Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
BA Language Requirements
All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
English Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational Courses | ||
| ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
| or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
| ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
| ENGL 1700 | Global Literatures 1 | 4 |
| or ENGL 1701 | Global Literatures 2 | |
English Electives
Two of the courses chosen from the lists below must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Diversity | ||
| Complete one of the following (you may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below): | 4 | |
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Literature | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Asian-American Literature | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
| Literary Periods | ||
| Pre-1850 | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Early Literatures | ||
| 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | ||
| Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
or JWSS 3678 | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | |
| Post-1850 | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| The Graphic Novel | ||
| Postcolonial Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Asian-American Literature | ||
| Irish Literary Culture | ||
| 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures | ||
| Theories and Methods | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Rhetoric | ||
| Introduction to Research on Writing | ||
| Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| What Is Nature? | ||
| Rhetoric of Law | ||
| The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
| Opening the Archive | ||
| Film and Text | ||
| Narrative Medicine | ||
| Introduction to Linguistics | ||
| Linguistic Analysis | ||
| Syntax | ||
| Semantics | ||
| History of English | ||
| Language and Gender | ||
| Major Seminar | ||
| ENGL 3710 | Major Seminar | 4 |
| Writing | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Creative Writing | ||
| Style and Editing | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Writing to Heal | ||
| Writing Boston | ||
| Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Writing Seminar | ||
| English Electives | ||
| Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement. | 8 | |
Capstone
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| English Capstone Requirement | ||
| ENGL 4710 | Capstone Seminar | 4 |
Design Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Art + Design Fundamentals Required | ||
| ARTF 1220 | Elements of Visual Composition | 2 |
| Art + Design Fundamentals Electives | ||
| Complete 6 semester hours of the following: | 6 | |
| Representational Drawing | ||
| Abstract Drawing | ||
| Making with Form and Materials | ||
| Making with Video, Sound, and Animation | ||
| Designing Interactive Experiences | ||
| Design Required | ||
| ARTG 1001 and ARTG 1002 | Design Perspectives: An Introduction to Design in the World and Seminar for Design Perspectives | 4 |
| ARTG 1270 and ARTG 1271 | Design: Process + Practices and Studio for Design: Process + Practices | 4 |
| ARTG 1290 and ARTG 1291 | Typographic Systems and Studio for Typographic Systems | 4 |
| Design Elective | ||
| Complete 4 semester hours of ARTG design courses not already required, as long as prerequisites have been met. 1 | 4 | |
| Art + Design History Elective | ||
| Complete 4 semester hours of ARTH course. | 4 | |
| Art+Design Elective | ||
| Complete 4 semester hours of ARTD, ARTE, ARTF, ARTG, ARTH, ARTS, or GAME courses as long as prerequisites have been met. | 4 | |
| If ARTG 5000 Topics in Design (or any other topics course in the subjects listed above) is completed more than once, the additional completions may be allowed toward the electives. | ||
| Degree Capstone Project | ||
| ARTG 4550 | Design Degree Project | 4 |
Design Option
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete one of the following options: | 8 | |
| Creative Fabrication | ||
| Creative Fabrication Design Principles | ||
| Topics in Creative Fabrication Inquiry | ||
| Experience Design | ||
| Experience Design Principles | ||
| Topics In Experience Design Inquiry | ||
| Graphic Design | ||
| Graphic Design Principles | ||
| Topics In Graphic Design Inquiry | ||
| Information Design | ||
| Information Design Principles | ||
| Topics in Information Design Inquiry | ||
| Interaction Design | ||
| Interaction Design Principles and Interaction Design Principles Tools | ||
| Topics In Interaction Design Inquiry | ||
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For students interested in the PlusOne in Information Design and Data Visualization, speak with an advisor about an alternative course option to Prototyping with Code (ARTG 2262) and Lab for ARTG 2262 (ARTG 2263).
Integrative Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Integrative Course | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| The Graphic Novel | ||
| Technologies of Text | ||
| The following course is already required in major: | ||
| Design Degree Project | ||
Program Requirement
128 total semester hours required
Sample Plan of Study
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Summer Session B/Fall
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer Session A | Hours | Summer Session B | Hours |
| ENGL 1000 or ARTF 1000 | 1 | ENGL 1160 or 1410 | 4 | ARTG 1290 and ARTG 1291 | 4 | ARTF elective | 2 |
| ENGL 1400 | 4 | ARTG 1270 and ARTG 1271 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ARTF elective | 2 |
| ENGL 1450 | 4 | MATH elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||
| ARTF 1220 | 2 | EEAM 2000 (For CAMD students) | 1 | ||||
| ARTF elective | 2 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| ARTG 1001 and ARTG 1002 | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer Session A | Hours | Summer Session B | Hours |
| ENGL 1700 | 4 | ENGL 19th-century requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| ENGL pre-19th-century requirement | 4 | ENGL theories and methods requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||
| Design option level 1 | 4 | Design option level 2 | 4 | ||||
| ARTH elective | 4 | A+D elective | 4 | ||||
| EESH 2000 (For CSSH students) | 1 | ||||||
| 16 | 17 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer Session A | Hours | Summer Session B | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | ENGL comparative requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| ENGL diversity requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| ARTG elective | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | ENGL 20th-century requirement | 4 | ||||
| ENGL elective | 4 | ||||||
| ARTG 4550 | 4 | ||||||
| Integrative course | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 131 | |||||||