Texas Tech University

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J.T. & Margaret Talkington
College of Visual & Performing Arts
programs

tcvpa Programs

The J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts (TCVPA) is the beating heart of Texas Tech University. We are a creative community with the resources of a world-class public university. Our students from all over the world shine with Texas-sized ambition, curiosity, and compassion.

Our college cultivates confidence-building artistic journeys with an infinite number of destinations. We are theatrical sound designers, independent filmmakers, and modern dance teachers. We are gallery owners, experimental sculptors, and Chicano art historians. We are symphony conductors, opera singers, and Broadway performers. We are researchers exploring the intersection of the arts with multiple disciplines.

Our schools provide a supportive visual and performing arts education. New students join a community of 1,100 arts-obsessed undergraduate and graduate students—including DMA and PhD candidates. The arts are relevant, critical, and essential to contemporary life. An education in the arts inspires students to communicate through artistic tradition while embracing and creating innovative technologies as vehicles for individual expression and social change.

 

Art

 

Interdisciplinary Arts

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Animation Studies

Undergraduate Certificate

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Arts Entrepreneurship

Minor/Certificate

TTU student performing onstage in costume

Arts Entrepreneurism

Graduate Certificate

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Arts Media & Technology

B.A. 

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Dramatic Writing

Minor

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Fine Arts Doctoral Program Tracks:

Art

Arts Administration

Interdisciplinary Arts

Music

Theatre Arts

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Motion Picture Production

Undergraduate Certificate

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Music Cognition

Graduate Certificate

 

Music

TTU Goin Band member on field playing saxophone

Applied Music Studies

Minor

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Commercial Music

B.A.

B.A.A.

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Community Arts

Undergraduate Certificate

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Composition

B.M.

M.M.

D.M.A.

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Conducting

M.M.

D.M.A.

TTU students in theatrical costume playing instruments

Early Music Performance Practice

Graduate Certificate

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General Music Studies

Minor

TTU music student sitting at piano

Keyboard

B.A.

B.M.

M.M. (Performance)
D.M.A. (Performance)

TTU students in traditional mariachi costume playing instruments

Mariachi

B.A.

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Music Technology

Minor

Graduate Certificate

TTU music students practicing on xylophone

Music Theory Pedagogy

Graduate Certificate

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Opera Studies

Graduate Certificate

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Orchestral Conducting

M.M. (Conducting)

D.M.A. (Conducting)

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Pedagogy

M.M. (Pedagogy)

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Piano Collaborative

Graduate Certificate

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Popular Music

Minor

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Strings

B.A.

B.M.

M.M. (Performance)

D.M.A. (Performance)

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Voice

B.A.

B.M.

M.M. (Performance)

D.M.A. (Performance)

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Winds/Brass/ Percussion

B.A.

B.M.

M.M. (Performance)

D.M.A. (Performance)

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Woodwind Specialist

Graduate Certificate

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Vernacular Music

Undergraduate Certificate

 

Theatre & Dance

TTU theatre students singing and dancing in a performance

Acting/ Directing

Ph.D. (Fine Arts – Theatre)

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Arts Administration (Theatre & Dance)

M.F.A. (Theatre Arts)

Ph.D. (Fine Arts – Theatre)

TTU cosplay lab

Cosplay & Costume Technology

Minor (Theatre Arts)

TTU women students dancing onstage

Dance

B.A.

B.F.A.

Minor

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Dance Studies

M.A. (Distance Learning)

TTU students on a closed stage performing with different colored lights

Design Visualization

Minor (Theatre Arts)

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Fine Arts Doctorate Program

Ph.D. (Fine Arts – Theatre)

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Musical Theatre

B.F.A. (Theatre Arts)

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Performance & Pedagogy

M.F.A. (Theatre Arts)

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Stage Management & Production

Minor (Theatre Arts)