First Year Foundation

Our Foundation Program provides students with intensive instruction in the fundamentals of art and design.

These six foundation courses allow space to experiment across media and investigate creativity through various disciplines, providing students with skills applicable to any area of inquiry they choose to pursue.

FOUN 110: Line + Space
FOUN 120: Color + Composition
FOUN 140: Design + Digital Process
FOUN 130: Object + Matter
FOUN 141: Image + Time
FOUN 131: Site + Research

In the sophomore year, students begin to focus on the themes within their work and start investigating a Center of Inquiry while being exposed to a broad range of skills and processes.

Learn more about our Centers of Inquiry