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World Arts and Cultures B.A.
School of the Arts and Architecture

About the Major
The World Arts and Cultures major leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree and is designed to offer choice and flexibility while maintaining balance and rigor. At the outset, students select one of two concentrations: dance or cultural studies. All students take a set of core courses designed to explore a wide range of artistic practices in cultural context. In addition, students selecting the dance concentration are required to study movement techniques of their choice four to five days a week for the first two years of the program, while those concentrating in cultural studies must select 12 units of arts practice electives in movement, music, theater, film, design, or visual art -- either within or outside the department.

The dance concentration offers courses in a wide range of idioms from throughout the world, including special emphasis on modern/postmodern dance. Opportunities for performance, production, videography, and movement studies are augmented by courses in the study of the body and of bodily identity from historical and cultural perspectives, dance theory, and dance in the public sphere, including arts pedagogy. Multimedia forms of expression integrating music, theater, visual arts, film, and other technologies along with hybrid forms of cultural expression utilizing both emerging and classically based vocabularies are encouraged.

The cultural studies concentration provides students with an introduction to key issues, problems, and debates in the study of art and creativity in cultural context. Beyond the required set of core courses, students select from a range of courses offered in the World Arts and Cultures Department and in other departments. Students may also consider courses from ethnic and area studies programs and may organize their course of study in relation to particular interests or professional goals (e.g., international comparative studies, intercultural studies, area specializations such as Africa, Asia, or Latin America, minority discourse, gender or women's studies).


Requirements
School of the Arts and ArchitectureWorld Arts and Cultures Department in the General Catalog

School of the Arts and ArchitectureWorld Arts and Cultures Department website


Contact Information
School of the Arts and Architecture
students@arts.ucla.edu
310-206-3564
Broad Art Center, Room 2200
Office of Student Services and Counseling
162007

World Arts and Cultures Department
wacinfo@arts.ucla.edu
310-825-3951
150 Kaufman Hall
106806



The requirements listed above are from the UCLA General Catalog.
For updates, see http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/


last updated 2/2/2009 2:01:00 PM