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Facts about Fine and Performing Arts
- “O, had I but followed the arts!” – Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
No matter what you choose to study in college in preparation for the professional world, an immersion in one or more of the arts is a natural complement to preparation for a vocation. The arts offer you new modes of communication and self-expression, as well as insight into the human person and, of course, beauty, entertainment, and pleasure.
Why choose Wheeling Jesuit University?
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- Creative Writing – includes courses in fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and
- screenwriting; depending on your focus, you can pursue this field either through English,
- Communications, or even another academic discipline.
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- Film Studies – includes courses in history, theory and practice, and creative process,
- including regular seminars on contemporary Hollywood.
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- Music – centers on vocal performance and music theory, with opportunity for
- composition; you can often gain practical credit through campus ensembles.
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- Theater – divides between classroom- and practicum-based instruction, with opportunity
- for you to act, direct, manage, and write for the stage.
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- Visual Art – includes courses in painting, drawing, object-making, digital design, and
- photography; your work is routinely given public display.
Studying any discipline involves a basic grounding in theory – and lots of hands-on practice and guidance. Our faculty has published fiction and non-fiction, had their plays and music performed around the country, and had work featured in museum and Web galleries. Our small class sizes ensure that you will receive individual instruction. For example, studio art courses are capped at 20, music workshops at 15, and writing workshops at 12.
At Wheeling Jesuit, your education in the arts will be in the context of the 450-year tradition of a Jesuit education that embodies the human spirit and social justice. You’ll grow as an artist at Wheeling Jesuit, and you’ll grow as a person. As novelist Willa Cather has written, “Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.” To study the arts is to learn more about the worlds within and around you.
What can the Fine and Performing Arts do for you?
Whether you have refined your written communication in creative writing or film studies, your visual communication through our studio arts program, or your public poise and presence in music or theater, you will have value-added skills to market to the professional world. The arts combine well with virtually any vocational program.
At the most basic level, college is about self-discovery; so are the arts. Wheeling Jesuit offers you a safe place to step out on a limb, to risk the rough drafts or false starts, the flubbed lines or flat notes that ultimately lead to great performances, in art and in life.
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