Art & Design, Ualberta

Study Art & Design where you are going to make a difference! Our undergraduate and graduate degree programs open doors to over 150 careers.

The Department of Art and Design is devoted to the practice, the history, and the theory of the visual arts and design. Comprising three divisions—Design Studies, Fine Arts, and the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture (HADVC)—its rich complement of faculty and staff provides students in its undergraduate and graduate programs with one of the best university Art and Design programs available in North America.

We off the following degrees:
-Bachelor of Design (BDes),
-Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design (BFA)
-Bachelor of Arts (BA) with a major or minor in Art and Design
-BA Honors
-Master of Design (in Industrial Design and Visual Communication Design)
-Master of Fine Arts (in Drawing & Intermedia, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture)
-Master of Arts in HADVC,
-PhD in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture.

Graduates from the Department of Art and Design find career opportunities across a broad spectrum of the cultural sectors. Former students are employed in jobs that range from museum and gallery curators and university professors, to exhibition designers, art administrators, art and design educators, full time artists, and self employed designers.