Course General Description

Studios, galleries, and multimedia communication firms are just some of the organizations in constant need of talented, creative, and professionally trained artists. With the rising consumer preference for more realistic video games along with movie and television special effects, such as 3D animation, this need will continue to grow. You can prepare for these opportunities through the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at St. John's. Our Department of Art and Design has attained the prestigious National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) accreditation, held by selective art schools nationwide. This 132-credit degree provides necessary technical and creative tools as well as a rigorous liberal arts education. You gain the experience and intellectual preparation to carve out your individual artistic identity. You develop a thorough understanding of the various media used in visual arts, while refining your artistic skills through drawing, painting, and working with computer graphics software. You also acquire essential critical thinking and analytic abilities, benefiting from the University’s well-rounded liberal arts curriculum.

School General Description

We commit ourselves to academic excellence and the pursuit of wisdom, which flows from free inquiry, religious values, and human experience. We strive to preserve and enhance an atmosphere in which scholarly research, imaginative methodology, global awareness, and an enthusiastic quest for truth serve as the basis of a vital teaching-learning process and the development of lifelong learning. Our core curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences aims to enrich lives as well as professions and serves to unify the undergraduate experience. Graduate and professional schools express our commitment to research, rigorous standards, and innovative application of knowledge. We aim not only to be excellent professionals with an ability to analyze and articulate clearly what is, but also to develop the ethical and aesthetic values to imagine and help realize what might be. As a metropolitan university, we benefit from New York City’s cultural diversity, its intellectual and artistic resources, and its unique professional educational opportunities. With this richness comes responsibility. We encourage the metropolitan community to use our resources to serve its needs. As a global university, we are one of our nation’s most diverse institutions of higher education, enriched by a mixture of cultures, which complements an internationalized curriculum. Through collaboration with other institutions around the world, study abroad opportunities, and online courses and degrees, our outreach spans the globe. In educating students we pledge to foster those qualities needed for our alumni to become effective leaders and responsible citizens in a vibrant city and dynamic world.