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Degree programs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Across six majors, students develop studio, technical, and performance skills alongside the historical and critical frameworks that give those skills context and direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Art History, B.A.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Study creative works in context, tracing the human experience across time, culture, and geographic location.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Media, Culture, and the Arts, B.A.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Combine hands-on media production with the historical and theoretical study of media in all its forms.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Music, B.A.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Develop your practice across four tracks \u2014 performance, composition and theory, musicology, and technology \u2014 while making music.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Screen Studies, B.A.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Study the history, theory, and aesthetics of film, television, and digital media, while making films in a professional production environment.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Theater Arts, B.A.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Train as a performer, designer, director, or playwright in a program that takes theatre seriously as both a craft and a form of critical inquiry.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Visual Arts, B.A.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Build a studio practice across traditional and digital media, developing the technical range and conceptual depth to work across the contemporary creative landscape.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dance minor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Explore movement<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Signature experience<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Visual and Performing Arts Capstone<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Where four years of creative and critical work come together \u2014 in public, in community, and on your own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Study abroad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Students in the study abroad course, Medieval Mediterranean Cities, Urban Environments, and Cultural Heritage<\/em>, examined how cities are built, rebuilt, photographed, mapped, and contested; how cultural heritage intersects with tourism, migration, climate change; and the trafficking of artifacts in conflict zones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Study the arts abroad<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Students went on walking tours and attended faculty presentations at the actual sites. The experience spanned three continents: Madrid, Toledo, Sevilla, C\u00f3rdoba, Granada, and C\u00e1diz in Spain; a crossing to North Africa at the Strait of Gibraltar; then Istanbul, ancient Troy, the Aegean island of Bozcaada, and the medieval cities of \u0130znik and Bursa in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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