Minor in Book Arts

Earn a Book Arts minor

The minor in Book Arts offers a comprehensive course of study for disciplines in which text, narrative, and visuals are relevant in relation to tactile form, structure, interactivity, and presentation.

Course work is committed to developing excellence in work by hand as well as expressive and conceptual skills. Finding synergies between disciplines is an important aspect of artists' books as well as complementing the digital world with unique objects that can creatively solve problems.

The minor consists of 15-credit hours focused on book bindings and technical processes as they relate to artists' books and sculptural paper, handmade paper production, methods of typesetting, and image development within the book environment, as well as book arts in the contemporary art and print market.

Declaring the minor

Students interested in pursuing this minor must submit an online application declaring their intent before taking any courses toward the minor. However, if you have already taken and completed one of the courses listed below, it can satisfy the minor requirement once officially enrolled.

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Requirements

A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 is required for courses used to fulfill the Book Arts minor requirements.

CORE COURSES

Choose three of the following (one 300 level required):

HER G-206 Bookbinding (3 credits)
HER G-211 Book Arts Basics (3 credits)
HER G-208 Letterpress Typesetting (3 credits)
HER G-308 The Visual Book (3 credits)
HER G-310 The Printed Book (3 credits)

ELECTIVE COURSES

Choose one of the following:

HER G-209 Papermaking (3 credits)
HER G-210 Paper Engineering (3 credits)

REQUIRED

HER G-406 Advanced Practices in Book Arts (3 credits)

Questions?

For questions about the Book Arts minor, contact Herron's Office of Admissions and Student Services at (317) 278-9400 or herron4u@iupui.edu.

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