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.
Transferring Credits
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.
- A maximum of 15 credits of studio art and 10 credits of Art History may be transferred in and applied towards the credit requirements for the BA in Art.
- A maximum of 15 transfer credits of art history classes may be applied toward the major credits required for the BA in Art History.
The School of Art + Art History + Design does not evaluate credit equivalency for prospective transfer students prior to being admitted to the University of Washington. For more information, visit the UW Transfer credit policies.
Art History Courses
Many Art History courses have the "W" designation to meet the UW writing requirement. Completing a 200-level art history writing class in your first year as an Art major is highly recommended.