Apr 18, 2025

Fitchburg State University 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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Fitchburg State University 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Creative Arts Enterprise, B.A.

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Chairperson

David Svolba

Program Coordinator

Jonathan Harvey

Professor	Associate Professor	Assistant Professor
Robert Carr	Petri Flint	Sarah Bromberg
Jane Fiske	Jonathan Harvey	Yang Liu
Michael Greenwood	Amy McGlothlin	John Lohmann
Randy Howe	Andrea Olmstead
Kelly Morgan	Jessica Robey
Elisabet Takehana	Wafa Unus
	Heather Urbanski
	Mary Vreeland

Objectives for the Creative Arts Enterprise Major

The Creative Arts Enterprise (CAE) program equips individuals to be active and engaged artist practitioners across a variety of contexts. The courses in this major allow students to develop a personalized and flexible set of skills, with which they will emerge as creative artists ready to meet the needs of audiences and arts organizations in a shifting global economy.

The CAE program has a dual focus, wherein students hone their artistic skills as musicians, visual artists, or theatrical artists, and simultaneously expand their knowledge of administration, publicity, and entrepreneurship through coursework in business, professional writing, and marketing communications. This twofold approach prepares students for careers as fine or performing artists with a solid grasp of how to manage the entrepreneurial aspects of being a professional in the arts, and also for careers as arts administrators, promoters, or other positions with a diverse set of organizational demands, but where a strong grounding as a fine or performing artist is highly beneficial.

The CAE degree is awarded as a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), with students completing courses demonstrating intermediate proficiency in a world language.

Program Requirements (21 cr)

IDIS 1700 - Arts in Community 3 cr.
BSAD 2100 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship 3 cr.
COMM 3304 - Communicating Project Design 3 cr.
COMM 3470 - Client Project Production 3 cr.
THEA 3002 - Artist as Business 3 cr.
CAPSTONE
IDIS 3004 - Interdisciplinary Studies Research Seminar 3 cr.
IDIS 4004 - Capstone Seminar 3 cr. or
IDIS 4950 - Internship 6 cr.

MUSIC CONCENTRATION (24-26 credits)

Required (9-11 cr)

MUSC 1000 - Art of Music 3 cr.
MUSC 1400 - Introduction to Music Technology 3 cr.
MUSC 1500 - World Music 3 cr.
MUSC 4800 - Piano Proficiency Exam (0 cr) or
MUSC 2500 - Class Piano 1 cr.
MUSC 4801 - Dictation/Sight Singing Proficiency Exam (0 cr) or
MUSC 1001 - Ear Training 1 cr.

Choose one of the following music theory courses ( 3 cr)

MUSC 2200 - Basic Music Theory 3 cr.
MUSC 2240 - Harmony I 3 cr.

Choose one of the following group lessons (1 cr)

MUSC 2600 - Class Voice 1 cr.
MUSC 2700 - Class Guitar 1 cr.

Choose one of the following music history courses ( 3 cr)

MUSC 3100 - Symphony 3 cr.
MUSC 3150 - Music of the Stage 3 cr.
MUSC 3200 - Opera 3 cr.
MUSC 3400 - Twentieth-Century Music 3 cr.
MUSC 3450 - Appreciating the American Musical 3 cr.
MUSC 3500 - American Music 3 cr.
MUSC 3600 - Bach to Beethoven 3 cr.
MUSC 3650 - Romanticism to Rock 3 cr.
MUSC 3700 - 19th Century Music 3 cr.
MUSC 3750 - Music in Film 3 cr.
MUSC 3800 - History of Jazz 3 cr.
MUSC 3900 - Women, Music, and Society 3 cr.

Performing ensembles and individual lessons (8 cr)

4 semesters of ensemble (4 cr)
MUSC 2320 - Concert Choir 1 cr. and/or
MUSC 2330 - Chamber Choir 1 cr. and/or
MUSC 2400 - Jazz Band 1 cr. and/or
MUSC 2401 - Concert Band 1 cr. and/or
MUSC 2402 - Community Orchestra 1 cr.
4 semesters of individual lessons (4 cr)
MUSC 13XX Level 1 Private Musical Instruction 1 cr. and/or
MUSC 23XX Level 2 Private Musical Instruction 1 cr. and/or
MUSC 33XX Level 3 Private Musical Instruction 1 cr. and/or
MUSC 43XX Level 4 Private Musical Instruction 1 cr.

VISUAL ART CONCENTRATION (24 cr)

Required (6 cr)

ART 1100 - Art Appreciation 3 cr.
ART 1400 - Drawing 3 cr

Choose one of the following history courses (3 cr)

Choose one of the following 3-D courses (3 cr)

ART 1650 - Three-Dimensional Design 3 cr.
ART 2004 - Ceramics 3 cr.
ART 2030 - Sculpture I 3 cr.

Choose one of the following painting courses (3 cr)

ART 2102 - Introductory Painting 3 cr.
ART 2450 - Water-Based Media 3 cr.

Choose one of the following intermediate/advanced courses (3 cr)

ART 2250 - Intermediate Drawing 3 cr.
ART 3002 - Ceramics II 3 cr.
ART 3020 - Intermediate Painting 3 cr.
ART 3200 - Advanced Open-Media Studio Art 3 cr.

Choose two of the following general ART electives (6 cr)

(a course selected for another cluster cannot be counted again for this cluster)

ART 1650 - Three-Dimensional Design 3 cr.
ART 2004 - Ceramics 3 cr.
ART 2030 - Sculpture I 3 cr.
ART 2102 - Introductory Painting 3 cr.
ART 2150 - The Art of Puppetry 3cr.
ART 2200 - Life Drawing 3 cr.
ART 2250 - Intermediate Drawing 3 cr.
ART 2450 - Water-Based Media 3 cr.
ART 3002 - Ceramics II 3 cr.
ART 3020 - Intermediate Painting 3 cr.
ART 3200 - Advanced Open-Media Studio Art 3 cr.

THEATER CONCENTRATION (24 cr)

Required (18 cr)

THEA 1700 - Stage Movement 3 cr.
THEA 1720 - Voice and Articulation 3 cr.
THEA 2100 - Children’s Theater 3 cr.
THEA 2700 - Acting I 3 cr.
THEA 3003 - Dramaturgy 3 cr.
THEA 3550 - Page to Stage Analysis 3 cr.

Choose 6 more credits from the following courses

MUSC 2320 - Concert Choir 1 cr.
MUSC 2330 - Chamber Choir 1 cr.
MUSC 2600 - Class Voice 1 cr.
THEA 2730 - History of the Theater I 3 cr.
THEA 2740 - History of the Theater II 3 cr.
THEA 2800 - Acting II 3 cr.
THEA 2850 - Applied Acting 3 cr.
THEA 3010 - Acting for the Camera 3 cr.
THEA 3035 - Playwrighting 3 cr.
THEA 3400 - Advanced Stage Movement 3 cr.
THEA 3500 - Voice II 3 cr.
THEA 3600 - Auditioning 3 cr.
THEA 3700 - Directing the Play 3 cr.

ELECTIVES (12 cr)

Choose one of the following Communications Elective Courses (3 cr)

COMM 3460 - Public Relations 3 cr.
COMM 3810 - Introduction to Graphic Design 3 cr.
COMM 4010 - Information Design 3 cr.
COMM 4212 - Marketing Communication 3 cr.

Choose one of the following Professional Writing Elective Courses (3 cr)

ENGL 2030 - News Reporting and Writing 3 cr.
ENGL 3830 - College Newspaper Production 3 cr.
ENGL 3840 - Freelance Writing for Magazine 3 cr.
ENGL 3860 - Writing for Organizations 3 cr. or
COMM 3860 - Writing for Organizations 3 cr.
ENGL 3870 - Feature and Magazine Writing 3 cr. or
COMM 3870 - Feature and Magazine Writing 3 cr.
COMM 3430 - Writing for Advertising 3 cr.

Choose one of the following Business Elective Courses (3 cr)

BSAD 2030 - Principles of Management 3 cr.
BSAD 2040 - Fundamentals of Marketing 3 cr.
BSAD 3310 - Consumer Behavior 3 cr.
BSAD 3320 - Market Research 3 cr.
BSAD 3500 - Business Law I 3 cr.
BSAD 3800 - Digital Commerce 3 cr.
BSAD 4600 - Writing the Business Plan 3 cr.

Choose one of the following Combined Electives (3 cr)

(a course selected for another cluster cannot be counted again for this cluster)

BSAD 1700 - Introduction to Computer Information Systems for Business 3 cr.
BSAD 2030 - Principles of Management 3 cr.
BSAD 2040 - Fundamentals of Marketing 3 cr.
BSAD 3310 - Consumer Behavior 3 cr.
BSAD 3320 - Market Research 3 cr.
BSAD 3500 - Business Law I 3 cr.
BSAD 3800 - Digital Commerce 3 cr.
BSAD 4300 - Sales Management 3 cr.
BSAD 4330 - International Marketing 3 cr.
BSAD 4340 - Developing Marketing Strategies 3 cr.
BSAD 4600 - Writing the Business Plan 3 cr.
COMM 2005 - Introduction to Social Media 3 cr.
COMM 3025 - Social Media Advertising and Public Relations 3 cr.
COMM 3430 - Writing for Advertising 3 cr.
COMM 3460 - Public Relations 3 cr.
COMM 3810 - Introduction to Graphic Design 3 cr.
COMM 4010 - Information Design 3 cr.
COMM 4212 - Marketing Communication 3 cr.
ENGL 3860 - Writing for Organizations 3 cr. or
COMM 3860 - Writing for Organizations 3 cr.
ENGL 3870 - Feature and Magazine Writing 3 cr. or
COMM 3870 - Feature and Magazine Writing 3 cr.
ENGL 2030 - News Reporting and Writing 3 cr.
ENGL 3830 - College Newspaper Production 3 cr.
ENGL 3840 - Freelance Writing for Magazine 3 cr.

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