2005-06 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
 

Dean: Michael J. Hood
        Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Instruction: Marjorie E. Arnett

Website: www.iup.edu/finearts

The College of Fine Arts has professional degree programs in Art, Music, Theater and Dance, and Interdisciplinary Fine Arts and awards the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees. Programs leading to certifica-tion to teach art and music are offered in cooperation with the College of Education and Educational Technology. This partnership leads to the Bachelor of Science in Education degree. The college also offers minors in art, music, and theater and dance.

With one of the largest arts programs in the commonwealth, IUP’s College of Fine Arts offers dedicated facilities for each department augmented by a 1,600-seat auditorium, two theaters, three art galleries, a university museum, a recital hall, a computer laboratory, and a state-of-the-art dance studio. In the fall of 2005, a large, renovated teaching location for sculpture and clay opened for art students, and in the spring of 2006, a newly renovated and beautifully enlarged music building will open for music students and faculty. The music facility will be one of the best university music teaching facilities in Pennsylvania while the new location for sculpture and clay offers large open space providing students the opportunity to increase their undergraduate art experience. 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, and nationally. The college has an active international program for student exchange with a long-established field-based program.

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.

College Majors

• Art (History or Studio Track)–B.A.

• Art Education–B.S.Ed.

• Art Studio–B.F.A.

• Interdisciplinary Fine Arts–B.A.

• Music (History and Literature, General Studies, or Theory and Composition Track)–B.A.

• Music Education–B.S.Ed.

• Music Performance–B.F.A.

• Theater–B.A.

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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

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Minor in Entrepreneurship (for Fine Arts Students)

The minor in Entrepreneurship for nonbusiness majors program assumes no prior knowledge of business. Fine arts students are usually involved in starting and running their own business, developing and starting small performing groups, and developing and running nonprofit community theaters. Students would develop the skills necessary to evaluate opportunities within their industry. They would learn, among other things, to 1) analyze their competition, 2) develop marketing and financial plans, 3) explain intellectual property rights, 4) negotiate contracts, and 5) write a business plan that could be used to obtain financing from banks, investors, or other sources of funding. These skills are all central to the creation and development of new ventures. This is a joint effort of four departments and represents an 18-credit minor for fine arts majors. The program is designed to give nonbusiness majors a general background in starting and running a small business.

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