UCI Arts
Welcome to UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Welcome to campus!

Welcome! Explore the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) by taking a virtual tour of the school, attend an an online or in-person event, and get to know our four departments!

 

CTSA Welcome Week

View information for new students to attend department meetings and events in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. (For CTSA students only.)
 

Video about CTSA

At UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, we reimagine creativity for the 21st century and beyond!

Claire Trevor School of the Arts sign

View the UCI interactive map for directions to the various locations on both the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and main campus.

Student Affairs team

The Arts Student Affairs Office provides Arts students services in academic counseling, orientation, study plans, transfer course evaluations, schedule changes, and degree checks.

UCI Arts sign

Take a closer look inside the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts. View our theatres, gallery spaces, laboratories, classrooms, concert hall and outdoor spaces.

Campus view

Get a bird's-eye-view of UCI's stunning Irvine campus.

Art students

The Department of Art in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts takes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary view of contemporary art practice. The department provides students a solid theoretical and technical foundation from which to approach art-making as both process and product.

Dance students

The Department of Dance is nationally acclaimed and has a long-standing tradition of excellence and offers training in jazz, hip hop, multi-level sequences, and choreography for both theatre and video dance and provides students a variety of performance opportunities.

Drama students

The Department of Drama combines broad liberal study and comprehensive training in several sub-disciplines of drama that includes acting, directing, design, stage management, and theory as well as provide hands-on participation in productions throughout a student’s course of study to open them up to the broadest possible vistas.

UCI Symphony Orchestra performing

The curricular philosophy of the Department of Music is based on the ideals of the conservatory within the academy. The faculty is comprised of well-known composers, publishing scholars, musicologists and music theorists, conductors, and concert and recording artists.

Student artists in a gallery

UCI offers hundreds of student-run campus organizations both on- and off-campus. The clubs provide opportunities for students to pursue personal and professional goals through involvement. Explore a few here to find a community to grow your passions in art, dance, drama and music.

UCI Students

Founded in 1965, UCI is the youngest member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and is ranked among the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News & World Report. The campus has produced three Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot.

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts brochure covers information about our departments and various academic degrees available to students. 

Student admiring a piece of art

Review some of the accolades and statistics for the School.

Purchase Tickets

Peruse and purchase tickets for Claire Trevor School of the Arts in Dance, Drama and Music events at UCI.