In your first year at MCAD, you will learn not only visual language and a new vocabulary to support it, but also you'll find new friends, get to know the facilities and expand your creativity, skills and enthusiasm for fine arts, design, media arts and the liberal arts. During your first year at MCAD, you learn how to talk intelligently about art. You learn to communicate verbally about what you see visually. Katherine Huebner, Photography major, West Des Moines, Iowa The first year Foundation Studies courses required for all new students, teach the basic art and design concepts and technical skills necessary for a good grounding for specialized studio undertakings. The courses develop your abilities in many areas of creative inquiry and strengthen your perceptions, creativity and self-discipline.
Projects emphasize problem-solving, and personal discovery.
There are so many adjustments that you have to make your first year. It's adapting to the environment and adventuring into the real world on your own. Just a new experience-I learned so much about myself. Lauren Rusnak, Media Arts, Dyer, Indiana The Foundation Studies also include courses offered by MCAD's Liberal Arts Division . The instructors in Writing for the Arts and the Liberal Arts Seminars read drafts of your papers, hold conferences with you about your writing, and work together with you in the Learning Center to support you in producing well-crafted finished work that pertains to your specific interests.