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Other Opportunities:

Art Honors Program in the Honors College

VCUarts students can earn University Honors AND Arts Honors.
You can earn Arts Honors and University Honors. Additionally, Interior Design has an Interior Design Honors track.

To earn Arts Honors, an honors student in the School of the Arts must complete 15 credits of Arts honors courses and a senior “capstone” course or experience (this is different for each major).

Arts Honors graduates will be recognized with special regalia at graduation. Distinction is noted on the transcript.

Arts Honors courses will be offered in Art Foundation, Art History, and Interior Design each year. Additionally, 7 other Arts honors courses will be offered annually. These courses change based on course proposals put forward by VCUarts professors. Courses are built around professors’ research interests. This gives arts honors students the opportunity to work with professors in a small group studying topics tied to the professor’s research.

Current Honors course offerings (including Arts Honors courses)
https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/honors/academics/courses/index.aspx

Who is eligible?
You must be an Honors student in the Honors College and a VCUarts major. It is easier for some arts majors (Visual arts and Artist History) than others to meet the program course requirements. If you are interested, please contact Carolyn Henne, VCUarts Asst. Dean for Student Affairs, at chenne@vcu.edu for an advising appointment.

Benefits of being an honors student at VCU?
Benefits include an honors residence hall, early course registration, honors-only scholarships, special library privileges and access to the honors center’s computer-equipped study rooms and lounge areas. Click here to find out more about the Honors College. http://www.honors.vcu.edu/index.html

International Travel

• Fashion Design and Merchandising students travel to the Highlands of Guatemala to work with impoverished women to incorporate their weavings and embroidery into a contemporary fashion line
  
• Communication Arts students have the opportunity to travel to Florence, Italy in the summer for course credit
• Art Education students travel abroad for various service-learning opportunities
• The VCU Office of International Education offers numerous study abroad options
• Select VCUarts students travel to Doha, Qatar for the International Design Conference, Tasmeem
  
• VCUarts students study in Peru every summer and at the Glasgow School of the Arts in Scotland every other year
• Many travel scholarships are available including the VCUarts Dean's International Travel Grants