INTEGRATIVE ARTS

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O.C. Willis students participate in an integrative arts curriculum. The Integrative Arts Program is specifically designed to encourage and to provide students with the broadest opportunities to explore unique and unexpected creative, intellectual, and vocational pathways. The program is dedicated to helping its students acquire the unique intellectual and creative tools they will need to achieve their individual career goals and creative aspirations.

Integrative Arts students identify a specialized course of study for their program that may focus on a particular topic, creative path, or career goal in the arts. In consultation with an advisor, students devise an individualized academic plan that will best help them to investigate their chosen theme, usually by combining study in two or more arts areas with explorations in other core subject areas.

Willis students are expected to:

  • Develop a creative direction which provides a platform for continued professional research and visual expression

  • Produce a body of work which demonstrates a high level of creative investigation and accomplishment

  • Acquire a mastery level of technical proficiency (as specified by their curriculum) in one or more media areas

  • Effectively communicate their ideas verbally and in writing.

  • Know the context, historical and current, within which their creative pursuits exist.

  • Develop a well-formed and informed personal creative philosophy and a studio skillset, which provides a foundation for further study at the university level.

  • Understand the current ethical and social issues relevant to the arts.

  • Use relevant theory in pursuing creative scholarship.

Schedule a meeting with admissions to learn more.