Fine Arts
Build your creative skills by studying with our professional Fine Arts faculty at Highline College. Students develop and hone their technical, observational, and analytical skills in a variety of classes: drawing, painting, figure drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and photography.
Graduates are skilled in working with both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional media and have the foundation to create a transfer portfolio to gain entrance into colleges and universities within creative fields such as architecture, animation, game art, illustration, photography, fashion design, industrial design, and fine arts, to name a few!
Career
Create a transfer portfolio to gain entrance into colleges and universities for the following careers:
- Architect
- Animator
- Concept Artist
- Game Artist
- Illustrator
- Photographer
- Fashion Designer
- Industrial Designer
- Fine Artist
- Art Teacher
- Art Therapist
Associate Degrees
Department/Program URL:
https://artanddesign.highline.edu/programs/fine-arts/
GPA Requirement:
Students must achieve a minimum overall GPA of 2.0.
Number of Credits:
90-91
Degree or Certificate Learning Outcomes:
- Critical Thinking – Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze and summarize complex information, create an argument that acknowledges multiple perspectives, and use reasoning and evidence to draw conclusions.
- Quantitative Reasoning – Students will demonstrate the ability to apply numerical, logical, and analytical techniques to analyze, evaluate, and explain quantitative information.
- Effective Communication – Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate ideas through written, oral, and/or visual formats by utilizing their own voice to address various audiences and consider the perspectives of others.
- Information & Visual Literacy – Students will demonstrate the ability to interpret, evaluate, synthesize, and organize selected textual, visual, or electronic resources for a given situation, maintaining strict adherence to legal and ethical guidelines governing information access.
- Community & Social Responsibility – Students will demonstrate the ability to interact productively and equitably with others in diverse local, national, and global communities; address social justice issues based on awareness of historical and contemporary systemic inequalities; proactively engage in their physical and mental health.
- Globalism – Students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate how environmental, relational and cultural processes and interactions impact the world, people’s lives, and their own views.
Top Transfer-To institutions
- University of Washington
- Cornish College of the Arts
- Highline College (Bachelor of Applied Science in Integrated Design)
Important Dates or Milestones Specific to Degree/Certificate
N/A