The scope of learning opportunities expands well beyond the sciences at the University of Michigan. One advantage of attending a major public university on this scale is that you can explore a life in the arts as easily as any other field here. In addition to several nationally recognized programs in The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), The School of Art & Design and The School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the possibilities to express your creative passion across campus are numerous. You don’t have to be majoring in the arts to take courses in The School of Music, Theatre & Dance or the School of Art & Design. Students living in the Residential College can integrate the study of music into their LSA curriculum while pursuing careers in many other fields.

Arts at Michigan is the locus for bringing together arts and culture across campus and integrating them into your undergraduate experience. Through programs like ArtsCapade you’ll be exposed to the many ways you can participate in the arts at Michigan during an orientation evening in which you will actually create art. Arts Ambassadors promote arts events in residence halls; Art Outta Town will take you into the world beyond campus to museums, plays, concerts, and more—try a touring production of the play A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines at the Detroit Repertory Theatre. The arts are also a tool for learning at the University of Michigan through course work and experience-based options like landing an internship with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra or making a stop-motion animation of people all over the state. The number of arts organizations, groups, and clubs on campus is staggering, from CRLT Players to University Unions, and the University is home to some of the finest arts venues on any campus, among them the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Stearns Hill Auditorium, and Arthur Miller Theatre. Above all, what you hear and see walking across campus are the sights and sounds of students creating art in main stage productions, light operas, sculpture exhibitions, poetry readings, staged monologues, documentaries and films, and much, much more.