Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Visual and Performing Arts

Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences
Majors: Art, Music, and Theater
Chair: Ben Mays
Coordinator Music Major: Peter Ryan
Coordinator Art Major: Ray Stratton
Faculty: Richard Galyean, Michael Hunt, Ben Mays, Michael McNulty, Hannah Ryan, Peter Ryan, Donald Sorah, Misty Stratton, Ray Stratton, James Veenstra

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences with majors and minors in art, music and theater.

The Department also offers performance/production related courses for all students that may fulfill the Liberal Arts Core arts and humanities credit requirements. Certain studio, production, and applied theory courses are offered for repeat credit with the proper prerequisites and permission of the instructor.

It is recommended that interested students declare a major in art, music or theater in the first year in order to complete required course sequences in a timely manner and fully profit from the creative exploration of the four-year program.

Students interested in a major in art, music or theater should contact the corresponding Coordinator for an advising appointment.

Visual and Performing Arts

Statement of Purpose

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts endeavors to serve the larger educational mission of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise by designing opportunities to engage fundamental human questions through the unique understandings engendered in artistic expression. These understandings emerge from a collective imagining of who and what we are by giving form to the experience of being human. It is our conviction that the process and forms of creative expression represent fundamental ways of knowing and constitute the basic human occupation with making meaning. As such, we hold the pursuit of artistic expression as essential to the development of an individual and civilization.

Programs

• Art Minor
• Graphic Design Minor
• Liberal Arts and Sciences, Art Major, B.A.
• Liberal Arts and Sciences, Music Major, B.A.
• Liberal Arts and Sciences, Theater Major, B.A.
• Music Minor
• Theater Minor

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