Corcoran College of Art and Design
Associate degree
Digital Media Design | |
The Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree program at the Corcoran College of Art + Design provides a course of study for students who are highly motivated about their art education and are seeking professional development, a career change or are unable to enroll in the College's full-time BFA program.... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Associate degree
Fine Art | |
The Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree program at the Corcoran College of Art + Design provides a course of study for students who are highly motivated about their art education and are seeking professional development, a career change or are unable to enroll in the College's full-time BFA program.... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Associate degree
Graphic Design | |
The Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree program at the Corcoran College of Art + Design provides a course of study for students who are highly motivated about their art education and are seeking professional development, a career change or are unable to enroll in the College's full-time BFA program.... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Associate degree
Photography | |
The Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree program at the Corcoran College of Art + Design provides a course of study for students who are highly motivated about their art education and are seeking professional development, a career change or are unable to enroll in the College's full-time BFA program.... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Art Studies
Contemporary Art and Museum Culture | |
The Contemporary Art and Museum Culture concentration gives students an essential head start on understanding the environment of today‘s art world. Within the context of Corcoran Gallery of Art”one of the nation‘s premier art museums for visual arts”students examine trends and issues facing the contemporary... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Art Studies
Theory and Studio Practice | |
The Theory and Studio Practice program lets students combine intensive studio work with advanced studies in critical issues, art history, and art theory. Drawing from the College‘s established courses in a wide variety of visual-art disciplines, students create their own studio practice program and meld... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Art Studies
Writing in the Arts | |
This program puts students at the center of today‘s lively interaction between artists and writers. The curriculum is designed for students whose talents lie as much with the written word as with the purely visual, whether they aim to become critics, poets, screenwriters, bloggers, or simply artists... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Digital Media Design | |
Digital Media Design students concentrate on the design requirements of web design, digital video, computer animation, and other non-print media. Students benefit by interacting with a faculty comprised of professional animators, digital video editors, and web designers. The College‘s Washington, D.C.... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Exhibition Design | |
The Master of Arts in Exhibition Design is a new program designed to take advantage of the extensive collections, museum professionals, and courses available within the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design. From the expansive permanent collection to the special exhibitions that take place... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Fine Art | |
Fine Art majors enjoy both the freedom to work independently across disciplines and media, and a mentoring-style approach, through which faculty work closely with students in the development of their technical skills and creative thinking. The curriculum challenges students to respond critically and... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Graphic Design | |
Recognizing that in today‘s world, graphic design is highly dependent upon digital technology, the Corcoran provides state-of-the-art computer labs and software so that students use the same tools as professional designers. With these advanced technological tools, graphic designers continue to serve... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Interior Design | |
Designers are multi-discipline practitioners, comfortable designing hotels, restaurants, office buildings, hospitals, and retail stores, as well as in determining the interior design of private homes. Interior designers bring their own creative vision directly to bear on the lives and work of others,... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Photography | |
Fine-art photography students have the benefit of a major museum as their campus, one that has been internationally acclaimed for its innovative exhibitions and extensive collection of photography. Students work with an experienced faculty that is deeply committed to the photographic medium as a powerful... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Bachelor degree
Photojournalism | |
Drawing directly upon the unique media resources of the nation‘s capital, the photojournalism program is an ideal training ground for a new generation of creative newspaper and magazine photographers. The faculty includes leading members of the White House News Photographers‘ Association as well as renowned... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
3-D Computer Animation | |
The Certificate in 3-D Computer Animation will provide the student with a broad-based knowledge of industry standards in 3-D modeling and animation. The courses will focus on techniques for developing 3-D characters and graphics and animating them using a variety of software. The one elective course... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Advanced Graphic Design | |
The Certificate in Advanced Graphic Design is designed for the student who is already familiar with the tools that graphic designers use but desires to explore the complex theories and issues facing designers today. Students will focus on typography, graphic design systems, Gestalt theory, editorial... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Advanced Web Design | |
The Certificate in Advanced Web Design offers students with prior Web design experience an opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills. Students will focus on learning advanced software concepts from a design perspective. Courses in advanced Web authoring and animation as well as advanced Web... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Ceramics and Sculpture | |
The certificate in Ceramics and Sculpture provides students with a solid technical foundation enabling technique to effectively serve expression. Classes in ceramics will instruct the student in hand-building techniques, wheel-throwing, and glazing/firing methods. Ceramics electives allow the student... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Digital Imaging | |
The Certificate in Digital Imaging is designed for artists and illustrators who wish to broaden the approach to their work. The courses will focus on techniques for digitizing art work as well as using digital tools to create original art work. Students will learn techniques for manipulating digital... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Digital Video | |
The Certificate in Digital Video will provide students with industry standard techniques in lighting, shooting and editing digital video for television or for use on the Web. Students can also choose electives that will introduce them to DVD production, animation techniques, using video on the web or... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Drawing and Painting | |
Drawing and painting are the building blocks of the art disciplines. They are not only incredible technical tools but are also media with unbounded expressive virtues. In this certificate, students study the underpinnings of each medium and then move on to more advanced instruction exposing the student... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Figurative Studies | |
The human figure has always been a centerpiece of western European art. In this series of courses leading to a Certificate in Figurative Studies, students are grounded in the fundamentals of anatomy, figure drawing and figure Sculpture. Electives in figure painting, color theory and large format painting... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Graphic Design | |
The Certificate in Graphic Design is designed for the student desiring a knowledge of the most frequently used graphic design tools. This program focuses on page layout, drawing, image scanning and manipulations, typography and print preparation. Students will receive a solid grounding using the core... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Interior Design | |
The Certificate in Interior Design will provide the student with a strong foundation in the general principles of Interior Design. The curriculum includes both academic and studio classes. History and theory classes include academic study in the areas of art history, architecture, interior design and... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Jewelry | |
The Certificate in Jewelry program will offer students the instruction and opportunities to create their own designs in metal. Required courses will give students instruction in basic and advanced fabrication skills, casting techniques, basic stone setting, as well as the use of color, connections, clasps,... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Printmaking | |
The Certificate in Printmaking will allow students to work with the Corcoran‘s renowned faculty of printmakers and study traditional printmaking techniques. Students are also able to incorporate advances in digital technologies into the Certificate in Printmaking curriculum. Courses allow students to... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Web Design | |
The Certificate in Web Design offers students a fast track to learning industry standard software taught from a design standpoint. Classes focus on software skills as well as addressing design and communication issues related to Web design. Students will have the opportunity to focus on related Web skills... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Masters degree
Art Education (BFA/MAT) | |
The five-year Bachelor of Fine Art/Master of Arts in Teaching in Art Education program allows undergraduate students majoring in Fine Art to begin working on their dual degrees at the freshman level, combining their undergraduate and graduate studies into a rigorous 160-credit program. Corcoran faculty... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Masters degree
Art Education (MA) | |
The Art Education degree program is designed for experienced teachers desiring to expand and deepen their knowledge of art and sharpen their educational abilities as a basis for their professional work and personal development. Our goal is to create a local, national and international community of colleagues... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Masters degree
Art Education (MAT) | |
Teaching art is an art form. The Corcoran‘s Master of Arts in Teaching program is philosophically rooted in each student‘s reflective experience of making art, critiquing and interpreting art, and seeking the cultural interactions between works of visual art and society. Graduate students discover first-hand... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Masters degree
History of Decorative Arts | |
Scholarship in the history of decorative arts has only recently been treated with the critical, intellectual, and theoretical rigor that enriches the study of art history. For this very reason, the field of decorative arts history is enormously exciting: the significant objects that demand attention... |
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Corcoran College of Art and Design
Masters degree
Interior Design | |
Interior Design, like architecture, plays a definitive role in the quality of modern life.
Professionals in this field are multi-discipline practitioners, often as comfortable designing hotels, department stores, hospitals, or offices as in determining the decor and layout of private homes. Interior... |
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