Available only at OSU-Cascades.

This program provides students with the required skills needed for the contemporary visual arts and design fields. Specifically, the degree provides students with skills in digital imaging, video, design, interactivity, gaming, and 3D output as well as basic visual studies fundamentals in creative communication, color theory, image output and display. This program creates a unique educational experience within Oregon by providing a trans-disciplinary curriculum; traditional studio practice combined with communication and entrepreneurship coursework while also instilling technical practices for professional application. This coursework provides graduates with the content knowledge, experience, and technological skills that employers argue are necessary to be competitive in the 21st century arts and design industries and communities.

Major Code: 907

• Create original visual work that exhibits a distinctive, dynamic and unique personal voice.
• Develop written and verbal competencies to describe and analyze visual art and graphic design through writing, conceptual development, research, study of theory and critique of the intent of their own work.
• Develop necessary techniques and execution of form and content relevant to visual communication in 2D, 3D, and 4D mediums.
• Demonstrate competency with industry standards through a professional art or design experience and an embrace of new technologies.
• Develop an original, innovative and articulate body of work for a professional portfolio.
• Focus on ethics in the process of making various forms of visual communication.

BA Requirement

BS Requirement

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 Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)

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 Writing Intensive Course (WIC)

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 To fulfill the prerequisites of ART 366, AMT majors are advised to take the following courses as part of their Baccalaureate Core and College of Liberal Arts Core: ART 204 (BCC Western Culture, Year 1), ART 205 (BCC Literature and The Arts, Year 2), ART 206 (CLA Fine Arts, Year 2)

Major Code: 907