M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Theatre for Youth

MFA: Emphasis areas prepare students for careers in professional theatre; as artists or education directors; specialists in arts organizations; teachers in elementary, secondary, higher education. Includes internship with professional theatre company, school or arts organization and final applied project. PhD: Significant research; teaching at K-12 and university levels; demonstrated expertise at practical level. Both programs: Theatre for Youth newsletter and downloadable program handbooks.

Certificate in Public Art

18-hour graduate program for artists and art administrators. Open to all graduate students, but developed specifically for those enrolled studio art, art history, architecture and landscape design. Hands-on activities and internship opportunities with local public art programs.

Postgrad Diploma, Masters & Ph.D. in Community Cultural Development

Study references the visual, performing arts and also a range of related areas of study, such as public policy, public health, public evaluation, philosophy, social science, natural science, psychology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Uses diverse research methodologies, including action-based research, narrative evaluation and production-based investigation, which uses the development of working designs and prototypes as its method. CCD student and staff inquiry have included community-based research in community strengthening, housing/urban renewal, multicultural communities, arts & education, health & wellbeing, indigenous communities, justice, and the arts, nature and the environment.

B.A. in Performing Arts and Social Justice

Performing-arts major with a social-justice focus and "strongly community based." Culminates in a year in the community both working with community organizations and developing artistic responses to those experiences. Production work with community groups such as ex-offenders, on and off-campus. Upper Division Company of majors and faculty produces programs in "ongoing dialogue with the USF and Bay Area community."

Master of Public Art Studies (MPAS)

Two-year program. Evening classes, mentored field internships, thesis projects and the administration of campus-based public art projects. Students acquire professional skills as public arts administrators, public art consultants, cultural policymakers, grant writers, nonprofit directors and public artists. Students engage communities in public art projects, conduct research and question paradigms in established public art theory, develop new working models and put them into practice, and explore the role of technology in the field.

M.F.A. in Ensemble-based Physical Theatre

Two-and-a-half-year program includes practicum, rural residency and internship with Dell'Arte and a member of the Network of Ensemble Theatre. For students with primary interest in the formation of new companies of actor-creators working in the ensemble model. Only physical-theater MFA in U.S.

B.A. in Theatre in Education and Community

Educates artists, teachers and advocates for theater in educational settings and communities; prepares them for employment in these fields and life-long commitment to civic engagement and socially responsible art. Includes history, theories and methodologies of theater in education, community-based theater, theater for youth and using theater to teach across the curriculum. Offers access to nationally recognized community-based theater companies such as Cornerstone Theater Company, Fringe Benefits Alliance. Includes community-based performance projects and service-learning opportunities with regional community partners.

M.F.A. in Public Practice

Program under leadership of Suzanne Lacy. Students explore new artistic strategies and practices based on observation, research, social commentary and activism, and visual and performance arts productions in the public realm. Students work in individual studios on a single significant project in collaboration with each other, community members, interdisciplinary scholars and faculty. Facilities in sculpture, painting, graphic arts, illustration, video, photography, computer-generated model-making and digital technology. Intimate class size supports mentorship, case-studies learning and production skills in installation, performance, process art, guerilla art and interdisciplinary projects. Requires thesis integrating theory and practice in art, urbanism, civic life or other subjects supporting a critical discourse on their own work. Field internships with professional artists; teaching assistantships in new undergraduate Integrated Learning curriculum. One tuition fellowship.

B.A. in Visual and Public Art

Integrates individual production and collaborative processes, skills and projects, and the expressive and analytical. Addresses issues of working in public space creating murals, sculptures, installations, book arts, painted and electronic billboards, light sculptures, large-scale digital and cyber art, time-based work, performance and environmental art, and public ceremonial works. Balance of studio and theory through a combination of core concept and skill courses, visiting artist experiences, independent learning opportunities and a community-based projects/service learning component.

B.F.A. in Community Arts

Interdisciplinary Community Arts Program emphasizing service learning, civic engagement and diversity issues. Curriculum combines coursework in humanities, sciences, arts administration and cultural diversity with Core studios, studio electives and a required internship. Draws on resources of the CCA Center for Art and Public Life (see entry), which creates partnerships with Bay Area public schools, health centers, nonprofit community organizations, museums, cultural centers and neighborhoods.

Honours B.A. in Drama in Education and Community

for students pursuing careers in the educational and developmental drama fields and community settings such as healthcare facilities and community organizations. Field work in schools, special topics, individual and group research projects.

B.F.A. Degree in Theatre

Ninety-credit undergraduate program normally completed over three academic years. Focuses on the history, theory and practice of theater from the perspective of art's capacity to inform and effect personal and social change. Field work in areas of personal specialization, such as working with populations with special needs, apprenticeship with community-based theater companies, developing community arts porject.

B.F.A. in Theatre with Applied Theatre Specialization

Provides theoretical and practical foundation in applying theater to teaching; cultural, recreational and community planning; historic and environmental sites; museums; social and correctional services; healing and health agencies. Year1: exploring improvisational techniques and collective creation. Year 2: historical survey of theater applications in nontraditional settings; devising of a performance. Year 3: workshop design/facilitation, leadership in applied contexts. Year 4: designing project for an applied setting (classroom, youth center, a senior center, prison, etc.). Graduate studies considered at discretion of Head of Applied Theatre.

Community Arts Practice Degree and Certificate Program

Allows students to use art as a tool for expressing diverse identities, for developing community awareness about environmental issues and to take action for social change. Students take courses offered through the Faculties of Environmental Studies and Fine Arts to develop artistic skills while working collaboratively on a community-based cultural production in their final year of study. Graduates of the BES program with the CAP certificate will be prepared to work in community organizations, art agencies, environmental groups, artist-run spaces or for international community-development agencies.

Master's Degree in Arts Tourism

Distance-education program of postgraduate credits and a Master's degree in arts and tourism, offered in association with Global Association of Arts and Tourism. Requires Bachelor's degree or professional equivalent. Degree individually designed. $500 per 3-credit course; total cost $6500, plus $750 exam.

M.A. in Social Sculpture

Interdisciplinary, ecologically and socially engaged work informed by social-sculpture ideas of Joseph Beuys. Linked to Social Sculpture Research Unit. Exchanges with the Bauhaus, Weimar University, Germany. One- or two-year program. Major Project and participation in annual festival of M.A. work. Begins Septemer 2004.

M.A. in Applied Theatre

One-year multidisciplinary Applied Theatre Programme in application of theater in social policy or educational fields. Encourages research of theater and drama applied to nontraditional spaces and marginalized communities. Students have specialized in theater in education, disabilities, development projects, violence/conflict resolution. Project work in schools, probation centres and prisons, heritage sites and museums. University has Centre for Applied Theatre Research.

B.A. in Community Drama

Three-year course toward B.A. Honours Degree in Community Drama. Development in acting skills, contextual studies, research, evaluation, directing workshops, classroom-based teaching, project management, large-scale and group performance and devising and managing by producing and realizing community-based projects through self-directed activity. Final practical project and in-depth written research project. Placement opportunities with over 50 different organizations, including youth clubs, health agencies, penal institutions, schools and colleges, mental health organizations, disability groups and social-exclusion projects.

M.A./Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Architecture

Interdisciplinary environmental and public arts course. (Master's, one year; diploma, six months.) For fine and applied artists, designers, architects, planners, landscape designers, other like disciplines, and humanities graduates, art historians, arts managers and community workers. Combined with self-directed research. Interacts with projects external to university. Public exhibition at end of course.

Higher National Diploma (HND) in Performing Arts in the Community

Interdisciplinary course with options in drama, music and dance, delivered as a collaboration between two institutions. (HND is equivalent to first two years of undergraduate-level study.) Strong emphasis on inclusion for physically disabled people, the arts and urban regeneration, and partnerships with professional arts organizations, including London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), Stratford Circus, East London Dance, the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, and Theatre Venture. Develops performance skills in community contexts, urban settings, music and video technology, arts administration and arts-education practice.

Master of Arts in Theatre and Media for Development

Provides an advanced practical and theoretical forum for students to debate how applied theater and community media processes can work in improving quality and clarity of development communications and in enabling communities to address barriers to self-development. Modules include Integrated Workshop in Theatre and Media for Development, Issues in Globalisation, Major Project (may take place anywhere in the world), followed by presentations and viva voce examination. Culminates in a dissertation or consultancy..

MA/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate in Cross-Sectoral & Community Arts

Combines development of practical skills with self-reflection and theoretical study of arts in other sectors such as education, healthcare, youth work, prisons and business and regeneration. Core courses cover: history/context of community arts and its cross-cultural perspectives; planning, communication and arts skills for participatory arts workshops; current arts strategy and public funding policy. Options include study of Brecht to Boal, digital media for social change, applied world music, more. Practical and written assignments; dissertation or practice-based arts project, accompanied by portfolio/case study.

Masters in Community Arts

Operates across a wide range of creative, visual and performing arts in a broad range of community contexts. Lectures, workshops, tutorials, seminars in history of community arts movements, key issues in role of community arts in social regeneration and place-making, and as tool and critique of interventionist government programs. Emphasis on practical execution of projects within communities throughout the North West.

Postgraduate Diploma in Community Arts Practice

Vocationally orientated coursedesigned to prepare graduates of performance disciplines (such as dance, music or theater) for careers as independent arts practitioners working with community and educational organizations. Staff expertise in performance, arts management, youth work and community development. Close links with regional practitioners and arts organizations. Students gain practical experience through a placement with a professional organisation or involvement in a project operating at a professional level.

Bachelor's Degree in Dance

Addresses "the vital roles of dance within an intercultural community." Required courses in "Building Community through the Arts" and "Field Experience" encourage active citizenship, prepare students for the multicultural workplace and provide skills and opportunities to design an arts-based curriculum and implement community-based arts programs throughout South Florida. Audition class required (offered monthly).

Arts and Community Practice Certificate Program

For undergrads and graduate students in social work, dance and art education/therapy. Focused concentration on application of arts to community development. Inclusive of groups and families, addresses all stages of human development. Particular attention to prevention, enrichment and response to social concerns. Requires major paper linking theory and applied experience.

M.S. in Education with specialization in Interdisciplinary Arts

18-month schedule of courses, internships and field studies including training and production. Focused on entrepreneurial thinking and creation of original works for public consumption. Includes foundation course, "Interdisciplinary Arts in Society, Community and School," outlining the field of community arts and defining vital roles artists can play in structuring, rebuilding and maintaining communities within cultural, social and educational contexts. Directed by David Spangler.

Master of Arts Management Degree in Arts in Youth and Community Development

Two-year program balances academic understanding with in-depth, hands-on experience in community-based organizations. Training in: practical skills necessary for operating an organization; understanding of role of arts in lives of young people and the way they relate to society at large; theoretical and philosophical aspects of youth development. By Graduate School , Office of Community Arts Partnerships (OCAP) and Department of Arts, Entertainment and Media Management. Begins Fall 2003.

B.F.A. in Art Education

Prepares stuents to become effective teacher/artists and teacher/researchers at high-school and middle-school level. Art education isstudied from perspective of the critical pedagogy movement, with art teaching as site of cultural production. Inlcudes practicum with Olivia Gude's Spiral Workshop, a Saturday program in contemporary art for Chicago teenagers.

Master of Arts in Arts Administration

Program intends "to develop the ability to nurture the various relationships among the artist, arts organizations, the business and commercial sector and audiences, including the ability to broaden participation in the arts and to forge links among various communities." Requires two internships of 225 hours of work with two host organizations. Thesis can be a split internship-research project.

Master's Degree in Public Administration

Two-year graduate degree in arts administration. Teaches skills in leadership, management and planning pertinent to public and nonprofit arts organizations. Focus on role of arts in communities. Includes internship with a professional cultural organization and capstone course to integrate training into an independent research paper. Offers placement assistance. Directed by Hilary Anne Frost-Kumpf.

Community Arts Management Minor

Mission is "to help students develop analytical and strategic skills while expanding their understanding of artistic disciplines and their importance to community building and social enterprise." Goals include incorporating and documenting the arts as an agent for social change and a tool to build community relationships. Students gain practical experience through intern and volunteer opportunities with community-based art organizations. Community partners include Pieces of Power, Faces of Culture, Kid Smart, and YICI Inc. Students must complete 18 credit hours in this declared minor, which includes nine (9) hours of art courses and nine (9) hours of business courses for those students who are not art or business majors.

Master of Arts in Arts Administration

Distance-learning master's degree program sensitive to art's role in "developing the cultural life of towns, cities and regions as well as rural areas" and strengthening "the economics of an area through employment, production and tourism." Requires two weeks in three consecutive summers on Goucher campus. Admission requires Bachelor's degree, two years' work experience. Offers elective in managing community arts organizations.

Master of Arts in Community Arts

For visual artists who wish to pursue a career in art-based youth and community development. 36-credit program, spanning two summers and one academic year, grounded in principles of social justice. Classroom study of community arts theory and practice plus residency with community organization. Learn to: conceive, implement and manage programs and events that engage children, youth, and adults in meaningful art experiences; document and assess effectivness of projects in meeting communtiy interests; plan curriculum; develop proposals and fundraise.

Master of Arts in Arts Politics

Curriculum examines, "in an activist key," the relation between art and society and the role of the artist in civic life. Combines an administrative home within Tisch with key partnerships across Schools to offer a spectrum of interdisciplinary courses. requires two core courses – Issues In Arts Politics and Seminar in Arts Activism – colloquium, internship/field experience, electives through Department of Art and Public Policy, plus up to 16 credits of electives drawn from universitywide list of linked course offerings, including advanced course work in Art and Public Policy. Enrollment limited to 8-12 students. Also offered: certificate program.

Minor in Applied Theatre

Recognizes "that theatrical techniques and practices have application outside traditional theater, including education, political activism, community work and social services." Requires three designated Department of Drama courses and a fourth course from an interdisciplinary list, all addressing art in nontheatrical contexts. Regularly offered courses include "The Actor/ Teacher," "Community-based Theatre Practicum," "History of Community-based Performance," "Theatre and Therapy," "Internships in Applied Theatre" and "Boal and Beyond." (See also NYU's Department of Art and Public Policy.)

Master of Arts in Applied Theatre

Sequential, ensemble-based program in use of theater to address social and educational issues in nontraditional contexts and venues . Stresses unity of theory and practice; linked to professional applied-theater work of Creative Arts Team. 36-credit program, full-time or part-time. Apprenticeship opportunities with CAT's professional outreach programs or appropriate programs elsewhere. Culminates in a project thesis in which they research, create, implement and document an original applied-theater model.

Bachelor's Degree in Dance

Designed for dance majors who wish to work as dance artists responding to the needs of particular communities, such as physically challenged individuals, pregnant adolescents, prison inmates, recent immigrants or senior adults. Available to all Dance majors (BFA, BS or BA).

Master's Degree in Arts Management

Encourages students "to be cognizant of the relationships between the arts and culture, ethnicity, politics, economics, class, education, age and occupation." Prepares students to access community culture, facilitate citizen participation in the arts, understand methodologies for program development and administer, evaluate and facilitate community arts programs and policy. Leads to Master's degree when coupled with core requirements.

Community Arts Undergraduate Minor

Designed for students interested in participating, leading and organizing arts in community settings. Students from Theatre, Dance, Music, Art, Education, Sociology,and Family and Human Services take coursework in arts administration and programming, arts philosophy, arts education and community cultural development. Course requirements encourage students to be cognizant of the relationships between arts and culture, ethnicity, politics, economics, education, class, gender, age and occupation. Optional practicum: apprenticeship with local arts organization.

Masters of Science in Arts Administration

Consists of 45 credits, including courses in cultural policy, management skills and fund development. Tracks in marketing, fund development, finance or research. Electives may include Community Cultural Planning and Local Arts Policy. Arts jobs with professional arts organizations and community internships available.

M.A. in Urban Studies: Arts in Transformation track

Twenty-four-month Christian-leadership degree program in short residency formats to accommodate working and out-of-state students. Provides skills, knowledge, practice and spiritual foundation for "artist practitioners committed to transforming cities through a broad range of artistic expression." Special focus on arts-based interventions at individual, family, community, social-service and organizational-leadership levels through field-intensive community partnerships. Partnership with BuildaBridge International.

Master of Arts in Art + Design Education/Community Arts Education strand

Provides academic credential with practical experience as a community arts educator. Two-year program includes core courses in context, content and practices of visual-arts education, plus graduate seminars, studio, liberal arts and professional practice internships in community-arts education. May include graduate teaching assistants in undergraduate service-related courses or community outreach programs. Department has partnerships with numerous culturally diverse community arts agencies and organizations.

Bachelor of Arts in Community Arts

Grounding in arts forms and arts management, specializing in music, art, dance or drama young people and adults, esp. those discriminated against by society. Includes field experience with local agencies, community drama and dance companies, arts in hospitals, prisons, with disability groups, community artists and art galleries with community links.

Postgraduate Diploma in Arts for Development & Social Justice

For community-development workers, community educators, other community-based practitioners, practicing or emerging artists and activists. Requires honours degree or equivalent experience. 1-2-year program, full- or part-time, gaining skills and understanding of international and intercultural practice. First half of course: half-day lectures or workshops. Second half: planning, implementing and reflecting on a continuous professional development project in the community. Core Modules: Pedagogical Development, Participatory Research Skills, Social Justice. Elective Modules: Drama for Democracy, Arts for Reconciliation and Reclamation.

Master of Advanced Professional Studies diploma (MAPS) in Expressive Arts and Social Change

The European Graduate School is a post-graduate university for professionals. Study takes place in the town of Saas Fee in the Swiss Alps (State of Wallis, Switzerland) each summer within an arts-based community setting. Degree program continues over two summer sessions of 23 days each in residency at EGS to be completed in consecutive years. In addition to courses, students participate in community events -- lectures, performances, excursions -- with students training as arts therapists, educators, coaches and consultants. Students also engage in a field project, either in international settings or in their home countries, between the first and the second summer sessions.

MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth

For students preparing for careers in regional or professional children's/youth theaters, secondary/elementary education, as teaching artists in schools, communities, colleges. Three-year (60-hour) program stressing flexibility and encouraging participation in classes across Department and University. Opportunities to direct, act, teach and premiere plays with a local professional children's theater. Department has relationships with Austin Independent School District, state schools for special populations, and other school districts across Texas and beyond, providing a living laboratory for students and faculty projects. Program has first endowed chair in Theatre for Youth/Playwriting in the U.S. Degree does not include Teacher Certification.

MFA in Interdiciplinary Arts

Extraordinarily flexible, low-residency program focusing on holistic development of the artist. Requires minimum five semesters, awards 60 semester hours of credit. Recognized as a terminal degree. Degree criteria include a practicum project beyond the classroom in teaching in academic or community settings, curating, collaborative practice, activism, working as a public intellectual, community-engaged practice and more.

MFA Program in Directing and Public Dialogue

Three-year, studio-based program. Within context of the artist as engaged citizen, provides professional training for directing plays, developing and maintaining an ensemble, working with actors and non-actors in creative projects, creating and performing original work and forming and facilitating creative community partnerships. Grounding in theory and analysis of human interaction in the personal, social and political frames of reference. Includes one-semester internship with an ensemble. Final project may include creative work with specific community groups.

MFA in Interdiciplinary Arts

Program describing itself as "a vibrant community of soul-searchers and meaning makers, in a non-elitist, non-competitive and non-dogmatic learning environment." Extraordinarily flexible, low-residency program focusing on holistic development of the artist. Degree criteria include a practicum project beyond the classroom in teaching in academic or community settings, curating, collaborative practice, activism, working as a public intellectual, community-engaged practice and more.