UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS, MINORS, AND ASSOCIATED AREAS OF STUDY
CLAIRE TREVOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ARTS AND HUMANITIES The major in Arts and Humanities provides students with a broad exposure to a range of disciplinary and methodological opportunities in the Arts and Humanities. It insists on the productive intersection of these two fields as the focus of each student's program. Students improve their critical and historical sophistication while learning about the process of performance and creative work, a combination that equips them to participate more effectively in a society that increasingly joins critique and creation just as closely as it fuses image and information. Arts and Humanities students investigate the symbolic dimension of human behavior and identity, an interest shared by many critics and artists alike. Often, this interest is expressed in the context of interdisciplinary programs designed to facilitate contact among faculty and students from a wide range of different academic disciplines. This major's focus on the connection between practice and analysis distinguishes it from the broader and more diverse scope of more general interdisciplinary programs. The scholarly work of many UCI faculty in the Arts and Humanities lies at an intersection between the two academic units, and the major translates this intellectual and creative activity into a coherent curriculum and projects current forms of scholarship and artistic practice into the classroom. Graduates of this program will be very attractive to teacher-training programs. There is also a steadily growing market in private industry for students whose training combines skills sharpened by both the Arts and Humanities. Business demands graduates with strong writing and analytic skills, talents stressed in the Humanities. They also desire people with creativity and visual skills who have experience putting their original ideas into practice, something emphasized in the Arts. Graduates will have special skills that will enable them to work in professional fields directly allied with the Arts, including museum work, art foundations, art criticism, journalism, theatre, and the entertainment industry. - From the 2007-2008 UCI General Catalogue |
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