Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art at CSU Channel Islands

If you're interested in studying ART in a creative, friendly, efficient learning environment, you're the perfect student for California State University Channel Islands.

Here are a few reasons why you will want to to earn your B.A. degree in ART at CSUCI.

• Outstanding Faculty > Active exhibiting artists > Professional graphic designers & digital artists > Internationally recognized art historians
• Two Dedicated State-of-the-Art Computer Labs > Fully loaded with virtually every digital art & design software package ranging from Adobe CS3 to Final Cut Pro to MAYA 3D.
• Industrial Style Art Studios > Painting/Drawing > Sculpture/Ceramics > Design and Animation Classroom > Outdoor courtyard working area
• Student Centered University > Warm, friendly, creative learning environment
• Beautiful, serene campus > Spanish mission architecture > Temperate Mediterranean climate
• 1 hour from Los Angeles > The Getty Center Museum > Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) > Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Culver City and China Town Gallery Scenes
• 1 hour from Santa Monica via Pacific Coast Highway> Bergamont Station gallery scene > Santa Monica Museum of Art > Entertainment > Restaurants
• 1 hour from Hollywood > Entertainment Industry > Animation Studios > Film Studios
• 6 miles to beautiful Pacific Coast Highway, minutes to the finest beaches and ocean recreation in California > Malibu > Oxnard > Ventura > Rincon
• 45 Minutes to Santa Barbara > Entertainment > Restaurants > Beaches > Museums > Galleries

As an Art Major at CSUCI, you will find a warm, nurturing and highly creative atmosphere at your disposal. Throughout the studios of the Topanga Hall art complex, the community-like environment supports your artistic endeavors, encourages personal creativity and promotes your technical excellence. A unique aspect of the CSUCI Art Program is the accessibility to your excellent faculty. These highly accomplished artist/teachers are dedicated to your future success and understand the challenges of being an artist in the 21st century. Unlike many large, impersonal art departments at other universities, CSUCI provides an intimate learning environment with an ideal teacher-to-student ratio. At CSUCI, you are assured of the personal attention you deserve as a student intent on learning and developing into a successful artist.

Another positive aspect of the CSUCI Art Program is the cross-pollination of the art students across the disciplines. Whether a graphic designer, animator, sculptor, painter, photographer or video/film artist, students from the various artistic specializations interact in stimulating classroom situations as well as in the warm social environment of the Topanga Hall art complex. Because CSUCI is a new campus, the Topanga Hall art complex and the new John Broome library is equipped withArt Program dedicated, state-of-the-art computer labs, loaded with powerful Macintosh computers boasting the latest graphic art, digital video, and computer animation software applications ranging from Adobe CS3 - Illustrator and Photoshop to Final-Cut Pro, Maya 3D animation and virtually everything in between. In addition, the entire Topanga Hall art complex building is a fully wireless hub, providing Internet and network access to your personal laptop computer as well. Every student enrolled in courses utilizing the Topanga Hall art complex computer lab has their own digital storage space on the Art Server and access to the finest digital art equipment anywhere.

The bright and airy Painting/Drawing and Sculpture/Ceramic studios of the Topanga Hall art complex are located adjacent the beautiful South Quad and the new "Islands Cafe" dining commons. The studios are accessible for your personal use between scheduled classes. There are so many reasons to earn your B.A. degree in Art at CSUCI. As an incoming student you will be exposed to, and have the opportunity to sample many career paths for today's artist. As an Art major, you can choose to specialize in a specific artistic discipline, or with the advise of a faculty mentor, you can create your own hybrid path, mixing aspects of numerous artistic specializations. Upon in-depth investigation into our excellent Art program, you will find that CSUCI is the ideal educational and artistic destination.