Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Fine and Performing Arts Studies Minor


Fine and Performing Arts Studies Minor Program Information


Mary B. Martin School of the Arts
PO Box 70726
Phone: (423) 439-5692
 
Director: Scott Contreras-Koterbay

The Fine & Performing Arts Studies minor is only offered for students admitted to the Fine & Performing Arts Scholars program. The purpose of the minor is to equip students with the mindset, knowledge, and skills to develop their relationship to the arts in an interdisciplinary context, with a focus on increasing confidence in artistic productivity and professional practices and an appreciation of the impact that the arts have on their communities in a regional, national and international manner in both an historical and contemporary context. Grounded in theories and methodologies of different forms of artistic practice that include a critical engagement with the arts, a familiarity of the history of the arts in interdisciplinary relations, and arts as social innovation and social entrepreneurship, the minor affords students opportunities to study, develop, and implement who they want to be as artists and what kind of careers in the arts they wish to pursue.

Fine and Performing Arts Studies Minor: 20 credits


At least 9 credits must be at the 3000-level or above.

Advisor Approved Electives: 9 credits


With approval of the Director, 9 credits at the 3000 or 4000 level in a high impact or capstone experiences (such as internship, entrepreneurial development, study abroad, interdisciplinary or independent study) and/or guided or approved electives (such as art management, art business, non-profit management, critical theory, philosophy or history of an arts classes and/or advanced classes in the students’ major or minor beyond the major or minor degree program requirements), including but not limited to the following:

Minor Requirement


A minor is a secondary area of study outside of the major program of study with a structured curriculum composed of at least 18 credits of which at least 9 credits must be at the 3000-level or above.