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Create an Innovative Career
Finding solutions to today’s complex problems requires a creative mindset. Learning fundamental skills such as collaboration, improvisation, and perspective-shifting will make you an invaluable asset, no matter the field.
The University of Michigan-Flint’s Fine and Performing Arts Department offers a rich selection of programs that help students develop and fine-tune their creative process and learn how to apply it practically within the professional world.
Our Fine and Performing Arts faculty are experienced, practicing professionals who know how to take the creative process from the spark of imagination to the forge of the real world.
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Fine & Performing Arts Programs
Art & Design
Arts Administration
Calling all arts professionals ready to take their leadership skills to the next level! Gain invaluable experience in this innovative program, part of the University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School.
Art Education
Gain the skills, experience, and certification needed to teach K-12 arts programs in Michigan.
Art History
Expand your perspective as you explore creative and visual expression from pre-history to the present.
Ceramics
Create three-dimensional ceramic objects and artwork using a concentrated studio approach.
Design Thinking & Practice
Learn to think broadly about design and develop creative ideas and solutions to complex problems.
Digital Media & Design
Prepare for an innovative career as you develop technical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Drawing
Fine-tune your visual communication skills, which are essential for effective expression and collaboration in art, science, and technology.
Fine Arts
Establish a foundation of technical, problem-solving, and creative skills by exploring various media and forms of expression.
Game Design
An interdisciplinary study of game design and development, incorporating storytelling, game theory, coding, ethics and more.
Graphic Design
Learn to think broadly about design and develop a theoretical understanding of effective cultural and commercial messaging.
Interaction Design
Explore the key interaction elements between people, environments, and communication we encounter in everyday life.
Painting
Painting encourages an exploration of the visual medium and perspective as you delve into diverse subject matter.
Photographic Printmaking
Expand your visual communication skills, including silkscreen, lithography, digital printmaking, and darkroom print processing.
Pre-Conservation of Art & Architecture
Gain practical skills and experience in restoring and conserving artifacts through this interdisciplinary program.
Sculpture
Delve into a concentrated approach to solving three-dimensional design problems and expand your creative communication skills.
Music
Music
Study music from an interdisciplinary perspective, including an exploration of complementary fields.
Music Education
Share your love for music! Prepare for a career in teaching music to K-12 students in Michigan.
Music Performance
Develop your performance and improvisation skills while preparing for a career as a professional musician or studio instructor.
Music Composition
Enhance your skills in the growing field of music composition, which can be applied to web development, gaming, advertising, and more.
Theatre & Dance
Dance
Continue your dance practice while advancing your creative, expressive, and collaborative skills.
Theatre
Select from a concentrated focus or a general exploration as you develop your improvisation, production, and collaboration skills.
Theatre Design & Technology
Expand your practical, technical, and production skills as you explore careers in design, production management, costume design, and more.
Musical Theatre
Complement your studies with an immersion in music, theatre, and dance in this performance-focused program.
Affiliated Programs
Liberal Studies in American Culture
Investigate American culture through the lenses of behavioral and social sciences, humanities, the arts and more. This highly customizable, interdisciplinary program will develop your knowledge base, critical thinking, research and writing skills, which apply to a wide range of careers.
Free Tuition with the Go Blue Guarantee!
Upon admission, we automatically consider UM-Flint students for the Go Blue Guarantee, a historic program offering free tuition for high-achieving, in-state undergraduates from lower-income households.