AAS Degrees

Design the Worlds Players Live In

This AAS program is built for aspiring level designers ready to shape gameplay from the ground up. You’ll train in both 2D and 3D level design, and game play mechanics used across the industry. 

In year one, everyone builds the same core foundation. In year two, you’ll choose your path: Game Design, Game Art, or Concept Art for Games. Every course is crafted and taught by game industry veterans—people who’ve built the worlds you love to play.

With your AAS, you can make a full-impact transfer and seamlessly transition into a BFA without having to start from scratch.

Graduate ready for roles like Level Designer, Mission Designer, or Junior Game Designer. Game on.

Master the Basics. Fine-tune Your Talent.

The AAS in Studio Arts is designed for artists ready to turn their drive into professional momentum. Whether you’re headed toward teaching, gallery work, freelance, or launching your own practice, this program gives you the foundation to begin your career—and the edge to make your mark.

In the first year:, every student will receive core training. In year two, you’ll choose an area of emphasis: Illustration, Visual Development, or Fine Art Painting.

Each track builds skills that carry straight into the creative workforce. Or, you can make a full-impact transfer and seamlessly transition into a BFA without having to start from scratch.

This is more than technique. It’s a translation of thought into form.

The Associate of Arts in Science 3-Dimensional Studio Arts is where 3D fine art takes form—metal arts, jewelry, figurative works in clay, ceramic sculpture. Each material offers its own resistance, its own rhythm. You’ll learn to move with them. Shape them. Speak through them.

This program builds fluency in technical skill, critical thinking, and creative expression. You’ll think with your hands—solving spatial problems, refining design choices, and making ideas tangible. Choose your emphasis. Hone your voice.

From wearable works in metal to large-scale forms in clay, you’ll gain the versatility to shape your path. Whether your goal is a career in jewelry design or creating sculptural works that command space, this AAS degree is an excellent starting point—and the opportunity for a full-impact transfer with a seamless transition into a BFA in either Sculpture or Jewelry & Metal Arts without having to start from scratch.

Learn the Craft. Step Behind the Camera.

The AAS in Film is built to get you working fast, with practical, technical training that prepares you for entry-level roles in the film industry. From day one, you’ll learn by doing: sound design, motion graphics, cinematography, editing. Skills that build your résumé and your reel.

In year one, everyone starts with the same core training. Year two is where you choose your lane: cinematography, editing. production design, writing, directing, or producing. Every area of focus is taught by working professionals, giving you the tools, workflows, and mindset to enter a multi-disciplinary industry that never stops moving. If you choose to pursue a four-year degree, you can make a full-impact transfer with a seamless transition into a BFA without having to start from scratch.

Restore the Past. Build the Future.

In the Automotive Restoration program*, you’ll master the art and science of bringing vintage vehicles accurately back to life. From woodwork and machine work to sheet metal shaping, disassembly, and assembly, you’ll train in every phase of restoration—and do it as part of a team recreating history.

In our program, restoration isn’t abstract, it’s hands-on. You’ll study one-of-a-kind classics up close: the leather, the lines, the subtleties of fenders, bumpers, doors, and bodies. At the Academy, you learn by touch, by technique, and by using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the world’s most iconic machines.

*The Automotive Restoration AAS degree is a terminal degree; credits do not transfer to the Industrial Design BFA program.

Capture. Create. Communicate.

The AAS in Photography is built to ground you in the fundamentals and push you toward fluency. You’ll train in digital capture, composition, lighting, and post-production, mastering the tools and techniques that define today’s visual workflows.

Every project is a chance to sharpen your eye and strengthen your voice. By the end, you won’t just take photographs—you’ll command photography as a visual language, ready to translate ideas into images that resonate. Or you can make a full-impact transfer with a seamless transition into a BFA without having to start from scratch.

Lay the Foundation. Shape What’s Next.

The Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Architecture is a two-year program designed to give you the fundamental skills and portfolio to step confidently into the field. You’ll build a core foundation in practical, technical, and design-focused training, preparing you for entry-level roles in architecture and design.

Looking ahead? The AAS is also a full impact seamless transfer into a four-year degree in Architecture or Landscape Architecture, giving you both flexibility and forward motion. Begin with fundamentals. Advance with vision.

Build Brands. Shape Experiences.

The AAS in Brand Communications is a two-year program designed to ground you in the fast-changing worlds of branding, marketing, advertising, user experience, and media. You’ll train hands-on with industry tools, sharpen your creative strategy, and develop the technical skills to step directly into brand-driven careers.

The curriculum is structured but flexible, giving you room to explore before choosing where to specialize. Graduate ready to move into branding, advertising, media production, or UX design—or make a full-impact seamless transfer into a BA or BFA. Either way, you’ll leave with a portfolio built for impact.