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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Fine Arts with Concentration in Graphic Design, B.A.

Location(s): Emmitsburg


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42 Credits

Core Requirements (46 to 49 credits)


The First Year Symposium (3 credits)


Complete the First Year Symposium

World Language Requirement (3-6 Credits)


Complete either 6 credits at the 101 and 102 level or 3 credits at the 200 level or above

  • Introductory Language (For students beginning at the 101 level)
    • XXXX 101 (3)
    • XXXX 102 (3)
  • Advanced Language (For students who begin at the 201 level or above)
    • XXXX 201/301 (or higher).

Foundations of Philosophy (3 Credits)


Origins of the West (3 Credits)


Philosophy in the Modern Age (3 Credits)


Atlantic Encounters (3 Credits)


Mathematical Thinking (3 Credits)


Foundations of Theology: Faith and Revelation (3 Credits)


America in the World (3 Credits)


Theology: Made in God’s Image (3 Credits)


Modernity in Literature or the Arts (3 Credits)


Choose from among one of the following:

Laboratory Science (3-4 Credits)


Choose one laboratory science course:

Global Encounters (3 Credits)


Choose one Global Encounters course:

  • XXGE Global Encounters
    • Global Encounters courses are offered in many departments, including Business, Communication, English, Education, Foreign Language, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Theology.

Ethics and the Human Good (3 Credits)


Complete one of the following:

Ethical Leaders (0 Credits)


The Ethical Leadership Experiential Learning Core Requirement invites students to integrate their own personal call to leadership with a mature reflection on one or more of the core virtues of Justice, Courage, Integrity, and Humility.  Students will accomplish this by engaging in and reflecting upon the practice of virtue ethics within the context of one or more experiential learning activities.

Four-Year Sequence


Freshman Year

Fall Semester

FSYM 101 - The First Year Symposium (3)  

World Languages I (3)

FAAR 116 - Graphic Design I (3)  

FAAR 105 - Drawing I (3)  

FAAR 108 - Two-Dimensional Design (3)  

15 credits

Spring Semester

WCIV 102 - Origins of the West (3)  

World Languages II (3)

PHIL 103 - Foundations of Philosophy (3)  

FAAR 117 - Graphic Design II (3)  

Core Social Science

15 credits

 

Sophomore Year

Fall Semester

WCIV 201 - Atlantic Encounters: 1450-1850 (3)  

PHIL 203 - Philosophy in the Modern Age (3)  

FAAR 201 - Typography and Layout (3)  

FAAR 204 - Art History: Survey of Western Art (3)  

FAAR 111 - Three -Dimensional Design (3)  

15 credits

Spring Semester

AMER 202 - America in the World (3)  

THEOL 220 - Foundations of Theology (3)  

FAAR 202 - Digital Publications (3)  

MATH 211 - Mathematical Thinking (3) )

FAAR 203 - Art History: Survey of Prehistoric to Gothic Art (3)  

15 credits

 

Junior Year

Fall Semester

THEOL 320 - Made In God’s Image (3)  

FAAR 300 - Brand Identity (3)  

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits

Spring Semester

THEOL / PHIL 300 Ethics & the Human Good (3) (choose one)

GNSCI Lab Science (4)

FAAR 301 - Media in Motion (3)  

XXGE Global Encounters (3)

ARMO 300 - Modernity in Visual Art (3)  * 

16 credits

 

Senior Year

Fall Semester

FAAR 400 - Experimental Illustration (3)  

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits

Spring Semester

FAAR 402 - Advanced Senior Studio Project (3)  

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits

 

* Counts for both Major and CORE requirement.

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