视觉与戏剧艺术系欢迎莱斯大学的所有本科生。科学家，建筑师，历史学家，工程师和经济学家等等，充实了我们艺术专业的核心知识，创造了一个由艺术家和思想家组成的多元化，生动活泼的论坛。我们认为，这个综合社区对于专业和非专业的学生都是至关重要的资产：艺术在与新的和多样化的观点交往中蓬勃发展，而创造艺术所必需的冒险精神和批判性思维在许多其他领域都至关重要。除了动态的艺术实践，我们的目标是培养艺术的心境。<br>在获得视觉与戏剧艺术专业和工作室艺术专业的文学学士学位后，学生将能够：展示对两种和三种材料和工艺的知识和理解
Visual and Dramatic Arts majors with a concentration in Studio Art take courses in printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture, critical studies and art history as a foundation, and courses in photography, film and/or theater as electives. Courses address the visual arts in both technical and theoretical terms, establishing a broad and solid framework on which to build an individual practice.<br><br>In the spring of their junior year, students travel as a group to a city with a significant reputation in the arts. The trip is designed to be formative both intellectually and personally, and to better acquaint majors with each other and their faculty.<br><br>Advanced courses provide more opportunities for interdisciplinary experimentation and self-directed study, culminating in Senior Studio. An immersive two-semester studio experience, Senior Studio is the capstone class of the Studio Art concentration. The class ends with a final senior exhibition in which students present an independent body of work, a personal summation of their development as an artist.