The Foundation Program
You come to CCS with a total commitment to study and make art and design, so we enable you to begin working in your chosen area of concentration in your first year, or to be enrolled as an undeclared major for one semester and sample a number of disciplines. But it's also our responsibility to provide you with the underpinnings common to all art and design fields. In our Foundation Program, you'll master the techniques, principles, and materials that are the "grammar" of visual language. You'll also explore the historical precedents that inform any artistic or design enterprise, and become adept at expressing visual ideas in written critiques. The Foundation Program stretches your talents in every direction, and prepares you for the studies and work that lie ahead.

Underscoring the interdisciplinary nature of art, the Foundation Program is presented not as isolated classes in individual departments, but rather as an interconnected body of information. Your Foundation classes will include:

• Three studio areas: drawing, 2D design and 3D design
• Materials and Processes
• Color and Light
• Studio exploration class (undeclared only)
• Writing about Art and Design
• Contemporary Humanities Survey (film, dance, music and literature in the last 70 years)
• Art History Surveys (Ancient to Renaissance, Baroque to Impressionism, 19th Century to Post-Modern)