First Year Immersion Program

At ArtCenter, you can begin your undergraduate education before you’ve determined the design major and degree that best fits your passions. In the selective First Year Immersion program, you can join other undecided majors as you develop your creative skills, broaden your critical perspectives of the world, and discover the focus and specialization (and major!) that will allow you to flourish in your creative practices.

How It Works

You and your fellow undeclared majors in the First Year Immersion program will take courses in drawing, creative technologies, visual thinking, and humanities and sciences for your first two terms. These classes will equip you with core skills that apply to a wide spectrum of design majors. After gaining familiarity with ArtCenter’s design degrees, along with establishing critical and cultural awareness, you can pursue one of your top three choices of major and finish your degree in six additional terms.

Participating Majors

Through the First Year Immersion program, you can complete a bachelor of design degree in:

• Creative Direction
• Entertainment Design (Animation and Concept tracks)
• Fine Art
• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Interaction Design
• Photography and Imaging
• Product Design
• Transportation Design

The Entertainment Design (Game Design track), Film, and Spatial Experience Design majors are not part of the First Year Immersion program. Students can apply to the First Year Immersion program for the Fall term only.