视觉艺术系提供绘画，素描，雕塑，表演，艺术计算，电影，视频，摄影和艺术历史/批评（包括电影和视频）的课程。该系的学士学位为学生提供扎实的文科背景，并为艺术家，艺术历史学家，电影制片人，视频艺术家，摄影师，数字媒体艺术家，艺术评论家等职业的职业培训艺术史和美术专业的研究生课程。它还为学生提供了在博物馆，电视以及商业电影，摄影和互联网行业中教学和工作所需的基本技能。<br> <br>视觉艺术系的教师由活跃的艺术家和学者组成，从事与艺术作品的重新审视和重新评估，其信息结构和意义有关的研究。因此，已经设计了灵活的
The Visual Arts Department offers courses in painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, computing in the arts, film, video, photography, and art history/criticism (including that of film and video). A bachelor's degree from this department provides students with a solid liberal arts background and is preparatory training for careers as artists, art historians, filmmakers, video artists, photographers, digital media artists, art critics, and for graduate study in art history and fine arts. It also provides students the initial skills required for teaching and work in museums, television, and the commercial film, photography, and Internet industries. The studio major is aimed at producing a theoretically based, highly productive group of artists. Lower-division courses are structured to expose students to a variety of ideas in and about the visual arts. Introductory skills are taught, but their development will occur at the upper-division level in conjunction with the student's increasing awareness of the range of theoretical possibilities in the field. The curriculum includes courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, photography, digital imaging and electronics, and many offerings in art history/criticism.