Curriculum of new york Visual Arts School

SVA is an accredited university, in which a bachelor's degree in artistic creation requires four years of complete study time, which is the standard of 120 credits. Among them, there are 72 accumulated credits for specialized courses (these courses need some artistic creation), 30 accumulated credits for humanities-related courses, 2 accumulated credits for art history/kloc-0, and 6 credits for elective courses.

Master of Art Creation and Master of Professional Studies need 60 credits and a dissertation.

The master of art teaching needs 36 credits and a thesis.

In 2006, SVA's bachelor's degree offered courses in advertising, animation, comics, computer art, film and video, fine arts, graphic design, illustration, interior design, photography and visual and artistic criticism.

1983, the school opened the first postgraduate course in the field of pure art, covering graphic painting, sketch and sculpture. Since then, SVA has successively added eight other courses, namely art education, art criticism and writing, art therapy, computer art, design, digital photography, illustration, photography, video recording and related media.

In addition, the school also has courses in art history, humanities, science and other fields that do not provide degrees, and the further education department also provides courses with zero credits in most departments.