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The Department of Art and Design offers a broad range of courses in studio art, graphic design, art history and theory, and art education. Major or minor programs may be selected by students interested in artistic or scholarly development or in liberal education or by those planning a career in arts administration, teaching, graphic design, or museum work.
Much of the Tweed Museum of Art’s program is related to the interests and needs of art students. Loan exhibitions and the permanent collection are available for study. All B.F.A. art majors must present an exhibition of their own artwork in the museum during their senior year.

Admission is done in fall semester only. Students who wish to pursue the art education K-12 or graphic design B.F.A. degree program initially are admitted into the pre-art education or pre-graphic design program. Students are admitted directly into the art history and studio art-general majors. The pregraduate art major, with emphasis in either studio art or art and technology, has a separate application process, with the prerequisite of completion of 18 credits in art department studio courses; for transfer students to apply for this major, completion of 9 art department studio credits is required.

During the second (spring) semester of art study at UMD, the pre-majors may seek admission to the majors in art education K-12 and graphic design through an application and review process. They enroll in the no credit, no cost portfolio review course appropriate to the major they seek. Students transferring into the department with at least 9 credits of art courses may apply during their first semester of study through the same process. This procedure is effective for students beginning their coursework as UMD art majors in the fall semester 2001 or later. Students who do not qualify for admission may reapply once in a subsequent spring semester.