College of Architecture
Architecture BA
The BA in Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis is a four-year undergraduate program that provides maximum curriculum flexibility. In your senior year of this major, you can continue to take architectural courses (including advanced architectural design studio), or you can allocate some of your time to the courses of the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Arts, the College of Business and Engineering for further study. You can also minor in double degrees and participate in an overseas exchange program for one semester.
The BA degree in architecture lays the foundation for a three-year master's degree in architecture in the future, so that you can embark on the right path of architectural teaching, leadership and other related fields.
Architecture BDES
Since the autumn of 2011, Sam Fox School has set up a four-year undergraduate degree in Architecture BDES. Like BA, this degree also provides great flexibility in courses, enabling you to continue to study advanced courses in this major or courses in other colleges, or minor in double degrees and participate in overseas exchanges in your senior year. The BDES program will lay the foundation for you to study for a graduate degree and lead you to the right path in the field of architecture.
Architecture BS
BS is a four-year undergraduate degree in architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. Students learn structural analysis and design in combination with specific architectural history, theory and urbanization issues at the senior architectural design studio course at the annual meeting of their senior year. At the same time, students have the opportunity to participate in overseas exchange programs or cross college studies.
For students who have obtained a BS degree in architecture, the university will usually consider giving them the opportunity to study their two-year or two-and-a-half graduate degree in architecture. You can complete your undergraduate and graduate studies in 6 years, which is what we call the 4+2 project. After completing the four-year undergraduate study, the students will directly enter the two-year postgraduate study stage.
BA degree from the Academy of Arts
Fashion Design
The fashion design major of Washington University in St. Louis focuses on selecting and using a variety of materials to solve problems through plate making, three-dimensional tailoring, fashion illustration and demonstration. Courses include industrial standards and procedures, fashion history, and fashion trends. Before the end of the fourth academic year, you will design and display your works on fashion shows. The school encourages students to conduct academic exploration based on broad knowledge, because the inspiration and realization of fashion involve various fields from history to geography to mathematics.
painting
Painting is a practical discipline that combines material quality with judgment. The analysis and comment of this major is carried out through the lens of understanding contemporary thoughts and practice. You will receive intensive, personalized and group comments interspersed with studio guidance. Visiting museums and exhibition halls, visiting artists and a series of various lectures will expand your creative source.
Photography
As a Photography Students, you will experience contemporary photography through technology, history, and contemporary criticism. You will be exposed to documentary works, digital photography, studio photography, classic technology application, etc. In your junior year, you will experience intensive studio study, followed by personal graduation works exhibition in the graduation school year.
Printmaking
Printmaking provides a dynamic intersection of traditional printmaking concepts, techniques and contemporary methods. The school encourages students to expand their study of some technical techniques, such as etching, screen printing, wood carving, silk carving and photolithography. This major has a long history of innovating large-scale works and adopting mixed media production methods.
Sculpture
Through the sculpture profession, you will experience the challenge of creating works full of communication significance and energy, and you will have the opportunity to explore the use of a series of materials, from clay to metal to wood. At the same time, lectures and history books inspire you to re understand the rich significance of these original materials for contemporary sculpture practice activities. With the improvement of your learning level, through a series of media, techniques and emphasis on three-dimensional works, you will deeply investigate the social and political aspects of the sculpture subject and character image, as well as their potential in contemporary art practice.
College of Arts and Sciences
Art History
Here, art historians explore visual art culture, shape sociology, aesthetics and personal values that form culture. At Washington University in St. Louis, you will start with an introductory art course focusing on Europe, Asia and the Americas, supplemented by world archaeology, and then learn all the novel art works owned by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, Pulitzer Foundation and local private collectors. At the same time, you also have the opportunity to participate in the annual field trip, which is a study tour organized by the excellent teachers of Washington University in St. Louis to the major museums in the city.