Bachelor of Arts in Art, Science, and Innovation

By pairing study in scientific disciplines of your choosing and creative experiences focused on industry technologies, our curriculum is a world-class model for interdisciplinary thinking.

Year 1

Build foundational skills in digital skills like video editing and design while also learning fundamental traditional skills in disciplines such as drawing or photography. Pair these applied experiences with classes in critical theory and history, bolstered by formative experiences in a scientific discipline of your choosing.

Year 2

In year two, you'll begin to meaningfully integrate research in theory, science, and art to build your capacity to be a critical creator. Take courses in media production, advanced design classes, and traditional mediums like painting or ceramics. Continue to develop your understanding in a scientific discipline like computer science or biology and start to see how you might integrate disciplines in unexpected ways.

Year 3

Year three is where discipline-specific skills in art and science coalesce and your self-directed projects will critically address the most pressing issues of our time. Practical, industry-standard skills will be used in unexpected and exciting ways to produce works of art and design that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Classes like Art/Science Special Topics and Robotic Agents develop critical thinking about technologies and scientific discourse.

Year 4

In year four, you take your skills in a scientific discipline, critical theory and history, and traditional art-making and bring them together to produce ambitious, culturally relevant, and technologically engaged Senior Projects that demonstrate a capacity to communicate complex ideas via engaging works of art and design. For minors, the Junior Seminar is your opportunity to join ideas explored in the sciences with artistic aesthetic and design skills.

Art, Science, and Innovation is unique to Allegheny College and one of only a few such programs internationally. Our students blend practical skill development with critical thinking in ways that set them up to be creative and industry leaders.

• Constructing the capacity to recognize emerging trends. Identify the cultural influences of science and technology through their use.
• Develop leadership capacity through communication skill development. Communicate the ethics, politics, and cultural implications of scientific, technological, and artistic developments in diverse contexts.
• Innovative use of aesthetics and technology. Produce innovative works of visual art that critically contribute to scientific, technological, and cultural development.
• ASI builds students' technical skills while developing their critical capacity. Engage with scientific practices and technological development from a humanistic and aesthetic point of view.