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Office: DeChiaro College Center, Room W035
Telephone: 410‑617‑2031
Website: www.loyola.edu/academics/visual-performing-arts

Chair: Jon Malis, Professor

Professors: Mary Beth Akre; Natka Bianchini; James R. Bunzli; Janet Maher (emerita); Jon Malis; Ronald Pearl (emeritus); Daniel Schlapbach; Anthony D. Villa (emeritus)
Associate Professors: Kerry Boeye; James E. Dockery (emeritus); Billy Friebele; Barnaby Nygren; Daniel Pinha
Assistant Professor: Beth Yashnyk
Assistant Teaching Professors: Heather Braxton; Kathryn Locke; Christopher Lonegan (emeritus); Clay Price; Michael Rickelton

The Visual and Performing Arts Department offers majors in the visual and performing arts.

Students interested in the visual arts may pursue major concentrations in art history, photography, studio arts, and InterArts (interdisciplinary practice). The department also offers an interdisciplinary major in visual arts, and minors in art history, photography, studio arts, and InterArts. Students interested in art education should concentrate in studio arts and minor in Secondary Education.

In the performing arts, students may pursue major concentrations in music and theatre, as well as a comprehensive concentration combining music and theatre. The department also offers interdisciplinary majors in the performing arts with concentrations both in music and in theatre, and minors in music and theatre.

Internships are available throughout the department. Students seeking internships should contact a faculty advisor or the Department Chair the semester prior to the internship.

Programs

• Performing Arts, Comprehensive Concentration, BA
• Performing Arts, Music Concentration, BA
• Performing Arts, Theatre Concentration, BA
• Visual Arts, Art History Concentration, BA
• Visual Arts, InterArts Concentration, BA
• Visual Arts, Photography Concentration, BA
• Visual Arts, Studio Arts Concentration, BA

• Interdisciplinary Major in Performing Arts, Music Concentration
• Interdisciplinary Major in Performing Arts, Theatre Concentration

• Art History Minor
• Arts Management Minor
• InterArts Minor
• Music Minor
• Photography Minor
• Studio Arts Minor
• Theatre Minor

Courses

• AH 109  -  Global Art
• AH 110 - Western Art: Paleolithic to Gothic
• AH 111 - Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary
• AH 188  -  Medical Humanities: Intersections of Visual Art and Health Science
• AH 201  -  Arts Management
• AH 307  -  Discovering Difference: Art in the Age of Encounter
• AH 310 - Church and Empire: Early Medieval Art, c. 250-1050
• AH 312 - The Renaissance in Italy
• AH 313 - Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
• AH 315 - African American Art: Race and Racism in the American Imagination
• AH 316 - Realism and Impressionism
• AH 319 - History of Photography
• AH 322 - Michelangelo
• AH 325 - Gothic Art and Architecture
• AH 326 - The Crusades in Medieval Visual Culture
• AH 327 - Islamic Art
• AH 345 - Sight and Insight: Topics in Aesthetics and Art History
• AH 350 - Visual Thinking
• AH 353 - Posters! A History of Art and Persuasion
• AH 360 - Special Topics in Art History
• AH 401 - Intensive Independent Study
• AH 402 - Special Topics in Art History
• AH 403 - Internship: Art History
• AH 405 - Prints and Printmaking: A History of Printmaking in the West
• AH 406 - Museum Studies: History, Politics, and Practices
• AH 407 - Albrecht Dürer

• MU 201 - Music Fundamentals
• MU 202  -  Class Piano I
• MU 203 - The Art of Listening
• MU 204 - Western Musical Traditions
• MU 205 - Musicianship I
• MU 206 - Musicianship II
• MU 210 - American Musical Theatre: Uptown and Down
• MU 211 - Jazz Ensemble I
• MU 220 - Chamber Ensemble I
• MU 221 - Concert Choir I
• MU 230 - Guitar Ensemble I
• MU 231 - Steel Pan Ensemble I
• MU 300 - Repertoires of Western Music
• MU 302 - Structure of Music: Theory I
• MU 303 - American Jazz
• MU 304 - Music and Medicine
• MU 305 - Music in the Twentieth Century
• MU 306  -  Music History I: Medieval to Barque
• MU 307  -  Music History II: Classical to Contemporary
• MU 308 - Hearing the Movies
• MU 310 - Structure of Music: Theory II
• MU 311 - Jazz Ensemble II
• MU 312 - Class Piano II
• MU 314 - Topics in Non-Western Music
• MU 315 - Conducting
• MU 320 - Chamber Ensemble II
• MU 321 - Concert Choir II
• MU 323 - Jazz Combo
• MU 324 - Composition
• MU 325 - Counterpoint
• MU 326 - Songwriting
• MU 327 - Cantorei
• MU 330 - Guitar Ensemble II
• MU 331 - Steel Pan Ensemble II
• MU 350 - Recording Studio I
• MU 351 - Recording Studio II
• MU 355 - Special Topics in Music
• MU 360 - Applied Music (1/2 hour)
• MU 361  -  Applied Music (3/4 Hour)
• MU 370 - Applied Music (1/2 hour)
• MU 375 - Applied Music (1 Hour)
• MU 380 - Applied Music (1/2 hour)
• MU 385 - Applied Music (1 Hour)
• MU 400 - Musical Writing for the Public

• PT 270 - Basic Digital Photography
• PT 300 - Photocraft
• PT 301 - Photographic Vision: Tools, Techniques, and Theories
• PT 319 - History of Photography
• PT 333 - Spirit Photography
• PT 350 - Visual Thinking
• PT 353 - Book Arts and Artists’ Books
• PT 360 - Digital Mixed Media
• PT 361 - Digital Image
• PT 364 - Contemporary Digital Art
• PT 370 - Artist in Residence Seminar
• PT 375 - Silver Processes
• PT 376 - Directed Workshop
• PT 377 - Landscape and Nature Photography
• PT 378 - Alternative Photographic Processes
• PT 379 - Color Photography
• PT 380 - Studio Lighting
• PT 381 - Photojournalism
• PT 383 - The Photographic Essay
• PT 386 - Video Art
• PT 391 - Image and Text
• PT 393 - Portraiture
• PT 394 - The Body in Photography
• PT 399 - Special Topics in Photography
• PT 400  -  Senior Capstone for Artists

• SA 224 - Two-Dimensional Design
• SA 225 - Drawing
• SA 227 - 3-D Design in Art and Engineering
• SA 303 - Life Drawing
• SA 304 - Drawing with Color
• SA 310 - Introduction to Painting

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