About the Bass School
About the Bass School
The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, & Technology at UT Dallas is a community of artists and scholars committed to courageous creativity and disruptive discovery. We foster an environment of creativity and imagination, originality and collaboration, and scholarship and creative practice. Our academic programs are grounded in the vital questions of the arts and humanities and the investigative exploration of emerging technologies. Our approach allows the fluid movement between traditional disciplines and creative inquiry.
The Bass School offers academic programs in animation and games, communication studies, critical media studies, emerging media arts, history and philosophy, humanities, Latin American studies, literature and languages, and visual and performing arts. We prepare students with the skills to craft exceptional work and critical thinking to make a difference in a globally connected world.
Our History
The Bass School was created to address the needs of a new generation of artists, performers, and scholars. The Bass School brings together the Schools of Arts and Humanities, founded in 1975, and ATEC, which began as the first arts and technology degree in Texas in 2002. The Bass School continues the tradition of academic and research excellence for which The University of Texas at Dallas, a Carnegie R1 Doctoral Institution, is known.
