Career Ready

By taking courses like Building a Music Career, Hartt prepares you for the professional world! This course focuses on aspects of career development like résumé writing, preparing for auditions, beginning a solo/chamber music career, and beginning and developing a teaching career. Our music education majors become a highly sought after professionals with opportunities to teach across the county. In our most recent survey of those seeking employment, music education alums boast a 100 percent job placement rate.

In the fourth year as a dance major, you will produce, promote and create the senior dance show. You will present two black box concerts a year for which you create group choreographies and commission solo choreography for yourself from professional choreographers. You hold auditions to cast your undergraduate classmates, and manage every aspect of the production from advertising and fundraising to designing costume and lighting. The educational experience exactly mirrors that of a professional choreographer’s responsibilities.

As a theatre major, you will work with your cohort and the theatre department to produce the Senior Showcase, a culmination of four years of in-depth theatrical training. The Showcase is presented at a venue in New York City for casting agents and other industry professionals.