The visual arts faculty provides opportunities for all students to discover and learn appreciation for the rich tradition of the visual arts in art history and to study and develop artistic skills, technical capabilities, perceptual knowledge, expertise in design, and aesthetic sensitivity.

The major in Animation leading to the BFA?degree is designed to provide those students passionate about using the computer to breathe life into their artwork with the creative and technical skill sets to do so. Storytelling through sound animation principles is the underlying principle in all that we do,?from design, to modeling and through animation to rendering. Majoring in Animation at JU will prepare the successful student to enter the field of?Animation in the areas of independent?narrative filmmaking, commercial animation and/or animation for games.