Do you want to use art to tell stories and help others understand the world around them? Are you seeking to develop and perfect the skills necessary to become a professional artist?
This program from Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences’ Department of Art & Design is a broad-based studio concentration for students interested in art that prepares you for many exciting career options.
Augusta University’s Art program offers an opportunity like no other — one that provides several concentrations to allow you to learn the skills you need to enter the career that’s right for you.
Art is for you if you consider yourself
What You'll Study
With fewer requirements in studio arts, students have a great deal of flexibility to include a wide range of courses to suit their interests, including humanities, science, mathematics, social/behavioral classes, or foreign languages for a well-rounded education.
Experience-based Education
The Department of Art and Design offers coursework taught by talented and experienced artists to prepare students for a creative future.
Students on this track can still learn from dynamic faculty with deep connections in the art world. However, unlike the BFA, this program allows students more flexibility in choosing coursework.
A Bachelor of Arts degree may be appealing because of its broad and well-rounded approach, which can offer versatility and options when seeking a career or a graduate degree.
Whether you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, you’ll have opportunities to create your own research projects or work with faculty to tackle some of the world’s most complex and pressing challenges.
Pamplin College’s Center for Social Science Research involves students as active partners in research projects that assist local public and nonprofit agencies improve their effectiveness.
Student publications are an excellent way to find your voice and strengthen your portfolio, and Pamplin College has a wide range to get involved with.
Student clubs and organizations help you “plug in” to campus life in a way that can lead to meaningful connections, new interests and resume-enhancing experiences.
Your Future
Graduates with a BA in Arts are prepared for many career opportunities, including fine artists, museum curators, graphic designers, art teachers, art directors, interior designers, and more. Graduates with this broader degree have desirable communications and reasoning skills that are critical to a wide range of careers.
Profiles
Learning Like No Other
Wide variety of in-demand concentrations prepares you for the career you want.
Dynamic campus with opportunities to interact in a multitude of collaborative ways.
State of the art facilities and technology provides the experience needed to step directly into your career.
The on-campus gallery and the department’s long history of hosting visiting artists and lecturers brings the greater art world to you.
“I think you’re going to look around the auditorium and you’re going to see hope blooming on every single face, because in that way, we’re alike. What a testament it will be to AU if this graduating class takes this community with them into future endeavors," said Stephanie Jones.
“We have always been intentional with what programs we add to our portfolio, and MAISS and the MPA program were the next two logical choices for us,” said Marc Austin, PhD.
"I know that a degree doesn’t complete somebody, but for me, it does kind of complete that chapter of my life that’s been unfinished for so long," says Paige Boutwell.
Tadd Patton, PhD, an associate professor of experimental psychology, was recently named the new chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Augusta University.
