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37 Master's degrees offered by the university
Creative Writing
All MFA Creative Writing students at California Institute of the Arts CalArts are expected to attend closely to questions of form and aesthetics, as well as to the historical and critical contexts of literary work.
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.
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.
Costume Design
The Costume Design MFA Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts encourages students to break with traditional notions of costume design—and think instead in terms of garments that expand or otherwise reshape the physical space of performers.
Graphic Design
The two-year MFA Graphic Design curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts focuses on the advanced exploration of form, methodology and practice, informed by a consciousness of the following contexts: contemporary practice, craft, audience, theory and history, and the constantly shifting media environment.
Experimental Animation
In the MFA Experimental Animation Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts, students are provided with a comprehensive foundational background and are encouraged to seek out poetic, lyrical, structural and other modes of experimentation with the materials and forms of the moving image.
Harp
Harp studies at California Institute of the Arts CalArts , part of the InstrumentalArts offerings, enables harpists to explore a full range of repertoire, ensemble performance opportunities and supplemental coursework in support of their métier
Aesthetics and Politics
The MA Aesthetics and Politics Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is a one-year full-time, plus one-year low-residency, track that engages students in an intensive critique of the relations between culture, politics and society in today’s demanding global context.
North Indian Music
The North Indian Music MFA Specialization at California Institute of the Arts CalArts trains students to become fluent and skilled performers through in-depth, hands-on training under the direction of internationally esteemed faculty.
Strings
As part of the InstrumentalArts family, Strings studies surveys Western musical repertoire, from the medieval to the modern, and continues forward, emphasizing contemporary styles, diverse musical cultures, improvisation, digital media and interdisciplinary performance. This programme is offered at California Institute of the Arts CalArts.
Directing
At California Institute of the Arts CalArts, in addition to MFA Directing-specific seminars and labs, students participate extensively in the Acting Program as well as in the Programs in Experience Design and Production.
Sound Design
The MFA Sound Design curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts allows students to develop both theoretical and practical skills.
Choreography
The MFA in Choreography at the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is an opportunity accelerator for dance artists pursuing careers as creators and educators.
Film Directing
Students in the Film Directing Program from California Institute of the Arts CalArts are intensely diverse in identity and perspective; over 70% of our community comes from outside the United States, from such countries as Iran, Iceland, China, Taiwan, Colombia, South Korea, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil (among many others)
African Music and Dance
Many CalArts students typically join various African Music and Dance ensembles from California Institute of the Arts CalArts , and some have the opportunity to continue, post-studies, with an alumni professional group, Volta Drum Dance.
Piano-Keyboard
As part of the InstrumentalArts suite of offerings, Piano-Keyboard studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts is structured for students of piano and other keyboards to develop and refine advanced performing skills, explore new techniques and extend their artistic horizons in order to become versatile and resourceful professional performers.
Jazz
Founded by the late jazz giant Charlie Haden as a creative alternative to academic jazz studies, California Institute of the Arts CalArts Jazz studies emphasizes small ensemble performance and improvisation, training students to become highly versatile performers, improvisers and composers.