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Your major helps you develop knowledge, skills and abilities that employers seek.

To identify additional skills and abilities you have developed through your coursework, activities and work, consider using the reflection worksheets (accessible via B.hired > Resources) and/or Type Focus (accessible via B.hired > Resources).

Internships

The Brandeis Internship Exchange is a convenient online tool to find and share internship opportunities.

Just log on with your UNET ID and use the advanced search to search internships by major.

Fine Arts

Overview
First Destination Data
Alumni Career Paths
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
Internships
What to do with a degree in Fine Arts
Sample of Occupations
Fine Arts Web Sites
Graduate School Information

Overview 

The Department of Fine Arts invites students to experience art as both scholarship and a process of creation. By uniting artistic excellence with intellectual inquiry, we affirm the importance of a broad education in preparing our students for creative participation in a changing society.

In both the Art History and Studio Art tracks, study in the arts exemplifies the ideals of a liberal arts education and allows each student to realize, with excellence, his or her potential for expression and informed vision. This degree provides an excellent foundation for a career in the arts, as well as preparation for work in a range of fields valuing communication, creativity, critical thinking, management and perception skills.  

The  Department of Fine Arts website also contains career-related resources from the department such as the Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, information on the collections and internships at the Rose Art Museum, and internships at major U.S. museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Christie’s New York and Getty Museum. Keep up to date on department activities through The Canvas: Fine Arts News. 

First Destination Data

The Hiatt Center is pleased to provide a list of organizations, titles and fields of alumni who majored in your discipline. Click here to download a sortable spreadsheet listing the first destination graduate programs and employment opportunities that Fine Arts alumni from the classes of 2008-2012 secured within six months of graduation.

The diverse list is indicative of the wealth of transferable skills students cultivate as a Fine Arts major at Brandeis.

Department of Fine Arts Alumni

The Hiatt Center is pleased to provide a list of organizations, titles and fields of alumni who majored in your discipline. The list represents a wide array of professions, which is indicative of the wealth of transferable skills students cultivate as an Fine Arts major at Brandeis.

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge 

Your program of study at Brandeis University provides both field-specific knowledge and a broad range of transferable skills, abilities and knowledge that are sought after by all employers in all fields and enhance your experience and success in the world of work. To identify additional skills and abilities you have developed through coursework, activities and work, take TypeFocus.

Internships 

In addition to you coursework, internships can be extremely beneficial as you develop academic and professional skills.  The Brandeis Internship Exchange is an easy and convenient online tool for you to find and share real internship opportunities.  Just log on with your UNET ID and use the advanced search to identify majors' internships.

What to Do with a Degree in Fine Arts (.pdf)

Fine Arts: Sample of Possible Occupations

Fine Arts Web Sites

• American Art Therapy Association
• American Association of Museum
• American Craft Council
• American Institute of Graphic Arts
• American Society of Media Photographers
• Animation World Network
• Artist Resource Job Listings
• ArtSource
• Association of Art History
• College Art Association
• Fashion Net
• Global Museum
• Industrial Designers Society of America
• Museum Job Resources Online
• MuseumStuff
• National Cartoonists Society
• New York Foundation for the Arts
• Visual Arts Career Guide
• World Wide Art Resources

Graduate School Information and Resources

• MBA, M.A., and Ph.D. information