These donвЂ™t deliver the heavy hitting portfolio or the cutting-edge skillset, but they do mean that if you do need to get out soon, there is still a path that lets you say вЂњI graduated from college. We donвЂ™t want students to drop out without any degree to show for all their work, so we have redesigned our BA degree to have two simple options, one in Studio Arts and one in Design, that are faster to graduate than either the BFA or our old quarter-based BA. Someone loses a job, gets badly sick, gets pregnant, and the student just canвЂ™t hold it all together. Third is that for our students, sometimes tough reality gets in the way. With a BA and good grades in Art History you can get into graduate school or find a job at a museum, but for Art and Design Practice, you want to go for the BFA. In the field of Art History, you donвЂ™t need a portfolio, so the BA is the top degree. This is true of every concentration except Art History & Visual Studies. ItвЂ™s not an honors degree, but it is the degree that will give you the portfolio you need to get a good job or get into graduate school. We have moved all these specific career-focused art and design concentrations into our BFA degree. When you are looking for a job, you need the degree to get you past HR, but you need a strong portfolio to get hired. Our response has been to add more required skills-based courses to allow students to build up their portfolios. Second is that conversations with alumni and with employers showed that hiring standards have increased in our fields вЂ“ there are a lot of talented people who want to move to the Bay Area вЂ“ and our students werenвЂ™t leaving with the skills they needed to compete for the good jobs. The details of each concentration are listed on the linked Degree Roadmaps In response to student demand, we are ending our general Multimedia concentration and creating new concentrations in Video & Animation, in Interaction & Game Design, and in Illustration. You may say, вЂњI am majoring in PhotographyвЂќ, but technically you are majoring in Art with a concentration in Photography. A concentration is what most of you casually refer to as a major. We chose to make big, exciting changes for three reasons:ДЇirst is the need to keep up with student demands and offer new concentrations. In the Art Department, we are making significant changes with the creation of new concentrations, and a differentiation of our Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees. As you may have heard, Cal State East Bay is converting from Quarters to Semesters starting Fall 2018.

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