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At Seattle Pacific University’s Art Center (SPAC), students can choose from four minors — Art: Digital Media, Art: Photography, Art: Studio, and Art: Visual Studies. Each minor offers a focused, interdisciplinary pathway that complements many majors while cultivating visual literacy, creative skill, and cultural insight.

  • Art: Digital Media minor builds fluency in animation, photography, graphic design, and digital art.
  • Art: Photography minor develops technical and conceptual expertise in digital photography, lighting, and video storytelling.
  • Art: Studio minor fosters creative expression through drawing, painting, sculpture, and mixed media.
  • Art: Visual Studies minor emphasizes critical analysis of global visual culture through historical, philosophical, and theological lenses.

Each minor helps students deepen their understanding of visual communication and integrate creative practice into their academic and professional pursuits.


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Expanding skills

At Seattle Pacific University’s Art Center (SPAC), students can pursue four minors — Art: Digital Media, Art: Photography, Art: Studio, and Art: Visual Studies — with each enriching academic pathways through creative exploration and skill development in the visual arts.

These programs are ideal to pair with majors in business, communication, education, or technology as a means to integrate artistic thinking into students' work. Whether students are exploring the historical and cultural significance of visual culture, building technical proficiency in photography and video, engaging with studio practices, or developing digital fluency, these minors provide a flexible, enriching way to expand creative skills. Students in the Art and Design major can also use a minor to refine focus in areas such as digital tools, photography, studio arts, or visual culture analysis.

What will I study?

  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Photography
  • Design
  • History
  • Curation
  • Interactive Digital Media
  • Video
  • Animation
  • UI/UX
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Art programs requirements

Visit the Undergraduate Catalog for current degree requirements for the Art and Design major, its tracks, and the four minors.

View the degree requirements