The Foundations curriculum provides a broadening and deepening studio experience.
Foundations is the basis for building increasingly sophisticated skills, techniques and ideas.
Faculty teach basic principles by requiring students to work with visual elements in new ways and across media in an intense, six-credit studio Core class the first semester. A distinctive feature of the Core is the team-teaching approach where faculty from two different disciplines conduct classes together. Their different points of view show students there is no single right way and encourage a variety of solutions to problems, collaboration and risk-taking. All first year students begin their study in the Foundations program.