The World Arts and Cultures undergraduate major, offered through the School of the Arts and Architecture, leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree. The major is designed to offer choice and flexibility while maintaining balance and rigor. Coursework for the major is taken in conjunction with the general education requirements for the School of the Arts and Architecture.
At the outset, students choose one of two concentrations: dance or world arts & cultures (formerly called "cultural studies"). The dance concentration offers courses in a wide range of idioms from throughout the world, including a special emphasis on modern/postmodern dance. Opportunities for performance, production, videography, and movement studies are augmented by courses in the study of the body and of bodily identity from historical and cultural perspectives; dance theory; and dance in the public sphere, including arts pedagogy. Multimedia forms of expression integrating music, theater, visual arts, film, and other technologies along with hybrid forms of cultural expression utilizing both emerging and classically based vocabularies are encouraged. The world arts & cultures concentration allows students to select from a range of courses offered in World Arts and Cultures as well as other departments. Students may also consider courses from ethnic and area studies programs and may organize their course of study in relation to particular interests or professional goals (e.g., international comparative studies, intercultural studies, area specializations such as Africa, Asia, or Latin America, minority discourse, gender or women's studies). Ready to apply? Then learn about admissions now. World Arts and Cultures Student Counselor |