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31 Master's degrees offered by the university
Film and Video
We offer a master degree ion Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts CalArts. During the course of three years, graduate students are expected to achieve technical expertise, to gain historical and critical perspective in their area of focus and to produce a substantial body of work.
Art and Technology
The Art and Technology curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts is centered around the student's studio practice, creative research and an exchange of dialogue between peers, visiting artists and faculty.
World Percussion
The MFA Program in World Percussion from California Institute of the Arts CalArts is designed to enable students to acquire the multiple skillsets that will empower them to stake out their own, unique, career pathways to success.
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.
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.
Producing
The Producing MFA from California Institute of the Arts CalArts trains creative producers with already highly developed aesthetics, who can recognize and champion original and significant work, and invent new ways to support such 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.
Composition and Experimental Sound Practices
Nationally and internationally renowned for its contributions to contemporary music, Composition and Experimental Sound Practices studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts facilitates the development of students’ artistic voices through mastery of a broad range of theories, techniques and creative tools.
Percussion
As part of the InstrumentalArts suite of offerings, Percussion studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts provides students resources with which to gain a broad comprehensive understanding of the percussion field, and the means to develop high-level technical skills on numerous instruments.
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.
Art
The MFA in Art curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts provides graduate students a great deal of freedom in designing a course of study that best suits their individualized needs.
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.
Scene Design
Focusing on the development of the skills and knowledge needed for professional scene designers, the Scene Design Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts fosters the designer’s multifaceted contribution to a project beyond providing a visual background.
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)
Photography and Media
The Photography and Media Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts centers on graduate critiques, seminars and independent studies with faculty, as students devote the majority of their time to creating a distinctive body of work.
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.
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.
Winds
Winds studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts, part of the InstrumentalArts family of offerings, surveys Western musical repertoire from the medieval to the modern, also emphasizes contemporary styles, diverse musical cultures, improvisation, digital technology and interdisciplinary media.
Lighting Design
The MFA Lighting Design curriculum at California Institute of the Arts CalArts centers on developing critical and practical skills with coursework that includes lessons in immersive lighting design, AutoCAD, digital rendering, Vectorworks, and strategies for live performance across a wide variety of creative arenas.
Collaborative Keyboard
Collaborative Keyboard studies from California Institute of the Arts CalArts prepares advanced students for careers in various collaborative keyboard disciplines.