A Rigorous Curriculum
CUPA Art & Design students enjoy the intensely creative environment of the studios and classrooms at Paris College of Art.
Working alongside BFA degree candidates, CUPA Art & Design students choose courses from the following areas of study:
- Communication Design
- Fashion Design
- Interior Design
- Photography
- Design Management
- Fine Arts
- Liberal Studies / Art History
Courses are conducted in English. However, all students are required to pursue the study of the host language during their time in Paris. A selection of thematic and competence-based French language courses is offered and students may also benefit from individualized language tutoring
PCA EOY Fashion Show '16 © Pascal Montary
Study Abroad at PCA Student Solange Ting backstage preparing for the show. Solange won the Lace Prize '16 from the Dentelles Darquer on the project: Lace for a Man’s World.Examples of Student Curricula
Junior from Bates College
- Marketing
- Business Practice in Design
- Photography Lighting Techniques
- Photography Junior Seminar
- Photography in Paris
- Paris Inside/Out
- Fantomes, Territoires & Technologie (course offered in French)
Junior from the University of Mary Washington
- Junior Sculpture
- The Artists Book
- Experimental Drawing
- Art of Scandal
- French III
Junior from Fordham University
- Publication Design
- Viral Media
- Motion Graphics
- Digital Fashion Studio
- Topics in the History of Fashion
- Paris Inside/Out
- French III
Junior from Vassar College
- Fashion Publishing
- Paris through the Photographer’s Lens
- Introduction to Design Studies
- Historical Perspectives on Curatorial Practice
- Paris Inside/Out
- French III
Junior from Lehigh University
- Human Centered Design
- Fashion Professionals
- Photography since 1960
- French I
- Global Design in the 21st Century
Junior from Cornell University
- 2d Studio
- Fashion Drawing III
- Couture Craftsmanship
- Classicism & its Discontents
- Paris Inside/Out
- French I
- Creative Machine Knitting