ART at Missouri Western State University

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 290Branding and Identity Designopens 5 courses (2 directly)
• ART 292Visual Communication Designopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• ART 221Digital 3D Modelingopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ART 325Digital 3D Lightingopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ART 315Digital Illustration Iopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• ART 349Web Design and Developmentopens 2 courses (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 43 ART and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 14 more ART courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ART, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

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.

• 6 courses deep, ending at ART 489

  1. ART 120Design Foundations
  2. ART 290Branding and Identity Design
  3. ART 292Visual Communication Design
  4. ART 390Advertising Design
  5. ART 488Portfolio Development
  6. ART 489Portfolio and Preparation

• 4 courses deep, ending at ART 402

  1. ART 190Digital 3D Fundamentals
  2. ART 358Character Animation
  3. ART 401Animation Capstone I: Preproduction

• 4 courses deep, ending at ART 475

  1. ART 110Beginning Drawing I
  2. ART 315Digital Illustration I
  3. ART 375Digital Illustration II

• 3 courses deep, ending at ART 326

  1. ART 190Digital 3D Fundamentals
  2. ART 221Digital 3D Modeling
  3. ART 326Introduction to Game Design

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 Missouri Western campus feed.