University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: three years
Create, challenge, move, and inform through art and expression in our MFA in Film and Media Art program. Here, you’ll work with image and sound, and traditional and emergent media forms. You’ll develop an understanding of film, video, audio, and interactive media production—and you will channel this understanding into the creation of multimedia works.
The Department of Visual and Media Arts offers the Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Media Art. This program provides students with the opportunity to develop as creative professionals and media artists, working with image and sound to entertain, inform, persuade, and challenge, using both traditional and emergent media forms. Students develop an understanding of the disciplines of film, video, audio, and interactive and multimedia production, bringing this understanding to bear on works of film and media art. Students study the history, theory, and critical discourse that provide the foundation of their work, so as to understand the context of their creative output and be able to evaluate its effectiveness. Students have the opportunity to acquire specialized skills, demanded by the collaborative nature of much production work. Cultivating the creative vision of each student is the primary focus of the program.
The MFA in Film and Media Art is a terminal degree for students who wish to pursue careers as media production professionals and artists, and/or who want to teach at the college or university level. Students are able to explore a variety of media production genres—narrative fiction, documentary, experimental, web-based interactive, multimedia installations—with a degree program that provides foundational knowledge in the use of media technologies, criticism and theory, and in media business, while offering a set of courses of advanced training and mentorship in their specific area of interest.