LIU Post College of Arts, Communication & Design Viewbook

MUSICAL THEATRE

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

COMMUNICATIONS

DESIGN

ARTS MANAGEMENT

DANCE

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LIVE IT! COLLEGE OF ARTS, COMMUNICATIONS & DESIGN S C H O O L O F P E R F O R M I N G A R T S | S C H O O L O F V I S U A L A R T S , C O M M U N I C AT I O N S & D I G I TA L T E C H N O L O G I E S

PREPARING FOR THE NEXT WAVE OF CHANGE

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STEVEN BREESE, DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS, COMMUNICATIONS & DESIGN

What will the world look like in five years?

Ten years? 25 years? And what do we need to do to prepare our students for that world?

Technology has been a game-changer, no doubt, but adopting new technologies is only the beginning. The “Makers” and the “Doers” are now front and center—those who inspire with their imagination, critical thinking, and creative application. These are the 21st century skills embodied by the students of CACD: the artists, performers, innovators, and entrepreneurs.

STUDENTS LEARN FROM THE BEST Just a short ride from NYC, we attract to our campus the very finest working artists for your teachers, mentors, and role-models. These outstanding faculty-artists teach through doing.

It is this hands-on, student-centered experience that sets LIU Post apart from other colleges and universities. You won’t simply learn – you will live the professional experience that will prepare you for a career in the rapidly expanding creative economy.

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Whenever we glance at our cell phone, turn on a computer, flip on a television, or plugin to music we are interacting with creative content. It permeates our society and is a vital part of our day-to-day existence. From concept to completion, CACD students engage in making high-quality content every day. It is a creative act, to be sure, but it also requires technical skill, collaboration, organization, communication, critical analysis, and a healthy dose of problem solving. These skills, alongside and in concert with specific disciplinary expertise, allow our students to develop the professional content that we all want, need, and expect today and for years to come.

WHAT’S NEXT? Our students are forward-looking and ready to challenge the status quo. Savvy and entrepreneurial, “good enough” is never good enough for CACD students. They strive for excellence in all that they do. I often challenge our students to use their artistic voices and intellectual firepower to invent the future. They will. Our job is to offer them the resources, mentoring, and support that will best position them for success. I invite you to join our talented students and dedicated faculty in CACD. I can’t wait to see what you will do next.

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DEPARTMENT OF ART | www.liu.edu/post/art

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he Department of Art at LIU Post is a vibrant and exciting place to create! Studio classes are led by a distinguished faculty of practicing artists who work closely with you to develop your unique and full potential.

Our comprehensive Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs are designed for serious, talented students. Our undergraduate programs balance a liberal arts foundation with serious professional training in the fine arts. Renowned visiting artists, art historians, and industry professionals conduct lectures, critiques, and seminars. Every student has access to numerous art studios, state-ofthe-art imaging, student exhibition galleries, and the University’s permanent collection and ongoing new exhibitions in the Steinberg Museum of Art.

DEPARTMENT OF ART

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS BS in Art Therapy BFA in Art BFA in Photography BFA in Art Education (birth-grade 12)

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

MINORS Art Studio Arts Entrepreneurship Photography

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MA in Art MA in Art Therapy and Counseling MA in Museum Studies MFA in Fine Arts and Design MS in Art Education (birth-grade 12)

OWN POINT OF

DEPARTMENT OF ART | www.liu.edu/post/art

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I CAME TO LIU BECAUSE PROFESSOR SEUNG LEE BELIEVED IN ME. BEFORE I CAME HERE I NEVER IMAGINED I WOULD BE TRYING PERFORMANCE ART AND USING MY BODY TO PAINT. EVERYONE AT LIU CONTINUOUSLY ENCOURAGES ME TO TRY NEW THINGS.” –CATHERINE

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DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS BFA in Digital Art and Design BFA in Digital Game Design and Development

MINORS Digital Art and Design Game Design

DESIGN & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES | www.liu.edu/post/design

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n the digital age, the artist’s palette overflows with new opportunities for creative expression in industries that barely existed a decade ago. With the Department of Design and Digital Technologies, students engage in a one-of-a-kind learning experience like no other program. Students are encouraged to create stories in the growing digital environment through comprehensive studies in C++, JavaScript, 3D modeling, and more.

Students actively engage in a detailed survey of traditional print, web design, multimedia, animation, and interactive design. Explore the flourishing field of digital game design, a career identified by a CNNMoney poll as one of the best jobs in America.

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COMMUNICATIONS & FILM | www.liu.edu/post/commfilm

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IU Post’s Department of Communications & Film prepares you for the fast-paced and everchanging world of media arts with state-of-the-art training provided by industry professionals.

Prepare yourself for a career in print and electronic journalism, public relations, advertising, film, radio, and TV through our hands-on training with our professional faculty. At LIU Post, you will be making, doing, and creating – and you will be prepared to meet tomorrow’s media demands today.

BROADCASTING

JOURNALISM

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Broadcasting exposes you to the world of digital radio, digital video, webcasting and multimedia. Students work behind the scenes writing scripts, directing, operating cameras and audio equipment, editing, and learning on-air skills through our radio station, WCWP, and television station, PTV.

The news business is vital to our society and increasingly dynamic and influential in the digital world. The public must rely on skilled journalists to provide news and commentary that informs civic dialogue, and to report on social and cultural fields such as arts, entertainment, sports, technology, fashion, politics and much more.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

COMMUNICATIONS

Public relations professionals help businesses and organizations build and maintain their reputations; promote their brands, products, and services; and develop appropriate communications during times of crisis. Students develop the skills to communicate with varied audiences such as employees, the media, celebrities and investors.

LIU’s Bachelor of Science in Communications provides you with hands-on experiences in the cutting-edge areas of digital video and audio technology, social media, journalism, and public relations. The program cultivates essential communication skills through the development of creative capacities, critical thinking, applied technologies, and collaboration with business professionals and community leaders.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS & FILM

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

MINORS Advertising Communications Journalism Public Relations

KEEP UP

BFA in Broadcasting BFA in Film BFA in Journalism BFA in Public Relations BS in Communications

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COMMUNICATIONS & FILM | www.liu.edu/post/commfilm

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MY DREAM IS TO HOST THE GOOD MORNING AMERICA SHOW OR THE TODAY SHOW. MY INTERNSHIP AT TELEMUNDO WILL OPEN DOORS FOR ME AS WELL, AND GET ME TO THE NEXT LEVEL. BEING A BROADCAST MAJOR AT LIU HAS PROVIDED ME WITH THE TRAINING REQUIRED TO GET THERE, ALONG WITH THE INDEPENDENCE TO CREATE MY OWN SHOW.” –YARITZA

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COMMUNICATIONS & FILM | www.liu.edu/post/commfilm

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he Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film is an intensive, practical, production-driven program using stateof-the-art equipment and industry-standard editing software. From concept to completion, you will begin imagining, writing and directing your own films from your first day of class. In addition, you will develop a valuable skill-set in camera operation, sound and light design, editing and other production techniques that will give you a competitive edge in today’s media marketplace.

LIU Film is a progressive program where you will learn to critically observe and interpret the world around you; gain academic and historical understandings; create original media content; and be inspired by masters and masterworks of the cinema. In short, you will be telling your own stories by writing and producing your own films.

The professional development, skills and insights you will acquire begin as soon as you enter LIU. And as you grow as an artist and film-maker, so too will your opportunities— culminating in a senior thesis project with one-on-one faculty mentoring. All of our courses are taught by our outstanding LIU Film professors who are active industry professionals. Our small class size and personal teaching approach will allow you to work on a variety of films each and every semester.

Develop your passion. Discover your talents. Become a filmmaker. Then, like so many of our graduates, find your place in the ever-expanding professional media landscape.

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I’M CURRENTLY PURSUING MY MASTERS IN MUSIC EDUCATION AT LIU BECAUSE I LOVE SEEING MY STUDENTS GROW. IT’S AMAZING TO SEE THEM START AS NOVICES AND THEN BE ABLE TO PERFORM SONATAS.”

MUSIC –RANDOLPH

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | www.liu.edu/post/music

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he Department of Music provides a dynamic, intensive and supportive environment that will nurture your talent as a performer, music educator or scholar. Our professional training program, within a liberal arts university, offers a diverse array of performance and academic opportunities. We offer a full curriculum of bachelor’s and master’s degree programs taught by more than 40 nationally and internationally recognized performers, conductors, composers, researchers, and music educators.

Public performance opportunities allow students to showcase their skills and talents, including solo student recitals, workshops, master classes, and concerts both on Campus and at major concert halls in New York City and abroad.

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS BS in Music BM in Music Education (birth-grade 12) BM in Performance: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock

GRADUATE PROGRAMS MS in Music Education MA With a Performance Concentration MA in Theory and Composition MA in History and Literature

MINORS Jazz Music Music Entrepreneurship

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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | www.liu.edu/post/music

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I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE FIRST LESSON I HAD WITH MY VOICE TEACHER, NEAL. HE’S LITERALLY THE BEST THING THAT’S EVER HAPPENED TO ME, CAREER-WISE. HE REALLY BROUGHT OUT THE BEST IN ME AND HELPED ME DO THINGS I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD DO.” –OLYMPIA

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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, DANCE & ARTS MANAGEMENT | www.liu.edu/post/theatre

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he Department of Theatre, Dance and Arts Management provides intense, demanding and rigorous professional training for actors, dancers, choreographers, lighting and sound specialists; teachers and musical theatre performers; company managers, stage managers, producers and agents.

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A blockbuster exhibit opens in a museum. A world famous singer packs a concert hall for a magical night of music. A local arts council offers instruction in the arts to children.

Arts managers make all these things happen. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Arts Management provides competency in the fine arts with a solid foundation in business. The program develops skills in critical thinking, leadership, management, planning and finance.

Few art forms are as expressive and personal as dance—and few have the same power to inspire, delight, and communicate across cultures. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Studies at LIU Post is an excellent foundation for a career in dance performance, dance education or dance criticism. A preprofessional, process-based and performance-oriented program, this degree explores the wide variety of roles for dance professionals and surveys the world’s great dance traditions, from African and Asian dance to modern, jazz, ballet and tap.

The BFA in Dance Studies teaches the art form and not just technique.

The Theatre Arts programs are designed to help you place theatre within the wider context of humanistic studies.

The curriculum covers the broad-based study of theatre history and literature, acting, dance, design, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, management and technical production. Classes are small and faculty members provide a supportive environment for you to develop as an individual artist. LIU Post theatre arts majors are active participants in the Post Theatre Company, which produces plays and musicals for the public and campus community.

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Post Theatre Company: Winner of Five Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival Awards

DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, DANCE & ARTS MANAGEMENT | www.liu.edu/post/theatre

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I CAME TO LIU AFTER AUDITIONING AT THE UNIFIED AUDITIONS IN CHICAGO. JON FRASER WAS INCREDIBLY WELCOMING, AND HIS IDEAS OF THEATRE AND ACTING FIT SO WELL WITH MINE. AFTER SPEAKING WITH JON, I KNEW LIU WAS THE PLACE FOR ME.” –MIA

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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, DANCE & ARTS MANAGEMENT

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS BA in Theatre Arts BFA in Theatre Arts – Acting BFA in Theatre Arts – Production and Design BFA in Theatre Arts – Directing and Playwriting BFA in Theatre Arts – Musical Theatre BFA in Arts Management BFA in Dance Studies

GRADUATE PROGRAMS MFA in Theatre

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MINORS Theatre Arts

FACULTY Professors in the College of Arts, Communications & Design are noted artists and professionals in their respective fields, teaching students from their own real-world experience and often inviting them to participate in their projects. Because of this professional experience, our faculty mentors also have valuable contacts that they are eager to share with exceptional students to help connect them with the professional world.

GUEST LECTURES/ARTISTS/RESIDENCIES Students in the College of Arts, Communications & Design have unparalleled access to internationally renowned figures in music, dance and theatre through numerous master classes and guest residencies, most of which are sponsored by LIU Post’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. Master classes and residencies provide valuable opportunities to receive one-on-one critique from world-class performers, producers, and behind-the-scenes business professionals in the arts.

Yo-Yo Ma, the Shanghai String Quartet, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and the Joffrey Ballet are just a few examples of the elite artists that CACD students have had the privilege to collaborate with.

JASON ALEXANDER BLACK VIOLIN CHRIS BOTTI CHRISTINE EBERSOLE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM MAMIE DUNCAN-GIBBS (Cast of Cats) MARVIN HAMLISCH JOSE LIMON COMPANY BOBBY MCFERRIN NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ADAM PASCAL PILOBOLUS PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY MARK WOOD DESMOND RICHARDSON (So You Think You Can Dance) STEP AFRIKA! ANDRE WATTS PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA JOSHUA BELL TOKYO STRING QUARTET ITZHAK PERLMAN JOHN WILLIAMS DICAPO OPERA THEATRE CHRISTOPHER O’RILEY

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CAMPUS & NYC

CAMPUS As a student at LIU Post, you will study in one of the most picturesque academic settings in the nation. The LIU Post campus is located on Long Island’s historic and worldfamous Gold Coast and situated on the 307-acre former estate of Post cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and Wall Street tycoon E.F. Hutton. The campus features rolling lawns, Tudor-style buildings, tree-lined paths, gardens, and fountains. Students find inspiration to create all around them.

CREATIVE SPACES The College of Arts, Communications & Design provides access to dozens of venues to showcase student talent, including art galleries; film and photography studios; TV and radio stations; exhibition halls; the Steinberg Museum of Art, and Long Island’s premier arts venue, Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. Our facilities bring together dynamic faculty, professional staff, and committed students in a vibrant learning environment that fosters and supports creativity and growth.

DIGITAL GAME DESIGN LAB SCULPTURE BUILDING CERAMICS CENTER PIONEER NEWS ROOM NEW MEDIA LAB FILM STUDIO STEINBERG MUSEUM OF ART

EDITING SUITE PHOTOGRAPHY LAB PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP CRAFTS CENTER LITTLE THEATRE STUDENT ART LEAGUE GALLERY

STEINBERG MUSEUM OF ART Steinberg Museum of Art features newly renovated galleries, a visible storage unit, and exciting exhibitions and programming. A year-round schedule of exhibitions covers topics from antiquity to the cutting edge of contemporary art. Opening receptions, lectures, music performances and other events enhance the exhibitions and scholarship at the Museum. You can be sure that the Steinberg will offer you new experiences to meet your interests and enhance your education.

NYC Not only do students have access to premier venues on campus, but you’re also just a short train ride away from the culture and artistic capital of America: New York City. LIU Post’s proximity to NYC affords students the opportunity to experience the most breathtaking performances and exhibits in the world in some of the most premier venues— Broadway, MoMA, Carnegie Hall, the Whitney Museum, Radio City Music Hall, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison Square Garden, Roseland Ballroom, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, Terminal 5, Bowery Ballroom, Rockefeller Plaza and many more.

ALUMNI From a Pulitzer Prize winner to a New York Times best-selling author, from Broadway stars and radio personalities to playwrights and attorneys, LIU Post alumni have achieved success in countless fields. They draw on the strong education they received, enabling them to express creatively, pursue innovation and discovery, and to serve as ambassadors of the arts and humanities.

Fred Gaudelli ’82 PRODUCER, NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, SUPER BOWL 2012

Nick Parker ’10 RADIO PERSONALITY, Z100 AND WALK-FM

Gloria Garayua ’00 ACTRESS, GREY’S ANATOMY, NYPD BLUE, SHAMELESS

Josh Margolin ’92 REPORTER, NEW YORK POST PULITZER PRIZE RECIPIENT FOR BREAKING NEWS REPORTING

Lisa Pulitzer ’88 NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING CRIME REPORTER AND AUTHOR

Meghan Kleinschmidt ’05 ROCKETTE, RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL

Derek Davis ’00 LEAD CAST MEMBER, BROADWAY MUSICAL THE LION KING

Charles Urbont ’73 BASSIST, METROPOLITAN OPERA AND AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

Alan Clary ’03 SENIOR PRODUCER, MTV U, MTV NETWORKS

Sarah Shepard ’92 REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT, NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE

Janet Caputo ’08 SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING DIRECTOR, TIME OUT NORTH AMERICA

Jai Kwang Rim ’99 ART PROFESSOR, GONG JU EDUCATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Brittany Jones Pugh ’07 COSTUME DESIGNER, NBC-TV, JIMMY FALLON AND SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

Christelle Dorcil ’07 ATTORNEY, ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP

Brian Kilmeade ’86 ANCHOR, FOX 5 AND FRIENDS

TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS One of the nation’s leading presenters of world-class performances, this magnificent facility brings nationally and internationally renowned artists to our doorstep. While CACD students regularly use Manhattan as a laboratory, the ability to see, hear, and experience the world’s great dance companies, orchestras, and theater performances cannot be underestimated. Residencies with these performance groups offers you one-on-one opportunities to interact with performers, creative artists, and business professionals who bring great performances to life!

ALUMNI | www.liu.edu/post/alumni

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APPLY AND CONTACT ADMISSIONS INFORMATION For general admissions criteria*, visit LIU Post online at www.liu.edu/post/admissions.

Visit liu.edu/post/apply or getacceptd.com/liu to fill out an application.

First-year students can apply using the Common Application.

SAT CODE: 2070 | FAFSA CODE: 002751

CONTACT INFORMATION College of Arts, Communications & Design LIU Post 720 Northern Blvd.

Brookville, NY 11548 www.LIU.edu/cacd Phone: 516-299-2394

*Admission to some programs within the College of Arts, Communications & Design requires an audition or portfolio review.

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