Studio学生的学士学位后证书来自广泛的学科，但是他们都有共同的目标，即将他们的创作实践提升到概念和技术水平的新水平。这个为期两个学期的课程旨在帮助学生发展其艺术视野和技术水平，并为毕业后的录取做好准备。该课程将研究生院的严格要求与高级本科课程的正式课程结合在一起。
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) Department of Performance was founded in an experimental spirit and is unique in the United States as one of the only contemporary live-performance art departments in an art school at the undergraduate and graduate level focused on performance practice and performance studies.<br>The department continues to evolve in relation to new developments inside and outside the field and aims to be responsive to new ways of seeing and understanding the world in the 21st century, from both student and faculty perspectives.<br><br>Our curriculum combines intensive studio practice with rigorous critical, theoretical, and historical study to inform your aesthetic choices and expression, while our interdisciplinary approach builds on a broad range of performative modes, including Live action, Performance installation, Movement research, tactical and site performance, interactive digital technologies, and performative writing. Students are encouraged to consider their art-making process as an interdisciplinary practice that can range across various departments including, but not limited to, Fiber and Material Studies, Sculpture, Fashion Design, Art and Technology Studies, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, Sound, and Ceramics.