Who stated you possibly can’t have a vivid future with an Art & Design degree?
Ohio Northern College has a powerful historical past of nurturing budding artists of their craft, launching a whole lot of profitable careers. To hold on this legacy whereas additionally modernizing its program choices, the Getty College of Arts & Sciences has launched a brand new and improved main combining key studying outcomes from two associated fields of examine – studio arts and graphic design.
The reimagined Artwork & Design main supplies a strong basis for artistic college students with all completely different pursuits and profession aspirations in artistic roles. It additionally incorporates added flexibility so college students can tailor this system to enrich their particular pursuits.
“This system cultivates college students to turn into resourceful and adaptable artists and/or designers in our society,” says Brit Rowe, BFA ’93, professor of artwork & design. “College students graduating from our program nonetheless must have robust, artistic and significant pondering expertise, and to have the ability to adapt and develop in varied artwork and design associated fields.”
College students can count on the identical hallmarks of any ONU training – student-centered instruction, high-impact studying outcomes, and ample artistic alternatives. Like this system’s forerunners (studio arts and graphic design), the brand new main can be centered on technical, conceptual, and significant pondering expertise.
To broaden college students’ foundational data, new lessons have additionally been added to the curriculum, akin to Digital Know-how. Different new programs embody Comics, Social Media Design, and Environmental Design.
In the course of the second and third 12 months, college students will take artwork and design programs, in addition to elective studio programs that enable them to discover and develop particular areas of curiosity. The fourth 12 months culminates with superior research, together with the capstone course whereas finishing a minor.
“Together with this new main, we’re strongly encouraging college students to pursue a minimum of a minor in one other associated self-discipline, akin to theater arts, psychology, public relations, social media, pc science, or arts administration,” says Rowe. “We wish college students to pursue their profession pursuits and their passions to make them extra marketable after commencement.”
The Artwork & Design main additionally has extra flexibility constructed into the curriculum to permit college students to conduct analysis, internships, examine overseas, or another artistic alternative that will be applicable for the scholar’s profession objectives.
In comparison with different faculties with related packages, Ohio Northern’s Artwork & Design program boasts a better variety of devoted school, introducing college students to a broader vary of particular disciplines. As well as, Ohio Northern’s small class sizes supply every scholar extra individualized consideration from school.
“We’re excited to launch this new main,” says Rowe. “Our program may give college students the interdisciplinary expertise and the expertise they want to reach at present’s evolving, artistic business. If a scholar desires to be a graphic designer, a scenic designer, an artwork therapist, an exhibition designer, and even an arts administrator, college students will have the ability to simply mix their coursework to finest place themselves for artistic alternatives.”
