2002-2003 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
 

Michael J. Hood, Dean

Douglas E. Bish, Associate Dean

Website: www.iup.edu/finearts 

The College of Fine Arts has professional programs in art, music, and theater and awards the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees. Programs leading to certification to teach are offered in cooperation with the College of Education and Educational Technology and lead to the Bachelor of Science in Education degree. The college offers minors in art, music, theater, and dance.

With one of the largest arts programs in the commonwealth, IUP’s College of Fine Arts offers members of both the university and the extended community many opportunities to learn and grow. Dedicated facilities for each department are augmented by a 1,600-seat auditorium, two theaters, two art galleries, a university museum, a recital hall, a computer laboratory, and a dance studio. Typically, the college sponsors two hundred to three hundred arts events annually, and our students, who currently enjoy the strongest academic profile of any of the university’s colleges, have opportunities to develop their talents locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally through a variety of long-established field-based programs.

Mission Statement

The mission of the College of Fine Arts at IUP is to provide excellent programs of study for all of its majors, balancing high professional standards with rigorous and current educational practice, and to provide coursework and programs of an equally high standard in service to majors in other departments which may require arts classes and, as part of the university’s general studies mandate, to the entire university student body.

The College of Fine Arts takes as its special mission the presentation of arts events including plays, concerts, exhibitions, and recitals, featuring the work of our students and faculty as well as the work of visiting arts professionals, as a gift of enrichment and as a celebration of the human spirit for the university, the community, and the region.

Finally, the college takes as its mandate and its privilege the inclusion in its presentations, studios, and classrooms the works, thoughts, and performances of a culturally and ethnically diverse world of art.

College Majors

• Art (History or Studio Track)

• Art Education

• Interdisciplinary Fine Arts

• Music (History and Literature, Performance, or Theory and Composition Track)

• Music Education

• Music Performance

• Studio

• Theater

Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Major

An interdisciplinary fine arts major program is available for those students desiring to take coursework in art, dance, communications media, fashion merchandising, interior design, music, and theater. This program is offered in conjunction with the College of Education and Educational Technology and the College of Health and Human Services. This interdisciplinary program, including an opportunity for an internship (FIAR 493), is coordinated through the Office of the Dean, College of Fine Arts, where additional information is available.

Bachelor of Arts—Interdisciplinary Fine Arts