Academics
VCUarts is a place of limitless possibility, where you can uncover your personal expression, turn your passion into a career, and learn how to become a globally engaged artist, designer, performer or scholar. Find your place at VCUarts by exploring our programs below.
DEPARTMENTS AND DEGREES
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS KEY
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Department of Art Education
The Department prepares graduates for teaching art in schools, communities, and museums. Once you graduate from the program, you'll be eligible for teacher licensure in pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
Department of Art History
Art History Students study the art of the world and of various periods, museum studies, as well as anthropology, history, foreign languages, religious studies, gender and women's studies.
Department of Communication Arts
The Department teaches character design, concept art, and creature design for films and games. Students may take courses in illustration, graphic novels, scientific illustration, digital drawing, concept drawing, comics, and storyboarding.
Department of Craft/Material Studies
Students can work with a wide range of materials and practices including ceramics, fiber art/textile design, glassworking, metalsmithing/jewelry or woodworking/ furniture design.
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Craft and Material Studies
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Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts with a concentration in jewelry/metalworking
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Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts with a concentration in glassworking
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Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts with a concentration in furniture design
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Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts with a concentration in fibers
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Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts with a concentration in ceramics
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Minor in Craft and Material Studies
Department of Dance + Choreography
Students experience an equal focus in performance and choreography, in modern and contemporary dance along with ballet.
Department of Fashion Design + Merchandising
The Department offers learning tracks in both fashion design and merchandising with courses in fashion concept development, garment construction, patternmaking, fashion forecasting, product development, fashion media, and retail management.
Department of Graphic Design
Students will learn about publication and print design, sequential and motion design, and interaction design.
Department of Interior Design
The Department teaches students to create conceptually-driven three-dimensional interior spaces that include human factors, building codes, materials, construction methods and documentation, design theory and business procedures.
Department of Kinetic Imaging
Students in Kinetic Imaging create video art, animation, sound design, emerging media, video production 2D animation, 3D modeling, sound recording, motion graphics, virtual reality and programming.
Department of Music
Graduates work in a wide range of careers including music educators, instrumental soloists, opera singers, or chamber musicians. Areas of study in the Department include guitar, jazz studies, music education, keyboard, strings and harp, voice, woodwinds, brass and percussion.
Bachelor of Music with a concentration in performance/guitar
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Bachelor of Music with a concentration in performance/jazz studies
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Bachelor of Music with a concentration in performance/piano
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Bachelor of Music with a concentration in performance/strings
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Bachelor of Music with a concentration in performance/winds and percussion
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Bachelor of Music with a concentration in performance/voice
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Bachelor of Music with a concentration in music education/instrumental
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Bachelor of Music with a concentration in music education/vocal-choral
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Bachelor of Arts in Music
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Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in Media Scoring
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Minor in music
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Department of Painting + Printmaking
Students learn painting, etching, lithography, screenprinting and digital printing.
Department of Photography + Film
Students can choose to study photography (fine art, studio and location) or filmmaking (narrative, documentary and experimental), or a combination of the two.
Department of Sculpture + Extended Media
The Department teaches traditional sculpture techniques, video, performance, sound, installation, robotics, and 3D digital modeling.
Department of Theatre
Students can study all aspects of theatrical production including performance, costume design, scenic design, lighting design, stage management.
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a concentration in performance
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a concentration in stage management/technical production
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a concentration in scene design/technical production
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a concentration in lighting design/technical production
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a concentration in costume design/technical production
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a concentration in performance/musical theatre
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Master of Fine Arts in Theatre with a concentration in pedagogy/performance
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Master of Fine Arts in Theatre with a concentration in costume design
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Minor in Musical Theatre
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Minor in Theatre
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Cinema Program
Students create narrative films in a collaborative environment using professional equipment while preparing for employment in the professional movie-making industry.
Center for the Creative Economy
The Center promotes the creative economy as a post-disciplinary, collaborative force that disrupts the status quo in order to drive innovation and new business models around the world.
da Vinci Center
The da Vinci Center is a unique collegiate model that advances innovation and entrepreneurship through cross-disciplinary collaboration.