Academic Accelerator - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Fine Arts

Program Description

• The right amount of support when you need it.
• A seat in credit-bearing courses, so you can earn a full freshman year’s worth of credits while taking courses tailored to your needs as an international student. This will help you achieve your academic and career goals.
• English-language instruction designed around your social and academic needs.
• Integrated and cohorted courses, so you’ll be in some classes with U.S. students and others with your designated UDayton Global cohort.

As a humanistic discipline, the fine arts emphasize self-discovery and realization of individual creative potential as invaluable assets in both career and personal development. The pursuit of a fine arts career is a commitment to creating images through which artists may identify and critique society. Thus the artist contributes to the preservation and advancement of culture.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is an intensive professional program of study specifically designed to prepare you to enter the field of fine arts and/or continue your studies in graduate school. The BFA allows you to collaborate with faculty on independent special interest problems. 

Fine Arts at the University of Dayton offer the creative individual a wide variety of artistic experiences designed for personal enrichment and high degree of originality. A faculty of highly qualified artists offers instruction in such areas as painting, drawing, ceramics, illustration, sculpture, and printmaking. Fine art studio classes provide a broad base of experience for the individual seeking to explore the diverse possibilities of artistic expression and thought. The department offers a broad selection of courses that provide beginner as well as the committed artist with a range of experiences that are intended to enhance and expand a student’s creative abilities.

Entrance portfolios are not required for acceptance into the Bachelor of Fine Arts program, but students transferring art and/or design credits from other academic institutions are required to submit a portfolio consisting of their work from each course for which they seek credit.

The University of Dayton is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).