The College of Fine Arts and Communication

Center for the Arts 3001
Phone: 410-704-3288
Fax: 410-704-6026

The College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) provides graduate education and training in a wide range of fields, including art education, studio art, arts integration, communications management, dance education, music education, music performance, and music pedagogy. Programs leading to the Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Education, Master of Music, or Master of Science degrees offer students training and practical experience that enhance their creative and analytical abilities to advance their careers or enter doctoral programs. The college also offers Graduate Certificate programs in Arts Integration, Design for User Experience, and Applied Music. 

Graduate classes in COFAC are purposefully small, allowing for extensive faculty engagement and student mentoring. To enhance their studies, students and faculty present and perform in several facilities on the Towson University campus. The Center for the Arts is home to the departments of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education; Dance; Music; and Theatre Arts. The facility includes the Kaplan concert hall; a music recital hall; the Holtzman M.F.A. art gallery; a digital object lab; four theaters, including the Dreyer M.F.A. lab and the Ruth Marder studio theatre; a collaborative interdisciplinary lab; and four state-of-the-art dance studios, including a dance-theatre space. The Center for the Arts also houses the Asian Arts and Culture Center gallery and the Center for the Arts gallery. The Media Center is home to the departments of Electronic Media & Film and Mass Communication. It houses journalism laboratories, the student radio station XTSR, digital media laboratories/studios and television station WMJF-TV. The Psychology Building is the home of Communication Studies. The Stephens Hall Theatre provides performance space for dance, opera and musicals. The Van Bokkelen Cinema/Lecture Hall is home to film screenings and media festivals.

Recognized as a center for arts, media, and communication in Maryland, the college continues to pursue its mission to enhance communication, media, and the fine and performing arts, and contribute to the cultural life of Towson and Greater Baltimore through an annual program of events that includes numerous music performances, dance events, film series, debates, lectures, workshops, exhibitions, festivals, plays, and exciting original student works.  

The college sponsors international exchange programs with schools in Australia, China, Germany, Ireland, Korea, Russia, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Costa Rica, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

COFAC is a vibrant and busy college. Please visit our website to see all the many programs, activities and events that COFAC has to offer.

Regina Carlow, Dean

Master’s Degree Programs

Graduate Certificate Programs