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BYU Home Route Y Admissions Services College & Student Profiles Sandra Turley

College & Student Profiles

Meet Sandra Turley

Fine Arts and Communications

Sandra Turley

HOMETOWN: Simsbury, Connecticut
MAJOR: Music Dance Theater
SPORT: Softball, cheerleading
FAVORITE BOOK: Standing for Something, by Gordon B. Hinckley

She still carries the piece of paper with her, the one a teacher had her write the first day of class during her freshman year at BYU. "Right then and there," Sandra Turley says, she decided where to draw her own line of ethics and to never go over it. "I have never compromised my morals in a business where you are asked to do just that almost daily."

Well into her second year of playing Cosette in the musical Les Misérables, Sandra ended up in New York City after being cast from an open-call audition in Salt Lake City. "I don't know that anything can prepare you for Broadway, because it truly is its own world with its own rules," she relates. "Nothing perhaps," she adds, "except Brigham Young University."

After high school Sandra knew she had chosen a field of study "that could be a little risky" for a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I thought a lot about going back East for the music programs," she says, "but when it came time to apply, I sent out only one application—to BYU." She says she wanted "an environment where I could talk about my beliefs in conjunction with my studies, where I could talk about things openly."

Sandra "still can't believe how reputable BYU's Music Dance Theatre Program is" now that she's "out in the business." But she learned more than performance skills in the program, she learned how to be a part of the music theatre world, a member of the Church, and how to be both successfully.

A big role in Brigadoon at BYU and a one-year stint as the Little Mermaid at Disney World eased Sandra into the "real world" of New York's theater district. "The whole business is not necessarily friendly to our beliefs and standards," she admits. "As long as we are covenant-keeping members, it's difficult for Church members to just go their way. There are so many questions asked every day. I feel like I'm serving a mission."

Given her convictions, perhaps she is.

College of Fine Arts and Communications

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS
(Specific emphases are indented)

• ACTING (BFA)*


• ANIMATION (BFA)*


• ART (BFA)*
  • CERAMICS*
  • PAINTING*
  • PRINTMAKING*
  • SCULPTURE*


• ART EDUCATION K-12 (BA)*


• ART HISTORY AND CURATORIAL STUDIES (BA)


• COMMUNICATIONS (BA)*
  • ADVERTISING/MARKETING*
  • BROADCAST JOURNALISM*
  • COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES*
  • PRINT JOURNALISM*
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS*


• GRAPHIC DESIGN (BFA)*


• ILLUSTRATION (BFA)*


• MEDIA ARTS STUDIES-FILM (BA)*


• MUSIC (BA)*
  • JAZZ STUDIES*


• MUSIC (BM)*
  • ELEMENTARY MUSIC EDUCATION*
  • K-12 CHORAL*
  • K-12 INSTRUMENTAL*
  • MUSIC COMPOSITION*
  • MUSIC EDUCATION*


• MUSIC DANCE THEATRE (BFA)*


• PERFORMANCE (BM)*
  • BRASS*
  • COMBINED PIANO AND ORGAN*
  • ORGAN*
  • PERCUSSION*
  • PIANO*
  • STRING*
  • VOCAL*
  • WOODWIND


• PHOTOGRAPHY (BFA)*


• THEATRE ARTS EDUCATION (BA)*


• THEATRE ARTS STUDIES (BA)*


• VISUAL ARTS (BA)*

* Limited enrollment major. Students who select these majors must make application and/or complete prerequisite courses to be admitted into the specific major program.

Students acquire knowledge and skills requisite to a higher education in fine arts and communications. The college opens doors to the world of truth and beauty for exploration by majors and nonmajors alike. Its programs require discipline, critical analysis, research, empathy, and integrity as the means to acquire knowledge and competency in various areas of study encompassed by the college.

The college's classroom instruction is augmented by off-campus internship programs and on-campus laboratory experiences. Student and faculty touring groups instruct and entertain Church members and friends across the globe. Journalism students who edit The Daily Universe, a student laboratory newspaper, are advised by faculty professionals. KBYU–TV, KBYU–FM, and the Museum of Art are also operated under the direction of the college.

Members of the faculty are competent, dedicated men and women who are concerned about the success of their students. The college also brings to campus distinguished professionals for special lectures and artistic performances. Housed in the Harris Fine Arts Center and the Brimhall Building, the college includes five theatres; two concert halls; three art galleries; design, journalism, advertising, broadcast, film, and music laboratories; and many music practice and rehearsal rooms.

The College of Fine Arts and Communications teaches students to think, to feel, to perform, and to communicate.