Courses

Music
The Department of Music at Washington University was founded in 1946 and has since enriched the cultural and intellectual life of the university and the St. Louis area.

Music Major
As a music major, you will explore critical issues of tradition, individual composers, compositional craft, aesthetic interpretation, and music's social and cultural significance through a wide range of courses. In this varied course of study, music is approached as a liberal and fine art, rather than as an isolated, separate subject.

Drama Major
As a drama major, you will undertake an academically rigorous course of study with a strong grounding in theater history, dramatic literature, performance studies, and dramatic theory. You will develop your knowledge of theater by means of practice.

Dance Major
As a dance major, you will study dance as an independent and collaborative art and as a global phenomenon expressed in a wide variety of contemporary and traditional forms.