D was a studio art major at NYU–earning her BFA. Even her studio art classes required a great deal of reading in art history, art criticism, philosophy, psychology and social justice issues. Since art making is another form of story-telling, the program believed students should be articulate and well informed across an array of disciplines in order to be better artists and communicators. There were required courses in art history and theory within the major and liberal arts classes that were required for all art majors outside of the art department in subjects like language, writing, literature, social sciences and math/ computers, and science.