Fine Arts Minors/MIAD Program
Fulfill Your Desire to Create
Take advantage of Marquette’s unique cross-registration program with the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Wisconsin’s only college dedicated exclusively to the education of artists and designers. Choose a Fine Arts minor in studio art or art history. Or simply take MU/MIAD courses as electives.
It’s recommended you declare your fine arts minor at the start of sophomore year. Tuition is included in your Marquette full-time student rate, though some courses have nominal materials fees.
Grow as an artist. Explore the visual arts with MIAD classes in drawing, painting, figure sculpture, photography and print making.
Add depth to your vision. Study art history and understand its effects on visual communication today.
Get inspired. Learn from MIAD instructors who are working artists, designers, writers and researchers.
MINOR IN STUDIO ART
Program One - Recommended for advertising majors
- *HIST 1201 History of Western Art 1
- *HIST 1202 History of Western Art 2
- FIAR 1100 Visual Dynamics 1: Concept, Process and Composition
- FIAR 2900 Communication Design 1
- FIAR 2910 Communication Design 2
- *ADPR 3200 Marketing Communications Design and Production
Program Two - Recommended for theatre arts majors
- *HIST 1201 History of Western Art 1
- *HIST 1202 History of Western Art 2
- FIAR 1100 Basic Drawing and FIAR 11, Visual Dynamics 1: Concept, Process & Composition
- FIAR 1300 Space, Form and Materials
- Two of the following courses:
- FIAR 2220 Painting 1: Direct Methods
- FIAR 2230 Painting 2: Indirect Methods
- FIAR 2520 Figure Sculpture 1
- FIAR 2530 Figure Sculpture 2
Program Three - Recommended for any major
- *HIST 1201 History of Western Art 1
- *HIST 1202 History of Western Art 2
- FIAR 1000 Basic Drawing and FIAR 1100, Visual Dynamics 1: Concept, Process & Composition
Two courses, in sequence, from a single MIAD fine arts discipline listed below:
- Drawing, FIAR 2000, 2010
- Painting, FIAR 2220, 2230
- Figure Sculpture, FIAR 2520, 2530
- Photography, FIAR 2800, 2810
- Printmaking, FIAR 2600, 2610; 2700, 2710; 2300, 2310
Program Four - Recommended for any major
- *HIST 1201 History of Western Art 1
- *HIST 1202 History of Western Art 2
- FIAR 1000 Basic Drawing or FIAR 11, Visual Dynamics 1: Concept, Process & Composition
- FIAR 1300 Space, Form and Materials
- FIAR 2500 Sculpture: Carving and Casting
- FIAR Sculpture: Construction: Metal and Wood
MINOR IN ART HISTORY
- *HIST 1201 History of Western Art 1
- *HIST 1202 History of Western Art 2
- *PHIL 3370 Philosophy of Art and Beauty
- Three art history course offerings at MIAD. See the Diederich College of Communication in the undergraduate bulletin for a list of possible courses.
*Taken at Marquette University. All other courses taken at MIAD, 273 East Erie Street.