Minor in Visual & Media Arts

Minor Description

The minor in Visual & Media Arts enables students to explore and engage diverse visual and media arts practices and to develop artistic, critical and conceptual competence in an interdisciplinary context.

Students who may benefit from the minors include:

  • Students who want to develop specializations in a particular artistic medium
  • Students who are looking for ways to signal creative written and visual competence
  • Students who are interested in experimental, critical and reflexive thinking
  • Students who wish to supplement other areas of study with forms of creative practice and engagement.

Students are advised to pursue minor coursework early in their studies to ensure enough time to meet course requirements. Not all courses listed below are offered on a regular basis or available to all majors..

Minor Requirements

IA Core (5 credits)

  • BISIA 319 Interdisciplinary Arts

20 credits of BISIA courses in the area of Visual & Media Arts Coursework

Students are required to take at least 15 credits at the 300 or 400 level

  • BISIA 240 Visual and Media Arts Techniques
  • BISIA 244 Time-Based Media Art
  • BISIA 250 Photography as Art
  • BISIA 340 Visual and Media Arts Workshop
  • BISIA 342 Materials & Meanings
  • BISIA 344 Video Art
  • BISIA 350 Photography and Digital Art
  • BISIA 399 Art and Design Digital Portfolio
  • BISIA 440 Advanced Visual and Media Arts Workshop
  • BISIA 444 Video Installation Art
  • BISIA 450 Image and Imagination
  • Selected Interdisciplinary Techniques & Workshop Courses Depending on Topics (Course offerings are subject to change).
    • BIS 209 Engaging Visual and Media Arts
    • BIS 322 Topics in Performance Studies (Theorizing Black Performance)
    • BIS 490 Advanced Seminar (Theory and Practice of Queer and Trans Media)
    • BISCLA 380 Arts in Context (Contemporary Muslim Artists)
    • BISIA 283 Interdisciplinary Art Techniques (Drawing Practice & Critical Thinking)
    • BISIA 283 Interdisciplinary Art Techniques (Every Picture Tells a Story-Story Telling Through the Visual Image)
    • BISIA 330 Performing Arts Workshop (Arts-In-Practice: Engaging Contemporary Artists)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Word: Art Writing)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (The Art of the Remix)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Painting and Hybrid Works)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Art of the Joke)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Artist Books)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Internet Art)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Performance Art)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Global Agitation – Art & Activism)
    • BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Performing Diasporas)
    • BISIA 483 Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Post-Modern Fiction Through Photoshop)
    • BISIA 483 Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Print to Pixel)
    • BISIA 483 Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Chapbooks and Artists’ Books)
    • BISIA 483 Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Experimental Writing)
    • BISIA 483 Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Space, Site, and Video)
    • BISIA 483 Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Art of Social Transformation)
    • BISIA 483 Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Art On-Site)
    • BISIA 483Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Internet Poetry, Gifs and Memes)
    • BISIA 483 Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop (Alive Performance Festival Class)
    • BISMCS 472 Advanced Media Production Workshop (Global Media Lab)
    • BISMCS 472 Advanced Media Production Workshop (The Essay Film)
    • BISMCS 472 Advanced Media Production Workshop (Competitive Filmmaking)
    • BISMCS 472 Advanced Media Production Workshop (The Social Realist & Science Fiction: Black Mirror)

Questions?

If you have questions regarding the minor in Visual & Media Arts, please contact your Academic Advisor.