Master of Arts in Visual and Performing Arts
Curriculum
The Master of Arts in Visual and Performing Arts degree program is designed to allow graduates to pursue a career in the arts or arts-related fields, or to continue into doctoral study. Students seeking the MA in Visual and Performing Arts may thus elect a professional option or a research option. Students with plans for doctoral study should choose the research option. The research option requires students to demonstrate proficiency in an approved foreign language and to complete a portfolio. Students pursuing the research option for the MA in Visual and Performing Arts may submit a creative project as part of their portfolio.
Visual and Performing Arts is an interdisciplinary program of study, so students take the majority of their coursework in Visual and Performing Arts courses, but most also take two seminars each in History/History of Ideas and Literature.
Career Options
Graduates of the program seek positions such as: artists, performers, teachers, researchers, arts administrators, arts entrepreneurs, arts writers/critics, editors, museum staff, consultants, archivists and other positions in research or professional practice. Career settings may include higher education, non-profits, cultural and historical organizations, publishing houses, government agencies, international development organizations, museums and archives, business/corporate entities and independent consulting.
Application Requirements
Degree requirements: The minimum requirement for admission to any master's degree program at UT Dallas is an earned UT Dallas baccalaureate degree or its equivalent with a grade average of B or better in upper-division (junior and senior level) work in the student's major field and related fields.
Deadlines: University deadlines apply.
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Contact Information
Pia K. Jakobsson
Graduate Academic Advisor
Phone: 972-883-4706
Email: [email protected]
Office: JO 4.128
Julia Maddox
Graduate Admissions
Phone: 972-883-4419
Email: [email protected]
Office: JO 4.510
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School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas, JO31
800 W Campbell Rd
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Phone: 972-883-2759 or 972-883-2980
Email: [email protected]
Office of Admission and Enrollment
800 West Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
972-883-2270 or 1-800-889-2443
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