The interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Humanities fosters integrated study and practice of the arts, literature, history and philosophy.

A Masters or Ph.D. in this discipline provides students with the opportunity to further hone the artistic skills that they acquired as undergraduates or Masters students. Courses such as painting, sculpting, drawing, printmaking and photography are among the wide variety of offerings available to the visual arts student. The music program also boasts a large range of choices for instrument and voice study. Writers will find exciting opportunities to continue developing their craft in the many creative writing classes available. As well as course work designed for specific creative endeavors, the Aesthetic Studies program also examines the Arts in detailed critical, historical, and interpretative manners.

Master's Portfolio and Doctoral Dissertations

Locate your place in relationship to the arts of the present and the history of the past. Mine the connections between scholarly texts and artistic production. Engage in critical debate with peers, faculty, and visiting artists and scholars working across the field of the humanities. The innovative program in Aesthetic Studies brings together graduate students in art history, theater, criticism, film studies, visual art, music, translation, new imaging technologies, and creative writing.

Creative Master's Portfolio and Doctoral Dissertations

Encounter the merging of practice and theory in Aesthetic Studies. Pursue individual technical and artistic development while being immersed in an interdisciplinary environment. Graduate courses fuse engagement in artistic production with reflection on theoretical and socio-cultural issues relevant to contemporary art practices.

Creative projects for master's portfolios and doctoral dissertations in the School of Arts and Humanities can be anchored in writing (such as poetry, fiction, drama, or scripts), translation (of published and unpublished poetry, fiction, drama, or essays), performance (whether musical or theatrical), and the visual arts (such as painting, photography, video, or emerging imaging technologies). Our program is dedicated to interdisciplinary studies, and our students are expected to cross standard academic boundaries and disciplines. They are encouraged to explore the arts and the humanities from literary, historical, philosophical, and dramatic perspectives, from theoretical and practical approaches, and from creative and scholarly directions.