BFA Critical and Visual Studies

Our program features a core curriculum that builds upon visual analysis and interdiscipline approaches to the social sciences, and the humanities. We focus on the writings and methods of the most exciting contemporary thinkers who are of special importance to critical theory and visual studies. Students choose from a new curriculum that focuses on themes such as immigration, settlement, aesthetics, feminist theory, critical race theory, global urban cities, the histories of resistance, cultural narratives, and the art of protest. Students can minor in Sustainability, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Psychology, History, Social Justice / Social Practice, and from within the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and across the Institute in architecture, art history, art and design, and urban planning.