Why choose Performing Arts at WSU?

• Students who major in Dance, Music or Theatre Arts learn and perform in the beautiful Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts.
  
  
• Almost 100 percent of our education graduates are offered teaching jobs their first year.
  
  
• Opportunities to perform in competition at prestigious venues like the Kennedy Center and at international music festivals.
  
  
• Only musical theatre major offered by a state university in Utah.
  
  
• Preparation to enter the best graduate programs in the country.
  
  
• Dance students choreograph for dance concerts.
  
  
• Theatre students design and direct their own shows.
  
  
• Opportunities to collaborate with faculty to produce concerts, recitals and stage plays.
  
  
• Opportunities to perform with more than 200 performing arts majors in classes, rehearsals and department performances.
  
  
• Opportunities to learn from more than thirty full time faculty and staff plus another forty adjunct and part time faculty with experience and expertise in their fields.

What degrees/certificates are available?

Dance Area
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Dance

Minor: Dance

Minor: Dance Teaching

Music Area
Bachelor of Music (BM) Music Major Performance, Keyboard & Vocal Pedagogy

Bachelor of Music Education (BME) Music Education Teaching Major

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Music

Departmental Honors: Music

Elementary Education Major

Minor: Music

Music Education Composite Teaching - Choral

Music Education Composite Teaching - Instrumental

Theater Arts Area
Bachelor of Science or Arts (BS or BA) Musical Theatre

Bachelor of Science or Arts (BS or BA) Theatre Arts

Bachelor of Science or Arts (BS or BA) Theatre & Arts Teaching

Minor: Theatre Arts

Teaching Minor: Theatre Arts

What courses are offered through online/distance learning?

The performing arts department offers various classes online. For more information, contact the department at 801-626-6437 or click here.

What are the employment opportunities?

Graduates in Dance are dance educators, professional dancers in companies such Ballet West or Repertory Dance Theatre, choreographers and dance studio owners.

Graduates in Theatre are theatre educators, professional actors, theatre technicians, designers of lighting, sets or costumes, and directors.

Graduates in Music are professional performing musicians in organizations such as the Utah Symphony or the Utah Opera, music educators, studio musicians, private music studio teachers, music composers and arrangers and professional conductors.  For more information, go to Career Services.

What will I learn in the program?

In the Department of Performing Arts, you may study dance, music and theatre.

In dance, you will learn the art and science of movement, expressing every human emotion and awakening the same feelings in an audience.

In music, you will learn to teach, perform, understand, and enjoy music, as well as how to use sound to convey and kindle human emotion.

In theatre, you will learn the art and science of the stage--the hard work and social consciousness that go into the temporary world of a play.

Where can I find out more about the programs?

College of Arts & Humanities
Weber State University
1904 University Circle
Ogden,  UT 84408-1904
phone 801-626-6424
email arts&humanities@weber.edu

Department Contact Dr. Michael A. Palumbo
mpalumbo@weber.edu 

Department Phone 801-626-6437

Is there an application deadline?

Although there is no application deadline, we encourage you to apply early and register for classes. Contact the performing arts department for specific information or to schedule an advisement time.