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The BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications (CFAC) is one of nine colleges at Brigham Young University, a private university operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and located in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1925, the college has grown from a small college of the arts with minimal faculty and only 100 students to the second largest college on campus. With more than 3,800 students and 141 full-time faculty, the expansive college has spread across the university’s campus and occupies six buildings (Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center, George H. Brimhall Building, Jesse Knight Building, Stephen L. Richards Building, B66, and the BYU Museum of Art). With four departments (Communications, Dance, Theatre and Media Arts, and Visual Arts) and one school (Music), the CFAC offers 14 undergraduate degrees (with 38 emphases) and eight graduate degrees. Since 1971, BYU performing groups have performed more than 12,000 shows in all 50 states and 100 countries before audiences totaling more than 7 million. Moreover, radio and television broadcasts of their performances have reached hundreds of millions additional listeners and viewers. ==History== Owned and operated by The LDS Church, BYU’s CFAC has close ties to The Church’s religious history and its members’ passion for the arts. As Mormon Pioneers crossed the plains in the efforts to reach the Great Salt Lake Valley, many pioneer men and women renewed themselves through music and dancing. Following their arrival in the valley, Church leaders established several different communities and the arts were central to the settlements they erected and were equally important to the pioneers’ individual lives.〔William E. Purdy, “Music in Mormon Culture, 1830–1876,” Ph.d. diss., Northwestern University, 1960〕 Brigham Young Academy was organized in 1875 and shortly after its establishment, a choir was organized to sing at events and religious services. By 1883 the Department of Music was organized as an extracurricular body and by the early 1900s the Academy had a band, orchestra, and choir; music was being integrated into the school’s core curriculum and departments of art and speech were both organized. In 1925, under the direction of BYU President Franklin Stewart Harris, the College of Fine Arts was organized with Gerrit de Jong as its first dean. The new college became the first fine arts college in the western United States and brought together the pre-existing departments of music, art and dramatic arts and speech.〔(Wilkinson, Ernest L. “Brigham Young University : the first one hundred years.” Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press. 1975. 2:101, 2:776)〕 The music department was initially composed of a vocal and instrumental division. At the time the college was created, the department had limited full-time faculty (Robert Sauer, Franklin Madsen, Florence Jepperson Madsen, and Margaret Summerhays). Each of these faculty members was responsible for conducting all the classes for the department and the school’s group ensembles. The art department consisted of Bent Franklin Larsen and Elbert Hindley Eastmond. Within the next decade the faculty gained the skills of Verla L. Birrell, Lynn Taylor, and J. Roman Andrus. The department not only managed the instruction of the arts, but also began a standing collection of art pieces to be housed at the university. By the end of Franklin’s administration, the department had accumulated roughly 700 pieces on behalf of the university. The department of public speaking and dramatic arts was originally headed by T. Earl Pardoe.〔(Wilkinson, Ernest L. “Brigham Young University : the first one hundred years.” Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press. 1975. 2:285)〕 The organization of the college was a major accomplishment for the arts at BYU but the programs lacked a central building. Musicians in need of practice space would often congregate in bathrooms.〔(Wilkinson, Ernest L. “Brigham Young University : the first one hundred years.” Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press. 1975. 2:633)〕 Rehearsals for plays and productions were held in the Joseph Smith Building in shifts (one in the afternoon, one in the evening, and one starting around midnight). Musical productions struggled to overcome the poor acoustics and lighting in the Smith Fieldhouse however, despite the many space issues, the programs were academically strong and continually succeeded. After attending several rehearsals the 1956 University Accreditation Team reported the arts instruction to be of superior quality 〔(Wilkinson, Ernest L. “Brigham Young University : the first one hundred years.” Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press. 1975. 2:660)〕 and the college began its path to national and international recognition. In the 1958, the university allotted a portion of its budget to construct a fine arts center. The building was projected to cost $5,000,000, 80 percent of which came directly from the Church. Internationally acclaimed architect William L. Pereira was hired to design the building and construction on the Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center (HFAC) began in 1962. It was completed in 1964 at a cost of $7,000,000 making it the most expensive building on campus at the time.〔(Wilkinson, Ernest L. “Brigham Young University : the first one hundred years.” Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press. 1975. 3:43-44)〕 While the HFAC was under construction, another major change was made to the college – the university’s administration approved the addition of a Department of Communications to the growing college. The department’s addition to the college officially changed its name to the College of Fine Arts and Communications. The new department adopted the former Department of Journalism (formerly housed in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences), the broadcasting program (formerly housed in the Department of Dramatic Arts and the photography program (formerly housed in the Department of Visual Arts.〔(Wilkinson, Ernest L. “Brigham Young University : the first one hundred years.” Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press. 1975. 3:82)〕 Responding to a request from the university’s administration, the college piloted an academic advisement program. In 1973, the College Advisement Center opened its doors. It was the first center of its kind on campus, offering one-on-one consultations to students regarding their class schedules and graduation plans. The pilot program was successful and the College of Fine Arts and Communications Advisement Center became the model for similar centers started across campus. From 1968 to 1974 the Department of Theatre operated the Brigham Young University Touring Reparatory Theatre. The program was set up like professional reparatory theaters with actors learning multiple parts for multiple productions. The program toured regularly and had a total of approximately 200,000 spectators.〔Wilkinson. ''First 100''. Vol. 3, p. 384.〕 In 2003 the BYU Adlab was created and has won numerous student advertising awards. The college continued to undergo numerous changes and transitions over the years, but two of the most significant changes in recent past occurred in 2009 when the university’s administration removed BYU Broadcasting from under the college’s umbrella〔http://history.cfac.byu.edu/index.php/Category:BYU_Broadcasting〕 and added the Department of Dance (The department had previously been housed in the former College of Health and Human Performance prior to its dissolution in the summer of 2009.).〔http://news.byu.edu/archive09-Jun-dancemove.aspx〕 The Department of Dance has been tied closely to the college for years and prior to its addition to the college, the department had been one of the few dance departments in the country that was not housed under the fine arts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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