ART at Macalester College

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ART coursework.

• ART 130Drawing Iopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• ART 234Painting Iopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ART 131Ceramics Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ART 149Introduction to Visual Cultureopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ART 160Introduction to Art History I: From Prehistory to the Medieval Periodopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ART 161Introduction to Art History II: From Renaissance to Modernopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ART work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 18 ART and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 49 more ART courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ART. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at ART 216

  1. ART 130Drawing I
  2. ART 216Graphic Novel

• 2 courses deep, ending at ART 264

  1. ART 149Introduction to Visual Culture
  2. ART 264Contemporary Art and Theory

• 2 courses deep, ending at ART 333

  1. ART 233Photography I
  2. ART 333Photography II

• 2 courses deep, ending at ART 334

  1. ART 234Painting I
  2. ART 334Figure Painting

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ART yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ART yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ART does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Macalester campus feed.