What is the difference between the BA/BS and the BFA in Studio Art?
The Bachelor of Arts and Sciences/Liberal Arts program is designed for a student who desires significant breadth of experience and understanding rather than a professional specialization. Upon graduation, students will possess a developed visual sensitivity, the ability to conceptualize observations and some familiarity with the works and intentions of the major artist and movements of the past and present, as well as the mature of contemporary thinking in art. In addition to their art studies, students pursue study in an academic area outside art. This area serves to complement the major and synthesize knowledge from a variety of disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary subjects. For example: students in the past have chosen to focus their studies outside of art in such areas as the physical sciences, psychology and education. The choice of an area of concentration is often associated with a student’s post-graduation plans (including graduate coursework in art conservation, art therapy,
