Undergraduate Programs
Communications, BA (PLV)
The Communications major provides students with the skills needed to succeed in the dynamic, ever-expanding field of communications. The program offers an enormous range of course selections from which to choose. Courses focus on:
- Writing skills for all media outlets
- Technical skills in video production and editing
- Verbal skills for effective workplace communication
- Professional presentation skills
- Advertising
- Public Relations
- Mass Media Theory
- Film
- Journalism
Communication Arts and Journalism, BA (PLV)
With a focus on writing for radio and television news, feature writing, writing for print and electronic media, and news reporting, this program is ideal for those interested in a career in journalism. Courses focus on:
- Ethics in journalism
- News reporting
- Feature writing
- Radio and television news writing
- Current topics in journalism
Whichever program/concentration you choose, you will acquire the skills you need to succeed including:
- Writing skills for public relations, advertising, corporate communications, and journalism
- Verbal and presentational skills
- Technical skills in video/audio production and editing
- Screenwriting skills
Internships are a requirement of our degrees. You will earn academic credit and gain valuable professional skills as well as make industry contacts through your internships. Please contact us for a list of recent internships.
Art, BS (PLV)
Offered on the Pleasantville campus, our program provides you a broad education in both the art and design fields. You choose from course offerings in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, digital art, and art history, as well as interior design, architecture, and ceramics courses distinctive to the Pleasantville campus. Advanced inter-media studio courses facilitate experimentation with materials and a dialogue across artistic disciplines. In our signature learning community courses, you will be encouraged to link artistic production with topics in other fields including literature, philosophy, business, or science.
In small classes that allow for a high degree of individual attention, you learn from our outstanding faculty of internationally recognized professional artists and seasoned educators committed to fostering an active learning environment. Field trips, visiting artist presentations, and close student advisement augment lectures, demonstrations, readings and studio assignments. Given our proximity to New York City, you have the ability to learn firsthand from current exhibitions in galleries and museums. On campus, the Choate Gallery exhibits faculty and student work, and exhibitions with a thematic focus. A five-week summer program in Florence, Italy, in association with the Accademia di Bella Arti, affords you the opportunity to live and work in Italy, and to exhibit your work with Italian art students’ work.
