College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
RIT is well known as one of the nation’s premier universities for art, design, film, photography, and crafts. The range of innovative programs offered in our College of Imaging Arts and Sciences gives you a panoramic perspective that can be found nowhere else. Here you can create fine art using centuries-old methods or by pushing the boundaries of digital creativity.
An active, creative setting
This is a college where the lights are on 24 hours a day, where you can’t travel through the halls without pausing—to study an exhibit of photos by your fellow students, to marvel at the symmetry of the artisan’s bowl rising from a clay-spattered wheel, to glance into a computer lab at the animation or design projects, or to watch graphic media students operate millions of dollars’ worth of printing equipment like pros. This is a place where art and technology merge to create exciting opportunities for students and faculty alike.
School of Art
The School of Art offers professionally oriented degree programs in fine arts studio (painting, printmaking, sculpture, and new forms), illustration, and medical illustration. You’ll start with a foundation program that prepares you for your major concentration. Your program will be studio-intensive, giving you plenty of time, space, and faculty support to help you develop as an artist. You can immerse yourself in your concentration, developing both technical and creative skills. The School of Art offers you tremendous opportunities to work with traditional media and to use these as bridges—with crafts, photography, digital media, and the Internet—to new forms of art and expression.
For more information, visit cias.rit.edu/art/.
School of Design
Studio-intensive programs in the School of Design allow you to develop the technical, creative, and problem-solving skills you need to succeed as a designer—whether you specialize in graphic, interior, industrial, or new media design. A foundation program that prepares you to understand the conceptual, creative process underlying design disciplines is followed by courses that balance visual exploration, theory, applications, and technical design skills.
For more information, visit cias.rit.edu/design/.
School for American Crafts
The beauty and precision of hand-crafted art is the cornerstone of RIT’s School for American Crafts. This close-knit community within the college emphasizes the tradition of apprenticeship as faculty and students work together in small classes that allow individual instruction. The school is famous for graduating students with impeccable craftsmanship and unique talents in artistic expression. Your professors will inspire and motivate you as they provide the keen eye and experiences that develop your creativity and technical mastery. You’ll learn to seek continual self-improvement in your work and gain an appreciation of not only the craft but also related arts.
For more information, visit cias.rit.edu/crafts/.
School of Film and Animation
Because we offer more production experience than any other school in the country, the School of Film and Animation draws students from all over the world. We recognize the increasing interrelationships among film technology, video, animation, and the computer, so you gain hands-on experience in all areas while specializing in your medium of choice. In addition to a bachelor of science degree in digital cinema, the School of Film and Animation offers a bachelor of fine arts degree with tracks in film/video production, traditional and computer animation, film craft, scriptwriting, and stagecraft.
For more information, visit cias.rit.edu/film/.
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences
With award-winning alumni; more than 30 full-time faculty devoted to photography; six bachelor’s degree programs to choose from; and topnotch studios, darkroom facilities, and equipment, RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences is an internationally acknowledged leader in professional photographic education.
For more information, visit cias.rit.edu/photo/.
School of Print Media
Career opportunities abound in graphic communication, new media, printing, and publishing. RIT’s School of Print Media is the best-known school of its kind in the world, preparing people to manage the nation’s huge graphic communications industry. You can be at the forefront of a new media revolution, where electronic technology merges printing and publishing, graphic design, art, and photography. In our high-tech laboratories, you’ll learn the latest technologies for electronic publishing, new media publishing, and digital printing systems. Business courses will teach you the managerial skills you need to lead one of the country’s fastest growing industries, and you’ll gain important experience through cooperative education.
For more information, visit cias.rit.edu/printmedia/.
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More information about the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences can be found in the viewbooks below, or in the online catalogs. You can also request more information from Admissions.
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Imaging Arts and Sciences
Includes the following programs from this college:
- 3D Digital Graphics
- Advertising Photography
- Biomedical Photograhic Communications
- Ceramics and Ceramic Sculpture
- Digital Cinema
- Film/Video/Animation
- Fine Art Photography
- Fine Arts Studio
- Glass and Glass Sculpture
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Imaging and Photographic Technology
- Industrial Design
- Interior Design
- Medical Illustration
- Metals and Jewelry Design
- New Media Design and Imaging
- New Media Publishing
- Photojournalism
- Visual Media
- Woodworking and Furniture Design
Computing and Information Sciences
Includes the following programs in this college:
- Digital Cinema
- New Media Design and Imaging
- New Media Publishing