Visual and Performing Arts
Associate of Science
School: Arts, Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Dean: TBD
Program Director: Patricia Maloney-Titland, patricia.maloneytitland@sunyrockland.edu
Support Staff: Rosemary Witte, rosemary.witte@sunyrockland.edu
Location: Cultural Arts Center, Room 7101, Phone: 845-574-4471
Degrees Offered:
Program Description:
Visual and Performing Arts can inspire, inform, entertain, or move us to experience a wide range of emotions. Using words, images or the unspoken language of dance and music, visual and performing artists can create a bridge of imagination that brings people together. Studying visual and performing arts helps develop creative and communication skills, while fostering the essential value and importance of collaboration. Students choose a concentration in either Theater, Music, Cinema and Film Studies, or General Studies, and can explore a range of styles and genres within these fields, including acting, directing, songwriting, dance, musical theater, theatrical stage combat, and more.
Students in the Visual and Performing Arts program have transferred to prestigious institutions and also gone on to successful professional work in the theater, film, and music industries, including starring roles in soap operas such as Guiding Light, and The Bold and the Beautiful; prime time shows including Law & Order, Blue Bloods, OZ, CSI: Miami and Criminal Minds, as well as appearances in feature films, including Magic Mike, The Avengers, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and others. Students have also launched successful recording and touring careers in music, and professional work in NYC on Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.
Theatrical Stage Combat courses are taught by a Society of American Fight Directors Certified Teacher, and students can earn SAFD certificates in eight disciplines, as well as SAFD Actor Combatant and Advanced Actor Combatant certificates upon successful completion of Skills Proficiency Tests, which are adjudicated by an SAFD Fight Master at the conclusion of each semester, along with an SAFD Master class.
The Visual and Performing Arts department also works together with the Cultural Arts Theater, where students perform and work on main-stage productions throughout the year. There is also an opportunity to Intern and work alongside professionals.
Program Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Recognize the fundamental concepts and applications within the visual and performance industries
- Develop the ability to work collaboratively
- Identify how creative and artistic expression impact culture and society
- Demonstrate the use of critical resources commonly utilized across industries and mediums
- Apply the practical skills necessary for the creative process