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.
- 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).
| FIRST YEAR | SECOND YEAR |
| FALL Consciousness, Culture, & Social Transformation Diversity and Cultural Praxis Creative Inquiry |
FALL Media and Contemporary Culture Art and Cultural History Creative Action Project |
| WINTER Interdisciplinary Arts Practicum Art and Ritual Studies Creative Inquiry |
WINTER Interdisciplinary Arts Practicum Ensouled World: Art and Leadership I Creative Action Project |
| SPRING Eros and Aesthetic Imagination Myth and Contemporary Culture Creative Inquiry |
SPRING Art and Sustainability Art Entrepreneurship Creative Action Project |
| SUMMER Interdisciplinary Arts Practicum Imagination, Emotion, and the Arts Creative Inquiry |
SUMMER Studies in Creative Transgression Ensouled World: Art and Leadership II Creative Action Project |
This curriculum is revised periodically and subject to change.