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Expanding arts education UT Dallas o cials con rmed a major step toward committing to arts educa- tion this fall by combining the School of Arts and Humanities, and the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication into a single larger school. The new school of AHT, which debuted this school year, is expected to expand previously o ered curricu- lum centered on arts education. “The idea behind this move is to have a strong, single academic pres- ence for the arts at UT Dallas,” said Inga Musselman, provost and vice president for academic a airs, in a statement. Roemer, who had served in a vari- ety of roles with UT Dallas since join- ing the university in 2006, has been appointed the inaugural dean of the new school. UT Dallas’ school of arts and humanities was rst established in 1975. After the tech boom of the late 1990s, technology-focused classes started being added as part of the art department curriculum in 2002, before being split o into its own school in 2015. The vision for the merged school
Despite being considered an engineering and science- focused school, UT Dallas has made signi cant e orts to provide opportunities for those pursuing an arts degree.
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Crow Museum of Asian Art to be rst athenaeum building to open.
The University of Texas at Dallas opens
Technology classes o ered at UT Dallas as a result of late-90s tech boom
UT Dallas School of Arts and Technology created
UT Dallas School of Art and Humanities established
Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History formed at UT Dallas
May: Construction begins on UT Dallas’ athenaeum cultural district August: UT Dallas School of Arts, Humanities and Technology created
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has been discussed by UT Dallas o - cials since 2019, with Musselman conducting meetings on how to best merge these schools together. “For example, we have a big, growing lm studies program, but [the program] has been more about the study of lm rather than the making of lms,” Roemer said. “We also have a big animation games program, which means many of our classrooms are equipped with high-performing computers that can also handle lm editing. We have the opportunity ... to educate in a new area of lm production.”
According to Roemer, faculty will work together to determine the best ways to enhance academic programs. “We have the opportunity within the coming semesters to add on classes that really bene t our stu- dents,” Roemer said. Roemer said combining the schools will provide stronger support for stu- dents by adding sta members and programs. Last fall, the arts and tech- nology schools combined had a total enrollment of approximately 2,100 students in their degree programs, including 103 master’s students and nearly 200 Ph.D. candidates,
according to UT Dallas o cials. Under that enrollment, the school would become the fourth-largest school at UT Dallas. Roemer said the new department plans to hire between 8-10 new faculty members for the program. “There are so many new combina- tions of classes that we can provide,” he said. “It will be fun to see how [the] faculty responds.”
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