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BFA Curriculum


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Fall Spring BFA: Graphic Design First Year Requirements
3   ADF S101 Foundation Drawing I
3   ADF S143 Color
3   ADF S151 2-Dimensional Design
4   ENG 101 Freshman English I
4   SF 101
Seminar for Freshmen
  3 ADF S102 Foundation Drawing II

3
ADF S123 Painting
  3 ADF S152 3-Dimensional Design
  3 ADF S154 Design: Issues & Process
  4 ENG 102 Freshman English II
17   TOTAL FALL CREDITS
  16 TOTAL SPRING CREDITS

 

Fall Spring BFA: Graphic Design Second Year Requirements
4  

ADF 181
- or -
HUM 105

Ideas of Western Art I
- or -
Art History I

3
ADF S156 Imaging
3   ADG S201 Basic Typography
3
  ADG S206 Graphic Design I
3   ADG S219 Computer Applications in Design
  4 ADF 182
- or -
HUM 106
Ideas of Western Art II
- or -
Art History II
  3 ADG S202 Computer Typography
  3 ADG S207 Graphic Design II
  3

ADG S354

Advanced Computer Applications

4

Literature
16   TOTAL FALL CREDITS
  17 TOTAL SPRING CREDITS

 

Fall Spring BFA: Graphic Design Third Year Requirements
4

ADG 224 History of Graphic Design
3   ADG S213 Web Design I
3   ADG S214 Illustration
3     Studio Elective
4     Natural Science (Lab Option)
  3 ADG S340
Web Design II

3

Graphic Design Studio Elective
  4

Ethical or Philosophical Inquiry

  4   Natural Science (Lab Option)
17   TOTAL FALL CREDITS
  14 TOTAL SPRING CREDITS

 

Fall Spring BFA: Graphic Design Fourth Year Requirements
3   ADG S344 Graphic Design III
3     Studio Elective
4     Art History Elective
4     Math or Quantitative Reasoning Elective
  3 ADG 337 Professional Practice
  3 ADG S345 Graphic Design IV
  3 ADG 400
- or -
ADG S410

Internship
- or -
Thesis Studio

  4   Social Science
14   TOTAL FALL CREDITS
  13 TOTAL SPRING CREDITS

124 BFA Program Credits

Within the 124-credit requirement, you must take 4 credits of cultural diversity course work and satisfy the Expanded Classroom Requirement (ECR). (Please see the Suffolk University Academic Catalog for details.)