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2025-2026 Westminster College Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Westminster College Catalog

Visual Art Minor


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Visual Art Mission Statement
The mission of Visual Art at Westminster College is to provide a breadth of making experiences, creative and process-based, supported within the framework of a liberal arts curriculum. The visual, technical, and conceptual experiences gained in our program promote critical thinking and effective communication through the processes of aesthetic expression. The interdisciplinary nature of a liberal arts college enables students studying visual art to combine diverse interests to meet their artistic and professional goals. The art program is therefore designed for students wishing to pursue an interdisciplinary approach to their creative interests through the media and artistic practice we teach, combined with the tools of various liberal arts disciplines.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Develop creative projects that result in personally, socially, and/or culturally relevant products or experiences.
  2. Apply the elements and principles of design within visual compositions.
  3. Utilize technical problem-solving skills through the art making processes of various media.
  4. Describe and analyze art within writing assignments, critiques, and discussions.
  5. Evaluate contemporary and historical modes of artistic practice: process, media, subject matter, content, and communication.
  6. Present and disseminate creative projects to the public via exhibition, digital or analog publication, oral presentation, and/or client or customer use.
  7. Expand professional networks through participation within creative communities, internships, and/or related professional experience outside the classroom.

The Visual Art minor is designed to meet the needs of the student who is interested in aligning the study of art with that of another academic discipline. Students are introduced to diverse two and three dimensional art media through foundation studies. Students who have declared the Visual Art minor should take the foundation courses prior to art electives. Art electives enable students to focus upon specific two or three dimensional media.

The Minor in Visual Art


28 semester hours, comprising:

Plus, all of the following:


  • One additional 2D course 4 Semester Hours
  • One additional 3D course 4 Semester Hours
  • Two ART electives 8 Semester Hours

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