requirements. (Students in these concentrations will take additional lower and upper division art studio courses to meet concentration specific requirements.) Students in the Art History and Museum Studies Concentration must take ART 356 and ART 482.

Core: Capstone (3-4 Units)


Complete one course.

Program Learning Outcomes


Upon completion of this program, students will be able  to:

  1. Examine the relationship and influence of the visual arts in a historical and cultural context.
  2. Recognize and evaluate critical and aesthetic issues within the history of art and contemporary studio practice.
  3. Apply aesthetic judgment, perceptual sensitivity, and critical thinking skills to arts related issues.
  4. Demonstrate mastery of specific technical, conceptual and/or critical abilities within each concentration area.
  5. Communicate effectively, in both written and oral formats, on research and creative issues.

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