Best Humanities Courses San Francisco Near Me

4worldlovers: As a practice-based art school, we believe in a disciplined approach that encourages students to develop their own styles, to blend talent, technical skills, creative aspirations and professional knowledge.

The Academy experience is packed with opportunities to work and network with industry partners. This semester, teams from the Schools of Industrial Design, Interior Architecture & Design, Advertising, and Fashion work together with automobile manufacturer Subaru to create holistic experiences and products—from concept to pitch.

Our revolutionary online art degree courses provide the same rigorous education that we offer on campus with greater flexibility. Study on your own time, at your own pace. Combine online and on-site classes.

Completing the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is the first step in a student being considered for federal and state education aid programs.

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4worldlovers: Spanning the arts, humanities and social sciences, the College of Liberal & Creative Arts (LCA) is committed to inspiring the next generation of thinkers, makers and doers. We are home to world-class faculty who are constantly developing their own groundbreaking art and research in their respective professions. Our alums include Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winners — as well as elected officials, community leaders, journalists and scholars.

No matter the major, the College provides the opportunity to engage ideas that feed the spirit, power the world and empower success and growth. Get to know:

Anthropology · Art · Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts · Cinema · Classics · Communications Studies · Creative Writing · Design · English Language & Literature · History · Humanities & Comparative World Literature · International Relations · Jewish Studies · Journalism · Liberal Studies · Modern Languages & Literatures · Museum Studies · Music · Philosophy · Political Science · Theatre & Dance · Women & Gender Studies

Research can take many forms when it comes to the liberal and creative arts, from performances and exhibitions to presenting at conferences or publishing in academic journals. Here are just a few of the ways that research happens at LCA:

The mission of the College Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) is to support and promote undergraduate research in all disciplines across the College. We aim to advance faculty-student mentorships and collaboration through programing that includes professional development, skill-building workshops, curricular innovation and opportunities for students to showcase their work.

Established in 2016 with a gift from alumna Neda Nobari, the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies (CIDS) inspires interdisciplinary inquiry and exploration of Iranian diaspora experience and its impact on transnational identity. The Center's research, programming and projects examine overlooked narratives and advocate for new forms of scholarly engagement.

A donor-funded research program provides opportunities for undergraduates to dig deep into the world’s most debated, pressing issues: politics, race, mental health, veterans, climate change, bullying, sexuality and more. Working closely with faculty mentors, students sharpen investigative skills and creative talents and help build understanding on a range of issues.

The George and Judy Marcus Hall for the Liberal & Creative Arts — named after the University's largest donors and alumni George Marcus and Judy Marcus — is a state-of-the-art, 75,000 square foot media production and classroom building that will ensure our graduates remain at the forefront of technological innovation and leadership.

Completed in 2021 and home to the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communications Arts (BECA), Marcus Hall is a flexible learning environment which can be adapted to changing technologies, while asserting the presence of media arts at the University.

4worldlovers: As of July 16, 2022, no students or employees will fill SFAI’s historic landmark campus, a beautiful and unique spot in San Francisco with its glorious Diego Rivera fresco, exquisite views of the city, and its Italianate–meets–60s-Brutalism architecture. Instead, a few contractors will manage security, regulatory, legal, and financial matters, and ensure that students and alumni can access their academic records.

SFAI owns the Diego Rivera fresco in the Chestnut Street campus. The University of California owns the building. SFAI will lose possession of the fresco if it defaults on or loses its lease on the building. SFAI is actively working with local and international donor communities to protect the fresco.

In January 2022, the leadership of SFAI and the University of San Francisco signed a Letter of Intent for a possible acquisition of SFAI’s assets and liabilities. The intention was to create a path forward, protect the well-being of students, faculty, and staff, and provide a fine arts education that would build upon SFAI’s 151-year legacy and pedagogical tradition. However, SFAI recently learned that it would not receive an acquisition offer.

To honor its legacy, SFAI is creating a nonprofit foundation to protect its name, storied history, and SFAI’s Archives—a wealth of primary source material about art, culture, and American arts education in the 19th through 21st centuries. Encompassing, birthing, and leading some of the most significant art movements of the last century—including Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Figuration, Color Field, California Funk, and the Mission School—SFAI and its archives have embodied the spirit of experimentation, risk-taking, and innovation. San Francisco’s reputation for freedom of expression, cultural confluences, and being a hotbed of art is inseparable from the maverick existence of SFAI.

The passing of this venerable institution is a loss for the entire art world, especially for SFAI’s friends, colleagues, and SFAI artists: its students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

Photographer, alumnus, and Board Chair Lonnie Graham stated, “After years of planning and immeasurable sacrifice by our students, faculty, and staff, it is profoundly lamentable that we are faced now with this present outcome. The Board’s goal was to preserve the legacy of one of the last remaining fine arts-only institutions while advancing the course of innovative educational practices that occurs through reciprocity between the students and faculty.”

The entire Board and administration “encourages community members to stay connected through SF Artists Alumni, an independent global SFAI art community, and is eternally grateful for our hardworking, dedicated, and exceptionally talented students, faculty, staff, and alumni.”

As one of the country's oldest and most prestigious independent art schools, countless influential artists have been drawn to its magnetism and shaped the future of art, culture, and society. For example, in 1880, photographer Eadweard Muybridge screened what is known as the world’s first moving picture at the school and proved that a horse has all four feet off the ground when galloping. After World War II in 1945, faculty member Ansel Adams created one of the world's first fine art photography departments.

Other notable faculty and alumni luminaries include Kathryn Bigelow, Iona Rozeal Brown, Joan Brown, Nao Bustamante, Enrique Chagoya, Dewey Crumpler, Imogen Cunningham, Angela Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Kota Ezawa, Karen Finley, Howard Fried, Paul Kos, George Kuchar, Tony Labat, Dorothea Lange, Annie Leibovitz, Barry McGee, Manuel Neri, Catherine Opie, José Clemente Orozco, Man Ray, Rigo 23, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Carlos Villa, and Kehinde Wiley, among many others.

The profound influence of SFAI artists spans the globe. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit may have said it best:

“I think that the greatness of the Art Institute can be measured in part, of course, by its alumni who have gone on to make names for themselves. But more than that, the myriad of graduates left with a vision of what it means to lead a creative life: to become producers of meaning rather than consumers of meaning, to be part of a cultural community, and to think for themselves. Understanding how we see the world is cultural, and culture is something we make, change, and make over. Artists play a role in this, affecting justice, truth, rights, nature, law, and all the rest of our lives. . . And it (SFAI) has been magic. May it long continue.”

While SFAI will not continue in its current form, its spirit, embodied in its global alumni community and the new Foundation for its archives, is unbroken and immortal.

The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant supporting the school’s monumental 1931 Diego Rivera fresco, The Making of a Fresco, Showing the Building of a City, one of San Francisco’s most enduring and beloved cultural assets.

4worldlovers: As a practice-based art school, we believe in a disciplined approach that encourages students to develop their own styles, to blend talent, technical skills, creative aspirations and professional knowledge.

The Academy experience is packed with opportunities to work and network with industry partners. This semester, teams from the Schools of Industrial Design, Interior Architecture & Design, Advertising, and Fashion work together with automobile manufacturer Subaru to create holistic experiences and products—from concept to pitch.

Our revolutionary online art degree courses provide the same rigorous education that we offer on campus with greater flexibility. Study on your own time, at your own pace. Combine online and on-site classes.

4worldlovers: Use the CCSF Mobile App or Vaccination Status Website to report vaccination status and upload supporting documentation. Please check the COVID-19 Updates page to see the current requirements and for instructions to install the Mobile App.

City College of San Francisco is an urban community college serving more than 60,000 students annually at several centers and sites throughout San Francisco. We offer an affordable opportunity to earn associate degrees, prepare for transfer, and pursue career and technical education.

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