MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
This is a new program; please contact admissions staff for launch date.
The Educational Objectives for the MFA include:
- To develop the ability to engage social and cultural issues through interdisciplinary arts practices.
- To acquire professional knowledge and skills in a specific arts medium, informed by the principles and practices of interdisciplinarity.
- To develop creative inquiry practices and skills in support of Transformative Learning in the arts domain.
- To cultivate leadership capacities which further professional engagement with the arts.
Graduation Requirements for MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
- Students are expected to complete 75 units of coursework and a Capstone project.
- Students are expected to complete a Creative Action Project (Capstone) utilizing a specific medium (creative writing, film, performance, or other within an interdisciplinary context).
Curriculum Overview
| FIRST YEAR | SECOND YEAR |
| FALL Consciousness, Culture, & Social Transformation Diversity & Cultural Praxis Creative Inquiry and the Arts I |
FALL Media & Contemporary Culture Art & Cultural History Creative Action Project I |
| WINTER Interdisciplinary Arts Practicum I Art & Ritual Studies Creative Inquiry and the Arts II |
WINTER Interdisciplinary Arts Practicum III Ensouled World: Art & Leadership I Creative Action Project II |
| SPRING Eros & Aesthetic Imagination Myth & Contemporary Culture Creative Inquiry and the Arts III |
SPRING Art & Sustainability Art-Based Entrepreneurship Creative Action Project III |
| SUMMER Interdisciplinary Arts Practicum Imagination, Emotion, and the Arts Creative Inquiry |
SUMMER Studies in Creative Transgression Ensouled World: Art & Leadership II Creative Action Project IV |
This overview is illustrative only; curricular choices are geared to the Monthly or Blended learning format.
This curriculum is revised periodically and subject to change. Selected courses have online components.