Curriculum
Students in their first year at DSOA are given a rounded course selection in their art area. First-year visual arts majors, for example, take a year-long drawing class as well as a semester of sculpture and a semester of either 3-D design or photography. In subsequent years, students are allowed and often encouraged to specialize in an area of the department: Creative writing, graphics, journalism, television, film, or speech and debate for communications majors; technical theatre, acting, or musical theatre for theatre majors; sculpture, painting, photography or printmaking for visual arts majors; ballet or modern for dance majors. The one exception is music, in which a student is given intensive training in their instrument of expertise (or voice) for all four years. Music majors include band, keyboard, orchestra, and vocal.
Training at the school emphasizes professional skills. Students learn through classes, lessons, ensemble rehearsals, and performing.
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