Collaborative. Multidisciplinary. Personal. Wonderful. These are just a few of the words students use to describe the School of Art and Visual Studies. With thirty-three full-time faculty and many highly skilled part-time support faculty the School of Art and Visual Studies offers a broad visual arts curriculum. If you’re searching for a challenging and creative environment—you belong at SA/VS.
Browse our 2024 look book to get an overview of the programs available at SAVS, hear from current students and graduates, and see our facilities.
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Art Studio BA, BFA
A studio art degree prepares you for the creative life you plan to live and opens the door to an inventive career full of exploration, critical thinking, and a practice based in hands-on making
Art Education BA
Art Education students take a variety of courses throughout the four-year program to build a strong foundation in studio art and art history, along with the theory and practices of teaching visual art.
Art History & Visual Studies BA
The ability to accurately observe the visual world and articulate its meaning are valuable skills in a broad range of fields including law, medicine, information technology, education, and museum work.
Digital Media Design BS
Students can emphasize areas like commercial photography or graphic design, or take coursework in web design and development, professional printmaking, or animation and fabrication.
Art Studio MFA
The MFA in Art Studio is an interdisciplinary degree that embraces broad forms of making and practice.
Art Education MA
The Art Education Masters program is undergoing a curriculum redesign for an improved experience, opportunities, and outcomes.
Art History & Visual Studies MA
The curriculum is structured to provide breadth and depth of inquiry through a variety of approaches to art history and, more broadly, visual studies.
Curatorial Studies MFA
With courses in art history, art studio, art education, and arts administration—among others—the MFA offers an individualized interdisciplinary degree that prepares students to be highly competitive in a diverse job market.
Art Studio Minor
Students may choose between a broad-based introduction to studio arts or a more focused concentration in a specific medium such as ceramics, drawing, intermedia, fiber, painting, printmaking, or sculpture.
Art History Minor
Art History is a particularly good minor for students majoring in other fields in the the humanities or the arts.
Students from any college may choose to minor in Art History.
Photography Minor
With over a billion photographs being created everyday, it has never been more important to understand how to make compelling images.
Visual Studies Minor
Workplaces today are visually saturated environments, our dominant pastimes are visual media (films, television, video, the Internet, etc.); and information is commonly communicated visually.
Digital Media Design Minor
The minor offers the opportunity to study and practice a broad range of digital applications in the fields of graphic design, video and film production, web design, interactive design and fabrication, and photography.
Filmmaking: Production and Dramatic Writing
Students in this cross-disciplinary certificate practice the craft of filmmaking with courses in the Department of Theatre & Dance and the School of Art & Visual Studies.