Admissions
Guided by an interdisciplinary faculty of artists, dance scholars,
and ethnographers, the academic programs in World Arts and Cultures
are organized around three fundamental missions:
- The formulation of critical and intercultural insights into the
nature of human creativity.
- The creation and interdisciplinary study of dance and other body-based
modes of performance.
- Mutually beneficial engagement with the diverse cultural and artistic
communities of Los Angeles.
The Department of World Arts and Cultures is an interdisciplinary
unit, which finds its raison d'être in a set of intellectual
and artistic problems rather than an established academic discipline.
The programs of teaching, research, and performance in World Arts
and Cultures are unified around a shared concern with problems of
cultural identity and difference; the meaning of tradition in contemporary
societies; the forging of connections between critical theory and
artistic practice; and the changing social roles and responsibilities
of artists and scholars of the arts, both in the United States and
world-wide.
Admission to undergraduate degree program
Admission to graduate degree programs