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18 Master's degrees offered by the university
Music
Both the thesis-based and course-based MA programs in Music at the University of Alberta strive to produce outstanding scholars and teachers who deal both critically and respectfully with a variety of musical traditions while engaging in scholarly conversation beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
The History of Art, Design and Visual Culture program at the University of Alberta is a liberal arts discipline that prepares you to interpret the visual world.
Music
Whether you dream of performing, studying the music of other times and cultures, or composing works of your own, the program of Music at the University of Alberta offers a variety of courses to suit your passion.
Design Studies
The Master of Design (MDes) program at the University of Alberta offers two areas of specialization. Applicants to the Design Studies program select either industrial design or visual communication design.
Visual Communication Design
The Visual Communication Design program at the University of Alberta prepares you to create communications that inform, entertain, educate and generally improve people’s health and well-being.
Directing
A professionally oriented Directing program at the University of Alberta which offers 6 directing exercises in various theatres, including 3 full length productions.
Theatre Design
Canada’s foremost Masters in Theatre Design program at the University of Albertain production design for professional theatre designers training to Associated Designers of Canada standards of practice.
Urban and Regional Planning
The course-based MSc in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Alberta was developed from international and local trends of urbanization, environmental change, economic unpredictability, and globalization.
Printmaking
The Department of Art & Design’s Printmaking program at the University of Alberta is internationally recognized for its innovative teaching and creative research practices.
Performance
The Performance concentration at the University of Alberta includes studies in piano, voice, strings and selected other instruments, as well as routes in piano pedagogy and wind band conducting.
English and Film Studies
The English and Film Studies graduate program at the University of Alberta in the Department of English and Film Studies is large and diverse, with internationally recognized strengths in many fields including Canadian literature, Cultural Studies, English literature, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Modernism.
Fine Arts
The MFA Fine Arts program at the University of Alberta is a flexible, practice-based program, offering students opportunities to develop a studio practice in one medium as well as the opportunity to work across multiple mediums.
Art and Design
University of Alberta's Department of Art and Design offers graduate programs leading to the Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture and Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design degrees in a wide range of studio disciplines.
Composition
The University of Alberta offers the M.Mus. degree with a specialization in Composition, and the D. Mus degree with composition as an area of concentration. Students work closely with faculty members who specialize in modern composition for acoustic media, electroacoustic or electronic media, computer music programming, hardware and software experimentation, and improvisation.
Theatre Practice
The Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Practice at the University of Alberta brings talented and motivated graduate students together with outstanding educators, active artists and theorists with local, national, and international perspectives in the performing arts.
Drama
A Drama program at the University of Alberta offering a strong foundation of historical and contemporary critical and theoretical approaches to theatre and performance.
Painting
The Painting program at the University of Alberta recognizes painting as an enduring, vital practice with its own history and culture of signification and craft.
Choral Conducting
The Department of Music has developed the Master of Choral Conducting degree at the University of Alberta in three distinct fields: Choral Conducting, Composition, and Performance. The Performance concentration includes studies in piano, voice, strings and selected other instruments, as well as routes in piano pedagogy and wind band conducting.