In keeping with MICA's emphasis on interdisciplinary exploration balanced by solid training in traditional skills, the GFA major lets you shape a unique major from the full range of courses offered by the College's fine arts departments. Students who choose to major in GFA tend to be independent, enjoy incorporating various mediums into their work and are highly motivated to become versatile, resourceful artists. As a GFA major, you select courses to create a program of study that is interdisciplinary, theme-centered, or of some other cross-media or multimedia construction. The requirements for the general fine arts major include core courses at the sophomore, junior, and senior levels, and open electives grouped into two categories. The first category includes seven courses (21 credits) taken in fine arts. The second category of electives is more open, permitting four electives (12 credits) from any studio department.In the GFA major, students collaborate between disciplines such as drawing and painting, or the combination of video, performance, and text. However, underlying these interdisciplinary opportunities is solid training in traditional skills.<br> <br>Under the guidance of an impressive faculty of scholar-teachers, you gain first-rate liberal arts education and build a depth of understanding in such areas as philosophy and ethics or social sciences and political history, while pursuing advanced artistic investigations in a studio major.<br>In four years, you will complete all requirements for a B.F.A. in a studio discipline simultaneously with a challenging liberal arts major in Humanistic Studies, allowing you to begin graduate study a year earlier than 5-year B.A./B.F.A. programs.