FYE Fast Forward
Boutique Class Experience
What makes an FYE Fast Forward class special?
Experience smaller class sizes, even with MICA’s already low faculty to student ratio.
Focus on one class and one set of projects.
Spend dedicated time in a MICA studio on the weekends.
Build relationships with other students and faculty before the first day of school.
Space in Your Fall Schedule
Open up your schedule this fall.
Want to take an additional elective this fall ? FYE Fast Forward can make that happen.
Or does 12 credits this fall help you ease on into MICA magic in your first year?
FYE Fast Forward gives you that flexibility to do what works for you.
Get to Know MICA and Baltimore
Make new friends, settle in, and become a Baltimore expert before the fall semester begins!
Planned weekend excursions include:
- Visit to American Visionary Arts Museum
- Plein Air Drawing and Trail Walking at the Carrie Murray Nature Center
- Tubing on the Gunpowder Falls
- Visits to Little Italy, Federal Hill and Hampden neighborhoods in Baltimore
- Go to an Orioles game at Camden Yards
choose your course
FF 160 Drawing Fundamentals
Drawing Fundamentals teaches first-year students skills related to traditions, innovation, and contemporary practices. Traditional drawing includes drawing from observation and using perspective and other drawing techniques with physical materials. Innovative drawing extends from the traditional approach with contemporary practices of drawing. It includes mixed-media, digital media, and conceptual inquiry. Drawing is used for storytelling, artistic expression, and design work reflective of the time we live in.
HMST 101 Ways of Writing
Ways of Writing is an introduction to college-level reading and writing. The course reading material exposes students to different genres (forms) of written expression with various functions and audiences, e.g., scholarship, short stories (fiction), personal essays, journalism, memoir. HMST 101 explores critical reading, attribution, and ways of writing. As part of their practice of active reading, students will develop comprehension skills and increase their information literacy. Ways of Writing includes instruction in the writing process, from initial exploration and articulation of ideas to a polished piece. Students will explore attribution, including questions of whose voices and ideas we include, accept, and use and how writers build upon previous work, ethically and practically.
FF 140 New Media (4D)
New Media teaches first-year students fundamental digital skills related to data literacy, lens-based, and time-based media for students to explore new media production. Data literacy includes mapping, infographics, designing information, and media communication. Lens-based includes scanning, camera, screen-based, and capturing images from the real world. Time-based media includes video, audio, animation, and motion graphics using various software applications. The combined skills help students use information and create multimedia art and design work for various digital and physical outputs with conceptual and ethical framing related to our media-saturated world.