ARTS at University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. ARTS 1001Intro Contemporary Art Theory
  2. ARTS 1101Introduction to Drawing
  3. ARTS 3111Life Drawing I
• 1. ARTS 1101Introduction to Drawing
  2. ARTS 3110Intermediate Drawing
• 1. ARTS 1802Introduction to Sculpture
  2. ARTS 3850Foundry and Metal Sculpture
• 1. ARTS 1102Introduction to Painting
  2. ARTS 3120Intermediate Painting

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 ARTS coursework.

• ARTS 3850Foundry and Metal Sculptureopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ARTS 3110Intermediate Drawingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTS 3111Life Drawing Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTS 3120Intermediate Paintingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTS 3130Intermediate Printmakingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTS 3301Sculpture: Direct Metalopens 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 ARTS 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 74 ARTS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 90 more ARTS 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 ARTS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at ARTS 3112

  1. ARTS 1001Intro Contemporary Art Theory
  2. ARTS 3111Life Drawing I
  3. ARTS 3112Life Drawing II

• 3 courses deep, ending at ARTS 3300

  1. ARTS 1001Intro Contemporary Art Theory
  2. ARTS 3390Sculpture Methods and Practice
  3. ARTS 3300Intermediate Sculpture

• 3 courses deep, ending at ARTS 3780

  1. ARTS 5780Adv Super 8/16 MM Filmmaking
  2. ARTS 3780Super 8 and 16 MM Filmmaking

• 3 courses deep, ending at ARTS 5110

  1. ARTS 1101Introduction to Drawing
  2. ARTS 3110Intermediate Drawing
  3. ARTS 5110Advanced Drawing

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ARTS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ARTS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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