The School of Fine & Performing Arts comprises nationally accredited programs in Art Education, Art History, Art Studio, Music, and Theatre Arts. Approximately 150 full- and part-time faculty members – actively involved in creative work, performance, and independent scholarship – teach and train more than 900 student majors.
The School of Fine & Performing Arts is committed to providing a range of opportunities to research, study, create, produce, perform, and present ideas and issues of the arts, so that students can explore how aesthetic experiences offer particular insights and ways of communicating in and about the world.
Our students are challenged to attentively and critically engage different aesthetic experiences, to develop and improve communication skills including oral, written, and performative processes, and to relate and connect art to other fields and disciplines. Seeking a balance among practice, theory, research, and criticism, all areas of the School continue to integrate new technologies in the study and production of the visual and performing arts.
Undergraduate studies prepare students for graduate work and employment in many dynamic cultural professions.
Graduate studies prepare students for college and university teaching and other professional careers in the arts.
The School of Fine & Performing Arts' commitment to high-level academic programs and a generous range of special events supports a pedagogical mission of focus with flexibility. The academic programs
