Fine Art, B.F.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 Units)

GE Area A: Written Communication: ENGL 104 - Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric Units: 3
GE Area B: Mathematics: MATH 103 - Mathematics as a Liberal Art Units: 3
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

Semester 2 (15 Units)

GE Area A: Oral Communication COMM 100 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication Units: 3
GE Area F: Ethnic Studies
/ DCG Domestic Units: 3
Major (Core) ART 103B - Renaissance to Contemporary Art Units: 3
Major (Core) ART 105C - 2D Foundations Units: 3
Elective Units: 3

Year 2

To Do: Apply to the BFA program.

Semester 3 (15 Units)

Lower Division GE Area A: Critical Thinking Units: 3
American Institutions / GE Area D: Social Science
U.S. and California Government
Units: 3
Major (Core) ART 105D - 3D Foundations Units: 3
Major (Core) LD Studio Art Elective #1 Units: 3
Major (Core) LD Studio Art Elective #2 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
American Institutions
U.S. History
Units: 3
Major (Core) LD Studio Art Elective #3 Units: 3

Year 3

Semester 5 (15 Units)

Major / UD GE Area C ART 301 - Topics in Western Art History Units: 3 , ART 302 - Topics in Global Art History Units: 3 OR ART 304 - Topics in American Art Units: 3
Major (Core) LD Studio Art Elective #4 Units: 3
Major (Core) UD Studio Art Elective #1 Units: 3
Major (Core) UD Studio Art Elective #2 Units: 3
GE Area B: Life Sciences Units: 3 (take a course with a lab component)

Semester 6 (16 Units)

Major / DCG Non-Domestic ART 303 - Global Contemporary Art Units: 3 and ART 303M - Global Contemporary Art Depth Experience Units: 1
Upper Division GE Area D: Social Sciences Units: 3
Major (Core) UD Studio Art Elective #3 Units: 3
Major (Core) UD Studio Art Elective #4 Units: 3
Major (Core) ART 356 - Museum and Gallery Practices Units: 3

Year 4

Semester 7 (15 Units)

Upper Division GE Area B: Math & Science
Units: 3
Major (Core) and GWAR: ART 437W - Professional Practices in Art Units: 3
Major (Core): UD Studio Art Elective #5 Units: 3
Major (Core): UD Studio Art Elective #6 Units: 3
Elective Units: 3

Semester 8 (14-15 Units)

Major (Core): ART 494 - B.F.A. Practicum in Studio Art Units: 3
Major (Core) UD Art History ART 301 - Topics in Western Art History Units: 3 , ART 302 - Topics in Global Art History Units: 3 , ART 304 - Topics in American Art Units: 3 OR ART 410W - Art History Seminar Units: 4
Major (Core) UD Studio Art Elective #7 Units: 3
Major (Core) UD Studio Art Elective #8 Units: 3
Elective Units: 2-3 as needed.

Major Notes:

A minimum grade of C- is required for all major courses.