
Through cross-disciplinary teaching, creative activity, and respect for individual expression, the School of Art and Design prepares students to be socially conscious artists, visually and analytically astute.

Discover and explore the UTRGV School of Music! We are committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activities as we guide students to achieve professional success.

Welcome to the Department of Theatre at UTRGV. Our theatre and film programs offer students the opportunity to develop their performance, design, and production skills.

The Dance Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a diverse, exciting, and multi-cultural department that offers undergraduate emphases leading to either a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree or a Bachelor of Arts Degree. It provides broad coverage of dance training, including dance technique, improvisational and choreographic skills, music for dancers, historical and cultural dimensions of dance, dance production, dance science, and theories of dance.

Make Something Beautiful. UTRGV’s undergraduate creative writing and MFA courses aim to help you fully imagine and produce works of heart-breaking beauty and imagination. We offer courses in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, scriptwriting, and graphic literature.