Interdisciplinary Arts

Fine Arts

BFA
Bachelor of Fine Arts

Major in Interdisciplinary Arts

If you envision projects that never quite fit into one category—sketching out nearly undefinable ideas, continually learning new techniques to bring your concept into reality, refining and problem-solving along the way—then the Interdisciplinary Arts degree is well-suited to your wild and innovative brain.

If you don’t like to be told what you can’t do, go your own way: connect traditional, tactile practices with experimental mediums and design methods for a degree that’s as various as it is challenging.

Program Overview

Program

Major in Interdisciplinary Arts

Degree

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Campus

Academy Campus, Fountain Campus, Port Campus

Program Length

Four years (see Degree Requirements)

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Admission Deadline

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Course + Content

In Interdisciplinary Arts, no day will be the same as the one that preceded it. As a self-curated degree, it won’t be the same for any two students either.

Interdisciplinarity starts in year one at NSCAD with Foundation studies where you will be introduced and mentored through the full array of critical and creative skills needed to become an artist. After Foundation, we build on your interdisciplinary interests and develop them into a full degree program. Take courses in any discipline, from expanded media to textiles, to become a multi-skilled artist, equipped with a wide range of practices, approaches, theories, and history.

You’ll examine the relationships between concepts, materials, and processes.

You’ll think and write critically. Then you’ll synthesize it into your own art, building your own path to the practice you want – any way you imagine it.

FOUNDATION PROGRAM: You will start your NSCAD degree with an immersive Foundation studies program. This first year introduces you to all the disciplines and practices we teach at NSCAD, and it will equip you with the critical and creative skills you need to thrive in art and design school.

Foundation program details

In Studio

Students will have access to NSCAD’s world-class facilities in media, crafts, and fine art, including:

a gang darkroom
individual film processing cubicles
a suite of computers for digital photographic work
state-of-the-art kilns
painting and drawing studios

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Careers

This well-rounded degree enables students to go on to become practicing artists and craftspeople, entrepreneurs, gallery and museum administrators, designers, illustrators, community educators, and arts writers.