The Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) program welcomes students who wish to explore and gain a critical view of contemporary culture by engaging in pragmatic and experiential learning. During their studies, STAC students develop crucial skills for a successful career, among them creative problem-solving, effective communication, cultural perceptiveness, team spirit, resiliency and adaptability.

Our undergraduate degrees provide specific experiences in arts and cultural management, intermedia and interdisciplinarity, and cultural critique and agency. This is a powerhouse degree program that combines the best of the Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences and the Goodman School of Business, and features innovative unique projects like the creative publishing at the Small Walker Press.

STAC connects students and faculty from Visual Arts, Dramatic Arts, Music, Communication, Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Geography and Tourism Studies and others across campus through a program of courses and cultural experiences.

As part of your four-year degree program you may focus your studies by choosing one of the following:

• Concentration in Cultural Management
• Concentration in Languages, Arts and Culture
• Concentration in Cultural Transmission and Heritage Studies

Certificate Programs at STAC are a great way to try out university-level studies as a part-time student and complete a program in less than two years. These programs include:

• Certificate in Arts and Culture Studies
• Certificate in Arts Management

See the programs page for more information.

As a Business student I must have the ability to write. It is cool to see how taking an art class at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts is going to help me advance in my program and how it has a connection with the Goodman School of Business.
Cameron McCafferty, STAC 1F98 – Language for the Arts