Undergraduate

Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts Studies

Visual Arts offers a professional degree, the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree, and the Liberal Arts degree, the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. The BA degree is designed to easily work with a dual degree or Minor in another subject. The Professional BFA degree is designed for students who seek careers or graduate school in the visual arts and allows students to pursue an area of media concentration within the professional degree, including:

Film, Animation and Video
Painting, Drawing and Printmaking
Photography and Digital Media
Sculpture

Intersections Program

The Intersections program is an ongoing, weekly seminar, required of all VARTS majors throughout their college career. Designed to build a sense of community among the students, the program provides a forum for lively discussion around a range of issues in the arts. Lectures, demonstrations, presentations or round-table discussions with students, faculty and guest artists stimulate an ongoing dialogue meant to complement the studio

History and Theory

Emphasis of study is placed on historical as well as contemporary theories in the Arts so that students may better place their own work in a larger context. All Visual Arts students take courses in Art and Architectural History and many VARTS students develop a minor or second major in AAH. Requited courses in AAH include: