Department of Performing and Creative Arts

Center for the Arts (1P)

George Emilio Sanchez, Chairperson and Associate Professor

Professors: Sylvia Kahan, Ralph Martel, Patricia Passlof, Nanette Salomon. Associate Professors: Frank Galati, Tracey Jones, Kevin Judge, Norman Kruger, Charles Thomas, Maurya Wickstrom, Marianne Weil. Assistant Professors: William Bauer, David Keberle, Beatrix Reinhardt, Siona Wilson. Lecturer: Michael Morreale. Higher Education Assistants: Craig Manister, Jennifer Straniere.

The department offers Bachelor's degrees in Art, Dramatic Arts, and Music; a concentration in Photography with the Art major; a concentration in Electrical Technology with the BS in Music; and a Dramatic Literature concentration jointly with the Department of English. Students may minor in Art, Dance, Dramatic Arts, and Music; a program for Psychology majors interested in dance therapy provides for a minor in Dance.

The department serves the needs of students who wish to pursue both the practice and the theory of the arts. In addition to preparing students majoring in the arts and those planning to continue in graduate school, the department's courses meet the needs and interests of students in the liberal arts and sciences and in career programs, and foster the role of the arts within the framework of a liberal education.