Until 2017, BFA programs at UBC Vancouver did not begin until the second or third year; prospective BFA students were admitted to first year as general BA students. The confusing two-part process was not in line with the admissions process of other major universities or of UBC-O, and so it posed a significant recruitment barrier. As well, it reduced the efficacy of our education: as BFA programs only had two dedicated years with their students and curriculum, we could not introduce as many inter-course learning scaffolds as we needed. Working with our undergraduate administrator, Deana Holmes, I co-designed the direct entry admission process for Visual Arts BFA students. The BFA Portfolio requirement, which I co-wrote with consultation with my colleagues in the department, was vital to the strategic identification of potentially strong BFA students. Please see Appendix C for the supplementary application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Until 2017, BFA programs at UBC Vancouver did not begin until the second or third year; prospective BFA students were admitted to first year as general BA students. The confusing two-part process was not in line with the admissions process of other major universities or of UBC-O, and so it posed a significant recruitment barrier. … Continue reading Direct Entry BFA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/donofrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}