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ARTD 4890 Course Prerequisites

In order to take ARTD 4890, Graphic Design Internship, the fol­low­ing eli­gi­bil­ity require­ments must be met. If you have par­tic­u­lar ques­tions per­tain­ing to any of these require­ments, or are unclear of your cur­rent stand­ing related to any of these require­ments, please arrange to meet with your assigned Graphic Design advisor.

  1. Be of Junior (60+ hours) or Senior (90+ hours) standing within the University, and be in good aca­d­e­mic stand­ing (not on aca­d­e­mic warn­ing or pro­ba­tion); trans­fer stu­dents must have taken,completed and passed at least one 3000– or 4000-level ARTD stu­dio course in the BFA in Graphic Design Program at BGSU, regard­less of over­all class standing
  2. Be fully-accepted into the BFA in Graphic Design Program by virtue of hav­ing passed the School of Art BFA Portfolio Entrance Review and the BGSUGD Sophomore Portfolio Review
  3. Have com­pleted and passed, or been awarded trans­fer credit for, ARTD 3010, Intermediate Graphic Design and ARTD 3050, Graphic Design Processes and Procedures
  4. Be able to work no more than fif­teen (15) hours per week dur­ing a Fall or Spring semes­ter; or on a full– or part-time basis dur­ing the sum­mer break. In order to sat­isfy the intern­ship require­ments for three (3) credits, a min­i­mum total of 225 hours of intern­ship expe­ri­ence must be com­pleted. This total-hour amount equates to approx­i­mately 15 hours per week dur­ing a nor­mal 15-week semes­ter (15×15 = 225)

NOTE: If you are con­sid­er­ing an intern­ship dur­ing your Fall or Spring semes­ter, please be aware that each hour of con­tact time in class equals a min­i­mum of two hours of homework/study. In other words, for every ARTx stu­dio that you take (meet­ing for 5 hours per week), 10 hours of homework/study is expected. Fully con­sider this time require­ment as you tally your total hours per week. A full 15-credit load (typ­i­cally five 3-credit classes) could take upwards of 18–25 hours of in-class time per week, in addi­tion to 30 hours of expected homework/study. Adding an intern­ship that requires more than 16 hours per week of on-site con­tact time has the poten­tial to severely inter­fere with your other courses, and vice versa. For this rea­son, the Division highly rec­om­mends that you con­sider a sum­mer internship.