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Undergraduate Programs
BFA Degrees
PCA&D offers four-year degree programs that pair a creatively focused liberal arts education with professional studio art training.
Which Major inspires you?
BA Degree
PCA&D offers a four-year Bachelor of Arts Degree in Design Thinking. This degree prepares you to become a strategic leader and design thinker in arts industries.
AFA Degrees
Our Associate of Fine Arts Degree is an accelerated program in Animation & Game Art, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, or Photography & Video.
AA Degrees
Our Associate of Arts Degree is a two-year program with two disciplines to choose from.
Non-Major Coursework
Liberal Arts
A third of your time at PCA&D will be filled with learning the history and current context surrounding the industry you’re studying. All liberal arts courses are led with a focus on creative thinking to round out your education with the skills you’ll need to succeed beyond the studio: critical thinking, problem solving, researching, verbal and written communication, and more.
Foundation Year
All incoming students have to establish a base of fundamental drawing, software, and design skills to find success in their future chosen major. At PCA&D, this is called Foundation Year. This communal first-year experience allows you to connect with your new peers and prepares you to meet faculty expectations moving forward. Best of all – it gives you a risk-free, productive opportunity to experiment with different media and techniques in a professional setting before officially declaring your major in the spring!
Add a Minor
PCA&D offers minor programs in a still-growing range of topics to customize your major to fit your interests or career plans. Can’t decide between two majors? You don’t have to! A minor is available in each of our major areas of study.
- Animation & Game Art
- Art History & Visual Culture
- Business In Creative Industry
- Creative Writing
- Esports Management
- Fashion Merchandising
- Filmmaking
- Fine Art
- General Humanities
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Literature
- Live Experience Design & Production
- Photography & Video
- Project Management
18 credit hours are required to complete each minor
Earn a Certificate
Whether you want to enhance your marketability, gain new skills for a job or promotion, take a completely new track for a career change, or begin a larger degree at a different pace, our credit-bearing Undergraduate Certificates can help you achieve your goals.
PCA&D’s Undergraduate Certificate programs, nested in the BFA curriculum, offer specialized education and training in fields that require specific skill sets. Depending on the program, you can achieve a certificate in four to eight classes.
Undergraduate Certificates of 16 credits or more are eligible for Financial Aid!
( ) Credit Hours Required * Available Online
- Advanced Photo & Video (12)
- Animation (16.5)
- Business In Creative Industry (18)*
- Communication Design (18)*
- Data Visualization (18)*
- Digital Photography (18)
- Esports Management (18)*
- Fashion Merchandising (18)*
- Filmmaking (16.5)
- Game Art (16.5)
- Live Experience Design & Production (18)
- Packaging Design (10.5)
- Project Management (18)*
- UX/UI Design (16.5)*
High School Dual Enrollment
PCA&D provides a wide range of continuing adult professional education programs that will help you start, change, or advance your career in a variety of fields.
Make your creative life, a way of life
Make your creative life,
a way of life
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