Department of Art + Design,
Art History, Art Education

Art + Design Studio Major

Honors Program

Art offers majors the opportunity to complete a Departmental Honors Program. Interested students typically apply to the Departmental Honors Program during the second semester of the junior year. Students spend one year completing an honors project that is focused on a theme or idea of investigation. Successful completion of the project and paper not only allows for a diploma reading "graduation with Departmental Honors," but also helps students create a body of work, build a strong portfolio and train for graduate school.

Requirements:

• 3.25 overall GPA minimum
  3.5 major GPA minimum
• Sequential courses: Independent study (3 units) and ART 499 Senior Honors Thesis (4 units)
• Honors level work
• Substantial body of work and exhibition of body of work
• Written 8–10 page paper
• Defense
• Committee consisting of faculty adviser, honors department coordinator (or honors college representative), and any faculty or outside representative

For more information, contact the Department of Art + Design,
Art History, and Art Education honors faculty coordinator Nora Sturges, nsturges@towson.edu.

• Departmental Honors Program

Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education
Center for the Arts, Room 3103 (map)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Phone: 410-704-2808
Fax: 410-704-2810
E-mail: artdepartment@towson.edu