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Interdisciplinary Arts, MFA

2022-2023 Edition

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Students in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts use creative work to inquire and intervene in today’s most pressing social and ecological concerns. Positioned at the intersection of the visual arts, architecture, music, visual and media studies, and the expanded field of design, the curriculum supports the development of ambitious projects by a diverse, international group of creative practitioners. 

Our students use the tools and insights of contemporary creative practice to intervene in public discourse and the social imagination through media, research-, and/or community-based approaches. The curriculum centers around a series of core critique seminars that provide a foundation and home base. Students then customize their education from a wide range of studio and academic courses. Regular workshops with visiting faculty emphasize hands-on engagement in the creative process of leading artists, while summer residency or co-op experiences allow students to complete self-directed projects, supported by faculty and peer mentoring. The MFA degree requires a thesis project and companion paper, as well as a minimum 3.000 GPA over 60 semester hours of study.

Over the course of the two-year program, successful students learn to articulate their goals, context, and audience and develop the professional skills necessary to sustain their practices. Successful graduates are prepared to forge their own paths as publicly engaged artists working independently or in arts organizations, social entrepreneurship ventures, the nonprofit sector, and as faculty in academic institutions.

Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.

Core Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
Core
INAM 6100Critical Foundations of Creative Practice4
INAM 6210Projects in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice4
INAM 6300Models for Applied Inquiry in Creative Practice4
Project
INAM 6301Integrative Research Project4
Thesis and Exhibition
INAM 7100Thesis Proposal4
INAM 7990Thesis4
INAM 7996Thesis Continuation0

Discipline Options

For all options, students define with their faculty advisors their creative disciplines and concentrations in the form of an individual plan of study. Creative disciplines and concentrations need to be clearly distinct. Students need to demonstrate their interdisciplinarity by working with a different medium or working in a different domain. Approval of the plan of study, which includes the choice for disciplines and concentration, is required from the graduate coordinator.

Option 1: Two Disciplines

Course List
Code Title Hours
An option with flexibility. Students choose two distinct creative disciplines and complete a set of electives of their choice.
Creative Discipline 112
Creative Discipline 212
Electives12

 Option 2: Concentration and Discipline

Course List
Code Title Hours
This option allows for a deep specialization. Students declare a concentration in addition to a creative discipline that is distinct from their concentration.
Creative Concentration20-24
Creative Discipline 12
Electives0-4

Option 3: Open Discipline 

Course List
Code Title Hours
An option that allows students to take on a third creative discipline or specialize beyond the arts. In this option, students choose two distinct creative disciplines and complete courses related to another program at or outside of CAMD.
Creative Discipline 112
Creative Discipline 212
Open Discipline 312

Program Credit/GPA Requirements

60 total semester hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required

This is a sample course plan.  It is highly recommended that the core requirements are taken in this sequence. Students can choose to decide when to take their option requirements. However, all students are required to take at least two courses from option requirements in Year 1.

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHours
INAM 61004INAM 63014
INAM 63004Option coursework12
Option coursework8 
 16 16
Year 2
FallHoursSpringHours
INAM 71004INAM 79904
INAM 62104Option coursework8
Option coursework8 
 16 12
Total Hours: 60
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