The Department of Fine Arts is home to two art programs and oversees all College Requirement courses. It centers its teaching on a blend of studio-based and theory driven instruction with strong links to the creative industry. The Department offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History and Museum Studies, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts

The Fine Arts Program emphasizes the support of unique creative development with a dynamic and contemporary approach to fine arts, preparing students to become innovative professional artists within the context of the contemporary art industry. The Program fosters a distinctive, experiential learning process providing key knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the field of fine arts. The curriculum focuses on four parallel studio tracks: Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture. It integrates elements of tradition and heritage yet based on contemporary perspectives on studio practice that embraces cosmopolitanism and the experimental spirit of modernism in its various forms of historical and global manifestation. Students complete a self-directed project in their senior year presented at the graduation exhibition. The four-year curriculum prepares graduates for a variety of careers in art, design and cultural institutions and creative industries. These include full-time artists, freelance art commissions, gallery management, cultural officers, museum curators, exhibition and festival planning and production as well as entrepreneurship.

The Art History and Museum Studies Program emphasizes the bridging of art, culture and heritage with contemporary gallery and museum practices. The Program fosters a distinctive, interdisciplinary, experiential learning process providing extensive exposure to art history and its position within the larger context of the cultural industry. The curriculum integrates elements of tradition and heritage yet bases its knowledge on contemporary perspectives in gallery and museum operations that embrace current best practices rethinking the art historical canon from a global perspective. In addition to studio-based instruction in visual studies (design, drawing, and color theory), it focuses on two parallel tracks: Art History and Museum Studies. Students complete a self-directed project in their senior year presented at the graduation exhibition. The four-year curriculum prepares graduates for a variety of careers in in art, design and cultural institutions and creative industries. These include art dealer and archivist, art journalist and appraiser, gallery and museum curator/guide, cultural officers, and museum management.