Aug 11, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

Fine Arts, Ph.D. with a Track in Arts Administration


The Department of Interdisciplinary Arts draws on the faculties in art, theatre & dance, and philosophy to provide 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, and for all students the program culminates in a dissertation.

Other coursework in the Arts Administration track involves a curriculum that is flexible within required competency areas, allowing the candidate to pursue individualized professional goals, and drawing on courses from numerous departments outside the Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts. 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. This program is explained in the introductory catalog section to the Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts.