About the Creative and Applied Arts ACP

Interested in discovering your creative potential? The Creative & Applied Arts ACP offers diverse programs empowering students to transform their creative passions into impactful careers. This pathway offers a vibrant community for developing skills, collaborating, and expressing yourself, whether you're aiming for a career in the arts or just exploring creativity.

• Areas of study within this ACP will help you develop artistic skills that can be applied in fulfilling careers in technical theater production, stagecraft, music, dance, graphic design, web and interactive design, illustration, digital photography, audio production, recording technology, and more.

• Creative arts majors will prepare you for transfer opportunities in the areas of art, music, dance, theater, film, design, and photography.

​Careers in Creative and Applied Arts*

• Painters, illustrators, photographers, film makers, art critics, art teachers, and art directors.
• Dancers, choreographers, actors, producers, casting directors, talent agents, and theatrical designers.
• Composers, arrangers, music promoters, music teachers, sound designers, sound editors, and recording technicians.
• Advertising agents, graphic designers, animators, web designers, web developers, and videographers. 

*Many of these careers require a bachelor’s degree or higher.

For More Information

• For information about creative and applied arts programs at MiraCosta College, please visit the Creative and Applied Arts ACP webpage.
• For additional career, job outlook, and salary information, please visit the college's Career Coach tool.