In addition to their major requirements, undergraduate students must complete the UW General Education Requirements. Each UW school and college interprets the General Education requirements somewhat differently. Art, Art History, and Design majors at the School must complete the following GE Requirements as required by the College of Art & Sciences:
- Areas of Inquiry (75 credits)
- Arts and Humanities (20 credits)
- Social Sciences (20 credits)
- Natural Sciences (20 credits)
- Additional 15 credits
- English composition (5 credits)
- Writing (10 credits)
- Reasoning (4-5 credits)
- Foreign language (one of the following):
- through third quarter of first-year sequence (min. 2.0 required)
- Three years of high school language in one language Native speaker of language other than English
- Placement test in a foreign language with a result of “through third quarter of college-level” or higher
- Diversity course: These credits will simultaneously satisfy other Areas of Inquiry requirements and do not add to the total number of credits you need to graduate.
Art History Courses
Most of the art History courses have the "W" designation.
Transfer Students
Transfer students with 90 or more credits should (but are not required to) have most of the General Education requirements at the time of transferring.