BA in World Arts and Cultures in Los Angeles United States | University of California, Los Angeles

The Bachelor of Arts in World Arts and Cultures (WAC) empowers students to analyze and actively participate in the societal and cultural environments that influence artists and their creative processes. Our cross-disciplinary program highlights both regional traditions and worldwide impacts that shape ethnographic studies, curation, artistic creation, academic research, as well as activist initiatives and social equity concerns.

This Major motivates students to comprehend the production and interpretation of arts and social change through an analytical perspective grounded in diverse cultural and postcolonial frameworks. Consequently, the program's educational approach fosters continuous interaction between conceptual understanding and practical application, bridging artistic expression with scholarly examination. Our instructors possess expertise spanning documentary film production and analysis, wellness and therapeutic practices, community involvement, cultural anthropology, critical museum studies, investigative approaches, racial justice scholarship, visual storytelling, digital media and privacy research, Native American studies, criminal justice reform, performance poetry, gender theory, among other fields.