Museum of Art

One of the largest and best attended art museums in the Mountain West, the Museum of Art offers a dynamic exhibition schedule that includes displays of its permanent collection, world-class traveling shows and unique temporary exhibitions.

For additional information, please visit the museum’s Web site.

Department of Visual Arts

With a curriculum emphasizing both tradition and innovation, Brigham Young University’s Department of Visual Arts seeks to prepare students for professions in the visual arts while enriching others with an appreciation of both art and design. The core curriculum accommodates the wide variety of artistic and scholarly skills of students while providing enough flexibility to choose individual program direction.

For additional information, please visit the department’s Web site.

Department of Theatre and Media Arts

The Department of Theatre and Media Arts believes the study of theatre and media arts is truly a study of humankind and its attitudes as revealed in artistic expression. The university’s theatre program is designed to educate students in a basic foundation of dramatic literature, theatre history, theory, performance skills as both actor and director while providing new, innovative techniques in all areas of theatre design technology and production. BYU’s media arts program is designed to educate students with a foundation of film history, theory, and criticism, along with the fundamental production competencies in film, television, animation, and interactive multimedia.

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School of Music

The Brigham Young University School of Music embraces the university’s aims of providing an education that is spiritually strengthening, intellectually enlarging and character building. The faculty, administrators and staff all work to help the school’s students think clearly about diverse kinds of music and to create, perform and teach music with excellence. The school explores music within the context of a broad liberal arts education and religious instruction, infusing the lives of students with scholarly and creative experiences.

For additional information, please visit the school’s Web site.

Department of Dance

The Brigham Young University Department of Dance is committed to preparing reflective, articulate dance artists, teachers and scholars. Ultimately, the department hopes to cultivate dancers who honor and preserve the past, give voice to the present, and seek to define the future as it provides for study, research, experimentation, practice, performance, and the creation of new works. The department is dedicated to presenting wholesome dance to a global audience and generating interest and enthusiasm about this artistic medium.

For additional information, please visit the department’s Web site. To learn more about the department's recent transition to the College of Fine Arts and Communications, click here.

Department of Communications

Brigham Young University's Department of Communications is celebrating over 75 years of excellence. The department includes the university’s advertising, broadcast journalism, communications studies, print journalism and public relations programs. The department’s interactive labs include: the Advanced Advertising Lab (clients have included Volkswagen, Burger King and Nike), Bradley Public Relations (clients have included the Utah Department of Transportation, Mozy and Monopoly), the Daily News (broadcast on BYU Television), the Daily Universe (BYU’s daily newspaper), and the Eye tracking Lab (an experimental lab that monitors visual perception and analysis).

For additional information, please visit the department's Web site.

College of Fine Arts and Communications

The College of Fine Arts and Communications’ mission is to teach the disciplines of communications, dance, music, theatre and media arts, and visual arts; explore these disciplines’ application to various media; and expand their civilizing influence on the human spirit. The college’s activities are founded on spiritual values and each department strives for excellence and rigor in scholarship, performance, and creative activity. The college seeks a balance among these areas of endeavor that offers students a diverse education in preparation for professional contributions and a lifetime of service to humankind.