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The Art Department at Friends University offers degrees in art education, computer graphics, graphic design, studio art, and communications/publications. Each degree, and each area in each area of concentration, has specific requirements.

Portfolio Requirements
Art Department motto: A degree from Friends will get you a job interview. Your portfolio will get you a job.

All art and communications/publications majors and minors are required to keep a process portfolio of work from their classes. These portfolios must include examples of the range and quality of work you have done in all of your classes. As a central focus in your studies, a process portfolio will serve these functions:

To develop personal identity with and pride in your work.
To provide the most effective critical tool to use in the development of your work.
To demonstrate the progress in your studies and help you determine future directions in your studio work.
For use as a vital instructional tool. The portfolio will be presented at the beginning of new courses so the instructor can most effectively direct instruction to your needs.

Progress Portfolio: All of the work you retain as the best examples of the variety of things you have done in every class. This type of portfolio is a student's portfolio and represents the comprehensive development of an individual's art skills.

Class Portfolio: The best and comprehensive examples of works you have done for a particular class.

Targeted Portfolio: Work from your progress (or later professional) portfolio selected to meet a particular need.

Professional Portfolio: A selection of work from the personal portfolio targeted for use in professional career interviews. It is only the very best of your work from one area and represents the highest level of your achievement

Art Education students need to keep a progress portfolio like other art majors. The works in this portfolio will be used for assessment of your progress in the program, and, just as importantly, as personal resource materials for your teaching career.

Senior Exhibit
Graduating seniors in art, art education and communications/publications will be required to display their works in a Senior Exhibit, which is a gallery-style exhibition. The exhibition will be in December.

Scholarships
Departmental art and communication scholarships are available.