Art and Visual Culture

Goals and Requirements for Majors and Minors

Goals for the Major

Students who successfully complete a major in studio art will:

  • Be skilled at brainstorming, playing with, and engaging creative resources.
  • Demonstrate an intermediate technical mastery in at least one studio medium.
  • Possess analytic, research and critical skills.
  • Express their ideas and work through visual, written and oral presentation.
  • Produce a coherent, cohesive body of work accompanied by an artist's statement and presented professionally.
  • Understand major trends in the history of art and visual culture.
  • Gain competency in digital image management.

Requirements for Major or Minor

For a Studio Major: 40 credits, 100, 101, 110, 120, 310, 319, 390, 391 and three studios, two of which are in the same medium. Students seeking to major in Studio Art shall have completed at
least 100 or 101 and one other foundation course (110 or 120), and be currently enrolled in a third. Portfolio reviews will be scheduled each spring. Major standing requires students to maintain an overall 2.5 GPA and a cumulative 3.0 average in AVC courses.

For a Thesis-track Studio Major (Advised for all majors who intend to attend graduate school or pursue a career in the visual arts): all requirements for the studio major plus Thesis I and II (490, 491), Electronic Media (242) and one additional visual culture class. Such students will have automatically completed a minor in visual culture, and may qualify for departmental honors.

For a Studio Minor: 20 credits, including 100,101,110, 120 and one additional studio elective. Minors must achieve a grade of C or better in all required courses.

For a Visual Culture Minor: 20 credits, including 110, 310, 319 and one additional visual culture course, plus one of the following: 100, 101 or 120. All courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.

For Oregon Initial Teacher Licensure in Art: A student must complete: (1) the Linfield Teacher Education Program requirements (see page 56) and (2) the State of Oregon licensure requirements which includes passing all state-mandated tests (see page 56). In order to complete these requirements, a student must begin taking education courses no later than his/her sophomore year. The student must be advised by an Education Department faculty member each semester prior to registration.