Areas of Study

The Commercial Music program offers comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs to help students develop skills for a professional music career. Students are able to study the business of music as they develop their individual instrumental and/or vocal skills. In addition, the Commercial Music program provides students with valuable practical experience through internships and working on FAU's record label, Hoot/Wisdom Recordings LLC.

The program examines the strategic role that symbol systems play in constructing meaning in a fast-changing, information-based, media-saturated, and culturally diverse world. Courses examine how meaning informs and persuades individuals, and introduce students to the history and theories of how communication operates in societies. The goal is for students to demonstrate a high level of oral and written communication, critical thinking, and analytical problem-solving skills, and to become active in civic life.

The Department of Theatre and Dance in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton) is pleased to announce the establishment of a Minor in Dance (effective Fall 2016). The Minor in Dance is open to all undergraduate students who have been accepted into FAU and demonstrate requisite dance proficiency by way of an audition.

Students majoring in any discipline at the University are eligible to minor in English. The minor encourages breadth of knowledge in literary studies and offers experience in critical analysis.

Students majoring in any discipline other than History are eligible to complete a minor in History. This minor allows students to tailor their courses to a particular area of history or select a broad assortment of courses in different areas.

Minors available in the department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature include:

Foreign languages: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
Linguistics
Comparative Literature

Unlike other fields of study, philosophy pursues fundamental questions in every dimension of human life. Philosophy develops our capacity for seeing the world from different perspective and deepens our sense of the meaning and variety of human experience.

The Department of Political Science offers undergraduate and graduate courses that contribute to the understanding of American politics, comparative politics, and international relations. The Department embraces the epistemology of social science research and helps students develop skills important to this field, and many others, including written and oral communication and critical thinking.

Sociology courses help students develop the skills to: draw connections between their everyday experiences and the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which they live; analyze social institutions, including the economy, politics, education, the family, work, media, health care, sports, and religion, as they shape and are affected by larger social structures; examine the development, structure, and consequences of various forms of social inequality and difference in the United States and globally; identify and analyze social trends, changes, and movements; identify, analyze and understand the causes and consequences of different social practices, norms and values, ideologies, and world views; use empirical research to answer complex questions about societies and the people in them.

The Department of Visual Arts and Art History offers a minor in Studio Art with the following areas of study: Ceramics, Drawing, Graphic Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture.

The Department of Theatre and Dance offers a Theatre minor available to all undergraduate students except Theatre majors.