Art and Design
Bachelor of Arts
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Embrace Your Creativity.
The Art and Design major at Springfield College provides an opportunity for you to learn to creatively combine practical, conceptual, and critical skills to engage with the challenges of an ever-changing and increasingly visual contemporary world. You are encouraged to develop a personal vision through guided exploration in the studio arts and design in parallel with a comprehensive foundation in art and design history.
Through diverse coursework, the major provides you opportunities to develop your creative skills in a variety of visual arts and design approaches. As you mature as an artist and designer, you become visually literate, skilled in creative problem-solving, and aesthetically sensitive.
What You Will Learn
Visual, practical, and technical skills in a variety of media
- Explore themes of aesthetic, technical, and conceptual complexity while developing a visual language for creative expression.
- Exercise the expressive qualities of each medium, making thoughtful connections between medium and content.
Critical, creative, and innovative thinking
- Cultivate the ability for divergent and flexible thinking and cultivate intellectual and creative curiosity in your work.
- Employ experimentation and risk-taking with medium, technique, and content.
Traditional and current practice in visual art, design, and culture
- Develop an awareness of the diversity of expression in art and design and the importance of this diversity in local and global cultures.
- Examine the roles that art and design play in culture, history, and society.
Program Focuses
Once the core requirements of the major have been met, you can choose a focus:
- Studio Arts: Choose from an exciting array of introductory and advanced-level courses in drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, sculpture, and mixed media. Exploration and development in different areas of studio arts are informed by an experimental approach, one that supports risk taking and innovation. Through a solid foundation, students are prepared for advanced study and professional opportunities in the arts.
- Design: Develop skills in areas of graphic design, web design, multimedia and communication design, motion graphics, exhibition, packaging, and environmental design. An innovative blend of the creative and the technological, the design focus prepares students to enter the workforce with experience, strong portfolios, and the knowledge gained from an evolving curriculum that reflects a rapidly changing field. Students explore these areas utilizing computer software, 3D printers, virtual reality, and emergent technologies. The flexibility and expansive understanding of design prepare students to pursue a variety of exciting creative careers.
What job can I get with a degree in Art and Design?
A degree in Art and Design from Springfield College unlocks numerous creative career paths. As a graduate, you can become a professional artist, showcasing your work in galleries and exhibitions. Many graduates also find success as graphic designers, creating visual content for brands, websites, and media.
If you're passionate about fashion, you could pursue a career as a fashion designer, crafting the next trends in the industry. For those interested in technology, roles such as UX/UI designer or animator are exciting options, combining artistic skills with digital tools to create engaging user experiences and visual effects.
Data is from the 2024 Occupational Outlook Handbook from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Graphic designers create visual concepts, using computer software or by hand, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and captivate consumers. They develop the overall layout and production design for applications such as advertisements, brochures, and magazines.
Special effects artists and animators create two- and three-dimensional models, images that appear to move, and visual effects for television, movies, video games, and other forms of media.
Art directors are responsible for the visual style and images in magazines, newspapers, product packaging, and movie and television productions. They create the overall design and direct others who develop artwork or layouts.
