Best Art And History Courses Chicago Near Me

4worldlovers: On Sunday, May 21, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago celebrated the graduating class. Fiber artist Sonya Clark (BFA 1993) served as the Commencement speaker.

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“If you can dream it, imagine it, whatever ‘it’ may be, even if you don’t have words to define it yet, there’s likely a way to make it happen at Columbia,” says the recent recipient of an MA in Civic Media.

“I have developed my voice as an artist, intensively focused on my work more than ever before,” says the recent recipient of an MFA in Photography.

4worldlovers: Media Arts majors explore their vision within the following distinctive modes: as animators, writers, and digital motion picture makers.


The Music Department prepares students with different musical backgrounds for successful college-level music study and professional careers. Our curriculum is firmly rooted in the traditions of classical music and jazz.


In the Musical Theatre Department, students must master storytelling in three different disciplines: voice, dance, and acting.


Theatre students will explore up to twenty topics in the discipline including all facets of Stagecraft and Scene Design, Directing, Makeup, Auditioning and more.


Within the Visual Arts Department framework of studio practice, critique, and exhibition, students develop skills to articulate their ideas and process.


Students in the English Department will develop into sensitive and critical readers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama through reading, discussion, and writing.


The Math, Science, and Technology Department is designed to include themes rooted in history, systems in equilibrium, patterns in nature, energy conversion, and resource conservation, and computational reasoning.


An in-depth exploration of history, psychology, philosophy, and the likes; the ability to understand the human experience outside of one’s own individual social and cultural context allows students to develop a conscience more suited to the multicultural world in which they live.


The foundational philosophy of the World Language courses is that language, discussion, reflection, and imagination lead to the development of skills which help students understand and interpret the human experience.