Exploring, Experiencing, and Envisioning Integration in US Arts Education

1. Introduction and Overview
Nancy H. Hensel

2. Creative Interdisciplinarity in the Arts
Gregory Young

3. Architecture and the Liberal Arts: A Whole-School Approach to Community Engagement
Traci Sooter

4. Playing Chopin, Playing Barthes: Bringing Musical Practice to Reading
Steven Pane

5. On and Off Screen: The Cinema and Media Studies Minor at Valparaiso University
Timothy J. Tomasik

6. A Lasallian Commitment to the Arts and Liberal Arts
Heidi Laudien

7. Mindset: Entrepreneurship and the Arts
Jennifer Blackmer

8. The Business in Music at Belmont University
Don Cusic, Beverly Schneller

9. The Value of the Arts Within a Liberal Arts Education: Skills for the Workplace and the World
Ilene Lieberman, Mara Parker

10. Creative Writing for Professional Writing Majors
Mary Rist, Sasha West

11. Theater and the Law: The Cross-Disciplinary Integration of Theory and Practice in the Theatrical Arts and the Art of Advocacy
Kevin S. Marshall, Sean Dillon, Michael O’Connor, Placido Gomez

12. Music in the Academy: Process, Product, and the Cultivation of Humanity
Linda C. Ferguson

13. Gospel Music: Cultural Artifact or Cross-Cultural Opportunity?
Adriane Thompson-Bradshaw, Margaret Cullen

14. Affecting Campus Climate: Fine and Performing-Arts Community Outcomes
Sarah Jarmer Scott, Samantha Siegel

15. Conclusions
Nancy H. Hensel

Keywords: Education, Creativity and Arts Education, Higher Education, Performing Arts