Wm. Robert Bucker, Dean
Sue Taylor, Associate Dean
Lincoln Hall 349
503-725-3105
www.pdx.edu/the-arts
- B.A., B.S.—Architecture, Art, Art History, Arts Studies, Film, Music, and Theater Arts
- B.F.A.—Art Practices
- B.M.—Performance, Voice, Jazz Studies, Music Education and Composition
- Certificate in Dance
- Minor in Architecture; Art History; Dance; Design Management; Drawing, Painting, Printmaking; Film Studies; Graphic Design; Jazz Studies; Music History; Photography; Sculpture; Time Arts; and Theater Arts
- Secondary Education Program in Art, Music, and Theater Arts
- M.A., M.S.—Music, Theater Arts
- M.M.—Music
- M.Arch—Architecture
- M.F.A.—Contemporary Art Practices
The mission of the College of the Arts is to provide outstanding professional education and training in partnership with the region’s working artists, scholars, creative professionals and cultural institutions in the fields of architecture, art and design, music, theatre and film. We create and collaborate, and provide opportunities for faculty and students to shape the future by pushing boundaries. The College of the Arts is a strategic partner in preparing talented young people for leadership in creative careers. Students are challenged to see their work within the artistic and critical traditions that provoke their own creative thinking and to seek interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration in both a local and global context. Located in the heart of Portland’s cultural district, the school resides within the Park Blocks of downtown, in which the major arts organizations are based, such as the Portland Art Museum and the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. We view this as our extended campus. Within blocks of the school reside theaters, galleries, professional studios, and design and architectural firms, which provide a stimulating environment in which our students develop through interactions and internships. The combination of a celebrated faculty and a professional arts environment creates exciting and challenging undergraduate and graduate programs with high professional standards in all four Schools within the College—Architecture, Art and Design, Music, and Theater and Film.
Differential Tuition
Graduate students and upper-division majors in the College of the Arts pay differential tuition—that is, slightly higher rates for more expensive programs—as also shown in the tuition charts online and elsewhere in this Bulletin:
Undergraduate residents $11.40 per credit hour
Undergraduate non-residents $46.00 per credit hour
Graduate residents $47.00 per credit hour
Graduate non-residents $51.00 per credit hour
Graduate students will be charged differential rates upon matriculation.
Lower-division undergraduates (freshmen and sophomores) will not be charged differential rates until they have completed 90 credit hours or passed review to upper-division status. Undergraduate transfer students with 90 or more credit hours will be charged differential rates immediately upon matriculation.
Double majors will be charged COTA differential tuition unless the second major is in another College or program also charging differential tuition (Business, Engineering), in which case students will be charged one or the other of their programs' differential rates.
Honors students will be charged both COTA differential tuition and Honors differential tuition.
Upper-division undergraduates changing majors to a COTA program from another School or College will be charged differential tuition.
Upper-division undergraduates changing majors from a COTA program to another College or School must ask their COTA School administrative staff to remove College Code 26 from their record so that COTA’s differential tuition will no longer be charged.
For those who fail to alert their COTA School immediately that they are leaving their major, refunds of differential tuition will only be issued for one term prior to the term in which students do notify the COTA School.
Students changing majors from a COTA School will no longer have access to certain restricted courses.