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Interdisciplinary Studies Fine and Performing Arts Concentration
This major gives students a strong interdisciplinary grounding in the Fine and Performing Arts through 36-42 credits of coursework in Music, Studio Art, and/or Theater:
Choose a minor in Music, Studio Art or Theater (see catalog for the specific requirements of each minor), 18 credits.
AND
Choose either:
- Option 1 - 18 credits in one of the other two disciplines, at least 9 of which must be at the 2000+ level (OR)
- Option 2 - 12 credits in each of the other two disciplines, at least 6 of which must be at the 2000+ level in each discipline (24 cr.)
Fine & Performing Arts Concentration
Music Concentration Requirements (12-18 credits)
Required Courses (4 cr.)
| MUSC 1000 | Art of Music | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2500 | Class Piano | 1 cr |
Choose 5 additional credits in instrumental and/or vocal study and ensembles (5 cr.)
| MUSC 1300 | Beginning Musical Instruction | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2300 | Choral Arts | 1 cr |
| *MUSC 2310 | Intermediate Musical Instruction | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2400 | Instrumental Arts | 1 cr |
| MUSC 2600 | Class Voice | 1 cr |
| MUSC 2700 | Class Guitar | 1 cr |
* When taken for credit, an additional teacher fee may apply for off-campus teachers at Indian Hill Arts
Choose the remaining 3-9 credits in Music from the following courses:
| MUSC 1100 | From Woodstock to the iPod: A Social History of American Popular Music | 3 cr |
| MUSC 1400 | Introduction to Music Technology | 3 cr |
| MUSC 3100 | Symphony | 3 cr |
| MUSC 3200 | Opera | 3 cr |
| MUSC 3450 | Appreciating the American Musical | 3 cr |
| MUSC 3600 | Bach to Beethoven | 3 cr |
| MUSC 3650 | Romanticism to Rock | 3 cr |
| MUSC 3700 | 19th Century Music | 3 cr |
| MUSC 3750 | Music in Film | 3 cr |
| MUSC 3900 | Women, Music, and Society | 3 cr |
Studio Art Concentration Requirements (12-18 credits)
Required course - choose one of the following (3 cr.):
| ART 1300 | Introduction to Studio Art: Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture | 3 cr |
| OR | ||
| ART 1400 | Drawing | 3 cr |
Choose the remaining 9-15 credits in Studio Art from the following courses:
| ART 1300 | Introduction to Studio Art: Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture | 3 cr |
| ART 1400 | Drawing | 3 cr |
| ART 1600 | Design | 3 cr |
| ART 1650 | Three-Dimensional Design | 3 cr |
| ART 2004 | Ceramics | 3 cr |
| ART 2030 | Sculpture | 3 cr |
| ART 2102 | Introductory Painting | 3 cr |
| ART 2150 | The Art of Puppetry | 3 cr |
| ART 2200 | Life Drawing | 3 cr |
| ART 2250 | Intermediate Drawing | 3 cr |
| ART 2450 | Water-Based Media | 3 cr |
| ART 3010 | Sculpture II | 3 cr |
| ART 3020 | Intermediate Painting | 3 cr |
| ART 3200 | Advanced Open-Media Studio Art | 3 cr |
Theater Concentration Requirements (12-18 credits):
Required courses (12 cr.):
| THEA 1700 | Stage Movement | 3 cr |
| THEA 1720 | Voice and Articulation | 3 cr |
| THEA 2700 | Acting I | 3 cr |
| THEA 3550 | Page to Stage Analysis | 3 cr |
When choosing Option 1 (18 credits in Theater as the second concentration), choose an additional 6 credits from the following courses (6 cr.):
| THEA 2100 | Children's Theater | 3 cr |
| THEA 2730 | History of the Theater I | 3 cr |
| THEA 2740 | History of the Theater II | 3 cr |
| THEA 2800 | Acting II | 3 cr |
| THEA 3035 | Playwrighting | 3 cr |
| THEA 3400 | Advanced Stage Movement | 3 cr |
| THEA 3500 | Voice II | 3 cr |
| THEA 3700 | Directing the Play | 3 cr |
IDIS Major Core Course Requirements (15 credits):
Required IDIS Seminars (6 cr.):
| IDIS 1004 | Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar | 1 cr |
| IDIS 2140 | Interdisciplinary Research Methods Seminar | 2 cr |
| IDIS 4004 | Capstone Seminar | 3 cr |
Required Interdisciplinary course (3 cr.):
| IDIS 1600 | Critical and Creative Thinking | 3 cr |
Required Commonwealth of the Arts course - choose one of the following (3 cr.):
| MUSC 2000 | Commonwealth of the Arts | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2100 | Commonwealth of Ancient Arts | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2120 | Commonwealth of Asian Arts | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2130 | Commonwealth of the Modern Arts | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2210 | Commonwealth of the Renaissance Arts | 3 cr |
Required - choose any one of the following Interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary courses (3 cr.):
| AMST 1800 | Introduction to American Studies I | 3 cr |
| GEOG 1100 | Principles of Human Geography | 3 cr |
| GEOG 2056 | Climate Change and Human History | 3 cr |
| HIST 2056 | Climate Change and Human History | 3 cr |
| IDIS 1000 | Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 3 cr |
| IDIS 1002 | Introduction to Disability Studies | 3 cr |
| IDIS 1200 | Introduction to International Studies | 3 cr |
| IDIS 1800 | Global Issues | 3 cr |
| IDIS 1900 | Introduction to Peace Studies | 3 cr |
| IDIS 2100 | Dilemmas of Peace and War | 3 cr |
| IDIS 2540 | Global Issues in Film | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2000 | Commonwealth of the Arts | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2100 | Commonwealth of Ancient Arts | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2120 | Commonwealth of Asian Arts | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2130 | Commonwealth of the Modern Arts | 3 cr |
| MUSC 2210 | Commonwealth of the Renaissance Arts | 3 cr |
| PHIL 2001 | Medical Ethics | 3 cr |
| PHIL 2600 | Philosophy of Human Nature | 3 cr |
| PSY 3050 | Cognitive Neuroscience | 3 cr |
