Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Overview

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a prestigious undergraduate degree that equips students with a strong foundation in the visual arts. Graduates gain the necessary skills and knowledge to pursue diverse creative professions, such as practicing visual artists, illustrators, conceptual artists, art curators, art critics, and art educators. Offered by the School of Design, Art and Architecture Technologies (SDAAT), the BFA program is an intensive, studio-based experience designed for students aspiring to become practicing fine artists. The curriculum provides a comprehensive understanding of both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary practices and methodologies in the field.

Students develop core competencies and are exposed to contemporary practices within the fine arts. Encouraged to explore various media like painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video art, and installation art, they simultaneously receive instruction in essential skills and current issues relevant to the field.

Streamlined by year, the program covers topics including spatial practices, representational and perceptual practices, and lens-based practices. This foundation is further solidified through intensive studio workshops in drawing, fabrication, and theory.

Beyond the studio, the BFA program also offers a supporting theory component. This component introduces students to contemporary approaches and research methods that directly connect to their artistic practice. By fostering a strong foundation, the program also prepares students for further studies, including Master’s degrees by research in art and design.

Why Study at PAF IAST?

Location and Ambience

PAF IAST is nestled in natural mountains that flank its campus from all sides, offering one even the ravishing view of snow-capped peaks of Nathiagali and natural winding trails. To its north-west is Tarbela Lake, a journey of only a few kilometers from the campus. Set in the middle of the campus is a natural lake, fed by the springs of surrounding mountains. The campus is just a 3-kilometer drive from the Hazara Motorway. The ideal setting equally conducive to academic activity and aesthetic sensibilities of the human eye is a serene island of its own kind, far from the chaos, congestion, and cacophony of metropolitan culture. The major cities like Islamabad, Abbottabad, are just an hour’s drive, while small towns like Wah, Hasanabadal, Taxila, and Swabi can be reached in just half an hour.

Technology Advancement and Foreign Partnership

This institute is an emerging center of excellences, with its own technology park. All faculty members hold PhD degrees in appropriate disciplines. By virtue of its wide array of facilities and the facilitation for its students to learn and benefit both from classroom teaching and faculty trained at premier Austrian universities/institutions, the institution is ideally cut out for imparting state-of–the-art engineering and allied education in Pakistan. The institute enjoys close linkages with top ranking universities in Austria and China. We have already concluded with them formal agreements regarding student and faculty exchange programs, provision of dual degrees in certain areas, and the training support from foreign faculty. cities like Islamabad, Abbottabad, are just an hour’s drive, while small towns like Wah, Hasanabadal, Taxila and Swabi can be reached in just half an hour.

Academia-Industry Relationship

There is a strong synergetic relationship between academia and industry which paves the way for job opportunities for students even in the midst of their studies. PAF IAST will serve as a welcome platform for the industry to share their requirements for a skilled workforce. This will enable the institute to incorporate their valuable inputs in practical vocational training and expose the students to industrial perspectives

On-Spot Industry Internship

It will be a mandatory requirement for every student to do an internship every semester in an appropriate industry. This will garner them practical experience related to their respective degree programs. To crown it all, Technology Park will afford them rare opportunities to apply themselves innovatively and become promising entrepreneurs.

Need and Merit-based Scholarships

Different types of local and foreign scholarship opportunities are available on need and merit base.

Employment Opportunities

The School will provide career connections. To gain professional experience, it is mandatory for students to complete an internship within the industry.

Following are the employment opportunities that can be made available to Fine Artist from SDAAT.

  • Production artist
  • Art critic
  • Art director
  • Media executive
  • Calligrapher
  • Advertising art director
  • Art therapist
  • Community arts worker
  • Concept artist
  • Fine artist
  • Sculpture

Course Curriculum

SDAAT Foundation -1st Semester

Course

Code

Course

Credit

ICC

SS- 102

English Language & Communication Skills 

3(3-0)

SS-112

Pakistan Studies

2(2-0)

COMP-102

Introduction to ICT

3(2-1)

FON

DAA-101

Foundation Drawing

3(0-3)

DAA-151

History of Art & Design

2(2-0)

DAA-121

Introduction to Digital Tools

2(0-2)

DAA-102

Object in 3D

2(0-2)

Total

17(9-8)

SDAAT Foundation -2nd Semester

Course

Code

Course

Credit

ICC

SS-111

Islamic Studies

2(2-0)

IEC

MGT-262

Entrepreneurship

3(3-0)

FON

DAA –131

Community Service

1(1-0)

DAA –131

Storytelling & Narrative Construction

2(2-0)

DAA-132

Design Thinking

2(2-0)

DCC

DAA – 103

Drawing-I

2(0-2)

DAA – 122

Digital Tools-I

3(0-3)

 

DAA – 104

Introduction to Drafting

2(0-2)

TOTAL

17(10-7)

Semester 3

Course

Code

Course

Credit

 

SS- 203

Technical and Business Writing

3 (3+0)

 

MTH-101

Mathematics for Art & Design

3 (3+0)

 

DAA-241

Fundamental of Photography

2 (0+2)

BFA -211

Fine Arts Studio-I

3 (0+3)

DAA-221

Digital Tools-II

3 (0-3)

 

DAA-202

Drawing-II

2 (0+2)

TOTAL

16 (7-11)

Semester 4

Course

Code

Course

Credit

 

Comp-111

Programming Fundamental

4 (3+1)

IEC

COMP-471

Cultural Studies

2 (2-0)

 

BFA -212

Fine Arts Studio-II

3 (0-3)

 

DAA-203

Drawing-III

2 (0-2)

BFA -312

Printmaking

2 (0-2)

BFA -252

History of Modern Art

2 (2-0)

TOTAL

15 (7-8)

Semester 5

Course

Code

Course

Credit

 

ART-411

Painting/Sculpture Studio-I (Choose Specialization)

6 (0+6)

 

DAA-301

Drawing- IV

2 (0+2)

 

BFA -254

Art Appreciation

2 (2+0)

BFA -352

History of South Asian Art

2 (2+0)

DAA-302

Calligraphy

2 (0+2)

 

BFA -451

Marketing, Portfolio, Documentation

2 (1+1)

TOTAL

16 (5-11)

Semester 6

Course

Code

Course

Credit

 

 

Anthropometric

3(3+0)

 

PSY-101

Introduction to Psychology

3(3+0)

 

BFA -412

Painting/Sculpture Studio-II

4(0+4)

DAA-302

Drawing- V

2 (0+2)

BFA -313

Installation Art

2 (0+2)

 

BFA -352

Art in Pakistan

2 (2+0)

TOTAL

16 (9+9)

Semester 7

Course

Code

Course

Credit

 

DAA-221

Organizational Behavior

3 (3+0)

 

BFA -468

Project-I

6 (0+6)

 

DAA-303

Drawing – VI

2 (0+2)

BFA -452

Research Methodology for Art & Design

2 (2+0)

 

BFA -324

Digital Painting & Concept Art

2 (0+2)

TOTAL

15 (5-10)

Semester 8

Course

Code

Course

Credit

 

BUS-202

Fundamental of Economics

3(3+0)

 

BUS-301

Logic & Critical Thinking

3(3+0)

 

BFA -469

Project-II

9 (2+7)

TOTAL

15 (8+7)

Field Experience/Internship

3

TOTAL CREDIT HOURS IN 8 SEMESTERS

130

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