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31 Master's degrees offered by the university
Art and Technology
The Art and Technology curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is centered around the student's studio practice, creative research and an exchange of dialogue between peers, visiting artists and faculty.
Art
The MFA in Art curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts provides graduate students a great deal of freedom in designing a course of study that best suits their individualized needs.
Interactive Media for Performance
The Interactive Media for Performance Specialization in the CalArts School of Theater at California Institute of the Arts CalArts trains visionary artists to create interactive tools and moving imagery for live and time-based artwork.
Scene Design
Focusing on the development of the skills and knowledge needed for professional scene designers, the Scene Design Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts fosters the designer’s multifaceted contribution to a project beyond providing a visual background.
Composition and Experimental Sound Practices
Nationally and internationally renowned for its contributions to contemporary music, Composition and Experimental Sound Practices studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts facilitates the development of students’ artistic voices through mastery of a broad range of theories, techniques and creative tools.
Acting
The Acting Program from California Institute of the Arts CalArts offers classically centered training with an eye toward the future, and is designed to prepare emerging artists for the performance challenges of the 21st Century.
Collaborative Keyboard
Collaborative Keyboard studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts prepares advanced students for careers in various collaborative keyboard disciplines.
VoiceArts
The VoiceArts Specialization at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is uniquely designed for creative artists whose primary means of expression is the voice—for those who wish to develop both their unique artistic voice and their vocal mechanism.
Film and Video
We offer a master degree ion Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts CalArts. During the course of three years, graduate students are expected to achieve technical expertise, to gain historical and critical perspective in their area of focus and to produce a substantial body of work.
Technical Direction
Generating a tangible world from abstract ideas, drawings, and conversations, the Technical Direction Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts prepares students to work in collaborative design, fabrication, and technical management.
Brass
Brass studies at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is unique and innovative, with a curriculum designed to further develop the role of brass instruments in the present and looking toward the future.
Producing
The Producing MFA from California Institute of the Arts CalArts trains creative producers with already highly developed aesthetics, who can recognize and champion original and significant work, and invent new ways to support such work.
Winds
Winds studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts, part of the InstrumentalArts family of offerings, surveys Western musical repertoire from the medieval to the modern, also emphasizes contemporary styles, diverse musical cultures, improvisation, digital technology and interdisciplinary media.
Performer-Composer
California Institute of the Arts CalArts’ unique Performer-Composer studies reflects the increasing demand for flexible musicians who are able to integrate composition with performance practice.
Percussion
As part of the InstrumentalArts suite of offerings, Percussion studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts provides students resources with which to gain a broad comprehensive understanding of the percussion field, and the means to develop high-level technical skills on numerous instruments.
Lighting Design
The MFA Lighting Design curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts centers on developing critical and practical skills with coursework that includes lessons in immersive lighting design, AutoCAD, digital rendering, Vectorworks, and strategies for live performance across a wide variety of creative arenas.
Photography and Media
The Photography and Media Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts centers on graduate critiques, seminars and independent studies with faculty, as students devote the majority of their time to creating a distinctive body of work.
World Percussion
The MFA Program in World Percussion from California Institute of the Arts CalArts is designed to enable students to acquire the multiple skillsets that will empower them to stake out their own, unique, career pathways to success.
Balinese and Javanese Music and Dance
Working with a full instrument collection, The MFA Balinese and Javanese Music and Dance Specialization from California Institute of the Arts CalArts provides a comprehensive exploration of the music and dance of Bali and Java.
Guitar
Guitar studies, part of the InstrumentalArts family of offerings, is a comprehensive curriculum from California Institute of the Arts CalArts representing the diverse role that the guitar plays in music today, through which students can develop the skills, knowledge and creative versatility necessary to pursue professional careers in a vast array of contemporary genres.