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You're an original, you’re creative, you’ve got something to say. You need an outlet for your ideas and imagination. You’re looking for an academic program that will teach you how to channel artistic expression into practical output. You’ve found CAT at Bloomfield College.

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What is CAT?
Creative Arts & Technology is an interdisciplinary arts and technology program that will get you in touch with
your own creativity and prepare you for work in the real world. We combine traditional arts training and the latest technological advances. CAT offers concentrations in fine arts, theatre,
music technology, graphics, animation, digital video and interactive multimedia and game development.

The CAT Core Curriculum
As a CAT student you take a sequence of courses that introduce you to the eight CAT disciplines and build your skills as a creative professional. These courses reveal your inner talents and awaken you to the creative possibilities of an interdisciplinary program in the arts.

General Education
All Bloomfield College students are required to take liberal arts courses that develop competencies in scientific and technological literacy, aesthetic appreciation, writing and speaking, critical thinking, multicultural awareness, and professional skills. General Education is the essential foundation of your academic and artistic development.
 
CAT Means Careers!

Internships - Learning on the Job
The CAT faculty, together with the professionals in the Office of Career Services, will help you find interesting and demanding internships. Our students have landed internships at HBO, Disney, Montclair Art Museum, the U.S. ceanographic Institute, Alijira Gallery, Graphics Studios, MTV, Ebony Magazine, Mobile Studios, Aurasonic Ltd., MSNBC and Silver Cup Studios.

Going on to Graduate School
Many of our students complete their bachelor’s degree and are hungry for more formal training.
Our graduates have gone on to study at some of the nation’s most rigorous art schools: Parsons, Tisch School of the Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, and the School of Visual Arts.

Artists and Teachers
The CAT faculty are actors, jazz musicians, printmakers, cartoonists, animators, singers, pianists, comedians, poets, performance artists, clowns, television producers, choreographers, stage managers, graphic designers, writers, fine artists and instillation artists. The CAT faculty are experts in their respective fields who hold PhD’s and MFA degrees. In the CAT classrooms you learn from professionals who merge the traditional arts with the latest technology.

Career Preparation - Your Portfolio
All CAT majors must complete an internship in a professional setting such as a theatre, publishing house, production company or television studio. We mentor you in your professional and portfolio development. Your senior capstone course is a major independent project that will be part of the portfolio you will use to market yourself after graduation. This may be the production of a videotape, CD-ROM, DVD or website, a gallery exhibition or solo performance. Your choice of project depends upon your talents and area of specialization.

Physical Space -
Room to Grow
The CAT facilities at Bloomfield
College provide a great place to
learn—and the campus is a great
place to live:

• Residence house reserved for
upper- class CAT majors
• State-of-the-art G5 Animation Labs
• Categrafica
(student run print service)
• Music recording studio
• Advance special effects
& green screen rooms
• Advanced interactive multimedia
and digital video lab