Focuses on visual art practice within a liberal arts context. Courses include drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, two- and three-dimensional design, digital photography, digital imaging, motion graphics, media arts, and art history. The program equips students with an interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary art and design production, providing various analog and digital media skills as well as the sociohistorical contexts essential to contemporary practice.
Our Art major is primarily designed for those who don’t have an art background, but we are also equipped for students who have already studied art formally. We offer everything from foundation courses such as drawing, painting and two-dimensional and three-dimensional design on up to an advanced level of study. Art majors are also required to take digital-based courses involving digital photography, computers, and the Internet. These are essential skills for finding a job in the art field and moving your career forward. We usually have students from five or six different countries studying in one classroom. They learn how to inspire others, not just through verbal communication but also through their work. By inspiring others, you share a connection to what they create as well. Tokyo is known as a center of design and fashion, and lots of contemporary art comes out of this city, making it an amazing place to study art. If you want to study art in English in Tokyo, TUJ is really the best option around. We view all of Tokyo as our campus, so we work with students to utilize the dynamics of the city as a resource.
SAMPLE CURRICULUM
An overview of required courses.
Required Courses
- Introduction to Visual Language: Painting
- Introduction to Visual Language: 3D Design
- Introduction to Visual Language: Drawing
- Introduction to Visual Language: Design
- Art Heritage Western World I
- Art Heritage Western World II
Required Major Electives Five Upper-Level Liberal Arts Electives
Five Digital Studio Electives (Example below)
- Computer Imaging
- Art Photography: Digital
- Art Photography: Hybrid
- Internet Image
- Intermediate Art Photography (Digital or Hybrid)
- Advanced Art Photography (Digital or Hybrid)
Two Non-Digital Studio Electives
Two Studio Electives (Digital or Non-Digital)
One Printmaking or Photography Electives
One Upper-Level Art History Writing-Intensive
Five Upper-Level Liberal Arts Electives
(One of which must be a social science course)
FEATURED COURSES
A list of recently offered electives.
Artist Books, Zines and Independent Publishing
Special Topics: Creative Coding and Generative Art
Computer Imaging
History of Modern Crafts
Art History Writing Intensive: Art and Queer Theory
Art and the City: Tokyo in the 1960s and 1970s
Special Topics: Creative Coding and Generative Art
Computer Imaging
History of Modern Crafts
Art History Writing Intensive: Art and Queer Theory
Art and the City: Tokyo in the 1960s and 1970s
