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Catalog Year: 2026 - 2027 General Studies Gold

Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA

College/School: Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Plan Code: HIARTDPBFA

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120

minimum credit hours

Upper division minimum
credit hours

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Requirement	Minimum Grade	Credit Hours

Requirement	Minimum Grade	Credit Hours
BFA Required Core
ARS 201 Art of Asia (GCSI) 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ARA 396 Professional Practices for Design and the Arts 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
Digital Photography Lower Division Requirements
ARA 209 Photography Now 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ART 116 Introduction to Digital Media 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ART 206 Digital Photography I 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ART 207 Digital Photography II 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
Digital Photography Upper Division Requirements
ART 317 Advanced Digital Photography 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ART 387 Digital Photography Capstone Development 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ART 407 Digital Photography Capstone 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ART 302 The Still and Moving Image: Digital Photography and Video ART 319 Photo Editing: Narrative/Non-Narrative ART 394 Topic: Art and Activism ART 394 Topic: Death and Photography ART 394 Topic: Experimental Photo Processes ART 394 Topic: Identity & Representation in Photography ART 394 Topic: Photo Topics: Photography and Sustainability ART 394 Topic: Sick Pictures: Photography and Illness ART 400 The Photobook ART 401 Traditional Genres in Digital Photography: Land and Place ART 402 Traditional Genres in Digital Photography: Photographing People ART 405 Traditional Genres in Digital Photography: The Constructed Image ART 406 New Genres in Digital Photography ART 412 Advanced Techniques in Digital Photography ART 494 Topic: Art and Censorship 12 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	12
ART 302 The Still and Moving Image: Digital Photography and Video ART 319 Photo Editing: Narrative/Non-Narrative ART 394 Topic: Art and Activism ART 394 Topic: Death and Photography ART 394 Topic: Experimental Photo Processes ART 394 Topic: Identity & Representation in Photography ART 394 Topic: Photo Topics: Photography and Sustainability ART 394 Topic: Sick Pictures: Photography and Illness ART 400 The Photobook ART 401 Traditional Genres in Digital Photography: Land and Place ART 402 Traditional Genres in Digital Photography: Photographing People ART 405 Traditional Genres in Digital Photography: The Constructed Image ART 406 New Genres in Digital Photography ART 412 Advanced Techniques in Digital Photography ART 494 Topic: Art and Censorship OR ART 394 Topic: Art and Activism ART 394 Topic: Death and Photography ART 394 Topic: Film to Digital ART 394 Topic: Furthering Advanced Techniques ART 394 Topic: Identity & Representation in Photography ART 394 Topic: Photo Topics: Photography and Sustainability ART 394 Topic: Sick Pictures: Photography and Illness ART 394 Topic: Spirituality and the Artist ART 394 Topic: Still Life Expanded ART 394 Topic: Traditional & Contemporary Documentary Photography ART 494 Topic: Advanced Moving Image ART 494 Topic: Photography and Appropriation ART 494 Topic: Photography and Gender ART 498 Topic: Propaganda and Art ART 494 Topic: Text and Photo 6 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	6

Art History for Digital Photography Requirements
Any courses that apply to Art History for Digital Photography Requirements are permitted to ":double dip" with an ASU Minor requirement.
ARS 101 Art from Prehistory Through Middle Ages (HUAD) 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ARS 102 Art from Renaissance to Modernism (HUAD) 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ARS 250 History of Photography (HUAD) 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
ARS 330 The Portrait ARS 331 18th- and 19th-Century European Jewelry Design ARS 335 Fashion and Dress in Visual Culture ARS 340 Art in America ARS 345 Art and Television ARS 370 The Art of the Comic ARS 394 Topic: 20th Century American & European Jewelry Design ARS 394 Topic: Anime ARS 394 Topic: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art ARS 438 Art of the 20th Century I (HUAD) ARS 440 Identity and World Film ARS 445 History of Animation ARS 485 Women in the Visual Arts ARS 494 Topic: Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art: A Survey ARS 494 Topic: Surrealism ARS 498 Topic: Art & Technology ARS 498 Topic: Contemporary Art of Asia ARS 498 Topic: Theories Modern Sculpture 3 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	3
Digital Photography Concentration Related Area
ARA 489 Writing Art and Design Criticism (HUAD) ART 446 On Walking FMS 351 Emerging Digital Media (HUAD) MCO 307 The Digital Audience MCO 335 Social Media Foundations MCO 425 Digital Media Literacy I MCO 450 Visual Communication (HUAD) MCO 473 Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media 6 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	6

ASU 101 or College-Specific First-Year Seminar
ASU 101 or college-specific equivalent First-Year Seminar required of all first-year students.
HDA 101 ASU and Herberger Institute Experience 1 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	1
First-Year Composition
ENG 101 First-Year Composition AND ENG 102 First-Year Composition OR ENG 105 Advanced First-Year Composition OR ENG 107 First-Year Composition AND ENG 108 First-Year Composition 6 Credit Hours Minimum Grade:C	C	6

Notes

All baccalaureate degree students must fulfill university graduation requirements, including a minimum of 120 credit hours, with at least 45 credit hours in upper-division courses.
All undergraduate students must complete General Studies requirements.
Mathematics Placement Assessment score determines placement in first mathematics course.
Students should work with their academic advisor, and consider course prerequisites, in order to complete all degree requirements in four years.

Program Requirement

Art (Digital Photography), BFA

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