Become a portrait painter with a distinctly feminist perspective. Or a social activist trained in performance strategies. Or a biologist with deep expertise in 3D modeling. SMFA's Combined Degree program leads to both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and either a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degreea combination that yields academic and creative skill sets that will serve you well no matter where your journey takes you.Graduates of the Combined Degree program receive two degrees within five years. In addition to your BFA, you'll graduate with a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in a major of your choice.Tufts provides its students with the resources of a major research university and the breadth of academic options afforded by our School of Arts and Sciences.As a combined-degree student, youll spend your first year exploring both the fine arts and liberal arts and sciences curriculum. Youll make the most of both campuses, expand your social and intellectual horizons, and start to imagine where youd like to go with your combined degree.<br><br>Students can engage in moving image practice through a variety of conceptual and technical traditions, in courses that investigate both cinema and gallery-based work. The film and video facilities support moving image production in video, film, and time-based digital media. Courses expose students to the history of the European and American Avant-Gardes and traditions in experimental cinema as they relate to theatrical, gallery-based, and emergent platforms of distribution. The film and video labs are built to foster a wide variety of skill sets such as production skills, camera operation and composition, lighting, film and digital editing techniques, projection and digital display in theater and gallery contexts, post-production, expanded cinema, and multi-channel video installations. Film and video easily overlap with students investigations in disciplines as diverse as performance, installation, sculpture, sound, and animation.