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2025-2026 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog
Fine Arts, Ph.D. with a Track in Interdisciplinary Arts
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The College of Visual & Performing Arts participates with the faculties in art, music, theatre & dance, and philosophy in an interdisciplinary program leading to the Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Fine Arts. Students engage a core curriculum of 15 hours that emphasizes interdisciplinarity among the arts: four required courses include a colloquium that explores disciplinary formation and types of interdisciplinary engagement; arts histories; arts in a contemporary context; and philosophical aesthetics. An additional approved topics or aesthetics course completes a student’s core program. Work within this track involves an individualized curriculum that allows the candidate to pursue a professional goal relating to personal competencies and culminates in a dissertation.
The doctoral degree program with major in Fine Arts requires a minimum of 60 semester hours; the residence requirement is fulfilled by satisfactory completion of 18 semester hours of graduate coursework during one 12-month period. Additional details appear in the introductory catalog section to the Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts .
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Concentrations
The Interdisciplinary Arts track allows students to select two or three disciplinary concentrations in support of a customized course of study. The primary concentration will be situated in one of the TCVPA’s three Schools but will not be limited to the concentrations currently offered as part of that School’s FADP tracks. The second (and third, if chosen) concentration can be an additional arts discipline housed within the TCVPA, or can be a non-arts discipline with which the TCVPA has an agreement relative to this degree track. The Qualifying Exam for this track will involve multiple parts: the VPA Core Exam as well as exams in each of the major fields. Anthropology
With two concentrations, the Anthropology concentration will require 18 hours of coursework if selected as a first concentration or 15 hours if selected as a second concentration. With three concentrations, the Anthropology concentration will require 12 hours of coursework if selected as a first or second concentration, or 9 hours if selected as a third concentration. Students selecting an Anthropology concentration should choose the required number of courses, in consultation with their Anthropology faculty mentor, from the available 5000- and 7000-level courses most relevant to their dissertation project, with consent of instructor. Dance Studies
With two concentrations, the Dance Studies concentration will require 18 hours of coursework if selected as a first concentration or 15 hours if selected as a second concentration. With three concentrations, the Dance Studies concentration will require 12 hours of coursework if selected as a first or second concentration, or 9 hours if selected as a third concentration. Students selecting a Dance Studies concentration should choose the required number of courses from the list of 3-hour courses below: Psychology
With two concentrations, the Psychology concentration will require 18 hours of coursework if selected as a first concentration or 15 hours if selected as a second concentration. With three concentrations, the Psychology concentration will require 12 hours of coursework if selected as a first or second concentration, or 9 hours if selected as a third concentration. Students selecting a Psychology concentration should choose the required number of courses, in consultation with their Psychology Department faculty mentor, from the available 5000- and 7000- level courses most relevant to their dissertation project, with consent of instructor. |
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