ART at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Intro sequences

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

• 1. ART 101Drawing I
  2. ART 118Digital Arts: Culture, Theory, Practice
  3. ENGLISH 102College Writing and Research
  4. MATH 111Introduction to Logic - Critical Reasoning
  5. MATH 199Independent Study
  6. ART 221Introduction to Design
• 1. ART 1093D Studio: Form, Idea and Technique
  2. ART 118Digital Arts: Culture, Theory, Practice
  3. ENGLISH 102College Writing and Research
• 1. ART 1082D Studio: Concept, Color and Composition
  2. ART 118Digital Arts: Culture, Theory, Practice
  3. ENGLISH 102College Writing and Research
• 1. ART 118Digital Arts: Culture, Theory, Practice
  2. ART 101Drawing I
  3. ENGLISH 102College Writing and Research

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 221Introduction to Designopens 39 courses (8.4 directly)
• ART 218Moving Images and Sound in Art & Designopens 25 courses (3.5 directly)
• ART 243Introduction to Paintingopens 22 courses (4.0 directly)
• ART 291Introduction to Printmaking & Book Artsopens 22 courses (2.5 directly)
• FILM 180Foundation Production: Fictionopens 20 courses (3.3 directly)
• FILM 181Foundation Production: Nonfictionopens 20 courses (3.3 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 147 ART and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 144 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.

• 7 courses deep, ending at ART 529

  1. ART 101Drawing I
  2. ART 221Introduction to Design
  3. ART 223Introduction to Typography
  4. ART 321Design and Visual Communication I
  5. ART 323Typography II
  6. ART 421Design and Visual Communication II
  7. ART 529Design & Visual Communication III: Capstone & Exhibition

• 7 courses deep, ending at ART 552

  1. FILM 181Foundation Production: Nonfiction
  2. FILM 180Foundation Production: Fiction
  3. ART 253Introduction to Photography

• 5 courses deep, ending at ART 312

  1. FILM 181Foundation Production: Nonfiction
  2. FILM 180Foundation Production: Fiction
  3. FILM 222Digital Filmmaking

• 5 courses deep, ending at ART 526

  1. ART 118Digital Arts: Culture, Theory, Practice
  2. ART 277Introduction to Digital Fabrication
  3. ART 278Introduction to Making for Digital Fabrication

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 UW-Milwaukee campus feed.