加州州立大学长滩分校

The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is offered for the student eventually seeking a Master of Fine Arts degree, the position of a professional artist or designer, and for teaching studio art within a selected specialization. The B.F.A. degree program is demanding, requiring high quality performance in order to develop the professional competence of talented students toward successful entrance into the professional art field.

Majors will possess an understanding of the common elements of art/design and of the interaction of these elements, and be able to employ them in their work.
Majors will possess technical skills for producing art in several media, and will acquire substantial technical knowledge applicable to their area of specialization.
Majors will be able to produce workable connections between concept and media as well as demonstrate perceptual acuity, conceptual understanding, and technical facility at a professional entry level in their chosen specialization.
Majors will be familiar with a broad range of artists, designers, craft traditions and art movements and be able to place works of art/design in historical, cultural and stylistic contexts, particularly in their specialization.
Majors will possess an understanding of contemporary thinking and current major issues in art/design.
Majors will be able to generate competent verbal and written responses to visual phenomena, utilizing relevant vocabulary to communicate concepts to art/design professionals.
Majors will be able to make assessments of effectiveness in design projects and works of art, especially the student’s own.
Majors will be able to analyze works of art and design perceptively and critically, and convincingly form and defend value judgments of these works.
Majors will be able to identify and solve visual problems within a variety of physical, technological, social and cultural contexts.
Majors will be able to generate work and solve problems independently, resulting in a coherent set of artistic/intellectual goals that are evident in their work.
Majors will be able to synthesize, as appropriate to the issue, their capabilities in studio, analysis, history and technology.
Majors will be able to work collaboratively and will possess functional knowledge of basic business practices in the arts, as appropriate to their area of specialization.
Majors will have had regular opportunities to exhibit original work, culminating in a senior exhibition with other graduating students in their area of specialization.

Career Possibilities

Advertising Consultant or Designer • Animator • Architectural Blacksmith • Architectural Illustrator • Art Advisor • Art Appraiser • Art Buyer • Art Consultant • Art Critic • Art Director • Art Educator • Art Fabricator • Art Historian • Art Journalist • Artist • Art Librarian • Art Publicist • Art Therapist • Author • Backdrop Designer • Billboard Artist • CAD Designer • Caricaturist • Cartographer • Cartoonist • Ceramic Artist • Ceramic Designer • Commercial Artist • Commercial Photographer • Community Activist • Community Artist • Community Arts Instructor • Concept Illustrator • Conservator • Digital Fabrication • Digital/new media artist • Director • Display Designer Commercial • Display Designer Retail • Documentarian • Drawer • Editor • Fashion Illustrator • Fiber Artist • Fine Art Photographer • Gallery Director • Graphic Designer • Illustrator • Information Architect • Interactive Media Designer • Installation Artist • Jewelry Designer • Master Printer • Medical Illustrator • Metalsmith • Metals Artist