The BFA in Art Design: Painting offers professional, studio-based training in the visual arts with all the advantages of a university education. The BFA is a professional degree with concentrated areas of specialization, so you will take more art courses than you would in a BA program. At UMass Dartmouth, you also have the advantages of a university education where you can diversify your studies and expand your career opportunities. As a painting student, you'll learn fundamental skills and contemporary practices through a wide spectrum of course offerings such as: form color & space the human figure concept-development mixed media abstraction time-based media installation You'll develop cross-disciplinary sensitivitywith the possibility of combining painting with printmaking, photography, digital media, textiles, and other disciplines in contemporary art making. You'll also be able to explore fields across the university, such as business, engineering, and science. Fine artists are inherent problem-solvers, negotiators, collaborators, and team-players, they have excellent hand/eye coordination and can illustrate their ideasoften quickly'so that others can understand a concept beyond the written or spoken word.