ART + DESIGN
The hallmark RISD curricular approach means students use technical and material resources to express original ideas. Hands-on studio experience is enriched as participants bring the conceptual aspects of the creative process to bear upon their work. Small in size, these credit-bearing courses take place in specialized facilities that accommodate and inspire beginners and advanced students in a multiplicity of art and design interests.

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LIBERAL ARTS
Because the visual arts cannot be understood in isolation from the larger society that envelops us, RISD has a proud tradition of encouraging the study of the liberal arts. Our liberal arts offerings are designed to prepare the artist, the architect and the designer (as well as anyone investigating a particular aesthetic, cultural concept or historical epoch) to function as a critically and visually sophisticated citizen of the world. In subjects ranging from art history to popular culture and literature, students come to a deeper and more subtle appreciation of the multilayered context within which great art and design are created.

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