Acting
Our program combines an intensive conservatory experience with the campus life of a major land-grant university. You’ll perform on our mainstage and in our laboratory theatre, and train with renowned faculty and guest artists (including Academy and Tony Award nominees).
Acting
Be part of an intensive three-year course of study that will prepare you for the industry through studio instruction and performance opportunities.
Art and Design
The BFA in Art and Design is nationally accredited and constantly updated to provide students with the most current training and technology to prepare for a career in today’s growing creative professions.
Art and Design
Gain experience in all areas of the visual arts while pursuing a focused area of emphasis in ceramics, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture or time-based art.
Art Education
We combine the benefits of a small studio program with the resources and facilities of a major research university. Our graduates are certified to teach grades pre-K through 12 and have a high job placement rate.
Art Education
The MA in Art Education accommodates seasoned art teachers as well as pre-professional students seeking advanced knowledge and training.
Art History
Our program combines the benefits of a small, close-knit program with the facilities and resources of a major research university.
Art Therapy
Art therapy is a unique, creative mental health profession that targets specific therapeutic goals, promotes healing and improves overall mental health and wellness.
Ceramics
Our nationally recognized Ceramics program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. We offer an immersive art experience that combines a small studio environment with the resources of a major research university.
Conducting
Further advance your conducting skills with opportunities to lead our orchestra and symphonies on stage.
Conducting
Prepare for a career in higher education or the professional world by studying technique specific to ensembles in three major performance areas.
Costume Design and Technology
Learn the elements of design, drawing and costume history in a course of study that moves you through the process of designing complete characters.
Dance
Develop and hone your techniques in a program that offers both experiential and theoretical dance education. You’ll study a variety of dance genres and subjects — ballet, modern, jazz, tap, world dance, choreography, dance history and dance criticism.
Graphic Design
Our immersive art experience combines a small studio environment with the resources of a major research university. You’ll get the skills, theory and aesthetic practice you’ll need for a career in the ever-evolving field of graphic design.
Intermedia and Photography
Our program offers an immersive art experience that combines a small studio environment with the resources of a major research university. You'll build a portfolio to jump-start your career in photography, digital editing, video or animation.
Lighting Design and Technology
Get immersive lighting experience from experts with new technology with a variety of production design opportunities.
Multidisciplinary Studies
Our MDS program gives you the flexibility of selecting three minors to create an individualized educational plan. At least two of the minors must be selected from programs offered by the College of Creative Arts.
Music
The BA in Music is for students who wish to specialize in music and explore WVU's broader academic offerings.
Music
Music (Contemporary and Integrative Performance)
This program focuses on contemporary music performance within an integrative curriculum that includes electives from arts, theatre, dance, industry and philosophy.
Music and Health
The BS in Music and Health is a unique opportunity to pursue concentrated studies in music while fulfilling many requirements for a career in health or medicine.
Music Business and Industry
Build fundamental analytical, regulatory and creative knowledge and skills necessary for commercial participation in the music industry.
Music Composition
Society's increased interest in the arts is creating new opportunities for professional composers and teachers. This program will prepare you to be a composer in acoustic and electronic styles.
Music Education
The BM in Music Education will prepare you for a variety of teaching settings.
Music Performance
The Music Performance curriculum prepares you for a career as a performer or as a teacher of a particular instrument or voice.
Music Performance: Jazz and Commercial Music
Jazz and Commercial Music encourages study, training and performance in all forms of creative improvised music, jazz and world music. You’ll expand your creative vision and gain a global perspective.
Music Performance: Piano
The Music Performance: Piano program is designed for students who want to prepare as performers or teachers. Society’s increased interest in the arts is creating many new opportunities for professional musicians and private music teachers.
Music Performance: Voice
The Music Performance: Voice program is designed for students who want to prepare as performers or teachers. Society's increased interest in the arts is creating many new opportunities for professional musicians and private music teachers.
Music Therapy
Music therapists use a variety of instruments and musical experiences to help babies, children, adolescents, adults and older adults work toward non-music goals related to education, health, rehabilitation and wellness needs.
Musical Theatre
We combine an intensive conservatory experience with the college experience of a major university. You’ll perform on our mainstage and in our laboratory theatre, and train with renowned faculty and guest artists (including Academy and Tony Award nominees).
Painting
We offer an immersive art experience that combines a small studio environment with the resources of a major research institution. You'll train in traditional and experimental oil and acrylic media and explore both figurative and abstract imagery.
Performance
Take an advanced course of study to further enhance your performance skills.
Performance
Prepare for a career in higher education or the professional world with a rigorous course of study in the instrument of your choice.
Piano Pedagogy
Study a variety of courses with comprehensive experience in individual and group piano instruction.
Printmaking
Our BFA program focuses on the development of personal imagery while cultivating foundational skills. Along with the resources of a major research university, we offer an immersive art experience in a small studio environment, providing individual attention to promote student growth.
Puppetry
Coursework in the BFA Puppetry program includes study in the practice of puppetry as a theatrical art form. The program offers an intensive curriculum in puppet construction and manipulation in a variety of mediums and styles.
Scenic Design and Technology
Master the advanced creation of stage-worlds using a combination of practical problem solving with conceptual ideas to extend the performance's meaning.
Sculpture
Our BFA program provides training in many different materials and processes for making three-dimensional work. We offer an immersive art experience that combines a small studio environment with the resources of a major research university.
Studio Art
Explore an advanced method of study in ceramics, graphic design, printmaking, sculpture or time-based art and produce a written thesis.
Technical Art History
Designed for those who seek meaning beyond traditional visual analysis and interpretation, the Technical Art History major emphasizes the scientific study of art and objects within their historical and cultural contexts.
Technical Direction
Get individualized training in the design, construction and implementation of scenery using industry standard technologies, materials and techniques.
Theatre
The BA Theatre program allows you to explore and customize your education to include a more multidisciplinary approach to theatre studies, including performance, design and technology, dramaturgy and playwriting.
Theatre Design and Technology
We provide hands-on training through work on the Theatre and Dance mainstage. Working side by side with faculty, you'll develop a variety of theatre environments using the most current technology and tools available.