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，电影摄制者，视频艺术家，摄影师，数字媒体艺术家，艺术评论家以及艺术史研究生的职业提供预备培训。和美术。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，已经设计了灵活的入
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 faculty of the Visual Arts Department is composed of actively producing artists and scholars, engaged in research and study concerned with the reconsideration and reevaluation of artistic productions, their information structure, and significance. Consequently, a flexible program of introductory courses has been devised to provide students opportunities to learn about the contexts and practices of significantly different aesthetic and communication structures. A studio course, covering time-based work, as well as drawing, painting, and sculpture, is presented to bring the student into direct contact with the real contingencies compelling redistribution of aesthetic attitudes and reinterpretation of genres. Because of the exploratory nature of our program, the department also emphasizes new media and interdisciplinary practices that would traditionally be considered to have scant relation to the visual arts. These include courses on speculative design, social practice, computing, performance, and theory. In addition to art practice, our curriculum in art history looks at the global context for contemporary art with courses on Chinese, Latin American, including Pre-Columbian, Native American, and Oceanic art, as well as European art from antiquity to the present.