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Celebrate UCI and CTSA

Welcome to UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts!

Join us online and in-person for Celebrate UCI! This annual spring event celebrates your admission to UCI, and invites you to experience campus life. Explore the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) by clicking the links below - take a virtual tour of the school, attend an Arts Campus Tour, and get to know your department. Let's Celebrate UCI together!

 

Celebrate UCI Celebration On-Campus

 

**Arts Campus Tours during Celebrate UCI on Saturday, 4/19** - FALL 2025 ADMITS ONLY

Join us for a 30-minute walking tour led by a current UCI Arts students to go over information highlighting the Arts campus, academic programs, & student life. Tours will promptly depart from the Arts booth on Ring Road in front of the Humanities Instructional Building (HIB): https://map.uci.edu/?id=463#!m/83162?share.

 

Arts Tour Departures

Sign-ups are only in-person on the day of the event; Recommend arriving at least 10 minutes before departure time; Spaces are limited for each time slot; Tours will promptly leave at designated times

 Department/Program  Times
 Art (B.A. & Minor in Digital Art)  Check-in with Arts Booth for more Info
 Dance (B.A. & B.F.A.)  9:45 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.
 Drama (B.A., B.F.A. in MT, & Minor)  9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
 Music (B.A. & B. Mus.)  11:30 a.m.

 

New Student Advising Information

 

 

UCI Students
Celebrate UCI Website

Join us online to celebrate your admission to UCI and learn everything you need to know about your next steps, your academic school, and important campus resources!

CTSA Student Affairs Office

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

Student Affairs Brochure

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

UCI Arts sign
Take a Virtual Tour of CTSA

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
UCI Aerial Tour

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

Graduate Research Colloquiums
UCI Applicant Portal

Start changing the world by coming to our little corner of it. Submit your SIR today!

Peer Academic Advisors
Peer Academic Advisors

In this Q&A session, we engage with the Claire Trevor School of the Arts Peer Academic Advisors, a group of insightful college students who embody the spirit of CTSA. Here, they share their wisdom and advice to high school students navigating the vast world of higher education.

CTSA Facts and Figures
CTSA Facts and Figures

Review some of the accolades and statistics for the School.

Department of Art
About the Department of Art

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.

Department of Dance
About the Department of Dance

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.

Department of Drama
About the Department of Drama

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.

Department of Music
About the Department of Music

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 Clubs
Student Clubs

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.

Creative Connections
Creative Connections

Creative Connections provides curriculum-based arts projects in local schools. Get real-life teaching experience as a Teaching Artist Intern and help provide equitable access to arts education to K-12 students.

Arts Launch
Arts Launch Internship

The Arts Launch Internship program offers academic year-long, paid professional development internships for CTSA students to explore career and professional pathways in the creative sector.