The Ceramics Concentration builds technical skills while honoring the interdisciplinary nature of your creative pursuits.<br>This concentration is an opportunity to focus a portion of your study (15 credits) in Ceramics as a supporting, interdisciplinary and integral part of a student's undergraduate experience. In conjunction with their studio courses, students are advised to consider a listing of supporting humanities courses that sharpen and deepen the concentration. This curriculum supports students with a variety of interests, from students interested in various permutations of the use of ceramics within a mixed media context to students interested in material science, new technologies, and industrial product design. This concentration is intended for students from any major outside of Ceramics who have an interest in exploring the medium as a supporting part of their studio practice. Declaration of the concentration is preferred in the sophomore year.<br><br>Under the guidance of an impressive faculty of scholar-teachers, you gain first-rate liberal arts education and build a depth of understanding in such areas as philosophy and ethics or social sciences and political history, while pursuing advanced artistic investigations in a studio major.<br>In four years, you will complete all requirements for a B.F.A. in a studio discipline simultaneously with a challenging liberal arts major in Humanistic Studies, allowing you to begin graduate study a year earlier than 5-year B.A./B.F.A. programs.