Curricular Connections
Connecting NC State courses with the arts
Through our Curricular Connections Guide (CCG), we’ve made it easy for you to connect the academic courses you teach with events offered through NC State’s art programs, including performances, art exhibitions, music concerts, art making workshops, and theatre productions. Browse the arts programs and corresponding thematic and course connections below.
How to Engage
There are numerous ways you and your students can engage the arts and Arts NC State, including:
- Attending a performance
- Participating in pre or post-concert discussions
- Scheduling in-class workshops with arts faculty or visiting artists
- Using a performance to enhance your classroom discussion
Spring 2025 Connections
NC State LIVE
Connections in anthropology, Africana Studies, climate science, environmental science, music history, global music, indigenous studies, women’s and gender studies, community-based art practices and more…
University Theatre
Connections in literature, contemporary history, political & moral philosophy, race relations in America and more…
Gregg Museum of Art & Design
Connections in anthropology, pop culture, design, history, creative writing, physics, religion, sociology and more…
Department of Performing Arts and Technology (Dance and Music)
Connections in anthropology, applied ecology, communication, history, urban ecology and more…
The Crafts Center
Connections in art history, creative writing, engineering and more…
Arts Integration Workshops
Since 2017, the Arts NC State Office of Outreach & Engagement has been collaborating with faculty, staff, and student leaders to create unique arts-based workshops that deepen non-arts disciplines.
Curricular Connections Guide
Our Curricular Connections Guide highlights meaningful, logical links between the substance of academic courses and the content of our events.
What Our Faculty Members Say
“This [the CCG] is a great way to integrate the arts into academic work, to foster a well-rounded education where art appreciation and the development of an artistic sensibility have a place regardless of majors, and to increase students’ awareness that their education has meaningful applications beyond the classroom walls and the confines of their academic fields of study.”
—Dr. Hélène Ducros, Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies
“Bringing students to the Gregg Museum has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my teaching career at NCSU. Invariably students who have been quiet in class seem to come out of their shells and find ways to engage with the Gregg’s amazing collection. Knowing that different students have different learning styles is quite different from seeing it in action before you as they open up and make connections that hadn’t been made before between theory and practice.”
—Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
