Marjorie Hall, Chair and Associate Professor
Marianne Adams, Instructor
Leland Clarke, Associate Professor
Gregory Gomez, Associate Professor
Erica Licea-Kane, Assistant Professor
Jane Staab, Instructor

Available Programs of Study:

• B.A., Arts-Performing
• B.A., Arts-Visual
• Minors, Community Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Art (Studio), Art History, Performing Arts (through Colleges of the Fenway)

Arts Major / B.A. Degree / 36-48 credits

The Arts major offers programs in the Performing Arts (Music, Theatre, and Dance) and the Visual Arts (Studio and Art History). Students participate in the creative process, acquire theoretical tools for evaluating their own and others’ work, and study the history and literature of their chosen discipline. The Towne Art Gallery and the Wheelock Family Theater offer a variety of on-campus Arts programming, and provide opportunities for student involvement at many levels. The Performing Arts program of the Colleges of the Fenway also provides many opportunities for co-curricular activity in the Performing Arts.

The Arts major, in addition to supporting the interests of individual students, the major complements professional preparation in teaching, juvenile justice and youth advocacy, Social Work, and child life. The arts have always provided people with a means of communicating ideas and reflecting on human experience. Students who have explored and developed their own creative processes are in an excellent position to nurture creative potential in the children with whom they work. Skills in performance and studio art can be a vital tool for practitioners in learning and therapeutic environments. Knowledge gained in studying the history and literature of the arts can have a direct impact on the richness of curriculum offered in the early childhood and elementary grades.

The goals for the arts majors are these:

In Performing Arts students will:

• Develop skills in performance and/or writing, directing, or theatre crafts, and apply them to theatrical, dance, and/or musical performances.
• Demonstrate an ability to critique their own processes and outcomes.
• Demonstrate an ability to participate constructively in critiquing the works of their peers, and to apply insights from those critiques to their own work.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze plays, dance performances, and/or musical compositions from a variety of cultures and historical periods.
• Demonstrate the ability to engage in the dialogues appropriate to the disciplines of the history of music, dance, and/or dramatic literature and aesthetics through readings, discussions, oral reports, and written essays.

In Visual Arts students will:

• Develop observational skills (drawing) and skills in the conceptual elements of art-making (design), and apply them in the creation of artworks in at least two media.
• Demonstrate an ability to critique their own processes and outcomes.
• Demonstrate an ability to participate constructively in critiquing the works of their peers, and to apply insights from those critiques to their own work.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze works of visual art from a variety of cultures and historical periods.
• Demonstrate the ability to engage in the dialogues appropriate to in the history of art and aesthetics through readings, discussions, oral reports, and written essays.

Course Requirements: Arts Major with Professional Major / 36 credits

Performing Arts Focus

One introductory level course (100 level) in music, theatre, or dance	4 credits
Two history or literature courses, one from each of two different art forms	8 credits
2 electives in music, theatre, or dance	8 credits

THE 277

Movement and Drama for Children

4 credits

or

MUS 279	Music for Children
AMT 254	Aesthetics	4 credits

Two advanced courses in music, theatre, or dance* ^

8 credits

AMT 449

Arts Major Portfolio

0 credits

Visual Arts Focus

VIS 125	Introduction to Design	4 credits
VIS 130	Drawing	4 credits

One Art History course

4 credits

AMT 254

Aesthetics

4 credits

Three studio art electives	12 credits
Two advanced studio art courses* ^	8 credits

AMT 449

Arts Major Portfolio

0 credits

* Only one independent study can be applied to the advanced course requirement.

^AMT 412 Internship in the Arts (4 credits), a 150-hour placement in an arts organization, may be substituted for one of the advanced courses, or may be taken in addition to the 36 credit major.

Arts Major without Professional Major / 48 credits

Students opting to major in the Arts without a second major should follow the requirements for the 36-credit major as listed above and add the following, for a total of 48 credits:*

One art elective

One additional course in the focus

One additional advanced course in the focus

*48-credit majors must include AMT 412: Internship in the Arts as one of the advanced focus courses.

Suggested Course Sequence – Visual Arts 36-credit major

First Year	VIS 125 Introduction to Design VIS 130 Drawing Successful completion of the WLCE
Second Year	VIS – Studio Selective VIS – Art History Selective VIS – Studio Selective
Junior Year	AMT 254 Aesthetics VIS – Studio Selective VIS – Advanced Studio
Senior Year	Semester for full-time practicum (if paired with a professional major) VIS – Advanced Studio AMT 449 Arts Major

Suggested Course Sequence –Performing Arts 36-credit major

First Year	THE or MUS 126 THE or MUS Selective Successful completion of the WLCE
Second Year	THE – Dramatic Literature MUS – Music History THE or MUS – Selective
Junior Year	AMT 254 Aesthetics THE or MUS – Advanced THE 277 Movement and Drama for Children or MUS 279 Music for Children
Senior Year	Semester for full-time practicum (if paired with a professional major) THE or MUS – Advanced AMT 449 Arts Major Portfolio