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Visual & Performing Arts & Education Double Major

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Pursue your passion and prepare for a career in teaching the arts

The double major in visual and performing arts, one of the few interdisciplinary arts majors in the country, will give you a strong foundation in visual art, music, and theatre and educational principles and techniques. You will take a three-part system of courses that include: foundation courses across the department’s three disciplines of art, music, and theatre; courses in the interdisciplinary core of the department; and courses on pedagogy and elective courses in your chosen emphasis in the arts.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

  • Get broad knowledge in art, music, and theatre
  • Complete coursework in the production, performance, critical study of creative work, or exhibits of your choice
  • Craft the major to fit your areas of interest
  • Complete a capstone / senior thesis project
Check out the different courses waiting for you at Worcester State!
AR-118 Global Art History
Surveys the outstanding visual art from all cultures beginning in the prehistoric era to the late 19th century.
3 credits
AR-123 Design Fundamentals
Design Fundamentals is a course combining 2 and 3 Dimensional Design. In this course we explore composition, space, and color along with planes, volumes, and environments. A variety of materials are used to create on surfaces and in actual space. Many projects are grounded in aspects of mathematical and geometrical systems, e.g., grids, tiling, Fibonacci series, fractals, regular solids.
3 credits
MU-101 Fundamentals of Music and Aural Skills
An introduction to reading and writing conventional music notation, the fundamentals of music theory, and basic aural skills. Emphasis will be placed on intervals, scales, chords, rhythmic values, sight-singing, melodic dictation, and aural recognition of intervals and chords.
3 credits
MU-280 History of Music
A general survey of western art music covering the historical periods of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century.
3 credits
TH-126 Script Analysis
Script analysis for theatre artists. How to take a script from initial reading to production.
3 credits
TH-145 Acting I
Introductory acting theory and practice. Students present brief monologues and scenes in class.
3 credits
VP-155 First Year Practicum
Students will put into practice interdisciplinary concepts, ideas, and techniques at an experiential level.
1 credit
VP-200 Critical Thinking in the Arts
The experience of art, music, and theatre to develop individual critical thinking in the similarities and differences among the arts.
3 credits
VP-364 Interdisciplinary Arts Theory
An exploration of interdisciplinary art theory drawing on theories and critical writings from art, music, and theatre from a variety of historical periods.
3 credits
VP-365 Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
Examines examples of contemporary modes of interdisciplinary works of music, theatre, and visual art with the goal of developing an individual, creative aesthetic.
3 credits

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Carlos Odria

Assistant Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Arts

Carlos Odria, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Arts in WSU’s Visual and Performing Arts Department. In this role, Odria offers WSU students his expertise in modern guitar performance, world music, jazz, and [...]

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