The Department of Art and Design in the College of Arts and Sciences combines the traditional disciplines of painting and drawing, art history, theories of aesthetics, design and the execution of works of art, together with the disciplines of photography, video, multimedia, computer modeling and animation. This combination of grounding in the basic fields of art with the skills of the technologist provides students with the ability to be practicing artists in a wide variety of media and to pursue a lifetime of artistic growth.

Zayed University is the first institution of higher education in the United Arab Emirates to offer a degree in Art and Design. Providing for this unique opportunity is a major responsibility of the Art and Design program, as well as contributing to the Colloquy on Integrated Learning.