Art

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Commencement your career with the Fine art program at HCC. Discover degrees, courses and faculty, as well as program data.

AWARD TYPES: Associate in Arts

AREA OF Report: Art & Pattern

Degrees and Certificates

Learn more nearly the Degrees and Certificates offered by this program by visiting the HCC Catalog.

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Program Outcomes

Students will be able to:

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Implement creative and systematic investigations of formal and conceptual issues in art.

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Investigate art-making as an adaptive process that involves informed and disquisitional decision making.

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Develop technical skills that demonstrate the functions of the visual elements and principles of art and design.

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Build contained problem-solving skills to contribute inventively and critically to culture through art-making.

Program Information

General Requirements

To exist eligible for an Associate in  Arts (AA), an Associate of Arts in Didactics (AAT), or an Associate in Science (Every bit) degree from HCC, a student must successfully:

Complete at least 60 semester hours of credit equally follows: (a) for the AA degree, 43 hours of required core courses and 17 hours of transferable electives, usually focusing on the pupil's transfer major (b) for the AAT degree, 44 hours of required core courses plus 16-18 hours of required pre-teaching courses (c) for the Every bit degree, 43 hours of required core courses plus vi additional hours of mathematics, four additional hours of natural scientific discipline, and 7 hours of transferable electives, commonly focusing on the student's transfer major.

  • Complete a minimum of eighteen semester hours toward the degree in the Houston Customs College System. These hours may non exist satisfied through credit by exam.
  • Have an overall 2.0 HCC grade point boilerplate.
  • Satisfy TSI requirements.
  • Resolve all financial obligations and return all College materials, including library books, to HCC prior to graduation.

Additional Degree Requirements

A student who has received an associate degree or higher from an accredited establishment must meet specific requirements to earn an additional degree from HCC.

  • The student must complete a minimum of 18 semester hours at HCC for each additional degree. These hours may not echo credit applied from a previous HCC degree.  These hours may non be satisfied through credit by exam.
  • All additional hours must be applicable toward the additional degree. If the student has prior credit in required courses, appropriate substitutions may exist arranged.
  • All courses required past the specific HCC program of the additional degree must be completed.
  • A form point average of at to the lowest degree 2.0 must be earned on all hours since the previous caste.
  • Bookish courses from previous degrees may be applied to an additional AAS degree required academic cadre where equivalent and appropriate, which waives the need for approval, except where program restrictions prevail.
  • If the get-go degree was an Associate in Arts, an Associate of Arts in Teaching, Associate in Science, a bachelor degree, or higher degree from an accredited educational institution in the United States, the student will be considered to be "Core Consummate", thus needing to complete only the requirement of eighteen additional semester hours at HCC toward a new associate degree.
  • Each additional academic acquaintance degree obtained from HCC must be of a dissimilar type.  Thus, a student may only obtain one Acquaintance in Arts, ane Associate of Arts in Teaching, and/or 1 Associate in Science from HCC. For example, if i caste from HCC was an AA, then any additional degrees must be an AAT, Equally, or AAS.
  • Multiple Associate of Applied Science degrees may exist earned from HCC if all AAS program requirements are met including earning at least 18 additional semester hours at HCC, 12 of which must be earned in the major program of the boosted caste. In most cases, however, at that place is only one AAS caste allowable per workforce program. See counselor or program chair for clarification.
  • Multiple workforce Certificates of Completion may be earned from HCC if all program requirements are met for each certificate including earning at least ix boosted unique semester hours at HCC toward the major program of the boosted certificate.
  • All other state and institutional graduation requirements, including TSI policies and fiscal obligations, must exist met.

Accreditation

HCC is an accredited institutional fellow member of the National Association of Schools of Fine art and Design (NASAD). Seven Fine art and Design Programs—Studio Art, Interior Design, Digital Communication, Style Design, Fashion Merchandising, Filmmaking, and Digital Gaming & Simulation for Artists—collectively represent the Art and Blueprint Unit at HCC.

National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD)
11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 21
Reston, VA 20190-5248
Phone: 703-437-0700
Website: nasad.arts-ascribe.org

Employment

There are many successful working visual artists in Houston. HCC graduates exhibit their work in commercial galleries, alternative fine art spaces, juried exhibitions, and sell art work on-line.
Our graduates also successfully transfer to Bachelor's Degree programs, such every bit the University of Houston, the Savannah Higher of Art and Design, and Kansas City Art Institute.

In general, the career opportunities in art are numerous and varied. Many graduates go on to teach studio art at all educational levels. In addition to exhibition and teaching opportunities, graphic artists, designers, art handlers, installers, and art directors may freelance or hold salaried positions in art handling businesses, design firms, publishers, advertisement agencies and many companies with in-house communications departments.

  • The estimated annual chore openings is 13 jobs a year.
  • Median Wages - $12.99 hourly, $27,000 annually

Hybrid Programs Restrictions

Hybrid programs allow students to have a mix of online and contiguous courses. Hybrid programs offer 50% to 85% of their courses online and the rest of the curriculum is taken in-person on ane of HCC'southward campuses. Please contact your advisor for more than data virtually specific program requirements.

Linguistic communication Option Restrictions

Some hybrid programs require students to participate in foreign language courses as part of the program's required curriculum. Please contact your advisor for more information nearly specific program requirements and available language options. If you would like to take courses in a language that is non offered online, you would have to do and so on campus.

Elective Course Restrictions

Some hybrid programs may have a limited number of elective options available, based on which of the designated electives are currently offered online.  Delight contact your advisor for more than data about specific plan requirements.

Required Course Restrictions

Hybrid programs require students to participate in campus-based courses every bit part of a given programme's required curriculum. Delight contact your advisor for more information well-nigh specific program requirements.

Potential Course Restrictions

Some online courses may have face-to-face requirements for exams, laboratory sessions, and other activities. Please review your course syllabus to determine if your online course has an on-campus laboratory or exam requirement.

Field of Study Curriculum

Fine Arts Subject area (FOS) Curriculum: Studio Runway

Field of Study Coursework:

  • ARTS 1303        Art History I
  • ARTS 1304        Art History II
  • ARTS 1311        Design I (ii-Dimensional Design)
  • ARTS 1312        Blueprint II (3-Dimensional Design)
  • ARTS 1316        Drawing I
  • ARTS 2348        Digital Fine art I

Cull three of the following courses:

  • ARTS 1317        Drawing Ii
  • ARTS 2313        Pattern Communications I
  • ARTS 2316        Painting I
  • ARTS 2326        Sculpture I
  • ARTS 2333        Printmaking I
  • ARTS 2341        Art Metals I
  • ARTS 2346        Ceramics I
  • ARTS 2356        Photography I
  • ARTS 2366        Watercolor I

Advanced Studio course (no more than 1 of the post-obit):

  • ARTS 2311        Design III
  • ARTS 2317        Painting II
  • ARTS 2323        Life Cartoon I
  • ARTS 2347        Ceramics II
  • ARTS 2357        Photography II

Fully Transferable:

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) has designated the Field of Report Curriculum courses as "fully transferable" to other public colleges and universities in Texas. Students planning on transferring to either private or out-of-land institutions should direct transfer questions to that college or academy.

For more information, refer to theHCC Catalog (https://world wide web.hccs.edu/programs/catalog/ ) and Field of Written report Curricula Canonical by the Texas College Education Coordinating Boardworld wide web.thecb.land.tx.us/institutional-resource-programs/public-universities-wellness-related-institutions/transfer-resources/field-of-study-curricula/

Marketable Skills

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Studio Fine art, A.A.

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Katherine Rhodes Fields, MFA, MA TESL

VISUAL ARTS CHAIR Studio Art and Art History

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