Overview
The
College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State is a complete arts
community. It encompasses undergraduate and graduate programs in the
Department of Art History, the School of Architecture and Landscape
Architecture, the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the
School of Visual Arts. It also includes University Arts Services--the
Center for the Performing Arts, Music at Penn's Woods, the Palmer
Museum of Art, and Pennsylvania Centre Stage.
The College of Arts and Architecture is a professional
college committed to artistic and scholarly creativity, research
and the preparation of specialized practitioners in all of the arts
and design disciplines.
At the undergraduate level, the college offers
the bachelor of science degree in architecture, art education, graphic
design, music education, photography; and the bachelor of arts degree
in art, art history, integrative arts, music, and theatre; the bachelor
of fine arts in art and theatre; the bachelor of architecture; the
bachelor of landscape architecture; the bachelor of music; and the
bachelor of musical arts.
At the graduate level, the college offers the
master of science degree in architecture and art education; the
master of arts degree in art, art history, music, and theatre; the
master of education in art education and music education; the master
of fine arts in art and theatre; the master of landscape architecture;
the master of music; the D.Ed. in art education; and the Ph.D. in
art education, art history, and music education.
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The faculty are dedicated to providing high-quality professional
instruction to the approximately 1,900 graduate and undergraduate
students enrolled in the college. In addition, the faculty, most
of whom hold terminal degrees in their professional fields, are
charged with the responsibility of providing undergraduate literature,
history, and studio courses in the arts for all students at Penn
State.
The college is housed in thirteen buildings on
the University Park Campus. It includes six performance spaces,
three gallery/exhibition spaces, a lighting and design lab, four
computer labs, six special subject libraries and a stage lighting
archive. For students and faculty in the School of Music, the college
provides thirty-two music student rehearsal rooms and eighteen faculty
studios. Within the college are specialized studios, rehearsal spaces
and classrooms to support the design, visual, and performing arts.
In addition, the college manages its own ticketing service.
Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture
proudly serves as one of the major cultural centers between Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh.
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