Contemporary Arts

The School for the Contemporary Arts is an interdisciplinary program that offers training in dance, culture, film, music, theatre and visual art. It serves as a laboratory for groundbreaking creation and scholarship in all of these areas, including interdisciplinary collaboration, with an emphasis on the interrelationships among the arts. The School is committed to the innovative and creative application of evolving technologies within the framework and tradition of artmaking.

Contemporary Arts offers courses covering a range of subjects including art and culture, technique classes in dance, choreography, repertory, dance history, film and cinema studies, music composition and theory, music analysis, acting, voice, dramatic literature, and studio and practical skills courses in visual art.

Students of Contemporary Arts may also participate in field schools, a screenwriting centre, Student Unions for dance, theatre and film, and apprenticeship programs in dance.

Degrees offered: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Art and Culture Studies

Teaching the visual and performing arts in K-12
Media technician
Composer for concert stage, theatre, dance, film and electronic games
Sculptor
Programming for games, installations, live performance
Arts administrator
Dancer and choreographer
Screen writer
Research and policy analysis
Camera person
Film/video editor
Media work in broadcast journalism and print
Sound for film, including sound design, editing, foley artist, location recording
Writing, editing, publishing
Education and academia

See the Academic Calendar page on Contemporary Arts for more information.