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PROGRAMME Why LIBERAL ARTS ?
INTRO INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES

MESSAGE DUCTI N We believe that the best way to learn is to learn from multiple perspectives.
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Through nineteen core courses and hundreds of optional courses, students
from the Dean I can only say that the image stretches out into engage in a variety of social science and humanities subjects such as
Literature, History, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Expressive Arts,
in inity, and leads to the absolute. And even what is and Philosophy. These courses serve as the foundation of our programme and
the jumping off point for further study.
“ known as the 'idea' of the image, many dimensional
W elcome to the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) program of and with many meanings, cannot, in the very EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities (JSLH).
The BFA, as it is positioned within JSLH, enables students to study visual art and also nature of things, be put into words. But it does ind We believe in learning by doing. Our classes place an emphasis on discussion,
to learn within a broad range of liberal arts courses that brings into perspective expression in art. When thought is expressed in an debate, and hands on activities. Many of our courses feature sizable field work
social, cultural, and economic elements. These multiple dimensions influence artistic image, it means that an exact form has been to locations around Delhi / NCR and beyond. Past site visits include Sonipat,
artistic production and often determine the work's dissemination. In keeping with found for it, the form that comes nearest to Chandni Chowk, Lodi Art Colony, Nizamuddin East, Jaipur Literary Festival,
the mission of the O.P. Jindal Global University, the BFA brings students into the local conveying the author's world, to making incarnate Sarnath, Varanasi, Lucknow and Dharamshala.
and international communities and encourages community engagement. Art is a his longing for the ideal. “
universal language that knows no barriers. Art is a vehicle - holistic, transformative – Andrei Tarkovsky LANGUAGES
and authentic – that can bridge social, cultural, and class barriers. While most of our students are bilingual, speaking a third language is a tool
Studio work is at the heart of the BFA. Students work alongside recognized artists which is often undervalued? Our students are also required to take a course in
who have mastered forms of visual arts including; painting, sculpture, printmaking, ur world is saturated with images. We are by imagining it anew. The aim of this newly Spanish in their first year and have the option to opt for other languages like
pottery and more. Our BFA students receive personal guidance from their O exposed to pictures through signboards, launched BFA program is to educate visual thinkers, French, Mandarin and German in the following years.
instructors and also enjoy the freedom to work independently in the studio. Visual news channels and smartphones, and we who can critically address this new imagery
arts is one of the most dynamic artistic disciplines; as a form of expression, art is communicate through emojis, photos and icons. landscape and the social challenges that it yields. SELF-DESIGNED MAJOR
without boundaries and can escape the constraints of time and place. For example, Some compare this visual turn to the printing While ensuring the mastery of our students over Students who have a strong academic record and feel that their desired
avant-garde movements have flourished in every historic period and are revolution of the 15th century, as both transformed traditional skills of craftsmanship and image- course of study does not fit into these majors may opt for a Self-Designed
characterized by innovation and a rejection of the status quo; even today this is true. the way we experience the world. Arguably, the making, they will be encouraged to approach art
For example, we can cite conceptual art, land art, performance art as artistic global spread of printing led to the expansion of with conceptual and theoretical tools. Major. This major is designed by the student in consultation with two faculty
expressions that transcend the traditional notion of what is art. In addition, literacy, and to the democratisation and directors of study. Some past Self-Designed majors have included Art History
technology and digital media are redefining art in powerful ways. Taking part in this secularisation of modern societies. The During the last two centuries the art field was and Literature, International Relations, Environmental Psychology,
twenty-first century adventure is an experience that will influence you throughout dominated by the material labour and theoretical Psychology and Expressive Arts.
your life and enable you in finding your intellectual home in the present and in consequences of the visual turn are perhaps not output emerging from limited geopolitical zones,
fully realised, while some underscore its perils. In
the future. namely West Europe and North America. The art DUAL DEGREE PROGRAM
comparison with the relative lucidity of the text, production from different parts of the world was
Whether you see your own future as a practicing artist or, you see art as a means to the image is more elusive. Its messages are more either ignored or gauged according to Eurocentric A unique four-year dual-degree program with Rollins College in the United
develop your creativity in any profession, you will not be disappointed for having impactful since they make “reality” more palpable, values. This state of affairs is gradually changing as States or Deakin University in Australia, two top liberal arts and humanities
studied for a BFA. It takes a great deal of courage and passion to make this choice and for the very same reason their meanings are artists from the global south are making their colleges. Students pursuing this option would study two years at JSLH and
and it requires determination to complete the four-year program. Once having more cryptic. presence felt, and as art venues in non-western the next two years at Rollins College or Deakin University. At the end of their
made this choice, you will understand the benefit you gained by studying fine arts As our culture is becoming increasingly visual, the countries are becoming progressively central. Our studies, they would receive a B.A. (Hons.) in Liberal Arts from JSLH and a
along with liberal arts. A creative individual is someone who embraces innovation, ability to code and decode images becomes program plugs into these growing global networks, B.A. from Rollins College / Deakin University in a subject of their choice.
who engages in non-linear thinking and who is willing to take risks. While these exceedingly vital. If understanding visual language and participates in the creation of a pluralistic world
qualities are recognized for their intrinsic value, they will increase in desirability as makes us more conscious of the social structures in which different traditions can converse without INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
our world becomes more complex. In the company of like-minded students and that shape our behaviour, the ability to forge imposing themselves on each other. JSLH has numerous international arrangements for summer schools,
empathetic creative artists, you will become the person you want to be. semester exchanges and study abroad opportunities.
images enables us to influence our surroundings
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