Degree Requirements

(Total Minimum Credits Required: 61)

Each candidate for an Associate in Fine Arts-Art Degree shall:

• Select courses to complete the required 61 credits from:
  • Specific program required courses and electives totaling a minimum of 36 credit hours;
  • General education core requirements totaling a minimum of 25 credit hours.
• Earn no more than 6 credits in History in the Humanities and Fine Arts and Social and Behavioral Sciences categories combined for general education credit.
• Earn no credit with a satisfactory/fail grade option.
• Earn no more than 42 credits for the Communication, Physical and Life Sciences, Mathematics, Humanities and Fine Arts, and Social and Behavioral Sciences categories by demonstrated competence through the Advanced Placement (AP) Program, designated course-specific subject examinations of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), and the College of DuPage Proficiency Through an Instructor Program. 

Program Required courses - 36 credit hours

Art History Core Courses - 9 credits

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
ART 2211	Art Histories Before 1400 CE	3
ART 2212	Art Histories 1400 to 1950	3
ART 2213	Art Histories Since 1950	3
Total Credits		9

Art History Elective - 3 credits
Choose from the following courses, or any additional approved art history elective at the 2000 level.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
ART 2214	Non-Western Art
ART 2215	History of Adornment
ART 2216	Introduction to Philosophy of Art
ART 2217	Art and Nature
ART 2218	Seeing Animals
ART 1823	Selected Topics in Art
or ART 2820	Advanced Selected Topics I
MPTV 1111	Film/Video Aesthetics
MPTV/ENGLI 1145	Film History
PHOTO 1105	History of Photography
Total Credits		3

Art Studio Core Courses - 12 credits
Complete the Art Studio Core courses before enrolling in Art Studio Elective courses.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
ART 1101	Drawing I	3
ART 1151	Two-Dimensional Foundations Studio	3
ART 1152	Three-Dimensional Foundations Studio	3
ART 2201	Life Drawing I	3
Total Credits		12

Art Studio Electives - 12 to 15 credits
Select at least 4 of the following elective courses, or any additional approved art studio elective at the 2000 level, with at least 1 from 3D Electives and 1 from 4D/Digital Media Electives.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
3D Electives
ART 2231	Sculpture I
ART 2232	Sculpture II
ART 2241	Ceramics I
ART 2242	Ceramics II
ART 2244	Ceramics Wood, Raku, & Pit Firings
ART 2251	Jewelry/Metalsmithing I
ART 2252	Jewelry/Metalsmithing II
4D/Digital Media Electives
ART 2266	Digital Art I
ART 2267	Digital Art II
ART 2281	Time Based Media I
ART 2282	Time Based Media II
GRDSN 1102	Graphic Design 1
MPTV 1011	Introduction to Motion Picture and Television
MPTV 1311	Introduction to Animation
PHOTO 1101	Foundations of Digital Photography
2D/Other Electives
ART 1102	Drawing II
ART 1199	Introduction to Print Media I
ART 1800	Special Project
ART 1823	Selected Topics in Art (Studio)
ART 2151	Color Theory
ART 2202	Life Drawing II
ART 2221	Painting I
ART 2222	Painting II
ART 2275	Intaglio Printmaking
ART 2276	Lithography
ART 2900	Portfolio Development and Professional Practices for Artists
ART 2800	Special Project
PHOTO 1100	Fundamentals of Photography
PHOTO 1102	Foundations of Film Photography
Total Credits		12-15

General Education Courses - 25 credit hours

Communication - 9 credits

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
ENGLI 1101	English Composition I	3
ENGLI 1102	English Composition II	3
SPEEC 1100	Fundamentals of Speech Communication	3
Total Credits		9

Physical and Life Sciences - 4 to 10 credits

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Select at least one course from Life Sciences or Physical Sciences with a laboratory component. Students with sufficient preparation may select from IAI science majors courses. Check with www.itransfer.org. A minimum of 4 credits must be selected from the following list:
Life Sciences
Biology
BIOLO 1100	Survey of Biology (L1 900L)
BIOLO 1110	Environmental Biology (L1 905L)
BIOLO 1120	Introduction to Genetics (L1 906,No Lab)
BIOLO 1130	Fundamentals of Biotechnology (L1 906L)
BIOLO 1151	Principles of Biological Science (L1 910L)
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
CHEMI 1105	Contemporary Chemistry (P1 903L)
CHEMI 1137	(P1 903L)
CHEMI 1205	Intro to Forensic Science & Chemistry (P1 903L)
CHEMI 1211	Survey of General Chemistry (P1 902L)
CHEMI 1551	Principles of Chemistry I (P1 902L)
Earth Science
EARTH 1101	Physical Geology of Earth's Interior (P1 907L)
EARTH 1102	Physical Geology of Earth's Surface (P1 907L)
EARTH 1105	Environmental Geology (P1 908L)
EARTH 1110	Introduction to Meteorology (P1 905L)
EARTH 1111	Climate and Global Change (P1 905,No Lab)
EARTH 1115	Severe and Unusual Weather (P1 905L)
EARTH 1119	Weather Impacts and Preparedness (P1 905,No Lab)
EARTH 1120	Introduction to Astronomy (P1 906,No Lab)
EARTH 1122	Astronomy: The Solar System (P1 906L)
EARTH 1124	Astronomy: Stars and Galaxies (P1 906L)
EARTH 1126	Observational Astronomy (P1 906L)
EARTH 1130	Introduction to Oceanography (P1 905L)
or EARTH 1131	Fundamentals of Oceanography
or EARTH 1135	Water Science-Fundamentals of Hydrology
EARTH 1140	Fundamentals of Earth Science (P1 905L)
or EARTH 1141	Introduction to Earth Science
Physics
PHYSI 1100	Physics (P1 900L)
PHYSI 1150	Energy and Society (P1 901,No Lab)
PHYSI 1180	Physics in the Modern Era: Quarks to Cosmos (P1 900,No Lab)
PHYSI 1201	General Physics I (P1 900L)
PHYSI 2111	Physics for Science and Engineering I (P2 900L)
Total Credits		4-10

Mathematics - 3 to 5 credits

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
MATH 1218	General Education Mathematics (M1 904)
MATH 1220	Quantitative Literacy (M1 901)
MATH 1322	Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers II (M1 903)
MATH 1533	Finite Mathematics (M1 906)
MATH 1635	Statistics (M1 902)
or PSYCH 2280	Statistics/Social & Behavioral Sciences
or SOCIO 2205	Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
MATH 2000	Survey of Calculus (M1 900-O)
MATH 2115	Discrete Mathematics (M1 905)
MATH 2134	Calculus for Business and Social Science (M1 900-B)
MATH 2231	Calculus and Analytic Geometry I (M1 900-1)
MATH 2232	Calculus and Analytic Geometry II (M1 900-2)
MATH 2233	Calculus and Analytic Geometry III (M1 900-3)
Total Credits		3-5

Humanities and Fine Arts - 6 credits

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Humanities
Chinese
CHINE 2202	Intermediate Chinese II (H1 900)
English
ENGLI 1130	Introduction to Literature (H3 900)
ENGLI 1150	Short Fiction (H3 901)
ENGLI 1151	Novel (H3 901)
ENGLI 1152	Poetry (H3 903)
ENGLI 1153	Drama (H3 902)
ENGLI 1154	Film As Literature (HF 908)
ENGLI 1157	Children's Literature (H3 918)
ENGLI 1158	Bible As Literature (H5 901)
ENGLI 1159	Greek Mythology (H9 901)
ENGLI 1161	Multicultural Literatures of the U.S. (H3 910D)
ENGLI 1165	Literature, Gender, and Sexualities (H3 911D)
ENGLI 2220	British Literature to 1800 (H3 912)
ENGLI 2221	British Literature From 1800 Through The Present (H3 913)
ENGLI 2223	American Literature From the Colonial Period to the Civil War (H3 914)
ENGLI 2224	American Literature From the Civil War to the Present (H3 915)
ENGLI 2226	World Literature (H3 907)
ENGLI 2227	Modern European Literature (H3 907)
ENGLI 2228	Shakespeare (H3 905)
ENGLI 2262	Non-Western Literature (H3 908N)
French
FRENC 2202	Intermediate French II (H1 900)
FRENC 2251	Conversation and Composition I (H1 900)
FRENC 2252	Conversation and Composition II (H1 900)
German
GERMA 2202	Intermediate German II (H1 900)
GERMA 2251	Conversation and Composition I (H1 900)
GERMA 2252	Conversation and Composition II (H1 900)
History
HISTO 1110	Foundations of the European World (H2 901)
HISTO 1120	Europe in the Modern World (H2 902)
HISTO 1160	World Civilization Since 1300 (H2 907)
HISTO 2205	History of Asia (H2 903N)
HISTO 2220	History and Culture of China (H2 903N)
HISTO 2225	History and Culture of Russia (H2 908)
HISTO 2230	History and Culture of Japan (H2 908)
HISTO 2235	20th Century World History (H2 903N)
HISTO 2245	History and Culture of England (H2 908)
Humanities
HUMNT 1102	Introduction to Humanities: Ideas and Values (H9 900)
HUMNT 1103	Introduction to World Mythology (H9 901)
HUMNT 1104	Women in Arts: Cultural and Artistic Expressions of Gender (HF 907D)
HUMNT 1105	Humanities Beyond the U.S. & Europe (HF 904N)
HUMNT 1110	The Arts and Cultural Diversity (HF 906D)
HUMNT 1120	Introduction to Medical Humanities (H9 900)
HUMNT 1150	Intersections of Humanities, Math, And Science (H9 900)
Italian
ITALI 2202	Intermediate Italian II (H1 900)
Japanese
JAPAN 2202	Intermediate Japanese II (H1 900)
Korean
KOREA 2202	Intermediate Korean II (H1 900)
Motion Picture/Television
MPTV 1154	Film As Literature (HF 908)
Philosophy
PHILO 1100	Introduction to Philosophy (H4 900)
PHILO 1110	Ethics (H4 904)
PHILO 1116	Environmental Ethics (H4 904)
PHILO 1120	Logic (H4 906)
PHILO 1125	Critical Thinking (H4 906)
PHILO 1150	World Religions (H5 904N)
PHILO 2010	Ancient Philosophy (H4 901)
PHILO 2011	Early Modern Philosophy (H4 902)
PHILO 2150	Philosophy of Religion (H4 905)
PHILO 2155	Asian Thought (H4 903N)
Religious Studies
RELIG 1100	Introduction to Religion (H5 900)
RELIG 1110	Introduction to the Bible: Old Testament (H5 901)
RELIG 1120	Introduction to the Bible: New Testament (H5 901)
RELIG 1150	World Religions (H5 904N)
RELIG 2155	Asian Thought (H4 903N)
RELIG 2160	Judaism, Christianity and Islam (H5 901)
Russian
RUSSI 2202	Intermediate Russian II (H1 900)
Spanish
SPANI 2202	Intermediate Spanish II (H1 900)
SPANI 2206	Spanish for Heritage Speakers I (H1 900)
SPANI 2208	Spanish for Heritage Speakers II (H1 900)
SPANI 2251	Conversation and Composition I (H1 900)
SPANI 2252	Conversation and Composition II (H1 900)
Fine Arts
Art
ART 2213	Art Histories Since 1950 (F2 902)

Social and Behavioral Sciences - 3 to 6 credits 

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Anthropology
ANTHR 1000	Introduction to Anthropology (S1 900N)
ANTHR 1100	Cultural Anthropology (S1 901N)
ANTHR 1105	Practical Anthropology (S1 904D)
ANTHR 1130	People and Cultures of the World (S1 904D)
ANTHR 1200	Discovering Archaeology (S1 903)
ANTHR 1400	Race, Sex and Human Evolution (S1 902)
Economics
ECONO 2200	Principles of Economics (S3 900)
ECONO 2201	Macroeconomics and the Global Economy (S3 901)
ECONO 2202	Microeconomics and the Global Economy (S3 902)
Geography
GEOGR 1100	Western World Geography (S4 901)
GEOGR 1105	Eastern World Geography (S4 902N)
GEOGR 1120	Economic Geography (S4 903N)
GEOGR 1130	Cultural Geography (S4 900N)
History
HISTO 1130	History of the United States to 1865 (S2 900)
HISTO 1140	History of the United States Since 1865 (S2 901)
HISTO 2210	History and Culture of Africa (S2 907N)
HISTO 2215	History and Culture of South Asia (S2 916N)
HISTO 2242	African-American History (S2 923D)
HISTO 2260	United States History Since 1945 (S2 901)
Political Science
POLS 1100	Introduction to Political Science (S5 903)
POLS 1101	American Politics (S5 900)
POLS 1105	State and Local Politics (S5 902)
POLS 2203	Comparative Politics (S5 905)
POLS 2220	World Politics (S5 904N)
Psychology
PSYCH 1100	General Psychology (S6 900)
PSYCH 2230	Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence (S6 903)
PSYCH 2233	Developmental Psychology: Adolescence (S6 904)
PSYCH 2235	Developmental Psychology: Adulthood (S6 905)
PSYCH 2237	Developmental Psychology: The Life Span (S6 902)
PSYCH 2240	Social Psychology (S8 900)
Sociology
SOCIO 1100	Introduction to Sociology (S7 900)
SOCIO 1120	Sociology of Sex, Gender and Power (S7 904D)
SOCIO 2210	Social Problems (S7 901)
SOCIO 2215	Race and Racism in America (S7 903D)
SOCIO 2220	Sexual Relationships, Marriage & Family (S7 902)