About the College

Points of Pride

• If you’ve seen the Broadway production of Candide, you’ve seen costumes designed by a Tony Award-winning TU graduate—Judy Dolan.  And if you’ve seen the award-winning actors Roc Dutton and John Glover, you’ve seen TU graduates.
  
  
• Shonda Shilling, founder of The Shade Foundation, received the College of Fine Arts and Communication Alumna of the Year Award in May 2007.

• The Speech & Debate Team ranked in the top third of schools in the nation.

• Towson University art students traveled to Studio Art Center International (SACI) in Florence, Italy, to study studio, art conservation and art history in 2006-2007.
  
  
• The Department of Music hosted students and faculty from Oldenburg University, Germany, who performed It's Oh So Quiet: Hollywood Composers in Exile, a musical cabaret that honored Jewish composers who fled Germany as the Nazis came to power. Their September 2007 visit to TU was a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the exchange between our two universities.

• The Department of Electronic Media and Film hosted the first Videoactive Film Festival, showing nine short videos that addressed issues of social change. Baltimore students from Digital Harbor High School, Kids on the Hill, Wide Angle Youth Media and Towson University participated in the November 2007 event.

• The music education program ranks in the top 5% of the nation in the number of graduates each year.

• Students in the Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies have an opportunity to meet with media professionals from around the region at the department's annual Career Day.
  

• The Oscars, the Tony’s, the Grammy’s, Gap commercials, Madonna’s latest tour, The Rockettes, The Lion King, Aida, Chicago, Fosse, A Chorus Line, Funny Girl, 42nd Street, Cats, and almost every major dance company in the United States,  include graduates of Towson University’s Department of Dance.

• The Department of Electronic Media and Film has established a partnership with the Polish film school in Lodz.
  
  
• The U.S. Air Force Band includes Towson University music graduates.
  
  
• Towson University’s M.F.A. in Theatre program has attracted the attention of American Theatre magazine.  American Theatre describes Towson’s program as a “unique international project.”  Students from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Poland and the United States participated in the Warsaw Project hosted by Towson University.
  
  

• Towson University’s choirs and bands tour throughout the United States each year.
  

• The dance department has new study abroad programs in Reggio Emilia, Italy and Dresden, Germany.

• The media program in the Department of Electronic Media and Film is among the best in the mid-Atlantic region.

• Music alumnus Austin Caughlin played guitar for the tour of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. 

• The Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies has study abroad programs in Scotland, Costa Rica and Italy.
  
  

College of Fine Arts and Communication
Center for the Arts, Room 3001 (map)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Phone: 410-704-3288
Fax: 410-704-6026

Nearly 2,900 students are enrolled in programs in the College of Fine Arts and Communication.