Academic Programs

Music Theory – Master of Music (MMUS)Gain outstanding scholarly training in the analytical approaches, skills, and research methods of music theory. Through theory pedagogy seminars, actual classroom experience, and mentoring by faculty, it is both highly immersive and highly rewarding.

Musicology – Master of Arts (MA)Become fluent in all things music with this advanced study that approaches it from a variety of perspectives. This program takes a love of music and multiplies its possibilities.

Professional and public writingThe art of writing can elevate all you do in the future. The professional and public writing major prepares students to become innovative, strategic, and expressive writers to infuse art into all aspects of life.

Rhetoric and Writing – Master of Arts (MA)Become one of the next generation of humanities leaders and thinkers who will engage their work in both academic and professional contexts with a balance of theoretically grounded yet practical experience in rhetoric and writing.

Studio artExplore and create using the language of two- and three-dimensional form, space, and time in various media and technologies, including ceramics, electronic arts, and intermedia, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

Studio Art – Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Expand empathic understanding, cultivate the voices of underserved populations and ideas, and mitigate and critique damage done to ecologies, marginalized cultures, and the environment brought about by centuries of colonialist pursuits.

TheatrePerform in all aspects of art. Students in this program will use theatre as an insight into the human condition, to preserve and investigate further historical traditions, and to present new plays that reflect the present condition of society.

Theatre – Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Receive personally tailored instruction in a well-rounded theatre context that includes courses in theory and history, as well as a carefully developed program of practical training.