Freshmen coming to Western from high school, and transfer students who have fewer than 18 studio credit hours, take the Foundation Program courses. In the meantime, we don't want you to neglect your own individual work, so we also offer other introduction courses as well. Simultaneously, you begin your liberal arts foundation covering areas in human relationships, natural sciences, mathematics, writing, speaking, and creative and imaginative arts. As an artist or designer and as a person planning to make a living, you owe yourself a broad education. Learning to solve problems in visual perception carries over and strengthens your work with design or sculpture or environmental design architecture.
Art is the most versatile and expressive career choice, and is always changing.
With the overview provided by the first year courses, you're ready to follow where your creativity leads. Writing and literature plus additional liberal arts courses that you take later, round out your knowledge so that you graduate with not just a technical education, but a comprehensive one. While you re working with all these new ideas and skills, you have a personal faculty adviser, with further advising and instruction available through our Freshman Advisory Core Program. You will have the opportunity later to choose an advisor within your emphasis. Well, it is.