NHTI, Concord's Community College

Visual Arts Degree

Curriculum for students entering program in 2012-13.

The degree of Associate in Arts in Visual Arts will be awarded upon successful completion of the program.

The Visual Arts program provides students the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the basic means of visual expression and broad exposure to the history of art in preparation for transfer into four-year colleges and universities and a career in the visual arts. The structured curriculum emphasizes visual perception, technical acuity and artistic philosophy geared toward developing a personal aesthetic.

The first year curriculum provides all students with a common foundation in basic artistic techniques. The following year, students will focus on advanced studio disciplines and prepare a professional portfolio of their work.

All studio classes are held at The Smokestack Center, 254 North State Street. Click here for directions.

Transfer Information

Transferring to other institutions
Transfer (Articulation) Agreements
specific to this program
Transferring to NHTI

Specific Admission Requirements

High school level Algebra I with a grade of “C” or higher or NHTI's MT 103 and MT 104, both with grades of “C” or higher.

Internship Considerations

NHTI has developed excellent practicum opportunities for our students to foster hands-on learning while simultaneously receiving credit. Nonetheless, the college's first priority must be to ensure that patients/clients/children/families are not placed in jeopardy by students during learning experiences. Therefore, students in internship, externship, practicum, service learning, and clinical experiences must demonstrate sufficient emotional stability to withstand the stresses, uncertainties and changing circumstances that characterize patient/client/child/family responsibilities. Furthermore, the student is expected to have the emotional stability required to exercise sound judgment, accept direction and guidance from a supervisor or faculty member, and establish rapport and maintain sensitive interpersonal relationships and confidentiality with employees, customers, and/or patients/clients/children and their families.

	Course Number	Course Title	CL	LAB	CR
FIRST YEAR
Fall Semester
	EN 101	English Composition	4	0	4
	IT 102	PC Applications	3	0	3
#	VRTS 101	Introduction to Drawing (studio)	2	4	4
#	VRTS 103	Two-Dimensional Design (studio)	2	3	3
#	VRTS 111	Survey of Western Art History I	3	0	3
					17
Spring Semester
	EN xxx	English Elective	3	0	3
#	SO xxx	Social Science Elective*	3	0	3
#	VRTS 104	Three-Dimensional Design (studio)	2	3	3
#	VRTS 112	Survey of Western Art History II	3	0	3
#	VRTS 201	Drawing II (studio)	2	4	4
					16
SECOND YEAR
Fall Semester
	MT xxx	Math Elective**	3-4	0	3-4
	SO xxx	Social Science Elective*	3	0	3
#	VRTS xxx	Studio Elective	2	4	4
#	VRTS xxx	FA/VRTS (visual art only) Elective (may be studio or history)	2-3	0-4	3-4
	XX xxx	Lab Science Elective***	3	2	4
					18-19
Spring Semester
	MT xxx	Math Elective**	3-4	0	3-4
	SO xxx	Social Science Elective*	3	0	3
#	VRTS 290	Visual Arts Capstone Practicum⁺	1	0	1
#	VRTS 2xx	Studio Elective (#2)	2	4	4
	XX xxx	Lab Science Elective***	3	2	4
	XX xxx	General Elective	3-4	0	3-4
					18-20
TOTAL CREDITS					69-72
Program Cost Estimates

# Indicates major field courses.
* Any course with a prefix of AN, EO, HI, PS, PY or SO (except HI 104 and HI 105).
** MT xxx #1 must be MT 124 or higher level mathematics course (excludes "institutional credit only" math courses and also excludes MT 120 and MT 129); MT xxx #2 must be a higher level mathematics course than MT xxx #1.
*** BI 100, CH 100 and PH 100 do not meet this requirement.
+ The final studio course will serve as the capstone course during which the student will create a portfolio of work to be displayed at a public showing.

CL - Number of lecture/classroom hours per week for the course
LAB - Number of simulation laboratory, laboratory or clinical hours per week for the course
CR - Number of credit hours for the course

Revised: 12 Jan 2012

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