Bachelor’s Degree in Arts Administration

Overview

The only degree of its kind currently being offered in Raleigh, our BA in Arts Administration is led by faculty with vast professional and academic experience.

As an Arts Administration major at WPU, you will develop the skills necessary to make a mark on the professional world. The Bachelor of Arts degree program features focused studies in marketing, accounting, management, administration, advertising, media, public relations and the arts. Through elective courses, you’ll be able to focus further on specific arts areas that interest you (theater, music or visual art). You will train under an impressive network of faculty and guests whose resumes include professional artistic credits, administrative and business positions as well as strong academic achievements. You will also benefit from “outside the classroom” experiences such as required internships, student-run organizations and study abroad opportunities (such as the university’s recent trips to England and Italy).

Arts Administration BA – SAMPLE 4-YR PLAN

The show can't happen without someone pulling the strings behind the scenes. WPU Arts & Administration students learn how to manage the venue and beyond

Courses

The courses listed below are for the Academic Catalog and are subject to change. Please reference the Academic Catalog for further information and course descriptions. If you are a current student, please reference the catalog in which you come under.

Bachelor of Arts in Arts Administration

*Liberal Education Curriculum: Under the Liberal Education requirements, students must take THE 112: Introduction to Acting in place of COM 101 and register for THE 490 for their internship requirement.

Liberal Education Curriculum Arts Administration Core Courses	49 credit hours 47 credit hours
Arts Core Courses	17 credit hours
Business Core Courses	24 credit hours
Theatre Administration Electives	6 credit hours
General Electives	21 credit hours
Total credit hours for B.A. in Arts Administration	120 credit hours

Arts Core Courses	17 credit hours
THE 101: Theatre Production (1 credit hour each taken two (2) times)	4
THE 103: Introduction to Theatre *This credit can be waived for a transfer student who has previously taken three (3) credit hours of Theatre coursework from an accredited institution.	3
THE 180: Music Appreciation	3

THE 225: Arts in Society	3
THE 329: Arts Administration	3

Business Core Courses	24 credit hours
BSA 221: Principles of Accounting	3
BSA 222: Managerial Accounting BSA 346: Management and Organizational Behavior	3 3
MKT 230: Marketing	3
BSA 240: Management and Organizational Behavior	3
MKT 333: Marketing for Nonprofits	3
COM 230: Media Writing	3
COM 240: Introduction to Public Relations	3
COM 311: Interactive and Social Media	3

Theatre Administration Electives

6 credit hours

Six (6) additional credit hours earned either in THE or combined with ENG 425: Women on Stage.

No more than one (1) credit hour as THE 151: Applied Voice
No more than 1 credit as THE 171: Applied Piano
No more than 1 credit THE 101: Productions

General Electives	21 credit hours
Must complete 21 elective credit hours	21

Faculty

Matt Hodge, M.F.A.

Associate Professor of Musical Theatre and Theatre

Wade Newhouse, Ph.D.

Program Director of Theatre; Professor of English; Department Chair of Humanities
Careers
WPU Arts Administration graduates go on to various careers in areas such as costume design, directing, set design, producing, acting and teaching.

Recent Peace internships include:
- North Carolina Theatre
- Raleigh Little Theatre
- Theatre in the Park
- Opera House of Wilmington
- Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre
- Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy
- Raleigh’s Village Idiots
Recent employment:
- Last Comic Standing
- Chelsea Lately
- North Carolina Theatre
- Theatre in the Park
- Groundlings
Recent graduate school acceptances:
- Harvard University
- The Juilliard School
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- AMDA
- UCLA
Performances
2018-2019 Season

Main Stage Productions
- Speech and Debate
- Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
- Julius Caesar
- Hair
- WPU Dance Concert
SECOND STAGE PRODUCTIONs
- 24-Hour Playfest
- Senior Recitals
- One Night Only (Student-Directed Cabaret Evenings)
Buy WPU Theatre Tickets

2017-2018 Season

MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONS
- An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
- The Wild Party
- Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
- Assassins
- King Lear (Partnership with Honest Pint Theatre Company)
- WPU Dance Concert
SECOND STAGE PRODUCTIONS
- 24-Hour Playfest
- WPU Singers Choral Concerts
- Senior Recitals
- One Night Only (Student-Directed Cabaret Evenings)
2016-2017 Season

MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONS
- Kiss Me, Kate
- The Laramie Project
- Noises Off
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- WPU Dance Concert
SECOND STAGE PRODUCTIONS
- The Pillowman (Student-Directed Production)
- Finding Clara (Student-Directed Staged Reading)
- One Night Only (Student-Directed Cabaret Evenings)
- 24-Hour Playfest
- WPU Singers Choral Concerts
- Senior Recitals
2015-2016 Season

MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONS
- The Music Man
- The Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
- Twelfth Night
- American Idiot
- WPU Dance Concert
SECOND STAGE PRODUCTIONS
- Macbeth (Staged Reading for Shakespeare Marathon in partnership with NC Museum of History and Burning Coal Theatre)
- One Night Only (Student-Directed Cabaret Evenings)
- 24-Hour Playfest
- WPU Singers Choral Concerts
- Senior Recitals

Peace TV

Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/customer/www/peace.edu/public_html/wp-content/themes/wpu-theme/twitter-oauth/display-tweets-sr.php on line 102