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Mar 15, 2026
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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Department of Art
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Location: Arts Building, Suite 187
Phone: 303-615-0300
E-Mail: artdepartment@msudenver.edu
Website: Art Department Website
All students entering the department will be admitted under either the B.A. in Art, the B.A in Art Education, or the B.A. in Art History, Theory and Criticism. After completion of the foundation courses and one other course in ART, CDES or ARTH, those wishing to pursue the B.F.A. in Art or the B.F.A. in Communication Design will be required to pass a formal portfolio review for admittance into those programs. The department also offers the minor in Art, minor in Art History, Theory and Criticism, minor in Animation and Illustration, and the interdisciplinary Digital Media minor. Coursework leading to licensure in art education is available for those with an approved Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The art department’s programs are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).
Note: Art students will be expected to purchase tools and supplies appropriate to the media in which they are working. In addition, all art courses have a program fee for consumable materials and/or modeling fees.
Note: Art majors may not apply ART 1212 - Non-Majors Ceramics: Handbuilding , ART 1213 - Non-Majors Ceramics: Wheelthrowing , ART 1251 - Jewelry and Metals for Non-Art Majors , ART 1261 - Painting for Non-Art Majors , ART 1271 - Film Photography for Non-Majors , ART 1273 - Digital Photography for Non-Art Majors , or ARTH 1500 - Art and Visual Literacy to their program requirements, but they can be included as unrestricted electives.
ProgramsUndergraduate MajorsUndergraduate MinorsCoursesArt History, Theory, and Criticism- ARTH 3433 - Bosch, Dürer, and the Art of the Northern Renaissance
- ARTH 3434 - Michelangelo, Leonardo, and the Art of Renaissance Italy
- ARTH 3441 - Caravaggio, Bernini, Velázquez: Baroque Art in Italy and Spain
- ARTH 3443 - Rubens, Rembrandt, and Versailles: Baroque Art in Northern Europe
- ARTH 3445 - Colonial Latin American Art
- ARTH 3481 - Latin American Moderns: from Rivera to Botero
- ARTH 3500 - Variable Topics: Art of the Americas
- ARTH 3510 - Variable Topics in Ancient Art
- ARTH 3520 - Medieval Art: Variable Topics
- ARTH 3530 - Renaissance Art: Variable Topics
- ARTH 3540 - Baroque Art: Variable Topics
- ARTH 3560 - 19th Century Art: Variable Topics
- ARTH 3570 - Art Revolutions in the 19th Century
- ARTH 3580 - 20th and 21st Century Art: Variable Topics
- ARTH 3670 - Art Between the World Wars
- ARTH 3680 - Global Contemporary Art Since 1970
- ARTH 3780 - Experimental Cinema: Histories and Criticism
- ARTH 3790 - Photography and Modernism
- ARTH 3980 - Internship in Art History
- ARTH 4410 - Art History and Its Methods
- ARTH 4480 - Art Theory and Criticism
- ARTH 4500 - Variable Topics Seminar in Art History, Theory and Criticism
- ARTH 4510 - Exhibiting the Art Object
- ARTH 4710 - Art History, Theory and Criticism Senior Experience
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