
Bachelor of Arts - Art, Media and Design







About Bachelor of Arts - Art, Media and Design
Program Description
The BA in Art, Media, and Design offers a general curriculum with areas of concentration, which identifies and promotes continuing contact with the enduring values of student's artistic heritage and the application of these values to the future. The educational aim of the department is to provide, through individualized mentoring, a foundation in project-based learning and studio art practice. The curriculum emphasizes fundamental artistic concepts through art-making, problem-solving, and experimentation in studio courses.
Three areas of concentration are offered:
- A Studio Art concentration designed to develop artistic skills and abilities in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and digital imaging;
- A Photography and Media Art concentration designed to develop artistic skills and abilities in photography, digital photography, video, and web art; and
- A Graphic Art concentration designed to develop artistic skills and abilities in primarily two-dimensional media, focusing on an intersection of art and design which can include the following areas: photography, drawing, printmaking, text, digital imaging, web art, the graphic novel, and the artist book and poster.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a high degree of competency of technical execution appropriate to their chosen medium.
- Integrate the ways in which materials, techniques, processes, and subjects generate meaning.
- Produce work that demonstrates sensitivity to the cultural, social, and/or aesthetic components of art-making.
- Produce work that demonstrates their ability to take creative and intellectual risks.
- Apply critical thinking to analyze and contextualize their ideas in group critiques, written assignments, and through their artworks.
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