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Contemporary Arts (B.A.) 
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Contemporary Arts (B.A.)


  Convener: Steven Perry

About the Major

The Contemporary Arts Major is an interdisciplinary contract major offered through the School of Contemporary Arts. It is designed to enable students with specialized interests in the arts, communication, their practices and industries to work with an advisor and develop a program of study that is tailor-made to the students' interests and career goals.

Students in the Contemporary Arts contract major take courses from a wide variety of disciplines and practices across the College. The selection of courses, and disciplines, included in a student's contract depends on the areas of focus. Particularly common is to combine courses in the arts (literature, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts), communication (media studies, writing, audio, radio and television production, speech, advertising, public relations) business, social sciences (cultural studies, psychology, sociology, economics) and technology.

This major leads to a B.A. degree. The major requires a minimum of 36 credits, in addition to the School of Contemporary Arts School Core. At least 12 credits in the major must be upper level (300/400).

Subject Course # Title
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
ENGL 180 GE-COLLEGE ENGLISH
SELECT ONE BADM 115 BUSINESS PERSPECTIVES
OR SOCI 101 SOCIAL ISSUES
SELECT ONE GE-MATHEMATICS
SELECT ONE GE-SCIENCE WITH EXPERIENTIAL COMPONENT
SELECT ONE GE- HISTORY:  HIST 101-110
AIID 201 GE-READINGS IN HUMANITIES
SELECT ONE GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
SELECT ONE GE-INTERCULTURAL NORTH AMERICA
SELECT ONE GE TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE
SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS REQUIREMENTS
CNTP 101 FIRST YEAR TOPICS
SELECT ONE  CA Interdisciplinary 300 level course
ARHT 301 AMERICAN ART AFTER 1940
ARHT 335 19TH CENTURY ART AND CULTURE
ARHT 338 AVANT GARDE ART
ARHT 341 IMPRESSIONISM AND AFTER
ARTS 331 ART AS THERAPY
CNTP 305 CUBAN CINEMA AND CULTURE
CNTP 310 BLACK EXPERIENCE/MEDIA
CNTP 312 CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM:FILM
CNTP 313 SYMBOLISM AND MEDIA IMAGE
CNTP 315 ART AND TECHNOLOGY
CNTP 323 SEXUAL POLITICS,GENDER AND FILM REPRESENTATION
CNTP 325 MEDIA SPORTS AND SOCIETY
CNTP 327 GLOBAL MULTICULTURAL MEDIA ISSUES
CNTP 347 AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA
CNTP 348 LATINO IMAGES AND HOLLYWOOD
CNTP 350 DIGITAL CULTURE
CNTP 363 MEDIA AND CULTURE-LATIN AMERICA
COMM 317 MEDIA AND PERSUASION
COMM 334 HISTORY AND AESTHETICS:FILM EDITING
COMM 347 THE NEW TV CRITICISM
COMM 356 MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
MUSI 309 MUSIC AND GENDER
MUSI 325 WRITING ABOUT MUSIC
MUSI 328 SOUNDTRACKS
MUSI 335 AVANT GARDE AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC
MUSI 345 DJ CULTURE
MUSI 365 CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON MUSIC
THEA 318 PRFORMANCE STUDY:MASKS
THEA 323 EXPERIMENTAL THEATER 1950-PRESENT
THEA 328 CONTEMPORARY WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS
THEA 331 THEATER AND SOCIETY I
THEA 334 THEATER AND SOCIETY II
SELECT ONE CA Interdisciplinary 400 level course
CNTP 404 THE DRAMATIC ELEMENT
CNTP 411 MEDIA IN SOCIETY
CNTP 414 FROM FICTION TO FILM
CNTP 415 JAZZ AND AMERICAN CULTURE
CNTP 424 AFRICAN/AMERICAN WOMEN IN FILM
CNTP 444 ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN CINEMA
CNTP 447 HISTORY AND AESTHETICS PERFORMANCE ART
CNTP 466 ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY THEATER
CNTP 468 ART AND EXILE
CNTP 487 FILM HISTORY CULTURE AND MYTH
CNTP 493 NATURE AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
MUSI 462 MUSIC AND IDENTITY

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