Undergraduate Degree Programs

View the Undergraduate Catalog programs of study in Art.

• Art Studio Option Advising Template
• Bachelor of Arts with Pre-Art Therapy Option Advising Template
• Graphic Design Option Advising Template
• Field Endorsement in Art (K-12) Advising Template

Four-Year Template

Four Year Planning Schedule for Art

Essential Studies

The Essential Studies Program at Chadron State provides an integrated, 连贯的学习经验，使学生为负责任的探究生活做好准备.

Course Schedule and Catalog

• View the Current Course Schedule
• View Undergraduate Courses and Descriptions for Art
• View Undergraduate Courses and Descriptions for Museum Studies
• View Graduate Courses and Descriptions for Art
• Undergraduate and Graduate Course Catalogs

Can’t find a course you need at Chadron this term? Check the online course schedules for Wayne State and Peru State. Before registering, 一定要和你所在学院的院长联系，了解是否适合你的项目.

• NSCS Online Course Guide

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CSC Art Program Specific Technology Recommendations for Students

(新生不需要笔记本电脑，但在实验室开放时间之外，笔记本电脑可以帮助他们工作. 艺术课程有一个平面设计实验室，为学生配备了20台Mac电脑和Adobe和微软软件.) Updated Jan. 2022

Operating Systems
Your computer should run either Apple Mac OS X 10.15 or higher, or Windows 10. Mac OS X 10.15 is a free upgrade. 你可以在CSC图形设计计算机实验室找到苹果Macintosh电脑. Most of the art faculty and many art students will be using Macs, and students are successful with Windows PCs as well. 我们没有特别的建议，但是Mac电脑往往是设计领域的行业标准.

Use of Existing Laptops
你可以使用你现有的电脑设备，只要它符合要求的规格. 对于苹果电脑，电脑应该能够升级到macOS X 11，如图所示 Apple list. As noted below, 12“MacBook”和13“MacBook air”不符合最低硬件规格.

Hardware Specifications
图形设计和数字艺术软件的大量使用对计算机硬件提出了很高的要求. For this reason, 对于大多数艺术工作室的学生来说，要求分为中等水平的规格, and high-level specifications for Graphic Design students.

Art -Studio Art, Art PK-12, Pre Art Therapy (except Graphic Design)
Hardware Specification for Mac/Windows

• CPU: Intel Core i5 or i7; or Apple M1 or higher
• Display: 13 in. or larger. Note for Apple products: the 12 in. 'MacBook' and the 13 in. 'MacBook Air' will not be sufficient.
• RAM: 8 GB, minimum, 16 GB preferred. Apple note: RAM in Apple laptops cannot be upgraded after purchase.
• Video Card:
  • 好:-内置视频与共享RAM在大多数型号将是足够的.
  • 更好的选择:内置视频，配备最新的英特尔酷睿i5和i7 cpu, and the Apple M1 or higher CPU.
  • 最佳:带有专用RAM的独立视频卡最适合视频和3D工作.
• Storage: 250GB minimum

Art: Graphic Design
Hardware Specification for Mac/Windows

• CPU: Intel Core i5 or i7; or Apple M1 or higher.
• Display: 15 in., FullHD (1920x1080 pixels), minimum.
• RAM: 8 GB minimum; 16 GB is better. RAM in Apple laptops cannot be upgraded after purchase.
• Video Card: A discrete video card with dedicated RAM
• Storage: 250GB minimum

Software Requirements

Standards of software may change during your time at CSC, and additional software may be required for certain courses. 艺术课程了解额外的费用可能是学生的负担，并尽一切努力减少额外的费用. 除下面列出的软件外，任何必修课程都不需要其他软件. (Studio electives chosen by the student may need different software.) CSC Campus Information Technology Services information: http://3e7g8z.jft2.com/technology

Software for Students

• Adobe Creative Cloud:目前，只有当学生注册图形设计课程时，才能通过实验室费用提供AdobeCC访问. 许多平面设计专业的学生选择自己购买这个行业标准软件的订阅.
  

  http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/buy/students.html?promoid=Z9X3FPBM&mv=other

  学生可以节省超过60%的Adobe Creative Cloud订阅，其中包括Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign as well as other Adobe programs. $19.99/month for first year, $29.99/month after that.

• 微软办公软件:学生可以免费在三台设备上安装微软软件，除了微软软件，他们还可以获得高达1tb的免费云存储空间. How to get it: When in your Eagle Mail account, you can click on the nine dots in the upper left hand corner. From there, you click on the Office 365 with the arrow by it. 这将打开一个新页面，允许您下载Microsoft软件包. 当打开文档时，它将要求登录凭据，这是Eagle Mail信息. As long as students know their log in information to their Eagle Mail, this information will allow them to download the package.

Typical Extras - hardware

1. Extended Warranty, 3 years. Some protection plans cover accidental damage; others do not.
2. 数据备份:外部驱动器和/或在线备份服务的订阅.
   1. Why back up? Your computer’s storage drive will fail at some point, probably just before your final project is due. And we humans will fail to manually back up. 使用软件和在线服务和/或外部驱动器的自动化方法将保护您免受数据丢失.
   2. Online Backup Service: Commercial web-based backup services run continuously; cost begins at $6/month.
   外部存储驱动器:使用与您的计算机捆绑的备份软件创建备份:Time Machine (Mac), or Windows Backup and Restore. 硬盘容量应该是电脑内部硬盘容量的2-3倍. Cost: $60-150.
3. 麦金塔电脑可以同时运行macOS X和微软Windows操作系统(不包括苹果M1笔记本电脑).)你可以自己安装Windows，使用苹果(Apple)免费的Boot Camp软件.

Tablets/Drawing Laptops

平面设计专业的学生仍然需要学习如何使用行业标准的Adobe软件，但平板电脑是一种极好的数字创作模式，可以在触摸屏上作画. Prices range from $400 basic models to $2,500 supreme processors. There are laptops that allow the user to draw on a touchscreen. CSC平面设计实验室有六台Wacom平板电脑，可以连接到台式机或笔记本电脑上供学生使用. Tablet vs. laptop – A tablet and stylus may be a more affordable option. 请记住，大多数平板电脑并不是为运行耗电的图形软件而设计的. 笔记本电脑有更好的处理器和更多的软件(并且可以运行Adobe软件).)

Things to consider in purchasing a drawing tablet/laptop:
(摘自技术/评论文章“便携式毕加索”，作者Kyle Schurman)

1. 图形处理和内存:笔记本电脑的图形处理非常重要. Art software often needs powerful graphics processors and memory. 要获得高水平的性能，请选择至少有8gb显存的电脑.
2. RAM:随机存取内存是另一个重要的特性——当你处理大型图形文件时，它可以保存它们. Look for at least 8 GB of RAM though more is better.
3. 笔的兼容性:确保触摸屏二合一笔记本电脑让用户能够使用触控笔或专用笔在屏幕上徒手画画.
4. Resolution: Go for a laptop with a high-definition screen resolution, which starts at 1920-by-1080 pixels. 许多最好的笔记本电脑都有更高的屏幕分辨率.
5. Battery life: A laptop with 8 hours of battery life or more is best, to allow for uninterrupted drawing time.
6. 中央处理器:中央处理器是每台笔记本电脑的重要功能, and especially those using processing-intense art programs. Look for CPU speed of at least 2 GHz. If you can afford more, higher speeds mean better performance.
7. 显示尺寸:笔记本电脑的尺寸是从一个角到对角线对面测量的. 14或15英寸的屏幕很常见，但也有10到17英寸的. 屏幕越大，越容易看到你所画的细节.