Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Fine Arts - Graphic Arts

Become a portrait painter with a distinctly feminist perspective. Or a social activist trained in performance strategies. Or a biologist with deep expertise in 3D modeling. SMFA's Combined Degree program leads to both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and either a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degreea combination that yields academic and creative skill sets that will serve you well no matter where your journey takes you.Graduates of the Combined Degree program receive two degrees within five years. In addition to your BFA, you'll graduate with a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in a major of your choice.Tufts provides its students with the resources of a major research university and the breadth of academic options afforded by our School of Arts and Sciences.As a combined-degree student, youll spend your first year exploring both the fine arts and liberal arts and sciences curriculum. Youll make the most of both campuses, expand your social and intellectual horizons, and start to imagine where youd like to go with your combined degree.

The Graphic Arts area combines aspects of design, illustration, web design, and bookmaking in order to build a set of flexible skills adaptable to students' specific projects and goals. Courses focus on the development of a personal and public voice through a broad range of approaches utilizing design, printing, typography, graphic images, pictograms, book arts, and interactive web art. In addition to developing traditional skills in the field of graphic design, the curriculum explore ways in which artists can work outside of commercial contexts, both within galleries and beyond the gallery space with work that engages communities. Course content and seminars are structured around critical thinking and histories of artist's books, publishing, graphic novels, urban interventions, street graphics, public art, and other strategies for a socially engaged practice. Our students build skills applicable to commercial practice through the exploration of personal and conceptually-driven work that may take the form of sculptural objects, distributed editions, subverted corporate designs, web interventions, or ephemeral communications. SMFA's bookmaking curriculum encompasses both the design and production of books as art-objects using techniques ranging from the hand-made to the mass-produced. A strong emphasis of our curriculum is on the craft, design, production, and distribution of book arts and artist's book publications from traditional hand-binding to print-on-demand editions. The artist's book, a format which had one of its peaks in the art world of the 60's, is today undergoing a Renaissance through various digital printing and distribution methods. Students cultivate a flexible skill set drawing on graphic design, typography, digital software, binding, and printing techniques, while also engaging with historical research. Students produce editions and unique art-objects, sculptural and conceptual books, pamphlets, zines, and digital content, publications as editions, gallery-objects, and mass communication.

Students applying Early Decision I should send first quarter or trimester grades no later than the last week in November. Students applying Early Decision II should plan for their first semester or trimester grades to arrive no later than the third week in January. Finally, Regular Decision applicants should submit their first semester or trimester grades by the middle of February. Students studying abroad (where predicted grades are common) should send those if senior grades are not available. All applicants whose primary language is not English must submit proof of English proficiency, unless they have been enrolled in an English instruction school for at least three years. Students with at least three years of study in a secondary school where the primary language is English do not need to submit English proficiency testing, though they may if they would like. Students enrolled in ESOL classes during secondary school may be asked for proof of proficiency. Test Recommended Minimum Score TOEFL (Internet-based)100 IELTS 7 PTE 68 Duolingo 120