School of Arts and Communication

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Departments

Calendar of Events for 2011-2012

Exceptional Opportunities

The school, through its four departments (Art, Communication Studies, Music and Theatre Arts), offers students two valuable types of educational experiences. The school offers students knowledge that challenges them to comprehend their world by understanding the human condition as it is conveyed through artistic and communicative endeavors. The school also offers students opportunities for and instruction in the expression of their own values by developing creative skills.

Students learn by doing, So each of the four departments offers hands-on experiences leading to creative student output, something that is hard to duplicate at larger universities. Through the curriculum, students learn the potential of individual media as avenues of communication to the global community. The school emphasizes diversity of knowledge by providing instruction in methods of inquiry and expression that can be developed and used by students within their disciplines and in the context of becoming world citizens.

Specialized Programs

SAC students have the opportunity to design their degrees according to special interests.J williams

Art

The Department of Art provides an educational environment that encourages
intellectual development, visual literacy, and artistic production and; it
fosters the development of graduates who are active citizens and advocate
for the arts.

Art students may choose from the following degrees:

  • Art Majors
    • Studio areas
    • Art education
  • Art minor
    • 2D or 3D media
    • Photography

Communication Studies

Communication Studies students can design a major and/or a minor in the following:

  • Advocacy and Cultural Criticism
  • Broadcast and Digital Communication
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Organizational and Professional Communication

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Music students may choose from the following degrees:

  • Music Majors
    • Jazz Performance Emphasis
    • Music History Emphasis
    • Music Theatre Emphasis
    • Music Theory Emphasis
    • Performance Emphasis
    • Piano Pedagogy Emphasis
  • Music Education Majors
    • Choral
    • General
    • Instrumental

Theatre Arts

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      • Design/Technical Emphasis
      • General Studies Emphasis
      • Music Theatre Emphasis
      • Performance Emphasis
      • Theatre Management Emphasis

 

 

Resources

The School of Arts and Communication has an array of state of the art facilities and resources for its students.

  • The Center for the Arts houses studios in ceramics, sculpture, metal-smithing, painting/drawing and printmaking, as well as the University Art Gallery.
  • The Wing Technology Center has an extensive photography studio.
  • The Telecommunication emphasis benefits from newly renovated and equipped television and radio studios in the Wing Technology Center.
  • Other Communication Studies courses take advantage of the Communication studies technology lab.
  • The Department of Music enjoys the following facilities: a 24-track recording studio, an acoustically superb 285-seat recital hall, a music technology/electronic music studio, a high-grade keyboard lab, a listening resource center and remodeled rehearsal facilities in the Center for the Arts.
  • The Department of Theatre Arts' performances in 492-seat Toland Theatre in the Center for the Arts benefit from a computerized lighting system, state-of-the-art sound system, hydraulic orchestra pit, and counterweighted fly system.
  • The Robert Lee Frederick Studio Theatre in Morris Hall offers a more intimate setting for laboratory work.

Organizations

Students can particpate in student organizations like the Communication Studies Club, the Theatre Club or The D.A.V.I.D.S. Art Club. The following are just a few of the organizations or activities that students can take part in:Hair