Art, Art Studio Concentration, B.A. MAP

Major Academic Plans

Students at Cal Poly Humboldt follow many different paths to graduation. Your educational and career goals, as well as personal interests all contribute to planning the courses you take.

Major Academic Plans or MAPs show what courses you might take each semester in order to meet university and major program requirements and graduate with a degree in four years. Discussing course options with an advisor will best serve you in planning a customized schedule to meet your individual academic needs.

Additionally, you may build your personalized plan in DARS planning tools using a program MAP as a resource. Meet with your advisor each semester to assist in planning and to review your progress.

Year 1

Semester 1 (15-17 Units)

GE Area A: Written Communication ENGL 102 - Composition and Rhetoric A Units: 3 OR ENGL 104 - Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric Units: 3
Optional: ENGL 110 - Academic Literacies Support and Seminar Units: 2
GE Area B: Mathematics MATH 103 - Mathematics as a Liberal Art Units: 3 OR (MATH 103I - Mathematics as a Liberal Art with Integrated Support Units: 3 AND MATH 3 - Support for Mathematics as a Liberal Art Units: 1 ) ^[1]
Major / GE Area C: Arts ART 103A - Prehistoric to Medieval Art Units: 3
Major / GE Area C: Arts ART 105B - Fundamentals of Drawing Units: 3
GE Area E: Lifelong Learning Units: 3

^[1]Credit earned for math support courses (MATH 3) do not count toward GE, major or graduation units.

Semester 2 (15-17 Units)

GE Area A: Oral Communication COMM 100 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication Units: 3
GE Area A: Written Communication ENGL 103 - Composition and Rhetoric B Units: 3 ^[2]
Optional: ENGL 110 - Academic Literacies Support and Seminar Units: 2
Major (Core) ART 103B - Renaissance to Contemporary Art Units: 3
Major (Core) ART 105C - 2D Foundations Units: 3
American Institutions/GE Area D: Social Science
U.S. and California Government
Units: 3

^[2]If ENGL 104 was taken the previous semester, take an elective, other GE or major course in place of ENGL 103.

Year 2

Semester 3 (15 Units)

Lower Division GE Area A: Critical Thinking
Units: 3
GE Area F: Ethnic Studies
(Take a course that double-counts for DCG Domestic) Units: 3
American Institutions
U.S. History
Units: 3
Major (Core) ART 105D - 3D Foundations Units: 3
Major (Concentration) LD Studio Art Elective #1 Units: 3

Semester 4 (15 Units)

Lower Division GE Area B: Physical Science
Units: 3
Lower Division GE Area C: Humanities
Units: 3
Lower Division GE Area D: Social Sciences
Units: 3
Major (Concentration) LD Studio Art Elective #2 Units: 3
Major (Concentration) LD Studio Art Elective #3 Units: 3

Year 3

Semester 5 (15 Units)

Lower Division GE Area B: Life Sciences
(Take a class with a lab activity) Units: 3
Major / UD GE Area C ART 301 - Topics in Western Art History Units: 3 OR ART 302 - Topics in Global Art History Units: 3 OR ART 304 - Topics in American Art Units: 3 OR ART 305 - Museums and the Politics of Display Units: 3
Major (Concentration) LD Studio Art Elective #4 Units: 3
Major (Concentration) UD Studio Art Elective #1 Units: 3
Major (Concentration) UD Studio Art Elective #2 Units: 3

Semester 6 (15 Units)

Major / DCG Non-Domestic ART 303 - Global Contemporary Art Units: 3
Major (Core): ART 303M - Global Contemporary Art Depth Experience Units: 1
Major (Concentration) UD Studio Art Elective #3 Units: 3
Major (Concentration) UD Studio Art Elective #4 Units: 3
Upper Division GE Area B: Math & Science
Units: 3
Elective Units: 2

Year 4

Semester 7 (15 Units)

Upper Division GE Area D: Social Sciences
Units: 3
Major (Concentration) UD Studio Art Elective #5^[3] Units: 3
Elective Units: 3
Elective Units: 3
Elective Units: 3

^[3]One of the UD Studio Art Elective courses must be a level III/Portfolio course)

Semester 8 (15 Units)

Major (Concentration) and GWAR: ART 437W - Professional Practices in Art Units: 3
Major (Concentration) UD Studio Art Elective #6^[3] Units: 3
Elective Units: 3
Elective Units: 3
Elective Units: 3