PSU Magazine Winter 1988

New performing arts and urban degrees At the October State Board of Higher Education meeting the Instruction Commit– tee recommended three new degree pro– grams for Portland State - two in the School of Fine and Performing Arts and one in the School of Urban and Public Affairs. The board is expected to give for– mal approval at its December meeting. In Fine and Performing Arts a Bachelor of Music (BM) degree would be effective immediately, adding to the BA and BS degrees in music already offered by PSU. The new degree, designed for students in– terested in performance or studio teaching, would require more course work in music and the teaching of music than the current programs. The University expects about 60 students to enroll in the program initially with about 20 graduates per year in the early 1990s. The Department of Music already offers all the necessary courses and the new degree will not require addi– tional faculty. A BA/BS in dance is the other new professional degree in the school and will serve performers, choreographers and teachers. It will be effective this January. More than 450 students enroll in dance courses at PSU each term and the Depart– ment of Dance expects the new degree program to grow from an initial enroll– ment of 15 to about 30 students per year by 1992. Currently, students at PSU who want to focus on dance must major in some other subject within the University, obtaining a certificate in dance. No addi– tional faculty will be necessary to initiate this program. The Ph.D. in the School of Urban and Public Affairs replaces the current inter– disciplinary degree program. The school estimates that about 12 students would par– ticipate in the program each year with the first graduates in 1990-91. PSU 18 I CAMPUS NOTES I In a class project this fall, students helped art instructor Alice 1zn Leunen assemble and hang an aerial sculpture in the four-story atrium of Kruse Woods I, a Lake Oswego of flee building owned by Hillman Properties NW