Mar 28, 2024  
University Catalog 2022-2023 
    
University Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Liberal Studies, Arts and Literature Area Concentration, BA


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BA in Liberal Studies: Arts & Literature
Location:
AU Seattle
Credits for Degree: 180 quarter credits
Standard Mode of Instruction: Classroom
Standard time to completion: 36 months

Program Overview

The goal of the Arts and Literature concentration is to prepare students to work in fields such as writing, publishing, film, visual and performing arts, curating, and arts management. Arts and Literature is defined broadly to include art, theater, fiction and nonfiction writing and other forms of creative expression. While they often choose to focus on either creative writing or the visual and performing arts, students are required to engage in cross-disciplinary studies, including a critical understanding of creative expression across and within cultures, and in historical and contemporary contexts. They are encouraged to gain hands-on experience through internships, collaborations with local businesses or community art, history and literary organizations. The Arts and Literature concentration allows students flexibility to tailor their plans of study classes to particular interests. It also prepares students for graduate studies in a variety of fields.

Current Tuition and Fees

University Tuition and Fees  

Possible coursework for concentration


  • Mural Painting
  • Poetry in an Age of Anxiety
  • Collage & Transformation
  • Crafting Short Fiction
  • Socially Engaged Art
  • Art of Memoir
  • History of Color: Creative, Cultural & Scientific Perspectives
  • Literature of Protest
  • Of Hands & Earth, Soul & Fire: Creative Expressions in Clay
  • Healing Narratives
  • Graven Images: Art, Religion & Culture
  • Writing the Anthropocene: Nature Writing in a Time of Climate Catastrophe
  • Art & Rebellion
  • Indigenous Voices
  • Family Sagas: Intergenerational Trauma

Plus quarterly access to studio art classes in drawing, painting, & sculpture through our partnership with the GAGE Academy of Art

Sample Community-Based Learning Experiences:
  • Designed original logos and set up a website for a start-up
  • Work with nonprofits to create art, theatre and dance programs in local schools.
Sample Synthesis Projects:
  • Curated an art show
  • Completed the first draft of a science fiction novel
  • Staged a reading of one act of an original play
  • Painted a series of portraits

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