Performing Arts Colleges in South Carolina

Coker College

• As part of its Theatre, Dance and Music program, Coker College has a wide range of options for students looking to major in performing arts. The theater program offers concentrations in performance or technical theater. For Dance, there are concentrations in performance/choreography, dance production, movement analysis, dance therapies, dance aesthetics and history. Music majors may have concentrations in piano, voice, or musical theater, as well as a Bachelor in Music Education. According, to the Coker College website, with any of these three performing arts majors, you will have access to the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center, which includes the Watson Theater (a 466-seat proscenium theater) and the versatile 80-seat Black Box Theater. The performing arts center also houses two dance studios, a rehearsal studio, scene and costume shops, and Coker’s fine arts collection in the Stein Gallery.

  Contact Information

  300 East College Ave.

  Hartsville, SC 29550

  843.383.8055

  http://www.coker.edu

University of South Carolina – Columbia

• The University of South Carolina – Columbia (USC) College of Arts & Sciences is the largest of its kind in the state. In the area of performing arts, the college features the Department of Theatre and Dance. This department offers an undergraduate BA in theater or dance, and, at the graduate level, the MFA degree in acting, design or directing, as well as MA and MAT degrees. The MFA in theatre is the highest degree possible in the design and performance field and USC is the only school in South Carolina that offers it.

  Contact Information

  1500 Pendleton St.

  Columbia, SC

  803-777-0169

  http://www.sc.edu

Winthrop University

• The Winthrop University College of Visual and Performing Arts offers majors in art, design, music, theater and dance. Teacher licensing curricula are also offered in these areas. According to its website, this is the only comprehensive collegiate arts program nationally accredited in all the arts in the State of South Carolina, public or private. A particular highlight of the Winthrop University College of Visual and Performing Arts is the vast array of performances and art exhibitions held each year.

  Contact Information

  133 McLaurin Hall

  Rock Hill, SC 29733

  803-323-2323

  http://www.winthrop.edu