Weber State University (Department of Performing Arts)

Weber State University's Department of Performing Arts is large enough to provide the atmosphere and motivation you need to excel, and personal enough to enable you to stand out as an individual.

Student dancers, musicians, actors, designers, technicians and teachers learn and train in a creative, supportive environment. The department's combination of Dance, Music, and Theatre encourages collaboration with each other, with other disciplines across the campus, and with the community.


Dance

In our dance program, you will learn the art and science of movement, expressing every human emotion and awakening the same feelings in an audience.

A dance degree will prepare you as a dancer, choreographer, company director and teacher/choreographer's assistant, as well as provide a solid foundation for graduate study.

Dance students may choose from these programs of study. Each link will bring you to a list of courses required to complete the program:

* Bachelor of Arts in Dance
The BA degree in Dance provides an awareness of the possibilities of dance in all of its manifestations and rigorously prepares students in performance, choreography, community outreach and involvement, education, technology, social and cultural roles, and research/scholarly endeavors. The degree prepares enthusiastic and energetic graduates who will use their passion about the art form to guide their career and advanced study choices.

* Dance Minor
A dance minor is available for students not wishing to specialize but who have an interest in dance and want a concentration of study in the area to complement an affiliated program of study.

* Dance Teaching Minor
A dance teaching minor is available for students seeking a concentration of study in dance teaching to complement an affiliated program.


Music

Our well-respected music program will nurture the artist in you and also allow you to focus your creativity. We offer a wide variety of performance opportunities, including national and international travel.

Your degree in music will allow you to compete and succeed in the professional performance and teaching fields, as well as graduate school.

Music students may choose from these programs of study. Each link will bring you to a list of courses required to complete the program:

* Bachelor of Arts in Music
* Bachelor of Music Education, Choral or Instrumental
* Bachelor of Music in Performance
* Bachelor of Music in Keyboard Pedagogy
* Bachelor of Music in Vocal Pedagogy
* Music Minor
* Music Honors


Theatre

Whether you're interested in teaching, acting, design or technical expertise, the WSU theatre program offers a wide array of courses and practical experience that will prepare you for a career or further education.

Our theatre graduates have worked in regional and children's theatres, on cruise ships, in theme parks and in film and television. Our design, technical and management students are employed throughout the country.

Theatre students may choose from these programs of study. Each link will bring you to a list of courses required to complete the program:

* Bachelor of Arts or Science in Musical Theatre
* Bachelor of Arts or Science in Theatre Arts
* Bachelor of Arts or Science in Theatre Arts Teaching
* Teaching Minor
* Theatre Minor


Visual Arts

Art is the universal language through which we express our common aspirations and experiences. As such, it has always been a channel for appreciating and understanding the diversity of humankind. In contemporary society the use of visual media has expanded rapidly. People who formerly typed documents now design web pages. More studies are indicating that children who experience the visual arts are more successful in their other studies. Attendance at art museums is at an all time high. The need to experience, understand and successfully create visual media is increasing. The Department of Visual Arts is prepared to meet these needs.

Faculty:
All of our faculty are practicing professionals. With current faculty holding advanced degrees from universities across the nation and around the world, WSU DOVA takes pride that its faculty demonstrate the level of excellence we expect of our students.

Facilities
The Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center is the new home for the Department of Visual Arts (DOVA). This facility has twice the amount of space and contains a secure and climate controlled gallery. It is exciting to consider the exhibitions that DOVA will now be able to offer the community. It is heartening to know that more people will also be able to access exhibitions and classes.
Since the new art center will house many visual art disciplines that are currently scattered across campus, students will have more exposure to each other's work and ideas. This new environment will afford a richer educational experience and a deeper sense of community among our students and faculty. With the completion of the visual arts facility, DOVA will be better prepared to fulfill its mission than ever before.The Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center contains approximately 70,000 square feet gross, and 44,000 square feet net (net space does not include hallways, restrooms, etc). The galleries and lecture halls occupy 10,000 sq. ft.of space.


Programs

* Bachelors of Fine Arts: Two Dimensional Emphasis
DOVA offers a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in Two Dimensional media, including painting, drawing, and printmaking.

The BFA program is selective; students must first declare their major as General Art (BA or BS).


* Bachelors of Fine Arts: Three Dimensional Emphasis
DOVA offers a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in Three Dimensional media, including ceramics, sculpture, and small metals/jewelry.

The primary goal of the study of 3-D design is to create a learning environment which will help students develop thoughtful, sensitive, aesthetically successful solutions to often simple, sometimes complex design problems. Almost all design problems are conceived to be ambiguous and metaphorical, to allow for more than one right answer, to encourage hard and soft thinking, fantasy and play, crossing boundaries of expertise, and the breaking of rules. They are designed to be similar in concept and function to those one might experience in such fields as: sculpture, jewelry making, industrial design, ceramics, architecture, weaving, engineering, landscape design, etc.--in almost any area which requires creative problem solving abilities.

Students may begin the study of sculpture and other three-dimensional arts by enrolling in Design: 3D. This course involves the study of fundamental design principles and techniques including a working knowledge of various design methods and materials and their relationship to the concept, utilization, development and completion of design projects. In other words, it involves thinking and working with real materials, in real space, solving real problems.

The BFA program is selective; students must first declare their major as General Art (BA or BS).

* Art Teaching
The Art Education program at WSU prepares the teaching candidate for the rigors and rewards of a career in the classroom. The Department of Visual Arts offers a a BA or BS Art Composite Teaching major that leads to secondary licensure,eligible to teach in grades 6-12. The Art Teaching Composite degree is designed to give the future middle and high school art teacher a comprehensive and diverse background in a variety of media and knowledge of current art issues. The Art Composite Teaching major does not require a teaching minor, but does require two completed years of a foreign language (BA degree) or two additional scientific inquiry courses (BS degree). The Department also offers an Art Teaching minor, which must be completed in conjunction with a subject teaching major.

The Art Composite Teaching program is rigorous and demanding; in addition to completing 57 credit hours in Visual Arts coursework (more courses than is required for a General Art major), students must also complete general education requirements. In addition, secondary licensure requirements include supplemental coursework and upper division education coursework. The Art Composite Teaching degree requires an average of 140 credit hours completed, more than for a BA, BS, or BFA degree. Thus, the average completion time for an Art Composite Teaching degree is 5 or more years.

As the preparatory art content class for student teaching, the Art Methods and Resources course assists the new teacher with the actual classroom implementation of the theory and pedagogy accrued at the university level. Stated in layperson's terms, this class is a "how to"- how to translate important educational concepts into a vibrant and effective reality in his and her classroom. The student teacher leaves this seminar armed and organized with a system of lesson plans, projects, assessment tools, classroom management strategies, collaboration models, budget formulas, art and education resources, and a network of professional contacts, to name just a few. This strong foundation sets the stage for continued and innovative professional development of a WSU's teaching candidate.

DOVA's art education program promotes a comprehensive art curriculum; one which emphasizes not only art production, but of equal importance, critical thinking skills. For example, curricula components expand to include cultivating creativity and launching imagination, content assessment, contextual understanding of art works historically and culturally, applied writing, and personal responsibility of and for expression. These concepts are introduced into the classroom in language and projects conducive to the age and developmental level of the group. Also integral to this learning process is the critique. It demonstrates the student's growing ability to recognize and articulate the power of an image. The critique methodology is based on a clearly defined four-step process: observation, analysis, interpretation and evaluation. This process liberates the student from a "good vs. bad" approach and more quickly moves them into thoughtful and perceptive reflection. Within this approach the teacher guides not only the future artist and art student, but also provides an experience rich in growth for the "hobby" or simply interested student. Life-long learning, one of the program's underlying goals, affords every student a means for continued critical engagement in their local and world community.

* Visual Communications: Graphic Design

Weber State University offers a major in Art with an emphasis in Visual Communication. This is a four-year program leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The program is supported by a digital lab configured for image processing, vector drawing, page assembly and web/animation.

The BFA program is selective; students must first declare their major as General Art (BA or BS).

* Bachelors of Fine Arts: Photography Emphasis
We offer students the most complete photography program and facilities in the Intermountain West. Our 4,000 square foot lab contains beginning and advanced darkrooms, color darkrooms, a RA-4 processor, a C-41 film processing line, lighting equipment and a Cibachrome processor.

Our photography program allows students to explore various aspects of the medium such as black & white, non-silver, color, murals, history of photography, commercial, and experimental processes. We encourage exploration of computer manipulated photographic media through the Department of Visual Arts visual communications program where state-of-the-art Macintosh computers and software are available for student use.Advanced students become vital to the operation of the photography lab; mixing chemistry, checking out equipment, operating and maintaining the processors, and develop expertise in photo facilities management.The teaching philosophy of the program is a basic one: to support the individual student in his/her growth toward a personal vision in photography.

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