What are B.F.A. Students Learning?

Through successful fulfillment of the bachelor of fine arts course of study, graduates will:

Knowledge

Develop knowledge of the history and specificity of diverse disciplinary methods and media practices
Comprehend how individual modes of artistic practice are used for creative thought and sociocultural expression
Understand the ways that contemporary art practice creatively and critically works between or across established disciplines
Display familiarity with the diversity of traditions, languages, and societies in the contemporary global context, and with art in its multicultural dimensions
Be able to interpret and engage with existing visual culture and media as a form of creative intelligence

Develop a discerning voice and confidence in one’s own artistic authorship, based on material, conceptual, and critical sensibility
Create and sustain a body of work through self-directed research, experimentation, risk-taking, and reflective analysis
Advance practices that can thrive either as an individual practice or within collaborative environments

Effectively communicate the intention of one’s work through its full formal realization
Be publicly articulate in the evaluation of the work of peers as well as more established artists
Successfully represent oneself to arts organizations, curators, publications, and graduate programs for the purpose of advancing professional and artistic goals